brockwhittaker

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by brockwhittaker 3y ago
You're conflating micro and macro price movements. Sure, you can't predict black swan events with technical analysis, but it wouldn't be out of the question to predict short term fluctuations based on a mixture of market psyc
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by brockwhittaker 4y ago
Thanks for the note! I'll change the wording in my article WRT bills/notes. :) With regards to safety, I noted that I think there are two types of safety to note here: 1. Default risk. 2. Asset price volatility. Ultimately if some
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The collapse of SVB exposes the largest crack in the economy(brooock.com)
291 points by brockwhittaker 4y ago|289 comments
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by brockwhittaker 4y ago
Looks like tons of sites are down due to a Fastly outage.
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by brockwhittaker 4y ago
I haven’t heard much from Bordeaux on crémants, but i can vouch for burgundy and loire for crémants that perform as well as many champagnes, for under $25.
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by brockwhittaker 4y ago
This is also true historically to some effect. The bordeaux classification of 1855 (which remains in effect) was in large part done on price.
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by brockwhittaker 4y ago
yep! i just spun down that service and didn’t bother to use it again, i wanted something simpler.
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by brockwhittaker 4y ago
sorry I just made this site this morning to post this article. it's just a simple node-http server! I don't write much :)
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by brockwhittaker 4y ago
This is totally my personal bias, but I'm unsure that speculation has a positive value in the housing market, and I think governments should largely try to ensure that as many people as possible can afford homes, rather than ensuring t
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by brockwhittaker 4y ago
I'm not sure that's how it works—at least in the case of NYC. The ~4% tax only applies to those with residence within the city's limits. If you live in Westchester however and work in Manhattan, you escape the 4% income tax (
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by brockwhittaker 4y ago
They label property taxes as an absolute value paid, rather than as a percentage. Illinois per the Tax Foundation had the second highest rate*. In fact, it speaks to Illinois' and Chicago's affordability** that with such a high ma
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High property taxes are good(brooock.com)
234 points by brockwhittaker 4y ago|597 comments
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by brockwhittaker 4y ago
+1, lest we forget the original premise behind VC returns was that seed checks had huge returns because most people weren't willing to take on the risk, timeline or probability distribution of funding startups. Now everyone is willing
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by brockwhittaker 4y ago
Aside from giving your money away to specific under-resourced groups, is the second best thing to just not spend your money? I think that taking money out of the system entirely means less demand competition for everyone else, which means m
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by brockwhittaker 5y ago
also the amount of fun is close to zero sum in life. that’s why kids can play with cardboard boxes and adults can’t figure out how to have any fun. reducing alcohol for a while will reduce fun, but then your threshold/sensitivity for w
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by brockwhittaker 5y ago
it's never as easy as find-and-replace :)
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by brockwhittaker 5y ago
Not really, because printing money implies a low cost to produce new "money" into the system. It’s more like defaulting to gold as well. El Salvador can buy more gold but at a very high cost that isn’t akin to printing money.
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by brockwhittaker 5y ago
Wow, the graphics on this site are beautiful and elegantly polished.
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by brockwhittaker 5y ago
You're getting downvoted because it's a longtime well-known problem of the blockchain. The answer to your question is that nobody can reverse the transaction or undo it. That's kind of the point, for better or or for $23m wor
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by brockwhittaker 5y ago
As someone who also dropped out, I think college will always be there for Simon. You go to college to become employable. I learned far more on the job than in school—and dropping out didn't hinder me becoming a good engineer—it expedit
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
but actually this is the worst possible solution to this and causes tons of issues.
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
Yes it is.
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
Superfund sites are bio hazardous cleanup sites so that makes sense given that it was one of the most ecologically devastated places in the US, right?
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
Not all shares have voting power, and even so the voting power of those shares (if they were 2% of the company for example) may be proportionally tiny compared to the founders/board/execs. For example shareholders don't have
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
While JS doesn’t have native support I do this with while (true) and a break clause. It’s very useful at times.
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
As someone who's forgotten almost all college calculus, this was incredibly well written and understandable!
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
> One of those things that perhaps it would have been better that they had not invented. I think you're off base on this. The ensuing financial mishaps just made the model better, but the creation of Black-Scholes brought us from 0%
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The price of a stock tomorrow? Just ask(brooock.com)
5 points by brockwhittaker 6y ago|0 comments
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
You’re being downvoted because you’re mentioning a strategy. This is not educational. Furthermore, as someone who does a lot of quantitative research on the market I’m not convinced at all that your strategy will beat the market when adjust
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by brockwhittaker 6y ago
I don’t think diving into reports is the right step for someone who’s asking where to start. You need a lot of context for what you’re seeing in your average quarterly. Perhaps start with reading something like The Intelligent Investor to

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