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“Not in charge of” can agree “Have no access to” I have doubts

There’s TIPS ETFs

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Plenty of hedged equity funds out there. Trade some performance for peace of mind.

Yes. That’s what passive investing is. You give money to the passive fund, the passive fund buys the market. No regard to price or any other metric.

In Italy, it’s illegal to pay in cash anything over 5000 euros

I’m not sure what the justification is, but I assume it’s some flavor of “so index fund holders don’t miss out on returns”. It’s crooked because index inclusion drives massive flow…

In big tech’s case it’s mostly to offset massive stock compensation of executives and insiders

Yes, but it was done for spacex and it’s crooked

By “raising death taxes”, I meant comprehensively, eliminating loopholes, as the sources I linked discuss more at length. Re: irrevocable trust, a cursory search revealed no legiti…

Wealth tax is highly impractical. Very high and inescapable death taxes is what we need. Like 80% after an initial exemption amount. https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/the-summer-slide…

Broken Money by Lyn Alden is a good book on the topic

.74 is pretty weak for a correlation, and correlation is already mostly meaningless on its own

The picture of the 4004 and 8008 are super low res

Our business got charged a 200% tariff on a UPS import from Japan, completely incorrect. The dispute is taking much longer than OP’s. Either UPS doesn’t know what they’re doing, or…

He is describing how bidding for publicly funded projects fails, because the bidding process designed to avoid corruption has been poorly designed (or corrupted by lobbying) such t…

Stack allocation/deallocation does not fragment memory, that’s a yuge difference for embedded systems and the main reason to avoid the heap

Nice. In california it’s $800/yr

You would’ve sold it way before it became FU money

In Europe this (some rec drugs bring out latent schizophrenia) is taught in med school as a “known fact” (source: psychiatrist friend) so it’s well beyond “starting to seem”

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You have it reversed. Currency inflation leads to unfair distribution because the value of financial assets grows faster than the real economy (it inflates). Currency deflation ben…

Deflation is fairer and reduces moral hazard in finance. The weak point of gold is that it’s too slow to settle transactions (you have to move it), so a paper gold system on top of…

It’s comforting knowing that I’m not the only one being driven crazy by the renaming file focus thing. Now when I paste a file and go to rename, I wait and watch the focus selectio…