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by jsight 7y ago
Yeah, I've had this discussion before. I'm not convinced that its any worse than a base 3 series, but I'm also not convinced that a base 3 series is a luxury car. Sure, its a premium with premium perforance, but its not &quot
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by jsight 7y ago
After I wrote that, it occurred to me that there is another counterargument. If cash-on-hand decreases along with the inflation of earnings-per-share, the business value doesn't really increase. I have always assumed that shareholders
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by jsight 7y ago
That's sensible, but there is a lot of fear right now. People are afraid that the recession will be strong enough to cause people to cut services. Similarly, Google is advertising driven. The value of advertising can drop during a rece
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by jsight 7y ago
I do not understand why that would happen. Wouldn't they inflate the earnings per share, resulting in a permanently higher share price (all else being equal)?
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by jsight 7y ago
I'm not the person you are replying to, but either way, thank you for that post. That is an element that I've never thought of in that way and I can see where it presents a problem. I will add that in general I am not fond of the
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by jsight 7y ago
I think his point is that buybacks should be no more relevant than dividends. This pop-culture meme that "dividends are irrelevant" is not unique to dividends at all.
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by jsight 7y ago
I agree, and I think Apple is an example of a company that uses debt in a perfectly sensible way. My fear is that these debt fueled buybacks actually create perverse incentives among options holders who have a lot to gain from short term ga
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by jsight 7y ago
I'm not sure of your point here? Presumably Tesla's capital position is still significantly smaller than VW? I do not know this, though, as I am not as familiar with VW's capital structure. TBH, I'm more worried about wh
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by jsight 7y ago
Honestly, your point is valid except for the part about special treatment. From what I've heard, window tint shops are staying open too based upon the same exemption. Its a confusing time and the regulators haven't fully thought t
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by jsight 7y ago
I was with you until that last bit. Its not fair to describe Tesla's buyers as only buyers of "luxury electric sports cars" at this point.
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by jsight 7y ago
Or they may have higher margins. Hand sanitizer isn't exactly expensive.
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by jsight 7y ago
If you think that's bad, think of all the people doing medical work that is physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting right now.
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by jsight 7y ago
I was thinking the same thing. There are a lot of people who would gladly take this work right now.
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by jsight 7y ago
The company that they supposedly tried to buy it from has said that was a lie spread by others.
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by jsight 7y ago
With the cars, I've come to the realization that most people just don't realize how hard it is or how many people have tried. I'm a big fan of the car industry and have looked at many of the past attempts (eg, Tucker, Brickli
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by jsight 7y ago
Honestly, I use a pi 3b as a router/firewall and it works pretty well for up to ~90 Mbs of traffic. That is just enough for me right now. Its an unexpected use case, but it is much more stable and flexible than a lot of "better&qu
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by jsight 7y ago
I wouldn't bet on "solid" evidence for a while. Hang around the /r/covid19 subreddit for the latest data. There have been very few reported cases of someone getting it again and of those a lot of evidence points to
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by jsight 7y ago
I remember when people complained that cable wasn't à la carte. Now we complain that streaming services are à la carte. Its a fun cycle.
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by jsight 7y ago
That isn't really relevant to the problem they were working around. The problem is that many firewalls block outbound ports other than port 80, 443, and some other very common ports. Put another way, if both sides block 80 incoming, th
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by jsight 7y ago
How fast can it do with without native support? EDIT: Seems like >700 Mbps is possible with the pi4. Not bad, IMO: https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/comments/d8k605/gigabit_w...
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by jsight 7y ago
I don't know who you are wanting to be "fair" to here. The stronger evidence seems to be on the side immunity.
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by jsight 7y ago
Oh, I understand what you are saying now. I think the issue is that government officials aren't comfortable defining an endpoint right now. There are a lot of unknowns as to what could stop the spread at this point.
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by jsight 7y ago
A common definition of recession is a decline in GDP lasting for 2 consecutive quarters. It seems likely for this to cause a decline in GDP in Q1 and Q1 at a minimum, so a recession seems inevitable. I do think there will be a point when go
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by jsight 7y ago
I actually really hope someone does check back in a couple of months and see if people still think their gloominess about financial matters was warranted.
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by jsight 7y ago
I wouldn't say that sticking with savings accounts is an invalid strategy. If you have enough money, many strategies are viable. If you are struggling to stay within a "safe" withdrawal rate of 2-3%, you may find that equitie
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by jsight 7y ago
Honestly, that is always the mentality of the market. Its going up with no top in sight! The next day its going down with no bottom in sight! Except that bottoms have more natural barriers than tops.
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by jsight 7y ago
How do you know that they are being optimistic? Honestly, they know no more than any of us. Now is basically just as good of a time to buy as any time in the last 10 years.
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by jsight 7y ago
I agree with you in the sense that the debt was primarily a tax optimization strategy for them. However, I still see it as a bit of a problem. I think it is partially a symptom of a market that has become too focused on a single metric (P&#
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by jsight 7y ago
It is common to maintain a significant amount in equities well into retirement. Due to low interest rates, it sometimes is the only valid strategy. The key is to maintain a mix that allows for short to medium term fluctuations in the market
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by jsight 7y ago
IMO, its a very good time. I'd suggest spacing the investments out over a period of time (maybe 2-3 months), though. If it keeps going down for a while, this will lower your total cost of purchasing shares. Obviously the downside is th

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