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Mo3on 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' author Robert Kiyosaki reveals he's $1B in debt

He is in debt, in US dollars, to buy cash flow generating real assets like rental property. He is effectively shorting the US dollar, inflation corrodes the debt value and at the same time boosting the asset value.

Mo3on 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' author Robert Kiyosaki reveals he's $1B in debt

He's talking about debt to purchase cash flow generating assets, not consumer debt.

Mo3on Los Angeles police flights cost $3k an hour, audit finds

Having watched a lot of bodycam videos of LAPD officers requesting air backup and it being overhead only minutes later, I think there could be reasonable justification for these expenses. Even if used for other purposes like transportation most of the time, the availability if needed is worth something.

Mo3on Germans among the unhappiest people in Europe

As a German living in NL: Same level of complaining, just much more attention to socialisation in general. It's more of a we mentality, in Germany you can live next to your neighbors for 10 years without ever having talked to them and the workplace can be a completely impersonal space. In NL everybody knows each other, private matters are shared freely even in the work environment, transparency, group responsibility and team building are highly valued.

Mo3on Beeper Mini is back

*Meta

Mo3on Google launched a new AI, and has already admitted at least one demo wasn't real

Now I'm curious which part wasn't real. My best guess would be on the video interpretation

Mo3on Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke

You act like we are limiting ourselves to earth on purpose. We're just not there yet.

Mo3on Synthetic opioids deadlier than fentanyl are showing up in overdose cases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWxd8wNbldA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_pRi37yLBQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd76HxqCPf0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff3IZu_m66Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gA61UowVHk

These cops would disagree.

Mo3on On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations

Hollywood has been influenced by the Pentagon for a long time.

Mo3on ChangeDetection, monitor any website change

Kudos, this is a very feature rich solution. I like it. 8.99 seems a little bit much, but I guess it's probably the sweet spot on the curve.

Mo3on Family rescued from wildfires thanks to iPhone’s Emergency SOS via Satellite

This is just so extremely cool and makes me happy to see within my lifetime.

Btw, which satellites are being used for this functionality?

Mo3on Remote workers are increasingly less productive, anxious, depressed and lonely

We run a hybrid model at work and it's absolutely wonderful. Go to the office when it feels like to be social and connect with your coworkers, the real work mostly gets done at home. No obligations to show up at certain days or a certain amount of days, just whenever we want.

Different people with different social energy levels and so also different presence intervals, still see each other from time to time. Sprinkle in some nice fun non-obligatory team building activities.. everybody happy and productive.

Mo3on Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger numbers up 25%

That's the typical Deutsche Bahn experience. Haven't seen anything else for the 27 years I lived there

Mo3on Apple stole $100s from me, Customer Service says there's nothing they can do

Also holds true if you str_replace iCloud for Google

Mo3on Zero Click Facebook Account Takeover and Two-Factor Authentication Bypass

Yeah wtf.. 3k is a disgustingly low amount for such a high-profile vulnerability, if true.

Mo3on There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be Short

Same here, would've not been the worst advice ever.

Mo3on US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]

I can assure you almost nobody here has any interest in ever visiting the US for prolonged periods of time.

Mo3on Ask HN: Host a website from a living room in 2022?

> NOT pay monthly to someone.

You pay your internet and electricity, no?

Mo3on Show HN: Software for Remote GPU-over-IP

Damn, this is cool. Nice work.

Mo3on US annual inflation declines to 7.1% in November vs. 7.3% expected

This is it, the economy is grinding to a halt. Not good either.

Mo3on EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments

European here and I can assure you that more and more people of all walks of life are becoming acutely aware and critical of what's happening right now. CBDCs, the WEF, ongoing attempts at financial repression, etc.

Personally I am looking into immigrating into non-EU countries in South East Asia right now, but that has a lot to do with a desire to explore other cultures and a deeper ongoing dissatisfaction and is definitely not on many peoples' minds. I do believe however that there could be civil unrest soon if it gets worse.

Mo3on Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and more

Are you implying Telegram is being run by the Russian government?

Mo3on Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

This whole thread and matter at hand is so extremely trippy I was just waiting for this. Thanks.

Mo3on Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid Leave

Yeah, no wonder workers are striking. This is absolutely insane and at some point one has to wonder if creating a good working environment and healthy, happy employees would do the profit line even better than this fascist structure.

Mo3on Ask HN: Why do some people not communicate clearly?

In my case it is simply (unmedicated) ADHD. I can communicate in writing well in most cases, but am not able to communicate clearly in real-time because my mind is running faster and in more directions than I can speak. On medication I am suddenly 100x more eloquent and structured in my communication and can convey even complex problems with relative ease.

It is literally a difference between night and day. Without medication, I stumble over my words, have problems finding words, and it's very hard to not get distracted by 10 concurrent trains of thought. It's a source of great frustration and pain in my life because I do not like being medicated.

Mo3on Emergency SOS via satellite

Stuff like this is the reason Apple is valued as highly as it is.

Mo3on Pfizer plans to sell its Covid vaccine at a 10k% markup in 2023

They're going to raise their prices too. Obviously.

Mo3on FTX Yikes

The service has the fundamental value, not cryptocurrency. That's just collateral

Mo3on FTX Yikes

> Except backing your payment, it really doesn't.

I think this is the point I was trying to make as well. Obviously this service has value, but not because of cryptocurrency, which was the matter of discussion

Mo3on FTX Yikes

> Who cares how it's done on the bookkeeping side? I care about my account being lowered by the amount of crypto something has cost me and getting the service / goods I want.

Anybody who understands what cryptocurrency is supposed to be should definitely care about it. There is nothing crypto about these cards, they just liquidate some of your crypto collateral to settle in fiat. You could do this yourself, or use any other random credit card. It's a convenience, but is literally the anti-thesis of cryptocurrency, and/or has nothing to do with cryptocurrency in the first place. The cards are ran by a financial institute or bank and the collateral could be anything.

Sure, the card and its convenience and functionality has value. Cryptocurrency plays zero part in it. Funnily enough, what you see as value here is provided by the fiat system and not by cryptocurrency.