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TopicRepublican proposes giving Homeless People BUS TICKETS to SOLVE Homelessness!!
Sad_Face
09/16/19 11:20:08 AM
#19
Were_Wyrm posted...
Didn't a brainiac starfish also have a plan like this?

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Topic"schools should teach me life skills and not Algebra"
Sad_Face
09/16/19 11:06:03 AM
#50
The biggest problem with Math is that they don't teach it properly. They teach people the algorithms but not the thought process involved that derives the formulas used in the first place. That's more important and more applicable. This is one of the goals of Common Core Math.

And crypto is the future. I implore you all to start learning about the technology and its applications; smart contracts, the insane flexibility and fluidity of moving funds, the oracle problem preventing smart contracts from having a real use case. This is going to change the world, how contracts are created, down to the very idea of trusting a man's word. That will be a thing of the past. Even if you have no interest or aren't ready to invest, do keep an eye on what all the big name tech companies and what nations are actively researching and investigating on.

chainlinkhub.com
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Topic"schools should teach me life skills and not Algebra"
Sad_Face
09/16/19 9:51:06 AM
#26
Romulox28 posted...
people always act like basic money management skills are this elusive & arcane concept that you need to be taught by professionals but all it really boils down to for 99.9% of people is "don't spend more money than you have"

That's not enough. Saving your money will cause you to lose your networth due to inflation. I say people should learn to invest to understand how money flows and dictates the dynamics of the world.

TurtleInFreedom posted...
Imo schools should primarily teach three things: writing, history, and philosophy. From middle school and up, I say. After that, if you're interested in any other subjects, you're free to pick and choose. But kids, humans in general, need to know their history, how to articulate themselves, and do it in a rigorous manner.

I agree with this, assuming philosophy will employ mathematics in their curriculum.
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TopicJoe Biden says white people 'can never fully understand' racism
Sad_Face
09/16/19 8:39:51 AM
#22
cavalierking posted...
understanding and fully understanding via experience are way different things


Remember the purpose of having others understand your plight. You want to garner sympathy so you can gain their support.

These statements contribute to the notion that minority races are exclusive and people outside of that are not one of them and can't relate even though they all live in the same society. And if they can't relate, they will care less and less and the minority groups trying to move ahead won't make any progress.

Success, regardless of most contexts, is dependent on inclusivity, not exclusivity. There's strength in numbers as they say. So treat them as your own and as your equals. Treating the "others" as 2nd class citizens is detrimental to your cause and will backstab if they're the very ones you're also trying to appeal to.
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TopicJoe Biden says white people 'can never fully understand' racism
Sad_Face
09/16/19 8:11:38 AM
#10
We're able to understand the world and universe to the point where we can manipulate substances down to the nano level, create phone calls and have conversations with anyone anywhere on this Earth, send man made vehicles across space and transmit info back to us, yet for some reason, a certain demographic can't possibly understand the fee fees of other demographics.

Smells like bullshit to me.
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TopicI never got why rich people want more money.
Sad_Face
09/15/19 5:34:02 PM
#14
DevsBro posted...
Sad_Face posted...
For starters, the last thing you want to do is nothing. You want to keep yourself productive so you can find something meaningful to do with your life.

I don't get that either. I can probably count on one hand the times I have felt like I was doing something that mattered when I was on the clock/in the office. If I'm doing something meaningful, it's almost always on my own time. The few times it's not, my boss doesn't know I'm doing it.

If you can keep yourself busy that's solid. I'm on an investment board and we constantly hear from those who made it already. They keep talking about how difficult it is to do something meaningful with their lives as they no longer need to work and traveling and partying got old for them.

Personally, I have a few projects in mind so I don't believe I'll have this problem when my opportunity to jump out of the rat race comes. I want to learn to make more money and learn how convert wealth into power.
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TopicDevelopment thread for a full-scale video sharing site
Sad_Face
09/15/19 5:28:10 PM
#20
Have you considered looking into Blockchain tech so you can be the Youtube of the blockchain?
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TopicI never got why rich people want more money.
Sad_Face
09/15/19 5:19:03 PM
#10
For starters, the last thing you want to do is nothing. You want to keep yourself productive so you can find something meaningful to do with your life. Secondly it gets easier to make money the more you money you make. You start finding other opportunities and other people present other opportunities to you as long as you're in the environment as they support their own and make sure "foreigners" stay out.

