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New comment by nothercastle in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

nothercastle — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:54:09 +0000

No it pushes you into a higher tax bracket earlier so also acts as a tax increase

New comment by nothercastle in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

nothercastle — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:18:21 +0000

The appearance impropriety is almost always just as deferential as actual impropriety. Missing out on Gains will do a lot less damage than getting caught in a pump and dump scheme

New comment by nothercastle in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

nothercastle — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:03:47 +0000

They might but changing the rules for a highly controversial company would do more harm in lost trusts than gain for investors.

New comment by nothercastle in "Your 401(k) is about to become Elon Musk's exit liquidity"

nothercastle — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:52:41 +0000

There are other s&p indexes. You can get total market index of you want. If you go too large you pick up companies that are too small you might as well pick the Russel or similar. The 500 is/was a good balance. Companies big enough to have government influence but not just the bloated top.

New comment by nothercastle in "Your 401(k) is about to become Elon Musk's exit liquidity"

nothercastle — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:15:05 +0000

Profitability was an index rule removing it adds garbage to the portfolio

New comment by nothercastle in "Your 401(k) is about to become Elon Musk's exit liquidity"

nothercastle — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:13:54 +0000

It’s generally a good idea to bet against that guy

New comment by nothercastle in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

nothercastle — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:18:35 +0000

That extra decade might provide almost no revenue. The long tail isn’t profitable

New comment by nothercastle in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

nothercastle — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:14:28 +0000

It’s true once built the data center can operate right up to a financed data center value of zero. The investors will loose money but the costs of AI will go down as they do

New comment by nothercastle in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

nothercastle — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:47:58 +0000

The episode was excellent

New comment by nothercastle in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

nothercastle — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:11:57 +0000

Apple was a pretty crappy stock till the late 90s so you would have had to wait almost 2 decades to make decent money

New comment by nothercastle in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

nothercastle — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:35:49 +0000

Dimension funds aren’t bad

New comment by nothercastle in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

nothercastle — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:45:35 +0000

Yeah but if you price it in steam decks you probably lost money

New comment by nothercastle in "What it would take to rebuild U.S. manufacturing might"

nothercastle — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:44:20 +0000

How do you compete with China? You loose on regulatory costs before you even consider anything else.

New comment by nothercastle in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

nothercastle — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:29:44 +0000

They can’t even operate efficiently in the USA was that intended as sarcasm

New comment by nothercastle in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

nothercastle — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:27:53 +0000

Bitcoin is here to stay so is crypto but the impact was much more limited then initially predicted

New comment by nothercastle in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

nothercastle — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:25:59 +0000

I mean yes they are serving ads off websites they Plagiarized with AI. So if you use ai to serve up content you don’t own as your property then perhaps you can make money. The cost is that they are completely killing the creators

New comment by nothercastle in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

nothercastle — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:37:09 +0000

Toy production is down significantly too. Not a lot of cool toys out there.

New comment by nothercastle in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

nothercastle — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:34:30 +0000

Demographics play into the problem too. Massive decline in number of kids

New comment by nothercastle in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

nothercastle — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:27:12 +0000

Force taxes on average use. Force empty stores to subsidize existing ones.

New comment by nothercastle in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

nothercastle — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:24:17 +0000

It’s probably a bad rule in retrospect but to reprice now would be devastating