Recent content by sliverstorm

If you didn't read the book (like me), I'd probably stop watching that trailer at about 2 minutes. Feels like major spoilers. What the fuck Amazon.

Just doing a semi-annual check in on my portfolio. Pretty boring year so far?

Watched based on the recommendations in this thread. This was great. The whole thing is a lean 90 minutes that doesn't waste a second of your time. The animation... frame rate? is off-putting for the first few minutes and then you get sucked in and it just fades to the background. The actual...

God damn I love Marvel. Great finals.

In this case, the answer is a bit more boring: automatic sale of vesting RSUs to cover tax obligations To further put that number in context, Stephen Cohen still owns something like 15 million shares of PLTR according to the filing. Guy's incentives are aligned.

As someone who also thought Control was amazing, don't waste your time with Alan Wake 1. Imagine if one OoP had its own spin-off game, but the object was a book and your character is the author--that's about as much relevant cross-over as you get/need to appreciate. Some people thought the story...

IMO Grummz is a trash source who regularly exaggerates and lies for views. There was no fine. There wasn't even any government response. A privacy firm filed a complaint based on a customer pissed about always-on connectivity. Ubisoft was collecting the same always-on crap for SP games (time...

Was pretty funny watching the gameplay reveal, then watching this. Can I play this game instead?

Here's a fairly innocuous example from my own mortgage: If I choose 2 payments or if I choose 1 payment and add $1,000 principal, what I'll see at the bottom of the screen is submitting for a $2,000 payment that will come out of my bank account. I think it's more about homeowners educating...

Yep. It's really something you'll want to re-evaluate at the time you plan to start cashing out. OTOH, you might want to just switch to actual cost now so you don't fuck up in 10 years by selling one share and locking in everything prior. Once you're on actual cost you can change the order you...

Cost basis is how capital gains are calculated--it's the official price you bought the stock at. You only pay taxes on the sale price (or reduce ordinary income by the losses) above and beyond the cost basis--the capital gains. I buy a share for $100, I sell it for $120, I am only paying taxes...

I wish I could know how I'd react to that trailer without having seen Falcon and the Winter Soldier. That show completely poisoned the Sam Wilson character for me, and I don't think Mackie has the star quality to pull me back in. Agree with @Juvarisx on the tone, though. That said, I remember...

I was curious about this as well, since S&P 500 makes up 100% of my portfolio. Specifically, about using 200D as a metric for market timing to sell and then buy back in. Below is a chart that shows every day the S&P500 was <=14% above the 200 day moving average since 1960. The chart then...

Last large post from me on the CPI derail. Firstly, I agree that every soundbite an administration posts about interpreting inflation, jobs, wages, "preliminary" numbers are all bullshit and politically motivated. The Biden admin claiming "fastest growing economy" by using a baseline of the...