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by xya3453 9y ago
Buying gold to hold and then sell at a higher exchange rate is pure speculation.
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by xya3453 9y ago
Investing connotes some kind of exchange for rights, usually equity. When you invest in say APPL, you are buying a stake of the company. Bitcoin, like the $US or € doesn't make anything. Bitcoin is not an investment, you're just s
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by xya3453 9y ago
In an alternative universe, Chad is a poor white boy who lives at home with his single mother and three siblings. He's studious but attends a bad public school, he works after school to help out at home, he takes care of his little bro
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by xya3453 9y ago
> Invest in Bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies > Cryptocurrencies, stocks, ETFs, and options are now available side by side — all easily accessible in one app. Managing your investments just got even easier. There is a dangerous the
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by xya3453 9y ago
> Diversity initiatives level the playing field by increasing opportunities for one group relative to another. That doesn't necessarily mean that the disadvantaged group has more opportunities than the privileged group -- it only me
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by xya3453 9y ago
> Beyond that, many Americans, especially whites with no more than a high school education, have seen worsening health: As my research with my wife, the Princeton economist Anne Case, has demonstrated, for this group life expectancy is f
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by xya3453 9y ago
Or taking Hanlon's razor, Americian cops have been institutionalised to use force, almost as if they're operating in a country with more guns than citizens (unlike anywhere in Europe, or the world for that matter).
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by xya3453 9y ago
> First, that academics, who work in a charged political environment and with college students, are sheltered. It's exactly because they find themselves in such an environment that they're sheltered. You think the majority of h
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by xya3453 9y ago
Exactly. Mistreating others is only punished when that individual does not hold a large enough power/status gap between the others being mistreated.
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by xya3453 9y ago
100%. One of the disadvantages of living the privileged, protected life as an academic is the inability to accurately draw conclusions about the majority of humanity.
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by xya3453 9y ago
It's quite common for a single staff member to manage 10–12 self checkouts in Australia. This will improve given time for the general population to warm to the SCO process combined with improvements in the machines themselves.
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by xya3453 9y ago
This is quite common in third world countries. Essentially, foreigners, whether expats or tourists, will pay a different price to locals for everything from street food to rent to government run tours. Local prices are displayed in the loca
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by xya3453 9y ago
In Sydney at least, there are a handful of car rental services that allow paperwork-free car pickup, the location of the nearest car, the rental procedure and payment are all handled entirely within an app.
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by xya3453 9y ago
A rich man desires a simple life. A poor man a rich life. There is little sense chasing to play in a game you can never win.
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by xya3453 9y ago
Tech culture may be considered toxic, in comparison to 90% of other industries it's a utopia.
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by xya3453 9y ago
Why not buy a cheap 1960s plane? A cheap 2000s car? A cheap piece of land in the middle of nowhere with 1910s era medical assistance. Freedom, in the sense of not needing to work (FU money) is easy to come by for anyone browsing HN. Just