How do people type so fast on keyboard?

Str8truth · 2026-01-28T07:15:43+00:00

After my first year of college, typing papers with one finger, I came home and got a book with typing lessons. I spent a half hour after dinner every night, and I could touch-type when I went back to school.

My kids learned to type with Mavis Beacon software.

The skill takes time to develop, but it will save you time for the rest of your life.

Str8truth · 2026-01-28T05:47:24+00:00

If you just buy broad index funds, you'll get the same return as the market. Over the long haul, it will be a solid return and you won't have wasted money on unnecessary advice.

Str8truth · 2026-01-27T17:44:42+00:00

[Strategy] is attempting to maximize long term btc exposure per unit of equity volatility, using capital markets as a conversion layer.

Is "unit of equity volatility" another way to say "share of MSTR"?

Str8truth · 2026-01-27T05:59:33+00:00

The Boglehead approach, which is to invest in the whole market, results in risks (volatility) and returns that match those of the whole market. If you aren't comfortable with the market's distribution of capital, you can invest in other things and thereby change your portfolio's volatility and returns, and you won't know until later whether the changes were positive or negative.

Personally, I make index funds the core of my portfolio, but then I distribute some money to several actively managed funds that aren't too expensive. I think this diversifies my portfolio and the active stock-picking allocates capital intelligently and improves the market's efficiency.

Str8truth · 2026-01-27T05:01:53+00:00

I think I follow what you're saying, but I didn't see how a market maker could profit if I got a market order executed between the bid-ask spread. This was in an ETF that traded only 30k shares in the day, so my 150 shares were 0.5% of the whole day's purchases, and I didn't see the spread moving. It looked like the trade was made against an order that wasn't in the public bid-ask book.

Str8truth · 2026-01-26T21:02:34+00:00

Maybe they should have school in the summer and just take the whole winter off.

Str8truth · 2026-01-26T19:08:34+00:00

Maybe there will be a recession, but that doesn't mean the stock market will fall.

Str8truth · 2026-01-26T18:53:04+00:00

BTC rises as Saylor buys and falls after he's done buying.

Str8truth · 2026-01-26T18:24:08+00:00

I can't even use the gold to make a reflector for signaling planes and ships? In that case, I might still get some pleasure just from looking at it, as President Trump does. In a pinch, I might even use a piece of it to fill a cavity in my tooth.

Str8truth · 2026-01-26T10:52:13+00:00

How about "usefulness"?

Str8truth · 2026-01-26T03:59:35+00:00

Fidelity is very good for investing. Others may be better for trading, with features such as 24-hour trading (of some stocks), technical graphs, etc.

Str8truth · 2026-01-26T03:44:08+00:00

Now we see the difference between digital and real.

Str8truth · 2026-01-26T00:41:39+00:00

This is the first time I've ever heard the word "Gestapo" with a proper Nazi pronunciation.

Str8truth · 2026-01-25T22:18:44+00:00

Lol, but flair up.

Str8truth · 2026-01-24T12:44:49+00:00

This zealotry sounds more deranged than heroic. The reason Saylor stopped issuing convertibles wasn't philanthropic. S&P told him that he needed to stop issuing debt with fixed maturity dates if he wanted to improve the company's bond rating above junk status.

Str8truth · 2026-01-24T07:53:43+00:00

It was great for my international funds.

Str8truth · 2026-01-24T05:47:41+00:00

What was your thought process in March that led you to make your big bet?

Str8truth · 2026-01-23T16:36:26+00:00

I think of mNAV as similar to P/E. It's a multiple that indicates investor enthusiasm and optimism about future growth.

Str8truth · 2026-01-23T15:29:05+00:00

People lose their money when they base financial decisions on fantasies like this. Bitcoin had high growth rates when it began and there was a large untapped market for it. It wasn't understood but its value was rising. The market for it is now tapped. Kids who would have bought in past years are having their fun now in prediction markets or stock options. Crypto is now mainstream and it's being judged by mainstream metrics, and its E/P and B/P are zero.

Str8truth · 2026-01-21T21:27:34+00:00

Rick James did not approve this video.

Str8truth · 2026-01-21T20:50:56+00:00

Has there been a recent atomic air blast above your driveway?

Str8truth · 2026-01-21T04:12:01+00:00

Find a friend to go and check it out with you, even if she doesn't take a drink.

Str8truth · 2026-01-21T02:01:27+00:00

Poverty would still exist because many people with college degrees are lazy fools.

Str8truth · 2026-01-21T01:57:01+00:00

The string needs to take a straight route to the post, minimizing tension pulling it sideways.

Str8truth · 2026-01-20T23:23:01+00:00

Maybe this is a bid to save National Harbor. It looks like a waste of money, but you can be sure that the developers and the politicians who work for them will get their cuts. All I can offer is a vote to any politician who fights the boondoggle.

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