I tried it a while ago, it's good in that its fast, stable and looks inoffensive. However it felt a little clumsy to me particularly once I'd started adding in a couple of other applications, I then fubar'd it fiddling around. Which actually pretty much sums up my whole linux experience. I'm looking...

In other words, when you will your hand to move and it moves, you are exercising a limited form of "supernatural influence" over your physical body. Worse than that, something else wills your hand to move about 1/2 second before you do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_w...

MG, I'm still trying to figure out if your IQ and knowledge is so far beyond mine that I can't understand what your are saying and probably never will or whether you are just full of sh**. Impossible to call, I suspected the latter, but MG raised a few things years ago that directly impacted me in ...

In general some people swing from extreme to extreme and some people covertly encourage conflict amongst others to satisfy their own needs. It would probably be unreasonable to expect otherwise, particularly on an investment forum.

I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but well done both of you, a very interesting podcast.
Tyler you are sounding worryingly articulate about obscure portfolio comparisons, go back and edit in some "umm dunno's"  

mercuryfish wrote: would you like to give me the link of Ryan Melvey's Stable Investing site???I Can't find it out.thank you.

http://www.stableinvesting.com

FTSE 100 is 80% of overall market cap. The FTSE all share does pretty much just track it, although it has beaten it marginally over the last couple of decades. Probably doesn't matter. https://www.lovemoney.com/news/45718/ftse-100-250-allshare-stock-market-indices-pros-and-cons-investing The questio...

i think the situation  with the pp requires careful watching going forward and forget the past it may not apply anymore . if you see the pp can't get traction to pull itself out you may have to rethink things and cancel some of that insurance in order to keep eating . . Yes... but I think that appl...

I happened upon a build of ChromiumOs ( the open source bit of the chromebook OS) that includes a quite a few older device drivers and so stands a reasonable chance of running on older equipment. It worked on an old very generic laptop I had laying about and is impressively quick even off a USB stic...

my opinion is all anyone is doing with charts of the past is driving and looking in the rear view mirror  and may be  developing a false sense of feeling good . I'm pretty sure that the only claims I read about the PP are it's based on a macro model that has yet to be proven false.  eventually ther...

Stock: IWRD as an ETF (45%) Bonds Direct purchase of 30 year UK Gilts (25%), I'd be interested if people think whether even longer dates bonds would work, the UK govt offers even longer dated bonds. Gold: SGLD (5%) Cash: Offset mortgage (25%). This seems a good way to use the cash component. Any co...

It's all good, a couple of minor points to think about; Check your broker's fee structure is a good fit for your portfolio size and holdings http://monevator.com/compare-uk-cheapest-online-brokers/ Unless you have an overriding reason for using the Vanguard find you might consider holding the Bonds ...

I bought some Swiss annuities while they were still available for purchase by Americans. They are paying 2% or so, which is a lot better than I can get anywhere else, and I like the long-term prospects of the Swiss Franc relative to the US dollar. Nice, I think I'd sleep soundly with that portfolio...

Libertarian666 wrote: Very roughly 50% gold, 35% Swiss Francs, 5% silver, 5% cash.

For some reason I thought you were 100% gold.

The Swiss Francs has thrown me, is it a long term stability type hold or an expectation of the masters of the universe doing the job properly next time ?

The most useful bit of that article was the comment linking back to Tyler's visualisations on this forum, which I missed the first time around.

I think I'm gonna have to get a tattoo. 

I finally decided to stop having the newspaper delivered daily [I know, what's a newspaper?] I really like reading the paper at breakfast though, so I was thinking about getting either a Chromebook or an android tablet. I have a desktop computers that I use for running work related Windows programs...

Tens of thousands of anti-austerity protesters massed outside Britain's parliament on Saturday to demonstrate against the newly re-elected Conservative government's plans for further public spending cuts. Holding banners saying "End Austerity Now" and "Defy Tory Rule", protester...

I guess the only way to tell would be to discontinue but then if I stop feeling fatigue is that a placebo effect? Yes it's really difficult, I found fatigue is very bound with emotional state, teasing out which is causing which is hard. I stopped and started statins 4 times before deciding that on ...

Divorce, Second homes, Children with no shame, ill considered business ventures, overspending and fraud. http://www.fa-mag.com/news/why-clients-fail-at-retirement-21922.html?section=47 It's full of the dreaded 1st world issues, my favourite being the 60 year old dependent child, siphoning off $110k ...

The Diggers in 1649, perhaps more anarcho-socialists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers 

Definitely option 3 with slander, swords and fire.

The biggest problem with gun control to me is that it makes no difference either way. You can substitute drugs, butter knives, meta data collection and so on into the same arguments for the same net effect on crime. The only effect you actually notice in the UK is that you don't have to deal with po...

So how is the crime rate?  I know crime shot up after they banned guns in Australia about a decade or so ago.  At what point does everyone realize they've made a huge mistake??? Crime at a 33 year low, same general decline as you see across the developed world. I doubt there's any correlation betwe...

Perhaps... but not recently. The law dates from the 50s and prohibits the carrying of an offensive weapon in a public place without a lawful reason or reasonable excuse. Does the UK have the equivalent of concealed weapons permits? Mostly no, it's all in the definitions of what "reasonable exc...

The British government has been aggressively restricting or simply outlawing most weapons or implements that could be used for self defense. Perhaps... but not recently. The law dates from the 50s and prohibits the carrying of an offensive weapon in a public place without a lawful reason or reasona...

Jeez lazy analysis. The context is self defence products not self defence . In the context of products, by definition something which doesn't have any legal precedent is neither legal or Illegal. Really what else would you expect the police to say ? In the context of self defence, from the same webs...