A good example of this with Chainlink, this week, we've had an unprecedented level of coordinated FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt), where a number of news outlets released articles calling Chainlink a Pump and Dump. When one of our community members reached out to one of the authors, being upset that none of the authors reached out to the Chainlink team for a response out of journalistic integrity, the author said she was given a press release and was told to write on it. As dishonest as these articles are, they're working as a good number of people who bought in within the past couple of months sold off to hedge their losses and the price is now almost half what it used to be. It's ~$1.60 right now. And all the while, big whales are buying up their bags and we even have a new wallet created with nearly 3 million tokens deposited in.
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TopicAmerican patriot and hero, Edward Snowden, seeking asylum in France.
Sad_Face
09/15/19 4:50:17 PM
#7
Zikten posted...
not smart on his part. I wouldn't trust France. they are more friendly with american than russia is. and they might suddenly turn him in, while he's in their care. Russia would never turn him in, cause it's a good fuck you to us. and they love it. i'd stay in russia if I was him

Not an unfounded point, I recall hearing Ecuador got a billion dollar loan a month before they handed Assange over.
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TopicWhy aren't you Yang Gang?
Sad_Face
09/15/19 4:44:39 PM
#9
Sayoria posted...

Holy shit my vote is his forever more.
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Topicenemies running away in monster hunter is objectively bad game design
Sad_Face
09/15/19 4:41:57 PM
#8
Sada_Pop posted...
The game is called Monster Hunter.

This. But I will say I always hated the 2nd gen monsters even though I started with 3U.
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TopicMarriage decline because lack of economically attractive men
Sad_Face
09/15/19 4:38:11 PM
#56
MedeaLysistrata posted...
Uh this makes no sense though

How can the economy actually be bad if women are doing well?

His point is that the current economy is rough due to how little jobs there are available yet and how difficult it can be to move up from the job you have now yet women aren't compromising on their salary threshold, being able to afford to provide for them.
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Topicew, why am I getting Jordan Peterson videos in my YouTube recommendations?
Sad_Face
09/15/19 4:33:11 PM
#65
averagejoel posted...
factually, a society ostracizing women if they didn't conform to an arbitrary standard and act exactly as the men in power wanted them to, has a significant effect on the jobs that women can do. you are incorrect to assert otherwise.


The men in power also have a significant effect on the jobs men can do as well. Right now, the 4th Industrial Revolution is approaching which will completely revamp our multimillennia old contracts so that everything is seamless, automated, and trustless thanks to smart contracts. This will put a lot of people out of jobs.

Why are you trying to make a focus on marginalized women and focusing on the gender that's in power? Whoever has the lead is going to determine the dynamics of the demographics being lead. This isn't exclusive to a single gender.
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TopicThe National African American Gun Association is growing
Sad_Face
09/15/19 2:24:25 PM
#35
guns are fun
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TopicMarriage decline because lack of economically attractive men
Sad_Face
09/15/19 2:21:43 PM
#44
Prismsblade posted...
Just because your willing to settle for such a woman with all that baggage doesn't mean most other guys are. I'm not waiting my turn for those woman near their 30s like a good little boy when they've had their fill of the bad and are ready for responsible man who can actually take care of them and their child . F*** that.

Then you'll have to get a pretty young 'ting or hope you get lucky. Today's culture is getting worse and worse with Tinder and social media in existence giving girls insane amounts of attention just for being pretty.
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TopicMarriage decline because lack of economically attractive men
Sad_Face
09/15/19 12:24:00 PM
#21
Garreyn posted...
More so that I personally know several male friends of mine that have settled with women that bring a huge financial burden into the relationship - a child she had with someone else.

Dude, most girls my age (28) have kids. I've accepted that my future girlfriend will have a kid already.
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TopicAnnual reminder that Scott Pilgrim dated a high schooler
Sad_Face
09/14/19 11:14:51 PM
#10
Maze_ posted...
Maybe I was reading too much into it but wasn't Scott Pilgrim supposed to be a piece of s***?

The movie generated a demographic that misinterpreted Ramona and Scott to be role models, not cautionary warnings. I saw a video of guys kinda bitter about this demographic that's also pretty hilarious, but I'm not to keen on getting modded >_>
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Topicew, why am I getting Jordan Peterson videos in my YouTube recommendations?
Sad_Face
09/14/19 10:59:44 PM
#43
averagejoel posted...
do you think this might have had something to do with society ostracizing women if they didn't conform to an arbitrary standard and act exactly as the men in power wanted them to?

