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Pretty sure facebook coin is a stable coin. You cant make money trading it. You can only make money by using it for trading.

Yes but it can still be useful. Facebook is basically planning to compete directly with amazon in ecommerce space. In the future, you won't even have to leave facebook to buy something. The merchant will be able to process orders directly through facebook.

Also my guess is informal trading markets will form using this facebook currency. If everyone is using the same form of payment then cross boarder trade becomes much easier. No more foreign exchange hassles. I've already seen it happen with stuff like amazon gift cards but recently amazon removed the ability to check the balance of amazon gift cards. I have already moved away from accepting amazon gift cards for this very reason. If facebook's coin is widely used and can be used to buy a lot of different stuff then I would definitely shift my informal trading to the facebook coin.

Bingo. I completely agree. Yes, it is kind of a hassle to have FB using this globalcoin rather than just use a standard decentralized crypto but it is a start at least.

One potential reason is you can get the token listed on a cryptocurrency exchange but other than that. I do not know. If you use cyrptocurrency you are almost always better off with a decentralized crypto.

The academics putting stuff on youtube is almost laughable. It really exposes their flaws outright. Their lectures are boring and dull. Heck, it even shows how poorly some of these people are at teaching. Sure, we get it, you have a PHD in physics and you're smart but who cares about that if you can't actually teach the material.

No wonder so many kids these days are flocking to youtube to learn stuff. It is because of how horrible the current education system is. We put people in teaching positions when they can't even teach in the first place.

The truth is youtube, the internet and computers are absolutely game changing technology when it comes to education. With the right tools, youtube + internet + right computer tools will be able to provide the best learning experience for the student, even beating out top-tier education institutions.

Add basic web design to the list. I'm sorry but it is 2019, stop creating websites that look like they're designed in 1995. It isn't cool. If you have limited web skills, at least use wordpress with a template so the website looks at least somewhat aesthetically pleasing on the eye.

unlikely given consumer spending is at record highs. People are just buying different stuff.

The downside to these rulings is that it has the potential to cause unemployment for these gig workers. As the saying goes, the least exploited people by employers are the unemployed.

It is like in American Samoa when the federal minimum wage was passed. It crushed their economy (dominated by tuna canning) since the tuna canning mills couldn't afford to pay top dollar for the raw tuna from the fishermen. The fishermen ended up going to Vietnam and southeast asia where their catch could be sold for more. The Vietnam mills were able to pay more because of the lower labor costs. The end result was that the unemployment rate in American Samoa skyrocketed to over 40% and even to this day it is still at around 20%-30%.

I had a serious problem with bots spamming my forum. I implemented all the usual captchas but none of it worked. What I found interesting was that I was able to defeat the bots simply by "tricking" them. I kept the old forum up but basically set this forum to auto delete the content on it. I then setup a brand new forum and for whatever reason bots don't spam it, at all. It is almost like the bot goes to the original forum, spams it, and then moves on thinking it has completed its mission. I even flat out disabled the captcha to see if anything changed and nothing did. The new forum never got spammed. I have no idea why that happened but it strangely did work. When I do get spam, I don't think that spam is from bots. It is from humans posting instead but that is at least manageable to clean up.

It kinda leads me to conclude that each developer has to create "out of the box" solutions instead of some plug and play solution. If a plug and play solution is developed then all the spam bot creators start figuring out ways to crack or simply create a service for human based cracking. If unconventional methods are used on each site then it gets more complicated for the spammers.

I will start doing this.

If google moves forward with this we should all start randomly clicking on ads until advertisers start to realize that they're basically throwing their money away on advertising that doesn't work :) Let's hit 'em where it hurts.

Also when stacked next to a processed beef patty, Beyond Meat patties are by far healthier without a doubt.

Makes a lot of sense now. Read the comments in that twitter thread. There are people there who think a beef patty isn't considered a "processed food". Wow, I just don't know what to say. Also you can kinda tell people commenting kinda have an agenda when they're using terms like "fake meat".

Laser might cause a fire which is why they don't use it. I think best method is to simply mimic the human hand motion. You grab the berry but you put your two fingers over the stem and then pull down on the berry until the stem disconnects. This method might be even superior to the scissors method since you won't need to replace the scissors due to dullness.

Same here but now amazon has so many of these knockoff type Chinese products that you don't even know what to pick. Most of it ends up being of questionable quality as well.

It sounds more like you are just alone. In situations like that, yes it is important to go out and meet new people or family.

Something like 70% of the us economy is entirely driven by consumer spending....the acquisition of more and more trinkets. If people reduced their consumption then the USA would immediately go into a recession. That would be a serious problem considering how many people live paycheck to paycheck with no savings at all.

