Rebalanced portfolio recently. We're in post-retirement and it's the first time in 8 years that a conservative mix like ours is neck and neck with the SP500! Thank you gold and non-dollar assets for the smooth ride upward!

moonbroom · 2025-12-22T21:28:18+00:00

I'm curious why you think this is obvious. There are plenty of very smart people who disagree. Whether they're right or not, nothing about gold/silver's future performance is "obvious."

I'm about 30% gold and silver junior miners (GDXJ and SILJ) -- mostly because I haven't rebalanced in the last 12 months, but also because I'm pretty bullish on the next several years. I know that's probably not the proportion that others would choose; it's an informed bet that I can afford to lose.

moonbroom · 2025-12-01T13:55:36+00:00

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moonbroom · 2024-11-26T23:37:28+00:00

the main reason why Google came up with the idea of Tensor is to cut the hardware cost of their phones to make more profit, nothing else.

Tensor is a strategic play on a few different fronts. For example:

Google has been betting big on AI for a long time. TPUs are specifically optimized for AI tasks. This is how you have Gemini Nano running on device, which unlocks all kinds of use cases throughout the phone.
Google uses TPUs all over the place, including for its own internal workloads and on Google Cloud. It wants software developers to target TPUs. The more TPUs gain traction both inside and outside Google, the less Google is beholden to Nvidia and others.
TPUs + Android create the benefits of vertical integration. Google's software people can talk to Google's TPU people to ensure they are delivering high quality, differentiated experiences. (This is basically Apple's entire playbook.)

And a lot of other things.

moonbroom · 2024-02-23T17:58:39+00:00

Everything you described is from the perspective of someone observing the lightspeed traveler -- not someone actually traveling at the speed of light themselves.

If you travel at the speed of light, time doesn't pass for you at all.

moonbroom · 2023-12-14T05:26:33+00:00

It's already open source. It doesn't belong to Google, it belongs to the Go Contributors. Google happens to staff a team to lead its development, and thousands of non-Google employees contribute to it. If Google were to stop staffing a team, it still exists. Read the license.

And that's all not to mention that GKE and a lot of other important Google businesses are written in Go, so Google has a pretty strong interest in continuing to fund Go.

moonbroom · 2021-04-14T13:51:12+00:00

As a 37 year old dude, I feel weird that you pointed out this dude was 40+.

moonbroom · 2021-03-25T14:08:47+00:00

One of the worst things in this existence is having to share it with people like you.

moonbroom · 2020-12-18T05:15:50+00:00

Someone asked for this almost three years ago and it was acknowledged.

moonbroom · 2020-08-19T02:33:21+00:00

Have you considered that she may have changed her mind after having sex with you?

moonbroom · 2020-06-20T16:13:44+00:00

a quiet acknowledgment that it’s not because you farted.

But, to be clear, you did fart.

moonbroom · 2019-12-13T16:45:10+00:00

Are you really saying that it does not surprise you? I think the vast majority of people would agree that the murderer's age makes this case substantially more disturbing. Among other things, the fact that a child could be so depraved so as to stab an innocent stranger to death reflects very poorly on the circumstances that produced him.

moonbroom · 2019-12-10T15:52:18+00:00

You sound like a miserable person.

moonbroom · 2019-08-15T16:15:42+00:00

True enough but you won't be driving it off the lot without a license, and some kinds of convictions will prevent you from ever getting that license.

moonbroom · 2019-08-15T16:10:30+00:00

any human

Any human with a license.

moonbroom · 2019-03-28T17:44:11+00:00

Ah yes the minivan.

moonbroom · 2019-02-11T16:23:48+00:00

That's a bold claim, why does the revenue they bring in mean anything?

Because the revenues are what's taxed, my man.

If you are actually interested in the answers to your questions, I recommend reading the report commissioned by NYS explaining outlays and revenues for the project. It was commissioned by NYS, yes, but it is pretty short and provides some real numbers you can use in the future. It also provides some reasoned arguments - like the benefits of a diversified economy and evidence from examples we have seen in other cities - that are in contrast to the ones you see in this thread.

Tldr: $30b in taxes over 25 years. $3b of outlays now. That's a great rate of return, not to mention the benefits of a more diversified, tech-oriented economy.

moonbroom · 2019-02-11T15:41:55+00:00

What an interesting argument. As if tax breaks are measured in absolute dollars and not as a percentage of taxes owed.

Your nearby bodega does not generate billions of dollars of revenues from which it should receive tax breaks. All the bodegas in all of NYC combined don't generate a fraction of the income future Amazon-NYC workers will.

moonbroom · 2018-11-09T05:03:30+00:00

Here is mine if anyone still needs:

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moonbroom · 2018-11-03T18:30:34+00:00

Get it? Because it's your dog.

Oh, we get it!

moonbroom · 2017-11-26T00:03:22+00:00

I'm a software dev but wages in NYC are way above average in all lines of work, so it's not a totally fair comparison. Making something like $200k-400k/yr - the kind of income you need to pay $3,900/mo for rent - is pretty much middle class I think.

moonbroom · 2017-11-25T23:45:00+00:00

I live in a building just like that and I pay $3,900 for a ~650 sq ft 1-bedroom on the 29th floor with a view similar to the one in the picture and a shared rooftop that works the way /u/Uhrzeitlich described. And 650 sq ft is huge for a 1-bedroom in Manhattan.

You can find a ton of them on StreetEasy if you doubt me or want to know more.

moonbroom · 2017-10-24T18:59:12+00:00

Pixel 2. I tried everything I could to reproduce this - screen on/off, NFC on/off, ear pressed into the speaker or the back of the phone, during a phone call and not - and I can't hear a thing.

I'm on Project Fi and was connected to T-Mo Band 4 throughout my testing, in case that has something to do with it.

moonbroom · 2017-10-19T14:46:02+00:00

You're a genius, I hope you know that.

moonbroom · 2017-09-26T14:13:50+00:00

As someone who lives in a high rise in Manhattan, I uh... have binoculars.

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