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by papabrown 6y ago
I'm not sure if they're still around, but I remember back in the 1990s there was a family of mutual funds that aimed to do exactly what you're describing. They actually advertised the fact that they won't have the best
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by papabrown 6y ago
https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/how-many-bitcoin-users/ >With one study suggesting ~25 million cryptocurrency traders outside the USA & Europe, it seems quite likely there are over 100 million owners of bitc
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by papabrown 6y ago
I would presume that as well. However, that doesn't negate the fact that 10% vs 55% is a considerable gap. In 1929 if the shoeshine guy was giving you stock tips, it signaled a very different level of market euphoria than today when y
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by papabrown 6y ago
>the default bubble is potentially a lurking time bomb Many things are potential lurking time bombs. I can't think of a single period during any bullish market where you could not point to something and claim that that could be a p
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by papabrown 6y ago
Or, it could just be that far more people are investors today than there were in 1929. According to this site, only about 10% of Americans owned stock or speculated in the markets in 1929. >In fact, only approximately 10 percent of Amer
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by papabrown 6y ago
If bubbles were a concern for Navy SEALs they would use a rebreather which emits no bubbles. You cannot conceal bubbles while on SCUBA.
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by papabrown 6y ago
I’ll also add to my previous comment and say that the reason you’re taught slow, diaphragmatic breathing is because your lungs impact your buoyancy in the water. Breath in, you begin to ascend. Breath out, you will sink. Your goal is to fi
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by papabrown 6y ago
As a former SCUBA diving instructor and dive master, teaching students not to hold their breath is simply easier than teaching people a technique that would take a considerable amount of time to master. I have 5 classroom sessions of about
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by papabrown 6y ago
While I also believe what you’d at to be true, I fail to see how this is any different than Tim Ferriss or many other people like him. If Tim says X works, how many Silicon Valley types suddenly start doing it? In fact, given that former Na
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by papabrown 8y ago
I'm not overly concerned about getting the best rate. If I wanted to make the maximum possible I would stay in management and ride things out until retirement. I have savings that I don't want to have to tap into so I can just le
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by papabrown 8y ago
Another 50+ guy here. I've been thinking about getting back into coding after a multi-decade hiatus. I taught myself to code in my early 20's. Coded through my early 30's and have been in management roles (involving softwar
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by papabrown 9y ago
I used to believe that as well. I have business and family in other countries and the traditional approaches were way too expensive ($50 for a bank wire, $X fee plus horrible exchange rates via Moneygram, etc). I used Bitcoin a few times
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by papabrown 9y ago
Anybody who owns real estate isn't concerned with foreign buyers. They help keep prices for real estate higher which amongst real estate owners creates additional wealth. For people who don't own real estate, those higher prices
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by papabrown 9y ago
So true. As an American who has spent close to a decade living overseas, opening a bank account in a foreign country has become increasingly difficult. I'm not hiding money. I'm not doing anything shady. I have a legit job wor
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by papabrown 9y ago
>A third of people born today do not have government identification I think that number is closer to 100%. Most babies do not obtain government IDs on their date of birth. Do you mean a third of people on earth? A third of people over
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by papabrown 9y ago
I've always considered myself a fiscal conservative. Not the "let's cut all welfare" type of fiscal conservative but the kind who says, "Ok, we just found out that the Pentagon can't account for billions of do
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by papabrown 9y ago
I don't think we're that far off. I didn't say we didn't need WL. I said, I don't necessarily trust Assange to be in charge of it. He's a self-promoter. A hypocrite. Opinionated. These are things even som
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by papabrown 9y ago
I've always had mixed feelings about Assange going back to the beginning of WL. While I take my hat off to what he has claimed is the purpose of WL, I never quite trusted Assange the man. It always felt to me like the kind of power t
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by papabrown 9y ago
Who is to blame? Part of the original article is a lie (at least as how it pertains to the US). The social security system will eventually be unable to pay out at current rates. But notice how nobody worries about whether we'll still
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by papabrown 9y ago
I don't want to seem like an old-timer telling the young whipersnappers soda pop used to be a nickel but I was involved in the internet before there was a web. So, I've sort of seen the growth over time and believe it or not ther
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by papabrown 9y ago
Way too many examples of this over the years. First one that I can remember off the top of my head was AOL buying Global Network Navigator (GNN). Great resource. AOL took their dial up subscribers and killed the website. Of course, AOL s
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by papabrown 9y ago
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. In Thailand the girls you see in the go-go bars in Nana and Cowboy or down in Pattaya have not been forced into anything. You know nothing about what you're talking about. None of them started when they were c
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by papabrown 9y ago
Depends on the woman. Some don't mind as long as everyone knows their place. She's the wife. She's the one with the major assets coming to her. The mia noi is financially supported but she has no rights (or expectations)
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by papabrown 9y ago
Okay, I'll bite. I've lived in Thailand and I speak okay Thai. I can't speak for all of SEA but I can tell you that the girls come looking for jobs in the sex industry in Thailand. People don't have to traffic them or
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by papabrown 9y ago
If the best nights of your life were at Sukhumvit food stalls, you're doing something wrong. :-)
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by papabrown 9y ago
Agreed 100%. I know of a few winners. Places I'll go out of my way to visit. But most of them serve garbage to dumb tourists thinking they're having an authentic Thai experience and locals too poor to care about the quality. I
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by papabrown 9y ago
Granted I've never done a complete analysis of where all food carts are located but a few places that spring to mind. Suk Soi 8 - In front of 7-11 but also across from a restaurant Suk Soi 5 - In front of several restaurants Suk Soi 7
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by papabrown 9y ago
If having Jack Nicholson in your movie guarantees at least $20 million more in box office revenue than someone nobody has ever heard of, they're creating value. Likewise, a professional athlete plays on a sports team. That sports team
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by papabrown 9y ago
You do get to decide. You either reward them by being a consumer of their products/services or you don't. Sorry, looks like you got outvoted. Now you want to sit on some panel of judgement to overrule the public. I love it when p
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by papabrown 9y ago
You really believe that the different between MySpace and Facebook is total lottery? Circumstances? MySpace sucked. It was an idea that was executed very poorly. Letting users turn their profile pages into CPU sucking machines was one o

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