No. I just think it's biological differences that give men the advantage. If the only jobs available were physical labor, men are going to have the leg up.

Though I say this, as you said, the power the leads have determine the dynamics of the culture. I hear when the first set of Europeans came to the New World, a good number of them, both young men and women, defected to Native American tribes due to power and authority being more balanced in their communities. For instance, women in the tribes had much more autonomy than in the early settlements and each person in the tribe had to contribute, which in turn gave them a stronger sense of purpose.

You seem to have an opinion on this already that you were alluding to so please, elaborate.
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Topicew, why am I getting Jordan Peterson videos in my YouTube recommendations?
Sad_Face
09/14/19 3:02:51 PM
#35
DeadBankerDream posted...
Why is he drawing on moronic religious ideals invented by a culture that viewed the feminine as less than the masculine?

Do realize that it's because of advancing technologies, women are able to financially contribute as much as men. Just a few hundred years back, women were relying on men to do jobs they physically weren't able to (this is still true today in certain fields, just nowhere near as numerous) and those were among the few jobs available to provide for the family.

There are differences between the gender, don't try to rank them but at least acknowledge their differences.
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Topicew, why am I getting Jordan Peterson videos in my YouTube recommendations?
Sad_Face
09/14/19 2:38:49 PM
#32
averagejoel posted...
ok

why does he characterize chaos as feminine and order as masculine?

He's drawing directly from Taoism, where Yin is regarded a feminine and Yang as masculine.
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Topicew, why am I getting Jordan Peterson videos in my YouTube recommendations?
Sad_Face
09/14/19 1:58:08 PM
#28
averagejoel posted...
-his philosophy is based on characterization of chaos as "feminine" and order as "masculine" and he makes no attempt to elaborate on what he means by that


His opening chapter in The 12 Rules of Life talks about this. I have the audio book and am casually going through it. It's good stuff.
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TopicI think I know why I like Ronda Rousey so much
Sad_Face
09/14/19 11:30:50 AM
#7
RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...
it's how I feel beyond thinking she's pretty

You want her to bear your children and be your wife? Don't worry, a lot of guys feel the same way.
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TopicBill Bures new special shows that bring un-PC wasnt dave Chappelle's problem
Sad_Face
09/14/19 11:29:48 AM
#32
tremain07 posted...
I know he can do better than that it's like he got lazy because he figured that as long as he pisses off the left he doesn't have to try.


I wouldn't say lazy, but it came off as he's really bitter about the current environment for comedians. "Hurr durr I'm gonna find something of yours in the past and am gonna cancel your career durr" joke was really petty. But you can tell he's really taken to heart the criticisms he has gotten. Both Burr and Dave talk about this, both on stage and in interviews how they keep getting reactions on opposite spectrum to their jokes. Where they do one show, people love it and even the demographic they targeted was slapping their knee laughing. Then at another show, someone looks visibly shaken and emotionally scarred upon reaction to the joke. Typing this all out now, I'd say it has to get to someone, cut into their ego, to witness their craft have such extreme reactions.
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TopicDo you support Universal Basic Income?
Sad_Face
09/13/19 12:15:53 PM
#27
Replace food stamps and the rest of the welfare programs with it. It's more efficient that way. With the 4th industrial revolution coming, we're going to need UBI because there will a lot of businesses going bankrupt thanks to smart contracts rendering our multimillenia old contracts obsolete. A lot of white collar jobs are going to be lost.
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TopicParents: ''Spending too much time on the computer ruins your overall health''
Sad_Face
09/13/19 11:47:39 AM
#4
TheAnthraxBunny posted...
Theres an awful lot of older people who will preach about how excessive phone usage and playing video games is awful for you, yet think sitting around all day watching TV and grazing is perfectly fine.


They're not wrong even if they're being hypocritical about it.
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TopicMan gets called the n word so he makes porn video fucking racist guy's fiance.
Sad_Face
09/13/19 9:29:35 AM
#13
I suppose that's a win for him in the short term. But he's screwing the rest of us over in the long run. That guy now has clout and will double down on believing all women are whores and that black people are the n words. And also hard proof so that other guys can believe his story.

People don't think and act as if each of their actions live in a separate vacuum and it drives me nuts.

