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JohnGalt posted:This was me until my family started gifting me old furniture to fill my apartment. Still buy food in bulk and will eat the same meal for a week. God drat, that reminds of me of that weird "how to care for a cat" video. Haven't seen it in years, but I'll always remember: "Much like an engineer, cats are perfectly content to eat the same thing day after day" (or something like that) Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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Is that really an engineer stereotype? I'm an engineer and I eat the same thing every day with the exception of 2 cheat meals/week
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quote:I have converted 100% of my remaining net worth into BTC over the past day and am waiting on the sidelines to buy the quarterly as soon as we see a decent red candle. All cash, all savings in bank, all sellable assets (that I could liquify) now in BTC. I have enough in the bank to pay reoccurring payments like netflix and gym membership for a month, and 1 month of credit card payments. bitcoin guy from earlier is not doing that great: https://www.reddit.com/user/extratrading quote:gently caress this poo poo and gently caress bitcoin. I never want to hear the word again. I dont care if it goes to the moon im out. I just want to live a happy modest life when you get your hopes up and they are destroyed there is no worse feeling. I dont give a rats rear end if you think im trolling or not i think we can safely say im not walking away from this one unscathed quote:I'm still addicted to staring at the charts while thinking of ways to invest and start trading again. I am done with it, it can gently caress off, I just have to make my money back. quote:Guys please. I hope you are right about a bounce. I just went all in with the rest of my meager funds, lucky it took a while to confirm otherwise I would have bought in just before the drop. I am now 25x long from 845 with 808 liquidation. Please save me and let me have my losses back. I cannot deal with this anymore. quote:My trading account got rekt for everything. Still had 4 coins in cold storage that I deposited. Lost 30 coins over the last 2 days overall.
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Jan 7, 2017 20:54
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Gorman Thomas posted:Is that really an engineer stereotype? Lots of engineers, sort of by definition, see efficiency as the one of the highest virtues. Cooking cheap food in bulk is efficient.
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Jan 7, 2017 21:01
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Guilty as charged  but I usually only do bulk meals for breakfasts. The cafeteria at work is worse than school cafeteria food and it takes too long to get lunch out (nothing within walking distance).
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Jan 7, 2017 21:06
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Gorman Thomas posted:Is that really an engineer stereotype? Yea, as embodied by the Soylent guy who decided he could efficiency food down to core nutrients and not have to waste time chewing or interacting with people.
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Jan 7, 2017 21:41
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I've eaten the same breakfast before work for 4 years. Oatmeal, frozen fruit, tablespoon of peanut butter, protein powder. I do mix up the fruit though. Sometimes I get a little wild and buy something fresh.
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Jan 7, 2017 21:46
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My horror at the idea of eating the same thing every day knows no bounds, and I still cook batch meals for myself and do cost effective shopping. Guys guys guys - spices. Multiple grains. Different cooking methods. Chicken and rice can be done so many different ways.
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Jan 7, 2017 21:56
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Hufflepuff or bust! posted:bitcoin guy from earlier is not doing that great: Thank you! When I saw that it was tanking again my thoughts wandered to him.
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Jan 7, 2017 22:02
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Engineers are the idiots in the 60s eho thought that in the future meals would just be a series of food pills because that is efficient beep boop beep what is sociocultural food norms
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cowofwar posted:Engineers are the idiots in the 60s eho thought that in the future meals would just be a series of food pills because that is efficient beep boop beep what is sociocultural food norms No because engineers did the math to figure out how many pills you'd need to swallow to take in 2000 calories per day.
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Jan 7, 2017 23:01
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Ashcans posted:Yea, as embodied by the Soylent guy who decided he could efficiency food down to core nutrients and not have to waste time chewing or interacting with people. Food poisoning from moldy products isn't very efficient though. You lose a lot of nutrients from making GBS threads/puking your guts out.
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monster on a stick posted:No because engineers did the math to figure out how many pills you'd need to swallow to take in 2000 calories per day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81eKLe_j7sc
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Hufflepuff or bust! posted:bitcoin guy from earlier is not doing that great: Clearly: quote:OK GG im out this forum is chinese a chinese fetish fest anyway I'm done never posting again
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Bad With Money - a chinese fetish fest
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Hufflepuff or bust! posted:bitcoin guy from earlier is not doing that great: Don't put all of your eggs in one basket, especially if the basket is a cryptocurrency.
