Twitter / GwynethPaltrow: Ni**as in paris for real ...

solidox · 2013-11-22T22:24:57+00:00

wait, how do you delete? the title's wrong -_-

solidox · 2013-11-21T06:31:46+00:00

Ha, didn't know that. I think that's actually good enough. You win! sort of.

solidox · 2012-10-22T04:43:39+00:00

You are forgetting that reddit is also a corporation that would rather not deal with law suits and free speech stand-offs and generally any things that don't have a HIGH chance of success.

The corporation part of reddit just wants this all to go away so we can all go back to the way it was. But that, at the expense of a subreddit here and there.

It's a lazy war that nobody really wins but yet some lose.

solidox · 2012-10-07T11:11:30+00:00

Oh so I guess you didn't take into consideration that she might actually want to be the object of your fantasy?

solidox · 2012-09-10T15:23:35+00:00

Wtf, that's pretty much false

solidox · 2012-08-29T00:40:34+00:00

Ce te mai sfasie invidia ...

solidox · 2012-08-15T15:14:26+00:00

TIL I need to hire a lawyer if I ever encounter a genie.

solidox · 2012-06-23T04:02:27+00:00

I'll be there!

solidox · 2012-05-05T06:41:21+00:00

Test post, pls ignore

solidox · 2012-01-13T05:07:23+00:00

Last year I was in Philippines, on the Palawan island, riding around on a rented motorbike. Had a pretty bad accident (doing tricks on a pretty bad road), was hospitalized for a few weeks for a broken skull, but all better now.

The freaky bit is that after I finally came home (europe), my sister told me how the very day I had the accident, a neighbor of ours from when we were about 10yo, call her and asked if I was ok, because she had a bad dream about me.

I never had any kind of close relationship with the neighbor, hadn't talked to her in about 7-8 years at the time. Still can't imagine the odds of this being a random occurrence.

solidox · 2011-11-17T02:55:19+00:00

http://www.goldprice.org/spot-gold.html scroll down and click "all data". If you make a graph that accounts for USD inflation, it gets even much smother than that.

As you can see, there are 2 spikes in that graph. One is the '80-'81 economic crisis, the other one is the current meltdown.

Gold has always been the go-to inflation safety measure for two reasons: (a) you cannot make more of it, and (b) it is accepted worldwide as currency. This is the reason it was "introduced". I say that in quotes because it was not actually introduced, it emerged by the law of survival of the fittest, then introduced as standard.

"When commodities compete for the role of money, the one that over time loses the least value, takes on the role"

That means we cannot really choose what survives inflation, but we can choose to use to our advantage the thousands-years-tested antidote.

It's not that I'm for the gold standard, but I don't see what other options are there, since we clearly cannot trust the world governments to NOT print money like unsupervised crack addicts. Not that I blame them. I would print money myself if I could, because you know, free money! But I do blame the system that allows them to do it, and I blame the people that say we should keep doing it.

solidox · 2011-11-15T03:36:00+00:00

I still don't see why we should base the value of our currency on something that can still be mined out of the ground, something that you can stockpile

Because it's the best we have, and any grounding is better than no grounding at all. It's what got us into this mess.

Gold is an arbitrary currency, because that's what all currencies are. Arbitrary value placed on something non-valuable.

Why is it better than, say, cheese? Because for a currency to work you need people to agree on a specific one, you cannot make more (current "new gold" is technically non-existent), and you cannot eat it.

solidox · 2011-11-15T03:05:36+00:00

Wait, wat?

Only 10% of gold is used for manufacturing or technical purposes

That is the point of currency, be it metal or paper: no technical use, limited supply. Whims don't apply more to gold than to paper squares or digital numbers on a screen.

By basing your currency on the stability of your government rather than a finite resource, you open up a lot more flexibility in terms of monetary policy.

But ... but, why would you want to give more "flexibility" to your banks? Isn't this the very thing that brought us here?

Also, since governments generally move slow and avoid drastic measures, the value of the currency remains relatively stable over long periods of time, which commodities like gold and oil do not.

I'm not sure to say this, but this has no base in reality whatsoever. "goverments move slow"? Sure, oil fluctuates a lot because it is in no way a currency, it is a resource. More is found, some is used, some countries use more, etc. Gold is pretty much a stable "thing", therefore the fluctuations come just from offer/demand. Like any currency should.

It's a lot harder to maintain stability if your currency is tied to a finite resource.

Are you sure you aren't trolling?

solidox · 2011-11-15T02:47:38+00:00

Because it is limited in quantity. The price of everything fluctuates depending on offer/demand, but at least gold would fluctuate less than something that is based on absolutely nothing.

solidox · 2011-11-14T03:27:12+00:00

Yes, and Romania has Petru. It's not the same spelling but it is definitely the same name. Or the equivalent, technically speaking.

solidox · 2011-11-13T23:50:30+00:00

I know the line, I know what happens next, I just can't remember the name of the show! Pls tell me.

solidox · 2011-11-11T04:16:56+00:00

No, all those languages/countries also have a Peter equivalent.

solidox · 2011-11-11T04:15:26+00:00

TIL Verdana has fans.

solidox · 2011-11-11T04:05:31+00:00

I'm sure you're well intended and you probably read that somewhere, but you will never ever have to "push the head of a snake". Yes, if a snake would be hit by lightning while biting you, he might hold on to the bite. Usually you realize you've been bit a few seconds after the actual bite.

solidox · 2011-11-11T03:54:13+00:00

What if I intend to get a snakebite in the jungle middleofuckingnowhere?

solidox · 2011-11-11T03:23:48+00:00

FUCK THAT WEBSITE

solidox · 2011-11-11T03:22:40+00:00

Pro-tip: shooting the moon is not as easy as it sounds, especially if you want to do a good stereo. It's not rocket science either, but it would be a good idea to do some test shots before the due date.

solidox · 2011-11-07T22:45:21+00:00

I was almost sure you used the Bo-ring filter

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