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You guys, Bitcoin is going to hit $15,000 by end of year again. Totally. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/20/fundstrat-tom-lee-stands-by-15000-dollar-year-end-bitcoin-target-as-prices-sink.html
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shame on an IGA posted:A soundcloud rapper sired by a bag of skittles whose rampant criminality might have kept flying under the radar if the other, even bigger piece of poo poo soundcloud rapper from florida who was keeping all the police attention for himself hadn't gotten murked https://twitter.com/Xxxtentacionhe1/status/1063797373514715137
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All I know about that rapper guy is he was involved in making kiddie porn so gently caress him with a pineapple.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:All I know about that rapper guy is he was involved in making kiddie porn so gently caress him with a pineapple. That was one of the key points he discussed in his TED talk
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hobbesmaster posted:https://www.springfield-armory.com/products/saint-ar-15-pistol-5-56/ No stock (buffer tube with foam doesn’t count for reasons) no rifle.
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hobbesmaster posted:https://www.springfield-armory.com/products/saint-ar-15-pistol-5-56/ what the gently caress that is not a pistol
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Mars is a pipe dream. Dont forget, atmosphere isnt just breathing but protection from radiation and meteorites. If we did go to Mars, it would be underground or in self-contained modules. Also dust storms make solar energy difficult.
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What's old is new again! Trump supporter Hayes Kotseos runs a North Carolina pool-maintenance company, but she’s got a side bet that she thinks might make her fabulously wealthy: the Iraqi dinar.
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Syrian Lannister posted:Dow just dropped another 350 points 
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Vasudus posted:Plus there's at least somewhat feasible ideas for how to control our climate change, we just have approximately zero chance of implementing it. Doing poo poo on Mars is not only infeasible, it's also really far away, and there's not even the slightest real ideas how to even GET THERE in the first place on a scale to implement non-existing fantasy technologies. The climate is always sweeter on the other side of the goldilocks zone. I can just imagine Gault's Gulch Chile but without free breathable air and survivable temperatures and with literally everything else necessary for life coming through a single, costly, and tenuous source 140 million miles away.
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Send Musk and a bunch of billionaires to Mars. Liquidate their assets on Earth and just turn off the radio. Seems like a problem that solves itself.
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Nov 20, 2018 17:33
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It's also telling that popular modern science fiction doesn't even bother to terraform Mars. The Expanse franchise is in the late 2400s and Mars is still just a bunch of domes. Mass Effect is in the late 2100s and it doesn't have a breathable atmosphere. Like goddamn.
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they entire concept of terraforming mars is moronic to concern yourself with when we have shown zero interest in trying to save our own planet.
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Nov 20, 2018 17:40
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mods changed my name posted:they entire concept of terraforming mars is moronic to concern yourself with when we have shown zero interest in trying to save our own planet. That's the point of terraforming mars
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that's dumb if we don't terraform Earth first to not kill us is my point
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Vasudus posted:It's also telling that popular modern science fiction doesn't even bother to terraform Mars. The Expanse franchise is in the late 2400s and Mars is still just a bunch of domes. Mass Effect is in the late 2100s and it doesn't have a breathable atmosphere. Like goddamn. Kim Stanley Robinson would like a word with you (although in the Mars trilogy terraforming takes hundreds of years with huge labor demands and i think they still live in domes)
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The most optimistic I can recall is Bebop and it's also domes in craters.
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Nov 20, 2018 17:53
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Just doin a perfectly legal, normally moral one https://twitter.com/rachael_levy/status/1064855348589355008?s=19 I would like to think that the Trump era is going to result in a mass rewrite of all the white-collar/governmental laws to fix loopholes in shady poo poo like this, but I'm doubtful.
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Vasudus posted:It's also telling that popular modern science fiction doesn't even bother to terraform Mars. The Expanse franchise is in the late 2400s and Mars is still just a bunch of domes. Mass Effect is in the late 2100s and it doesn't have a breathable atmosphere. Like goddamn. Yeah in the expanse the "dream" of the dusters is still to terraform mars, and this is when mars is independent of earth and has a huge navy and they STILL can't do it because of cost/time. Mass effect they didn't bother with because gently caress now you have all these new garden worlds, why spend the time/effort (which turns into a major plot point in the expanse as well)
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facialimpediment posted:Just doin a perfectly legal, normally moral one Amazon already has a lot of offices in NYC so
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facialimpediment posted:Just doin a perfectly legal, normally moral one That's both legal and perfectly moral though? Oh no, two Amazon employees bought an apartment before it was publicly announced they had a new building there, the horror.
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The Iron Rose posted:That's both legal and perfectly moral though? I think people are confusing this with insider trading lol
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The Iron Rose posted:That's both legal and perfectly moral though? 
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Nov 20, 2018 18:07
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It's not that hard to terraform mars, it's like 5000 energy credits
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The Iron Rose posted:That's both legal and perfectly moral though? I'm reading the article more like the real estate equivalent of insider trading, as in they bought early due to non-public information, just to sit on the property for speculation purposes. Not to mention that the buyers wouldn't likely be run-of-the-mill employees, but Amazon executives. It could be entirely above-board and clean, but I personally smell something stinking and it's tyool 2018 so
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Nov 20, 2018 18:12
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The Iron Rose posted:That's both legal and perfectly moral though? Amazon already has hundreds of high paying positions in NYC; this could just be random chance
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Nov 20, 2018 18:14
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facialimpediment posted:I'm reading the article more like the real estate equivalent of insider trading, as in they bought early due to non-public information, just to sit on the property for speculation purposes. Not to mention that the buyers wouldn't likely be run-of-the-mill employees, but Amazon executives. Fairly sure insider trading doesn’t apply in this situation since there’s no securities involved. Rich people gonna rich people.
