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by ptero 6y ago
If an index fund was an "atomic" independently traded unit, probably. But in index fund, for each $1 sold, managers must sell the underlying stocks that comprise the index in the exactly prescribed proportions. While this is n
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by ptero 6y ago
This is a valid point, and folks who take a long-term view tend to come out ahead over the long periods, even going through worse disruptions than COVID (which, in my view is not that big when compared to wars, revolutions and such). I am n
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by ptero 6y ago
Planning-related. Onsite teams allow first line of management to muddle through many issues in an ad-hoc way: walk over to see if A is stuck, if so go and ask B to help A, etc. This is not good: most engineers hate constant interruptions an
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by ptero 6y ago
I do not see why it looks bad. As others said, he sold a tiny percentage of holdings, which is a standard setup for many executives (with sale notifications filed with SEC months in advance)
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by ptero 6y ago
It should be somewhere in the SEC filings, but a company like Morningstar (and probably many brokerages) should have this information as part of a standard stock research report.
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by ptero 6y ago
It's not the fact of the pushback that it is important, but how it is expressed. One of the great HN advantages is community's focus on substantive comments and a strong dislike of any personal attacks. HN: "php sucks because
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by ptero 6y ago
We will see how things play out, but WFH success is not guaranteed. Managing remote workers requires different skills which most managers today do not have. For now, most big companies have enough cash and are primarily focusing on making s
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by ptero 6y ago
While some hassle of paying someone in another country is real, this level of pain seems to be pretty extreme. I am sure it depends on the country (good luck hiring in North Korea :) ), but for most countries there are enough options, from
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by ptero 6y ago
It is probably too early for the price drops. No one knows how much of a crisis this will end up being, so any price moves are likely to be slow. Most owners can sit out a season of no rents, and a few who cannot may get some mortgage relie
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by ptero 6y ago
Considered going back to Eastern Europe I think.
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by ptero 6y ago
I have not tried Krita yet. It seemed to be geared to artists drawing / creating images, where my main (in fact only) use case is enhancement of my DSLR or phone-captured photos. That said, Krita is on my "to try sometime" li
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by ptero 6y ago
Can you remap this monstrosity out of the way (or making another control key or something more useful)? I always remap control and caps keys on my keyboards, which is a pretty minor one-time regedit incantation.
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by ptero 6y ago
Photoshop is the main reason I still have a Windows boot on my home desktop. I wish Linux had a comparable alternative to Photoshop (for which I would gladly pay a sum comparable to what I paid Adobe). Any time I tried Gimp or something sim
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by ptero 6y ago
It is a touchy subject, so I would not talk about her actions "you do X, please stop". At all. Maybe say that you met her son, he is a nice kid, you have some experience teaching kids and would like to help him get through the c
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by ptero 6y ago
I wish Finland best of luck in this (no irony), but personally I am very skeptical. While a fraction of time spent this (and/or for some kids) this way may be great, I personally learned basics best in a more traditional approach of cl
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by ptero 6y ago
Many folks are booking family vacations like crazy using current low prices and hoping to leverage rebooking flexibility. So there will definitely be at least some pent-up demand. This demand could evaporate though if folks who consider the
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by ptero 6y ago
I first thought that OP estimate was way off, but from your numbers he may be right! If you only need 200 tons of soil for 1kg of Ur, that's not much. A cubic meter of soil is ~2 tons, maybe more, which means you only need a 10m by 10m
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by ptero 6y ago
In my experience being under 40 is not a prerequisite for being hired in software. A suggestion: two of the biggest turnoffs that I personally see and would work hard to avoid (not saying you have either of those): 1. Sounding desperate. Do
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by ptero 6y ago
This is just an opinion without personal experience, but as others indicated you likely have been snagged by a bot; your case seems really clear cut and a review with a human should fix this quickly. The challenge is to get a human on your
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by ptero 6y ago
> Views still need to be backed by solid data and in this case, the Stanford study the article is highlight has a number of issues with its data. That articles backed by solid data is certainly the desired state, but it is very far from
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by ptero 6y ago
I am not even talking about nuance, just some basic engineering clarity; and just between friends, no politicians nearby. I have seen a couple of times that the topic got discussed between otherwise calm, smart people. Both times it very qu
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by ptero 6y ago
Seems that both sides, lock-down-until-proven-safe and stop-all-restrictions-yesterday, at least in the US are more focused on spin than facts. What we need is an open and honest discussion, where conflicting opinions are not ridiculed or s
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by ptero 6y ago
In practical terms both versions likely have zero chance of success. Sadly. Although scientifically speaking, the rounding off error of your original formulation is bigger :)
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by ptero 7y ago
Based on what I heard from other folks (I am an immigrant and have no first hand experience) your experience seems pretty typical in early 90s. There were of course different setups, but I do not think it is primarily based on class or inco
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by ptero 7y ago
I am not so sure of this. IME folks who do well are, on average, much more willing to hear external advice. They do not take it as direction (and, on disagreement would rarely try to convince the speaker that (s)he is wrong), but they would
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by ptero 7y ago
Most of it is reasonable, if already often quoted advice. But I did not see what does it have to do with the title: "for people with bad luck"
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by ptero 7y ago
Survive in a small enclave in a third country with a small group of servants, sure. Survive as dictators, I am not so sure -- it requires keeping troops and those in key positions happy, which is expensive. My 2c
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by ptero 7y ago
That's an excellent TL; DR. Thank you!
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by ptero 7y ago
Next 6 months includes a lot of uncertainty in expectations which is, statistically, priced in. Those expectations may have a distribution which might make for a strange average response. For example, consider a bimodal distribution: 50% +1
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by ptero 7y ago
Stock market is volatile probably due to many factors, with HFT probably playing a significant role. That said, a jump in unemployment claims today is likely a non-event for stocks: it was predictable and as such already priced into the mar

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