Savings accounts are way up.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Best episode ever was 1875. He woke up late, unprepared, and fell back on a guided hypnosis session. Starts at ?t=744

He puts you under, delivers a generic payload and brings you back.

Disagree. I mostly tuned it out because I'm a bad candidate for hypnosis because I consciously oppose suggestion. I reject your suggestion and assert my own. That episode stood out to me as being particularly uninteresting and uninformative.

The episodes that stood out enough for me to give a thumbs up are 1861, 1817, 1794, 1415, 1016, and 799.

1415

stands out far and away for me as it persuaded me furthest from a position I previously held by expanding my awareness. The subject matter is "fairness". The interesting thing is that I still disagree with Scott's take on the specific subject of the talk, but agree with the broader concept.

... and that makes me realize the difference between Scott and me is that he tends to be disagreeable just to be disagreeable, and I tend to be disagreeable to suss out something pointed in a more true direction. Of course, our motivations overlap to a degree, but this is the distinction.

[freebeard]

All I know is I was hypnotised once and it went exactly like that, except I don't know what happened while I was under. This example was like a dry fire.

I have trouble keeping up to date, let alone six back episodes. Maybe I'll check the titles.

His constant straw-manning gets tiring.

[Tahoe_Hybrid]

Originally Posted by freebeard

So much for trustless transactions.

What infornamation did you have to give up to convert to physical metal?

none i paid in person at a local coin store

[freebeard]

Thanks. What do I need to know before walking into a coin store?

[freebeard]

I was thinking a few minutes ago that we need a Scott Adams thread. Because I was disagreeing....

?t=1185

But then he said that the USofA and Russia could bond over Outer Space.

?t=1737

I had a college professor in the 1960s speculating that in the future we might see politics being driven by the Strategic Air Command and the Soviet's air force colluding. Now here we are with Roscosmos and NASA bonding over [countering China in] Outer Space.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Thanks. What do I need to know before walking into a coin store?

That you won't get spot price either when converting dollars to metal or metal back to dollars. Expect to lose at least 5% both ways. You will lose more on coins than on bars or plain bullion rounds.

Remember that silver and gold are not money - they are industrial commodities that will go up and down with demand.

This should get you started:
https://www.gainesvillecoins.com/blo...y-silver-guide

[freebeard]

Thanks. I suspected there was some transactional friction, so it's only 5%?

All I know is that L. Frank Baum's silver slippers were changed to ruby.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Thanks. I suspected there was some transactional friction, so it's only 5%?

AT LEAST 5%. Today silver is at $19.91 per oz (down $0.46 today - down 2.25%)

Looking at the linked above

$22.30 for 1oz Buffalo rounds (12% premium)
$36.21 for a 1oz American Eagle (82% premium)

When I was buying silver 10 - 15 years ago junk pre-1965 90% silver coins (dimes, quarters, half dollars) were the cheap way to buy silver but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. $1 of 90% coins has .715 oz of silver

$100 of coins are $2203 so that is $30.8 per oz or a 55% premium.

Even generic bars bars have a 12% premium.

If you look at silver prices they haven't been been a hedge against inflation.

[freebeard]

Like I said: "only 5%?"

Thanks for the mid-course correction.

[Xist]

Ah, good, the Catbert author has his own home now.