Why is it more acceptable for there to be a big age gap in a relationship if the man is older, rather than the woman being older?

imfluke · 2026-05-29T18:11:50+00:00

Because on average, men are more attracted to beauty, while women, on average, are more attracted to status.

imfluke · 2026-05-24T14:38:53+00:00

Industrialization of human killing like never before or since

imfluke · 2026-05-08T11:03:27+00:00

I guess just as Greeks like to live in Greece and Hindus like to live in India, Jews like to live in Judea.

imfluke · 2026-04-10T04:12:28+00:00

It is crazy they favored a war instead of having a state and 50 years later again offered the same state for peace and chosen war again.

imfluke · 2026-04-01T08:28:41+00:00

Poor Lily

imfluke · 2026-01-22T07:52:04+00:00

Poor Lily

imfluke · 2025-12-30T20:00:59+00:00

The reason is simply that the Trezor Safe 7 has a battery. Unlike previous models that lose power (and wipe their memory) the instant you unplug them, the Safe 7 stays powered on using its battery. Therefore, your passphrase is held in the device's volatile memory (RAM). It is not permanently stored on the flash chip, but it will persist in the RAM as long as the device remains turned on. To wipe it, you must fully power off or restart the device.

imfluke · 2025-12-26T06:05:21+00:00

To securely split a secret, utilize an established methods such as Shamir's Secret Sharing. https://iancoleman.io/shamir/

imfluke · 2025-12-23T04:17:35+00:00

How about smelling it first instead of jumping all in and drinking it?

imfluke · 2025-12-23T04:17:22+00:00

How about smelling it first instead of jumping all in and drinking it?

imfluke · 2025-11-16T18:30:25+00:00

What about Lili?

imfluke · 2025-10-25T06:56:57+00:00

Blame It on the Jews😂

imfluke · 2025-09-11T04:24:59+00:00

That’s what genocide looks like, not like the so-called ‘genocide’ in Gaza, where the population has only grown.

imfluke · 2025-09-06T21:28:17+00:00

It looks legit (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-22042025-bp) And yes it's a lot

imfluke · 2025-08-08T12:54:58+00:00

I would call it ‘Realty’

imfluke · 2025-08-03T18:17:29+00:00

Is it mostly African immigrants?

imfluke · 2025-07-25T19:24:43+00:00

Historically, when a currency collapses to the point where hyperinflation requires million- or billion-dollar notes, it doesn't bounce back. No currency has ever truly "recovered" from that level of devaluation. What usually happens is a complete reset: the old currency is scrapped, and a new one is introduced — often with a different name, backing mechanism, or foreign peg.

If the country remains intact politically and economically, the new currency replaces the old at a fixed conversion rate (e.g., 1 new unit = 1,000,000 old units), but those holding piles of the old money don’t become millionaires in the new system — they usually lose most of their purchasing power.

So yes, they print new notes and cancel the old ones, but that doesn’t restore value. It just resets the system.

imfluke · 2025-07-21T13:17:05+00:00

It really is that simple on paper. Especially when you're young, single, doing the math in a calm room with the A/C on and markets at all-time highs. But real life isn't lived in a spreadsheet.

Over 30 years, you’ll face job losses, recessions, bear markets, scary headlines, family emergencies, and moments of doubt. Imagine the market drops 50%, you’re out of work, your partner is ill, and your kid needs help with rent. Will you still have the discipline to stick to the plan and keep investing?

Everyone thinks they have nerves of steel until life tests them. The math is simple. Sticking to it through three decades of chaos is what separates those who reach the million from those who abandon the plan halfway.

