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MicroBerto

1,187 karma · joined March 11, 2014

Founder of the PricePlow Price Comparison Engine for nutritional supplements and health products

https://www.PricePlow.com

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MicroBerto··on Bitcoin Gets Close to $5,000
Gold and silver can't be "forked"
MicroBerto··on Bitcoin Gets Close to $5,000
It's because I can't use it to do business with anyone in my market, I can't buy anything I want with it, it's volatile, and it's an absurd waste of energy.

Enjoy the run, but sell at the right times because ultimately it will end in some form of tragedy.

MicroBerto··on Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
Good, now if only we can get Musk to stop live alpha-testing his decapitation death code and slow down for a few years, then maybe some actual experts who have working sensors can get this done properly.
MicroBerto··on Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973, Paper Finds
Atrazine.... And all the other endicrine disruptors.

Packaged food is literally toxic at this point.

MicroBerto··on Ask HN: Should I buy a boat and live off the grid?
Do you want to live a "what if" life?

You know what you want to do. So do it and stop asking for permission.

MicroBerto··on 80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life
Sand Volleyball and volleyball classes for anyone remotely coordinated. Best way to meet young and healthy people with plenty of the opposite sex as well.
MicroBerto··on 80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life
Think about it. What's the WORST way you can punish someone?

Solitary Confinement.

Even in a prison with the most vile scum in the state, the worst thing you can do to a person is to remove them from the others.

That speaks volumes to me, personally.

MicroBerto··on CoinDash’s ICO Website Has Been Hacked
But at nearly every store, the price has been increased for everyone, even cash customers. So why not get my cash back if that's how it's going to be?
MicroBerto··on Brazil to open 860K acres of protected Amazon rainforest to logging, mining, etc
Yet it's my car that's blamed for a rise in global carbon dioxide. Makes sense.
MicroBerto··on Can a Diet That Mimics Fasting Turn Back the Clock?
The AHA coconut oil nonsense is just the start of it.
MicroBerto··on Can a Diet That Mimics Fasting Turn Back the Clock?
You haven't checked Google Trends lately, apparently....
MicroBerto··on Can a Diet That Mimics Fasting Turn Back the Clock?
Experimenting with the keto diet for my YouTube endeavors and one thing I didn't expect is how much better my joints would feel.

Prediction: the keto diet will soon come under HEAVY fire from mainstream media, journals, and lobbyist health organizations under the pressure of certain agriculture and pharma groups. Just wait for it.

MicroBerto··on More Millennials Are Having Strokes
The absence of proof is not the proof of absence. Also, did I not mention "longshot theory"?

I stand by what I said and will double down in fact. Too many people melting their brains with that crap and there are almost definitely unforseen consequences of doing so.

MicroBerto··on More Millennials Are Having Strokes
Yes, do you?

Funny how the downvotes and attacks come when you discuss the possibility of drug-induced brain damage in Millennials to a website full of.... drug-defending Millennials!

MicroBerto··on 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
OAN's talking heads are obviously conservative, but if you want a REAL news reel with no trash, theirs is easily the quickest and most informative. And they play that more than pundits, which is nice.
MicroBerto··on More Millennials Are Having Strokes
My longshot theory: Molly.

I've watched brilliant brains literally get ruined by the overuse of that garbage. I would bet anything that it's more dangerous than any of its users want to admit.

MicroBerto··on Analyzing Cryptocurrencies Using PostgreSQL
But what happened to Dogecoin?
MicroBerto··on European leaders call for open access to all scientific papers by 2020 (2016)
Makes sense. If my tax money is going to a study, I should see all results and supplementary data.

Right now I'm researching a few studies that have been shown to be... "not 100% forthcoming"... thanks to some court documents, drafts, and collusive emails found in PACER. It has forever changed the way I'll look at any research, government-funded or not.

MicroBerto··on Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
Propaganda is the primary business model as of late.
MicroBerto··on Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
Add `.compact` to the end of any URL on reddit and that's the best mobile mode. Super fast.
MicroBerto··on ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
It's social engineering meant to divide and weaken us, and a large portion of the country has fallen for it. Especially in Academia.

