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Just highlighting a fun post. Join in the fun with your best Yo Mama is so fiat joke.
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At what point does the cost of basing your business in the U.S and Europe become a severe disadvantage? Seems to me we may now be approaching that inflexion point.
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This is an interesting thought experiment. I am in Canada and was indirectly thinking along these lines today as I was walking through the downtown area of our town. The area was bustling today as we have many folks from the city already arriving for Christmas. It was nice to see all the local shops, restaurants and cafes filled with patrons.
Ever since I sold my business almost 2 years ago now. I have been keeping an open mind and open eye to what business I might start next, which I plan to at some point when the itch to do so it greater than the itch to not do so. I saw a small vacant commercial space next to a boutique hotel and I started thinking about what I could do with that space but was resigned to thinking about business licenses, permits to redevelop the space, the cost to build out something, financing, all types of insurance, hiring, payroll, taxes, and so on. You get the picture. I started to think more about the barriers to entry than what was possible.
Maybe just a sign that I am not that motivated to start something again or that something with a physical location shouldn't be considered. But also maybe a sign that even for seasoned entrepreneurs starting certain businesses just doesn't make financial sense and aren't worth the hassle anymore.
I know this isn't really what you were getting at but thought it was adjacent to your point.
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It’s absolutely what I was getting at. Love hearing insights like this. The regulatory burden for all businesses is increasingly prohibitive.
Go to Colombia, Paraguay or many other traditionally ‘backwards’ countries and all you need to do is pay the money upfront and if you’re motivated you could open a store next week. This I suspect was how it used to be in the West, very agile and entrepreneurial. That feels alien now. Opening a physical store/restaurant/hotel in Canada, Europe or U.S these days requires probably that you want to do it for the passion, not for a decent living or for the profit motive. Especially given the paperwork involved & setup costs involved.
maybe the future of running business is with a node and POW, then everything else decentralized - belong to nowhere yet it's everywhere.
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Totally. I mean that is similar to how things are now (with the ‘cloud’) just not in name.
When working for yourself and maybe a few corporate clients, this is definitely optimal.
When serving tens of thousands of individual users & a few employees, B2C, the archaic systems are still somewhat rigged towards a physical location. You often need the legal protection that a business provides.
Which mad person donated 200k sats to rewards?! 👀
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Anyone found a good workflow or way to manage browser tabs?
Stressful to have so many windows open, but I always think 'what if I close and forget something'? Surely A.I. has solved this already. Given it's Friday already, I'm mulling force closing all my browsers windows right now and starting over. But will I regret it? 😅
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'what if I close and forget something
just close them, the act of closing itself make you don't take anything for granted, like you know @nemo is gonna delete everything so you pay more attention for those deep and fun stuff:)
I wipe my browser history and laptop from time to time, just to make sure I backup everything important, otherwise I'm the one to be blamed.
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That is a (spring) clean desk policy. Definitely good practice.
This makes me think browsers should have a 'save all my tabs for later' feature to harvest that netflix watch list energy.
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I guess there is Browse History, but it’s just not the same thing. I’m surprised the way we browse the internet has not changed in like 10 years.
Then I remembered this awesome concept… which i seem to remember you posted before @k00b?
⚡️SNL at 4pm - Texas time today / join us in the chat.
🤘Zap.Stream, YouTube and Twitter
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this freebie will watch the stream closely
where is the chat? here?
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here or on youtube or zap.stream, will cruise by the saloon
What's with these accounts that every post is tagged freebie?
Are they bots?
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no, they just don't have sats and thus didn't pay their fee. they have limited visibility. you should only see them if you have greeter mode enabled in your settings
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Gotcha but they should have some sats after getting zaps.
What's up cowboys ~ Take a minute and make a poll in ~polls Shill your expertise in ~education Join our ~chess club ⚡⚡⚡🧡🧡🧡
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can you reply to me in Discord?
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i have prepared my memes for Meme Monday
Hey gang!!! The weekend is about to start so let's take that time to relax and recharge ourselves. Final school day for me, 3 weeks of holidays but gotta keep working on my second job, so no rest for the wicked, it will be a great weekend and the holidays are juuuust around the corner. I wish you all a stupendous Friday, may it be filled with profit, success and happiness. Thank you for being and remember that you're awesome and what you do is important. You, my friend, are awesome!!! Be well and stay frosty!!!
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Stay frosty dude!
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Its entirely possible that the future will suck
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GM ⚡☕🧡
Stay Humble
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Could you possibly tell me where I can download this in high resolution? Did you create it yourself? Nice work!
Thanks
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No and no, sorry
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98 days as a Cowboy! I’ve learned so much but have much to go!
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What has been the best lesson you learned cowboy?
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Growing in my adoption to truly adopt bitcoin and not to just see it as an investment. One example was sending sats to a fruit vendor in El Salvador as our Secret Santa! Still a long way to go, but SN has been a tremendous help!
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What’s your MBTI profile? How much stock do you place in it? Do you think it’s psychobabble hogwash or do you use it as a reference guide for your personality?
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ISTP :) and I do love solving problems 🤓
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I wish we could find a bartender like Sheldon Leonard https://youtu.be/yr-2tz-WXQw?si=AzqpO4mzkBH_Kxyq
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Hi everyone @Saloon
How to earn from Rewards pool on @sn ?
I would like to know answer from you guys.
🙏🏼
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hahah, but that's indeed the best advice in everything tho:)!
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I love this when i see this ☝🏼 purple line in my notifications
I need more of it!
Sitting here in limbo But I know it won't be long Sitting here in limbo Like a bird without a song Well, they're putting up a resistance But I know that my faith will lead me on
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inflation could be good too:
  1. if you learn how to dance with it.
  2. it makes people think.
Day 244 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
...and 44 push-ups. (20 - 14 - 10)
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Day 25 of horseposting everyday
Horse Stance: 2 minutes 32 seconds
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Doing a hike tomorrow steep uphills for about 8kms.
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I think this freebie was trying so hard to be toxic but in a helpful way in DMs to @DarthCoin, that @DarthCoin literally disappeared from SN instead of only never entering ~oracle again, lol
This freebie hopes he is coming back soon, too...
look at me, i am a freebie now
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no, it was once 300+ 👀
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@saloon every other day
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me having tea and eating helva:) any movie recommendations?
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Just a few days ago, I realized I have been wasting my sats on Domino's pizza all this time, while I could have just used another pizzeria (L'Osteria) that I knew people who have been living here way longer than me really like. It's bigger, better quality, closer but still cheaper and more personal. I can show how patient I can be since they can be quite busy but still be very nice and acknowledge that I have been waiting for longer than they initially told me. One time they were so busy, the guy taking orders and giving out orders to guest waiting on tables, he had to literally ask me if I already paid because he just couldn't tell anymore. I simply said no. He was happy since I just simply told him the truth and then I simply paid and asked him: "Busy day, eh?"
He looked at me, smiling: "Yeah, you could say that."
Then he didn't give me 5 cents of my change and said: "Something tells me you don't need these 5 pennies."
So there is even some personal social component going on with this place now :)
lol I guess I got what I deserved for not listening to @Natalia all this time :)
lol, I even still write your nym wrong sometimes
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Oh my goodness!
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saw it this morning:(
maybe stackers need to team up for more toxicity now that Darth is missing.
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@Natalia Darth is in the Zap.stream chat for SN live. Can tell he misses us.
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That cat!
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