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  1. hellolin

    The Bitcoin: A New World Currency?

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    It's the exponential growth curve, and AI might just hit the point where the curve is going straight up.
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    Are you ok with screwing people over?

    MINDSET RANT 
    It's not really screwing people over, it's how people see what's valuable to them. The guy who made the video went though the process of making them, and the process of trying to lose fat, and he is sharing this experience with the rest of the internet, who bought the videos because they liked...
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    The Bitcoin: A New World Currency?

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    I agree, I work in the tech sector and I think Blockchain is the technology that will have a proud found effect in the future, not bitcoin. There are already several startups in the valley doing this.
  4. hellolin

    Atlas Shrugged

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    If this is where your thoughts are going, the next book in the series is from erich fromm, the book is escape from freedom. Read at your own discretion because you might look at the world in a completely different way. Can't believe The Ominous Parallels were written in 1983, and it is even...
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    The visual illusion versus the hidden truth...

    This is the impediment of the fixed mindset, I am reading the book "mindset" right now. I always thought that I am a fast learner that I already have a growth mindset whenever comes to the intellectual side of stuff (Because college was easy for me even with a part time internship), but after...
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    Folks, it's 2000 (or 2008) all over again.

    HOT! INVESTING 
    It is, because on average people's productivity hasn't gone up, but technology has made overall productivity go up, which made people even more expendable, while making higher educated guys more valuable, hence the huge income gap you see now. Think about the assembly line, its truly an...
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    Folks, it's 2000 (or 2008) all over again.

    HOT! INVESTING 
    This is what happens when you only play financial speculation without actually trying to increase the productivity of the average Joe. They are still who they were the years ago in relates to knowledge and productivity yet the market went up anyways, that's exactly how you make a bubble. A...
  8. hellolin

    $1B+ Powerball Jackpot - Did You Buy Your Ticket?

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    This is the whole concept behind the lottery, the state do pay out in the end, but after taxes ends up with more money. Truly it's a tax on stupid people.
  9. hellolin

    Pinterest valued at 11 Billion

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    Technological companies do not grow as a linear function, their growth curve is exponential, much like a logarithmic function. What the investors sees is the potential revenue 10-15 years down the road, not right now, this makes the reason why tech stocks are so volatile, because it's hard to...
  10. hellolin

    The visual illusion versus the hidden truth...

    My Mom just told me she knows a colleague who was almost broke almost a year ago because he has no patient to visit his medical office, now just bought a $120k Mercedez, even though he did pay half of the car with cash, it was still a heck a lot for a car. I'd think with the last recession...
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    Can someone convince me, why I should take the value route?

    "There are countless examples of people getting rich selling shady products or services that if everybody were using we'd all be worse off for it. " So true, anyone remember shake weight? I loled so hard when I see people buy that crap, classic fast lane thinking on the side of the founders.
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    Can someone convince me, why I should take the value route?

    It should also gives a light into how generally people perceive "Value", tells me that normal people don't actually know how to value things, they go with their gut feelings or emotions, this is why most advertisement seeks to stir some emotion reactions before the viewer actually get to know...
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    Can someone convince me, why I should take the value route?

    If you read enough books by the likes of Peter Thiel, or Peter H. Diamandis, they all spell out that what you discovered is what's wrong with our world right now. We are in desperate need to have an innovation coming out that improves mass amount of average joe's productivity, so they can get...
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    Financing a Car Has Put Me in More Debt Than I Ever Thought

    MINDSET RANT 
    And Sacramento, CA is not particularly a rich area, think about how much you can make in LA on that day lol
  15. hellolin

    What business would you buy/start in a developing country to generate income?

    Too much, lots of developing countries' middle class is shifting from the phrase where they dislike low quality, high quantity mass produced stuff, it is going to be a demand on higher quality stuff in a few years. For example, in China, their middle class organized travel parties to Japan, not...
  16. hellolin

    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    Just finished "Men's search for meaning" and David Brook's "The road to character", now I am reading "The big short", I have read a couple of books on the recession already, this one is more of a personal account of the crisis, which offers another view into human nature.
  17. hellolin

    Books On Mental Toughness?

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    I am going to challenge you on that one. It's the day that you will be able to detach yourself from judging other people and think about what other peoples are, you will have nothing that can "shake" you.
  18. hellolin

    Books On Mental Toughness?

    BOOKS 
    I am reading 2 books that pretends to your reply, "Men's search for meaning" by Viktor Frankl and "The road to character" by David Brooks, it really shows that life doesn't own us anything, it is up to us to live it up. And in fact, most of those ancestors who did amazing things with their...
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    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    Not just that, I thought the author was extremely good at telling stories, he actually have a you tube talk just on storytelling, check it out:
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    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    Then you probably will like the book "Smartcuts" by Shane snow, check it out!
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