I vote for the monkey throwing darts. That's the kind of visceral things kids like and makes it a lot more fun and interesting than a bunch of boring numbers in a newspaper or web site.
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- Tue Nov 15, 2016 9:34 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Stocks for sell time horizon in May? (High school Economics project)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5124
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 9:12 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Authoritarians
- Replies: 56
- Views: 26135
Re: The Authoritarians
I don't mean to come at you sideways. But when I say "removing 11 million people seems unworkable, cruel, and will cause all sorts of other bad consequences and violence," responding "yeah but the rule of law," is a bit weak. We're all breaking the law, daily. Law =/= morality n...
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 9:03 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Electoral College
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10759
Re: The Electoral College
The point is, the electoral system was a hack for slavery and never was part of the original makeup. Elections were never supposed to be about the states. So don't be hypocritical just because you want your preferred political party to be in power. Scrapping it would be good for the Republican Party...
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 8:52 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Lifestyle Design - where to live
- Replies: 36
- Views: 20145
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 3:21 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Authoritarians
- Replies: 56
- Views: 26135
Re: The Authoritarians
One could argue that #2 is our culture but #1 is undermining it. From that perspective, #1 could be preferable. "Rule of law" is a concept and it would be silly to assume that people don't apply their behaviorial/ideological biases to the application of it. To wit: http://s19.postimg.org/b...
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 12:23 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Authoritarians
- Replies: 56
- Views: 26135
Re: The Authoritarians
Millions of people need to be deported because millions of people were allowed to illegally enter and stay in the country because of weak immigration policies. Correction: weak enforcement. I don't know why the Republicans can't ever seem to get their act together on it unless Democrats stonewall t...
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 12:09 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Social Security Withheld vs Privatization
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4695
Re: Social Security Withheld vs Privatization
You don't even need privatization. The research team—Gary Burtless of Brookings Institution and Anqi Chen, Wenliang Hou, Alicia Munnell and Anthony Webb of Boston College—assumed that up to 40% of trust fund assets were stashed in the stocks in a broad market index. They then compared the possible o...
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:36 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Electoral College
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10759
The Electoral College
This is the first persuasive argument I've heard for scrapping the electoral college. Although the Philadelphia framers did not anticipate the rise of a system of national presidential parties, the 12th Amendment—proposed in 1803 and ratified a year later— was framed with such a party system in mind...
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:06 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Authoritarians
- Replies: 56
- Views: 26135
Re: The Authoritarians
Re deporting people by force. Are they intentionally breaking the law, or aren't they? Does that count for anything? If not, wow. What happens in Canada when they find someone illegally in the country? (I don't know, but I suspect they get deported.) The reality of other country's strict immigratio...
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:03 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Authoritarians
- Replies: 56
- Views: 26135
Re: The Authoritarians
What is your opinion on the Patriot act, surveillance, the "war on terror," stop and frisk, and the idea of police forces trying deport 11 million people by force. I'm sure you didn't mean police -- police aren't legally allowed to deal with immigration issues. And ICE doesn't have the ma...
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 7:57 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Anyone care to predict the future?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4192
Re: Anyone care to predict the future?
Eh, PP doesn't have returns like that. Ever.dragoncar wrote:Is that pp or S&p?MachineGhost wrote:Trifectas an exception but it is woefully statistically insignificant:
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 8:48 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Big, Open, Green, Wasted, Space!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14656
Re: Big, Open, Green, Wasted, Space!
Truly, I've never read more deeply depressing doom porn than what gets posted to GranolaShotgun and StrongTowns. The pictures make it visceral.
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 7:35 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Authoritarians
- Replies: 56
- Views: 26135
Re: The Authoritarians
Here's my SparkNotes: Democrats = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoticism Republicans = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism And the "right" in "right-wing" does mean right on the political spectrum because the author is a Canadian liberal that was trying to understand th...
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 2:34 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1451859
Re: Figuring Out Religion
Did a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk the earth? Discussions over whether the figure known as the “Historical Jesus” actually existed primarily reflect disagreements among atheists. Believers, who uphold the implausible and more easily-dismissed “Christ of Faith” (the divine Jesus who walked on w...
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:11 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Tyler, is that your cat?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5551
Re: Tyler, is that your cat?
You guys seem to rebalance awfully frequently and not every 2-3 years as rebalancing bands dictate. You are letting your losers run and capping your winners. Maybe not frequently, but I did rebalance after a year and several months as Harry suggests an annual rebalance is ok. I'm low on bonds and n...
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:40 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Lifestyle Design - where to live
- Replies: 36
- Views: 20145
Re: Lifestyle Design - where to live
Did I miss the answer to my question somewhere in your "colorful" commentary? :D No, I don't have any specific place in mind yet. Just biases. Not a bias: Not red or black, ever again. I wonder if moda lives in #49? ;D I guess its no surprise why #1 in CA is the most expensive area. Could...
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:38 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Tyler, is that your cat?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5551
Re: Tyler, is that your cat?
You guys seem to rebalance awfully frequently and not every 2-3 years as rebalancing bands dictate. You are letting your losers run and capping your winners.
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:37 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Trump's Effect on the PP
- Replies: 88
- Views: 68175
Re: Trump's Effect on the PP
The last 3 days are dust in the wind—just as a few bad days in 2013 were, or those 3 great days (whenever), or the years that the PP lagged the broad market, or when it outperformed it when needed most. All that is old news buried under a smooth flowing, longer-term trendline—but only if one does n...
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:35 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Trump's economic entanglements
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8756
Re: Trump's economic entanglements
If Obama, Warren, Hillary, or Bernie don't stand up and tell the protesters to knock it off, the Democrats are really going to suffer in the court of public opinion. They are making Trump a sympathetic figure. I have not heard any Dem advance this thought as of yet. War is the health of the state. ...
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:32 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How Donald Trump Plans To Help Goldman Sachs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1601
Re: How Donald Trump Plans To Help Goldman Sachs
Trump's turning into a loser already.
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:25 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Will Comey be prosecuted under the Hatch Act?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8824
Re: Will Comey be prosecuted under the Hatch Act?
My point is that if we're a country of laws, laws should matter. Comey knew what he was doing. It's against the law. How can anyone (even "us centrists/moderates/libertarians ... unbiased to either political ideology") think it's OK for him to get away with this? I'm sorry, but you're eit...
- Sat Nov 12, 2016 9:30 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Trump's economic entanglements
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8756
Re: Trump's economic entanglements
After having a grand old time making fun of Republicans for going whackadoodle bananas when Obama was elected president, it's awfully ironic to see Democrats now doing the same thing. I guess those tribalist impulses are stronger than they thought! I'm not sure he can help it any more than Reub cou...
- Sat Nov 12, 2016 7:05 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Social Security Withheld vs Privatization
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4695
Re: Social Security Withheld vs Privatization
Helvering v. Davis (1937): Social Security ""contributions" are in fact taxes. Fleming v. Nestor (1967): "To engraft upon the Social Security system a concept of "accrued property rights" would deprive it of the flexibility and boldness in adjustment to ever changing co...
- Sat Nov 12, 2016 5:49 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Best Refrigerator Temperature to Keep Food Fresh
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3934
Re: Best Refrigerator Temperature to Keep Food Fresh
Then 37 it is?
- Sat Nov 12, 2016 5:40 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Trump's economic entanglements
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8756
Re: Trump's economic entanglements
Why in the world would you think he has any intention to fix anything? He's an outsider not a careerist politician vested in the status quo. Isn't it abundantly clear that he cares about nothing except himself and is nothing but a con-man? You mean, like careerist politicians? You have to use a jud...