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andsoitis
29,371karma·9,781submissions·May 6, 2022
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> Avoid alcohol before bed. Avoid alcohol, period. Your body and mind will thank you.
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Hi! In a few other threads today people claimed that they / one can time the stock market. Wanna start a trading venture with me? :-)
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> Netflix arguably may have run itself into insolvency Neither the balance sheet nor the income statement or cash flow statement supports your statement.
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I think we can tell for certain that time travel will never be invented because if it were to happen, then logically we’d already be experiencing people visiting us from the future.
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I would expect the demand for the book to go down since the entire population has read it. Of course, you could use the pages to help start a fire for warmth or cooking fish you will be catching.
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John Allen Paulos describes this in his book, Innumeracy. (Excellent book, by the way)
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> because supply of some crypto currencies is limited, i.e. no more than 21 million bitcoins are planned to be mined in total. But herein lies the trap. While any particular crypto currency may hav…
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> finance government spending without the market buying bonds According to https://www.thebalance.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-debt-33... : “The public holds over $22 trillion of …
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> expected 75k or so Based on what?
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> Still holding, but could have made way more if I had sold even a piece of it when it hit my target ($54k) instead of waiting for the $100k everyone kept promising Why not sell now? Wouldn’t you s…
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> you can't time the markets What is generally meant by this is that you cannot know the future so you cannot know when is the most optimal time to buy or sell. Now, you can react to trend (eg…
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> If we continue along competitive models for allocation to the end Competition is a very strong motivator for progress. Even if you didn’t embed it formally within a society, I bet it would very q…
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Delphi (and freepascal) have good support in the language for visual components.
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> protect you from hyperinflation? We are not in a hyper inflationary environment.
Hyperinflation is when monthly inflation rate is above 50%, or more than 12,800% per year.
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> personal shame, guilt, and self-loathing Do you think the Christian concept of "original sin" planted (at least some of) the seeds for this mental model? https://en.wikipedia…
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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6hnQ1RKhbo Source code: https://github.com/kgsws/doom-in-doom Gizmodo article: https://gizmodo.com/doom-i…
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Even for a mature product where you might be doing A/B tests to explore hypotheses that you think will improve the product for the user, it is also worth considering doing mountain tests where yo…