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Treasuries, MBS, most non-corporate bonds all trade in eighths or 64ths. Coupon rates are in eighths as well. Commodities I think no longer do, but did until recently.

Isn't the risk profile of a checking account "don't lose money"?

Yes, that is what I meant. Thank you for expressing it more clearly!

Passive investing isn't zero sum - it's positive sum. If you could buy a fraction of earnings from every business in the economy (i.e. both businesses that currently exist, and fut…

> When we first started investing, we approached it from two beliefs: 1) you are unlikely to grow a portfolio without a small percentage of it allocated to more active investments …

Possibly -- you sell stock in fossil fuel companies, and reinvest in some other, hopefully more sustainable, company. It's not the divestment part that helps, it is the reinvestmen…

Yes, the story is inaccurate: the study was about how power, not luck, changes perceptions. But the message is still right. It's easy to be a jerk if you are powerful. (And it's ea…

This is factually incorrect, in addition to being bad advice. You take on debt when the net present utility of the purchase is greater than the price of the debt. Here's a simple e…

Before you buy into the negativity of some comments on this thread, take a moment to pause. Andrew has achieved some truly remarkable feats. Why not accept what he has achieved is …

I just checked their site, and they act less like a hungry startup, and more like a don't-care near-monopoly. Three examples: - You can't see prices for many items without logging …

I misphrased above. The index fund will pay out a dividend if the underlying stocks do. Fortunately for investors, Companies are paying dividends less and less frequently, preferri…

Articles like this are evidence that people are still surprised that capital grows faster than labour. At least in fair capitalist society the surest way to become wealthy (statist…

You only pay capital gains taxes when you realize gains, not every year. Trump would pay 15% of $20B = ~$3B, so his net worth would be $17B. And this is assuming that his stock inv…

Yes, you can save yourself from the fallout (which decays exponentially with distance anyway). Unfortunately within around 15mi, you're still going to get pretty bad burns, unless …

The rational reason we don't build nuclear shelters anymore is because they're no longer effective. As weapon yields increased, it's become apparent that a concrete, underground hi…

Developers need hardware too!

Is this a serious post, or are you being sarcastic? I honestly can't tell. JS the language of the future? Why? It has probably the worst gotchas of any language I've coded in, it's…

The prize money is definitely a great idea. It'll probably be seen as a rich-company-PR move, but in hindsight, I think we'll see it as a sign of the times. Computer science seems …

I think the clustering either has been trained very well, or uses a very conservative rule-based system. It seems to work great!

I can't edit this original post, but it seems I can't invite people yet; will update when I do.

I wrote a review of the Inbox on facebook (that was my deal with the person that invited me). Cross-posting here if it interests you. My review of Google's new Inbox, based on two …

Actually, I just returned my iPhone 6 last week, and got a cheapo Moto G with LTE. Yes, it was too big for my hands, and I like using phones with one hand.

How about asking people for the command line arguments once they double-click? Telling users they are wrong seldom works in the long run, because this requires a change in the ment…

As someone who's from India, but lives in the Palo Alto area, this is an especially astute comment. America's still clearly the innovation leader in many markets, and I think it's …

```The methane is emanating from at least 570 locations, called seeps, from near Cape Hatteras, N.C., to the Georges Bank southeast of Nantucket, Mass. While the seepage is widespr…