EDIT:
Shablagoo posted...
I think this is all fake but also


okay, this comes off as staged.
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TopicFound this on r/NEET, thoughts?
Sad_Face
09/13/19 9:13:39 AM
#4
Lived the unemployed life and am living the wage slave life. Sounds about right to me.
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TopicAre you struggling to find work? Just drive someone to suicide!
Sad_Face
09/13/19 8:57:01 AM
#39
CyricZ posted...
MrMallard posted...
Can you prove me wrong? Do you have anything of substance to say about this dead person, that doesn't specifically tie into Bad Video Game Woman and this extreme rhetoric of her "murdering" him?

I find this statement particularly powerful because so much of the accusatory focus is about "where's the proof that man did bad thing", and yet it's so easy for these people to similarly believe "woman did bad thing" instead.


There are tweets, made by her, that completely contradict the story she tells in those allegations. She has had a history of people accusing her of being manipulative and taking advantage of them for a profit. Literally GamerGate kicked off because of an ex accusing her of manipulating him and people for her own benefit. She is a master manipulator and swindler and the whole thing shows how gaming journalists are morally bankrupt when it comes to journalistic integrity. I don't understand how you guys don't default to brokering a sale for a salt mine when taking her words. How? HOW?
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TopicJesus the major news networks are giving like no coverage to Andrew Yang
Sad_Face
09/13/19 8:30:25 AM
#8
They don't want people knowing about the 4th Industrial Revolution while Yang has acknowledged this and made preparing for it one of his policies. You all should start looking into this too.
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TopicDem Debate #3 tonight: One night only
Sad_Face
09/12/19 10:17:02 PM
#365
What kind of question is this?
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TopicAre you entering Andrew Yang's $1k a month raffle?
Sad_Face
09/12/19 7:57:36 PM
#3
So my Freedombux are coming a couple years early eh?
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TopicDo you think a rapist can ever redeem him/herself ?
Sad_Face
09/12/19 1:50:36 PM
#15
For the benefit of society as a while, you have to give crime committers a chance to redeem themselves and treat them as humans.
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TopicInspiring: 12-year-old does manual labor to help pay for college
Sad_Face
09/12/19 11:57:52 AM
#127
He's gotten national publicity and some NFL player to acknowledge him. He's going to get other and better opportunities coming his way so you don't need to worry about him mowing lawns for the next few years.
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TopicThe Alec Holowka/Zoe Quinn story seems to have an interesting update.
Sad_Face
09/12/19 11:45:48 AM
#56
p-m posted...
You're a f***ing moron if you think those tweets contradict anything. When you're in an abusive relationship it's hard to see how bad the person is until you get out of it, you're very likely to try to paint a happy public picture.

Dude, read her "expose" of Alec and check the tweets that coincide with the timeline of her retelling of the events. She literally tweets about leaving Winnipeg days in advance to find out if her pals want to hang, and again, working with Alec hours before her flight. How does this add up to her blast piece saying that she needed a friend to get her out of her apartment to leave Alec?

And we're not just dealing with any person, we're dealing with Zoe Quinn. The indie darling who has had allegation after allegation after more fucking allegations of her taking advantage of people for years. Alec literally has a tweet calling her a pathological liar from almost 5 years ago, the guy who wrote the piece that put gaming journalism on blast and started GamerGate called her emotionally manipulative, where you can see this by people thinking Alec is a rapist based on how she wrote her opening paragraph in her blast piece on Alec. There's more stuff out there, there's even her Patreon she kicked off for game development and hasn't produced a single game but was chilling in Japan on the funds. And tweeted about it (being in Japan for vacation). All of this stuff is documented as evident by how people have recorded her tweet timeline before she deleted it. You're being swindled by her if you believe her. She has done it several times before and is doing it now.
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TopicThe Alec Holowka/Zoe Quinn story seems to have an interesting update.
Sad_Face
09/12/19 9:50:44 AM
#49
Tyranthraxus posted...
Right it's totally impossible to tweet something like that after you've secured transportation arrangements from a friend but before actually leaving.


Dude, read the article. It's not just one tweet. It's a series of tweets where she's been documenting her life to the "T" that contradicts the abusive lifestyle she accused Alec of. And fortunately for you, she did make a tweet just before she left, where she tweets how she's about crunch hard with Alec on her game before her flight. Which along with a bunch of other tweets contradict how she claims Alec refused to give her any authority on her project.

