I thought numbers couldn't be made bigger?

As always, you have to consider the operational requirements. Mine is an individual fresh cup of coffee on demand (I recently dropped one of those glass vacuum ones off at the thrift store as it was too much faff). I was reasonably happy with a Senseo I had but I am considerably happier with the machine I now have and cappuccinos... Mine is the Philips/Saeco and it is a little messy but the cleaning is honestly not that onerous though I do often tend to push it out to monthly. As a first foray into the field, I am pretty happy with it though might go a bit more spendy next time. I initially priced out one I got coffee from in a Czech hotel but that came somewhere in the region above $2000 (but the coffee *was* good and it had more options). I always forget the name though. I think the beans I buy are better than what I was getting in the pods and at half the cost per g too.

Lots of people are over Starbucks here. They're basically a 'lifestyle' brand. Largely about walking through the office with a paper cup that advertises you can afford overpriced coffees.

As someone else suggested, tax selling now over. Could be people trying to front-run tomorrow.

Something that always keeps coming back to me is the phrase "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch".

I kinda got behind on it but the last season I watched seemed more like horror shorts than a Black Mirror season. All I remember is there were some serial killers in a remote location in one and something in a storage locker in another.

It's definitely a demographic problem. And that's actually the case even if there was 'investment' (though potentially to a bit lesser degree) which there isn't.

Hybrids really seem to be the answer. Full electric is quite niche application.

Also, with the outlook for social security, it could very much be a case of 'a bird in the hand'. With pyramid schemes, it's the ones who exit early who benefit, the ones who exit late left holding empty bags.

Might be interesting if you could integrate medical insurance and other things into that too.

Funnily enough, just the other day, I was thinking about an app for a "family bank" where members of a family could exchange funds with each other for payment for chores, pocket money etc to help kids learn money. Maybe for later exchange for cash, crypto, rewards or whatever.

What scenario do you envision where people would pay you for you to hold you bitcoin and them not be able to use them because they don't have custody? I can't see much opportunity for something like that outside of Proof of Stake.

You can already do this to an extent with Bitcoin. After having a couple of friends be cavalier with the samples I gave them, when I gifted my brother some, I gave him a paper wallet to which I retained a copy of the private key. If he is interested enough to transfer the coins out of it, he can. If he loses it, I can restore it for him. This is not good for real-world usage, of course but you either lock in the transfer or you don't in my eyes.

This here explains everything about why you're such a sad muppet.

Font very suspect too.

They haven't banned it for a while. We're probably overdue.

Fun fact. If you renounce US citizenship (which isn't cheap these days FWIW), all your investments become taxable as if you'd sold them.

Of course, if you were thinking your investments were going to go up, you might want to do that sooner rather than later but the US taxman always wants his cut.

Not impossible people are getting out in order to buy stocks cheap in the AM. Like I say, there are consequences to moving away from being a electronic cash.

Should have dried up a bit tomorrow. I'll probably find somewhere to go and touch some grass.

Yep. Definitely the danger of statistics. It suggests he was taking shots other players were not confident of getting and getting them. The scoreboard doesn't list percentages.