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Tldr: bought bitcoin in 2010 and got lucky sitting on it

I find these story of stories silly but also indicative of the market. We are in a crytpocurrency mania and these read like the "Meet the 25 year old dot com millionaire who bought stock in valinux/webvan/pets.com/etc!" from 1998 that dragged even more nontechnical people into the manic runup then.

All I know is people that I'd never expect to know what bitcoin is are suddenly talking about it. What's that tell you?

Reality minus the garbage clicky headline: Antibiotic overuse and resistance is causing unstoppable bacteria.

Why there isn't a global effort to develop new antibiotics is somewhat shocking to me. It is already a major public health problem and will get worse if new antibiotics are not developed. Governments need to incentivize new antibiotic develop heavily, or invest in it heavily themselves.

Learning an instrument requires commitment and a lot of practice. And more practice. And more practice. And a lifetime of learning.

How many people have the patience for that? Particularly in Generation Internet Points Right Now?

If you've ever seen anyone go through a nasty drawn out expensive divorce you'd be even more shy about it.

The divorce industry profits wildly off of emotional turmoil, it's sick to observe.

[dead] 9 years ago

Definitely trust a random blog over the American heart association

“Stop Zillow” 9 years ago

As with most middle men, particularly commissioned sales middlemen, they inflate costs and are incentived to do so.

I seen no valid reason a flat rate of $500 to $1000 per sale is not reasonable.

“Stop Zillow” 9 years ago

How about Zillow goes even further and cuts the realtor out entirely? How is a realtor anything more than a middle man? Why should they get large percentage of a sale when everyone finds their own homes online nowadays? All this does is add cost to homes.

Shouldn't buying and selling a home today be a flat rate of $500 or $1000?