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Cyrano4747 posted:Pretty sure this was the thread that was talking about I-Bonds a while ago. Bought mine thanks to this thread. Also the treasury.gov website is horrible. Having to type your password on a virtual keyboard should be an automatic trial before the Hague. Motronic posted:I mean, it's just typical lowest bidder government contract poo poo. Bless you.
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Qwertycoatl posted:What's he doing while on vacation with his wife, that she doesn't join in on, that unexpectedly cost an extra 3K? It's always something boring (for the reader) like drugs or gambling.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I have no idea how the CPI coming in at 8% and change means the ibonds go two points lower than that, but I'm not a fancy economist either. Still, get in while the getting is good.
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 says either drugs or going to a casino. Hedge bet on buying expensive tickets to a sporting event.
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I'll take some kind of goofy experiential thing like skydiving because at least that would be fun
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Midjack posted:Speed Queen "Financial" Services
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Cyrano4747 posted:
Drugs maybe, but that seems like something that either the wife would be more upset about or would be joining in on. Also, while drugs aren't cheap, they aren't that expensive either. It would be hard to spend $3k on an amount of drugs that you would be doing by yourself during a short timeframe (like on a vacation) that wouldn't put you in the hospital. I could see someone going wildly over-budget if they had a fancy dinner and decided they needed to feel like a baller and covered the table's bill. But I don't see how that would work with the wife not being involved or with the guy borrowing money from someone. So yeah, casino or big-ticket sporting event is likely. Maybe he went in with this guy (and maybe some other folks) to get a box suite at an NFL or MLB game. It would fit the bill for something that he could talk his wife into letting him do, that the other guy would feel okay covering for him, and could happen during an interlude on vacation.
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https://www.papermag.com/horse-kicks-2658475562.html?rebelltitem=6#rebelltitem6 we are gradually approaching heelys for dogs becoming a reality
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Bought mine thanks to this thread. Also the treasury.gov website is horrible. Having to type your password on a virtual keyboard should be an automatic trial before the Hague.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Pretty sure this was the thread that was talking about I-Bonds a while ago. TIPS are paying a real yield of 1.7-2.0% which is better than I bonds (0%) if you are planning to hold medium-long term. If you are planning on selling in 1-2 years, I bonds might be better since you can lock in that 9.6% nominal rate for the first 6 months for another week or so.
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Phanatic posted:Thanks for the reminder, I'd been forgetting to do this. Let's give them the old MapleStory login interface, where you have this exact bullshit, but it also changes the location of the letters between clicks so that nobody can trace mouse movements or some non-existent threat. Let's run this poo poo into the ground.
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Chainclaw posted:Those drive thru espresso places here are often very exploitive, the whole situation sucks https://exoduscry.com/articles/seattles-bikini-baristas-coffee-stands-serve-up-sexual-harassment/ evilweasel posted:uh, there are plenty of drive through coffee places that have their baristas in normal clothing Yeah, I was just talking about all of the other regular drive through espresso places around town.
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Chainclaw posted:Those drive thru espresso places here are often very exploitive, the whole situation sucks https://exoduscry.com/articles/seattles-bikini-baristas-coffee-stands-serve-up-sexual-harassment/ How fun to learn about a new, horrible business today... There a lot of potential discrimination/harassment liability built into those businesses, so hopefully they all get sued out of business. Easy money: Apply as a male barista and see what happens.
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Thesaurus posted:Easy money: Apply as a male barista and see what happens. That doesn't work for the same reasons you can't just yell "discrimination! give me a check!" at Hooters and strip clubs. Or movies and TV shows. Look up "bona fied occupational qualification."
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Thesaurus posted:How fun to learn about a new, horrible business today... There a lot of potential discrimination/harassment liability built into those businesses, so hopefully they all get sued out of business. Easy money: Apply as a male barista and see what happens. Alas, if a place is classified as a "sexually-oriented business" then they can do things like discriminate based on gender in the relevant roles (exotic dancer, bikini barista, Hooters waitress, etc) without liability. There are sometimes zoning restrictions on those type of businesses, but it can vary greatly from place to place and typically is only enforced when there is actual nudity involved.
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Motronic posted:That doesn't work for the same reasons you can't just yell "discrimination! give me a check!" at Hooters and strip clubs. Or movies and TV shows. Look up "bona fied occupational qualification." Since you're big into pedantry, I think you'd appreciate knowing that you can either write "bonified" if you're writing dialogue for a spaghetti western, or "bona fide" otherwise.
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Motronic posted:That doesn't work for the same reasons you can't just yell "discrimination! give me a check!" at Hooters and strip clubs. Or movies and TV shows. Look up "bona fied occupational qualification." It's tough to establish gender as a bona fide occupational qualification, though. Hooters did in fact settle just such a lawsuit and agreed to hire men (although not as waiters), probably because they were afraid of losing entirely if it went to a decision. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/01/us/hooters-settles-suit-by-men-denied-jobs.html With strip clubs, the women are generally independent contractors. A better example might be something like the Rockettes or NFL cheerleaders.
