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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
We largely live in an inflation-free environment right now, so I just don't believe that argument necessarily, as I might have twenty years ago. 30 years of 1% inflation = 26% diminished buying power 30 years of 4% inflation = 70% dimi
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
This is why we in theory have regulations preventing uninformed traders from using options, which RH has effectively skirted around. RH is taking the same advantage that Juul got – free marketing and a lot of young people abusing the produc
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
Adjusted for probability, upside and downside are theoretically the same with options. > Unlike when purchasing long positions in stocks, when trading options it's possible to lose many times more money than you initially put in. Th
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
He’s talking about paying 5% interest to borrow leverage. That’s about the going rate.
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
In theory in a model where the government just prints it’s own expenditures, your taxes are in the form of inflation. The biggest issue with this aside from creating an unpredictable currency is that everyone’s effective tax rate would be t
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
For a dataset like this, Highcharts would be slower for sure since it will create DOM SVG components for each of the points. <canvas> (which this is built with) is much quicker at presenting tons and tons of data points like this.
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
"Boston strog" is how you would say "Boston Strong" if you had a cold, perhaps. Cute.
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by brockwhittaker 7y ago
You could also look at it the other way (the correct way): Service hasn't declined in airlines. If you spend the same on a ticket today as you would have had to in the 1970s to fly, you receive better service. That's because you&#
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by brockwhittaker 7y ago
> Increase pay/benefits to your rank and file employees for helping you get so much cash The auto industry did this through high wages and very large pension plans, and got absolutely destroyed in '08 and also demonized by taxp
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by brockwhittaker 7y ago
No, because dividends don't benefit from compounding stock prices. If you buy back your stock from 20 -> 80 a share vs. having paid out the same amount in dividends, the share buybacks yield a much greater income than dividends, whi
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by brockwhittaker 7y ago
Sure, but that still wasn't the best option. 1. We had the sharpest market drop in history . Models could predict this, but while this drop is say a 1 in 30 year event across all industries, this drop for certain sectors (like airline
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by brockwhittaker 7y ago
Sure — what are your other options if you have lots of cash? 1. Keep it in cash and get sub-inflationary levels on it, and perform poorly due to your lack of leverage. 2. Invest it in other market securities, effectively running some hedge
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by brockwhittaker 7y ago
COKE is not only a real thing, they’re also involved in bottling Coca Cola, so while they’re not financially the same company, they are inextricably related.
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Watch a live updated map of the Coronavirus infections across the world(flu.io)
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by brockwhittaker 7y ago
Here’s another chart that’s more mobile responsive: https://flu.io/
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by brockwhittaker 7y ago
I think people tend to think of "female" as a bit clinical of a term.
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by brockwhittaker 7y ago
> The problem is it'll take over $1 trillion to upgrade US drinking water infrastructure. That can't be possible — and I think estimation is way off. Even if there were a drinking fountain for every American (which I'm sur
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by brockwhittaker 7y ago
French numbers are actually quite easy though if you learn even a little bit of French. You don’t think of quatre-vingt dix as four-twenties ten, you just think of it as ninety just like in English. I suspect the same is true even for nativ
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by brockwhittaker 7y ago
Wow this happened to me when I was a teenager. Drove out to a mountain on what was a dirt road turned river bed. I had less luck, got stuck, and had a very panic-inducing experience leading to me hike a mountain to get reception to call 911
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by brockwhittaker 8y ago
Quick correction: Best Buy is doing very well. Very profitable, and up 3x in the past five years. As far as retail big-box goes, they're basically top of the pack.
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by brockwhittaker 8y ago
Sounds illegal/like a violation of TOS.
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by brockwhittaker 8y ago
Facebook made $48B in revenue last year. That's around $38/user (with much more coming from people in North America). Even $1/mo doesn't come close to covering it.
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by brockwhittaker 8y ago
I would normally agree but the difference could be around $5 each way for 250 work days a year. A few thousand dollars a year is quite a lot.
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by brockwhittaker 8y ago
Against TOS, this just further worsens the situation for newspapers. :(
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by brockwhittaker 8y ago
Portico Pay | San Francisco, CA | Onsite We raised money from General Catalyst and the Ex-CTO of Dropbox recently and have our first pilot customers. We're looking for a first full-time employee to join our team in South Park, San Fran
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by brockwhittaker 8y ago
Blockchain isn’t necessary. You can have a debit account system and change cents per article without the high friction cost of making people buy some cryptocurrency.
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by brockwhittaker 9y ago
There's some planning when skiing (for reference, I ski at A Basin yearly too; great place), but I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. Usually it's pretty easy to plan, esp. at A Basin to say, "meet at the midway restaura
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by brockwhittaker 9y ago
This doesn't account for SALT deductions it seems, which is a huge reason why instead of my bill going down by 10% or so, it goes up about 5%.
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by brockwhittaker 9y ago
Hey, I built this in my spare time over the past few days to calculate some of the basic implications of the new House and Senate Tax Bills on personal income taxes. This is open source and available on GitHub here: https://gith
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by brockwhittaker 9y ago
Sorry, I'm doing this while the new DNS info propagates to point it to a new server. My old server was too small and got crushed immediately. :(

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