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tuesdayrain

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    Comment #33619042

    >I can’t imagine what’s going on in his mind right now. Massive amounts of Selegiline, probably.

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    Comment #31934909

    >Even gold, at least I can wear it and display my wealth. You can’t even display your crypto wealth like that I'd feel much safer displaying large sums of wealth online by posting …

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    Comment #31934850

    Your mistake is valuing cryptocurrency purely as a currency. In reality BTC and other cryptos have combined properties of currencies, commodities, securities, as well as unique ele…

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    Comment #29651669

    >Education and stock market are not analogous Why not? A company is just an aggregate of people working towards a shared mission. Not unlike a society.

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    Comment #29651583

    This is a fallacy, similar to thinking that a portfolio should be invested into the worst performing stocks because "they have the most room to improve".

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    Comment #29651550

    There is a certain brand of person who is obsessed with redistributing resources from the most productive to the least productive. They don't see how allocating the best teachers i…

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    Comment #29610492

    >But everyone notices when every aspect of their society is led by people of one race. I didn't go to China and become resentful when I noticed their leadership was Chinese. But I …

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    Comment #29280700

    This is what I was referring to: https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1195528833157386240 I feel like my interpretation of that quote is fairly accurate.

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    Comment #29280165

    >Can someone explain this in logical, non-political, terms. Probably not, because it's ultimately a political phenomenon. In left-leaning circles it's popular to deny that there ca…

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    Comment #29268137

    James Watson had evidence on the subject, he was stripped of his titles and harassed by ideologues who are convinced everyone should be exactly equal. Scientists have realized it's…

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    Comment #29267812

    All he said is that some ethnicities are less intelligent than others. What is the statistical likelihood that 100% of ethnicities, which have evolved in drastically different envi…

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    Comment #29194660

    Good. The last thing the world needs is discord users getting rich off crypto.

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    Comment #29076327

    >The Crypto-USDT pairs will quickly go no-bid History has shown that this does not happen in crypto. Even for coins like Bitconnect and Confido that plainly turned out to be scams,…

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    Comment #29076237

    >I’ve been shorting a few bitcoin-related public companies on the theory that in a run on Tether they will have to liquidate large bitcoin holdings I doubt a run on tether would ev…

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    Comment #29060403

    >Consider cryptocurrency to be the newest version of Beanie Babies, and act accordingly. I find it hilarious that people can seriously equate a 2.6 trillion dollar industry with Be…

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    Comment #28982068

    At one point Pfizer paid out the largest health care fraud settlement in history of 2.3 billon ( https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-... ). It's a shame man…

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    Comment #28965682

    >Bitcoin is only fuelled by people's poor understanding of what money is. Citation needed. I majored in economics and BTC is a huge percentage of my portfolio.

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    Comment #28965306

    >1) no benefit in the meantime for the holder (such as a dividend There is no fundamental difference between an asset paying dividends or simply appreciating in value. At the end o…

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    Comment #28924992

    >First, police disproportionately arrest people of color, especially Black people. That's similar to saying that police disproportionately arrest men relative to women, therefore t…

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    Comment #28865051

    I've taken all my other vaccines. But because I don't want to take one vaccine with unknown long term side effects for a disease that I've already had, I'm suddenly an antivaxxer? …

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    Comment #28845659

    Banning mandates that restrict freedom is ultimately consistent with valuing freedom. Calling that in itself anti-freedom is the same logic as "you aren't truly tolerant unless you…

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    Comment #28834152

    Your phrasing makes it sound like people should be grateful that their generous employers pay them so much. Employers don't do that because they're nice, they do it because tech wo…

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    Comment #28805436

    It's disingenuous to pretend like "black lives matter" is merely a phrase that any decent person should agree to without question. BLM is a political group with a radical left-lean…

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    Comment #28641634

    Nitpicking based on your definition of "investment" isn't really a dig at Bitcoin. I would argue that even fiat currencies are often used as investments to hedge against various ty…