apostate

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by apostate 4y ago
Sure, you seem intent on making a point that has nothing to do with OP's assertion or my observation, so go for it. (That's a strawman fallacy, right?)
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by apostate 4y ago
Wasn't my point at all, see my other responses.
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by apostate 4y ago
I was not highlighting the author's background to appeal to authority. I was pointing out that what OP dismissed as "coder philosophy drivel" (likely from skimming the title and nothing else) was written by someone who has no
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by apostate 4y ago
I wasn't making a value judgement on the piece (or the author's credentials). My point was that someone took the time to share something with the world and you dismissed it after making (incorrect) assumptions about their backgrou
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by apostate 4y ago
The author has a PhD in psychology, fwiw.
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by apostate 4y ago
Confirmed, thanks!
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by apostate 4y ago
The HNLAUNCH promo code is showing as invalid for me.
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by apostate 4y ago
It looks like it is using the "Tufte" style, named after Edward Tufte, who is very famous for his writing on data visualization. More examples: https://rstudio.github.io/tufte/
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by apostate 4y ago
I'm not sure that's quite the same (no clue if the garden leave terminology is used in the parts of Europe you refer to). https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gardening-leave.asp
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by apostate 4y ago
Gotcha; never been subject to gardening leave myself, but I always assumed it exists for the same purpose as a noncompete, i.e. to provide a 'cooling off' period to lessen the competitive impact that the exiting employee can have
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by apostate 4y ago
This is common in the financial industry above a certain level; it's called "garden leave".
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by apostate 7y ago
Depends on how you look at it I guess. The history of the Chinese empire had periods of relative stability, separated by periods of rebellion, civil war, and strife, sometimes hundreds of years long. There were even periods where the empir
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by apostate 11y ago
Since the IRS has custody of other people's sensitive data, they should be held to a different standard than the carefree homeowner in your example. If I pay my bank for a safe deposit box, good security is part of what I am paying for
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by apostate 12y ago
Your use of disclaimers shows that you are well versed in compliance matters when it comes to dispensing investment advice ;)
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by apostate 12y ago
I think if an ignorant person wishes to trade stocks, the lack of a platform like this won't stop them. Retail brokers like Etrade and Scottrade got the pennystock crowds long ago. Mentioned in another reply, I would hope ETFs are ava
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by apostate 12y ago
We are probably in the same camp; I just wasn't sure if GP was comparing casinos with 'stock trading' or the equity asset class in general, which, if one subscribes to the 'boring' methods of index fund investing, a
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by apostate 12y ago
Are you suggesting that it is a bad idea for laypeople to participate equity markets?
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by apostate 12y ago
Wow, this is a long read but definitely worth it. I have never read anything by Pettis, but I am thinking about picking up The Great Rebalancing if it explores similar stuff more deeply. It doesn't always come naturally to look at co
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by apostate 12y ago
From the guidelines: What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's i
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by apostate 12y ago
P/E approaches infinity as you near "break even", so for a company like AMZN with both massive revenues and expenses, P/E is not useful when the two are almost equal. You must dig further and look at things like cash flo
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by apostate 12y ago
A couple of things that one would guess, but are neat none the less: Food prep is the only one without a dip during the lunch hour (they are preparing what everyone else is eating). Also, protective services has the fattest tails (most late
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by apostate 12y ago
I tend to agree with that sentiment. I suppose I was just thinking about the city I live in. Here, the meter prints out a receipt that the driver leaves on the dash of the car. People often will give the receipt to someone else when they ar
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by apostate 12y ago
Perhaps regulating a cap is better than banning the practice outright. If the max price is equal to the minutes left on the meter * fare per minute, the seller will never get back more than they put in. They will just be selling back the un
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by apostate 12y ago
Interesting insights into a market that I have little experience with. Thanks!
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by apostate 12y ago
While I agree with your sentiment about property values, your statement "nothing can continue to rise in price over inflation indefinitely" is not true, unless I'm misunderstanding something. It is possible for an asset class
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by apostate 13y ago
Never been to Atlanta, however I couldn't help but think of this in the context of how impossible I've heard it is to walk anywhere in that city :)
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by apostate 13y ago
Home is where the heart is. Most long commuters I know do it because they have a significant other at home, and that seemed to be the case with many of the subjects in the article. There are far fewer cases in the developed world of a long
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by apostate 13y ago
I'm glad to see someone advocating sensible retirement planning here. Though the post had a few good points about how to perceive wealth vs. money, I cringed at the notion that most stocks are "buy and pray" investments. Stoc
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by apostate 13y ago
One thing that I don't see mentioned often enough in discussions about China's US debt holdings is how much they actually hold. It's less than 10% of the total US debt, and about a quarter of all foreign-held debt. [1] They a
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by apostate 13y ago
Mindfulness meditation[1] is an old but very effective way of training the mind to recognize distractions. I agree with the article that the opportunities for distraction are at an all-time high, but the human brain has not changed much in

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