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@davidvolodzko @sparkle_n_wind I like the juxtaposition of “I never met a female traveler who hasn’t been assaulted in india” and “why don’t you love india?”
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@roshanpateI imagine making fun of your mom online for being new instead of telling her what to buy during the bear and multiplying her portfolio. couldn’t be me
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@dotkrueger @DzambhalaHODL it appears that the quant’s math was off by 72%
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@JFTL81 @ClownWorld_ sad watching his answer change from “doctor” to “I’m going to med school” to “I applied to med school” in the span of 3 seconds
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@NEETWorldOrder I don’t need to travel because I can simply look at pictures of any location and imagine myself being there. 80% of the enjoyment with 0 effort.
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@SullyBusiness the value someone creates is not related to how hard they are working
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@ruth_hook_ renting is the financially optimal choice for people who can achieve a return on capital higher than the interest rate of their mortgage + home appreciation
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@samswoora meanwhile 99% of the population sacrifices that decade anyway and receives even less in return
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@PaulSkallas americans who grew up in the golden era of human civilization have developed a unique naivety that makes them believe they can be fair to their enemies and receive the same fairness in return.
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@nikitabier @codybrown admitting openness to fraud in a job interview is a bold strategy
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@wyatt_privilege this happened to me with a smaller amount. figured it was a scam so I withdrew the money as soon as possible and never had issues.
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@SolBrah that “effectively” is doing a lot of work there
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@711trapper @TwonXBT >outperform every financial advisor on something all of them would have explicitly warned you against investing in >decide now is the time to trust them with your wealth lol no thanks
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@thecaptain_nemo “just start a homestead in the amazon” you vastly overestimate the agency of the bottom 1%. the people this is actually referring to.
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@ellegist @DeSkereStudent it makes more sense when you frame it as “I don’t want to be with someone who doesn’t trust me”
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@aubreystrobel funny how people will share this sentiment and then continue voting democrat, wondering why this keeps on happening
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@yacineMTB in the early days people would talk about gpt4 like “wow this is great. and to think, this is the worst it will ever be!“ oh sweet summer children
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@CryptoCharles__ bullish sign that everyone is too new to recognize this picture
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@dmalcolmcarson @DPD_ @katiedimartin the theory is called nominative determinism
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@blknoiz06 saylor didn’t finesse his job, he was born for it. any normal person would have sold by now. >99.99999th percentile conviction bordering on autism
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@ZssBecker you don’t want to leave your money on coinbase so you’ll be leaving it in an etf that uses coinbase as their custodian?
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@elder_plinius @inductionheads I wonder how much of this information could be found simply via googling
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@MarkovMagnifico not much to discuss. untyped is objectively worse. tracking types is always necessary, you’re just choosing between doing it mentally or having tooling do it for free
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@BrownBeardSol @SPCMNandHOBBES that’s the way to go. I manage my wife’s money(slam all of it into bito calls). pretty cool arrangement
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@EricBalchunas at what point are etf buys actually converted to purchases of btc? at market close?
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@gainzy222 everyone saying you can import without the passphrase is wrong. it’s appended to the seed before generating any keys. functionally a 13th word in the seed phrase
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@findgg33 you might be correct. but when I pray to God and my prayers come true, it’s only right that I give him credit. feels like bad karma to turn to magic for help then pretend you did everything yourself
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@tszzl teenage years are unique because most people haven’t been jaded by failed relationships yet. nothing is ever quite as strong as your first true love
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@sailaunderscore we really did witness the golden era of humanity
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@CryptoKaleo lol at the people taking this seriously
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@otteroooo saylor has spiritually fused with the blockchain. he will go down with the ship before he sells a single digital chuckie cheese token. higher chance of him getting forcefully outed of his position at microstrategy
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@CasPiancey bitboy is physically unable to turn off his persona. it is both the reason for his ascension and his downfall. poetic really
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@ChrisCorney1 counterpoint: chris brown
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@levelsio @pierbover probably experimental billionaire nootropics. he carries himself like he has a completely different brain now
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@followtheh saylor is doing exactly what any btc maxi would. selling weak assets to buy btc.
