If someone is not open to learning about bitcoin, I find that this is a lot of the time due to pride. Or another reason is they are old and when they were young they bought a house with 6 months of savings, so they are complacent to the system that worked for them. Being too prideful or complacent to accept alternative beliefs is one of the worst financial positions you can make. When NGU it gives me great joy to think of these people slowly watching Bitcoin take the monetary premium they think so highly of.
Maybe take a very small loan out against it if they want to trade fake fiat debt if I’m in trouble with a fiat expense.. but this shit is never touching an exchange again
Yes, absolutely. But I’ve learned to keep enough fiat to meet 6 months of expenses and then never have to worry about selling any of my bitcoin. If shit really hits the fan I’ll loan it out for some dirty fiat but this shit is never touching an exchange
Super sus, most 31 year olds know not to go near the edge of a balcony. The media also already released pictures of his room and are making it seem like he was on a drug fueled bender. Imagine how easy it would be to throw someone off a balcony and then plant drugs in their room and make up a story like this? If that was all true it would be very cliche.
There is something to be said about the sheep who will only do what the government tells them. That is the majority of Americans. If politics can bring legitimacy for these slow adopters I believe that would be a net positive. That said, you are 100% correct that we should not ask for permission, instead do as a free people would do.
Bitcoin is already relatively quantum proof (current quantum computers can’t crack it). This fud has been going around for years and still nobody has been able to get close. Most legitimate cryptographers in this field don’t see this being a threat for at least 10-30 years.
There will be 20,999,999.99 coins regardless of Quantum vs non-quantum I disagree entirely. When we moved to new addresses when we softforked to segwit or taproot this didnt create more bitcoin it just required people to move their coins to a new address format for security or capability reasons if they so choosed. If a computer is one day able to guess a private key (more private key options than stars and planets in the known universe) then this would just result in stolen coin. There is no creation of new bitcoin in this process.
Treason is defined as the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.
The last federal treason conviction in the USA was in 1949. You’re telling me nobody internally in the US govt has worked internally to kill sovereign people of this country and overthrow our government? 🧐
Had a job interview scheduled for today, the manager who was supposed to interview me never showed up on the call. Fine, things happen right? I figured I’d see an email or text explaining the reason for not making it and an apology from him for missing it. A few hours later I get a text from the recruiter that scheduled us telling me he couldn’t make it and Friday works instead. No email, no text, no call from the manager who had me sitting on a zoom call bridge for 15 min waiting for him to show up. I told the recruiter to throw away my application, I don’t want to work for someone that doesn’t have the decency to reach out or even retroactively reach out to apologize.
A respectable leader is someone that has human decency and to me, it’s not worth a pay raise for someone that doesn’t respect my time. Know your worth kings 🫡
UPDATE: The recruiter is now begging me to reconsider to reschedule. I expressed my feelings to the recruiter about how this was handled, and how no apology or anything from the manager was received before rescheduling, so of course now 4 hours after the interview was supposed to happen the manager texted me to apologize.
What would you do in this situation? I don’t want to be harsh but I feel like the recruiter told him to reach out to apologize and so it feels disingenuous. Still leaning towards backing out.
Hmm on one hand I am sympathetic to someone that may have had a rough day, and things happen, but on the other I expect a high level of quality in the people around me like you said and I am in a place in my life where I don’t need the extra money or need a new job, I am still working for my current company. The way I see it, If you’re a manager and need to be told to apologize to someone after you blew off the interview with them, I don’t know if that’s redeemable. While I appreciate the gesture of the apology, this clearly didn’t come as a sincere apology given that I told the recruiter this is a reason for backing out.
I would definitely play it like this if it wasn’t for other concerning factors at play here. While I originally overlooked this due to the high pay, the company in question just went bankrupt earlier this year and have now restructured and secured funding so are still in business. Given that this company has had major issues just in the last year and this happened, I get a feeling that this isn’t where I want to take my next career step into.
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