mike carey

This thread was posted in September. Requiescat in pace.
 

I met Mike early this year. He alerted me that he was coming to Sydney and we set up a meeting. We had met previously in San José. That doesn't sound like only fans exclusivity. 

It absolutely wasn't sarcasm, it was pure unadulterated snark. (And of course, for those who might have been unaware, it included the advice that quoted versions of posts can be edited.)

It absolutely wasn't sarcasm, it was pure unadulterated snark. (And of course, for those who might have been unaware, it included the advice that quoted versions of posts can be edited.)

It absolutely wasn't sarcasm, it was pure unadulterated snark. (And of course, for those who might have been unaware, it included the advice that quoted versions of posts can be edited.)

Many pleasures in life come with risks. Sex is one of them.
STDs are not specific to gay people so NO you aren't being punished for being gay.
Your brain is going to question your choices for a while but your misfortune is not so common that you need to abstain forever. You will heal and so will your spirit.
 

Did you mean Preparation H, or did Twitter by that, too?

It wasn't sarcasm, sweetie!  

I haven't visited the oldest man-made structure in my state (of New South Wales) but having looked it up I may have to check it out. It is the fish traps in the Barwon River at the town of Brewarrina in the north-west of the state. I had no idea of the scale of the structures. They are estimated to be 40,000 years old.
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The Eisenhower home in a Gettysburg was constructed in A.D. 1955.  I believe there may be a few other man made structures in Pennsylvania that are a few years older. 😊

Great points.  This should be factored in, too.

I have this running debate with my investment pen pal nephew about passive investing.  He tends to think that it sucks, and is damaging the market.  Because we are now all mindless investors, funneling oodles of money into whatever some algorithm thinks will make us the most money.  I tend to disagree.  There are worse capital allocation methods out there.  Xi Whiz castrated Jack Ma, even though the Chinese love him.  Just because he viewed Ma as a threat.  Passive investors are bankrolling the Jack Ma's of America and the West.  Forgive me for my bias, but this is why I'd bet on America and the West to win the tech race.  You could say we put our money where our mouth is.
I got kicked over to Schwab earlier this year due to an Ameritrade merger.  So it is interesting to see what is winning and losing since that happened.  Most of the tech stocks or indexes I hold are doing great:  SOXL, FNGU, AAPL, OLED.  Because they are mostly the big winners.  And I imagine tons of passive funds go into them, and make them even bigger winners.  I bought some other profitable tech stocks a few months ago that I thought were good buy on the dip opportunities, like ALGM and INTT.  They both have relatively low PE's, that are less than half their 3 to 5 year average PE.  But so far they've just gone down more.  So even within tech my impression is it's a narrow winner's market. 
As that first chart above suggests, this is building a big bubble, just like in the 90's.   At some point it will crash.  Meanwhile, enjoy the ride.  Like sex, it's always fun while it lasts.

All of that, and the moronic way it weighs the components (by ticker price rather than the far more rational market cap).  So if a stock splits say four-for-one, it loses three quarters of its weighting in the DJIA.  And many stocks simply cannot be added to the index because their nominal stock price would override all other components of the index.  Apple was excluded from the Dow until it issued a seven-for-one split which just happened to put make it eligible for the index.
Kevin Slater

I've been monitoring this thread, as I expect has @mike carey. It's definitely veering towards politics, and has been on a number of occasions. I'm OK with leaving it up as it has not become explicitly political, though I'll admit I'm tired of hearing the same old tropes over and over again. I'd be more inclined to lock it up just because everyone has already said their piece, and I'm not sure what more is to be said. That is the reason I've stopped engaging in this thread myself. 

I haven't visited the oldest man-made structure in my state (of New South Wales) but having looked it up I may have to check it out. It is the fish traps in the Barwon River at the town of Brewarrina in the north-west of the state. I had no idea of the scale of the structures. They are estimated to be 40,000 years old.
OUTBACK TOUR: Australia Has One Of The Oldest Human-Made Structures On Earth. Meh? - New Matilda
NEWMATILDA.COM We love our history in Australia. Just so long as it’s white. Chris Graham explains. Just over a week ago, shortly after I...  

My take on the indices is the same as @Kevin Slater's that the Dow is not a good representation of the overall state of the market, and that the wider S&P is better. That doesn't mean that they will offer divergent scores of where the market is, just that using the Dow brings the risks that any small sample size has for measuring a larger 'population'. Picking a different index (such as the Nasdaq) as the basis for an investment strategy is a different decision process. It's a discrete share of the overall market, and concentrating on such a slice of the market is not an unusual strategy.

My take on the indices is the same as @Kevin Slater's that the Dow is not a good representation of the overall state of the market, and that the wider S&P is better. That doesn't mean that they will offer divergent scores of where the market is, just that using the Dow brings the risks that any small sample size has for measuring a larger 'population'. Picking a different index (such as the Nasdaq) as the basis for an investment strategy is a different decision process. It's a discrete share of the overall market, and concentrating on such a slice of the market is not an unusual strategy.

My take on the indices is the same as @Kevin Slater's that the Dow is not a good representation of the overall state of the market, and that the wider S&P is better. That doesn't mean that they will offer divergent scores of where the market is, just that using the Dow brings the risks that any small sample size has for measuring a larger 'population'. Picking a different index (such as the Nasdaq) as the basis for an investment strategy is a different decision process. It's a discrete share of the overall market, and concentrating on such a slice of the market is not an unusual strategy.

My take on the indices is the same as @Kevin Slater's that the Dow is not a good representation of the overall state of the market, and that the wider S&P is better. That doesn't mean that they will offer divergent scores of where the market is, just that using the Dow brings the risks that any small sample size has for measuring a larger 'population'. Picking a different index (such as the Nasdaq) as the basis for an investment strategy is a different decision process. It's a discrete share of the overall market, and concentrating on such a slice of the market is not an unusual strategy.

I hate the Dow as a metric.  How 'bout the S&P at 5,000?
Kevin Slater

No doubt he was being kind….99.95%

But was it in Vietnam? 😉

It's their smart-house thingee that turns your lights on & off, adds things to your shopping list, orders from Amazon for you, flushes your toilet, walks your dog, kills the bully that picked on you in high school, etc.

So interesting.
When I was a cute little 21y.o. blond boy with a six pak EVERYBODY wanted to top me 🍑 so I went with the flow.
As I got older, things flipped, I became more beefy/masculine and suddenly everyone wanted ME to top THEM. 🍆
I guess I just assumed this was a natural progression with gay men, as many of my first encounters were with top oriented gay/bi men in their late 30's/ early 40s.
I had no idea that so many guys continue to prefer the bottom bunk their whole life.

Fascinating fact.
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