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@SuddenlyRavi 90s bully dialogue. how original
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@PauseAI it’s inevitable from a game theory perspective. you might stop agi in the us, but china or other nations have no incentive to give up the potential lead on such a powerful thing.
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@Empty_America obviously that’s why you make sure to purchase the striver gene as well
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@ApeDurden impossible to sleep at night with your entire net worth in some 1m altcoin that has barely any liquidity. relatively comfy in leveraged blue chips though
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@shaunmmaguire @DanOHerrin @willrayvalentin if anyone could successfully sue google, it would be someone in your position @shaunmmaguire . truly a loss for the human race that you didn’t at least try. it’s still not too late.
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@hollowearthterf my logic in such situations is “I’m already internally upset, why create more stress by being visibly upset” which an observer could misconstrue as not caring. panicky people often don’t realize it is possible to calmly resolve issues
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@fanfanfufu @growing_daniel type of guy who has an easy fix for conflict in the middle east
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@cnnrjcbsn @blader being smart is obviously very related to writing software
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@imjdsharp @dom_lucre more like psyops to make girls straight. who sees that and thinks “yes that’s how I want to look”
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@BichonRedux being unable to retire on >3m is a skill issue. that’s like 300k average income with any reasonable portfolio
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@Chris_Moore4Sup how much do you guys tip your city after being robbed ? I usually do 100 but I only got 40 cash on me today 😭😭😭
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@linaeons sam altman, famously high testosterone
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@HHorsley in what time frame could we reasonably expect this to be addressed? more or less than a year?
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@FarsideUK seems bullish if you consider that today could have easily been a net outflow day for $ibit or $fbtc. it suggests that etf buyers are not paper handed
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@yacineMTB relationships are a prisoner’s dilemma where you should be looking to cooperate at every iteration. free gains when both parties view it that way
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@sumfattytuna @blknoiz06 everyones hating but this is a banger
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@AngusVonHerring @coinfessions 2x on 1m is harder than 100x on $100. the psychology completely changes once you start dealing with potentially life changing losses
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@ShitpostGate that’s disgusting. people will sleep on a stained yellow pillow and then wonder why they have acne
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@Scearpo this is the basis of capitalism. aligning incentives such that the most greedy option has a high probability of being the most beneficial for all.
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@EricBalchunas clear effort to get this done asap. anything other than approval seems too out of place
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@laurentzeimes real exchanges use base1639 for order matching
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@BeatzXBT hft in python is trying to optimize a steam engine
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@PaulSkallas any wealthy person alive for the next 30 years is going to live significantly longer than humans have in the past. 200 year old putin is not impossible.
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@ExitLiqCapital a 4 year bear market is unheard of in us history. that’s pricing in the country being destroyed. if covid and the current administration weren’t enough to tank the market for more than a year, I’m not seeing what catalyst could do it for 4.
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@QwQiao duckduckgo has the exact same politics as google
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@ZavCorin @Noahpinion I actually do think about that but not in the way the author wants. my goal is to maximize unfair advantages for my children
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@loganclarkhall interesting to frame taxpaying american citizens as “our opponents”
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@max_the_plug letting yourself get emotionally attached to a girl who feels comfortable bossing you around is a massive liability in life. find someone who values you more than a handbag
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@LilMoonLambo never seen anyone walk in a single thin line like that unless they’re doing a sobriety test
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@crypto_bitlord7 be careful walking though water. it can be electrified due to exposed wires.
