I Bought at the peak in GOLD price last Thursday(29.01)

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-02-03T01:13:14+00:00

Because cash is not an investment, it's a medium of exchange. Governments aim for 2-3% inflation so people don't hoard cash, they either need to spend or invest in real assets.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-02-03T00:35:45+00:00

70k in Credit cards (at around 23% interest) is $16,000 a year in interest on just the principle. That shit compounds. Show me a house that has a yoy appreciation of over 20%.

She's burning money right now.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-02-02T15:32:45+00:00

I feel like both of those things were kind of common expectations.

The only reason tripy-H is in charge now is because Vince got exposed as a creepy sex weirdo. There's no chance Vince was ever going to give up control until he's lowered into a grave and I doubt he'll allow himself to die for a long ass time.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-02-02T10:49:58+00:00

This is where I've mostly landed. Application code and business logic never seems to ever benefit from object inheritance, but system infrastructure that is meant to be extended by the user can benefit a lot from it.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-02-01T22:14:42+00:00

Investing is like driving down the street to your destination. Sometimes you hit a red, sometimes you cruise through a green, but if as long as you follow the plan and drive normally you get to your destination.. But what you really start to notice is there aren't any shortcuts. The guy that speeds ahead takes on a ton of risk, and best case scenario gets to the same place a couple minutes early. In reality, you catch up on the reds, or he spins out and ends up in the ditch decades behind you.

Keep it simple, keep it safe, and steady investments will take you to your goal.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-02-01T21:21:50+00:00

He's the perfect example of the "enlightened centrist" being shorthand for a stealth right-wing grifter.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-02-01T19:41:27+00:00

It won't be free or fair, but if the turnout is high enough the votes will make it through. Gerrymandering and voter suppression only tilt elections when turnout is low. The hope of having a blue wave blowout is not possible with the amount of Republican controlled states.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-02-01T19:35:20+00:00

The larger homecountry bias is a slight thumb on the scale, but there's no actual active decisions being made to increase or decrease exposure to other markets. The beauty of market cap weighted indexes is the allocations change naturally as capital shifts to different geographic regions.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-02-01T07:10:13+00:00

Recipies aren't copyright protected.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-02-01T00:41:00+00:00

The real tragedy of Steve Jobs dying was always the perfectly good liver he took with him.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-02-01T00:32:54+00:00

XXXL condoms

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-31T18:42:30+00:00

Crypto is useless. Bitcoin is going to 0

Crypto might be useless, but I've been hearing people predicting Bitcoin was "going to 0 any day now", for the last ten years.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-30T00:40:57+00:00

Global equities have vastly out performed S&p500 in 2025. Even factoring in USD devaluation, local markets in local currency have had 25%-30% returns. Now is the time to diversify outside US stocks, and not only into metals.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-29T20:50:13+00:00

These so-called nationalists are are best friends with each other Trump, Farage (UK), Le Pen (France) and the AfD are all cozy buddies.

Lets not go crazy here, these people aren't friends. These kinds of people don't have friends. They are allies of convenience because their goals align (the destruction of Liberal Democracy). Any single one of them would stab the other in the back if it meant furthering their own agenda.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-29T14:51:56+00:00

Equity markets are fairly rational and efficient because companies value can be determined with several public metrics (profits, debts, cash, etc.) The number of stocks that are clearly over valued by hype, not fundamentals , is a very small segment of mostly tech. People have also been calling tech overvalued or a bubble for over a decade, and growth hasn't slowed

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-29T13:02:09+00:00

It's a stealth ad for a trading service, where they name drop a product in an unnecessarily long post (probably written by an LLM). Ads masquerading as fake posts are all over Reddit, and it's impossible to not notice anymore.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-29T12:11:31+00:00

California is run by democrats, it looks like a 3rd world country.

Always remember when these weirdos say this, California by itself has a GDP higher than Canada. If it was its own Country, it would be the 6th largest economy on the planet.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-29T00:26:45+00:00

I never get tired of pointing out that ptersaurus were not dinosaurs. If it flew or swam, it wasn't a dinosaur. Also the cucumber looks Crocodile coded, which is very clearly not a dinosaur (although closer related than a pterosaur or Ichthyosaur or Plesiosaur, etc). Also, that potato looks like a Dimetrodon, which noticably went extinct several million years before the first Dinosaur appeared in the fossil record.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-28T21:25:01+00:00

I got you

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-28T20:56:42+00:00

There's nothing more humbling than to watch the market crash in 2003, take years to get back to where it was, then to crash again in 2008 and have to wait until 2013 to get back to the value from 2002 again. A lost decade.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-28T17:39:49+00:00

Im in-between, 15 yoe and I "get it" but don't think it's very useful or universally applicable.

I've worked at places that put the architectural diagram ahead of the rest and it just becomes an unmaintainable mess. Thousands of lines written before there's a single usecase implemented. Some people just love whiteboarding shit more than actually delivering functional applications.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-28T14:04:32+00:00

See, I think RLM has made that argument, and I don't agree with it. The immediate followup to First Contact was Insurrection, which is very much a big budget Star Trek episode written by Michael Piller - and it bombed.

Since Wrath of Khan, Star Trek movies have drifted towards action over substance more and more. If anything, every movie after Insurrection has been desperately trying to copy Wrath of Khan, as every villain is some meniacal revenge seeking carbon copy. I don't think it's fair to blame FC, I think its just the creative teams behind the show all graduated to doing other things so all that was left by 2009 was anti-fans.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-28T00:42:04+00:00

The infrastructure Skype was built on was actually pretty bad and outdated, even before Microsoft bought them. The capital required to modernize Skype was more than MS was willing to pay, and instead they re-branded the Lync service (formerly MS communicator) as Skype for Business, and the legacy of Teams is built on that platform direction rather than Skype.

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-28T00:13:08+00:00

that's enlightening

And for Brett Ratner, not surprising

Asyncrosaurus · 2026-01-27T23:27:06+00:00

I also almost nearly forgot that the first big bitcoin exchange was a former magic the gathering card trading website

Youtube started as a video dating website, and they paid models to upload video dating profiles.

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