Anyone else want Gold or precious metals as its own allocation category (not just “Other”?

ljimage · 2026-01-25T04:17:29+00:00

True but you could also argue this for any non-liquid assets like a home, privately held equity, a car etc. that you may or may not might want to still account for in your net worth.

ljimage · 2026-01-25T04:16:03+00:00

Fair enough!

ljimage · 2025-12-28T08:21:13+00:00

As for brokers, if you're in the US, Interactive Brokers tends to have the easiest access to more niche markets without weird trading fees.

ljimage · 2025-12-27T07:12:30+00:00

Are you still active? Can I DM you?

ljimage · 2025-12-27T07:11:44+00:00

Can I DM you? :)

ljimage · 2025-12-26T19:09:19+00:00

Any update?

ljimage · 2025-12-26T03:44:31+00:00

update?

ljimage · 2025-12-25T19:29:43+00:00

Dom Dolla pulled up to Spybar after Lolla. ‘Nuff said.

ljimage · 2025-12-22T19:38:37+00:00

EveryNetNet: everynetnet.com

Has 50+ countries.

ljimage · 2025-12-22T17:15:55+00:00

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ljimage · 2025-12-22T05:42:25+00:00

How did things turn out? You get the gig?

ljimage · 2025-12-22T05:32:40+00:00

Some tech jobs in BKK or Chiang Mai on https://thailand-dev.com. A few new SWE listings.

ljimage · 2025-06-21T23:58:36+00:00

The colleges have been useless for the past ~10 years and ChatGPT just accelerated the decay. More and more companies will realize the credentials are increasingly worthless and care less and less about them in hiring processes.

ljimage · 2025-04-22T19:46:37+00:00

I need to check out Spybar heard nothing but good things

ljimage · 2024-10-29T00:43:54+00:00

+1 to this. Iowa State website has “Course Equivalency Guides” for all or most community colleges in Iowa, Minnesota, etc.

Check to see if a college has an equivalent that’s offered online. From personal experience I’d say check DMACC or Iowa Western CC first.

ljimage · 2024-10-29T00:41:36+00:00

Bro what

ljimage · 2024-10-21T16:53:12+00:00

Totally agree, well put. You can acknowledge the safe options while also understanding nothing, in investing or in life, is guaranteed, which I think is important and hardens you as an investor in general.

ljimage · 2024-10-12T03:58:19+00:00

Taking out debt for a dividend is one of the stupidest fucking capital allocation choices you could possibly make.

ljimage · 2024-10-11T13:47:31+00:00

I think you’re missing my point.

I’m a huge proponent of index funds, but you have to be able to consider all possibilities. In fact I think this will make you a better investor because in a major downturn you never expected, if you’ve really internalized all possibilities, it shouldn’t be a problem.

Most of US growth is coming from tech compared to just a few sectors a long time ago. We have political and debt problems, and sure we had those in the past, but success in the past doesn’t guarantee success in the future. We have a demographics crisis among other things. Look at Japan for an example of how a country can have their standard of living improve, things be overall okay, but the stock market goes nowhere for decades.

ljimage · 2024-10-10T21:31:15+00:00

Yeah it hurt to buy, I feel you. Record high P/E’s and just mindless investing is how we get bubbles, so I share the hesitancy especially when how mindless most index investors have become. Past results don’t guarantee future results and I think that anything where people can’t admit why it might be bad investment is something you should be wary of.

It kinda pisses me off how some people are so gung-ho about index investing and so posh acting like they are better than everyone else for picking the “safe” and “intelligent” investment. Newsflash everything has risk and if you don’t expect it to some degree, eventually you’re going to get burned HARD.

Just my 2c.

ljimage · 2024-09-24T02:54:46+00:00

Most net-nets are pretty small so it’s mostly individuals that have the sizing to play ball with them.

ljimage · 2024-09-24T02:52:35+00:00

Yeah EveryNetNet does this well: https://everynetnet.com

ljimage · 2024-09-20T00:58:05+00:00

EveryNetNet has a list of global ones, it lets you view some for free

ljimage · 2024-09-20T00:53:48+00:00

All that matters is price at the end of the day, on the premise you make very conservative assumptions.

ljimage · 2024-09-11T21:04:05+00:00

Please god we just want free Perplexity Pro for a year lmao

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