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Looking at his posts it seems bitcoiners have gotten past the "No, fees*" stage and are now at "fees are a feature"
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LLCoolJD posted:Don't put all of your eggs in one basket, especially if the basket is a cryptocurrency. And especially if your basket is 100x leveraged
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Mocking Bird posted:My horror at the idea of eating the same thing every day knows no bounds, and I still cook batch meals for myself and do cost effective shopping. I've gotten some pretty weird looks from my coworkers when i eat an whole unsalted/unseasoned sous vide chicken breast out of a bag like some sort of techno-cro-magnon.
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My coworkers all give me odd stares as I squeeze food paste into my nutrient tank connected directly to my large intestine. Weirdos.
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Moneyball posted:
AHAHAHAHAHAHA this is the least realistic monetary expectation I have seen in the entirety of this thread. Living in Boston is definitely BWM 
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Hey you can spend less than $1000 for a place in Boston, providing you're ok renting a room in a shared house with a bunch of students!
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flosofl posted:God drat, that reminds of me of that weird "how to care for a cat" video. Haven't seen it in years, but I'll always remember: "Much like an engineer, cats are perfectly content to eat the same thing day after day" (or something like that) Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4&t=87s
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Vox Nihili posted:It's almost certainly a real, unsecured personal loan (issued by an entity closely related to Prosper, but if it's anything like Lending Club, legally distinct). Depending on whether he is making his payments or not it could be racking up unpaid interest and penalties beyond its regular rate, and yes, it could bloat up in size. If he misses enough payments I believe they will write off the debt on their books (really the users' books [but legally on the distinct entity's books!]) and sell it out to collection. I think the users can also sell their own individual stakes in the loan; on Lending Club users typically "own" $25 or $50 chunks as securitized notes rather than an entire loan. Since the loan itself is very real, if he's behind on payments or if he defaults he will take a big hit to his credit. The good news is that since this is an unsecured internet loan it's less likely that he'll face a bunch of harassment and his property isn't going to be seized, though who knows what will happen after the bad debt is sold. The business loan market is a scary place. There are no regulations around predatory lending for businesses and the online alternative lending market has seized on this in a big way, especially when you're using other people's money in a crowdfunding scheme. People can get algorithmically approved for loans in minutes with 0 human interaction over review and even the crowdfunders are investing in these loans using their own auto-investing algos. poo poo's going to collapse eventually. A single market downturn that puts an ounce of pressure on these borrowers will reveal almost all of those loans to be poo poo. The other scummy products that I see from business lenders are things like "merchant cash advances" where you tell Amazon or Paypal or any other merchant processor what you think your business receipts will be over the next few months and then they simply skim 10% of your bank account deposits for x number of months in exchange for some upfront cash. These often turn out to be 150%+ APR in practice. Anytime I see a cash only business, I assume they got burned on these.
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Solice Kirsk posted:My coworkers all give me odd stares as I squeeze food paste into my nutrient tank connected directly to my large intestine. Weirdos. Maybe because they know you'll get nothing out of it unless you reconnect to your small intestine?
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Mr. Nice! posted:Considering that some of the biggest darlings of the tech bubble have been based on literal fraud, criminal exploitation of workers, and flagrant disregard of regulations, there is certainly some other less than legal activity that will be the subject of various lawsuits over the coming years. I'm entirely speculating, however.
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Struensee posted:Maybe because they know you'll get nothing out of it unless you reconnect to your small intestine? Quit nutrient shaming.
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mastershakeman posted:500k a year combined at age 30 is doable for the elite of the elite who probably would also have tons of debt (doctors fresh out of residency, big law associates, etc). Even senior vice presidents at huge companies probably aren't pulling in a ton more than that. So plausible in bubble land, but a wholly unreasonable floor for poverty anxiety.