And I asked, if you were her, would you testify in the court of law on these allegations? She will be incriminated for perjury if she tries based on the billion and 2 contradictions of her own digital mini journal.
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TopicInspiring: 12-year-old does manual labor to help pay for college
Sad_Face
09/12/19 9:39:50 AM
#99
TheVipaGTS posted...
"he's learning the value of hard work!"....he's 12 you idiots. let him have a childhood. he shouldn't have to mow lawns to save for college at 12 years old.

Yeah, it's super screwed up that he has to be planning for this at his age. He should be mowing lawns for fun or to buy a new playstation or gameboy or whatever.

On the flipside, him being future oriented and taking action are invaluable traits to have. No doubt he'll find success in life.
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TopicThe Alec Holowka/Zoe Quinn story seems to have an interesting update.
Sad_Face
09/12/19 8:54:22 AM
#45
Tyranthraxus posted...
The entire grounds the article has for saying she lied is basically "but she was nice to him here! Also she went to go visit him! Why would she do that if he was so horrible?!"


It's more like:

Accusation: "He isolated me from my friends and my family and I needed a friend to physically come get me out of Winnipeg!"

Reality (her twitter page): *Tweets* "Yo I'm coming to Montreal on X date [from Winnipeg], who wants to hang? XD"

Honestly, would you want to testify on this in the court of law if you were her? This sounds exactly like perjury to me and that's a felony in some parts. Given how she tweeted her everyday life during that time, it would make sense that she deleted her twitter, cause it's incriminating.

DeathDeathSong posted...
https://medium.com/@bombsfall/alec-2618dc1e23e

just gonna leave this here

It doesn't verify her claims, which is what people are looking for when you're making an accusation that will end someone's career.
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TopicWatching Samurai Champloo for the first time >_>
Sad_Face
09/12/19 8:38:34 AM
#43
cjs28 posted...
Damn, Mugen really really wants to fuck this titty ninja. To the point where he'll go beat up tons of dudes in rooms lol

I've rewatched Bogus Booty a billion times. It's so much fun LOL
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TopicWeight Loss/Management Tips and Stories ITT!
Sad_Face
09/11/19 7:10:34 PM
#28
DuranOfForcena posted...
get a spiralizer and spiralize some zucchini, and boil it until it is a tender, pasta-like consistency. alfredo usually goes well with large, flat noodles like linguini or fettucini, which you can somewhat emulate with the "large spiral" option on most spiralizers.

I'll look into this, thank you.
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TopicBaton Pass
Sad_Face
09/11/19 7:03:10 PM
#24
Growth
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TopicWeight Loss/Management Tips and Stories ITT!
Sad_Face
09/11/19 6:52:24 PM
#25
I am 158 lbs and am trying to cut down to 145 lbs. Yeah, it's nothing compared to the odysseys you guys are going through, but I just want to say I am learning a lot here. I've had a slightly active lifestyle in that I would walk everywhere. I used to work as a cook and I would eat like crazy but I didn't have to worry about putting on weight since I had to walk up a steep hill for 15 minutes to get to work everyday. Nowadays, I am in a better paying, less stress white collar job. I don't have that same "luxuries" I used to have with my cooking job but I maintain the same diet while drinking more so this weight gain is apparent to me and drives me nuts. Luckily, a friend is dragging me to the gym so we can get to working out regularly again. Problem is I'm terrible at committing to these types of things. It needs to be integrated into my life for me to work out. This is why I never had upper strength, I never had anything that forced me to build up my arms to where I want it to be.

And (sort of relevant) in this mobile gacha game, Fire Emblem Heroes, I've finally declared to myself I'm going to commit to hoarding big time, saving the ingame currency of up to 3000 orbs from my ~1000 count now which should take me around 6 months and during that declaration, I told myself I wasn't going to drink anymore alcohol for this hoarding budge since it has gotten to the point where I got a memory lapse and forgot to close my fridge door. This I have no problem fully committing, I have to go on leave soon and so the money is going to dry up and I used to drink cause I was so bored at work.

