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by tomsaffell 18y ago
This is true, FB's volume potential is higher than LI. But it is also true that those people who are interested in their "business social network" are accustomed to paying for services that create business value, sometimes paying handsomel
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
I have a LI account, but I don't use it effectively, so I can't speak from personal experience (which speaks to your point) But I do believe businesses like Angstro could build a valuable business off LI (they could build it off FB too, but
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How long is a 'long term investment' - Updated with dividend reinvestment (saffell.wordpress.com)
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
More damage, probably. But the thing is one would have to be well schooled in English to write a truly legitimate sounding one, and that would probably mean growing up in an English speaking country. That probably means that you live in an
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
The analysis has now been updated to include dividends, and posted on my blog: http://saffell.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/does-timing-the-mark...
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Does Timing the Market Work? (a brief analysis of market timing tactics since 1871)(saffell.wordpress.com)
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
Does sunlight induce 'psychological well-being' only by its energy in the visible spectra, or are there components outside the range to which eyes are sensitive that have an effect?
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
Upload them for sure! > " if you want me to... " Those who want to read it will, those who don't wont. There's no shame in posting a high-school report, and you don't need to ask permission, IMO :) As an aside: I did some work on image
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
Excellent - thanks for the link. I'll redo the analysis with the new data.
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
This is an interesting point. The analysis was done on the 'index value' of the S&P 500 (from Yahoo Finance), not on any individual equities. I'm trying to discover how long a 'long term investment' need be, if one invests in an S&P
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
Good point. I would like to analyze returns assuming re-invested dividends (TSR), which I will try to do in my next analysis. However, as I search around the web I'm having trouble finding enough data (SPDRs only go back to '93, and even th
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
Good thoughts. As you say, this is for a 'lump sum' investment, not investment over time, which has the benefit of dollar-cost-averaging. As I mentioned in my post, I may look at that next, probably in v3. The tax is is good point too, but
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How long is a 'long term investment'? (a brief analysis of S&P500 since 1950)(saffell.wordpress.com)
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
401(k)s can contain many types of assets, depending on the provider. For example, mine has stock-only indexes, bond indexes, mixed funds (stocks and bonds) but ALSO it has fixed income funds, which return ~4.8% pa. That's not going to mak
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
Right, he's saying don't trade individual stocks, buy indexes instead. I fully subscribe to this view, unless the individual is trading for a living (putting in many hours), and has enough capital that they aren't wiping out their gains (re
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
'79 - feel more like a Y than an X. But isn't the idea that we can draw hard-lines around generations the very problem here? It's these hard-line definitions that enable articles like the WSJ one to exist in the first place. Change happens
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
Ditto. Maybe that was the point? I'll give him a compliment, because whilst this advice maybe obvious , it is extremely difficult to follow, and it is useful. IMO that makes it a worthy post. I have followed this advice once, and it was re
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
I believe it's neither. Both end the sentence in a preposition, 'for'. If you want to be accurate (which I guess you do, since you posted) then it is "for whom you work".
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I finally figured what happened to Wall Street(blip.tv)
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
it isn't about stupidity. if we can all use the latest technologies when we're 60 years old w/o getting a little confused then i'll be impressed, and we're not stupid.
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
plus ca change...
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Latest Apple Mac ad targets MSFT's internal budgeting?(apple.com)
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Ask HN: How do we add a second reply to a question we were asked re. our application?
2 points by tomsaffell 18y ago|1 comments
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
I think the advice that 'tech people should learn to talk business' and 'business people should learn to talk tech' is spot on, and ultimately the most important point here . After all, there really is no such thing as a 'business person'
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
Given the essentially contrarian investment philosophy that Buffett laid out, is it any surprise that his advice falls on 'lukewarm' ears? Isn't that the point?!
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Buffett's "buy now" call gets lukewarm reception(reuters.com)
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
nice idea. maybe you could try to tie the word of the day to current affairs in some way? as for building traffic, maybe you could find a way for people to vote (or even submit) w/o needing to login. you might need to bring the login back u
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
I once saw a street vendor in Thailand prepare a pineapple in his hand with a machete in a mere 20 seconds: from 'as nature made it' to 'skinned, cubed, on a stick, in a bag' - in 20 seconds ! There really is nothing quite like competence..
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by tomsaffell 18y ago
It's certainly true that 'profit' does-not-infer 'value'. But nonetheless, I think they are adding value. Here's why i think that: A. Customer utility (for a subset of customers) is higher for search results presented in the style of Source