ImTalking

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by ImTalking 11y ago
I don't understand this separation of individualised vices. What's the difference when society allows you to eat 10 large pizzas a night, become diabetic and obese, and the State will treat the diabetes? What's the difference
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Because saying "an innocent person being murdered by someone who..." doesn't make sense. What are they innocent of?
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Flip a coin... heads you go long, tails you go short. Limit your losses and ride the wins. You'll kill the market (until a perfect-storm meltdown event, of course). Nothing to do with Martingale.
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IMO, the market is only non-random due to trader herd-mentality. Everyone using the same software, same algorithms, trend-analysis, etc. If everyone's software says that this particular point is a resistance/support level, then th
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That's not the scenario. I'm saying what happens if you are the innocent one being falsely executed.
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I don't think you can. If on every trade you flip a coin, but intelligently limit your losses and ride your wins, you will beat every fund-manager on the planet. Nothing to do with smarts or algorithms. And even if you have good risk m
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The market is random and unpredictable when it's random and unpredictable. And it's the opposite when it's the opposite. There will always be a small segment of traders who will do well. Doesn't mean that they are the Or
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Wow. Unless, of course, YOU are the innocent person being executed. Then the comparison doesn't matter at all, doesn't it?
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All investment funds are a charade. The probability that a firm like Bridgewater exists with higher than average returns is not zero. Nothing about Bridgewater would indicate that they somehow 'get it' whilst the other funds don&#
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non-acquisition/merger growth.
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As a complete newbie about this stuff, I think that until we completely understand gravity we have no hope of understanding why the majority of universal mass is 'missing', if at all.
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He's the one who said to me "If you walk like a duck, quack like a duck, act like a duck, you are a duck" like he was the Oracle of Delphi.
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The only good sign for corporations is organic growth. Amazon has it right.
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I worked for IBM during the 80s at the height of IBM's power. It was the golden ticket. 400,000 employees and everyone was convinced it was going to hit $100B market cap. When I quit to form my own business, my 2nd line manager said &q
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Good article. Although the danger is that, if everyone is using this type of software, this creates a herd mentality whereby everyone is doing the same thing. The stock market only works correctly if there is diversity and independence of o
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I know nothing of your circumstances, but many schizophrenics gravitate to drugs to alleviate their symptoms. I very much like your sentence. "Keep the love and support going, and don't discount her not being a good sister in the
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You never want to be first in a market. You spend way too many resources educating the market, and you have no idea the size of the market. Especially if you have finite resources. Better to enter an established market with a better product
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Same ideas as the The Millionaire Next Door.
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With so much patting-yourself-on-the-back, I couldn't begin to tell you what you should do. Actually, my advise is to stop patting yourself on the back.
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Yes. http://cafehayek.com/2011/05/bennis-v-michigan-and-the-awful... is also good.
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It was never envisioned as a tool to dismantling organised crime. That use came later. It was originally created to allow the govt to seize assets of non-citizens where the laws of the US could not be used. For example, captured assets of f
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They'll need a diamond drill if they want to grind-up my toenails.
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As an entrepreneur, it took me a long time to realise that employees just don't care about the mission. They want to begrudgingly do their day's job, finish-up at 4:59PM, and then go home and do what they really want to do. They w
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I used OS/2 for some telephony software back in the 80s. I found the OS quite quick and robust, processes/threads very lightweight. Of course, then Linux appeared and changed everything for me.