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Tweet media one
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@sunny051488 real gambler moves. people criticizing this don’t know what conviction is. maxing out my credit cards in the 2017 bull run bought me a house
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@iamgingertrash @yacineMTB capital will never be useless. access to the leading models will always be gated behind paywalls. cheaper alternatives can’t compete with those that have endless amounts of resources poured into them
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@Cokedupoptions already see the stress eating in this pic. must have been surreal being billions in debt and partying while everyone around you thinks you’re rich
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@DejaRu22 someone who wants to sell it at 100k
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@null_eth @saylor @MicroStrategy @YouTube honestly if someone loses their money after seeing this post then they deserve it
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@shakoistsLog gaming with the boys in highschool was peak serenity. never again in my life did I experience such a chill carefree state. I think having a fully developed prefrontal cortex makes it impossible
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@SalsaTekila probably selection bias. when I was down 200k in a day I didn’t feel like telling the world about it
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@drydenwtbrown racking up bad karma(however small) is not worth it to save 2 minutes
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@BishopFromArk @mnovendstern @octal can’t mental gymnastics your way out of the fact that some form of intelligence is real and highly heritable.
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@Aella_Girl there’s room for a many worlds interpretation where their heaven includes a version of you that isn’t a sinner
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@PaulSkallas he even looks like a baby. nominative determinism is real
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@americanhodl8 it was originally a typo of “hold”. their pronunciation makes sense
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@eshear political ideology cannot be 0% genetic because I can frequently predict people’s political orientation based purely on facial structure and nothing else. an AI could easily be trained to predict it with even higher accuracy
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@adamscochran seems irrelevant that the risk of myocarditis is higher with covid, because vaccines don’t reduce your risk of catching it. taking the vaccine means you have 2 potential myo vectors now.
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@tszzl I wake up and my roon is missing. he’s either in his office or the rooncave and I just checked the office
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@kchoudhu not really about seeking arbs in this case. the guy stumbled into free money by pure luck and threw it away because of emotional attachment to seeing a 0 on his balance sheet
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@21milinfinity this is also not taking into account that countless people including myself still cannot purchase any of the btc etfs in their 401k because their company’s plan doesn’t allow it
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@ASvanevik intrinsic value is a meme. any arbitrary thing could have value to someone. even a hypothetical hot potato asset you would pay someone to take off your hands could be useful in some contrived scenario. to not see the value of decentralized digital currency is a major skill issue
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@captgouda24 @RuxandraTeslo regardless of what effect such a mindset has on defection rates, discussing hypothetical superior partners absolutely murders any semblance of romance. the ideal relationship is one where you would never consider trading your partner for anyone.
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@JSeyff many people can’t even buy these etfs yet in their company 401k plans. insane how inconvenient the process is
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@thegangsterofl2 I lost >100 eth on basic attention token years ago but at least it wasn’t a cursed cartoon monkey
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@fewseethis they want people to see it. fake sell wall to get some last bids in. a real wall would have been placed as an iceberg order instead
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@RetirementRight imagine shorting assets that are virtually guaranteed to go up over the long term. at best you are lucky to capture a small deviation in the historical trend
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@CovfefeAnon impressive how mentally ill you need to be in order to think this system is not only realistic, but superior, to simply visiting the store and buying a ps5
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@Ninjascalp we now know it costs roughly 4b in legal fees to manipulate the market like that. maybe binance can reap the profits and rotate ceos indefinitely
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@MySol2Squeeze @TRNDABTPTH not being able to detect jokes is a sign of autism
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@eshear the inflationary effects resulting from this would be absolutely insane
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@adamscochran seems insane for them to let all their assets bleed out. surely it is more long term profitable to lower fees, even if only a little to give holders hope of additional decreases later
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@Numerologynow stuff like that really motivates me to stop smoking weed and drop all the other vices associated with 9s. maybe other lps can handle moderation better but for me nothing feels as good as being sober and clean.
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@lukas_ohl @ruth_hook_ the predictable 10x I got on my btc positions says otherwise
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@yacineMTB unbelievably based
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@nope_its_lily If you truly believe Enron is manipulating its accounting to drive the stock price higher, why aren’t you long?
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@AutismCapital men just like explaining things, it’s a common form of social interaction. most women do not have this tendency and incorrectly perceive being on the receiving end of it as a slight on their intelligence
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