ITS THE END OF THE WORLD WHAT DO I INVEST IN RIGHT NOW
>>1029635
When stocks go down, bitcoin rises
just sell everything including your kidneys and kids, and put it all into a 100x long on bitcoin
If you truly believe this is The End, then buy water, bullets and beans
What's the alternative to STEM?
>>1029561
Humanities
Education
Liberal arts
Pre-Graduate School
H.E.L.P. for short.
>>1029561
Freelancing
Underballing
Cucking
Killing
>>1029561
you can be my submissive, domestic house slave and fuck toy.
My grandma is paying the bill so I'll have no debt. I'm going to Penn State(main campus) and I start in a few days.
I am considering Mechanical or Electrical Engineering. From my research, business majors are extremely saturated but it seems like it would help you more throughout life, or maybe apply to more jobs and be significantly easier. I was even considering a foreign language major like Russian or German, but I can't see how they'd be useful unless you move to the country with native speakers. Maybe I'm getting cold feet because I don't know if I'd even be able to handle it, but I'm also reading from others on here that STEM isn't worth it in general. What does /biz/ think? I really don't know what I'd major in exactly if STEM ended up being a waste of time. I can easily spend this semester taking required electives and such, so it's not like I have to know this minute.
>>1029557
PSU alum here. I did finance and real estate. Don't reccomend. Do Finance and literally anything else like econ or ee or cs.
If you want to be more finance focused on your way out, join the nittany lion fund, but be aware, you will need to have your A game to get in and do well. If you do, wallstreet access is pretty much assured (SAC capital, Goldman sachs, etc). I wish I hadn't taken a year off and actually put effort into the NLF and related activities (I was an analyst for tech there back in 07). My loss is your gain. Don't fuck it up!
>>1029564
Also, I am not sure if this is still possible, but try to ace your first year and apply for the Shreyers school as that will also give you a massive leg up. I know Schreyers kids who did finance and account and work for google and consulting firms as well.
currently in this predicament now. Everyone says everything is shit so its hard to choose what to invest in.
Is CMG a good buy right or are they kill?
Restaurants are always more volatile than average.
What are your goals?
Are you buying because you like their food?
Have you ever invested before?
>>1029457
I think it's because they are being investigated rihht now, aren't they?
>>1029436
bubble popped, wait for bull trap to load up shorts
For example, why the fuck would a laywer quit his law job to become a teacher? He is wasting all of his time and effort at law school. Also, being a teacher is shit with low pay, low social status, etc. These people are probably romanticising their jobs too much. Teaching has its own shitty aspects where you have to deal with kids who don't give a fuck about education and mark exams at home. The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. These lawyers can also strive to teach at college level, so why not do that?
And what about engineers, actuaries, bankers, nutritionists, pharmacists, accountants, etc who switch to teaching? Switching makes no sense.
>>1029325
Because they wanted to and they live in a society that allows it.
>But why did they want to?
It's 100% irrelevant.
I don't know why don't you ask them? Faggot OP.
>>1029325
>hurt durr it's all about the money.
Have you ever considered maybe they just want a slice of underage pussy, OP?
/biz/ness behaviour.
Handshakes, eye contact, tone of voice.
How to improve?
How have YOU improved?
>>1029279
Stopped rambling on about technical details when speaking with execs. Now I cringe whenever I see someone else do it.
>/biz/ness behavior
Or as it's known in the real world, "things you do to cover up the fact that you have nothing interesting to do or say"
Is it worthwhile to take Economics classes?
>>1029089
No you can get a free PDF version economics textbook through google
>>1029089
What kind of question is that?
Why do you people keep coming here and posting this shit?
Someone who likes/had good experience it will say "Yes take economics classes". Someone who didn't will say "No do not take them ,waste of time".
That's literally how it is for every topic, for investment banking, for accounting at big 4, for Trades work, for daytrading, for programming, etc.
>>1029095
i think most of the people here are underage
EBAY GENERAL THREAD - BUY HIGH SELL HIGH EDITION
Reminder that USPS rates are going up 01/17/16!
http://multichannelmerchant.com/news/shipping-prices-set-rise-ups-usps-battle-filings-23122015/
Cutting labels to Vaporwave time; Woodcutting Lvl 99 Required.
>>1029003
Man, I hate how the label for shit is bigger than a 4x7 inch jiffy bag
need to trim it
>>1029016
Do you have a label printer, or do you print it normally and cut it by hand?
>>1029039
fold it in half, tape it to the box
except jiffys- the smallest size I stock
You see pic related? She's a millionaire-ess from youtube and of course merchandise (which only worked out because of her audience). I bough my sister a $600 camera and said "fucking do it". Anyone here know how to kickstart the channel? Trying to 'work her way up' is like trying to storm a castle with a bat, with such popular channels already existing.
>>1028941
if she's not 8/10 you are wasting your time :)
>>1028965
Fucking hell, it's wierd to rate my own sister but from a DUDES perspective, she's a 9/10 and has tits galore. I knew this before I splashed on the camera, in that respect I know she can compete which is a 1up.
I work in a small ~150 employee FinTec consulting/software company, and we're getting acquired by a ~300,000 employee company.
How do I navigate this personally? What do I need to be careful of, and what can I do to make the best of this situation? Or do I just give up and start updating my CV?
