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Based on what happened with my aunt and uncle, I'm down on collectibles.
They collected antiques - among others, antique oriental rugs. After they died, the rugs couldn't be sold for anywhere near what they had expected. The market had changed, the rugs were no longer popular among collectors. This is over the course of 30 years or so.
Interesting aside - in Europe, eggs for sale in the grocery store are not refrigerated. You can look around a long time to find eggs, because they just shelve them anywhere.
In the US, they're always refrigerated. So always in the refrigerated section in the back, usually.
Since realizing that eggs don't REALLY need to be refrigerated, I've started keeping my extras in the pantry. Haven't had an egg go bad in many years.
I went to Laos, decades ago. Wow, was that an interesting trip. The official exchange rate was a fraction of the black market rate, so after asking around I went to the market. At the gold shop, they also traded for USD.
It wasn't even a hush hush thing, it seemed pretty open.
I remember that they weren't thrilled with my 20 dollar bills. They wanted 50 or 100 dollar bills. And they HAD to be nice and clean.
I agree. It honestly feels like people are getting less interesting nowadays.
Try a Sunday Digital Detox. It resets you. Below are some posts I've made on how I do it (not every Sunday, but that's the goal).
Hi Jorge - would love to hear more stories of life in Cuba.
Is there still a good amount of tourism from Europe? Perhaps with the electricity problems, that's stopped.
Tell us more!
Me too, I think bounties - with REAL MONEY - are an outstanding idea. The real money part is big - it's not just the "reputation" that you get in StackOverflow.
And lots more people would use them if there were more familiarity with them.
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I think bounties on Stacker.News should be made far more discoverable.
I did bounties a couple times. I knew I could make them, because of course I'd seen them.
But each time, I had to search for a long time, on how to set them up. I kept on looking at the options section, after you've created the post. It absolutely seemed to me that it HAD to be there, because the options that were there, seemed very "bounty-like".
I just checked the FAQ, and also couldn't find anything on how to set up a bounty.
How could the FAQ be made better? There's honestly a lot of simple things that are really difficult to figure out how to do, on Stacker News. Maybe make the FAQ editable? Right now (is this correct?) it looks like it's from 2021?
It's a struggle for sure. I do all kinds of experiments (search on stacker news for "digital detox").
I turned off podcasts for a period of about 4 months, and felt like it was a very productive time, I got some good projects done. Now I'm back on them (#1036132).
There are so many things that are addictive, and cause societal and personal problems. Perhaps now, more than at any other time in history?
Yeah, I was a huge, huge bookworm myself.
This feels different, though. Especially since...oftentimes, they literally can't hear you. To start a conversation, you have to wave your hand in front of their face, and they have to take out their earbuds.
I've actually done something like that. I just kind of stood in front of someone (at the coworking space) who was eating lunch, alone, looking at his phone with earbuds in. And, after taking out his earbuds, he seemed honestly grateful that someone wanted to talk to him.
Consider SeedSigner instead of ColdCard.
Open source, bitcoin-only, can be built DIY from stock parts (or also ordered from the founder).
Their telegram channel is consistently one of the highest quality ones around (https://t.me/joinchat/GHNuc_nhNQjLPWsS).
Probably because there aren't all that many options. When there are alternative options, people will probably use them.
This is from a comment on the article:
John, people do abandon hyperinflated currency very quickly and turn to hard currencies, like US dollar or gold, the only problem is that in most cases it is prohibited by the local law… I learned it hard way back in 1970/80s in Poland then ruled by communists and burdened by inflation of 100%/month: everybody used dollars (at least for larger purchases) risking bars.
Wow...that's not much time!
I think I'd focus on getting them an easy-to-remember name for a good youtube channel. Or maybe instagram.
So you've actually seen long-term fruitarians? What is long term?
On the carnivore podcasts, one thing you hear very frequently is long term vegans, who have turned carnivore.
Here's what it usually looks like: their health issues just come to a breaking point, a friend who's a vegan-turned-carnivore encourages them to try it, they do, often have a VERY difficult time, emotionally, starting to eat meat again, but once they do, all their problems gradually disappear.
I've heard a variation of this story many, many times.
I'm curious if there's any version that go the other way....carnivore turned vegan.