Virtual reality!
where should we put our money?
>>1147568
Random Skyrim mod
>>1147560
why spend $70 on a sex toy when you can hire a real hooker to give you a bj while you having a bj in skyrim aswell? much more immersive imo
>>1147601
Because the $70 sex toy is a one time payment?
So what was that special trick that will make you stop procrastinating and start working hard for long hours?
Adderall.
>>1147222
Adderall
>>1147222
Adderall.
I have like $159.29 what should I chuck it on mates
Chuck it on the grill with some bbq sauce, or put it all on red, or buy latestartificiallyhypedupcryptofad.
All the same, lad.
>>1147002
pepecoin.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1391598.360
>>1147002
Spend $158.29 on asbestos, roll up the remaining $1 bill and snort that shit until your nose bleeds. Thank me later.
>parents always complain about how expensive stuff is
>ask them how much their phone bill is this month (4 people)
>$400/month
HOW THE FUCK IS THIS POSSIBLE
they said they don't own the phones, they are on some leasing agreement shit.
wtf
did you help them get a cheaper plan/provider?
>>1146989
Wow they're plebs. This is why they're poor.
I have a friend who was literally getting evicted and still refused to sell her iphone and 10gb data plan that was costing her $80
Poors gonna poor
Why is it so hard to make money and get anywhere in Australia?
I feel like I can't get anywhere.
The only people I see really "making it" are "power couples" who both earn $100k each. It's so hard to actually progress in this country on much less than that, the cost of living is just too damn high where all the jobs are.
The problem is we were a resource-based economy, and when the resource demand went away we did't have another industry to pick up the slack
Turnbull is attempting to transition us into an innovative, tech and service based economy (the ideas boom), and there are actually some decent policies there, but it's going to be slow
From what I can tell the whole economy right now is dependent on construction of new homes to meet demand from Chinese investors, maybe it would be easier to find a job in or adjacent to the construction sector
I hear you OP.
I might have a sweeter deal than most people, but coming from a poor background, I am aware how tough it might be if my industry ran out of steam(and it is running out of steam).
My idea is to just keep networking with fellow aussies and try to keep on the move.
That said I am looking for a mentor.
Anyone up for it?
>>1146766
step one live in a shit motel for a couple years. I see mofockers here paying $2000 a month to rent a full size house and still expect to make it...lol. Step two dont have kids til your 30. I mean the reasons shoukd be obvious. Those are the two major ones gl
Whos ready for the big pump of SYS?
Qora is the real ground floor pump
I am. Fasten your seatbelts.
What's it supposed to climb to
So I had a few idea's for Ether Dapp's since it really opens up the potential having the trustless contracts. There are so many ways to collect then redistribute people's money and take a small cut, gambling is the most obvious. I wouldn't mind making a simple gambling app to start, but I have a much bigger idea which can only be done with Ether. I have checked on the current apps and see that no one is doing it.
Thing is that I have little experience in programming, however I know exactly what the programs have to do.
Is it easy enough to learn the language/syntax or should I try to find a friend/hire someone to do it? I'm concerned if I partner with someone anonymously they have little use for me and control over the program.
I know in business the idea is shit and the execution is everything. But sometimes with something so new as this technology the idea can actually be something that hasn't been done before.
Inb4 op is a shill
developing for ether is an extremely rare skill. hope you've got 100k+/yr for every developer you intend to hire
What makes it so rare?
>>1145082
because ethereum is not very well known yet by developers. yeah, there's a javascript DSL, but it requires a fair amount of skill to build a successful dapp
the developers who do know about it are generally upper tier developers and will charge a lot of sheks
unless you are extremely wealthy, learn it yourself
What should the minimum wage be, and why, in your opinion?
It's sad that degenerate truck drivers make more than nurses or paramedics saving lives or teachers that educate our children, yet all people want to care about is worthless McFastFood faggots getting paid $15/hour.
Minimum wage jobs require no skills and are intended for teenagers and college students to have some beer money. Just because fuck ups like felons or single moms rely on them as a living, doesn't mean the minimum wage should be a livable wage. Just kill yourself if you can't do any better.
Depends on the place.
Here in Alabama it's fine at $7.25
>>1144681
>Minimum wage jobs require no skills and are intended for teenagers and college students to have some beer money
Yeah but something like 75% of minimum wage earners are above 19 these days.
So /biz/ what steps/books would you recommend for getting into investing
Bumping for interest
just posted this on another thread, but here it is again. It takes Grahams Value investing and relates it to the modern market.
Lisk is now part of the Microsoft Azure Blockchain as a Service program.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blockchain-update-6/
Seems like Microsoft Azure is pretty much willing to suck any old cock. Sorry, Eth. You weren't anything special.
>>1144179
it's not microsoft doing anything. It's just some shill submitting an entry on a directory listing.
>>1144179
ETH was the first. All these other fags just tried to copy.
ETH gonna announce something later and then 99% guarantee all these shitcoins will ape it.
IS IT TIME TO BUY THE $VRX DIP?!?!?!?!?
Valeant Jolts Investors Again Over Earnings Goals, Debt
1 hour 16 minutes ago - DJNF
(FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 3/16/16)
By Michael Rapoport, David Benoit and Sam Goldfarb
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., having struggled for months to reclaim investor favor, Tuesday offered a financial outlook worse than many feared, prompting an exodus from the stock that cut the market value of the company in half.
Shares of the drug maker plunged more than 51% after it said it is pulling back from its strategy, won't meet its previous earnings goals and may default on its debt, deepening further a downward spiral that began last fall when investors began questioning the company's accounting.
The announcement came on a much anticipated conference call led by Chief Executive Michael Pearson, who had been on sick leave for two months. Upon his return last month, the company scrapped earnings guidance. It still hasn't filed its 2015 annual report, or 10-K.
