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Re: Signatures

Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 2:03 pm
by Libertarian666
Smith1776 wrote:
Sat Jul 25, 2020 1:23 pm
dualstow wrote:
Fri Jul 24, 2020 2:28 pm
While Bogleheads focus on parroting Buffett’s comments about gold — I’m not trashing them — they should be paying attention to how gold moves relative to the dollar.
What really gets me is when no one on that forums sees the obvious logical fallacy in Buffett's argument.

Buffett presents a binary choice between all the productive farmland and something like 7 Exxon Mobils versus a block of gold. He then makes the obvious choice of saying the productive assets are the clear choice.

Well, duh.

But in the real world investors don't have a binary choice between stocks and gold. There's an infinite gradation between 100/0 and 0/100. Buffett committed the logical sin of the black-or-white fallacy -- a well known flaw that even a first year philosophy major should have been able to detect.

I honestly expected a stronger argument from someone as smart as him.
Yes, that is an elementary logical fallacy: no one chooses between all the gold in the world and all the diamonds in the world either. There's this thing called "marginal utility".

But he doesn't need good arguments when people treat him as a guru.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 5:41 pm
by Mark Leavy
dualstow - congrats on the kombucha!

Re: Signatures

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 6:12 pm
by dualstow
Mark Leavy wrote:
Fri Jul 31, 2020 5:41 pm
dualstow - congrats on the kombucha!
Thanks! The plain is delicious and I’ve got a few bottles in the cupboard attaining various flavors.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:08 pm
by Tortoise
my house smells like star anise
Funny you should mention that, @dualstow. Just last week I bought some star anise for the first time ever to go in some mulled wine I was making.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:45 pm
by dualstow
Tortoise wrote:
Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:08 pm
my house smells like star anise
Funny you should mention that, @dualstow. Just last week I bought some star anise for the first time ever to go in some mulled wine I was making.
It’s my favorite spice. A few pieces in a slow cooker with ribs (and cinnamon and few other ingredients) ⇢ magic.
I also put it in vodka with caraway seed and fennel.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:51 pm
by Tortoise
dualstow wrote:
Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:45 pm
[Star anise is] my favorite spice. A few pieces in a slow cooker with ribs (and cinnamon and few other ingredients) ⇢ magic.
I also put it in vodka with caraway seed and fennel.
Cool, I'll be sure to try that. A few years ago I experimented with making different kinds of infused liquors (cherry whiskey, vanilla/ginger vodka, etc.).

Re: Signatures

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:06 pm
by Smith1776
dualstow wrote:
Fri Jul 31, 2020 6:12 pm
Where's Jack Ma?
Where is he indeed??? China just keeps getting more and more scary. Real life 1984 over there. Disinformation, people disappearing, a zeitgeist of conformity.

Or are we just getting misinformed by our media and China is the real promiseland?? Now that would be very 1984.

China has that law that says you can be punished for insulting the CCP no matter what country you reside in. If you travel there afterwards you could be detained. I will test that.... for science.

The Chinese Communist Party is a bunch of no good wankers.

Okay, going to China. BRB.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:07 pm
by Smith1776
Dualstow, if I don't make it back you can have all my gold. It's buried under the shed.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:37 pm
by Mountaineer
Smith1776 wrote:
Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:07 pm
Dualstow, if I don't make it back you can have all my gold. It's buried under the shed.
As long as it isn’t under Vinny’s compost pile! 🤣🤣🤣

Re: Signatures

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:46 pm
by Smith1776
Mountaineer wrote:
Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:37 pm
Smith1776 wrote:
Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:07 pm
Dualstow, if I don't make it back you can have all my gold. It's buried under the shed.
As long as it isn’t under Vinny’s compost pile! 🤣🤣🤣
That's the perfect spot! No one would dare go in there!

Re: Signatures

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 7:34 pm
by dualstow
Smith1776 wrote:
Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:07 pm
Dualstow, if I don't make it back you can have all my gold. It's buried under the shed.
I’ve been. Paradise it ain’t. O0 Good food, though.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:12 pm
by Xan
dualstow wrote:
Mon Jan 04, 2021 7:34 pm
Smith1776 wrote:
Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:07 pm
Dualstow, if I don't make it back you can have all my gold. It's buried under the shed.
I’ve been. Paradise it ain’t. O0 Good food, though.
Are we talking about China or under the shed?

Re: Signatures

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:10 am
by dualstow
O0

Re: Signatures

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:54 pm
by Mark Leavy
dualstow, I can't figure out what the emoji/icon is in your signature. Do tell.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:04 pm
by Mark Leavy
Doh! Of course. That ties together the remaining life mysteries that I hadn't yet solved. Thanks, Tom.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:28 pm
by dualstow
Mark Leavy wrote:
Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:54 pm
dualstow, I can't figure out what the emoji/icon is in your signature. Do tell.
It’s simply the white hair emoji. https://emojipedia.org/white-hair/
I put it there because I was going to change it (to something else) when I saw Pence come on the news.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:32 pm
by Tortoise
dualstow wrote:
Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:28 pm
Mark Leavy wrote:
Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:54 pm
dualstow, I can't figure out what the emoji/icon is in your signature. Do tell.
It’s simply the white hair emoji. https://emojipedia.org/white-hair/
I put it there because I was going to change it (to something else) when I saw Pence come on the news.
Isn't it missing the fly?

Re: Signatures

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:34 pm
by dualstow
😂 A girl sent me a picture of that and I hadn’t seen the skit.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 6:00 pm
by Smith1776
dualstow wrote:
Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:34 pm
“As a white person of colour, I am extremely concerned about the rise of black whiteness.” — Titania McGrath
LMAO. Best quote ever.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:26 am
by dualstow
O0 Titania's my favorite.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:31 pm
by Smith1776
dualstow wrote:
Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:26 am
Texas Amber Alert for Chucky?
Just Googled this.... LMAO.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:37 pm
by Xan
Smith, I just went to your "message from Harry Browne" link. I have to say, now that YouTube always gives you an ad before the video starts, that kind of link sadly doesn't work nearly as well as it used to.

They should exempt that particular video from their ads, of course.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:38 pm
by Smith1776
Xan wrote:
Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:37 pm
Smith, I just went to your "message from Harry Browne" link. I have to say, now that YouTube always gives you an ad before the video starts, that kind of link sadly doesn't work nearly as well as it used to.

They should exempt that particular video from their ads, of course.
Le sigh.

Re: Signatures

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:44 pm
by Smith1776
https://www.change.org/p/google-inc-rem ... rect=false

Please sign the petition for a good cause. ^-^

Re: Signatures

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:30 pm
by InsuranceGuy
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