>>1028918
Are you getting purchased by Accenture?
>>1028918
>300,000 employees
>software
>acquisitions despite volatile economy
Welcome to IBM, brother.
You're gonna have lots of fun :^)
thinking about starting a small drug selling business. anyone have any advice or pointers on finding people to sell to
hire one of those guys that dance with the signs
>>1028832
You need a pharmacy degree, idk if u need a phd
Invest in a good business card such as one that is a rollable/smokable paper.
Is the stock market heading towards a downfall? In all the big 3 US Indices it seems that the peak happened a few months ago and now it's all coming down. The US is also faring better than the world too now, so the rest of the world may go to shit as well.
Is it worth putting into stocks right now or are we looking at a big crash?
If the rest of the world suffers, it could go either way. Investors might see it as a signal to get out while they still can (thus crashing the market), or they may see it as a sign that the US is their last "safe haven" (thus helping, or at least not hurting, the US stock market).
It's imperative that the Fed raises rates throughout this year in order to build up confidence in our economy. But even then, you can always count on people being skittish.
>>1028735
So here's my advice:
If at any point this year, the Fed raises rates IN SPITE OF poor employment data, go ahead and invest. The Fed doing that will be a sign that they are extremely serious about raising rates, improving faith in the US market, and buffering for a recession.
If the Fed doesn't raise rates or they only timidly raise rates when employment data is good (which is likely what they'll do), DO NOT buy.
Looks like sse just halted trading after 20min and a 5+% drop
>Can't handle the 2 minutes it takes to create a character in any game ever.
>Thinks USBs need to go into the same port they were originally plugged into when moving computers
>Literally fucking said, "Social Media killed Communication."
>Just talking to him makes him feel like I'm disrespecting him.
>HE'S THE NETWORK MANAGER.
It's vaguely business related I suppose.
Pic unrelated.
And yet he's paid more than you OP.
#rekt
>>1028615
Only because he's been on the planet longer than I have. Not what I'd call fair competition really.
>>1028606
That's nothing. I worked in app development for an agency caught up in a porn scandal 2 years back. Senior devs and manager were walking WTFs.
I remember one time, an app had a side menu with icons. Senior devs set really nonsensical icons because it was "impossible" (can't art, can't Google, can't let me help). So we're months behind (because they can't do _anything_) and they, I shit you not, spend an entire day setting all 20 items to the _same_ icon. Manager doesn't see a problem with any of it. Then fires me.
And yeah, the 3 of them together take the Commonwealth for over $250K each year.
If you don't know who this guy is, he basically got thrown in jail for being too smart. Through the use of scientific method he's proven that Adam Smith's invisible hand is real and is in fact a lorenz-attractor. Market cycles are absolutely real, because human behaviour is cyclical just like everything else in the universe. It's a universal law.
He was too good at predicting what was going to happen in the markets, so the Federal government assumed he was involved in some kind of ponzi scheme or mass market manipulation with Japanese investors.
The reality is he's just a fucking genius.
If you want to learn how to TIME THE MARKET, study Armstrong's work.
SO. FUCKING. BASED.
>>1028551
Pic related: I'm long UVXY over the next few weeks.
Learn this guy's shit, he makes Keynesian economists look like Neanderthals and Austrian economists look like school children.
any references b/c google just gives me a shitty armstrongeconomics.com and literally no actionable data, just meaningless dribble about roman coins.
>>1028562
References for what? The truth about his imprisonment?
His side of the story:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141222035316/http://www.themartinarmstrongcase.com/
For the mainstream/government's side of the story just look at Wikipedia
If you want to understand his models/discoveries then explore his website. Maybe start with this: http://www.economicconfidencemodels.com/
/g/entleman here
tl;dr: how would you ensure that open source AI is the first to reach majority of people?
We can probably agree that general-purpose AI will play big role in the future of humanity.
Many programs/machines already use special-purpose AI, for example path finding in games or street sign detection used in self-driving cars.
But one AI that can be used for (almost) anything is a gold mine.
And I can see two groups that could achieve this:
Open source community makes AI that is free, modular and transparent (everyone can look at the code that makes it work). This almost certainly ensures that there is no shady shit inside it.
or
Big corporation(s) make AI that is surely appealing to majorities, but it's main purpose isn't to benefit humanity but instead to make corporation more money, and is therefore biased and does not work objectively.
But what I fear is that it will be combination of those things:
Open source community will try and make good free modular AI with good intentions in mind, and then some corporation will say "K, thanks for doing all the hard work, now we will take what you made, put evil-jew-bias module inside it, and all the money that we would have used for development will now go into advertising this new product"
And then world would be doomed because AI would serve corporation instead of benefiting humanity.
My question to /biz/ is:
How would you make sure that AI that reaches majority of people is the AI with good intentions and is made to benefit human life?
Something similar happened when Android got in hands of big corporation and was instantly used as platform that supports corporate money-making services.
Of course it isn't that bad, and choice of mobile doesn't affect your life as much as general-purpose AI would.
now feel free to tell me that I'm delusional and that should install gentoo
What do you think about ethereum?
>>1028435
The future of money
>>1028428
AI is a meme perpetuated by sperglords who want to bang their computers. That being said, there will be robots, but they will only be able to do what they are told to do.
