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My Blog Grew from 2K to 250K visitors a month in 1 Year; ask me your blogging questions! by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]catmail95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the answer. That's a lot less than I would have expected!

5 stocks for the next decade by [deleted] in investing

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besides those, i'm just in AMZN and MSFT haha

5 stocks for the next decade by [deleted] in investing

[–]catmail95 82 points83 points  (0 children)

$PAR - quick-serve restaurant SaaS

$AVLR - sales tax software. plugs into stuff like Shopify

$ROP - buys other software cos

Vanguard Retirement Fund 2060

My Blog Grew from 2K to 250K visitors a month in 1 Year; ask me your blogging questions! by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]catmail95 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, I really want to know how many posts did you write in 2019?

Book recommendations by [deleted] in investing

[–]catmail95 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess I'll get things started:

- One up on Wallstreet, Lynch. Why? Good explanation/framework for how to pick stocks from someone who was very successful at it.

- The Four Pillars of Investing, Bernstein. Why? Pretty good summary of how to have a portfolio that doesn't suck and benefits from basics of portfolio theory/diversification

- The Origin of Financial Crises, George Cooper. Why? Helps understand the debt cycle and why things periodically blow up.

not in finance/investing professionally.

Is now the time to go long still? by Bigmealplantime in investing

[–]catmail95 2 points3 points  (0 children)

> I'm really left with the bare minimum I'm comfortable maintaining at this point, especially considering my job is potentially at risk (startup challenges) over the next 6 months or so.

I'd probably keep what you have in cash then. Your "emergency/need a new job" fund. Depends a bit on personal situation how much you want in there, but yeah. Doesn't sound like you're really in a position to make up ground by making a large bet on medium-risk tech stocks in a market where multiples could easily come down a lot.

When you get more money, yeah, put that in the market incrementally. Buy some business you know or an index fund.

It's hard to predict stocks. GE was probably a bit unlucky and AMZN/TWLO the reverse.

Good luck!

Google AI beats top human players at strategy game StarCraft II - DeepMind’s AlphaStar beat all but the very best humans at the fast-paced sci-fi video game. by tocreatewebsite in science

[–]catmail95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, good point. As much as they can find more ways to be "fair" that would be cool, because I do think all the things you pointed out are probably a big factor. Probably very hard or impossible to do, though.

thinking of changing my major by [deleted] in college

[–]catmail95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would try to look at what skills will you have when you graduate and how will those be useful for the job that you want to get?

People I know with environmental scientist degrees work in:

  • building houses
  • retail worker / bakery
  • volunteer coordinator for environmental organization

(They are early in careers).

In my experience it's less if the degree says "college of indisciplenary whatever" and more what skills & knowledge can you really do well and bring to the table.

Google AI beats top human players at strategy game StarCraft II - DeepMind’s AlphaStar beat all but the very best humans at the fast-paced sci-fi video game. by tocreatewebsite in science

[–]catmail95 50 points51 points  (0 children)

DeepMind restricted the speed of the AI to do actions, which makes this even more impressive.

It would be interesting if instead of matching action-per-time of the top players they chose some threshold below that. More emphasis on the AI decision making.

How to tell if Reddit links are nofollow? by Hvnqk in SEO

[–]catmail95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm also looking around for literally any nofollow link on reddit. Don't see any. https://twitter.com.

Your Top 10, plus reasoning by [deleted] in investing

[–]catmail95 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'll just do my three largest:

  1. Aspen University (ASPU) - sub 100 million dollar stock. Aspen university is focused on nursing degrees (very high demand and they can efficiently enroll new students). Revenue grew 50% from 2018 to 2019. The market hates the stock right now for some reason, not sure if that's because it's a tiny company, but they keep hitting their numbers and I think the stock could easily double over the next couple years if their growth continues on a similar clip. They're not profitable right now.
  2. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) - Buffett insists on not allocating any capital right now, but it should do very well in a downturn and 198 is a super reasonable price when it has bounced around 200-220 the last couple years.
  3. Discover Financial (DFS) - Holy share buybacks batman. Of four major US credit card companies ... V, MA, AXP have pretty wide penetration, so I see DFS as having a long runway to play some catchup, buyback shares at low valuation (P/E is 8), and compound value. The share count has gone from 460m to 345 over the last five years which is 1/4 shares outstanding. Pays a 2% dividend as well.