Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798971

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Correction, there is a tiny "drop down" selection symbol in the far right upper, click on it and nag screen goes away.

6 months? A year?

Retail traders will keep throwing money at the stock market until they just don't anymore. It's not a logical thing.

and then when somebody yells "FIRE !" ... everybody rushes "to the door" and cannot get out in time.

Better to hedge your bets, if you are long in the market, with put options. Think of it as insurance.

Sharpe ratio ?

Flip the script ? Appears the US will look worse by extraditing him in his current health state, instead the US will become the pariah.

I would buy only prepaid CC's with say a $200 limit. It worked well for a time, until Google finally figured out a way to distinguish prepaids from regular credit cards. When they stopped taking the prepaids that's when I stopped buying Adwords, but I also noticed I had no reduction in business, it was virtually the same as before.

Nowadays if the business won't take a prepaid with a limit - - - I don't want to do business with them, cannot trust them as far as I can throw them.

I have not tried crypto, but seems that basically a one time crypto payment would be a fixed amount, once.

For me, giving someone your $5,000 credit limit credit card is just like putting a stack of 50 one hundred dollar bills on the table and telling them, take what you need, I trust you. Well, no I don't.

Also, I discovered that if a business is not observing your request to stop re-occuring charges on your card, like broadband internet cable companies, web hosting co's, and so many others, it was a waste of time calling them and complaining, or writing letters, etc. It was WAY easier just to call up my credit card customer service and report the card stolen, then the number is cancelled for good, they send a replacement card next week. I even ask for and receive "expedited" service, they overnight the new card to me.

All of them germinated and grew to the common orange-yellow version.

I gave up trying.

This was a big problem in house wiring years ago, why is it not still a risk, seems you see in the news a lot more stories about EV's burning up than gas cars - - even with copper wiring ...

Automotive industry people clam new special fastening methods and connectors with anti oxidant greases., but is the public being "setup" as beta testers ?

It is widely known that as electricity flows through and heats up the wires, aluminum expands. As it cools, it contracts. Over time, these temperature changes cause the wire to loosen at connection points, unless they are spring loaded or other special techniques.

There are just too many sketchy online merchants out there who might just attempt to charge your card way more than the agreed upon sales price, then there are those who I disfavor who "pre-authorize" your card for $500 or more, like rental car companies. Every 6 months or less I call in one of my credit cards to the issuer, one at a time, so I have one still active, and tell them it was stolen. This "flushes out" your old credit card no. from hackers and sketchy merchants, gives you a brand new number. I also almost always only deal with brick and mortar merchants who off "touch to pay" (the chip), never swipe, since I have had my cards hacked at least 3x from swipe, it's old tech and being scammed at gas pumps nationwide.

Why even share this research ?