w4llstr33t

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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
My understanding is that foreign real estate buyers have also pushed real estate prices up. That said I think you make a lot of good points and crypto is about the only thing I disagree with you on.
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
If you have technology that can transfer a rock across the world in seconds then I would be interested in that. Same w/ crypto (with the added benefit of crypto not requiring a centralized entity to do so). My main point is let's
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
I think it is notable that Switzerland also has very favorable capital gains laws though, at least for private investors. Could hold stocks, gold / silver or crypto in Switzerland and not pay tax on gains as long as you hold them for
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
> Crypto basically has no functionality. Transferring payments across the world is functional, and yes, the traditional financial system also does this, but it doesn't mean crypto has no functionality. Edit: Previous statement I was
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
> It's going into real estate. Some of it is likely going to Bitcoin / crypto as well, even if not everyone agrees on the legitimacy of that space.
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
I've found that it can take longer than 15 minutes to get back in the groove. There is certainly something that happens while coding, i.e. "being in the zone". In my experience, it can take some time to get back to that hig
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
Zoom just works for me, but I use the desktop app. I don't mind that an additional window opens. After starting a meeting or joining one, I can close everything except the meeting window. If I want to leave a meeting, I just close t
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
Exactly. I decided never to use MongoDB after that. I was already gravitating back to relational DBs anyway. MongoDB was nice for fast iteration on new projects, i.e. no alter table scripts required, but in the end it wasn't really a
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
Depends on if you are concerned if your new potential employer has an issue with employees moonlighting or not.
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
Zoom still has the best UX from what I can tell though, and they already have wide adoption. I've also started to hear Zoom as a noun in place of meeting, "let's do a Zoom", etc., even with people who don't work in
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
Anecdotally I've found that taking some l-theanine with coffee helps takes some of the edge off of the caffeine.
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
I've studied Vajrayana, so it may vary per school. Nothing wrong with self-effort from what I've been taught. The idea with mindfulness if that if you are just aware of your thoughts, but don't do anything, it's not tha
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
I've practiced mindfulness and meditation for more than a decade. Mindfulness, as I've learned it, means being aware of your thoughts and feelings, introducing positive thoughts and feelings, and replacing negative thoughts and fe
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
Yeah, I don't like the tribalism either. I see this with Democrats and Republicans in the US, too. One side thinks they are right. That seems to be a human thing. I do hope that progress can still be made. You are right though, it
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
How about all the elements/layers added to the traditional financial system that probably a lot of folks here don't understand to a deep degree? We're not comparing apples to apples. Cryptocurrency is a new technology. We
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
Or Bitcoin was fine to start with and hasn't had a good enough reason to change yet. People can disagree, some did, forked the code, and went on their way.
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
Block size is a nuanced discussion and it was maybe a larger problem then you realize. Argument for big blocks: Faster and cheaper transactions (lower fee), as well as more transactions per second. Can use more like cash, i.e. Bitcoin Cash
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
I don't think Jim Cramer is creating his own crypto. Where did you hear that? I don't watch his show but a quick google search produced no results. He has said he has invested in Bitcoin and Ethereum, but also seemed to have go
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
Michael Saylor did say that, it's true. I am posting this, which is the original video, since I see the other comments link to a reddit post which has a modified, sensationalized version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
A poor person could've invested $50 in Bitcoin when it was priced at $1. That poor person would now be a millionaire if they would've held on to that since. It is not all rich people marketing to poor people, or at least it didn
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
Thanks!
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
> has nothing to do with upgradeable contracts. Although the article is talking about the SafeDollar contract, there were some general points about crypto / blockchain in this thread that I was responding to. Tezos is one example t
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by w4llstr33t 5y ago
Have you heard of Tezos? Tezos is often referred to as the first “self-amending” blockchain, which routinely adapts and adopts new features natively and automatically via its unique on-chain governance mechanism. This protocol functionalit