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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...

Short answer: Confirmed! Sell it. Long answer: Let's talk international markets! Way back when the dinosaurs roamed, there was a theory that holding international made sense as a hedge against the US dollar and US monetary policy. The past 25 years or so has not borne that thesis out. IXUS...

Cash makes it all a bit wonky. This is all from the SEC filing: Form S-1/A Initial share price: Basically, they sold 500k shares for $20M then bought as much Bitcoin as $20M could purchase when trading opened. This had the effect of setting the opening per share price to $40ish. That's...

Thanks for reminding me to play this. Heard good things. Is currently $15 on Steam, which for me was worth it vs free on EGS.

PerfCharts | Free Charts | StockCharts.com - will reinvest the dividends and show relative performance. Drag and expand/contract the slider at the bottom to show timeframe, use comma separated to add more stocks e.g. SPY,SPYG. SPY Interactive Stock Chart | SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust Stock - Yahoo...

This is the right question to ask, and I think the answer might surprise you. Let's take a look at this Vanguard 2065 fund. Below is its composition (e.g. these are the 4 "funds" that the target retirement fund has picked and their relative weights) So Vanguard funds for - Domestic Stocks...

Interestingly, I read that scene the exact opposite of how you did. At the end of S1, Trevor explicitly asks for "a priest, one who was properly ordained in a church" to create holy water, and then asks him if he knows what to do with it "for the Aspersion", which to me implied that A. the...

I literally (literally) just buy + hold S&P500 across all accounts, but I do enjoy following this thread and reading everyone's thoughts and trades. Certainly prefer more posts to fewer, and that's a great write-up. Congrats on an excellent year.

This thread reminded me that I have a small outstanding variable rate GATE loan. Let's check in on tha--

If you like procedural-type thrillers (Blue Ruin/Green Room, No Country For Old Men, Sicario, Season 1 of Dexter, other Fincher movies) for the procedural/suspense elements specifically, you will enjoy this immensely. Beautifully shot with an amazing Michael Fassbender--was exactly what I was...

If you've got a movie's worth of time to burn, might as well watch the sequel:

Heroic is a top CS team and CadiaN is their in-game leader, awper (two roles that each have an outsize influence on the game—five players on a team, usually only one awper and one IGL) and largely team identity. About a week ago, CadiaN announced he was leaving Heroic and moving to Team Liquid...

Holy shit.

I still doubt the writing holds up to the first series, but that's a fucking good trailer.

Not a financial advisor, but here's one way to look at it: First, we'll assume that even if your company does go under, your pension will be safe. I would expect that to be true or pretty close to true, but worth confirming. Let's start with a more modest risk free rate. 20 year treasuries are...

Warren Ellis, who was the mastermind writer behind the original series and the reason the plot, dialogue, and characters felt so good, got Me Too'ed and removed from the series, if I remember correctly. I think the animation will still be beautiful, but not expecting the writing to stand up...

I was curious about this after reading RT's embarrassing weekend box office write up. They have a ticker showing the last 99 actions (completed pay it forwards + clickthroughs to individual ticket sales), and grabbing a random hundred it was 93 clickthroughs vs. 12 pay it forward tickets from 7...

This first episode was 100% faithful to the manga. I went back and re-read the first volume and they were nearly scene-for-scene, line-for-line identical. The only change was the longer intro introducing Saito up front and pulling back on the more excessive 'comedy' panels. Pretty excited.

That Trust & Betrayal OVA still stands up today as one of the best.

Violent version I like a good R-rated action movie, but the majority of it looks like PG-13 + CG blood splatter (excepting the nose scene). If they'd gone R for Venom 2, I would have watched it.

Redhead - Ariel aka Piper Fawn Brunette - Little Caprice Blonde - Carisha Maja

For those curious about what happened: Inside the Making of Redfall, Xbox’s Latest Misfire

Incredibly, it was a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GT_Academy

Fucking... FUCK. What a waste.

Makes you wonder what happened with TLJ.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/03/24/diablo-4-confirmed-to-have-increased-legendary-drop-rates-for-the-beta/?sh=3da8e2d6cd02