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Hi, /diy/ sent me here. I want to order a metric tonne of road salt from Alibaba, but I have never done this before. The quotes I have received are really good (150-250 USD).
Can anyone here give me an idea of what to expect? Does FOB basically mean I have to arrange for it to be picked up at a shipping port? (I live in north america). What additional costs can I expect?
What the fuck are you going to do with a metric tonne of salt?
>>1002660
build a salty castle
>>1002654
You cant usually order just 1 tonne. Does it have a minimum order ammount on alibaba?
At 7 pm yesterday I was all ready to live the life of an ascetic, starting from today. No 4chan, no coffee, no junk food, set hours of work each day.
At 1 am, after having drunk too much coffee in addition to being high on late night optimism, I suddenly realised that I would be a maximalist: Coffee when I want, junk food when I want (in practice only high carb stuff, obviously chocolate is rape), work when I want, 4chan when I want (no doubt I would not choose to abuse this privilege!), lmao schedules are for losers who will never achieve great things! Whenever I work...
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>>1002645
It sounds like you're bipolar.
Also;
>implying carbs are fine and don't make you fat
>>1002647
carbs are fine you stupid fuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXJbpVXEukA
>>1002649
>processed grains are good for you
stay fat burgerkin
>40k income
>1 credit card, BoA Platinum Plus rewards card, $2k limit, 13.24% apr, opened in 2006
>zero balance, close to 0% utilization
>$50k in savings
>all bills paid on time
>pay $20/month car insurance
What's the chances of getting aproved for this card?
>>1002577
Lie about your income, say at least 50k. They dont check. Imo its overrated though. If i could do it over again id get Amex blue. Or amex cash, whatever the fuck its called. The only reason i got CSP is because the card was metal. But, it does get many second glances when i use it. Waitresses think im rich and stuff. Its whatever, 100 yearly fee, not worth it.
I thonk you have good chances though. They gave me 8k limit to start
>>1002582
>they don't check
Are you sure? I see a lot of posts about Chase asking for proof of income though. However I've heard people are more likely to get approved when applying in-branch.
I was hoping to apply for both CSP and Freedom, so I can use the CSP as my everyday card, and supplement it with Freedom with their 5℅. The travel rewards seem amazing, and the card itself is nice, sort of a poor man's black card.
>>1002582
>They dont check.
Can confirm. I applied for this card in 2009 when I was still living with my parents. They asked for household income, I put down the combined income of me and both my parents. I actually thought that was how I was supposed to do it. It was a lot. No questions, received a card with a massive limit.
What are the possibilities of profitization using the giant influx of this NEET and antisocial generation of people?
Start a hentai site?
>>1002505
Nah man. Start a site that will act as a middle man making phone calls.
>NEET wants to order a pizza
>too aspie to pic up the phone
>Aspie Solutions LTD is on the job
>NEET wants to cancel a gym membership
>too socially awkward to call
>Aspie Solutions LTD is on the job
Aspie Solutions, we enable your autism...
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>>1002505
Make Tsundere Simulator, where you play out a Tsundere trying to woo her lesbian lover.
NEETS will love it, and you can start a patreon.
What is the best degree to get into law school, but can still be good on its own if I decide I don't want to do law anymore.
>>1002303
Don't go for Law unless you have good connections and you are a hundred percent sure you want to go into Law.
Lawyers don't make all that much nowadays and there is huge competition unless you have connections/graduate top school.
The common undergrads - Philosophy, criminology, polisci are pretty useless on their own. There is not really any good choices.
>>1002303
cryptography for bitcoin and blockchians
>>1002303
Economics
I graduated with a degree in economics six months ago and now make $51k/yr. Not amazing but I can't complain.
Any thoughts on the interest rate hike today?
>>1002216
1) it's just 0.25%, it's next to nothing done just like before, I guess the nigger king just want to leave his throne saying he fixed the broken econ
2) it's just target rate, not hard rate, they can dump it back down any time
>>1002228
>thinks the President has anything to do with FED decisions
You must be republican.
>>1002231
Thinking that the President has no influence what so ever on a position he appoints is also pretty naive.
This should be a sticky.
>>1002126
Grandma is trying to prolong the recession with these rate hikes. we're all fucked, boys
>>1002137
Isn't the US economy doing pretty good right now?
>>1002139
Its doing pretty meh.
