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by tinkerrr 11y ago
You don't get money back from renting. It's an expense, just like any other. However, you don't have to tie in 20% of say $500,000 into a home at 0% return. Over a long period of time, your return on this would be expected to
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by tinkerrr 11y ago
This is a very common fallacy and I am surprised people still think 'renting is throwing your cash out the window'. It isn't. With a mortgage, you're essentially leveraging around 1:5, which means you put down your 20%is
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by tinkerrr 11y ago
> 10% of applicants are accepted after multiple rounds of interviews and even a logics and computing test. It's interesting to note that they are trying to hire entrepreneurs the same way Google was trying to hire programmers 10 yea
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by tinkerrr 11y ago
The kind of ignorance going into the title is baffling. They picked some guy who saw a gain of 27% across 5 positions, for perhaps a few years at the most, and think he's the Warren Buffet next door.
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by tinkerrr 11y ago
In addition to the murders for hire that the other commentators mentioned, the prosecution presented 6 case studies of people dying because of drug overdoses/other related effects of drugs bought on silk road. The prosecution also had
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by tinkerrr 11y ago
A somewhat similar pricing mechanism seems to be developing today for payments in Bitcoin. Very few things you can buy in Bitcoin are actually price denominated in Bitcoin. You'll see things selling for $25 worth of Bitcoin, rather tha
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by tinkerrr 11y ago
Check out the subreddit, which sometimes has useful discussion on this topic: http://www.reddit.com/r/mturk Also, I must concur with gwintrob, it's better to look for freelance gigs that will pay more than AMT. Ju
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by tinkerrr 11y ago
"Average page creation time of 5 milliseconds" I know what you mean, but from a writer's perspective, page creation is all about the time it takes her to create a page, which is, in general, several orders of magnitude more t
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by tinkerrr 11y ago
Ten on Thirty means $10M invested in a company currently being valued at $30M (before their investment, or pre-money valuation), so the whole company is valued at $30M + $10M = $40M after the investment. Ten on Fifteen/Twenty means $10
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by tinkerrr 11y ago
That's not really true for Coinbase Exchange, which is real-time. You don't need to wait for a week, just buy/sell at the spot price. No pricing delays, no "market maker prices", which was rightly pointed out by the
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
The New York Times article seems to be talking about the extra gain, which I presume means gain in addition to beating the benchmark. Here's the quote: "Over the last 10 years, the return on those “public asset classes” has surp
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Singapore's Largest Bank to Host a Blockchain Hackathon(coinsetter.com)
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The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System–and Share Their Secrets Online(racked.com)
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Apple Will Join the Dow Jones Industrial Average(bloomberg.com)
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
Don't you think everyone will be better off in using a decentralized reputation/review management system? How many centralized solutions are we going to see in the arbitration space? What's different about your service than t
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
When a company buys back shares, the number of outstanding shares decreases. That's the whole reason for buying back shares. See http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/112013/impact... for a basi
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
Prices are always split adjusted, so that is meaningless. My point is, price and market cap are not related that way.
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
> is a 30% stock jump from becoming the first trillion-dollar company This is incorrect. The reason is share buybacks, which Apple has been aggressive with. Remember, when the price was $100 last (split adjusted), its market capitalizati
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
Funny how every single 'right' thing they did benefits the early owners only and no one who buys the company stock thereafter. Successful companies are seldom built on the principle of maximizing value for yourself while handing l
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
>Those last two major investors lost a lot of money. Depends, actually, on how much of their stock they sold at the IPO price. Box is already trading above the last round valuation even though the IPO was priced below it.
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
>Who is buying this stock?! and >I haven't dug deeply into their financials or anything. should be mutually exclusive, don't you think? If you haven't looked at their financials or anything, how do you know whether it i
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
> Even so, I can't imagine this app could possible be worth the time I think that's why the founder is talking of expanding the service already, such as getting flowers on Valentine's, say. It might provide social worth to
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
Becoming human food is an evolutionary strategy for animals?
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
A counter-view to just how awesome Bitshares is (I don't fully agree with the article, and I am not the author): http://prestonbyrne.com/2014/08/17/dont-walk-away-run/
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
I think you mean pescatarians and not vegetarians. By definition, vegetarians don't eat fish.
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
If long-term investors are basing investment decisions on what their friends are investing in, they need to rethink their entire investing philosophy and strategy. Heck, Buffet's trades are public - if you had to choose between the two
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
Maybe I didn't phrase my question right. What I want to know is, as an investor, why should I use your service? Personally, I don't see much value in knowing what my friends are investing in. There are 10,000 stocks, I cannot foll
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
Honest and serious question - what's the purpose of this service? Do you think an investor will get higher returns if he knows what his friends are buying? What experts are buying? It seems to me that no serious investor would ever nee
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by tinkerrr 12y ago
What are you good at, and what's your definition of fun? Once you've figured that out, go to Meetups related to those fields and you'll meet some people. Grow your network by meeting their friends, and so on. It requires pati
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Boost VC Goes Full Bitcoin for Next Round(coinsetter.com)
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