/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>55494685
That's nice, honestly, good work. I would give you shit if you were just a duct guy making $15/hr but you're doing good. My advice is to throw a couple hundred on TOAD, wait till the August 15th conference and see if TOAD is revealed as TREAT. The anticipation pump will double your money, but if it's really TREAT, then you'd have enough to buy a new Sierra Denali as your well-deserved boss-man-on-the-jobsite truck.

NEET who gets listed as a dependent by parents. it says I won't get any trumpbux, but it wants me to file anyway? it doesn't tell me not to file unlike those getting social security checks, etc. what do?

Who else is too autist and beta and meek to arrange meetings with people and ask senior people stuff in emails? I worry that they'll see me as an idiot who wasted time

>>14519618
living the dream

>>6245943
>literally satoshi's vision

>>6145651
>started in february with $500
>bought ETH at $14 sold at 45
>bought ARK at 5 cents sold at 11
>bought PIVX at 6 cents, sold at 17
>pulled out 2k because I thought we would crash below 1500 again
>put money back in at 2500
>put 0.117 in a scam ICO
>bought high and sold low
>pulled out 2k in august again because I needed the money irl
>went back in with $300 in october
>bought XVG at 0.5 cents, sold at 0.7
>bought IOTA at 38 cents, sold at 77
>more missed moon missions and buying high selling low
>pulled out 1k in december because needed the money again
>left $80 in
>bought ICX
>currently sitting at around $560
>have $30 irl and paycheck ($300 per week) isn't coming until friday
Who else /pretty much sitting on the sidelines/ here? I could have had a comfy life.

>>3343814
true, sent coins there and can't take them back unless i give them all my personal info and the fees are fucking high got fucking damnit

>tfw was reading on here drunk a while ago and almost bought in at $40 but passed out before i could do anything and forgot about it

>tfw my entire life, from school to university to my first after university job has simply been following the set path laid out for me with zero initiative, and I have reached this age and see that Chads and women go up the escalator of good times and success while the conveyor belt leads to the grinder for the non Chad males
>tfw aged 26 and never had attention from women ever or done anything with them unless I paid for prostitutes

When did you realise the brutal truths about being a non Chad male? It's torture to go to work in sunny and hot days like this and see so many attractive women around my age who fuck ten Chads a day from Tider and who consider me a disgusting non chad. No, lifting changes nothing, I can squat four plate and nothing changed.

And then at work I am the loser who nobody speaks to and who doesn't go to any of the socialising events because making small talk with normies is impossible. Even extroverted normies say little to me.

And every single day I beat myself up mentally because I waste all my free time on mourning the previous 8 apathetic mourning filled years of my life.

Engaging with most culture is a rigged game. You read novels and suddenly you're told you have to read boring as fuck novels or else you're dumb. You start programming and are told you have to use academic mental masturbation programming languages or else your dumb. Everywhere you get, at best, hazing (which is acceptable) but in most cases snake oil salesmen but with self perpetuating pressure to accept their shit.

I think even normies see through the BS. We had a minute's silence for the recent terror attack, with the minute being announced by loudspeaker immediately before. Afterwards all the normies thought it was, "lel so awkwerd". Not that I was fooled, I just thought it was bs for the pol reasons I will not go in to.

How the hell am I supposed to live the good life by doing all of the below every week? There isn't enough time.

>go to the gym 4 times a week and running 3 times
>working 9-5 (8-6 when including commute and getting ready)
>reading about 60 pages a day of books to avoid being a philistine
>all my weekly chores
>learning technical skills in my free time so my mind doesn't erode
>doing something practical in my free time
>getting a good night's sleep
>socialising (or my version of socialising, walking around the city feeling sad about life and gawking at qts, browsing 4chan)
>NOT scheduling my time like some banal CEO business type

It's impossible. It is demoralising. There is no time.

Fuck these people who pretend 15 pages of reading Ulysses is acceptable or that doing something for 2 hours of classes a week is anything other than bullshit.

I will always see myself as a subhuman for not knowing maths. My engineering degree from my crappy local university was so fucking demoralising.

Honest advice because I'm feeling generous: Go to the highest ranking possible university you can go to (only take debt in to account if it's two orders of magnitude different).

It seems like you're either on "the track"- Oxbridge etc. to high finance - or you are nothing.

What's the point of working hard when everything comes down to credentials and prestige and having the correct personality and accent?

How the hell am I supposed to live the good life by doing all of the below every week?

>go to the gym 4 times a week and running 3 times
>working 9-5 (8-6 when including commute and getting ready)
>reading about 60 pages a day of books to avoid being a philistine
>all my weekly chores
>learning technical skills in my free time so my mind doesn't erode
>doing something practical in my free time
>getting a good night's sleep
>socialising (or my version of socialising, walking around the city feeling sad about life and gawking at qts, browsing 4chan)
>NOT scheduling my time like some banal CEO business type

It's impossible. It is demoralising. There is no time.

Fuck these people who pretend 15 pages of reading Ulysses is acceptable or that doing something for 2 hours of classes a week is anything other than bullshit.

I will always see myself as a subhuman for not knowing maths. My engineering degree from my crappy local university was so fucking demoralising.

Honest advice because I'm feeling generous: Go to the highest ranking possible university you can go to (only take debt in to account if it's two orders of magnitude different).

It seems like you're either on "the track"- Oxbridge etc. to high finance - or you are nothing.

What's the point of working hard when everything comes down to credentials and prestige and having the correct personality and accent?

>work 9-5 Monday to Friday, 8-5.30 when including commute
>need to constantly iron work clothes and shave twice as often as I would otherwise because work demands a "smart" look
>need to do household chores
>need to exercise everyday to counteract constant sitting in a chair
>need to read books or else society calls me a pleb
>need to do maths or other learning in free time to exercise my brain and recover from mind numbingly boring job
>job does pointless as fuck work
>you have to socialise and pretend to like your co-workers or else you'll never advance
>at the end of it all, you are still considered a failure by society unless you're a banker or doctor etc
>zero chance of getting any female attention because I'm not a Chad
>currently lying in bed at 1 am waiting for clothes in the drier
>have time for just about 6 hours of sleep before the next day, as punishment for not organising my post-work free time with the discipline and structure of a CEO

This is unbelievable. I work for a "respected" employer as well. Life as a bottom 80 % male is awful in 2017.

And I live in London and the tap water tastes awful. This may sound incongruous but it has to be said.

>>2058471
Lol. What are your qualifications on AI?

An understanding of computers based on writing PHP shopping cars != Understanding AI

It will be EASIER for a machine to automate things like designing a bridge (something where all the variables can be known a priori) than to automate controlling a class of kids or convincing someone to buy a car.

The trend of AI has been solving things that are hard for humans (read: STEM) yet struggling at things that are easy for humans. This will continue as AI becomes smarter, and it will go from doing chess better than any human to designing space rockets better than any human could. Code itself would be theoretically impossible to completely automate, but what could happen is an AI compiles an ordinary description of a program in English to the complete machine code and the English description would then become the high level code.

>started a 9-5 office job on Monday
>bored to death
>was invited to lunch by coworkers who have the same job as me and my social skills were awful. I had nothing to say and neither did they.
>didn't even feel awkward after a few minutes, I just stopped caring that I had nothing to say to normies and vice versa
>job itself is boring as fuck, of course
>work in open plan office that is distracting as fuck while surrounded on all sides by normies
>despite it "only" being 9-5, commute makes it about 8-5.30
>entire day is swallowed up after work and collecting a package from the store- it's literally fucking almost 8pm

I just know that everyone thinks I'm a freak weirdo because I am not a normie.