bluecalm

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by bluecalm 5y ago
You know what scammers love even more: credit cards. If you ever dealt with selling things world wide you would know how bad it is from merchant perspective. There is also precious little you can do about it with official Visa advice being
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by bluecalm 5y ago
We don't have a system to pay for things. Bank transfers abroad are also a huge pain. You never know how much you're going to pay in fees. Every time you buy something with a credit/debit card or PayPal or any other payment p
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Let's hope they come to the conclusion that centralized pegged to USD Apple tokens beat cryptocurrencies in all important metrics. Then let's hope they actually implement it and compete with banks and credit card companies. We rea
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by bluecalm 5y ago
I am very excited about e-bikes although I don't own one yet. We need more people pushing for infrastructure and regulation changes. The biggest obstacle I see to mass adoption is bike theft problem. Until the crime is taken very serio
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by bluecalm 5y ago
What bad behavior? He says what he thinks instead of bs'ing around and has huge track record of good decisions including his very high rated campus buildings. We need more of that.
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by bluecalm 5y ago
So you want to do something regulations currently prevent you from doing. Doesn't that prove my point? If you want to earn money the same way a bank does just buy stake in a bank. You don't want to do the business yourself as that
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by bluecalm 5y ago
There isn't that much honest to goodness dollars disappearing though. Mainly pumping with unbacked stablecoins to create an ever increasing price to attract real dollars so the small group of criminals (Tether and their buddies) and mi
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Social media ethics: Work with important government department - can't have that! Work with the most ridiculously inefficient, scam enabling, dirty and pointless tech ever invented: "yup, excited about transforming the world"
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by bluecalm 5y ago
I personally know people who were running a HFT market making fund when their net worth were below one million. It's true it's not the easiest field to enter but that's the case for many others as well (medicine, law, competi
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by bluecalm 5y ago
I often notice this expressed by Americans. I can't remember last time I gave my debit card (why would anyone need a credit card anyway) to any party other than big companies like PayPal. Locally I pay with Blik (I have to confirm exac
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by bluecalm 5y ago
I am clueless about it but isn't $1.5B deposit a really small one in grand scheme of things (that is how much is going to be needed in coming years)?
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Knowing that wouldn't help you. Even if the admission rates are the same there might be (and probably is) a selection bias - the more unsure you are about your chances of getting in the more incentive you have to lie to improve your ch
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by bluecalm 5y ago
But did Intel use liquid nitrogen cooling to achieve this? I am joking but just a bit. Intel has long history of dirty tricks when it comes to benchmarks - using liquid nitrogen cooling and not mentioning it, manipulating the compiler to ge
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Housing is expensive because there is a lot of demand. By nationalizing or similar policy forcing people to sell cheaper all you achieve is creation of a class of preferential buyers (who are allowed to buy cheaply or get housing for free f
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Yeah, I am amazed johns are ok with it. Not only paying multiple hundreds of dollars but also disclosing your identity and personal information to someone who won't? I can imagine myself taking many strange deals but this one just soun
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Well, you get hundreds of hours of skiing or travelling for that 12k. Not fair to compare to once a month an hour long date.
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by bluecalm 5y ago
There is a difference between exposing yourself to too much risk and being responsible for what happens to you. She made a mistake and blames herself for that. It was her mistake. She doesn't blame herself for the assault itself just f
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by bluecalm 5y ago
It's very interesting to me that escorts are able to charge that much (possible to make a median wage in the area in a few hours of work) and still have as much space for demands (detailed screenings, choosing clients etc.). It seems t
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by bluecalm 5y ago
It's not about having a calculator. It's about making quick connections when encountering new facts or numbers. Without sizeable core of memorized facts, results and numbers you will miss a lot of those. It's the very definit
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Is their argument that it harms customers and competition? It seems it benefits both. Customers get cheaper goods and Amazon is competing with the existing players. The government willingnes to act is then easier to explain: it's not d
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Main reason is that banks are more responsible with giving out loans. Those loans are assets. Of course once you start giving out loans like candy to people who should never get them who then use them to buy highly speculative assets then t
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by bluecalm 5y ago
USD being backed at 50% is a fairy fantasy less likely than a pink unicorn coming down to Earth and solving climate warming. They weren't even backed at 50% a few years ago when their market cap like 10+x smaller in comparison to what
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by bluecalm 5y ago
People are not willing to pay 60k because they think Bitcoin is somehow worth 60k based on their analysis. They trust the market to be somewhat efficient and they want to get involved. if 60k is a current fair price let's be it. The pr
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by bluecalm 5y ago
It's not obligated to redeem your USDT but it is obligated to redeem it for its customers (exchanges mainly). At least on paper it works like this: 1)exchanges need Tether so they get it from the Tether inc. while depositing equal amou
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Sadly I don't think everyone knows it. My experience talking to people who describe themselves as somewhat involved in crypto trading is that many of them don't realize there is very solid evidence for Tether being a fraud. It bei
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Their clever trick is this: instead of making every USDT worth less than 1USD they made some of the USDT worth 1USD and the rest worth nothing. This plus relentless misinformation and shaming of the skeptics apparently makes it possible to
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by bluecalm 5y ago
I am sorry to be blunt but you seem to be a kind of person who never was around serious competition. Men have significant advantage in darts, motor biking, sailing and it's not even remotely close in the case of last two. Men also have
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Let them do as they please as long as you don't hand out government guaranteed loans used to pay them. Colleges should have skin in the game - your graduates can't find decent paying job? - you are on the hook for the loan not the
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by bluecalm 5y ago
Once the peg is broken it will collapse quickly. That means it's in their interest to keep the peg. If they have enough reserves (hard to imagine they have even 5% in cash but maybe they managed to buy enough BTC with their tokens to k
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by bluecalm 5y ago
I mean don't let this one exception detract from the main point. We know men are stronger, faster, have better endurance and have higher bone density. We also know people with more fat and less dense bones are more buoyant. It's i

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