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by nickles 7y ago
> ETF decay is real and always has been. You're better off shorting an inverse ETF than buying and holding SPX. This is bad advice. Entering a short position requires paying interest on the borrowed shares, which may consume any dec
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by nickles 7y ago
> SPY yield today is 1.9% That's dividend yield. If all companies stopped issuing dividends and instead spent the money on buybacks, you'd have a 0% dividend yield, but the same amount of money would be returned to shareholders
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by nickles 7y ago
ETFs allow for liquidation any time during trading hours. Mutual funds typically only allow withdrawal once a day using closing marks. ETFs are also structured more efficiently for taxation purposes than mutual funds.
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I had to switch to Chrome after Firefox caused my computer (macOS Mojave, 2012 MBP Retina) to freeze to the degree of requiring restart every few days. Even when it didn’t freeze the entire machine, the browser itself would lock up a few ti
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by nickles 7y ago
For anyone unfamiliar, a job guarantee is a proposal of Modern Monetary Theory. Although the validity of MMT has neither been established nor disproven explicitly, it relies on, among other things, the ability of a nation to print its own c
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by nickles 7y ago
> Hypothetically, a member of the Class of 2019 with $50,000 in loans would owe about $550 per month over the next decade -- or $20 daily. (Assuming 6% annual interest and a 10-year term.) This article misrepresents the nature of student
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by nickles 7y ago
I missed the breakdown of growth rates in your original source, seeing only the absolute incidences, but I think we're in agreement. It looks like growth in youth type 1 diabetes was reported at 1.8%, while growth in type 2 diabetes wa
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The referenced article studied individuals aged 12 to 30. Additionally, while both type 1 and type 2 diabetes rates among youths are rising, type 2 diabetes is becoming more common in that group. [0] https://link.springer.com&#x2
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by nickles 7y ago
The referenced article studied individuals aged 12 to 30. Additionally, while type 1 and type 2 diabetes rates among youths are rising, type 2 diabetes is becoming more common in that group. [0] https://link.springer.com/art
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by nickles 7y ago
Although I agree with you that the article misunderstands the problem, I'm not sure it's the cost of insulin that's the issue. Of all diabetics in the United States, ~3% have type 1 diabetes. It looks like 90-95% have type 2
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by nickles 7y ago
> Physicians could diagnose patients just fine since before the days of Papyrus Eber, but the treatment options were very limited. Can you elaborate on this? Until germ theory and lesion theory, western medicine lacked the concept of eti
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by nickles 8y ago
> Not under any definition of public transit I've heard From source [3], as provided above: >> The taxi should not be viewed as antagonistic to public transport, people who use taxis are in general 'public transport users
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> Ubers have been shown to increase vehicle miles driven As other comments have said, the effects on congestion are controversial [0][1]. > which in turn means a decline in the use of public transit Not necessarily. If a trip would no
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by nickles 8y ago
It appears the paper was published two years before the partnership began. There's also no disclosure in the paper that Uber provided any funding (for whatever that's worth). [0] https://asunow.asu.edu/20181031-asu
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by nickles 8y ago
> It’s well established that Uber and lyft INCREASE the amount of cars >> Our findings provide evidence that after entering an urban area, ride-sharing services such as Uber significantly decrease traffic congestion time, congestio
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> Taxis, Ubers, trucks and cars owned by people who opt to pay hundreds of dollars a month in parking are who will be taxed. Given the unusability of our streets, this seems closer to an economic reckoning than a political money grab. Ta
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by nickles 8y ago
> Goldman was routinely at the top of the NYSE rankings with regard to programmatic trading volume. I took 'secret sauce' in GP's comment to mean 'profitable strategies'. Don't confuse volume with profitabil
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The Volcker rule contains exemptions for certain prop trading activities. For example, trading in US government bonds is exempt.
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by nickles 8y ago
> did the all-caps and dollar sign add to the readability of your post? This is a standard way to denote stock symbols.
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by nickles 8y ago
> Is there some lag after IPO's before the options market is established? The shortest dated, exchange traded options are weeklies. These expire on Fridays. I'd imagine you won't see volume there until at least Tuesday, th
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> I’m not convinced this is a recession signal, as much as it’s a reflection of the new normal for worldwide central banks. 3m/10y curve inversion has proven to be a reasonable signal for upcoming recession in the USA for the post W
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3m/10y inversion is a better predictor of recession than 2s10s, and it recently inverted. [0] https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
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There are a few factors that cause one to expect a monotonically increasing, concave yield curve [0]. Firstly, one must consider the term premium [1]. In short, you expect to be compensated more for lending money for a longer period of time
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by nickles 8y ago
> the US has never had a recession that wasn’t preceded by an inverted yield curve This is incorrect. Most recessions in the post WW2 period have been preceded by an inversion of the 3m/10y UST curve, but it did not precede a few re
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> Uber and Lyft “are using public roads, and the profit is going to their companies,” Phil Washington, Metro’s chief executive, said at a recent meeting. Public roads are supposed to be paid for through fuel taxes, which every Uber and L
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> Should the police disclose only those who have been convicted of a crime AND who have exhausted all appeals? Are civilians afforded that privilege? Consider the case of stockbrokers, for example. Regulations require that a broker immed
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In September, California passed the law (S.B. 1421) described in the article, supposedly allowing access to records of police misconduct. It is restricted to certain circumstances, but should unambiguously allow for possession and publicati
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by nickles 8y ago
> You can find real balsamic vinegar at virtually any grocery store. Made in Italy in Modena or broader Emilia region, using Lambrusco or Trebbiano grapes, aged at least 12 years, etc. Fully, legitimately balsamic vinegar. It depends on
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> this can be solved by having a “display name” and a login You have three choices with a user specified login name. You can: (1) notify a user why account creation has failed (due to a duplicated login name) (2) fail silently and have f
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by nickles 8y ago
> Is there no longer a panic over letting an attacker know that an account does exist? There's simply no way to get around this if users can pick their own usernames (other than assigning them in an unpredictable manner). In other c

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