Interest rates rising will increase your cost of borrowing at the same time long bonds and stocks tank. Read the interactive brokers page on maintenance margins and understand all the calculations, and plug it into a spreadsheet to model how much of a drop you can experience before a margin call. Th...

My IRR so far in the PP has been 5.7%, so I actually think I'm due another 10% gain before I start worrying about "outperformance"

Pointedstick wrote: What's wrong with current audio technology? Serious question, I have no idea.

Temporal blur causes earbleeds

#pooping

We really need to implement all three suggestions:

Twitter
Facebook
Tech novelists backup server

That way, we have four total modes of communication.  If at any time on or two are going down, hopefully they are compensated by the other 2-3

dualstow wrote:

dragoncar wrote: What's special about 1280?

Nothing. It's just kind of a nicely abrupt surge.

Wrong.  1+2+8+0=11.  1*1=1.  Illuminati has one eye

Illuminati confirmed

Also the logarithmic scale on the X axis in MG's graph. It is interesting to see how many more hours the average U.S. worker puts in compared to EU countries.  The productivity/GDP output is not the only yardstick though.  Clearly that hasn't led to improvements in quality of life, or at least not ...

What's special about 1280?

Yawn. There was a small quake centered near Vancouver Island a few months ago.  So I don't know if there will be many stress-relieving quakes, one big one, a bunch of middlin' ones, etc. I know for a fact that there are going to be tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, etc. with loss of life this year NOT...

Yikes... Need a gdp per hour worked chart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_hour_worked Top 10: Rank   Country         GDP (PPP) per hour 2013 1         Norway           75.18 2         Luxembourg   73.22 3         United States 67.32 4         Belgium           6...

MachineGhost wrote:

Yikes... Need a gdp per hour worked chart

I put an old-fashioned ice tray in my freezer and now I have enough ice for the one every quarter or so I find myself wanting ice. Old fashioned???!!!  I still use those.  The ice is square and not shaped like a stupid half moon and doesn't taste funky.  I doubt I would ever use an ice maker in a f...

Seriously, you guys carry the frugality a little too far sometimes, IMHO. You could save money buy doing your laundry with a washboard and tub instead of a washing machine, but why would you? Yeah, if you're struggling with money the biggest problem generally isn't the ice maker in the fridge but t...

You guys just don't like ice that much. My GF goes through 4 trays a day when she is at her house, mostly just [filtered] water with lemon over ice. When she comes to my house, she fantasizes about how wonderful it would be if she had an icemaker at her home like I do. Change the filter regularly, ...

Yeah, having an ice maker in Texas is pretty nice.  That said, I quickly learned in my California rentals how to make ice with a bowl of water and an ice pick.  Whenever the automatic ice dispenser acts up, I admit I have a renewed fondness for the simpler approach. i used to make ice in trays and ...

I love having an ice maker in my fridge, even though it has leaked three times in the past year (plastic water lines were old and brittle).  how much extra do out really pay for this convenience, amortized out over the life of a fridge?  Cents per day?

Sure, I work a little more than 15 hours per week and still make enough to save 50% of my paycheck.  I'm not like Tim ferris type, I just cut back my hours at a decent paying job. 

Libertarian alert! http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/licensing-laws-are-shutting-young-people-out-of-the-job-market/ Young people entering the job market have always faced challenges: a lack of skills and experience, limited professional networks, unfamiliarity with workplace culture and expectat...

I'm not trying to make a cult out of it, but if there were a consistently better plan than the pp, Harry Browne seems like he'd be smart enough to find it and sell it. I mean, people expect this stuff to be hard and to be complex, and he probably could have sold a lot more copies if the strategy ha...

My net worth is at an all-time high at the moment and has recently reached a significant milestone. But seeing how this portfolio gyrates over time, I'm expecting a plunge any day now. Low overall volatility is why most of use the PP so I guess you would have to define what you mean by "gyrate...

I get this stuff from Costco, after reading the Davis study that showed significant adulteration in imported olive oils.  They only have the garlic infused type, so I'm not sure if that adds other problems. But I love the flavor.

Neat, but why did I have to enter my social security number to see the graph?

Am I the last man that stands tall and glorifies in the chrominance of my stream? Of course not!  But in order to really see the color, a stream isn't likely to be a sufficient quantity.  The radius of the stream would have to be huge.  It works for me, of course, but I'm worried about the mere mor...

Yeah, what business?  I think the advice should go in the other direction

barrett wrote: One of the things that I like about NYC is that pedestrians still like to assert some ownership over the streets, and the cops are happy to look the other way. In CA, forget it. If you are a pedestrian, the police are your enemy.

Haha!  Someone has never been to SF, Berkeley, Oakland...