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[Antifragile]

63.76% of all statistics is made up on the spot.
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[Guest-5ty5s4]

USD or worldwide?

USD. It might not be 40% but the point he made is right.

 

[Antifragile]

USD. It might not be 40% but the point he made is right.

hmm… he didn’t make a point. He listed a statistic, without reference or even being accurate.

so… what does it mean? Is the USA = Zimbabwean Dollar yet?

no. And that’s me making a point.

why not?

because the USA is a reserve currency, has a history of low inflation, most of the debt is domestic currency, the system (monetary policy) is trying to increase productivity etc… That’s me making a point.

will it last? Will this be a deflationary or inflationary depression? Or is this a new roaring 20s?

that I don’t know. That is interesting to me to hear smart folks on this forum to debate and explain.

 

[OleksiyRybakov]

I have found this reference regarding how 40% of US$ were printed during the last year (more precisely, from May 2020 to May 2021): 40% of US dollars in existence were printed in the last 12 months: Is America repeating the same mistake of 1921 Weimar Germany? | Tech News | Startups News

 

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[Itizn]

Like Grant Cardone says

"It's not your job to make money, it's your job to take it"

 

[Antifragile]

Like Grant Cardone says

"It's not your job to make money, it's your job to take it"

Are you sure it’s him and not government tax regulators? Let’s fact check with @Kak

 

[Kak]

Are you sure it’s him and not government tax regulators? Let’s fact check with @Kak

I’m confused all around here

 

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[Andy Black]

I’m confused all around here

I think Grant talks about not “making money” but “earning money”.

Money already exists and is already flowing around us. We just need to get it to flow through our business.

(I think it was Grant Cardone where I picked up that visual/thought. If he said our job was to “take it” then I’d be less impressed.)

 

[WillHurtDontCare]

I condone this behavior:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1459809980769611776

View: https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1459809980769611776

 

[zizou]

Hello everyone recently with the explosion of nfts not having much money to invest i thought that creating a youtube channel on this subject to help people wanting to start was a good idea (knowing that in my country i haven't found a big specific channel yet)

Do you think it could be possible knowing that I have no knowledge at the moment but that I could acquire some

 

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[Antifragile]

I think Grant talks about not “making money” but “earning money”.

Money already exists and is already flowing around us. We just need to get it to flow through our business.

(I think it was Grant Cardone where I picked up that visual/thought. If he said our job was to “take it” then I’d be less impressed.)

Without any context, that quote comes off as a tax-man "take it" way.

 

[Antifragile]

I condone this behavior:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1459809980769611776

View: https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1459809980769611776

Haha. "It's a jolly good idea, yes."

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

I condone this behavior:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1459809980769611776

View: https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1459809980769611776

Backfired. Most of the dudes clearly didn’t mind it lol

 

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[DoingDeals]

I condone this behavior:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1459809980769611776

View: https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1459809980769611776

I read this as I "Cardone" this behavior.

 

[DoingDeals]

I've never heard Grant Cardone say that quote exactly, but just talking with him last night about you need to make 10X in order to survive & selling his portfolio for $60 billion to Blackstone.

 

[Itizn]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1457830619476549644

View: https://twitter.com/GrantCardone/status/1457830619476549644

 

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[OMDA]

I ended up getting *it* finally. Hadn't been sick in two years. It was like a normal seasonal cold but a little bit worse. Fever and chills were bad but about 8-9 days total sickness. Now I'm just dealing with the fallout of fatigue.

Hoping for more energy to come back soon, as I've basically been ignoring anything Fastlane related for a bit.

 

[Matt Sun]

I get to travel here in low season thanks to freedom from entrepreneurship. Cheers.

 

[Private Witt]

I ended up getting *it* finally. Hadn't been sick in two years. It was like a normal seasonal cold but a little bit worse. Fever and chills were bad but about 8-9 days total sickness. Now I'm just dealing with the fallout of fatigue.

Hoping for more energy to come back soon, as I've basically been ignoring anything Fastlane related for a bit.

Mine was the same length of time and the immense fatigue. Took me like a month to get my cardio back, but does get rapidly better.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

I ended up getting *it* finally. Hadn't been sick in two years. It was like a normal seasonal cold but a little bit worse. Fever and chills were bad but about 8-9 days total sickness. Now I'm just dealing with the fallout of fatigue.

Hoping for more energy to come back soon, as I've basically been ignoring anything Fastlane related for a bit.

Get well soon... any details you can provide? Age? Weight? Any preconditions?

 

[OMDA]

Get well soon... any details you can provide? Age? Weight? Any preconditions?

