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Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OF06n1jNkM

This is how to lose money with shorting 101.

You should never base your shorts on solely rational points (long-term rational points, even worse) when going short on bubbly assets.

Things like "Bitcoin is not a viable payment method, it's centralized, possibly manipulated, fueled by the greater fool" is not a valid shorting motive unless you have a triggering event caused by your aforementioned rational point.

If the issue is about security and not economics, free open source platforms already exist.

Europe should fund them heavily and by doing so give them the advertising power to compete with for-profit ones.

Otherwise they will end up squandering a lot of money, Covid apps are not a good example.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/henwet/the_uk_...

Either dedicate a room to study and work or change the environment when you have to (like assigning a specific color with led lights). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck

If that doesn't work, I would go out and study in a library or park.

10 Most vs 10 Least Stringent: https://twitter.com/IAmTheActualET/status/139042697357133005...

I still don't understand why someone like Elon Musk would encourage financial bubbles, what is the missing link here?

I don't think he genuinely wants the people who follow him to be ruined, so I assume he really believes these prices are sustainable in the long term.

"I’ve had it so good in this world, you know. The odds were fifty-to-one against me being born in the United States in 1930. I won the lottery the day I emerged from the womb by being in the United States instead of in some other country where my chances would have been way different.

Imagine there are two identical twins in the womb, both equally bright and energetic. And the genie says to them, “One of you is going to be born in the United States, and one of you is going to be born in Bangladesh. And if you wind up in Bangladesh, you will pay no taxes. What percentage of your income would you bid to be the one that is born in the United States?” It says something about the fact that society has something to do with your fate and not just your innate qualities. The people who say, “I did it all myself,” and think of themselves as Horatio Alger – believe me, they’d bid more to be in the United States than in Bangladesh. That’s the Ovarian Lottery." ― Warren Buffett

There is no rationale here to be found, You are comparing an insane bubble (Doge, etc.) to a regular bubble (Avalanche, etc.).

People have completely lost the value of money, do you realize how much money is $4.5 billion?

In 2007 Apple had a market cap of 80 billion and a P/E ratio of 26, it had revolutionary products on the market that were clearly going to change an entire industry while at the same time bringing in steady revenue, can you imagine how much it would be worth today in this bubble?

Legumes to me are healthy, but i can't see them as 100% peak human food, you have to soak them for hours and many people get bloated, then there are also certain amounts of anti-nutrients.

Good example of media selection bias here, notice how this study is completely ignored by mainstream media: https://imgur.com/a/lkaoClD

if it had said "Humans ate vegetables and little else" it would be on r/all now.

That's a non question, as if you could have prevented the majority of people from dying of it, lockdowns were about "flattening the curve" they weren't even saving the majority of lives (maybe some) at an incommensurable social cost.

Please tell me where are all these deaths in Sweden, Belarus, Brazil, Florida...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

So you're telling me that in places like Brazil more people are being traumatized by deaths in overloaded hospitals compared to Westerners (who are less traumatized) thanks to a year of isolation? uhmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAYObnlehE&t=2623s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKke19Ow8Q

And you aren't even considering the effects on developing countries

150 Million pushed into Extreme Poverty by 2021 https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/10/07/c...

168k child hunger deaths predicted in Africa https://apnews.com/article/africa-hunger-study-coronavirus-c...

If you are still able to travel, I recommend moving to countries without restrictions.

E.g: Brazil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAYObnlehE

Excavation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uO-1f0gw_U

This summary is amazing, I remember reading the book and it was unnecessarily long with many unneeded chapters, I really wish non fiction writers would keep the fluff down and focus on the central thesis of their books.