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by auc 2y ago
I use VSCode + Copilot. For anything more than boilerplate code, I find that Copilot kind of sucks and I use O1 in ChatGPT
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by auc 2y ago
You say this, but their share prices are pretty much straight lines up the last 10 years (other than a short lived dip during Covid).
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by auc 2y ago
For confused readers, this is a reference to the movie American Psycho
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by auc 2y ago
Yeah, I personally take the view that any really important news will find me anyways
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by auc 2y ago
Insanely snappy on mobile, very cool
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by auc 2y ago
Title is missing a “to” between “way” and “finance”. It makes a bunch of assumptions in the first paragraph that just aren’t true.
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by auc 2y ago
If you assume coin tosses are independent, it shouldn’t matter if you miss coin tosses.
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by auc 2y ago
This lacks some context. Gukesh took Ding out of prep bc Gukesh prepped for 7 months, while Ding prepped for 3 weeks and basically wanted to retire from chess. Ding would be out of prep by move 8 as white and be an hour down on time very co
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by auc 2y ago
Apple products are not commodity, because there is very little fungibility due to network effects. Maybe their hardware is commodity (arguable), but the product + integrations are not.
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by auc 2y ago
You might be microsleeping https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/work-hour-training-for-nurses/long... . “The human brain can respond to sleep deprivation by reducing alertness and generating microsleeps – involuntary episodes
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by auc 2y ago
Sad to see blatant racism on HN
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by auc 2y ago
The Das keyboard has a volume knob that’s pretty nice
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by auc 2y ago
A consumption tax can avoids some of the ills of this - it is undodgeable for the wealthy (unless they commit fraud) and it is very progressive
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by auc 2y ago
I would recommend listening to the Acquired podcast episode on Hermes. While the bag is very “overpriced”, they are genuinely the highest quality bags on the market in basically every important dimension.
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by auc 2y ago
I use some mix of Obsidian and Notion. Obsidian for storing raw information and connections, and Notion for my to-dos/trips/lists.
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by auc 3y ago
> I also think short selling is a net negative and should be banned right along side insider trading How would you incentivize people to find fraudulent companies like Enron?
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by auc 3y ago
This is subtly incorrect. An American option should be priced assuming that the option is optimally exercised, otherwise this would create a soft arbitrage opportunity. The difficulty is determining when the option is optimally exercised be
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by auc 4y ago
If you want to make an app that is very lucrative, the Bloomberg terminal is the one to beat, not thinkorswim. The Bloomberg terminal is the standard in the trading world and it already has many shortcuts. It's been good enough for ove
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by auc 5y ago
Great post, unfortunate you had to deal with this
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by auc 5y ago
Hey, thanks for the note! Would you mind linking me to a resource that would go into ERISA and it's effects on a 401K (or perhaps an example of what I would be protected from)? The IRS website is pretty vague on what the implications a
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by auc 5y ago
Thanks for the pointer! I see that I was incorrect above. I added this to the page :)
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by auc 5y ago
Might just be the nature of internet communication, but your comments are coming off as not in a good nature and are a bit misinformed. This will be my last reply. Vanguard has this stuff across many different webpages managed by different
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by auc 5y ago
I think your comment is pretty mean spirited. The usefulness is in the summary - I do not think you can find a high level overview of these accounts in one place elsewhere. If you do, let me know. You say "What pisses me off is no one
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by auc 5y ago
Yes, I am the writer of this. Thanks for the pointers! About the "pre-tax" and "post-tax" terminology, you are right, I should change "post-tax" to refer to when distributions are tax-free. I had to keep the ta
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by auc 5y ago
Actually, it seem you are right. If BBB passed, they would close the loophole at end of year. The 10 year rule applies to a traditional -> roth conversion to high income earners.
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by auc 5y ago
Yes, the BBB plan would close the backdoor loophole, but that's if it passes and it would be closed 10 years from now.
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by auc 5y ago
You can completely avoid this by doing a backdoor roth ira though.
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by auc 5y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/retirement/04/042804.a... "If you contributed to a Roth when you made too much to qualify—or if you contributed more than you’re allowed to either IRA—you’ve made an
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Tax Advantaged Accounts(andrewucho.com)
42 points by auc 5y ago|32 comments
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by auc 5y ago
Binance _is_ allowed in the US. They have a special US facing website.

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