Gunax

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by Gunax 6y ago
The real question is whether it would have been better or worse for the case if he actually had lost 700k.
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by Gunax 6y ago
The purpose is to give everyone an even chance, not necessarily to make every profession perfectly balanced. There are enough claims of sexism that I think it's reasonable to conclude there is at least some sexism present. If you elimi
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by Gunax 6y ago
It's an interesting thought. If we radically extended life (say to 1000 years), how would society change? Would people still want to marry? Would we pursue careers as aggressively? You could spend your first 80 years in school and stil
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by Gunax 6y ago
I suppose that's literally true, but living for a million years would be effectively immortal but is still no where close to heat-death-of-the-universe long.
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by Gunax 6y ago
Most scientists also thought it was crazy at first--surely there must be some simpler explanation than just conjuring up a new type of matter. But at this point, the dark matter theory is by far the most popular. There are a lot of reasons
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by Gunax 6y ago
This is the first time i've heard of individual investors beating the market. If some can do so consistently, shouldn't they be running a hedge fund instead of twiddling with their retirement?
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by Gunax 6y ago
I think you're absolutely correct. Stock picking is roughly a winner-take all game where you are facing off against incredibly smart and prepared people. Unfortunately, I have heard of several people[1] that have switched from passive
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by Gunax 6y ago
To the surprise of no one--the established, well-prepared and well-funded players out-compete Joe and Jane retailer investor. Everyone loves the David defeating Goliath at his own game narrative. I only worry that we are going to forget all
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by Gunax 6y ago
Would that also mean that encrypted (not hashed) PII is also personal information? It should not be retrievable (in theory and practice) without the key.
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by Gunax 6y ago
But how did you attain that wealth? Wealth is unspent income. You could have two individuals who earn $1000. But if one saves $1 and the other saves $100, then the latter is 100x wealthier. But is he really have 100x the lifestyle? No, one
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by Gunax 6y ago
The rule of thumb is that you can safely withdraw about 3% of you saving annually (same say 4%, some say 2.5%, depends on how risky you want to be). So estimate what you can save over 10 years and determine if you're willing (or capabl
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by Gunax 6y ago
My criticism has always been around the use of wealth as the indicator. I believe it is chosen instead of income primarily because: 1. It's perhaps easier to determine than income (especially for the ultra-wealthy, who often have negat
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by Gunax 6y ago
I want my 31 cents back.
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by Gunax 6y ago
I was auto-banned from WSB for 72 hours for mentioning AMC on Tuesday.
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by Gunax 6y ago
Folks, let's assume that the Twitter mod saw this and did not classify it as child porn. How can a twitter mod decide if it's child porn (as opposed to just 'porn')? I am not sure there is a proper solution for this. How
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by Gunax 6y ago
The thing about titles is that they often give a summary. Of course it does not tell the whole story--but I don't think it's misleading nor do I think it's crap.
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by Gunax 6y ago
I thought space is international water.
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by Gunax 6y ago
I agree that skepticism is necessary, but it's likely a lot less logical than that. They probably tripped some algorithm. This happened last year to podcast-addict (one of the most popular applications in Google's Android store) [
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by Gunax 6y ago
In reality a bad year is just a bad year, and many investors are (imo perfectly rationally) expect the market to return to normal soon. The 'investor class' often gets derided for being short-sighted, but this is nonsense. In re
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by Gunax 6y ago
No, it's not that they don't have their own machinery per se. It's that their life-ness depends on the context they are found in. So on Earth, shower-caddys are non-living because there is not a machine which replicates them.
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by Gunax 6y ago
Counterpoint: If viruses are alive then anything can be alive, given that some machine exists which would make copies of it. ie. if there was a shower-caddy copying machine, then suddenly shower-caddies could be alive. In a world with a
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by Gunax 6y ago
Yes it was wrong! I used the 'gameboy programming manual' which was sort of the magnum opus of gameboy documentation at the time that was available to the fan community. I am googling it now, and there are some forum posters sayin
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by Gunax 6y ago
I also wrote a gameboy emulator a few years ago... But I disagree about it being fun. The truth is it's rather tedious. There are 256 opcodes you will need to create. Each has certain flags you will need to check that change it's
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by Gunax 6y ago
I don't think this is such a big deal. Competitors often co-operate around things that are important to the whole industry. Major banks are competitors, but if they didn't co-operate we would not be able to ACH or wire money to ac
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by Gunax 6y ago
In 2008, Facebook was hailed as tool for democracy. Then Americans democratically chose someone that the creators of Facebook didn't like. Now it's a 'doomesday' tool apparently.
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by Gunax 6y ago
There is one thing I've noticed about RTS: every player seems to think they are awful at the game. This seems to be the opposite of most games, where players tend to overestimate their skill. This actually keeps a lot of players from e
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by Gunax 6y ago
I am not sure how this would work. For instance, what animals would it have to be tested on? This time it was Salmon in puget sound, but next time it could be geese in Alberta, or lizards in Argentina. It just seems like too big of a probl
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by Gunax 6y ago
You're right about the economics of it, but I think seibelj is discussing something else. To give a goofy analogy: if it turned out that space travel was mostly gimmicky and used to cheat people, that would not undo the great technical
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by Gunax 6y ago
I have doubts that it will fix the problem. It's not just drugs that these cartels control--it's kidnapping, avocados, cross-border smuggling, etc. It's possible the violence might actually increase, actually.
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by Gunax 6y ago
Sometimes arguing about where the line should be drawn necessitates establishing that there exists a line. By mentioning child porn, he/she shows that there is actually a line and now we can discuss where it should lie.

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