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by hristov 10y ago
Don't use a leveraged ETF. You really get screwed on the leverage. You lose much more when it goes against you win when it goes in your favor. If you think the markets will recover just buy an index following ETF. If you want high leve
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by hristov 10y ago
It seems that the biggest beneficiary at this point is Turkey. Make Turkey great again???
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by hristov 10y ago
Correlation is not always causation but it can be and it is usually very strong evidence against the presence of opposite forces of causation. If higher minimum wages actually cause unemployment (as minimum wage opponents often argue) then
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by hristov 10y ago
Well the thing is that the roboadviser is not even intended to make particular security picks. It is only supposed to decide which broad areas to invest in and what percentage for each area. Thus, the roboadviser can say that for your parti
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by hristov 10y ago
I agree with most of this, except for the stuff on robo-advisors. You should be very careful about those. First of all their fees are too high. Wealthfront's 0.25% fee seems rather small and it is smaller than what a lot of human advis
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by hristov 10y ago
Great now I have a mental image of Usain Bolt sprinting next to a Tesla production line with a wrench in hand trying to tighten a bolt.
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by hristov 10y ago
Fructose is a hallmark of primate diet. Refined fructose is not. The only refined fructose in the wild is honey and that is way too rare and too well defended to be the hallmark of anyone's diet (other than honeybees, of course). Human
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by hristov 10y ago
If you have signed a pollination contract to provide 100 beehives for a commercial orchard and your colonies keep dying then in order to be sure you can perform your contract and not incur damages, you will make sure you have more than 100
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by hristov 10y ago
It seems that the ancient Thrace might be among the oldest civilization known to humanity and the current view that the cradle of modern civilization is in modern day Iraq may not be entirely correct. It should be noted that in addition to
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by hristov 10y ago
The reason for this is deflation. Deflation in our economy is massive and far under-reported. Deflation is especially great in areas where productivity is rising. The way economists measure productivity is by the monetary value of the thing
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by hristov 10y ago
One interesting factoid that the new york times did not mention is that while it was common for emperors to resign before the meiji restoration, a lot of those resignations probably were not voluntary. The Japanese emperors are the longest
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by hristov 10y ago
Please warn us if something is paywalled.
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by hristov 10y ago
Hampton Creek are flat out dishonest. They have a product that is not mayonnaise, but they call it mayo. Furthermore, their product does not include any eggs but they had a huge image of an egg dominate their entire label. The entire produc
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by hristov 10y ago
Hate to break it to you but your dealer does not give a fuck about your health. It is extremely difficult for the police to find the dealer of a dead person, and then very difficult to prove the elements needed for a murder charge. The poli
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by hristov 10y ago
The natural sugar that is in milk is lactose and that is not really a problem (as long as you are not lactose intolerant of course). The problematic sugar is refined fructose. That is the stuff cannot be properly processed by the body and c
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by hristov 10y ago
I am not sure what happened in this situation, but I have to warn any HNers that have teslas or might get behind the wheel of one -- do not rely on the autopilot!!! If you are using the autopilot you must be in a heightened sense of alert,
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by hristov 10y ago
The content is not infringing. There is a fair use exception to trademark law to protect product criticism, works of art, irony, etc. You cannot use trademark law to silence all criticism of your organization.
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by hristov 10y ago
After the whole brexit fiasco i do not want to hear about the wisdom of crowds.
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by hristov 10y ago
You are right ... but there are two things to consider: 1. New buildings are usually aimed towards the higher end of the market. New buildings tend to be more expensive, because building loans have to be repaid, so they tend to aim for high
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by hristov 10y ago
And of course couple of minutes after I made my point about my second comment being downvoted, the downvotes were reversed and that comment was upvoted instead.
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by hristov 10y ago
I think my comment was not rude but merely common sense. If I see a commercial for laundry detergent on TV and they compare their product with another laundry detergent, the company doing the advertising will surely have a description of th
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by hristov 10y ago
So I did put in another comment that was in an overwhelmingly positive tone and that one got downvoted as well. And no they have not released the script. So I guess it was not about the tone.
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by hristov 10y ago
Wow this is all fascinating! If it is not too much trouble, would you mind releasing the script that you used in your testing so that independent parties may verify your results.
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by hristov 10y ago
Ok I will try asking nicer, and see if I get the script.
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by hristov 10y ago
So Microsoft is great based on some secret data that we have no access to. Which microsoft collects from my computer without my knowledge. And it is all collected by their opaque closed source os. But hey they may be right. Nothing stops th
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by hristov 10y ago
So where is your script? Or are we just supposed to trust you?
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by hristov 10y ago
You want to know why women are trying to exit tech? -- read today's dilbert cartoon (Jun 17). In it Dilbert proudly proclaims that he does not take vacations and anyone that takes vacations is a loser with a bad career. This kind of sh
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by hristov 10y ago
This is a really bad and superficial article. They try to dismiss the idea of a sonic boom as a product of the imagination of a crazy environmentalist. But the sonic boom is a well documented and completely uncontroversial fact. Then they t
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by hristov 10y ago
I don't think the issue is availability of shipping lanes. I think the issue is that they will be no longer economical to operate those ships when the new panama canal will allow ships that have twice the useful load to go through.
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by hristov 10y ago
He was a mechanical engineer with some experience with autocad. I have to say this is still something the average person would not be able to do. I never learned autocad or ME, but I do remember my ME buddies from college taking their requi

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