Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

Post by branchless » Mon, Dec 12, 2016, 2:04 AM UTC

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I don't believe land is taxed highly enough so the system encourages monopolising land to appropriate value added by labour that should be going to workers. I think right now we have a situation were money makes money and selling your labour doesn't, in the average case not in the "I'm a senior engineer at google" case. I just don't see how this ends well. Workers struggling to get wage rises at all and yet 5% per an…

Relax, you are mixing apples and oranges. Many companies, large multinationals to small startups don't want to OWN property. It's capital intensive for them, they want to rent. Does Starbucks own its coffee shops? No. Can't you see how renting property is a service to many? Stop being apocalyptic simply because someone owns property. Take a chill pill.

Post by jklein11 » Mon, Dec 12, 2016, 2:29 AM UTC

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Can you elaborate please ? I am considering investing a some time in bitcoin and blockchain next year and I would really appreciate your insights. What tools/services/websites did you use ? Did you learn that on your own ? what resources did you use ?

Pretty sure Bitcoin works best for the people who got in early. anon4this1: I bought 5800 bitcoins mostly for around $5 back in 2011ish [...] I'm up 15,400% in 5 years https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13093895

Post by zild3d » Mon, Dec 12, 2016, 2:35 AM UTC

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This was pretty accidental, but to motivate myself to complete the arduous application process for my professional engineering license, I creates a WordPress blog documenting the process. Also because I thought I would learn something new (setting up WP blog) and this seemed very "shippable". I completed the application process over the course of a year and haven't written a blog post in over a year. Thanks to a comp…

By changing ad placements, and adding a more ad units, you can increase your Adsense earnings significantly.

Post by Inconel » Mon, Dec 12, 2016, 2:55 AM UTC

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Renaissance is part of the market, and it's the sort of thing that we individual investors can't beat. "The market can't be beat" doesn't mean no one can see better returns - it means a random yahoo like me simply can't compete with the information, processing power, and access funds like Renaissance have. Thus, an average investor is a lot better off with an index fund instead of trying to pick individual stocks. (F…

So buy into the Renaissance mutual fund. There, you beat the market.

Post by rphlx » Mon, Dec 12, 2016, 3:20 AM UTC

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The market cannot be beat by 100% of amateurs piddling away on their brokerage account during a few spare hours a week. The market cannot be beat by 99.9% of professional investors spending all their time day and night trying and with a team of people helping them. I'm calling your bluff on you being an econ PhD student or maybe you have been one for a month or two at most...? If you are an econ grad student you know…

Academia doesn't pay that much attention to the real world. Most of the papers out there are rubbish and would be considered junior level work, except with way too much detail. There are pretty much no econ papers that would describe what happens inside the high end systematic firms. (Source: I work in the industry) Bringing up the outliers is a perfect counterexample when wild sweeping statements are made. These are…