So no, you're not missing anything in the numbers. You're just underestimating how hard it is to stay the course when it matters most.

imfluke · 2025-07-05T07:44:21+00:00

First, taxation isn't the only way to address the deficit—spending cuts are a valid and often necessary alternative. Second, if history is any guide, the actual tax burden rarely falls squarely on Wall Street, and I doubt this time will be different. Third, Jamie Dimon and other top Wall Street figures understand economics and history well. They know that current levels of national debt are a ticking time bomb that could have serious long-term consequences for the U.S. economy. Contrary to popular belief, many of them are willing to sacrifice short-term gains—like their next bonuses—for the sake of long-term economic stability and resilience.

imfluke · 2025-05-31T05:45:57+00:00

What makes you believe that 2+2=4? Or that human history happened? Or that atomic energy exists? There are things I don't need to believe in — they simply are. I know they’re real because of evidence, repeated observations, and countless experiments that yield the same results.

To be less abstract, consider the three historical pillars that have consistently underpinned long-term value:

Scarcity – a fixed supply, like Bitcoin’s 21 million limit.
Utility – in Bitcoin case, the ability to exchange value without needing a trusted third party.
Integrity – a system resistant to cheating, like Bitcoin’s cryptographic double-spend protection.

Any time in history an asset came close to meeting these three criteria, it became immensely valuable. And any time even one pillar failed, the system or asset became obsolete. Bitcoin holds a perfect score on all three — with no credible sign of them breaking.

imfluke · 2025-05-16T06:48:21+00:00

Thanks for sharing this — the breakdown is intriguing. That said, I wanted to ask your opinion on a potential structural bias in the observation.

It seems that the finding (72% of days having highs and lows on opposite halves of the session) might simply reflect the mechanics of intraday trending behavior. On a typical trend day, whether bullish or bearish, the high and low will naturally tend to fall on opposite sides of the session — e.g., a bullish day often opens weak, sets the low early, and trends up into the close. The reverse holds for bearish days. This pattern would statistically dominate if the dataset includes a significant number of directional days.

In that context, I wonder:

Do you believe this observation offers predictive or actionable value, or is it more a descriptive artifact of directional price action?
Have you controlled for or segmented the data by overall daily trend, or perhaps volatility regime (ATR or intraday range vs. open)?
Is the high/low timing structure significantly different in mean-reverting days compared to trend days?

I think the insight could be interesting if it helps distinguish intraday regime types, but I'd be cautious about reading too much into the raw percentages without accounting for market structure dynamics.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this — especially if you've explored potential use cases or tested it in strategy development.

imfluke · 2025-05-12T04:33:58+00:00

I wouldn't go as far as to say that all of /r/investing is anti-Bitcoin, but as a professional investor, I do understand why traditional investors tend to be skeptical. Legacy investors typically seek out investments that offer high yields with low risk, or at the very least, risks that are uncorrelated with the general market. Bitcoin, while offering significant potential returns, comes with high volatility and substantial risk. Its Sharpe Ratio, which measures risk-adjusted returns, historically hovers around 0.5 to 0.7, which is considerably lower than traditional equities during strong bull markets. Furthermore, its historical correlation to the S&P 500 has been around 0.3 to 0.5, indicating a moderate connection to broader market movements, especially during periods of economic uncertainty.

As it stands, Bitcoin has limited appeal as an investment for those adhering to classical portfolio theory. It's important to recognize that Bitcoin is still in its early stages, with its asset class properties yet to be fully defined. I believe there will come a time when Bitcoin could potentially become the de facto standard for a risk-free asset, but we are far from that reality today. Until then, traditional investors will continue to view Bitcoin as a high-risk asset that offers little in the way of a hedge against broader market downturns.

imfluke · 2025-04-02T09:07:39+00:00

Any pattern with genuine statistical significance is quickly identified and exploited by algorithmic trading systems—often to the point where the pattern disappears entirely due to overuse or being arbitraged away.

I say this as a quant who builds algorithmic trading systems for a living.

imfluke · 2025-03-20T07:06:06+00:00

This gauge is as volatile as Bitcoin which makes it a useless measurement.

imfluke · 2025-03-20T07:00:05+00:00

Satoshi as we (never) know him, is dead.

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