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by pmiller2 5y ago
Yeah, I half expected a couple downvotes on that one, lol. :P But, seriously, IMO, to the extent that technical analysis "works," it's probably just exploiting short term momentum. Momentum strategies have been shown to gene
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Both of those would have to be in the same state for it to work, due to the way taxes are withheld and paid. Otherwise, you're probably committing tax fraud.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Technical analysis of securities is for people who scoff at both. I've often referred to it as "numerology for smart people."
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Sure, there are such a thing as real deadlines. Regulatory deadlines are one example. Contractual deadlines with penalty clauses can be another. But, the type of deadline you point out (we said we'd give them $STUFF by $DATE for $PRI
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by pmiller2 5y ago
There's still significant value in not going too low. I have a sense of existential dread that makes me forever unable to end my own life, but that doesn't mean I haven't thought of it. I've been at points where I defi
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by pmiller2 5y ago
The problem is not that the share of things like college, housing, and healthcare is high . It's that they have risen much faster than inflation and much faster than median income over the past 40 years. Notice the white space in th
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by pmiller2 5y ago
> Project dropped out of the sky on my plate with due date a little too close for comfort. So what do you do? Obviously, this project wasn't important enough to be given to you with enough time to get it done. Deadlines are often a
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by pmiller2 5y ago
The point of doing it in Excel would be to convince someone who won't be convinced by the pen and paper demonstration.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Something tells me he probably didn't care who was explaining it to him, as long as he understood.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Yes! My cello teacher told me “what you can only play slowly, you can eventually play fast; what you can only play wrong, you can’t play at all.” Keep in mind, this is a man who continued playing as a soloist in concert once after breaking
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by pmiller2 5y ago
You could do it in Excel in probably 20 minutes.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
I'm willing to forgive pretty much anyone who's fooled by something that also fooled Paul Erdos: https://www.wired.com/2014/11/monty-hall-erdos-limited-minds...
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by pmiller2 5y ago
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by pmiller2 5y ago
That's because "tax the rich" usually begins and ends with income taxes. More creativity, such as a financial transaction tax, increased capital gains taxes, or a wealth tax paired with capital controls, would let us capture
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by pmiller2 5y ago
No. The problem is that capitalism creates wealth but in an unsustainable manner, and distributed very unevenly. This is pretty inherent in how capitalism works, because the way the free market works is that it responds to people voting w
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Wrong link on that second one. Here's the right one: https://www.kindredmedia.org/2017/10/capitalism-makes-us-sic...
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Then, what are you arguing? Why does it even actually matter if the increase in depression is recent, or not? What does that have to do with the fact that mere survival does not have to be a constant 24/7 struggle for anyone, reall
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by pmiller2 5y ago
People would still have plenty of unmet needs if the basic physiological and safety needs in Maslow's hierarchy are met. What kind of straw man are you trying to argue here? If anything, having those needs met makes it easier -- nay,
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Why does it have to be? We have plenty of resources. Everyone can have the bottom levels of Maslow’s hierarchy. Everyone! Today is today, not “nearly all of human history.” Who cares about “nearly all of human history?” https://e
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by pmiller2 5y ago
No, what’s distressing is that those at the bottom have nothing, and those just above the bottom are literally swimming for their lives, treading water and trying not to die. Do you know what one of the animal models for depression is? It’s
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Could it be “the economy” is broken? Maybe it has been for a long time.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Serious people do believe capitalism causes mental illnesses. I’m one of them. So is Gabor Maté. https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/gabor-mate-how-... Edit: another good link with Gabor Maté talking abou
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Funny, because I remember bypassing my university's print quotas in grad school a few years ago simply by printing directly to the IP of the printer. I didn't set out to do this. It was just an unintentional side effect, and one
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Earlier discussion (1987): https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.wizards/c/kFdPoJBpcSA
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Pushing the button in this case is still in accordance with Judaism. There is a commandment to preserve life that takes precedence over everything else.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
> I'm not really sure if a sub- comment on HN is the right place to expand on this, but I'm happy to discuss it via some other medium. I'm interested in subscribing to whatever that turns out to be.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
This is interesting. Although I'm an atheist and have been for pretty much my entire life, I find Judaism fascination from a cultural perspective, and I have immense respect for it as a belief system. How exactly are Jews encouraged t
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Holy shit. I knew about eruvin, but I didn't know there was one all the way around Manhattan! How would anybody know if a distant part of the line was down? That would put them in violation, wouldn't it?
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by pmiller2 5y ago
If you like that, you'll love this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv
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by pmiller2 5y ago
That would be fabulous if I knew the least little bit about any of those things. :-) I've done a lot of backend and data engineering. Occasionally that's enough to get me considered for a full stack role, but not often, and tha

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