We are becoming crippled by our own will. It's sad to watch and the pendulum response was the 2016 election.

MicroBerto··on Ask HN: How to stop overthinking everything in my life?
Nobody else is saying it so I will: it sounds like you have been brainwashed into guilt and victimization by modern media/propaganda.

Break the chains and own your life. Do good for the world and it doesn't matter your background.

You need to grow a small IDGAF portion in your brain as well and do what you want to do, not what others want you to do.

You seem like a good person so I'm confident you will do net-positive things, so cast the BS guilt aside, own it, and go make things happen.

MicroBerto··on The LHC has restarted for its 2017 run
For those of you wondering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3l8idr9QFE

MicroBerto··on Why public lands must remain in public hands
> I guess the picture painted of the pro-gun folks is often the extreme end

Glad you got to understand what REAL law-abiding gun owners are like. We are maniacs over safety and responsibility.

Don't let the press demonize such things. The legal ones aren't the ones to worry about.

And everyone I know in Texas who carries in a medium-to-large size city is still doing it concealed. Out of sight, out of mind.

MicroBerto··on Ask HN: Mark Zuckerberg presidency?
The resistance to this would be so strong it would make 2016 look like a walk in the park.

This is not a well-liked person from nearly any community. It will be entertaining to watch if nothing else.

MicroBerto··on Tesla's Musk Paid at Least $593M in Income Taxes in 2016
If Taxation at 100% is slavery, at what percentage is it not?
MicroBerto··on Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics in half
My business (PricePlow) is obviously affected. However, due to being a niche site, Amazon is not a majority of our revenue, nor is it our top-trafficked store.

My strategy is this: At these commissions in the Health niche, Amazon will no be in our "preferred" tier of stores. On March 1, their products will no longer show up on our blog (unless they are the only store with it in stock) -- and the blog gets the vast majority of our traffic.

They will still show up in our main site (where I need to decide whether or not to keep their exclusive buttons), and they'll still be involved in our hot deals and price drop alerts.

Stores need to earn our best visitors, and Amazon is no longer deserving. Surprisingly, they're most often not the best deal on our site anyway, so I don't think anyone will be too upset.

I may try to negotiate my own rates, but I don't think we're big enough for that (not yet, at least). Everything is negotiable when you have legit traffic and other options.

Meanwhile, we've been diversifying our revenue with various industry SAAS services that can be scaled globally. This has been a big focus of mine, knowing that these kinds of things can happen at the drop of a hat.

But at the end of the day, this is still a paycut, and it still hurts. Amazon will ultimately lose more of our traffic for it, and I really don't think they'll even notice this on their bottom line compared to the explosive profits they get from AWS.

Seems like bad PR more than anything.

MicroBerto··on Time to Take a Stand
> I'm particularly interested in what types of machines

More important is to look at who's got owning shares in those machines.....

In the perfect world, we'd have open source machines that all enter voites into a public blockchain/ledger and you'd get a private key you could verify your vote with. Optical sounds awesome. But good luck with that. The fraud just seems to swing back and forth from left to right every X years instead. It's madness.

My claim is just a bet right now. But it's one I'm willing to put money on IF they actually do a national investigation, which I'm not confident will happen.

MicroBerto··on Time to Take a Stand
Detroit is just one city (http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/12/re...). How many others are there?

That's plenty for the seeds of doubt, especially given how easy it is to vote in several states.

MicroBerto··on Time to Take a Stand
Focusing on voter fraud is critical to sovereignty, especially with future elections coming up.

A nation needs strict voting laws or it is not a nation. Besides non-citizens voting, there were also multiple votes across county and state lines as well as dead people voting. So I'm not just blaming illegal aliens.

Ultimately, this argument is not going to go anywhere, so how about this: How much money would you like to bet, that IF there is a voter fraud investigation, there were over 2,868,520 fraudulent votes cast across the nation?

Approval ratings are far greater than 36% already BTW.

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