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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 f…

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 r…

Looks like tons of sites are down due to a Fastly outage.

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.

This is also true historically to some effect. The bordeaux classification of 1855 (which remains in effect) was in large part done on price.

yep! i just spun down that service and didn’t bother to use it again, i wanted something simpler.

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 :)

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 peop…

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…

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 …

+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 dis…

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 me…

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 wil…

it's never as easy as find-and-replace :)

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…

Wow, the graphics on this site are beautiful and elegantly polished.

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 kin…

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 o…

but actually this is the worst possible solution to this and causes tons of issues.

Yes it is.

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?

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/boar…

While JS doesn’t have native support I do this with while (true) and a break clause. It’s very useful at times.