The job market is absolute shit
In April, I had my appendix removed. I didnt have health insurance. They tried to help me get health insurance, and I got denied several times by the govt. I was always missing 1-2 paystubs/documents. By the end of the summer I said "fuck this" and stopped applying. Since the fall I've been getting collection notices from 4-5 different agencies representing the hospital, the radiologists, the doctors office, etc.
I was in that motherfucker for less than 24 hours and all this shit totals up to about $30,000. I am 21. I don't have any money. I don't...
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>>1002065
1. Medical things are expensive because 99% of people who use them have insurance and insurance doesn't give a fuck about the costs, especially because the gubbmint subsidizes them so much.
2. You're not too healthy to get insurance. You're just too stupid. Keep track of your god damned pay stubs/documents you idiot. People tried to help you and you shitted out.
3. You had a life-saving operation performed by some of the best doctors in the world. 30k is cheap.
The only person to blame here...
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>>1002065
You're past self was a piece of shit. I'm glad you're not him.
>How do I even go about this?
Attain currency.
It's that simple. Get a job, or two. Or... three.
Alternatively you could just declare bankruptcy. Your credit is fucked regardless.
>>1002075
Your*
Should I try to dump it as soon as I break even or should I hold until Friday?
>penny stock
no one knows. id just hold until it swings in your favor.
The whole "potentially being delisted" thing still scares me. Good luck OP. You probably bought at a high. I did the same with GBSN at .13 last week and lost $30 which hurt but not as much as if I hadn't sold out.
Thoughts on this /biz/?
I think it would be fine if "Arts" represented Economics and Business.
no.
Kill yourself, musicians make more money.
>>1002007
Are you Chinese?
Has browsing /biz/ helped you make money?
It's helped me NOT lose real money by not buying shitcoin.
It has lost me tons of money in opportunity cost.
If I did ANYTHING for even half the time of browsing /biz/ I would be much better for it.
>>1001817
No. /biz/ is just /humblebrag/ and fantasist faggots who watched Wolf of Wall Street.
Ok, to be fair some good books occasionally get recommended.
Starting next monday as an HR assistant. It's my first "real" job outside of sucking ronald McDick cock, what can I expect?
Also,tips?
You've been promoted. You can now suck dick while having your dick sucked. enjoy your newfound place on the dick sucking ladder.
>>1001684
>HR
>>1001700
toptimus kek
Crowdsourcing sites like mTurk - are they worth it? How much of it is a scam to steal your money/identity/organs/implant malware into its users? Been thinking of trying one of these for some pocket cash, but Amazon doesn't allow non-USfags and every other site I've seen looks dubious at least.
>>1001611
Come on biz, time is mone
>>1001611
Not worth it unless you're in India.
You make far less than minimum wage and you don't learn anything useful.
>>1001786
I don't want to do it fulltime, I'm currently waiting for an interview. Just want something undemanding for the meantime, that I can literally do sitting at my ass listening to patrician music.
The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible.
A generation ago, multi-user time-sharing...
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It's time we had the same thing for money. With e-currency based on cryptographic proof, without the need to trust a third party middleman, money can be secure and transactions effortless.
One of the fundamental building blocks for such a system is digital signatures. A digital coin contains the public key of its owner. To transfer it, the owner signs the coin together with the public key of the next owner. Anyone can check the signatures to verify the chain of ownership. It works well to secure ownership, but leaves one big problem unsolved: double-spending. Any...
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>>1001522
I hear ya, bro. It won't be Bitcoin though. You guys already derped the distribution and the initial infrastructure.
The distribution was perfectly fair in the sense of the halving curve being public, and early adopters taking a risk by mining and buying something that was literally worthless (1 BTC = 0 dollars). Those visionaries must be rewarded for their amount of risk taken by being there first. Ever heard of risk/reward ratio? Bitcoin respects that.
Bitcoin was released publicly and everyone that stumbled upon it at first ignored it for years except a few that saw value in it before it even had a pricetag. This is exactly how people get rich: Getting in before the average joe sees...
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The whole point of bitcoins was to be anonymous(ish) and to become more difficult to calculate as technology becomes faster.
so, as successful bitcoin would piss off the banks, what can they do... well they can say isis uses bitcoins, but that didn't really work as no one gives a fuck about that...
so, they can control the release of technology. by slowing down the rate at which computers and processors increase, devalues bitcoins faster thus getting rid of them faster.
capitalism is great at not bringing better technology to market to make more profit...
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>>1001507
Who is "they"? And why the fuck would they care about bitcoin when they have shareholders to answer to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRKz82v5JQY
Everything that isn't Bitcoin in 2016 is a cope.