Thank you! Most everything is better now other than a lingering cough and my taste and smell is slowly recovering from 0%. It's about 5% right now. The fatigue is real but I think it'll clear up quickly.

The loss of smell was weird and surprised me. I had a cold burning sensation in my nostrils that spread into my sinuses, which causes a weird ache that I guess I could've confused for a headache. Taste and smell went to zero around 4-5 days in. It snuck up on me and once I realized what was happening I crushed some garlic between my fingers and realized that I couldn't smell it at all.

By the way, lots of things seem gross/unappetizing without that normal smell and taste. Thankfully the savory flavors are coming back first.

I'm in my late 30s, in good shape (6'1, ~185lbs/somewhat athletic), zero health issues otherwise. I regularly go to the gym 5x a week and my resting pulse is usually in the 60s/70s.

I did take the antibody treatment about a week in but otherwise I haven't had any kind of shot.

Able to go and bike ride and also to get out on the water a bit, but whereas I normally can spend several hours I only did about ~1.5 hours yesterday...hoping for some more energy tomorrow because the weather is good.

 

[Antifragile]

@OMDA

were you vaxinated?
You don’t need to answer if you don’t want to, some people here are super sensitive on this.

 

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[OMDA]

@OMDA

were you vaxinated?
You don’t need to answer if you don’t want to, some people here are super sensitive on this.

Nope

I'm surprised that it took this long to get it. I had been exposed so many times to sick people over the past year and a half, go out frequently, etc. I thought I was immune because there was no way I was that lucky. I guess the latest variant finally snuck past my defenses?

 

[SteveO]

Nope

I'm surprised that it took this long to get it. I had been exposed so many times to sick people over the past year and a half, go out frequently, etc. I thought I was immune because there was no way I was that lucky. I guess the latest variant finally snuck past my defenses?

I got it also. Was vaxinated. Very mild symptoms but the taste part sucked. Lost 10 pounds. Had to force food down which was difficult. Couldn't even eat pizza as it tasted like a mouthful of salt.

Edit: This taste thing lasted 3-4 months. Went away as fast as it came on.

 

[StrikingViper69]

Does anyone know if a gold to gold payments service exists?

For example, person A and person B both have an account with a gold company. Person A pays digitally, in gold (so the ownership records at a depository are updated), for a product from person B.

 

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[Deleted70138]

Ravelry.com

If you want to solve knitting industry problems, here you might be able to find some.

 

[MattR82]

I just posted a job on upwork, and for the first time ever put in a question at the end to see if people were spamming or actually reading it. I think it was @MJ DeMarco that did similar? I asked the star wars vs star trek question.

Interesting results. EVERYONE from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc all answered the joke question in a funny way, and the guys from Australia and the US didn't give an answer to the question, just a template response lol.

 

[MTF]

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/C0VlD-19-coronavirus-antidepressant-fluvoxamine-treatment

The antidepressant fluvoxamine could keep mild C0VlD-19 from worsening​

A real-world study and data from animal and cell studies confirm earlier clinical trial results​

The antidepressant fluvoxamine could prevent people from getting seriously ill with C0VlD-19, curbing hospitalizations, new data show.


The results come from real-world use of the drug to treat workers at the Golden Gate Fields horse racing track in Berkeley, Calif. Of those who opted to take fluvoxamine, none got sicker, and within two weeks, their symptoms cleared. In comparison, 12.5 percent of those who turned down the drug wound up hospitalized. Two got so sick they were put on a ventilator to assist with breathing, and one died, researchers report February 1 in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.


The data need verification from ongoing larger clinical trials. However, some experts say that the new findings, along with cell, animal and human observational data, suggest that a two-week course of fluvoxamine, which costs about $10 and is already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, could be considered for patients at high risk of suffering severe C0VlD-19 symptoms.

The Lancet study from Brazil:

DEFINE_ME

The word "fluvoxamine" will be censored by mass/social media in 3, 2, 1...

 

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[RoadTrip]

unvaxinated in Austria = locked down in their home. Even if they are under 12 years old with no prior infection and with 0.00000001 (or whatever low number it is) risk of being hospitalized.

vaxinated in Austria = not locked down and free to infect everyone in their surroundings.

The division is getting real.

 

[MTF]

From Will Smith's autobiography:

There is a great Bruce Lee quote that resonates with me. One of Lee’s students once asked him, “Master, you constantly speak to us of peace, yet every day you train us to fight. How do you reconcile these conflicting ideas?” And Bruce Lee responded, “It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.”