Recent content by sliverstorm

I don't understand why halving would do much to the price outside of driving less energy-efficient miners out of business. Doesn't Bitcoin auto-adjust the difficulty of its algorithm to average one block every 10 minutes or so regardless of how many or few miners there are? And most of the...

It's possible. Corporate finance is part of my background, and I definitely can't do the technical stuff most people in this thread do, yourself included. What I mean is if you value UNH solely based on its cashflows and you thought a consistent growth rate was actually pretty close to the...

Isn't this more of a cash flow thing? Like, if you're throwing off ~$20B FCFE a year with modest but consistent growth and ridiculous stability, at some point there's a price low enough where that cash stream is valuable. If your thesis is "this is gonna happen for a long while", the lower the...

Letter from the CEO to employees regarding the closure. Employee leaked all private financials, partner info to Kotaku. That is one article I will definitely read: Edit: Looks like there's a bunch of studios bundled together under one parent company, and this is just the latest subsidiary to...

Been quite a while since I read X-Men. Let's see what's up. Hmm.

Edit: No specific plot spoilers, but broad impressions of the comic having read it end-to-end:

I had a similar experience. Had an uncle who was into sci-fi, he gave me A Fire Upon the Deep when I was a kid and I really couldn't make sense of it. Came back to it as an adult and couldn't believe what I was reading.

For those unfamiliar: Also the year Justin won EVO UMVC3 beating Champ and Chris G in the finals. Crazy to think that was a decade ago.

This is a pretty great idea given that What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way was more or less a real-life response to The Authority in the first place. Would probably make my top 5 Superman stories of all time. Also has one of my favorite panels--stuck with me for over two...

The data in the blue chart/article suggests that a shorter-term 1-3 year post-recession hold might still be a good play. The question I was trying to answer beyond that was "is it still worth holding for 15+ years?" Specifically, I was trying to refute that point you saw about "missing out on...

I guess devil's advocate would be that FSMAX took a relative beating the last few years, so any 'last X years' stat is going to look pretty poor. Here's a chart with both equivalent indexes on a 10-year slider. Move the slider at the bottom around and you can see there were plenty of similar...

Two things: First, in settings > UI, you can turn on or off crosshair indicators for fuel/flame belch/chainsaw/grenade when off cooldown. This lets you keep your eyes in the center of the screen (thought they were on by default, but maybe not). Second, you'll develop a 'rotation' focused on...

You've got it right in your edit. Some stuff you might want to look at (last one is most important): Returns If you want to compare two funds over a specific timeframe, using charting tools is a good way to do it--most will automatically normalize the start date so that the growth rates are...

You're not wrong about the data, but I'd be cautious about trending the nominal % gap. The size of the gap you're seeing is really more about how much overall gain the markets experienced in the 20 year span. Compare starting in 1980 to 1995 from the 20 year chart--Nominally, one shows a 1124...

I wanted to address this because I think it's a fair criticism. Let me say I'm also an amateur--I'm not drawing a salary from investing and I work full time in a non-related field. I learned most of what I know in college and at that time made the decision that I didn't have the aptitude or...