You can have a certain amount of stuff but don't let it get excessive. I used to have boxes and boxes full of items that weren't even organized. Like literally....I knew I had that one item...but good luck finding it in the mountain of boxes! If you are at that point then it is time to start reducing your items. The stuff you have needs to be neat and organized and not overly excessive.

Completely agree, I am the same way. It is well worth it to live a minimalist lifestyle. I also threw out boxes and boxes of worthless junk recently - thousands of baseball cards, beanie babies, old broken items, obsolete gadgets (cd players) etc. Living minimalist is the way to go, here is why: when you need to clean the home, it is easier to clean. You can get a roomba and the roomba is able to clean the entire carpet because there aren't boxes of junk everywhere. Also when you have less stuff, your house can be better organized. Just look at home design magazines - almost all have minimalist design to them.

and don't forget ebay....which probably beats most everyone's prices by far. If you don't mind the extra few days waiting for shipping then that is by far your best bet. Also if you aren't afraid of buying second hand then going to your local thrift shop will give you by far the biggest bang for your buck, especially for clothing.

Love the idea, even with the simple demo setup. Lots of potential here!

People often underrate the state schools. I went to one as well for accounting. When I graduated I got a job at a big 4 accounting firm and was working with people who went to USC for their undergrad. We were making the same amount of money. Only difference was I graduated debt free (worked through school) and they had massive loans.

IMO, only go to the prestigious schools if you are studying a profession that has earning potential. Don't bother with any liberal arts type major.

The big problem here is that people create accounts on multiple sites and then reuse the username/passwords on many sites. Then, one of the sites gets hacked, the database gets leaked with unencrypted passwords. Eventually this database gets passed around the internet for anyone to use. Now people simply go down the list trying to log in with these username/password combos on every site.

I never knew how many fake profiles exist on facebook until I tried to buy a $10 amazon gift card with paypal in one of the groups I was joined. I missed all the red flags. First, the profile was an attractive female with little account activity. Second, when I tried to send the paypal payment it defaulted to PHP currency (Philippines money) even though the seller said they lived in the United States. Third, the account was non-us unverified. Then when the person actually did scam me, they immediately deleted the profile.

Needless to say, that was the last time I trusted random people on facebook.

Most of those "double-irish" tax tricks are actually illegal tax evasion. The IRS has recently been auditing these companies and hitting them hard with back taxes. The transfer pricing rules clearly state that the transfer pricing must represent the nature of your business. You can't specifically use transfer pricing to reduce taxes on purpose.

Yup. Corporate/business taxes to begin with are not so smart because because businesses can basically incorporate in any jurisdiction for reduced or 0% tax rates. Many countries have "free trade zones" with 0% business taxes. Those countries still benefit though because their citizens get jobs they might not otherwise have access to. With free trade agreements, it is easier than ever to have your headquarters in a tax haven and then manufacture and sell your products worldwide.

The problem is people don't know what will offend you so they play the safe route of avoiding all contact. No discussions means no risk of lawsuit, accusations etc.

I used to work at a construction company where the owner was paranoid about sexual harassment lawsuits. For this reason, he specifically hired overweight older women for all of the administrative staff because he knew this would minimize the risk of sexual harassment lawsuits. The company never had any issues with it.

This was similar to the reaction of the Americans with Disabilities act. After the ADA was passed, the amount of disabled people employed actually decreased. Employers know that hiring an ADA employee would potentially result in an ADA lawsuit, so they avoided hiring them. It was the old well intention law with unintended consequences.

That's not really a solution. The problem with nuclear is the risk of a meltdown and risk of radioactive release. Both risks must absolutely be reduced to 0% chance of occurring. In other words, reactors need to be created such that it is virtually impossible for a meltdown to occur. Likewise, the reactor needs to eliminate all radioactive waste from even being created or to confine it permanently at the site of creation.

If we are using existing reactor technology then basically these nuclear plants would basically have to built thousands of feet below ground in some sort of solid rock area and then waste areas would need to be created such that it can contain the waste for hundreds of thousands of years. If an absolute disaster were to occur then the entire underground facility would need to basically be completely sealed off permanently before radioactive dust or materials are leaked. The facility would also need to be designed such that even if a disaster occurs that an underground nuclear explosion does not occur and if it does occur that it is not so massive that it somehow bursts out to the surface or creates fissures.

Currently I am anti-nuclear based on the existing way things are run but if nuclear is implemented correctly, with safety as the most important priority, then I would support it. If I recall correctly, there is a company funded by Bill Gates that is creating micro reactors. That might have potential in the underground nuclear facility I have.

The locals will clean it up when they start to realize that their tourism industry is going to collapse if their country gets the reputation of being a trashy place to visit.