Big_Sur
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| Registered on: | 11/3/2012 |
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frick Airbnb's and every other "tech innovation" that attempts to bypass centuries of learning and deserved regulation.
I want a hotel that meets certain standards.
I want a hotel that meets certain standards.
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re: What are you doing right this second
Posted by Big_Sur on 7/18/25 at 9:37 pm to Frac the world
At Bucky's Bar at The Grand Hotel
It's lost. About 15-20% of Bitcoin is lost, more will be lost. This is considered a feature, not a bug, by the Bitcoin advocates as it can increase the value of the non-lost coins and future mined coins.
This is part of the beauty of "being your own bank" - some folks will make a mistake along the way and it benefits the others (until they too make a mistake).
Also increasingly you can be held at gunpoint or beaten into submission for your Bitcoin which can't happen with traditional bank transfers https://www.politico.eu/article/france-crypto-entrepreneur-extra-security-kidnapping-attempt/
This is part of the beauty of "being your own bank" - some folks will make a mistake along the way and it benefits the others (until they too make a mistake).
Also increasingly you can be held at gunpoint or beaten into submission for your Bitcoin which can't happen with traditional bank transfers https://www.politico.eu/article/france-crypto-entrepreneur-extra-security-kidnapping-attempt/
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Crypto is no different from modern money
People spend my modern money and transact with it daily. BTC holders don't spend it, the hodl.
re: Money Talk challenge (1 year update)
Posted by Big_Sur on 5/5/25 at 7:49 am to I Love Bama
May 5th 2023
BTC: $29,528.50
S&P 500: $4,136.25
NVDA: $28.68
May 5th 2025
BTC: $94,467.58
S&P 500: $5,686.67
NVDA: $114.50
Gains:
NVDA - 299%
BTC - 219%
S&P - 38%
Congratulations to the winners!
Jokes aside, a donation is being made promptly to a local nonprofit earmarked to have a bench placed in a neighborhood (which we both used to live in) park with placard commemorating the achievement, emblazoned with the timeless financial advice:
BTC: $29,528.50
S&P 500: $4,136.25
NVDA: $28.68
May 5th 2025
BTC: $94,467.58
S&P 500: $5,686.67
NVDA: $114.50
Gains:
NVDA - 299%
BTC - 219%
S&P - 38%
Congratulations to the winners!
Jokes aside, a donation is being made promptly to a local nonprofit earmarked to have a bench placed in a neighborhood (which we both used to live in) park with placard commemorating the achievement, emblazoned with the timeless financial advice:
quote:
bUT nOoooo. S&p 500 or iTs gAMbeLiNG!
yOu DOnT UnDErstand!!!
herpppppppp derpppppp.
8% rETURNs BrOooooo
Sports Almanac from 1879
re: Why would a business owner publicly display their political leanings?
Posted by Big_Sur on 4/18/25 at 7:30 pm to NorthTiger
Ego
Y'all gotta zoom out. It's a cyclical trend.
- Seth Godin https://thementalclutch.org/2018/11/14/the-yo-yo-phenomenon/
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Yo-yos are regularly banned and frowned upon in school, especially elementary school. It goes in phases. Every few years a kid shows up with a yo-yo. If the kid is of low status then it’s the end, nothing to worry about. What if this kid is well liked though, someone who people want to be around? If a well-liked kid brings in a yo-yo to school then the next week you can expect 2-3 more kids to bring in a yo-yo. The week after that there will be 6 more kids with a yo-yo. Every week more kids will be bringing in yoyos until it gets out of hand that it needs to be banned. The secret to the yoyo becoming popular again is that the right kid needs to bring in a yo-yo the first day.
- Seth Godin https://thementalclutch.org/2018/11/14/the-yo-yo-phenomenon/
re: Do I have to buy an iPhone to play my music now?
Posted by Big_Sur on 4/5/25 at 10:17 am to Commandeaux
You'll need one of these
re: You’re in charge of the Super Bowl, who are you bringing in for the halftime show?
Posted by Big_Sur on 2/9/25 at 7:44 pm to Darth_Vader
Dave Matthews Band with Hootie and the Blowfish would probably kill it with the audience in attendance.
Tonight I learned I've never heard a Kendrick Lamar song before
Maldon Sea Salt has really taken over the large flake sea salt market
re: Crypto attached to AI is the future
Posted by Big_Sur on 1/19/25 at 1:25 pm to tenderfoot tigah
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Bitcoin is globally decentralized. It will never stop unless the entire planet loses it's electric grid which is impossible.
I guess my understanding is lots of miners need to be running to process transactions. Maybe those miners are in South America or Europe or Asia while we have lost our power and are bartering in the USA.
And I'm thinking me and my barter friends are gonna need cellphones with towers working, and/or laptops or something and the towers are still connected to the underwater telecoms lines connecting the continents.
Just seems like a lot of infrastructure continuing to work like it does today when we're in a world of bartering and chaos.
re: Trump launches a coin on Solana
Posted by Big_Sur on 1/19/25 at 12:51 pm to BottomlandBrew
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I would hope everyone would see it as a massive ethical issue, but I think too many people are busy gargling Trump's old man balls to admit it.
This exactly. Hard to know if there's ever been a president who's balls have been gargled this much before, by the wealthiest elites on earth. Nothing close to this gargling in recent history in the US.
Impressive really.
re: Crypto attached to AI is the future
Posted by Big_Sur on 1/19/25 at 7:59 am to tenderfoot tigah
Is there stable Internet and electricity and data centers full of miners in the barter world?
re: What has been your experience stopping smoking/nicotine use on Chantix?
Posted by Big_Sur on 1/7/25 at 8:12 pm to SirWinston
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Nicotine is healthy just chew the gum mate
Yes but...you've got this monkey on your back constantly. Can never relax, always trying to ease the craving.
Better to kick the monkey to the curb.
re: What has been your experience stopping smoking/nicotine use on Chantix?
Posted by Big_Sur on 1/7/25 at 7:44 pm to Arthur Bach
Used Chantix 15 years ago, was awful on my stomach and crazy crazy nightmares all night every night.
Just read Alan Carr's Easy Way book and you'll be quit - easily painlessly no problem in a day or two.
Just read Alan Carr's Easy Way book and you'll be quit - easily painlessly no problem in a day or two.
Twice at different companies I've had another job lined up, submitted my resignation, and been offered enough to stay on.
Not a smart tactic to get a raise, but it can certainly work that way.
Not a smart tactic to get a raise, but it can certainly work that way.
re: Just recently started listening to Joe Rogan
Posted by Big_Sur on 11/16/24 at 2:07 pm to muttenstein
Duncan Trussel episodes are the best
re: What magazine subscriptions did you enjoy before digital media made them all but obsolete?
Posted by Big_Sur on 10/29/24 at 10:13 pm to North Dallas Tiger
Long time and still subscriber to Skeptic Magazine from the Skeptic Society
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