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by j_lev 11y ago
C'mon srj's suggestion isn't that bad. I'd be tempted to put it into REITs. The main thing you want to avoid is having your investment move in the opposite direction to house prices. If the REIT goes down then it'
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by j_lev 11y ago
Good one. Forgot about this one. Intelligent Investor is good too as per other commenter but I find that it's quite hard reading for a beginner.
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by j_lev 11y ago
In typical chicken-egg fashion there is no better teacher than having skin in the game, but just make sure you know what you're doing before you jump in. Personally I tend to encourage people to read Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
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by j_lev 11y ago
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/anil.kashyap/research/papers... this recent summary is the best I have seen in the last couple of days.
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by j_lev 11y ago
Looking forward to seeing how technology renders this law ineffective.
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by j_lev 11y ago
Essentially the assumption that prices are set efficiently does not hold for FX. Errors in pricing can occur, and when there is an arbitrage opportunity and a market maker loses money then it is assumed (possibly) due to a pricing error whi
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by j_lev 11y ago
Doesn't take into account the fact that FX is "last look" for the provider of the liquidity and so any one of the transactions along the way could be rejected. In fact even if the trade wasn't rejected at the time of tra
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by j_lev 11y ago
I've found that whether they mean it or not, friends are often good for a place to crash until you actually need it. There's always a reason they can't let you stay.
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by j_lev 11y ago
Any chance you could put together a video of yourself explaining to people you were homeless? You seemed to get really good responses from people, and I'm intrigued as to whether there was something special about the way you presented.
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by j_lev 11y ago
Absolutely. Even today, you can't compare it to other markets where execution takes place on an exchange. "Honor among thieves" is the expression that comes to mind when talking about FX.
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by j_lev 11y ago
The entire article is all over the place. > But what if the security blows up? Investors could demand their collateral back, forcing renters out of their homes, even if they never missed a payment. "We could well end up in that situ
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by j_lev 11y ago
YNAB. The developers are a bit accounting-nerdy, and it has lots of graphs/etc which I think would appeal to the HN crowd. It's also very flexible. One example I can think of, my friend installed it on his wife's smartphone s
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by j_lev 11y ago
Hi - thanks for sharing and congratulations - sounds like you've made things work. > I spent Fridays working on a cool idea my brother and I had. That idea proved useful enough to pay the bills so I quit my job. Regarding this, it s
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Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide(fourhourworkweek.com)
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by j_lev 11y ago
It's as hard for the person with the dark colour as it is for everyone else. Most people are reasonable if you ask them to change their colour, too. Otherwise you can kick them between rounds.
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by j_lev 11y ago
Oh crap I just realised I had the wrong parent for this. Sincerely sorry for the confusion.
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by j_lev 11y ago
In the original post Patrick already touched on the Japan case, but one thing I'd add is that one of the pieces of paperwork you must hand to your new employer is your final tax slip from your previous employer showing how much tax you
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by j_lev 11y ago
Singapore's sovereign wealth funds Temasek and to a lesser extent GSIC have been going on a bit of a tech buying spree in recent months. If you're a tech startup in the region looking for funding these guys would be your first por
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by j_lev 11y ago
Meanwhile I'm geeking out over the number of things Ghostery blocked on the site. 38 - that'd have to be a record.
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by j_lev 11y ago
These days you'd just be suspended and accused of sexual harassment. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/11/living/6-year-old-suspende...
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by j_lev 11y ago
Yeah, I just finished writing mine and was thinking the same thing. The bad points for me were 1) I completely decimated my savings, 2) I had no health insurance and didn't realise why this was a bad thing, 3) I got frustrated at times
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by j_lev 11y ago
I lived in a van for about nine months while traveling around Japan. I lived primarily off savings, though I worked for three weeks at a beer garden over the summer, two weeks washing dishes at the Sumo in Tokyo and did some consulting work
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by j_lev 11y ago
I am saying that if you're a self-styled market maker but only bidding for the 99.9% of the time when the market isn't in free-fall then the "social utility" claim is dubious. People who place stop-loss orders would not
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by j_lev 11y ago
> Market-making also delivers real social utility. The deeper the liquidity provided by market makers, the more difficult it is to cause erratic spikes in price. Market makers also reduce the bid-ask spread, a concept most people aren’t
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by j_lev 11y ago
This has always been my approach too. I'd add that if they make suggestions (eg "You should read xxxxx book") then the best thing you can possibly do at that stage is go out, read the book or whatever, come back and tell them
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by j_lev 11y ago
> I actually do not think japan is a very nice country. By the way, I've heard that Japan is a very nice country. Most of the "conversation" was about this level.
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by j_lev 12y ago
Put another way, it's taking advantage of light hours in the morning that are otherwise wasted sleeping. In Tokyo it's light outside from 4am in Summer, if you can instead have an hour of that in the evening then that's an ex
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by j_lev 12y ago
I used to work at a phone company in Australia. DST was the pits. Think a five minute call where the caller drives across state lines, from a DST-observant state to a non-observant state. Timestamps come from the base station through which
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by j_lev 12y ago
Japan has had polyurethane condoms as standard for at least 15 years (indeed there is the stereotype of foreigners stocking up on latex ones whenever they go home). Polyurethane is definitely superior in many regards, but they are less stre
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by j_lev 12y ago
If those prices are 1982 prices then you can multiply by about 2.5 to find out what they'd be today.

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