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So is buying Gold still a good solution if there would be a crash in September~ ? or is it way to late?
>>755561>Gold costs money to storeMaybe it doesn't pay out like cash would but what costs are you referring to? I can keep gold under my mattress for free at no real or inflationary cost
>>755561>>755566It's an insurance policy if SHTF. It's generally a bad investment but it's good to have some gold/silver.
>>755707Why would metals have value when SHTF?
>>755710Because you will always be able to exchange gold for blow jobs.
>>755689Fed is scheduled to raise interest rates then. Doom-and-gloomers believe that when this happens, the Treasury will default on its bond debt and the stock markets will go supernova.What's more likely is that the Fed will cave to investors and keep kicking the can down the road.
Not entirely sure this is the right place for this, but friend of mine recently had €500+ stolen from his bitcoin wallet, and there seems to be absolutely nothing which can be done about it, even though I have followed his entire blockchain and watched where all his coins ended up..I think there's a slight problem with the deregulation of cryptocurrency, and although it works to it's advantage in some aspects it's also its downfall in the massive amounts of hacking & bitcoin theft (Random picture)
>>754959If you found the wallet, look at who they make transactions with. Chances are that they use some gambling clearnet sites. Contact the owners of the gambling website and send them the address and see if they have an IP address. It can be any bitcoin service they use though.
>>754977he he he
>>754959Thats not random. Thats hypnotoadAnd what do youean you got robbed of your bitcoin and theres no insurance/recourse. Odd.
>>754959I guess learning how secure his money wasn't a priority. It's really not that difficult to secure your wallet. Idk why you are bitching about the money someone took from a hapless fool. There are plenty of great reasons to hate on bitcoin and whine about it. Being so retarded you can't keep the most secure digital tokens in the world safe from theft is not one of those reasons. Now if you were trying to teach your grandmother how to use them or something, I would have a lot more sympathy. I don't give a shit when normal people can't secure their wallet. Learn to read fuckers! >>754977Ha!
>>754959>massive amounts of hacking & bitcoin theftwhat? show me this happening. how is it possible to steal someone's keys without a RAT and a keylogger? if people will insist on opening HotGril.jpg.exe emails, yeah they're gonna get fucked. fortunately few if any people are this retarded.
Is bitcoin a good investment?
It's great fun to short
>>754063Short volume is still surprisingly low and there is still a shitton of money to be made off of the BTC ecosystem in general so it's a good idea to be involved with it.
>>754068>still a shitton of money to be made off of the BTC ecosystem in general so it's a good idea to be involved with it.This.Using a decent javascript pastebot on a legitimate dice gambling site will easily net you $50 per week minimum as long as you're not retarded about it. I've made $600 in a week just because I got lucky on a streak while I was asleep, and my unluckiest streak ever still made me $50. Dat math.
>>755003House edge
>>754021I want to buy this. Someone creat......hang on...> Check bitcointalk> Oh fuck it's real
How do i into donut shop?So there was this donit shop in my town that closed down due to the owner calling it quits. I live in a tourist towns with many restaurants and bakerys, but i wanna atart a donut shop.Any tips, ideas. On starting up
>>755641Step 3: Name your shop Happy Donut
>>755647/thread
>>755641>>755647Step 4: set up in shady neighborhood and be open 24/7
Wholesale to convenience stores, coffee shops, hotels and gas stations because retail out the front isn't enough to pay the rent unless you open next door to a Curves
>>755617He most likely quit because how many donuts do you really have to sell every day to make a decent living?
Is Elon Musk a meme entrepreneur? What has he done exactly? Yes I know he's talking about doing a lot of cool things, but has he 'revolutionised' anything yet?
>tesla>cheap ass battery cells>promotion of feminojewish gypsy values
>>755742>teslaSo he's made some luxury cars for price insensitive customers. That's not a revolution. Where are the mass-market models?>cheap ass battery cellsHasn't happened yet.
>First company was a web development firm which made a Yelp progenitor, acquired by Compaq for $350 million>After that, founded a online payment services firm which ended up merging with the company that made Paypal, acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion>After that, founded SpaceX and Tesla Motors, with a current combined valuation of around $17 billion as well as being some of the most advanced privately-owned tech organizations on the planetsure are some epic memes there :^)
>>755723This.Paypal was a great idea. Right time, right place.After e-commerce took off paypal was bound to make good money.Zip2, which he sold for over $300M was pretty shit. Without that stroke of luck I doubt he would be where he is today.Kind of reminds me of Mark Cuban and broadcast dot com. How the fuck that sold for 5.7B is just confusing. How yahoo even had 5.7B to throw at something like that is even more confusing.The smartest decision he made was to buy some hair. pic related.
>>755748So much jelly in 1 post, holy shit, I fell off the chair.Take it easy, man. Slow down.
