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Guest2553 posted:Great news, Canada! You can now indirectly buy bitcoin in your RRSP and TFSA's! (Think 401K/Roth IRA for you yanks). It's on the Swedish stock exchange though so every trade has a 1% commission to buy. With a minimum charge of $195 bucks. Plus exchange fees and forex. Like this? 
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Lowness 72 posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/77q7gv/update_2_legality_of_horse_sacrifice_in_california Bad With Money: "They found me in a vulnerable moment and helped me but also brainwashed me. I will try to make better friends from now on." Content: https://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/saloon/3044421-what-your-worst-purchase-mistake-all-time.html gauchojake posted:My worst purchase ever was actually a leased car. I took over a lease on a BMW 335 from some girl who had unknowingly destroyed the car in the 6 months she had it. I did the deal over the phone and through email with pics. Everything looked good on the car and so I assumed the lease. Little did I know I had zero recourse when the poo poo hit the fan. I went to pick up the car at her work in No Cal and the girl literally couldn't find the keys. My buddy who drove me over there found them lying in the dirt near the car! Just sitting in the parking lot at Apple. She then could not produce the second set of keys. quote:I was about 12 years old. I think it was 1989. My family wanted to purchase a computer for the household. Back then... what was the processor??? All I can remember... the number was extremely low?? Was it a 386? Or a 486? Regardless... me my mom and dad all walked into a Radio Shack. After 30 minutes of walking around the store... and I'm excited as hell getting a computer!!! I look back to this day... and my dad got totally hosed on this deal. Wow... Cosmetic dental implants guy posted:My experience was, and still is an absolute nightmare my friend. I had a full set of dental implants. When they tried pulling my teeth out, they couldn't extract them the normal way because the roots of my teeth have grooves on them like a screw, so they had to cut them out. By cutting them out some bone came with it, and my sinuses dropped, so therefore I had to have multiple bone grafts and 2 sinus lift surgeries. If that was not enough, all the implants on the top failed for unknown reasons, but all those on the bottom are perfectly healthy. I then tried again with having all the implants put in on top but with a different brand, as the dental experts felt that possibly my body was rejecting the materials in the implants, so they ended up using the same brand of implants that I have on the bottom, and again they failed. It is unexplainable. I now have a fixed upper denture. Total cost I have shelled out is $78,000 thousand dollars, as insurance does not cover cosmetic. There are also a couple people who supposedly bought lovely game systems back in the day for $1k.
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My cousin got the biggest paycheck of his life yesterday so he celebrated by rolling a joint with a $20 bill.
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Oct 21, 2017 18:00
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I was 3 in 1989 so I don't have personal experience, but from seeing old RadioShack/Best Buy/whoever else ads regarding PCs in the late 80s and into the mid-90s, sure you can look back and say $2800 was loving absurd, but that seems like just what was the going rate back then.
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metallicaeg posted:I was 3 in 1989 so I don't have personal experience, but from seeing old RadioShack/Best Buy/whoever else ads regarding PCs in the late 80s and into the mid-90s, sure you can look back and say $2800 was loving absurd, but that seems like just what was the going rate back then. I think I paid maybe $2k for my pc in 2000 and it was by no means a monster at the time. Computers used to be real expensive.
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The fact that dental implants are considered "cosmetic" is a goddamn crime, but jesus do I feel sorry for that guy. $78k and his mouth is more hosed up than when he started. And sinus lift surgery?  Gonna go brush my teeth for about 5 minutes straight.
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Oct 21, 2017 18:56
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We joke that it is cheaper to get breast implants than dental implants; hell it is cheaper to get two new boobs than two new teeth (at least the teeth will probably last longer). My wife had to get some dental implants to replace some extremely lovely bridge work she had done in the past. I'm at a point where I feel like the whole Dental industry is really scammy; Dental insurance (even through employers) still ends up being much more expensive than the equivalent medical coverage. And just because a dental procedure is expensive doesn't mean it will be well done, it seems to vary wildly depending on the dentist/orthodontist/endodontist. It reminds me a lot of barbers/hairstylists where the cost of the service often has little correlation to the quality of the work; some people will give you an amazing haircut for a good price and are worth their weight in gold, while other stylists overcharge out the rear end for very inconsistent results. But at least with hair it grows back and even expensive hair procedures are still sub-$1,000 affairs.
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hosed up teeth is a waaaaay bigger social pitfall than small tits. In the US anyways. Having a hosed up smile will torpedo all sorts of stuff. Interviews, dates....the list is endless!
