It's possible, i've seen the same thing before. I don't know why these people think if you hire a freelancer, it's going to be some wild maverick that won't do as their told. Probably the opposite, spec out the job and i'll get on with it.

People need to be more pragmatic and ask 'can this person do the job, can they be an asset to my business?'

very, very comfortable with it. it's like statistics, you cannot win all the time, failure in some form is 100% inevitable.

as long as you don't make it about your ego, you learn lessons.

Failure is also kind of a matter of framing too. When you approach women, most will reject, when you play sports, you will win some and lose some; when you lift weights, the iron will keep you honest, when you start a business, there will be failure.

Here's a failure I had yesterday, a recruiter wanted to put me in for a well-paid remote job that was 100% match for my skills. Decade of experience in the exact field, tons of references, portfolio etc

The client didn't even want to talk to me because the fact that I have been self-employed for a decade made them uncomfortable. Now, anyone can tell you, it's a lot harder to be self-employed than be an office worker who collects a salary no matter what, and clocks in and out.

So in a way, we can say I have failed - failed to secure more income for sat stacking, but on the other hand, I would say the potential employer failed because they have no idea what they missed out on!

reminds me of the experiments where they give mice a hit of something when they learn to press a button and they end up orgasming themselves to death lol

sadly, when 90% of humans are Honny Boo boo level retards, i have little hope

Shoutout to the douche on robosats that took 3 hours to respond with payment info and now hours of waiting for them to release the sats. Why do people have to do this, honestly? if you're doing a trade, have the courtesy to sit there and get it done

it will be 3 hours before i can open a case, and ill be asleep by then lol

yeah, people are already marrying ai chat spouses lol

only the amish will remain

i was doing pooled, but was only getting like 40-60 sats a day on average with no chance of hitting the min payout

so switched to solo, just for fun.

if i was getting 300 sats a day, i would probbaly do pooled

yeah, and no doubt can ruin a friendship too!

Accidentally traumatising the shit out of my kids like this is one of my fears,

very true words, it's hard to see people's ignorance hold them back, but as the adage says, when the student is ready, the teacher appears i suppose

Lucky he avoided the siren song of the shitcoin phase!

i feel like when someone has bought even a small amount, it can gives them some skin in the game and can trigger the next step down the path. Unless they buy at the top , right before a crash, then they go the bitter route lol

This is true, although the guy is too scared to do anything other than paper trading and doesn't own any stocks of any kind, literally just cash in the bank.

the funny part is, though, he does understand that this is not good, and he's also expressed worry about leaving coins on an exchange, even tho he doesnt have any lol

i think when a person is so terrified of any kind of investment, even gold, their journey is going to be a long one and maybe fear wins

in a context of a country with a weaker currency, it's more interesting because, in theory, the economic need should make bitcoin a no-brainer at this point, just look at any chart.

for my fiat friend, he's flush with euros and therefore isn't too worried, the pain isn't there, neither the urgency.

but as you say, people are going to get it at the price they deserve

it's not much of a nudge really, i just like to bring up the latest gold prices, bitcoin and general investment talk.

in large part, i find it interesting to see the mindset of fear and psychology around investment and wonder it one day, he'll decide to conquer that fear and just take a position

i was an avid nut follower and would try to claim as many as possible, i really enjoyed the Public Note phase

after the nut became too small I stopped checking though.

it's very sad that the bots couldn't be stopped in any reliable way.

i still have cashu.me on desktop and minibits wallet, havn't really got any use for them. but i was cool seeing people make their own bank-style notes with qr codes. i did one for the kids at xmas.

hope to see some more use cases for cashu in the future tho

i'd do the kyc and try to get the sats back, then move on.

But, really, testing new stuff like this, you don't want to be putting 1k USD on at once, start small , 20 bucks or something to cover your purchase

yeah, it's all a bit gross, but quite on-brand for nintendo