Posts by Raymond Wilson10

ironcyclist58 said:When you say "necessary," do you think Transferwise is actually forcing your hand, or are you just trying to stay on the right side of the law?

The second one, I guess. If I'm moving money through Transferwise into a private bank account, I just don't want to run into any stupid problems.

Hey there!
Do I actually need to report a Transferwise account to the IRS or something similar? Especially if I'm using it to receive payments from overseas?

Hey there,

I'm looking to pick up a multimedia laptop, ideally staying under $600. I've narrowed it down to these three options, but I'm definitely open to other suggestions if you guys know something better.

Thanks!

Adam Richardson3 said:why wouldn't this spill over into real life on 4chan or Reddit🤷 when you can basically write whatever you want here? I’d go as far as saying 99% of the people on this forum are just regular folks. Can you honestly imagine some jerk from IBM sitting at home, firing up his computer, and spending his time typing away on a forum?
I really can't. 🤷
In my view, all the insults and threats thrown around here are harmless and won't escalate into anything serious.
Now, obviously, I'm not suggesting we should allow death threats or threats of physical violence. There have to be boundaries.
But getting banned just because I call someone an idiot in a chat, they fire back with something similar, and then everything goes back to normal—to me, that feels like unnecessary sterilization of how humans actually communicate.

I think you missed my point. I get that there are people who can brush off that kind of talk and won't lose their minds if someone calls them stupid. The issue lies with the people who can't handle it; once you push their buttons, they don't care about whether they get sanctioned or not, they just want to find out where you live and settle the score personally.

And yeah, those kinds of people definitely exist on this forum.

There was an attempt at a thread like this before, and honestly, everyone saw exactly how that went south. The real issue is that people don't seem to know where to draw the line. It’s one thing to argue online, but it becomes a massive problem when things spill off the forum and turn into personal vendettas, looking for fights in real life, or straight-up threats. We really don't need that kind of 🤷

Thanks to the mod for shutting this thread down 🙂

Shout out to the one who claimed they were going to close this whole thing because of me, only for everything to turn out completely different in the end 😍

I guess I should probably write some poetry about it, but I honestly have no clue how you're even supposed to do that 🕺

So, what, now he’s going to just transfer the deed over to you in the name of "maintaining good family ties"? 🤔

canvas easel😁

Does anyone have any recommendations for a monitor under $300? I’d prefer an Apple, but I guess it's not a dealbreaker if there's something better out there.

Where can I pick up some cheap filler? I don't necessarily need top-tier quality, just something to get me through the year while I'm staying at home...

Jacob Foster11 said:Here's another geometry problem for you guys.
What is the area of the shape under the function graph
f(x) = x^2 + 1
on the interval from -1 to 1?

EDIT:
So, the shape is bounded by these:
y = x^2 + 1
y = 0
x = -1
x = 1

integral(x^2+1) from -1 to 1 = 8/3

Unless I messed something up and did some stupid math..