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eaenki
1mo ago
Demoting Orwell's masterpieces (1984 and Animal Farm) to "juvenile science fiction stuff" while holding up Keep the Aspidistra Flying—a mid-tier social realism novel about a middle-class poet struggling with commercialism—is
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eaenki
2mo ago
Man, that’s not how intelligence works. Eventually if a civilization doesn’t blow itself up, it will achieve anything, and it’s not incremental steps. Speed has never been incremental steps. in 1810 you would’ve been thinking about faster h
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eaenki
2mo ago
the only high iq kid in this comment section basides me is right
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eaenki
3mo ago
a gazillion bazillion dollars
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eaenki
3mo ago
feel ya. stripe killed my business paypapl killed my business anything that can kill ur business will . a third party as single point of failure will def kill ur business sooner or later . having multiple backups multiple clouds multiple pa
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eaenki
5mo ago
I remember waiting for uber next to him in SF one night 10+ years ago. This dude must be the son of some mafia boss or some shit and have some crazy blackmail to raise billions for companies that are copies of products where he’s the 12th c
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eaenki
2y ago
my reply to you would’ve been: “oh, not much, we just made the founder the richest most powerful man on this planet. Right now he’s probably on a giant island in hawaii which he wholly owns, in a €200mm mansion, having an orgy with 25 escor
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eaenki
2y ago
It will remain in the digital realm all this time. The only major disruption will be to anything content related. You will be able to generate blockbuster films/series for a thousand dollars. OF, P0rn basically for a few dollars. Inst
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eaenki
2y ago
happened to me twice to reach €10-30kk MRR and they shut it down. mo human support. I had a 1-4% refund rate. After those bans, I’m not allowed to use Stripe at all seemingly. Because as soon as I use a form of ID with my name (even one not
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eaenki
2y ago
paid in 1864 €200k adjusted for inflation now prolly worth a billion damn that’s a x5000 return
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eaenki
2y ago
really? intel a sideways stock from the 70s is the best long you found in the entire planet? out of all the financial instruments and all the markets and all the categories u actually believe that’s the best pain to gain ratio play
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eaenki
2y ago
more like 90% lol
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eaenki
2y ago
well, i tried salvia and I tried shrooms. I don’t see how it’s more philosophical just because it’s a dissociative. at best, it’s more of an ego death than, say, shrooms, if during the trip you become an object. It’s still a unique plant fo
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eaenki
2y ago
you don't even have to pay the contractors to extract money if we're talking about a legit team, like say Chelsea, you can just buy a bunch of top players and the business will print more money and be valued more if you want to fl
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eaenki
2y ago
FB and Google replaced the “inflection times products” yahoo and myspace. so idk. they just built a better product without an inflection point. they weren’t the first but the last. overall, the only businesses that worked out for me out of
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eaenki
2y ago
this is an amazingly long way of saying , have good freecashflow
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eaenki
3y ago
how is “emerging markets” even a sector? it’s not like you can call PE buying a bond in India. so what does that even mean? do you mean that they are doing traditional LBOs in emerging markets?
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eaenki
3y ago
pretty sure he uses it once a year at most given how non luxurious it is and that for 99.99% of travel a g650 private jet or luxury helicopter is the way to go.
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eaenki
3y ago
I mean that was just a plain scam. They didnt deliver most of the package which included a Forbes feature. all they delivered were 100k followers bots for like $100. and they got paid $50k. just a pretty dumb scam. they could have delivered
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eaenki
3y ago
interesting. they’ll block your account just as easily
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eaenki
3y ago
I mean, is there anyone at all that even pretends that in a deal involving 69 THOUSANDS OF MILIONS (with tens or hundreds of people standing to benefit hundreds of millions to billions from it) there aren’t bribes going on?
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eaenki
3y ago
where
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eaenki
3y ago
you know what I’d glady pay $500 to sleep 6.5 hours in addition the $600 of the ticket, $1100 in economy + cute bunk bed it’s better than $2.500 in business if you ain’t rich af / travel often
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eaenki
3y ago
that’s not what apple does but what steve jobs did. so don’t count on it
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eaenki
3y ago
would you share that other payment processor?
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eaenki
3y ago
well, Jobs’ family which inherited everything is alive and you can see their net worth in real time as it mostly consists of publicly traded Apple and Disney stock. Their fortune ranks like top 20 in the world or something. pretty sure his
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eaenki
3y ago
it’s just not cool. it’s nerdy
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eaenki
3y ago
what ways are cheaper to borrow money / leverage to be long MSFT?
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eaenki
3y ago
Gambling means you have guaranteed net negative return because you’re against the house and the rules of the house are designed in such a way, mathematically speaking. Trading mortgages, financing a building, betting that an airline will h
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eaenki
4y ago
prolly cus shes kinda good looking to sam
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