Breza

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by Breza 3y ago
It's not a book, but Advanced Investments from The Great Courses starts at the basics and gets into the weedy details of bond pricing, etc.
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I have a similar outlook. If the stock market starts losing against inflation over my time horizon (several decades) then we have bigger problems. There will be recessions in the future. I'll keep tossing money into index funds through
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If you're investing a chunk of every paycheck, you'll keep plowing money into the index fund through every dip, which historically makes up for the money you add at peaks. You can spend a few years derisking as you approach retire
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Wow, that's a lot of "Scam or Other Issues"
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You have to trust that the restaurant where you're having lunch will accept BTC as payment. In reality, using Bitcoin requires the same trust-based infrastructure as everything else because the only way to buy anything with it is to tr
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All those levels of infrastructure already run on code. There's no tech reason that Robinhood can't sell you stock that it holds. The FTX situation shows you why they aren't allowed to do that.
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I think you're right. I've been active on Reddit for years. It has always been a fractious collection of niche communities. It can be hard for an outsider to navigate. For all our complaining that Reddit is turning its back on its
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> The network effects of subreddits plus the fact that they usually own the default name for a topic grant a lot of subs effective monopolies. That's often the case, but not always. A bad mod can drive people to an alternate subs. A
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by Breza 3y ago
Well said! I saw a chart on r/dataisbeautiful a few years ago showing that a small percentage of Reddit users ever comment or post. Most people just read content. I topped the front page a couple of times and I used to moderate a defau
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Oh hey, that was basically my job! After getting out of grad school, I worked overnight for an HHS contractor writing media summaries for the Secretary. Every night, we would gather all the news stories about the topics HHS told us they wan
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by Breza 3y ago
Coinbase tried to be the good guy in crypto. They lost money. Then they tried to be the good guy with a sideline in shitcoins. They lost money. No matter how this case winds up, Coinbase is in a terrible financial position. If you were a Wa
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I agree. For comparison, here's how the Web was going as the WWW white paper approached its fifteenth birthday. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2005/03/06/part-2-the-r...
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>bypassing capital controls with cryptos does not necessarily mean breaking the law Can you cite an example where evading capital controls is legal?
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What an elegant description! I completely agree with you. Back in 2013, I looked at the massive number of financial middlemen on Wall Street and thought Bitcoin (or a future blockchain) could help lubricate the system. It took a few years f
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Years of litigation. Some people think they're hoping for Congress to intervene and moot the case.
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Sounds like you're advocating for Matt Levine's "Certificate of Dumb Investment" proposal. The fact that so many retail investors have been scammed by crypto gives support to the current regime, but I think there's
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I think the key is for each platform to have consistent rules that allow users to decide if they want to engage. Reddit is an extreme example, where every sub is allowed to make its own rules. Want to delete any content using the letter &#x
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I miss Nat Hentoff. Free Speech for Me--But Not for Thee feels prophetic now.
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> A workman could check the stone size himself by seeing if the stone would fit into his mouth.
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> I think if commute time was even partially employer-paid we would see a much more honest evaluation of the pros and cons of remote vs office-based work. Companies do have to pay for their office space. My employer did not review our le
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I agree. Even people who live in big cities have greater flexibility in finding a job without having to uproot the family. I live in Washington DC. A few years ago, I interviewed for a job in a different country. I think it's better fo
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Reminds me of a tactic I tried with telemarketing scams when on paternity leave. I got so many calls like "Your Social Security Number is about to be revoked" that I developed an entire persona with a name, address, SSN, income, d
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If that's important to you (as it is me) then I encourage you to seek a denomination that fits your values.
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Same here! Cry/play rooms can be awesome.
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Our church has a play room with a TV tuned to the livestream. My toddler can make it to the sermon and then heads for the play room. Honestly, it's pretty nice to kick back in a comfy room and play with my daughter while still attendin
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Agreed! I also recommend Grokking Algorithms for a friendly overview. There are also some great topic-specific books, such as Who's #1? and In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman.
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Same here. Typos bother me. Rather than complaining, I just submit a PR to fix particularly egregious ones.
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What's stopping you? I've worked on the technical side of implementing opt-outs in email newsletters. If you screw it up, you get spam complaints. That's the incentive to do it right.
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Two quotes from the link you provided. > In total, both the French and UK governments put in $1.44bn to get Concorde off the ground. $2.8bn went into realizing the world's first mass supersonic transport. > At the end of it all,
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Fifteen years is a long time in software but a blink of an eye in the world of infrastructure. A decade of Starship development has created a missile that blows up when launched. I'm sure they'll eventually get to orbit, but they&

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