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Panfilo posted:We joke that it is cheaper to get breast implants than dental implants; hell it is cheaper to get two new boobs than two new teeth (at least the teeth will probably last longer). That is because it is not really insurance. Dental insurance is a benefit plan. You pay lower fees for treatment until you hit the cap allowed. My GF (dentist) says the best thing you can do is buy a dental plan direct from a good doctor. Also there are many practices that don't take insurance. They are called fee for service and don't agree to the insurance negotiated rates. They will bill your insurance for you but if they want to charge $2000 for a crown you will pay $1500 (if insurance covers $500). Where a practice with negotiated rates may only be able to charge $1000 and so you pay $500 OOP. There is a lot of craziness in dental.
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Oct 21, 2017 19:41
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Say what you will about the quality or necessity of a lot of dental stuff, at least when you call most dental offices and ask "what does it cost to do X" they can usually tell you pretty accurately. Same with most eye doctor offices. Incidentally dental and vision insurance tends to be pretty worthless as "insurance" and is mostly just a pre-paid service plan that hardly pays anything for stuff beyond the routine. Try doing that at a doctor's office or hospital and you'll get nowhere at all. The whole "market based" medical care concept is fundamentally flawed for so many reasons, but if you can't even know what things cost up front then you don't have a market at all. Guinness fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Oct 21, 2017 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:hosed up teeth is a waaaaay bigger social pitfall than small tits. In the US anyways. Having a hosed up smile will torpedo all sorts of stuff. Interviews, dates....the list is endless! This surprised me when I was studying abroad and was around non-Americans who didn't notice it. Apparently we really care about teeth in the US, we're all bugged to notice crooked teeth because so much of the US had braces or knew people with braces growing up I guess.
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Guinness posted:Try doing that at a doctor's office or hospital and you'll get nowhere at all. The whole "market based" medical care concept is fundamentally flawed for so many reasons, but if you can't even know what things cost up front then you don't have a market at all. You don't have a transparent market, but you certainly have a market. It's just one with a critical mass of asymmetrical information.
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Guinness posted:Say what you will about the quality or necessity of a lot of dental stuff, at least when you call most dental offices and ask "what does it cost to do X" they can usually tell you pretty accurately. Same with most eye doctor offices. Incidentally dental and vision insurance tends to be pretty worthless as "insurance" and is mostly just a pre-paid service plan that hardly pays anything for stuff beyond the routine. There's a new project being started to try and gather some kind of data on medical pricing. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/16/16357790/health-care-prices-problem posted:Americans pay exorbitant prices for all kinds of care. As a health care reporter, I find myself writing about $25,000 MRIs, $629 Band-Aids — even a $39.95 fee just to hold one’s own baby after delivery. People send me these types of bills quite regularly via email. greazeball fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Oct 21, 2017 |
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metallicaeg posted:I was 3 in 1989 so I don't have personal experience, but from seeing old RadioShack/Best Buy/whoever else ads regarding PCs in the late 80s and into the mid-90s, sure you can look back and say $2800 was loving absurd, but that seems like just what was the going rate back then. My first family computer was an XT clone in 1985 and my dad said it was $5000. $2800 in 1989 is a lot of money but no matter what the dude bought, it would have been out of date in 1 year anyways, let alone 2 years.
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Oct 21, 2017 22:08
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I finished reading Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain and I can attest that it was both funny and informative. It's like one giant BWM post.
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This URL speaks for itself. http://fox59.com/2017/10/20/kokomo-mans-warning-after-having-16-guns-stolen-dont-let-strippers-in-your-house/
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I can’t find it now, but I listened to an NPR story on dentistry that went over it’s weird sort of quasi-medical status. Considering the health aspects of good teeth, dentists should fall under the health insurance umbrella, but in the 19th century dentists and doctors had a falling out and they’ve been separate ever since. Also we owned a $2k IBM PCjr. That poo poo was obsolete before it was even built.
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Oct 22, 2017 16:00
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Reform dentists to send them to medical school and complete a dental residency. Do the same to podiatrists. Optometrists too?
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Oct 22, 2017 17:39
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Just reintegrate dentistry with barbers, so anyone with a stylist license can also do simple extractions.
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Ashcans posted:Just reintegrate dentistry with barbers, so anyone with a stylist license can also do simple extractions. While they're at it, get them certified to perform minor surgical procedures as well. A guy that could give an affordable haircut, extract teeth, or pop a dislocated joint back into place would be pretty valuable. He'd probably make a decent living traveling to various small towns soliciting his services.
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Oct 22, 2017 19:20
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ITT we reinvent the school of naturopathy.
