Everyone knows students need as much help as possible to function. I’m not even talking about work or college; I’m just talking about existing in general. All the stereotypes are true; they don’t eat enough, don’t sleep enough, drink far too much caffeine and alcohol, and even indulge in the odd narcotic or seventeen. Occasionally they just need to wave the white flag and head home to their parents to get square meal and a…
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Today’s contemporary world is a bit of a conundrum; a lot of things are meant to simply your life, when in fact, they complicate it. Online banking for instance. I can’t help but think it was just easier when you went through a normal person to do that kind of stuff. In fact, a lot of things which have been supposedly simplified online simply end up being a whole pile of new annoyances. How refreshing…
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Bitcoin is a digital cryptocurrency that can be transferred to anyone in the world, from anywhere in the world. It was created for the burgeoning world of internet commerce, to avoid relying on a shady and inevitable corrupt central regulating authority to handle transfers and creation. Ironically, that very maneuver has furnished Bitcoin as a somewhat shady operation in and of itself, especially when it’s described as ‘cryptocurrency’; though sinister undertones abound, all that phrase…
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There’s a lot of things that the internet has improved; communication being the big one, enabling us to connect instantaneously with folks around us. But there are other areas too, niche areas (no, not those kinds of niche areas) for which the net has provided a better, faster system. One of those is gambling. Even before the dawn of the virtual age, gambling was big business; it ranks as one of the oldest and longest…
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