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AbouSV
Germany1278 Posts
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Uldridge
Belgium5186 Posts
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On June 01 2017 21:39 Uldridge wrote: Does the credit system in the US create an economic void that can not be filled globally? I don't understand the question. | ||
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Uldridge
Belgium5186 Posts
However, this makes me wonder how the concept of credit and cc's would be used for things like mortgages and if that isn't a huge risk already, which is banking on the concept of credit to fix your loans (idk if that's done at all in the US, but I guess the standard way would be to fix it via a bank, no?) The concept of credit seems like a too good to be true tool for people to abuse and then the institutions that "invested" in the people pay the price which ultimately means that the money of people investing in institutions that give out credit (by buying their financial product) will eventually take the fall for it if that institution racks up multitudes of these failing customers. I guess it's the concept of trust into the amorphous, faceless financial juggernaut because people can get something out of it that seems absurd to me. The risk-reward seems good, because it seems safe, but my thought process is more in the lines of: they'll get their amount of hubris sooner or later and then you'll be fucked. Also: I'm an economic nitwit, so feel free to absolutely school me on this topic if you feel inclined in doing so. | ||
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farvacola
United States18866 Posts
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Uldridge
Belgium5186 Posts
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rSado
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On June 01 2017 05:04 Shiragaku wrote: I am about to start college and graduation gift specials are about to happen. What's a good laptop that is good for students, but can run games like League, DotA, Counter-Strike, and can allow me to stream? What do you mean "good for students" ... lol. And stream in what quality? Streaming on any single pc, esp. a laptop is super hard w.o it affection performance. You probably don't want to be streaming on a laptop fam. What programs do you need it to run for school since you're saying good for students? | ||
Fecalfeast
Canada11355 Posts
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
On June 02 2017 04:29 Fecalfeast wrote: If all crows/ravens were organized and able to use complex language in the same manner as humans and wished to bring down human civilization, what would be the best method of attack for them? If they became a threat, how best would we stop them? 1. Scare people into submission 2. shiny objects | ||
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Yurie
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On June 01 2017 05:04 Shiragaku wrote: I am about to start college and graduation gift specials are about to happen. What's a good laptop that is good for students, but can run games like League, DotA, Counter-Strike, and can allow me to stream? Go to the tech forum and ask there, other than that I'll give a reply. Good for students is cheapest you spot in a store. Most students require nothing from the laptop above running word or simple compilations in programming/maths. If the battery worked a laptop from 2007 would be fine for a student. For a streaming laptop you want a good dedicated GPU in it and the fastest CPU with a minimum of 4 cores that you can find. Expect to pay well over $1000. It might even turn out that getting a cheap laptop for classes and a stationary for streaming will be cheaper and have better performance depending on what parts you already have. I would go the route of two separate ones since I would not want to carry around as big of a laptop as a streaming one would require due to the screen size you want for the games. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On June 02 2017 04:29 Fecalfeast wrote: If all crows/ravens were organized and able to use complex language in the same manner as humans and wished to bring down human civilization, what would be the best method of attack for them? If they became a threat, how best would we stop them? The best way would be for them to continually burn crops through well placed lenses to create fire. Do this continually while leaving trinkets stolen from neighbors near the flashpoint sites. Over time farmers and regions become divided and war with each other over food scarcity. The same thing should be done in slums and poor, cramped, highly populated areas to thin the herd as much as possible. Once humans start becoming more and more decentralized, start to attack water supplies to sow more distrust. After that, humans should be weakened enough for stage two of the attack. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Dark_Chill
Canada3353 Posts
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
That would also make a decent zombie apocalypse-style book/movie I think. | ||
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
to bring down human civilization is a first world problem thus: self-defeating, irrelevant and impossible.human civilization is in the Cloud. | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On June 02 2017 17:39 xM(Z wrote: is a first world problem thus: self-defeating, irrelevant and impossible. human civilization is in the Cloud. As are ravens. | ||
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AbouSV
Germany1278 Posts
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Acrofales
Spain18371 Posts
Look, shiny! ![[image loading]](http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_shiny_object.jpg) In all honesty, countering the impending corvid insurgency will be so easy. Just fill discoballs with claymores and watch the problem solve itself. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18371 Posts
On June 02 2017 03:05 Uldridge wrote: Some guy that has an economic background. He doesn't mention how to increase your cc line, but he does talk about car dealerships that run on 20M credit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbj3Q8HMJAw&t=960 Yes, a youtube of a guy sorting MTG cards does inspire supreme confidence in his economic knowledge. | ||
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