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danchovy
danchovy

Republican in the front, skinhead in the back.

So, in case you’re wondering:

Things the prequels were good at:

Is it Pho King delicious?

10 years? That’s pretty generous, He already seems to think his lucky bet and unexpected income is the result of some personal virtue and cleverness so combine that with the arrogance of your average 19 year old, and he’ll probably end up investing in some other crytocurrency-related ‘investment’ and lost it all. I

The quickest way to get a small fortune is to start with a large one

Using his own logic against him, then if he is not a billionaire in the next 10 years, it’s his own fault. Seeing as it was so easy for him to increase his net worth by 1,000 times, he should be able to easily do it all over again.

I’ve been investing in crypto for ~150 days. For about 20 of those days, I’ve been a brilliant, clairvoyant investor capable of tripling anyone’s grandma fund. 

Oh my god. This kid will be broke within ten years (being VERY generous here with the timeline) and will be getting another handout from gramma.

I’ve never wanted Bitcoin to crash until this very moment.

“You’ve gotta be in it to win it!” shouts local lottery winner.

Wouldn’t they need to be wearing balaclavas AND hoodies since this involves hacking?

It would be awesome if Gizmodo just moved to cryptojacking. My browser would probably perform better than it does with the 40+ requests out to ad networks, autoplaying videos, etc.

That’s what people don’t understand about Macs and Apple OS system in general. I have a 2010 iMac at home...updated to Sierra..running like a champ..still turning off in just seconds.

My 2011 MBA is still going like a champ. I was planing on just replacing it with the new version when it eventually dies (I mean, it’s bound to some day, right?). Now I am sad.

The controversy only arises because society decided that medical and socio-economic problems should be considered in terms of morality; if you are poor, you are a bad person. If you do drugs, you are a bad person. And bad people deserve punishment, not assistance.

100% Everything you say. However, with a certain group of people these arguments are never going to convince them and I am going to presume the OP is among them. Assuming there is a subset of this group who are open to some discourse on the matter, I think taking the human/emotional plea aspect out of the argument is

It’s not enabling. Addicts are going to shoot up whether they have access to clean needles. No one says, “You know, I was never going to use heroin. But then I discovered there was a needle exchange in my town so I figured, ‘Why the hell not?’”