as_i_fall

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by as_i_fall 5y ago
I mean what's the alternative? I don't think dumping kids out of school is going to improve anything for anyone.
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by as_i_fall 5y ago
>SSDs have periodic higher read latency that could impact audio playback if the host buffers aren’t large enough. In what scenario is audio streamed direct from an ssd rather than memory?
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by as_i_fall 5y ago
I imagine very few people would be interested in smart contracts if it became a defacto legal standard in the US and Europe that these contracts are unenforceable. Of course this doesn't address contracts being written out of Russia or
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by as_i_fall 5y ago
Sure, but those are backed by different legally binding contracts which also give legal recourse to buyers. My point is that unlike other types of synthetic assets these seem to have no legal backing and could quite conceivably be regulated
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by as_i_fall 5y ago
Of course it's not fair but I don't think that's a compelling argument not to enforce sanctions against Iran.
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by as_i_fall 5y ago
Are these assets backed by legally binding contracts? If the answer is no it doesn't seem like a stretch. If I sold you a stock in my company that gave you none of the traditional shareholder rights I'd also call those shares &quo
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by as_i_fall 5y ago
If you find a stronger one I'll be all ears
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by as_i_fall 5y ago
Well obviously nothing is guaranteed, but something like 90% of 20 year windows in the last 100 years would in fact result in positive real returns. http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/
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by as_i_fall 5y ago
Really interesting and somewhat surprising chart. That said I think there's some important drawbacks to point out. First, that 7% figure that's often quoted is usually meant to mean nominal return. At least, that's the way it
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by as_i_fall 5y ago
I don't think anyone is claiming that throwing your money into SPY for a year or even 5 will guarantee returns.
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by as_i_fall 5y ago
He doesn't discuss the problems or limitations. Here's his section on "assessing" myer briggs >I tend to test as an “INTP.” Everyone now understands the usefulness of introversion versus extroversion. The difference
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by as_i_fall 5y ago
Wow this is atrocious. All of the fairly meager advice in this is either bad or totally unactionable. The references to outmoded concepts from pop-psych and generic aphorisms also really aren't convincing me that this person has any id