(seajay)I see 2023 as a year with 50/50 probability of either stocks or gold being up/down. Such that starting the year with equal amounts of both is as good-as-any a choice

I’ve never been able to hold enough gold. For the pp, yes, but not for pp+vp.
Your post is heartening.

Gold is starting the year with gains.

Gold purchases by everyone from central banks to institutions and ordinary investors have lifted the precious metal in 12 of the past 16 sessions, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

— WSJ, Jan 26

Once you get past about 55yo you can't sleep to when you want, or stay up 'til whenever for that matter. At least for me, I feel like absolute crap all day if I get less than 6.5 hours sleep, so doing that intentionally is not going to happen. I’m not quite there yet in age but I noticed my sleep i...

Ahhhhh. Many thanks

belgo wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 25, 2023 8:25 am

leveraged PP instead?

You might enjoy threads like this one - https://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/v ... =10&t=9310

Jocko is the Art of Manliness guy? I wonder if he derived his name from Devo’s ‘Jocko Homo’ (“Are we not men?”) … So what I've been doing is setting an alarm every day, and if I'm not asleep in time to get 7.5+, I'll stay awake long enough to make it a <6 hour sleep. Sounds kind of like intermittent...

see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_W ... ontroversy

snedgar wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 24, 2023 9:19 am

I think it's intended as satire...

One might think so if it were short, but it goes on and on. You can see comments beneath, with the author’s responses.

The conventional beliefs about sleep challenged.
Still digesting
https://guzey.com/theses-on-sleep/#comf ... -is-normal

Xan wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 5:47 pm

Maddy wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 5:39 pm

C'mon, everybody's heard of Queen Nephrotiti.

Is she the one that died of kidney failure?

That’s a word worth learning. Yesterday I learned FIMBRIATION, but I’m not sure that one is worth it.

I didn’t realize until today that you can get the silver Britannia with either Queen Elizabeth or King Charles on the obverse.
I think the King Charles ones are pre-orders.

🚧 Since the Sound Blaster thing evolved into a fully fledged thread about old computers & games, I gave it its own space. (Of course, when I used the “Move all posts from the selected post onwards” tool, it only moved the one selected post, Xan’s. I have since moved the rest but the order may be a l...

I took all the hard drives out of about six computers. Also took out all the CD-ROM drives. Then put then at the end of my driveway. I was shocked at how quickly they were taken. I remember seeing a fellow doing something like that in Vancouver... no one took the machines because it rains so much i...

Mark recently linked to this piece as a way to ID which J.D. Roth we were talking about in another thread. For what it’s worth, I think it’s an excellent essay. The bit about his father “investing” in gold when he could barely put food on the table struck a chord, especially. Not because my Dad is l...

I only know the word from Hellraiser. You do not want to use Google Images and have been warned.

There’s a reason it’s called gyroscopic

Hahaha. He’s brilliant.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 21, 2023 12:50 am

There are some old games I really want to play.

Shogo, Rainbox Six, Swat 2, Warcraft 2, and others.

I was thinking of buying an old Windows XP machine so that I could play them natively again.

Have you used an emulator and played them non-natively?

^Hilarious, Vinny! O0 ^ Hmm. Just a bit off, here. could you write a poem about my buddy KS who likes vodka and hates feral cats _ _ _ _ _ ChatGPT: My buddy KS, with a wild heart, Likes vodka that sets him apart. He consumes feral cats, with a grin, A true wildcat, always on the spin. His love for v...

Ah, thanks, Mark

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Thu Jan 19, 2023 6:40 pm

My local public library in my new city has the best book on investing ever written in their catalogue. First I’ve seen!
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I just looked up JD Roth. Is it the JD Roth?

Smith1776 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 19, 2023 2:41 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 19, 2023 2:21 pm

“WTF lol” - are you sure you didn’t ask a teenage chatbot?

She is both younger and more accomplished than me, so don't rub it in.

So you were right- the AI’s are taking over!

Well…every forum has a rainbow of intellectual colors.

“WTF lol” - are you sure you didn’t ask a teenage chatbot?