The news was one more jolt to investors who had endured months of uncertainty about the company's finances and leadership. The stock as recently as August was as high as $262 amid enthusiasm for Valeant's unusual way of doing business -- partly by acquiring drugs and hiking prices. On Tuesday the stock sank to close at $33.51 -- its lowest close since January 2011.
I stopped reading there... That fucking company seems done, Ackman lost ~$1 billion today. Probably a billion tomorrow, too.
I'd need some kind of reassurance if I am to invest in that.
>>1145344
VRX is either the next Enron or massively undervalued. Unfortunately I don't know which is true. I do like Ackman losing his ass. I hope Pershing Square fods and he ends up with a cardboard sign that reads 'will short companies for food'.
So I basically programmed my own charting and statistical analysis tool (to make it quick: I have iMacros running collecting various realtime quotes and I feed them into R or Python which gives me full access to run my own statistical techniques and indicators).
Now, a question that is being stuck in my head is: when you take the really simple e.g. crossover (SMA / MACD / Stochastic) indicator-strategies, then they don't really make profit in the longer run. So why not use these inefficient trading strategies in reverse and therefore profit when the market moves against these really simple trading strategies (which it quite often does). You don't be greedy, make a quick buck on the contrary move (which goes against the indicator-signal), and then exit since e.g. when the market is trending then it tends to agree with the indicators. Does that make sense? Is there anyone here who has some experience/input on that? Google didn't really bring up anything useful.
Put simply: e.g. MACD: when its signal passes from below the indicator through it and is then above the indicator this is usually a buy-signal, but often the market tends to move against this buy-signal and goes into the opposite direction for a limited time, before generally agreeing with the indicator, assuming the market is trending. Now why not use that quick move of the market into the "wrong" direction to make a leveraged buy-in (options) and be out after a short while before the market finally moves against you and with the indicator.
R code looks strange.
>>1143873
there are lots of ways to implement a continuously refreshing system, now I have a .csv-file for every major asset I am interested in with up-to 1second intraday data. But in an earlier attempt I had all in one .csv-file resulting in a (40,000x150) matrix and R still handled it flawlessly on a second basis, so I come to think that Python and R are actually almost equally good when it comes to handling big data, of course C++ is best, but I have no knowledge of it.
Any input on trading reverse indicator signals?
Considering the large number of neckbeards on this site I find the lack of threads discussing startups seriously disturbing so lets get one going.
Post advice for other neckbeards wanting to start a startup, raising funding, getting cash flow positive, finding co-founders, thinking of good product ideas and marketing them -- maybe ridiculous stories about the valley.
I'm not yet a successful entrepreneur myself but I have gone through a few competitions for pitching and now work for an early-stage startup that's taking off so I could at least tell people what its like.
FYI: I consider this one of the best ways for people our age to get rich because technology is still one of the richest, fastest growing sectors across multiple industries and you can quite literally bootstrap a tech startup by sitting behind your computer and jerking to hentai in your spare time. Best of all - it doesn't matter if you're a socially retarded, autistic piece of shit NEET dragon-dildo fisting degenerate fuck-up ... because as long as you have epic marketing, design, sales, or coding skills - you're technically qualified to start a startup (or work for one.) But you will of course still need to figure out what the hell people will pay for and then to scale it up - so in general you can't be -completely- autistic, but god-damn I am sure as fuck trying and its working for me.
ITT: we discuss tech startups and maybe I'll post some stories about obnoxious brogrammers and wantrapeneurs.
>>1143595
how viable is it to launch a one man show? I'm getting by very comfortably working very little atm. Learning lots of skills in my spare time. I'm one of those guys who are absolutely not interested in ever going outside or having a life, but being the high IQ neckbeard that I am I thrive on the intellectual stimulus of learning a new skill. Currently learning C# because some anon on this very board recommended it to me.
I have tons of ideas for potential businesses. So back to my question:
How viable is the one man operation?
>>1143619
Depends who you ask. If you ask Y Combinator whether building a multi-million-gazillion company is possible as a single entrepreneur? They would say its highly unlikely and they've got statistics to back it up.. However - if you scale down your ambitions and set yourself a goal that's (arguably) more realistic like you want to create just a job for yourself based on passive income websites then yes -- highly possible. But the authoritative source on micro-entrepreneurs isn't Y Combinator - its more people like Rob Wailing (software by Rob) and other small-time Internet entrepreneurs (usually just programmers who learned marketing and sales.)
Just understand that focusing on building micro-services means that you're going to own a number of websites that turn a profit but you'll probably never be in the news like a YC backed startup would. If that's what you want then so be it - everything you need for success is already written. Check out "Start small, grow big" by Rob Wailing. It explains the whole process from scratch and advocates buying vs building (if you have the money - I'm guessing most people here don't but its still a useful book.)
>>1143638
>building micro-services
that sounds like exactly what I'm after. I'm also totally fine with not being popular or getting recognition from others for my amazing businesses (not like I have anyone irl anyway LOL). Also thanks for the book recommendation, will check out!
GET HYPE!!!
Just double my BTC in a couple of minutes Holy shit
GET ON THA SPACE SHUTTLE BOIS, TO THE MOON!
http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/digibyte/#social
bought in at 60
fuckin doubled my money!
We already told you at 1200 and now we're telling you at 3800. SYS is heavily undervalued. Unless you WANT to stay poor, buy SYS now. 3800 is nothing.
>>1147402
>bought 2k for $20 earlier today when it was at 2100
>already at 3800
what the f*ck
>>1147403
give yourself a pat on the back. your reasoned today.. and you won. I'm happy for you.
>>1147403
How much money does that translate to
