These are the kinds of stories I find a lot more interesting these days than the general rate of inflation. There's this phenomenon that's starting to be named "luxury poverty" to describe a sort of inversion of the historical norm; now poor people can now afford the latest iPhone and a n...

What did he do? He kind of offended me with two topics and I cringed when I heard them. Cringe is the right word. I suppose I wasn’t offended. Do I find his other material less funny because of the the not-funny, cringey material? I suppose not. I'm curious about what offended you, if you don't min...

Don’t be shy, Vinny. Vinny privately told me that he gave the kid 2 candy corns, a tootsie roll, and one of those mini kitkat bars, which constitutes 0.083% of the candy he’d prepared for the neighborhood. Had he known that this was going to be the sole bell-ringer, Vinny would have upped that to t...

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 3:41 pm It was him who was the who showed up at my house on October 31, 1984, the only time anyone has come to my house for Halloween.

You made that big of an impression? What kind of candy did you give him?

Five new arrests made in Louvre heist Authorities are now in a race against time to recover the royal and Napoleonic-era jewels that authorities have valued at $102 million. Beccuau has described the jewelry as unsalable in their current form, because their status as stolen goods is now known aroun...

Why "regime," Jack? It had to rhyme with: - Stock Scream Room - Bond Dream Room But rates are going down... in the moon going down? I could see all the other assets tanking next year. Stocks are overpriced, gold has been on a tear, bond yields could rise. Which leaves Cash as the least ba...

2026 - Year of Cash! To the moon!

I recently bought two used Lenovo laptops from EPC at eBay. First one was $250. Second was $170. Shocked at how powerful the CPUs are in them for being laptops and their costs. Indeed, I might just buy myself a refurb Thinkpad. At my local computer store they're selling some decent ones with 11th g...

Here is what I was referring to: On August 5, 1971, the United States Congress released a report recommending devaluation of the dollar in an effort to protect their currency against "foreign price-gougers".[10] Also in August, French president Georges Pompidou sent a battleship to New Yor...

The BAA portfolio is a bit too aggressive for me. I'm tracking the Optimum3 instead. It follows momentum, but builds a portfolio of 3 assets that are uncorrelated (from the assets that currently have high momentum).

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 21, 2025 10:42 pm Me too. Wasn't it Germany that tried to get some of its reserves back from the Fed bank in New York and it took years just to get a partial repatriation?

France IIRC.

Paul Belanger found that because of the way the correlations work out over various time periods, LTT are better rebalanced more frequently, and with Gold it's better to let the trend play out over the course of a few years, rebalancing gradually.

I'm in. 100% IEMG.

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Oct 08, 2025 6:55 am I’m done with PHYS, Sprott and all that crap. No more paper gold for me.

Same!

boglerdude wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:35 am

ppnewbie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:05 ameverything would feel different if gold was legal tender or there was something backed by gold. I think this would be a key step in restoring responsible behavior by banks

That's why it wont happen.

ps buy boglercoin

Individuals who opine such might be more inclined to prefer bearer/in-hand assets, such as gold, bought with cash that nobody else knows about, (maybe many years) later when sold withdrawing hard-cash from a bank account to 'buy' that gold - perhaps at a garage sale, that is then sold on to a deale...

Regarding the quantum discussion: I personally think it's safe to say that Bitcoin will likely be vulnerable to quantum attacks from sufficiently powerful systems sometime on the horizon. From what I understand however, the fix is pretty simple. The Bitcoin protocol can be updated without a hard fo...

Something tells me you’re going to get your chance, Bird. (But now that I’ve said that, if you wait for the bands and gold suddenly drops precipitously, please do not decapitate me O0 ) I'm thinking of doing it before hitting the bands and maybe do the second catchup rebalance later if the price ke...

Peelu USA (no affiliation) sells dental fibers made from the same tree as that chewing stick. Neat! I have bought Peelu's xylitol gum before. It wasn't cheap, but it was good quality. Since July I've been committed to chewing Dr. Ellie's gum many times a day...after each time I eat something. Soon ...

But what you get with the dividend approach is that the corporate executive managers themselves are using their knowledge to help you decide how much corporate income can be spent without sacrificing the future operations of the companies. In other words, selecting solid mature companies and only s...

I tried to make a bootable Linux USB drive from an ISO file this morning. I find the process exhausting. Terminal mode, etc., things don't give the results that the instructions say, etc etc. I hate this crap. I gave up. This should be a super simple process but it's not. Linux will never be ready ...

Definitely pick a distribution that has KDE, so we can enjoy the fruits of our own Pointedstick's labor. O0 I concur. Here's what he said a few years ago: At the moment my favorite KDE distro is Fedora KDE, which I use myself, as does my wife and most of my KDE dev colleagues. It's a really good di...

Pointedstick wrote: ↑Sat Oct 08, 2022 1:38 pm This is something I'm working on changing from within KDE though!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288690

Nice article about KDE and lots of positive comments from HN. I blame PS!

I didn't watch the video but I have watched one previously by him. His whole deal is that civil war and/or collapse are coming. Skip to the 51 min mark for the summary. 1. Decline of democracy and freedom 2. Economic collapse 3. Immigration 4. Civil War between societal groups 5. "Stupid"...