QuackingJimbo

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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
Good for you. (Not sarcasm —- this is what individual stock investing should be for retail. For fun, to have a tiny bit of skin in the game.) But many people let it get out of control, either because they lack this self discpline, or becaus
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
No. Upstanding retail brokerages (such as Interactive Brokers) don’t make interest on their customers’ balances.
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
Amateur investors are best off buying indexes and holding forever. Robinhood entices them to trade in and out of individual stocks (or worse).
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
The ones who charge a fee don’t make interest on your balances.
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
Robinhood is a predatory lending scheme. The vast majority of its users should not be trading anything other than indexes.
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
I was ready to crap on this post for calling your own work "semi-convincing" but this writing does actually resemble most of the random blogs I find when trying to research something like nutrition or fitness. Not a compliment to
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
400 hours of commercial-watching is not being "saved" If Netflix and other streaming services didn't exist, kids would not be watching 1600 hours of terrestrial TV with ads
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
It definitely helps the day to day but I cant help but think it is a horrible idea long term
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
I disagree with his list of upsides -- there is no upside to ADHD. It is a disability. I've been able to manage it without using stimulants, through very careful planning and trial and error (step #1 is avoiding useless wastes of time
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
What school?
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
You getting downvoted for this completely inoffensive (at worst) comment is pretty sad I swear C++ gets a bad rap because most people have only seen a gross mixture of C++98 and C in their codebases A fully modern C++11 codebase is a beauti
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
I agree that DL/ML is destined to fail in domains like this but can you expand on this reasoning? What exactly do you mean by "quantitative math" (I haven't heard this phrase used in this way before)? And what were the e
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
The outrage isn't because the incident happened. It's because DataCamp didn't do anything to reprimand the executive, and because they issued a completely tone deaf response, and because they tried to hide it. I'm agains
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
Re Paypal cost, is that micropayments to businesses? I just sent my friend $0.01 and it was free, with a linked bank account. Understood that the bank account payments take a while to settle but we're talking about micropayments so set
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
Interesting Why not just use the real Paypal?
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
I truly mourn the death of the "printable version" link
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
Just don't get banned by Visa or Mastercard
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
a16z is not the object of the "blowing up". There is no clickbait or ambiguity.
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
Well said I don't know how anyone over the age of twelve cannot see #2 and #3 Code has bugs. Things will go wrong. You need lawyers.
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
You got me there. I am in the 99th percentile of crypto bears but I myself have used Bitcoin very effectively to buy illegal drugs, buy illegal steroids, and bet on sports illegally. Bitcoin is truly second to none in these domains.
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
> Anywhere where there is no trusted intermediary, or their fees are too expensive Such as......?
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
Seconding this request. Whenever I ask a crypto bull this question directly they just call me an idiot without providing any actual examples.
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
That's a valid critique of small prank sites like this https://www.marvel.com/captainmarvel/ , but in this case StackOverflow's normal functionality still has to work
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by QuackingJimbo 7y ago
I despise globocorporate April Fools pranks as much as anyone but the aesthetic here is really well done.
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by QuackingJimbo 8y ago
Same. It's certainly not objectively "amazing" (to use the author's own verbiage)
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by QuackingJimbo 8y ago
There are exceptions or there could hypothetically be exceptions one day? I agree with the latter If the former, please provide examples. I am all ears
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by QuackingJimbo 8y ago
> promising blockchain startup This can't be a serious post
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by QuackingJimbo 8y ago
> One in 9.2 quintillion. Those are the odds that you will correctly pick the winners of all 63 games played over the course of the tournament. Mathematically speaking, there are 2^63 (~9.2 quintillion) number of ways that you can fill t
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by QuackingJimbo 8y ago
I'm interested in mewing for the purported facial aesthetic and breathing benefits
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by QuackingJimbo 8y ago
Care to link to a good methodology? I've been intrigued by this but there's a lot of conflicting information out there

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