Sup /biz/,I'm a poorfag who managed to get into one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Right now I'm finishing up my first year. Sounds great, right?The problem is that I can't help but notice all the opportunities that I've missed out on because I don't know how to behave like I should. For example, I don't know dining etiquette. My idea of "dressing nice" before a few months ago was a cheap suit from Men's Wearhouse. I don't know how to befriend and interact with my wealthier peers who came from Phillips Exeter or St. Paul's or whatever the fuck. I've been actively excluded from things that could greatly benefit me as a result. I know that if I could fit in with these people, there would be a nice Wall Street job lined up for me come graduation thanks to all these kids' rich daddies and their huge professional networks. And not only are these kids at the top of the economic latter, they're also the "in crowd" here, and getting with them means I'll have social status as well. Simply put, I stand to gain literally millions of dollars and tons of pussy by impressing these people. And that makes it more frustrating that I can't. I know that when I graduate I'll have to interact with people like this when I get on Wall Street so I think it's important that I start learning how. TL;DR: How do I learn how to behave around/network with rich people? How can I dress in a way that will please them as cheaply as possible? How can I find presentable formalwear (NOT cheap Men's Wearhouse shit) for as little money as possible?
>>755720I learned some details about suit construction from Alan Flusser, but the guy's pretty pompous and stuffy. Not really 2015 campus material.Styleforum.net has good info, but is also dominated by people who take an "eccentric hobbyist" approach to clothing, so take it with a grain of salt.A while ago I decided to cheat at life and be the best at everything, so I studied fashion. Since I've boned up to my satisfaction, these days I'm all about nutrition and health.
>>755720go to /fa/ and read the sticky
>>755729...Relevant quote:"A man should look as if he bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them."
>>755557There's a great YT channel called "Real Men Real Style". It seemed a bit shit at first and too infomercial but it's actually solid advice that helped me a lot.
>>755557Check out http://www.suitsupply.comIt's a little pricey but the suits they have there are A+++.
Will a private marijuana company as big as Anheuser-Busch emerge? I see a lot of small companies starting to pop up, and with the legalization not only in California but in other places, I have to wonder if someone is going to make it big.
>>755234Income earned from "illegal" activities are still taxable and are required to be put or return forms. That's how they got Capone I'm pretty sure. He was arrested for tax fraud.
Check out Ebbu, that's what they're trying to be. I'd say O.Pen will emerge as a big contender if they perfect their vapor pens. Bhang is the king of edibles now, but that's anyone's game. A company most likely from Humboldt County will emerge soon as the king of packs of joints/blunts.
>>755409so are you in the taliban or something
>>754731All the major tobacco companies are investing in cannabis and ecigs. Altria Group FKA Philip Morris ( Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges, Merit, Parliament, Alpine, Basic, Cambridge, Bucks, Dave's, Chesterfield, Collector's Choice, Commander, English Ovals, Lark, L&M, and Player) will control the market once it gets legalized by the feds.
>>755408>>755418Keep in mind that California is still technically medical (their licensing system is intentionally a joke, but you still gotta get that card), and since a medical dispensary is assured that its customers went through the extra steps to buy weed from a store, they can be assured that their demographic is hardcore stoners and dealers who are just thankful they don’t have to fuck with a supplier any more. There's no incentive to not look dingy. Some medical-only dispensaries in Colorado are like this, but increased competition has pushed many to clean up their act.This isn't the case with recreational stores- They knew from day one that they'd need to market to the average Joe, and that the entire world would be watching news broadcasts from their sales floor. If they want the mainstream to adopt their product, they have to look respectable, clean, posh and, above all, legitimate. Pic related is the result.>>755409>bars are for poor people and alcoholics, and most respectable cities ban them anyway just like they ban open containererm, what? I have honestly never heard of a single municipality that has banned bars. Unless you live in Utah, a creepy-ass sheltered suburb or an incredibly weird part of Oklahoma, I cannot think of any reason why a municipality would care about a bar. Its blisteringly obvious that you need to do more research, and should learn something about data analysis before you try to play the big boy's game of arguing on the internet.
>find out it's illegal to purchase and rent out apartments in my countryI have never been as mad as I am right now.
>>753423Problem, socialists?
>>753423>I live in Sweden, and most, if not all the other Nordic countries are the same.Well, I live in Finland and I'm quite sure your progressive Sweden is a very unique snowflake there, sorry.Well, sure, we have "housing cooperatives" but I've never heard of co-ops forbidding renting out. Actually, I think such a rule must be written in the rules of the cooperative which you can and definitely should read before buying an apartment anyway. And changing those rules requires an uncontested vote in cooperative assembly, meaning that when you own a share, you can effectively block such rule yourself. AFAIK, the overwhelming majority of cooperatives place absolutely no restrictions on renting your apartment. And profiting from the rent? Well, of course that's possible. Who in their right mind would think otherwise?Now, the cooperative has a right to evict a tenant or even the OWNER of an apartment in case of severe disturbances, but that actually requires a court order which isn't something that happens willy-nilly. Getting rid of a bad tenant is actually somewhat slow and hard, even in case of unpaid rents, (and good luck trying to recoup the costs from those people...) which is kind of a bummer.