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Motronic posted:That doesn't work for the same reasons you can't just yell "discrimination! give me a check!" at Hooters and strip clubs. Or movies and TV shows. Look up "bona fied occupational qualification." It's not at all a settled issue. BFOQ is a narrow exception not so simple as declaring that you only want to hire hot chicks for whatever business. Eg, courts have ruled that you can't just hire female flight attendants, even though the airlines argued that their clientele expected attractive young women in that role. Hooters has also dealt with a lot of litigation on this point. Notably, most of these disputes have ended in private settlements and it's not courts siding with the employer. My point is just that there's a lot of liability for what is on paper a "coffee" shop to operate as an unofficial strip club, and there is a 100% chance that the type of people who own these businesses haven't given this any thought. Edit: In practice, men don't apply to these jobs and the women are used to putting up with sexual harassment from customers (which the company is obligated to prevent). Thesaurus fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Oct 21, 2022 |
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On a related note, has anyone suggested "bikini donut vendors" as a business idea for the guy in the other thread?
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Phanatic posted:It's tough to establish gender as a bona fide occupational qualification, though. Hooters did in fact settle just such a lawsuit and agreed to hire men (although not as waiters), probably because they were afraid of losing entirely if it went to a decision. The "although not as waiters" part seems pretty important here. Obviously "be a sexy lady" is not a bona fide occupational qualification to be the person microwaving wings in the back of the titty restaurant.
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Tomfoolery posted:Since you're big into pedantry, I think you'd appreciate knowing that you can either write "bonified" if you're writing dialogue for a spaghetti western, or "bona fide" otherwise.
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Tomfoolery posted:Since you're big into pedantry, I think you'd appreciate knowing that you can either write "bonified" if you're writing dialogue for a spaghetti western, or "bona fide" otherwise. Dik Hz posted:I’m here for this level of petty. You can also spell it bonerfied if you’re in the south 
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thanks to recent world events I've become aware that one of the shortest-serving prime ministers of the UK was named Bonar Law.
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Vice President posted:thanks to recent world events I've become aware that one of the shortest-serving prime ministers of the UK was named Bonar Law. Too hard for the job.
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Elephanthead posted:Too hard for the job. good av+post combo
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Thesaurus posted:On a related note, has anyone suggested "bikini donut vendors" as a business idea for the guy in the other thread? Yep, I did. Specifically, that he should work front of shop too.
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I'd like the "painted on a white conversion van" version of this please.
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Classic scam: Sell item to yourself on eBay for $300,000, then sell another one to a sucker for $10,000.
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Chamale posted:Classic scam: Sell item to yourself on eBay for $300,000, then sell another one to a sucker for $10,000. Your scam involves paying eBay $7,800 in fees for the first item. And a bit over $1,000 for the second one. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Oct 23, 2022 |
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So, a tidy $1200 profit and also a strong financial incentive for ebay to not crack down on your bullshit
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Listed for vs sold for is a huge difference on eBay. I flip art as a hobby and I pay for historical price databases to gauge value before I buy artwork. The only reason to look at current ebay listings is to determine the sell-through rate for an artist (or item/antiques/collectibles generally). I always inflate the prices of the items I sell and then negotiate downwards with interested buyers. But heritage auctions will actually do that shill bid scam. They partner with grading agencies to overvalue collectibles and then shill bid up the first few items to create a mania around a class of collectibles to get people to “invest” is a normally worthless item.
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I know it's been covered in the thread already, but that's definitely going on with classic video games too.
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I stood next to two guys in front of the games at Half Price Books who were discussing just that. "I can make $5 ($10, blah blah) off that, that, that..."
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Joe Mama posted:I stood next to two guys in front of the games at Half Price Books who were discussing just that. "I can make $5 ($10, blah blah) off that, that, that..." That's not even getting into graded stuff, that's just arbitrage between HPB and eBay or whatever. You can make money that way but it's a grind like any low volume arbitrage is. Graded insanity is the poo poo like 2 megabucks for a sealed Super Mario Bros cartridge a few years back.
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the point is that the arbitrage guys were totally wrong about their arbitrage opportunity because they didn't understand the difference between asking price and actual sale price. they were just looking at unsold books on ebay with a higher asking price and saying "i can totally sell it for that much"
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It's finally happening. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-27/bitcoin-btc-miner-core-scientific-says-it-may-seek-bankruptcy Apparently mining on 0 profits can run a company bankrupt. What a surprise.
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notwithoutmyanus posted:It's finally happening. Ha, they've sold like 98% of their bitcoin holdings in one month, which was a little over 1,000 BTC, or roughly $20 million if I got all my zeroes right. At this rate they have no more than 2 months worth of money left. So long.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Ha, they've sold like 98% of their bitcoin holdings in one month, which was a little over 1,000 BTC, or roughly $20 million if I got all my zeroes right. At this rate they have no more than 2 months worth of money left. So long.
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