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lancemantis posted:it's socially acceptable gambling well its not socially acceptable in my house. i just wanted to point out the exeptional bad idea of investing life savings in a highly volatile stock with a stoned CEO at the wheel E. Cat that didnt invest in $TSLA
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I convinced my dad to invest $400 in apple when I was 12 now I have $10,000
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My great grandfather left me like $50 of GM class E stock when he died around 1990. It turned into around $15k of raytheon and directv through A&M and splits and poo poo until I sold it all a few years ago
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 00:29 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:I convinced my dad to invest $400 in apple when I was 12 I convinced my father to look into purchasing foreclosure properties and reselling them to their foreclosed owners at a profit but with fairer terms than the bank gave them I'm gonna inherit a few million
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 00:47 |
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my money works at nintendo
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 00:50 |
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FAUXTON posted:I convinced my father to look into purchasing foreclosure properties and reselling them to their foreclosed owners at a profit but with fairer terms than the bank gave them ah, i see you're part of the problem
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 01:02 |
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redleader posted:ah, i see you're part of the problem
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 01:05 |
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elons tweeting again somebody go wake up teslas lawyer
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 01:08 |
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poty posted:elons tweeting again somebody go wake up teslas lawyer no don't
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 01:13 |
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1047997866474594304 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1047998560782827520
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 01:16 |
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stupid elon.
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 01:16 |
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1047943670350020608
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 01:18 |
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the court hasn't even ordered the settlement yet ...
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Combat Theory posted:from the same series tbh project orion doesn’t quite belong in that list, it was a serious (if utterly insane, in that special height of the cold war way) proposal there was probably never anything to it but napkin math, but it would have been pro quality napkin math, and the drawing doesn’t attempt to pretend the details are already worked out. it’s probably the only known high acceleration drive system suitable for launching a large payload on an interstellar mission that doesn’t require hand waving massive leaps forward in several technologies. you have to not care about all the environmental destruction caused by launching it even once, or the... uh... international treaty concerns caused by same, but there’s no intrinsic reason it can’t work afaik
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Gazpacho posted:the court hasn't even ordered the settlement yet ...
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 01:28 |
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lol 420
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 01:34 |
According to Neil Stephenson, Project Orion makes you jump through dimensions. Makes u think
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 01:48 |
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short sellers are the designated drivers of the investment world
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 02:25 |
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BobHoward posted:tbh project orion doesn’t quite belong in that list, it was a serious (if utterly insane, in that special height of the cold war way) proposal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQCrPNEsQaY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sv5y6iHUM
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 02:39 |
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i liked reading Footfall but haven’t read it for a decade or two. i hope it and its author aren’t lovely like most media i enjoyed when I was young
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its authors are/were absolutely awful, almost in the extreme. larry niven is probably the slightly less awful of the two, and he told GWB to spread rumours about organ harvesting in hospitals to latino communities to cut down on emergency room visits by minorities. the politics in the book are also poo poo, but it's a fun book infernal machines fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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jerry pournelle, the other author, is dead now. but in life he was a caricature of the rich white conservative, he believed in racial iq, and was the hardest core cold-warrior this side of mccarthy
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 02:47 |
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"remake of thing you liked as a child but the intended audience is modern children, not you" is pablum, "revisiting thing you liked as a child and learning it had terrible messages and/or authors" sucks
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infernal machines posted:jerry pournelle, the other author, is dead now. more importantly he had bad computer opinions and predictions in his computer magazine columns
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fishmech posted:more importantly he had bad computer opinions and predictions in his computer magazine columns he managed to get k-lined from loving arpanet for being such a shitheel creationist believer posted:"remake of thing you liked as a child but the intended audience is modern children, not you" is pablum, "revisiting thing you liked as a child and learning it had terrible messages and/or authors" sucks in fairness, i've read just about everything larry niven has ever published and i own a bunch of his collaborations with jerry pournelle too (thrift store pulp paperbacks, ofc). i loved his stuff as a teen, but yeah, it's pretty rough
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fishmech posted:more importantly he had bad computer opinions and predictions in his computer magazine columns quote:When we finally got home from the monthly Rambling Writers Conference
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infernal machines posted:k-lined that's a word i haven't seen or thought of in a long rear end time was asimov ok? everything i remember about him makes me think he'd still be ok.
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other than just being a product of his time and also not really writing characters, per se, i don't remember anything bad about him.
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creationist believer posted:that's a word i haven't seen or thought of in a long rear end time
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creationist believer posted:that's a word i haven't seen or thought of in a long rear end time hes one of the best. the gods themselves is absolutely fantastic
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i mean asimov was a total "i can grope any woman i see in public if i want" guy which was totally sexual assault some fo the time and that's just something we have to deal with aside from that, usually much better politically etc than most of the authors and public of the time
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Gazpacho posted:asimov wrote worlds that were intensely patriarchal (like the midcentury world he wrote them in) and this has become a mark on his reputation apparently it’s really weird reading the foundation novels today
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 03:23 |
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redleader posted:ah, i see you're part of the problem I work for a bank too
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 03:37 |
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BobHoward posted:tbh project orion doesn’t quite belong in that list, it was a serious (if utterly insane, in that special height of the cold war way) proposal I don't think it was intended to be launched from a planet
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creationist believer posted:that's a word i haven't seen or thought of in a long rear end time asimov had some serious sexism issues irl. probably in his writing too but I haven’t read him since teenage years when i was blind to that sort of thing infernal machines posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQCrPNEsQaY holy moly i didn’t know they actually did some conventional fuel tests infernal machines posted:its authors are/were absolutely awful, almost in the extreme. larry niven was an idle rich inheritor of oil money who didn’t actually have to write stories to make a living so it is perhaps not surprising that he gravitated to conservatism pournelle was a neocon, including the stereotypical early communist phase. dude was close personal friends with newt gingrich one of the things I’ve had to rewire in my brain due to too much niven/pournelle in my youth is instinctive hatred of former senator william proxmire, who in my adult opinion was probably an all right dude if he pissed off n&p that much
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BobHoward posted:larry niven was an idle rich inheritor of oil money who didn’t actually have to write stories to make a living it's amusing how frequently his self-insert characters also share this trait
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 03:44 |
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How was Pratchett? Not necessarily sci-fi but definitely big with nerds.
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 03:46 |
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1047968979841503232 Hmm, back-of-napkin revenue figures say nothing about profitability amirite
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# ? Oct 5, 2018 03:50 |
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yes, the ceo of the company definitely needs to use someone else's guesstimate to say how good his company's sales are. that's definitely not a red flag
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prisoner of waffles posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1047968979841503232 i was just thinking, i wonder if that's even sales or "sales" (preorders assembled and sitting in a loving desert parking lot because tesla is a fart) (edit) actual question, if there's any truth to my parenthetical like I assume there is, would that actually be provable by/to us lowly humans, or is that kind of thing sufficient camouflage without something like a lawsuit? Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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