>>755738>uncontestedsorry, meant "unanimous".
>>753423Condos have existed for generations in Denmark. Housing cooperatives are andelsbolig. Stupid swede :^)
>>755738>Actually, I think such a rule must be written in the rules of the cooperative which you can and definitely should read before buying an apartment anyway.This
Fuck all you niggers who said this was a good book>smile>give sincere appreciation>begin in a friendly way>be a good listenerI cant believe I wasted time and money on this shit. It should be renamed "How to not be Autistic"Fuck this book and all of you who think its good
>>755591this almost nails the book. i went from a socially-retarded creep in high school to the most popular celebrity in first year university.
>>755591no lie that's how i landed my $25/hr internship this summer...just keep asking questions during interviews and turn all responses you give into questions. 95% of my 3hr interview with partners was me nodding my head and pretending to be amused
>>755695If its the only take away you get from the book thats golden but notice "sincere" . This opens people up and makes you party friends but to actually make a lasting impression youll jave to empathize and go deep.Everyone youve ever met has something fascinating about them. If their worth your time find out what it is and allow yourself to show the "woh cool"
Reading this at the moment. What does /biz/ think?
>>755725I think you need to either shot yourself for reading literal crap or start reading actual literature.
Is there a superior way to timestamp data? I've been using OriginStamp but it's kind of convoluted to check the authenticity of a stamp using it, and I'd much rather use something more intuitive.
>>754927How about taking a pic with it and archiving on /b/?
>>754973I'm timestamping market calls to post on my website after what I predict happens. I rather not flood /b/ with my predictions of how a commodity is going to bottom a week before it happens because it may never bottom where I predict if enough people are aware of it and take advantage of that information
>>754927Something about that picture perturbs me. Depending on the data you could use https://blocksign.comOr http://www.proofofexistence.com/about>inb4 hurr durr bitcoin bs in either direction
>that moment when you realise one never actually stop looking for a job, even when employed
>>755608>be self employed>look for another job because the boss is an asshole
I've been moving jobs for years. Soon as I'm finished my masters I want a job with ExxonMobil or Repsol and I want to work for them until I retire
>>755646
>>755608>working
Usually people give good advice in the resume threads I've seen so I hope I can get some too. Looked in the catalog and nothing really there that's similar so I'm starting my own.ANYWAY: I'm applying for a position at an investment bank which will start as administrative tasks (paperwork, inventory check) and then once I prove I'm not retarded I will be handling my own clients. (All info I got from the friend I have been referred by) I have very little work experience, I only run my business and am looking for ways to flesh this out. I have a solid knowledge of investment products/strategies which is why my friend recommended me but I want to assure them I can fit in with an employment situation.I sell a lot of different products online. What relevant skills from my business can I use?I currently have • Inventory management• Recognizing demand and opportunity• Customer satisfaction/Conflict resolution• International import experienceComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What am I supposed to do besides lying/getting friends to lie when I have no work experience and have no money to go back and finish college.>implying I'll volunteer for free
>>755521blackmail the employer into giving you the job.
Aussie law student here,going for a junior legal assistant position in a plaintiff law firm,Just after some feedback for my resume especially with relation to grammar and spelling seeing as 75% of resumes here get insta-scrapped due to shitty grammar.Experience is in a CLC and a bit of work experience in a rural law firm which is pretty poor compared to most applicants but still having a shot.
>>755235Videogames and scifi literature need to go. Try thinking on a normie level, what they want you to do.
>>755235Cut down to one page, Scrap your objective and interest sections,include your references, waste of HR time without themScrap any non-specific core skills unless key terms are mentioned in a jobs selection criteria, although you could try to work them into your projects/experience sections also to cut down on space
and want to start a cemetery- anyone involved in this?
The only thing I know is this:1) you need land, land approved by the local govt for a cemetary2) cemetarys usually go hand in hand with a funeral home that offers all the services associated with a funeralgood luck, oddly, it seems like it would be a cool venture. I know undertakers make damn good money, somewhere between $150k - $200k a year.
>>754420How much do you think his legs weigh?
2) cemetarys usually go hand in hand with a funeral home that offers all the services associated with a funeraldid not know this
>>755293Go visit a cemetary
Which're the best (near-)Legal scams you can think about?
>>752902I just looked on eBay and looks like none of it is getting any bids. Is it all buy it now type stuff?
>>752685Multi Level Marketinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2mVs12eRcAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7wVdDVLi8
>>754147interesting
>>754147how high do you need to be to be a mlm coach
Trade a few hundred dollars for 40 hours of somebodies week.