AreaGuy

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by AreaGuy 11y ago
> The Republicans don't trust Iran not to build a bomb. Neither do the authors of this deal. The choices are: (a) Do nothing and allow Iran to continue to be within 6-7 months of making a bomb, as they are now (b) Implement the deal
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by AreaGuy 11y ago
Ah, no problem. Thanks for clarifying! I thought it might be some terminology I did not know.
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by AreaGuy 11y ago
What does 'prooves' mean?
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by AreaGuy 11y ago
By that logic, they never should have shut down Google Reader, though, right? Reader was my top visited site daily by far. Nothing replaced it.
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by AreaGuy 11y ago
It's like an anthill in the middle of the Amazon saying "If there were life on Earth that is more intelligent than us, why can't we see their enormous anthills? Why haven't they tried to contact us yet?"
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by AreaGuy 11y ago
Incidentally, Malkiel is currently the Chief Investment Officer of Wealthfront.
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by AreaGuy 11y ago
The best way to do this is to create a more accurate credit prediction system. Underwriters rely on credit scores because they’re cheap, quick, and easy way to triage risk. Credit scores are riddled with inaccuracies, but because risk is di
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by AreaGuy 11y ago
$12k per year x 320M people = $3.84 trillion, which is 22.9% of annual GDP. That's a pretty steep price tag for a thousand dollars a month.
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by AreaGuy 11y ago
Wow... and the last time it sold was for $34,000 in 1975. That's a 10.4% annual return per year for 40 years. That's better than the 8.2% returned by the S&P 500 over the same period.
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by AreaGuy 11y ago
What kind of crisis are you expecting that would prevent Norway from importing food from Sweden, the UK, or continental Europe, but would leave domestic food production intact?
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by AreaGuy 11y ago
Great question. I clear cookies after every session on my PC, but not my phone (yet), so maybe the changing mode of transmission may provide opportunities. Fingerprint scanning is also far more convenient than passwords. Honestly, though, t
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by AreaGuy 11y ago
I would add Peter Singer to the list of advisors.
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by AreaGuy 11y ago
I'd be willing to bet it's more ease of access than price. Both of my last jobs provided me with some subscriptions for free (i.e. Financial Times and some industry publications). Yet whenever I encountered their paywalls while br