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:My cousin got the biggest paycheck of his life yesterday so he celebrated by rolling a joint with a $20 bill. dude I knew did that with a benjamin after his startup exited, his share was $2 million so you gotta include your cousin's paycheck size in that one. i don't know, what if he's a director at goldman? (he's not a director at goldman)
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Hoodwinker posted:I finished reading Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain and I can attest that it was both funny and informative. It's like one giant BWM post. written by a goon (divabot) over in the yospos bitcoin thread. previous fights was with scientologists, gamergaters, singulatarians and some others I forget so this guy knows how to pick target-rich environments bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Oct 22, 2017 |
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[quote="“Krispy Wafer”" post="“477623757”"] Also we owned a $2k IBM PCjr. That poo poo was obsolete before it was even built. [/quote] Your mom's obsolete.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:dude I knew did that with a benjamin after his startup exited, his share was $2 million He’s a plumber.
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:He’s a plumber. Being a plumber is incredibly good with money. Last quote I had was something like: "I'll fix the leak but I get to gently caress your wife and have right of first refusal on your children's kidneys. Also, six hundred dollars just for looking at the pipes."
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bob dobbs is dead posted:dude I knew did that with a benjamin after his startup exited, his share was $2 million
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Yeah if you can't smoke afford to smoke a hundred you can't afford to smoke a twenty. I wonder what a lifetime of wiping your rear end with $1 bills costs. If you gain your wealth at 30 and live to 100 it'd cost $76,550 if you poo poo 3 times a day.
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Photex posted:If you gain your wealth at 30 and live to 100 it'd cost $76,550 if you poo poo 3 times a day. Do you poo poo 3 times a day? I think that's a bit excessive. Definitely BWM. But if you up your fiber intake, they could be no wipers. GWM.
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Lowness 72 posted:Do you poo poo 3 times a day? I think that's a bit excessive. Definitely BWM. Another case of americans doing it wrong. *turns on dom perignon bidet*
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Lowness 72 posted:Do you poo poo 3 times a day? I think that's a bit excessive. Definitely BWM. How many dollar bills do I have to eat to get the right amount of fiber?
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Enfys posted:There's a big ongoing thread right now which is quite. It's a mix of mysterious possible fraud and terrifying stories of people's lives being turned upside down due to having the same name as someone else or other unfortunate errors: Slightly unrelated, but a mix-up from a common name can be absolute hell. Wanted to share this incredible article I read about name mix-up issues: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/03/identity-theft-racial-justice
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PCjr sidecar posted:Your mom's obsolete. I would compliment your username/post combo, but I have a variant of PCjr as an username on other sites and I wanted to make it consistent across the board. But then you had to exist.
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:My cousin got the biggest paycheck of his life yesterday so he celebrated by rolling a joint with a $20 bill. Always wondered if it ran in your family Cole
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Krispy Wafer posted:I would compliment your username/post combo, but I have a variant of PCjr as an username on other sites and I wanted to make it consistent across the board. But then you had to exist. There's always room in the PCjr family! We've got light pens! A word processor with a spell check that takes half an hour to spell check a paragraph! Wireless keyboards! Cartridges! Microsoft Flight Simulator 2! Three-voice synth! Charlie Chaplin! There's never been a better time to be on the jr train!
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:My cousin got the biggest paycheck of his life yesterday so he celebrated by rolling a joint with a $20 bill. I'm gonna one-up this story. One of my wife's cousins also got the biggest paycheck of her life not long ago since she got her first "office job" (not a high-paying job. It's a clerical position). So she celebrated by buying a new Mercedes S-Class. She was barely above-water with her bills beforehand, and her parents really tried their best to discourage her from such a foolish purchase. And now she's on a weird spending spree buying the flashiest, silliest things that poor people think that rich people buy. Like LV trinkets and purses. She still hasn't paid off her wedding from her previous marriage, btw.
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melon cat posted:I'm gonna one-up this story. One of my wife's cousins also got the biggest paycheck of her life not long ago since she got her first "office job" (not a high-paying job. It's a clerical position). So she celebrated by buying a new Mercedes S-Class. She was barely above-water with her bills beforehand, and her parents really tried their best to discourage her from such a foolish purchase. Just roll that negative marriage equity into your new one.
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melon cat posted:I'm gonna one-up this story. One of my wife's cousins also got the biggest paycheck of her life not long ago since she got her first "office job" (not a high-paying job. It's a clerical position). So she celebrated by buying a new Mercedes S-Class. She was barely above-water with her bills beforehand, and her parents really tried their best to discourage her from such a foolish purchase. She literally bought a $100,000 car on a ~$50k salary? How is that even possible
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