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Why do people keep using these lovely exchanges when they are constantly losing/stealing people's money? I have lost track of the number of places that this happens to. Is it just because it's much harder to actually do anything with bitcoincs/etc without an exchange?
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Dec 7, 2018 15:32
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It's actually a lead garage, the backup garage will work just fine and they need more room for the kid.
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Dec 7, 2018 18:21
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The loans were originally $150,000 - which is still high, don't get me wrong, but not bafflingly unbelievable for two people. Then they spiraled to $600,000 with interest and fees while they haven't been able to pay them down.
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Dec 7, 2018 21:21
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There are sanitation concerns and you want to make sure that there aren't health problems, because sloppy cutting/shaving/etc can carry and spread diseases. On the other hand, it's possible that you can manage to hit that mark with less than 1000/1500 hours of training and requiring people to go through 7-12 months of courses at considerable expense. Health concerns are legitimate, but from that perspective it's a little weird that we require people have tons of training to cut hair, but zero to prepare food.
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Dec 7, 2018 22:02
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For reference, here are the courses required for a license barber school in Massachusetts: quote:Your first step to attaining a Massachusetts barber license is graduating from a Massachusetts barber school. The Board requires that your barber college provide at least 1000 hours of barber theory and practical instruction, including instruction in the following subjects and services: You then have to pass a written and practical exam to become an Apprentice Barber. Once you have your license, you have to practice under the supervision on a Master Barber for 18 months, before you can take a second set of exams in order to become a Master Barber yourself, which lets you work without supervision and do your own thing if you want. So in order to legally cut hair, you have to spend 1000 hours on schooling and then 18 months of supervised work (this is where many people stumble, because you might not find someone willing to supervise your apprentice time and then you're screwed because you can't cut hair alone, and you can't advance to where you're allowed to cut hair). If you want to serve people food, you just need to get a business license and have your kitchen inspected; no one cares if you have any training in how not to rub your rear end before handling meat. The program for a barber is more comparable to something like a dental hygienist in terms of the time and training. It does seem excessive.
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Dec 7, 2018 22:13
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If you were a washout med student, wouldn't you just be a GP and hired some experienced nurses to do 90% of your work and offload the rest by referring people to specialists? That seems like it would be the best way to avoid having to do any actual doctoring yourself. I think all the really bad med students end up going to those Caribbean schools and then failing to get internships/residencies and bombing out with hundreds of thousands in debt and no actual ability to practice.
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Dec 10, 2018 16:04
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Yea, a depressing number of bankruptcies are medically motivated and for people who had insurance. Unless you have a very good plan through an employer that you can cling to while sick, it's easy to get buried in bills.
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Dec 20, 2018 02:18
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17% on a car loan, holy moly.
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Dec 20, 2018 16:01
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25 year old making six figures in Boston is just as likely to be working in tech or a startup where no one gives a poo poo about your clothes - or deliberately dressing down is a thing. That particular guy is a tutor, so I doubt he's churning through dress shirts either.
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Dec 23, 2018 01:51
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When I die, bury me in the blockchain.
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Dec 25, 2018 00:43
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Thread title is my Christmas miracle.  Also, a lot of death rites are equally about helping people cope with the loss of their loved one as giving people a framework for their own death. Yea, you don't care, but some sort of ritual and handling your corpse helps because the people that cared about you will still attach those feelings to your body and feel weird if it's just tipped out onto a landfill.
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Dec 25, 2018 04:04
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Took way too long for Sears to show up, and then it wasn't even for their lunatic CEO that tried to Ayn Rand the company to prosperity. They were in a bad place anyway, but boy that didn't help.
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Dec 26, 2018 01:00
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I think the modern solution is to just take a picture of a snowpile with an Instagram filter providing the hat and scarf and trappings. Reality is what is reported, not what happens. Edit: Does the kit at least come with arms? Finding well proportioned sticks with the right look is probably the only thing that someone might have trouble with.
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Dec 26, 2018 21:34
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The original context was that people who want to seem wealthy worry about having a common car in the driveway because it will make them 'look poor', when really wealthy people don't care about driving a poo poo car they happen to like because their wealth projection operates at a whole different level. No one who knows who Buffett is would see him in an old VW and suspect that his wealth is buoyed by reckless credit, they'd just assume he's kind of weird. The people in the earlier post worry about it because they're not really so wealthy to avoid that suspicion (and it might be true). I mean that use is prolific enough to basically be a story trope (the humble/simple seeming man is actually immensely powerful/rich, etc) it just also happens to be true in certain alignments.
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Dec 29, 2018 01:22
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Doc Hawkins posted:I'd say guillotine, but that would be anachronistic. Burning at the stake, maybe? Bear-baiting? Beheading is still appropriate, you just do it with an axe or sword, and you can decide to pay the guy to sharpen/blunt his edge so it takes fewer/more swings to do the job.
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Dec 31, 2018 13:54
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Yea, occasionally I think about making fun of bitcoins when they were a dollar or something and who is laughing now, but if I'd been the kind of person to buy in I probably would have lost them on an exchange, borrowed money for them, given myself brain damage from overheating miners, etc. If you make consistently careful choices you'll miss a unicorn, but you also mix two dozen terrible money traps along the way.
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