Actually, if you made 500x 1/50 times you would be doing really good. That's a 10x profit. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I never thought I could predict stocks. I stuck with mutual funds. Now, at my age, it's mainly fixed income.
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Actually, if you made 500x 1/50 times you would be doing really good. That's a 10x profit. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I never thought I could predict stocks. I stuck with mutual funds. Now, at my age, it's mainly fixed income.
Silver always seems to be a mess. The one (relatively) nice thing about silver is that it is relatively easy to hold the physical metal. Getting an appreciable amount of gold comes with a real security risk, but silver is valuable...just not THAT valuable. You could keep it under your bed without being too concerned.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
With gold, I assume you are buying gold shares rather than chunks of the actual metal that you have to store in a vault. The latter seems pretty messy, unless you already had the vault for other reasons....like keeping your booze away from raccoons.
When I was down in Florida, my landlady told me about somebody breaking into her house. They apparently sat on a valuable coin collection while drinking up all the wine in the house, after which they were kind of done with the robbery. They never knew the coins were there.
Bonds and some stocks give you some return (interest or dividends) while also varying in price as the markets move. Gold does the varying in price without those returns. A 5% bond will still return 5% even if the face value has dropped. It kind of provides a way to feel good about it while also having a way to feel good or bad about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
And then there are funds...
I was being hyperbolic, I don't know the numbers lolQuote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Gold is pretty value-compact though.
A new truck costs about a truckload of silver (ok, maybe 3 to 4 monster boxes of Eagles). That's a lot of space and a lot of weight. Like 120 to 160 pounds!
Yet a single tube of gold Eagles would be far more than enough.
Burying silver in the back yard would be nuts. Gold is almost practical though, even if you spread it out in several caches. You could buy some copper rounds cheap to make non-ferrous decoy caches too if you are paranoid about metal detectors. :p
Damn metal detectors!!! That's why I have to always remove everything metal from body before I bury it in the back yard. What a pain in the butt. :wave:
You bury your body in the backyard...frequently?
It's a whole lot easier burying somebody else's body.
Orthopedic implants can't be detected, so you are safe burying that... um... raccoon.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I went for a walk today, as the weather was pretty nice. In fact, it was perhaps a bit TOO nice. I was sweating more than I should have been, so I stopped to sit on a bench. Unfortunately, I was immediately inflicted with a case of COL and was unable to leave the bench for about an hour. During that time, I found out that "Stuart" was well known in the community for being unusually outgoing. Everybody in the area had encountered him. Several people in the area apparently fed him. I was both told that, and had ample evidence weighing me down.
I couldn't break your code. What every the infliction I hope it's gone and that you didn't over feed Stuart.
The COL?
I have cases of overwhelming laziness almost everyday. Well, after work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
So did Stuart pay you a visit by the bench you refused to leave, keeping you there a few minutes longer than you planned?
Stuart, of course, is a cat. I was sitting on the bench, he decided to sit on me. It did keep me there several minutes longer than I had planned.
He likely would have kept me there for several more hours, but eventually I had to evict him.
That and I didn't know if "Stuart" was an animal, person or something else.Quote:
The COL?
My guess was a squirrel or a homeless person.Quote:
Stuart, of course, is a cat
Might be a homeless person...would probably eat a squirrel, but Stuart is a cat, and COL is a TLA for Cat On Lap.
My AI's short-term memory tests from a day ago:
Running STM integration tests...
[test_stm_influence] OK (diff=4.98219)
[test_stm_override_ep] OK (avg=10)
STM integration tests completed.
Running STM + Semantic integration tests...
[test_stm_semantic_combined] OK (avg=10, fidelity=1)
avg_r=10 (episodic baseline=0.00999999, semantic mid=2, stm strong=10)
[test_stm_leakage_clear] OK (avg_with_stm=10, avg_after_clear=0.267355)
[test_stm_capacity_eviction] OK (oldest evicted, size=3)
[test_stm_interaction_stability] Cycle 0 OK (avg_with_stm=5, avg_after_clear=0.606708)
[test_stm_interaction_stability] Cycle 1 OK (avg_with_stm=5, avg_after_clear=0.606708)
[test_stm_interaction_stability] Cycle 2 OK (avg_with_stm=5, avg_after_clear=0.606708)
STM + Semantic integration tests completed.