I really don't know how I'm going to do lifestyle diet change in terms of calorie consumption. I like to eat and I need my pasta. And when I cook pasta, it's almost always with alfredo. I can't get away from cheesy, milky goodness. But I will try the recipes mentioned here.
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TopicWatching Samurai Champloo for the first time >_>
Sad_Face
09/11/19 5:45:08 PM
#23
RIP Nujabes, his music will live on forever.
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TopicThinking about putting a halt to my 401k contributions to focus on a house...
Sad_Face
09/11/19 4:21:38 PM
#36
Villain posted...
Employers don't match crypto...

Indeed. But hey, the easier the task and more widespread it's used, the less valuable the payouts are. The more difficult the task is, generally the higher payout the reward will be. Of course, there's nothing wrong with buying a house if you're looking to rent it out. I'm not at all a real estate buff but people are saying that we're in a housing bubble that's about to pop.

All I'm advocating is to not be complacent with a 401K and do spend some time investing in your financial education; learning to invest (this sounds circular). There's a lot of manipulation going on in the financial markets and inflation is such a ruthless force of nature that is stripping the middle class of its spending power that I can't stay quiet about savings accounts. It's a losing game trying to save; you have to do a lot more now. You're better off buying assets that either appreciate or maintain their value or straight up look for passive income.
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TopicThinking about putting a halt to my 401k contributions to focus on a house...
Sad_Face
09/11/19 2:46:01 PM
#34
AlephZero posted...
lmao cryptocurrencies do not pose any threat whatsoever to the USD


Dude, the US can impose sanctions on foreign banks at billions of dollars and force them to pay up because if they can't do trades in the US dollar, they're screwed, they can't trade with other foreign countries. You have to trade to the US dollar then trade with the original target currency you wanted to convert to.

https://www.americanbanker.com/slideshow/the-seven-largest-sanctions-related-fines-against-banks

On the flipside, with Crypto, there's no possible way limit transactions AND it's done at a considerably faster rate (traditional, hours, bitcoin, 15 minutes - half hour). There are other crypto currencies that have gotten down to just seconds.



The IMF is investigating DLT, the big tech giants are investigating DLT, there's a big Fintech conference at the end of the month called Sibos that will focusing all on PSD2, Payment Services Directive, which is preparing banks to be able facilitate transactions through smart contracts, which needs DLT (that's where smart contracts exist).

Trust me, even if you don't plan on spending a dime, you should follow the tech because it's a massive disruptive force.
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TopicThinking about putting a halt to my 401k contributions to focus on a house...
Sad_Face
09/11/19 2:06:08 PM
#28
HMMMM...

I don't like that, as your savings are still subject to inflation and at the rate we're going, you'll only continue to lose value unless you hedge with precious metals or invest in something else. Are you guys paying attention to the blockchain industry? There's a lot of developments going on with a big focus on creating stablecoins, world reserve currencies like Facebook's Libra coin or Reserve Rights (RSR). I believe they pose a threat to the US dollar as the USD is the current world reserve currency that everyone does their trading in.

I'm not recommending you invest in these (not that I can right now in good conscience, need to do more research), I would recommend keeping an eye out on these developments as distributed ledger technology is being adapted by so many organizations and nations. And toppling the US dollar is on the to do list with DLTs.
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TopicThinking about putting a halt to my 401k contributions to focus on a house...
Sad_Face
09/11/19 1:53:26 PM
#24
What's the point of 401Ks? Why not put time into learning how to invest?

I don't trust 401Ks cause I know nothing about them. And... my job doesn't offer such a thing. Pleased I don't have to worry about it anyways.
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TopicGreen Day is coming to Manila on March 14 , 2020!
Sad_Face
09/11/19 1:23:10 PM
#4
KG536 posted...
Is it easy? what are smart contracts? What is proverbial deed to the property of the internet that powers the blockchain?


It is literally that easy. But the key to all of this is understanding. If you understand the power of smart contracts, and you understand how Chainlink enables its full potential, you will realize that if you buy in, you're gonna be rich. If you don't understand it, you'll be apprehensive and with stubborn ignorance, you'll think it'll all be a scam, and then be one of the losers of the aftermath of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Luckily, for you, I've compiled a handy dandy starter pack to help you get started to learn all this. Take a week or so and spend some time every day just reading up on this. Maybe go on 4chan's business board and ask what smart contracts will do for them. Smart contracts are going to replace contracts, something we've been using for thousands of years and create environments that are trustless, where you don't have to worry if you can trust people to pay up when they're supposed to among a billion other scenarios.


http://tinyurl.com/godprotocol
http://tinyurl.com/wwwchain
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