Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)

Post by bawolff » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 9:23 AM UTC

jws wrote: post #35

polyphonicist wrote: post #34

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Can you elaborate this more? I know about continental drifts and I know they occur at a scale much larger than a tiny box. Does it have any effect on the small scale a tiny box would be buried in if we are not burying the box near fault lines?

Australia is clipping along at 2.7”/year (about 1/16 of a meter). That doesn’t seem like much, but in a few decades your hole is going to need to be pretty big.

Post by im3w1l » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 12:07 PM UTC

saalweachter wrote: post #8

jofer wrote: post #7

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That's not as accurate as you think unless you've got a full geodetic antenna. (i.e. $200k worth of equipment + a lot of permits to be allowed to have/use it) Getting to within +/- 30m doesn't help a ton when you're digging a hole to find a small box. With geocaching, you've got something to look for. You get close-ish and then do an easter egg hunt. When it's beneath the ground, it's really hard to "look". Finding e…

Doesn't modern GPS claim +/- 3 meters, with a clear enough signal? (Which is still a heckuva lot of dirt to shift.)

Post by gowld » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 6:56 PM UTC

smcl wrote: post #27

hinkley wrote: post #25

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What the heck do ya mean?

Think it's a reference to Fargo - a Coen brothers film and TV series

Post by justin66 » Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 1:55 AM UTC

nemo wrote: post #30

Cpoll wrote: post #6

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The story asserts the landmarks changed, but can't you pick landmarks that won't change? Better yet, use GPS and grab the Lat/Long.

You bury something and it's outside, there's no climate control, some random metal detectorist might find your thing, maybe someone will have spotted you finishing burying the thing, no saying. Just rent a storage unit or safety deposit box. Locks are better than dirt for protecting things.

Post by oska » Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 7:55 AM UTC

sambe wrote: post #40

This is a terrible analysis. Neither of the investing mistakes he supposedly made are applicable to his case. Nor was his method "intended to wring the last cent of profit out of a good trade over capitalizing more safely on his market prediction". He feared seizure! Losing a large proportion or all of your capital is not "the last cent".