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did google’s stock go up 10% just because they announced a 20:1 split

McDonald’s (MCD) should do well over the next year.

click here for article on how bad eating disorders are in the sport. i had no idea.

why not just have for example, three divisions? medium, light, and heavy? just like boxing. this would even grow the sport, providing more opportunity for records, etc.

how on earth have i never seen this before?

this is a story of someone who passed on the AirBNB seed round, likely missing out on billions in the process.

i have been writing different versions of this story for a couple years now. today someone is coming through that will change the course of Payfrit Pads forever.

UPDATE: i couldn’t have scripted that meeting any better. stay tuned.

just to officially get my position on the record again, i believe that bitcoin will fluctuate in an inflation adjusted range of $20k-$40k. that’s a large enough market cap to keep enough miners mining, and enough to provide for all the illicit uses people can come up with.

i believe bitcoin is only suitable for transfer of value, not long-term store of value.

i first made this prediction about a year ago on twitter, under the now suspended payfrit username.

every morning i have three cups of green tea while reading the following websites, starting with AP and always down to at least The Guardian. i do this using google chrome with the ublock origin plugin, along with bypass paywalls. makes for a wonderfully ad-free browsing experience, the old fashioned way.

NewsNation
AP News
World – CBC News
Reuters
BBC News
UPI News
The Guardian
LAist
ESPN
Al Jazeera
The Wall Street Journal
The Independent
NPR
The Economist
Roll Call
Voice of America
CNBC
Christian Science Monitor
ProPublica
KTLA 5 Los Angeles
ABC7 Los Angeles
FOX 11 Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times

here’s a media bias chart to lookup the websites you consider to be informative.