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sassypants

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    Ask HN: Best practices for OS X dev environments

    I'm about to get a new Mac and will be starting fresh on a new drive. I would like to know if there are any best practices in regards to creating multiple user accounts, with diffe…

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    Comment #8287692

    Can you pick 20 small cap stocks which have outperformed the dollar over four years? Are there tens of thousands of merchants that will accept said stocks as payment for their prod…

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    Comment #8287679

    I've been through college level statistics classes. Nothing I learned in them suggested that holding currency for less than a year was an appropriate measure of savings. You're com…

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    Comment #8287461

    Bitcoin remains the best and most liquid savings vehicle over the last five years of its existence. Assuming savings = holding currency for over 1 year. On 98% of the days that you…

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    Comment #8067718

    But that's my point. Arbritrarily declarations that exponential growth must stop soon are not meaningful in the positive or negative. There are reasonable methods, however, to esti…

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    Comment #8067705

    In my example I was using a 1 year horizon. So none of those closing prices would be charted until they had a year to mature. I think I would need to make a slider so that you coul…

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    Comment #8065510

    I've been meaning to build a chart to evaluate this. The question would be: What are the longest periods of time one could have held Bitcoin and lost money? And secondarily, how fr…

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    Comment #8065452

    But why would it stop sooner than a $200 billion market capitalization? Or $700 billion for that matter? When Facebook was raising money at $10 billion valuations would it be wise …

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    Comment #8065407

    Bitcoin has shown predictable, steady growth sustained over a many year period. https://i.imgur.com/kV2IRT5.png Tulips experienced exponential an order of magnitude shift in price …

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    Comment #8065316

    What exactly is the problem with a store of value with 500% annual returns? I read people talking about the supposedly awful volatility, but they fail to mention that the volatilit…