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| Electro Detective:
--- Quote from: tszaboo on February 04, 2023, 10:25:52 pm --- --- Quote from: PlainName on February 04, 2023, 10:10:50 pm --- --- Quote ---Only some stupid daytraders may got burned because of this. --- End quote --- Isn't that victim-blaming? Does someone have to spend 20 years as a full-time (including weekends) trader before you'll consider them being worthy of trading? I bet you didn't spring into being as a fully-formed EE before you made some circuits. --- End quote --- Yeah, I have read countless comments, where people talk about how they lost their children's college savings because they listened to Musk or the Paul brothers or Do Kwon or other of these people who defraud their followers. --- End quote --- In the defence of awesome fraudsters, rolling over greedy followers and generic suckers is hard to resist Why work a real job and battle the system for a living like most normal people when there's so many cashed bunnies around looking to get ahead the fast buck way, and relieve them of their investment savings, and rainy day funds when chances are rain may not come ? ;) Also most bunnies and wood ducks just don't get how planned 'bad luck' works in the financial universe and they have to 'pay to learn' like most things in life people are too lazy and overconfident to 'research' for themselves, and then take calculated risks. Bring on the next Dud-Coin from ~Pyramids Are Us 2023 Inc.~ ...get a cash advance on the credit cards and offset the 22% interest with the earnings made, using the old 'other peoples money' trick, yay :clap: :palm: |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: james_s on February 04, 2023, 05:47:00 am --- --- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on February 04, 2023, 05:40:55 am ---This kind of reply is disturbing.. https://twitter.com/_Melbourne_82/status/1621544701479485441 --- Quote ---Rakesh @_Melbourne_82 · 13h Replying to @elonmusk Musk poured $44 billion into Twitter. The global population is 8 billion people. He could have given $5 billion to each individual and still had money left over. Most people's lives would be changed if they received a $5 billion check. But he squandered it all on Twitter. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- That's certainly some funny math going on there. :o It's off by many orders of magnitude, but $44B is still a LOT of money to spend on something. --- End quote --- It's a running bot joke troll on Twitter. Been going for years now in one varaition or another, designed to get enagagement at people raging about how wrong it is. |
| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 05, 2023, 06:20:45 am --- --- Quote from: james_s on February 04, 2023, 05:47:00 am --- --- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on February 04, 2023, 05:40:55 am ---This kind of reply is disturbing.. https://twitter.com/_Melbourne_82/status/1621544701479485441 --- Quote ---Rakesh @_Melbourne_82 · 13h Replying to @elonmusk Musk poured $44 billion into Twitter. The global population is 8 billion people. He could have given $5 billion to each individual and still had money left over. Most people's lives would be changed if they received a $5 billion check. But he squandered it all on Twitter. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- That's certainly some funny math going on there. :o It's off by many orders of magnitude, but $44B is still a LOT of money to spend on something. --- End quote --- It's a running bot joke troll on Twitter. Been going for years now in one variation or another, designed to get engagement at people raging about how wrong it is. --- End quote --- Ah. Good to know. Thanks. |
| wraper:
--- Quote from: PlainName on February 04, 2023, 10:10:50 pm --- --- Quote ---Only some stupid daytraders may got burned because of this. --- End quote --- Isn't that victim-blaming? Does someone have to spend 20 years as a full-time (including weekends) trader before you'll consider them being worthy of trading? I bet you didn't spring into being as a fully-formed EE before you made some circuits. --- End quote --- I'll elaborate on that. About 97% of daytraders eventually lose their money and only 1% actually end with profit in long term. And it sucks all of the life out of you. Yet there is no end to those who want to proft this way. That's why dayreaders and daytrading are stupid. |
| PlainName:
I don't see that it makes much difference. If you buy used stuff, for instance, off Ebay you expect it to work. You may pay far more than it's worth (see, you're not very clever at Ebay) but it should work. Let's say you pay $1m for a 'used' Apple II and get it only to find it doesn't work and all the caps have leaked everywhere corroding the board. Your stance would be akin to saying well, you paid stupid money and therefore you deserve to be scammed since you'd've been $999,000 down on the true worth anyway. That's all beside the point - the vendor scammed you be implying it worked, and even though you'll lose that $1m on some other frivolous thing, that's irrelevant. Musk, who was in charge and had the inside info and control, more or less said he was going to go private. It wasn't a "maybe sometime if I make up my mind" thing - he gave a specific price and said funding was there. You may consider him a two-faced lying git, but the fact is he is an authoritative source and the SEC fined him (and forced his removal) for mouthing off because of that. |
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