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gunshai
5y ago
If you're so certain short it. The amount of wealth you would gain by being correct is immense. You should be spending every waking moment attempting to predict it. Something about anti btcers I don't get you'll wax how smart
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gunshai
5y ago
An entire country is using btc as their currency of exchange. Is it a major economy no but now its your turn to move the goal post.
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gunshai
5y ago
There are plenty of places and ways to bet against bitcoin best of luck to you.
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gunshai
5y ago
This was the reply I was really looking for, thank you.
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gunshai
5y ago
I am not sure you understand my question / hypothetical. A bank is not the only form of a lender first off, second the reason there isn't a 100% loan on an equity is that it's understood that the value of the underlying colla
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gunshai
5y ago
Okay, but as the value of the collateral approaches 0 your lender asks you to increase your collateral correct?
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gunshai
5y ago
Posting this comment will be like farting into a hurricane, but here goes. Company like Facebook has a serious problem and their stock drops ... precipitously. CEO of said company instead of selling their equity in their company has taken o
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gunshai
5y ago
What is interesting is you can do this really easily in the crypto environment. There are plenty of services that are offering the ability to borrow against your gains to avoid capital gains.
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5y ago
The latter example is easily taken care of though, because there has to be a market to take your bet if the market has no reason to believe you would win your odds are really low thus your winnings over your billion are really low. On top o
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gunshai
5y ago
This is the exact perversion I was thinking of. Pun very much intended.
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5y ago
I think I'd agree with you, but the unionization vote for amazon Warehouse workers failed ... by quite a large margin already. It's not lost on me either that a vote of 3000 cast votes is not representative of every amazon warehou
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5y ago
My company had out local health official come to our town hall meeting at talk. About covid. Over 94% of patients are unvaccinated... It's pretty clear in my mind what's happening here.
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gunshai
5y ago
Why is this unpopular.
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gunshai
5y ago
In Dota you have to keep track of all sorts of stuff like this. There is a decent sized list of all the timings you should keep track of with in a game, and they change from game to game. If you don't do it you're basically lost.
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5y ago
No Dota 2 :(
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5y ago
... No we want more efficient and transparent systems where possible. Avoiding taxes is breaking the law, circumventing fiat currency isn't exactly a democratic institution, did you vote for the monetary policy of the US government?, I
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5y ago
>Tether, has issued $62bn-worth of tokens which it says are redeemable for a dollar apiece. But of the assets backing the tokens in March only about 5% were cash or Treasury bills Cash & Cash Equivalents & Other Short-Term Deposi
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5y ago
Sarcasm aside, I do remember reading and talking to formally homeless folks saying that they would commonly have gym memberships for this very reason. Second to that at least in the city I live in, many barbershops and dry cleaners offer fr
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gunshai
5y ago
Well that remains to be seen, and best of luck to them.
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5y ago
>Weren’t the Opium Wars started because China wanted Britain to stop selling them addictive opium? Yes and out of the opium wars I believe is why the state of Hong Kong came into existence. China had contractual obligations to buy opium,
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gunshai
5y ago
Come to Oregon where we just decriminalized the party.
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5y ago
is it me or has the word "grift" seen a large uptick in the last few years. I used to really like this word now I see it all over the place, I wouldn't call anything what Gavin did a grift ... or a small time swindle.
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5y ago
You are the perfect person I want to have a conversation with. Assuming we are operating under a similar definition of homelessness which people find to be a problem, IE dispersed living on public property within city limits. How did this h
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5y ago
I am generally curious, when does under represented move to represented or appropriately represented?
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5y ago
>I also grew up watching shows like these, and being a white person watching a black family didn't feel strange or incongruous at all. What was weird for me was as I got older, all of these shows became just samey Horsein Around typ
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gunshai
5y ago
But why would it not be as popular on netflix, amazon, hulu, ect?
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gunshai
5y ago
What is happening in this thread? "branch covidians"... What the hell is that?!
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5y ago
> My reasoning feels the same as when people say Java is the best language because it can be run on any device, which is like saying anal sex is the best sex because you can do it with any animal. Please tell me you have said this to som
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gunshai
5y ago
Speak of the devil (just found this site earlier this morning), but I really think what metaculus has built could be what you're looking for. https://www.metaculus.com/
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5y ago
"Airplane house is empty ... but maybe soon airplane house will be full" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYc6QmaGnYc For the reference.
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