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by Drbble 14y ago
There is an argument that the IPO buyers from the roadshow deserve a premium for buying in bulk at a predetermined price before they have the full information of the open market.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Why do non-HFT buyers or sellers deserve the spread any more than HFT buyers and sellers? They pay the same fees you do.
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by Drbble 14y ago
I think the rectangle illusion is created by the text that is vertically justified but not horizontally justified.
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by Drbble 14y ago
> I got into this through the work of a former colleague of mine at Harvard, Howard Berg. Berg got his Ph.D. with [Nobel Prize winner] Norman Ramsey Norman Ramsey is also the name of a much younger yet contemporaneous Harvard professor
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by Drbble 14y ago
I used his book in my class.
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by Drbble 14y ago
"I only had grainy black and white footage, how could I have known that it was a candy bar not a grenade?"
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by Drbble 14y ago
The US will just ban PCs like it banned chemistry sets.
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by Drbble 14y ago
What's the 17 for?
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by Drbble 14y ago
Why link to Forbes and not the original source?
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by Drbble 14y ago
You find you are going to spend that unneeded money on yourself, it is disingenuous to say you are retired.
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by Drbble 14y ago
And the rest of us define retired as not having to work to pay our bills. I like my job, but if I got hurt or laid off I would have trouble.
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by Drbble 14y ago
In high school I had a sweet apartment and great food and I got by on a minimum wage part-time job which truth be told was mostly funding luxuries. Everyone should just stay do that, find some parents to live with and retire.
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by Drbble 14y ago
None of them are rich.
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by Drbble 14y ago
My experience is the opposite. Rich people throw house parties. Poor people go to the bar.
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by Drbble 14y ago
OK then pay rent for an apartment for you and your kid to sit in while you never eat or do anything or seek medical attention. 20k/year
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by Drbble 14y ago
Why would a retiree need to keep their portfolio growing?
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by Drbble 14y ago
There is a reasonable line of thinking that the Internet and modern computer modeling and retail investing have had the effect of pricing in the future growth in equities, and so traditional growth will not continue.
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by Drbble 14y ago
With a spouse and two kids in tow?
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by Drbble 14y ago
Bonds should always pay more than inflation.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Maybe they will die quickly and cheaply when their problems are discovered too late. Beware the law of unintended consequences.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Maybe desktop computing is a solved problem and we don't need more native apps for Windows, and we can enjoy teaching fruits of decades of labor.
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by Drbble 14y ago
> but they lots of people on their payroll whose only job in life is to make sure nobody pays the price listed on those tags. I could run that whole arm of their business with one employee.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Quality is not the same as quantity.
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by Drbble 14y ago
You know who made out well on the FB IPO? People who sold in secondary markets pre-IPO on the hyped pricing.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Including two crashes.
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by Drbble 14y ago
There's a faith that eventually there will be a dividend payout or buyback, like Cook at Apple finally did. But most companies ride the rollercoaster until they crash.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Currency is a bit different from equity. Currency is a medium of exchange designed to smooth the trade of actually valuable things, not a store of value itself. A company is a (dynamic) store of value, that is supposed to generate valuable
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by Drbble 14y ago
Cool, but I don't read HN on the highway.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Depends if you have a fixed MB demand or a fixed time budget, doesn't it? Which is better when you are downloading a 4.6G ISO?
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by Drbble 14y ago
That's only at the dealership though, not in most marketing and conversations.

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