My first thought: Look, this is Cuba. Home of con artistry. They will stage a UFO landing to get more tourists spend convertible pesos. For me P(heard-in-havana-and-true) is around 0.1, max.
Funny, this could be extended to all sorts of investments. What if I spent 1000 USD on Apple in 1990? I'd have about 1000 Apple stock now, currently worth around 160k.
Private browsing mode is your friend. (You can set it as your default, at least on iPhone.) Caveat: You will have to keep confirming cookie usage popups (EU only I guess).
Nassim Taleb reader/Twitter follower? In my (limited and mostly anecdotal) experience this sort of categorical seems to lead to more, perhaps different kinds of superstition. People read "The Black Swan" and start talking like statistics, probabilities etc. were suddenly completely meaningless. Humans seem to always have to live in extremes.. ;)
For me, there's still no alternative. And I also will not recommend anything but a Mac to friends and family. They just have the best personal computer on the market, period.
The whole cash less payment industry is in trouble, once people realise that they can withdraw more than 50 [USD|EUR|GBP|..] at once..
Just kidding.
Well almost, since it was what did it for me. I started withdrawing larger amounts, 500 or 1000 Euros, each time, after ending up with no cash too often.
And I didn't feel the need to use another payment method since. YMMV (obviously).
Hm, I am not bored yet, but I think I might be bored in the future. So I was wondering if I should go back to university and study something interesting, Physics perhaps, or even pursue a new career, like becoming an airline pilot or so..
Well, for me USA is still great. For cultural reasons mostly(, because I'm already from a rich country). For instance, I'd like to go and work in Silicon Valley for a while. If I could get a Visa. ;)
> Looks like when the Soviets stop building something they just walk away.
According to Wikipedia [1] the Buran-program was cancelled when the Soviet Union stopped existing. It was a time of chaos and many parts of the country were not working. Resuming construction on a space shuttle was probably at the very bottom of their priorities in 1990.