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I know multiple couples in their 20s with a combined income over $1,000,000 a year, it's really not hard when you have an attorney and a tech bro living in Denver/SF/Seattle/NY. But of course you're never going to make that unless you go to the places where the good jobs are, sorry that doesn't include Indiana. BWM: focusing on the cost of rent when you can make 10x more, who gives a poo poo about rent. If you're a smart person go to where the other smart people are, ignore all the dumb people in your life who will shriek about the cost of living. It could not matter less. Pryor on Fire fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Jan 8, 2017 |
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Pryor on Fire posted:I know multiple couples in their 20s with a combined income over $1,000,000 a year, it's really not hard when you have an attorney and a tech bro living in Denver/SF/Seattle/NY. But of course you're never going to make that unless you go to the places where the good jobs are, sorry that doesn't include Indiana. Uh, no that's still incredibly rare and hard. 8th year associates at big law firms make about $350k, 1st year more like $150k. That's nowhere near a million, even with two of them or someone making a very very unusual $300k early on in tech. http://abovethelaw.com/2016/06/salary-wars-scorecard-which-firms-have-announced-raises/
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quote:Opening a bank account for someone else? quote:It could be an ordinary fake check scam. She will present you with a fake check for $3000, which you'll deposit into your account. You will then give her $2400 and keep $600 for yourself. quote:What's the worst that could happen if I open up a bank account in my name for her? quote:What crime could she possibly be committing? quote:What is that? One Month Later... quote:Lost $15k to debit card cracking scam. Bank isnt helping
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Academician Nomad posted:Uh, no that's still incredibly rare and hard. 8th year associates at big law firms make about $350k, 1st year more like $150k. That's nowhere near a million, even with two of them or someone making a very very unusual $300k early on in tech. Yeah nobody I know wants to slave away for 20 years to be a partner at some stuffy east coast firm when they can get equity at a startup instead. Also nobody works their single career anymore, they also start their own things on the side too. Actually of the four lawyers I know under 40 only one is still doing traditional lawyering full time, the other three have all started business that put them waaaaay over 300k a year, closer to 3000k a year on average. And if you think 300k a year is unusual for someone with 5 years experience in tech in Seattle then you're misinformed. Sure if you're still slaving away as a lovely programmer you'll never make that, but if you have talent and skill and make connections and move forward you will.
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Academician Nomad posted:Uh, no that's still incredibly rare and hard. 8th year associates at big law firms make about $350k, 1st year more like $150k. That's nowhere near a million, even with two of them or someone making a very very unusual $300k early on in tech. Nah seriously it's really not hard to get into the 0.1%, the other 99.9% of people are just lazy as gently caress.
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Pryor on Fire posted:Yeah nobody I know wants to slave away for 20 years to be a partner at some stuffy east coast firm when they can get equity at a startup instead. Also nobody works their single career anymore, they also start their own things on the side too. Actually of the four lawyers I know under 40 only one is still doing traditional lawyering full time, the other three have all started business that put them waaaaay over 300k a year, closer to 3000k a year on average. And if you think 300k a year is unusual for someone with 5 years experience in tech in Seattle then you're misinformed. Sure if you're still slaving away as a lovely programmer you'll never make that, but if you have talent and skill and make connections and move forward you will. Cool story, but this is not at all representative of your typical lawyer or hell even your typical entrepreneur. Most of us scratch a living off of our JDs and pull $100k to $300k once established. Which is fine when you're not in Seattle and a 4BR/2.5 home costs ~$250k.
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Pryor on Fire posted:Yeah nobody I know wants to slave away for 20 years to be a partner at some stuffy east coast firm when they can get equity at a startup instead. Also nobody works their single career anymore, they also start their own things on the side too. Actually of the four lawyers I know under 40 only one is still doing traditional lawyering full time, the other three have all started business that put them waaaaay over 300k a year, closer to 3000k a year on average. And if you think 300k a year is unusual for someone with 5 years experience in tech in Seattle then you're misinformed. Sure if you're still slaving away as a lovely programmer you'll never make that, but if you have talent and skill and make connections and move forward you will. I wish I could be like you, but I'm just not smart enough. Also, I'm not a self righteous rear end in a top hat.
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Lol dude come on. I live in Seattle and have worked at Google for about ten years and my family income is a deece seven figgies and even I know that is very unusual. Get real.
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Pryor on Fire posted:Yeah nobody I know wants to slave away for 20 years to be a partner at some stuffy east coast firm when they can get equity at a startup instead. Also nobody works their single career anymore, they also start their own things on the side too. Actually of the four lawyers I know under 40 only one is still doing traditional lawyering full time, the other three have all started business that put them waaaaay over 300k a year, closer to 3000k a year on average. And if you think 300k a year is unusual for someone with 5 years experience in tech in Seattle then you're misinformed. Sure if you're still slaving away as a lovely programmer you'll never make that, but if you have talent and skill and make connections and move forward you will. Lmao you don't understand statistics and still think you have a chance of being a good programmer.
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