alienjr

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by alienjr 8y ago
Savings and index fund investing. I have an automatic bank transfer to my broker account every month and then I'm using Interactive Brokers API in a script that buys global equities index ETF.
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by alienjr 8y ago
I can't give just one, but here are a few that had a strong influence on me: "12 Rules for Life" by Jordan Peterson, "Why Switzerland?" Jonathan Steinberg, "Little Book of Common Sense Investing" by John
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by alienjr 8y ago
One of the best blogs on learning and life wisdom.
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by alienjr 8y ago
Here's a good read on that subject: http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/spain.htm
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by alienjr 9y ago
Open a cheap investment account (e.g. Interactive Brokers) and invest in cheap ETFs (e.g. Vanguard Total World Stock and/or Vanguard Total Bond Market - in proportions 70%/30%) until you have 25*your yearly expenses (that usually
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by alienjr 10y ago
Central banks have similar bug with government money.
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by alienjr 10y ago
Except for Switzerland, Western (not to speak about Eastern) Europe's universal healthcare means universal high taxes, universal low quality of treatment and universal access to waiting queues.
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by alienjr 10y ago
Most Palestinians and anti-government Jews in Israel wouldn't agree. Maybe Kurdistan will be the first country in which political elites (backed by populist voting majority) treat all their citizens as subjects and not as objects to ac
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by alienjr 10y ago
But non of them is financed voluntary and non of them was created in voluntary association.
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by alienjr 10y ago
Maybe in your country. In mine liberal still means liberal.
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by alienjr 10y ago
What's so ironic in that? This was the agenda of the liberals since the Scottish Enlightenment.
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by alienjr 10y ago
Elasticsearch+Flunetd+Kibana for logs and KairosDB+Fluentd+Grafana for metrics.
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by alienjr 10y ago
"I'm wondering which other books have you read that have had the most impact on you professionally or even personally?" Professionally: Peter F. Drucker's books. Personally: "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, &q
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by alienjr 10y ago
Classic paper of a brilliant economist.
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by alienjr 10y ago
Exactly: http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2014/Jasaypython.htm...
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by alienjr 10y ago
There was a Polish composer, writer and politician Stefan Kisielewski who used to say: "Socialism is a system which bravely fights problems that are not known in any other system". That describes situation of Spain perfectly.
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by alienjr 10y ago
Well, they were elected by a majority who doesn't believe in science. That's why it's strange that most of the people who believe in majority rule are surprised when democratic elections result in such outcomes.
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by alienjr 11y ago
Ask NSA...
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by alienjr 11y ago
Most libertarians/classical liberals believe in that concept. It used to be like that in the middle ages, especially in Germany and Italy. Look for instance these two articles: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000142
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by alienjr 11y ago
It's not a "natural law", but pretty close to it. It's a social convention (behavioral equilibrium) that guarantees peace and cooperation. The greatest philosopher of property rights was David Hume and the best continuat
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by alienjr 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
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by alienjr 11y ago
"support for the disastrous privatization of the economies of the Post-Soviet states that's lead to massive human suffering" Lack of privatization in Post-Soviet states lead to massive human suffering. In Poland the governmen
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by alienjr 11y ago
Thank you globalization.
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by alienjr 11y ago
Nonsense, the entire era of Industrial Revolution happened during authoritarian governments. Not to mention the economic success of Hong Kong or Chile. PS. Yes, there was huge shortage of toilet paper in Poland during 80's. Huge! My fa
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by alienjr 11y ago
No, they're prefect robots, always rational, and always taking care about the humanity and never themselves.
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by alienjr 11y ago
No, Piketty showed that inequality is getting worse in the West. Inequality is getting smaller in global and it is an empirical fact. Anyhow, his theory has serious flaws: http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y20
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by alienjr 11y ago
"I grew up in the economy-controlled '80s" Me too! I'm from Poland. And that's why I'm so sick of all those inteligentsia do-gooders who want to impose their own preferences on everybody else because they know
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by alienjr 11y ago
On the silly "inequality is getting worse" claim: "Contrary to the author's claim that the rich are getting richer, not due to underlying economic trends, but by using their power and influence to enrich themselves, I ha
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by alienjr 12y ago
Zimbra might help.