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Nov 20, 2018 18:16
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The real funny part is all the granular data Amazon got from the applicant cities during the HQ2 search. They got to see long-term development plans from dozens if not hundreds of localities, so there will be more of this except it'll be for land, data centers, distribution centers, etc.
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egyptian rat race posted:The real funny part is all the granular data Amazon got from the applicant cities during the HQ2 search. They got to see long-term development plans from dozens if not hundreds of localities, so there will be more of this except it'll be for land, data centers, distribution centers, etc. Now that you've said that I'm 110% sure Bezos had already made the decision before the municipal beauty pageant and collecting that dataset was the entire point.
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Vasudus posted:It's also telling that popular modern science fiction doesn't even bother to terraform Mars. The Expanse franchise is in the late 2400s and Mars is still just a bunch of domes. Mass Effect is in the late 2100s and it doesn't have a breathable atmosphere. Like goddamn. The Expanse is one of the most realistic takes on interplanetary expansion. It's not the glamorous utopia of Star Trek, it's not the swashbuckling adventure of Star Wars, it's cold and dark and miserable and there's a million different ways you can die, both instantly or prolonged. And the greatest danger in the Expanse is capitalism. Some corporate suit thinks they can save a buck by reducing oxygen output on mining stations by 10%, and now your children (who you have to bring with you because you can't exactly drop them off at daycare a million miles away) are growing up literally retarded. And then you get blown up by the military for protesting it. Mars is extraordinarily hosed up in The Expanse. They all know that the terraforming project will take thousands of years, so everyone who lives there is raised to be fanatically devoted to it. Their economy is still capitalist though, so they end up with a few super rich families that control all the terraforming machinery, and the lower classes are fully indoctrinated to believe that anyone who doesn't work for a living (like the billions of people on Earth on basic income) is a greedy, selfish "taker". The end result is an insanely fascist society. I loving love The Expanse.
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shame on an IGA posted:Now that you've said that I'm 110% sure Bezos had already made the decision before the municipal beauty pageant and collecting that dataset was the entire point. Well that and extorting as many tax benefits as possible from the race to the bottom competition.
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shame on an IGA posted:Now that you've said that I'm 110% sure Bezos had already made the decision before the municipal beauty pageant and collecting that dataset was the entire point. That and probably milking additional subsidies out of Arlington and NYC.
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I mean it makes perfect sense. You're looking to house 25-50k high paid, white collar tech workers; some of which will be transferred from Seattle, some of which will be hired locally, and some of which will be hired from all over to go to. The RFP specifically asks for high quality, readily available mass transit and a connection to a nearby major international airport. That immediately knocks out almost every city, because while plenty of cities have international airports, very few have mass transit beyond a goddamn bus line. Techbros aren't going to take the bus to work, and they're not going to live out in the middle of nowhere. The HQ2 won't be on the west coast, Amazon is already in Seattle, there's a shitload of competitors in California, and between all of that there's no more local talent to suck dry. So that realistically leaves Chicago, Boston, NYC, DC, and Atlanta. Thanks to Atlanta playing gently caress-gently caress games with Delta over the NRA shenanigans any large corporation of that size is going to give pause. So you've got Boston, NYC, and DC.
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Fister Roboto posted:The Expanse is one of the most realistic takes on interplanetary expansion. It's not the glamorous utopia of Star Trek, it's not the swashbuckling adventure of Star Wars, it's cold and dark and miserable and there's a million different ways you can die, both instantly or prolonged. And the greatest danger in the Expanse is capitalism. Some corporate suit thinks they can save a buck by reducing oxygen output on mining stations by 10%, and now your children (who you have to bring with you because you can't exactly drop them off at daycare a million miles away) are growing up literally retarded. And then you get blown up by the military for protesting it. gently caress yes hombre. Bobbi is my second favorite character (after Amos of course because Amos is peak GiP) who starts out all hoorah and gung-ho and "WHO WILL DRINK EARTH'S RIVERS DRY AND POUND THEIR MOUNTAINS TO SAND MARS MARS HOOAH" but realizes very quickly "holy gently caress I puke every time I look -up- because I've lived in a dome my whole life and the gravity hurts my bones and why are there so many people what the gently caress". The future looks a lot like the present except with more spaceships.
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Fister Roboto posted:The Expanse is one of the most realistic takes on interplanetary expansion. It's not the glamorous utopia of Star Trek, it's not the swashbuckling adventure of Star Wars, it's cold and dark and miserable and there's a million different ways you can die, both instantly or prolonged. And the greatest danger in the Expanse is capitalism. Some corporate suit thinks they can save a buck by reducing oxygen output on mining stations by 10%, and now your children (who you have to bring with you because you can't exactly drop them off at daycare a million miles away) are growing up literally retarded. And then you get blown up by the military for protesting it. It's still more optimistic than the future we're heading towards 
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I get offered jobs doing this kind of rubbish, I really want to go to the interview, drop my pants and poo poo on their desk. I'd probably get away with it.
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's still more optimistic than the future we're heading towards The Mountain Goats posted:Wet your finger, place it toward the wind https://youtu.be/PVRdVKHHgQY
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