Posts Tagged ‘my financial empire’
Another Day of Extreme Cold, Another Link Post
* CFP: The State of the Single-Author Study (also MLA 2020, deadline March 15). As Sean Guynes-Vishniac noted hopefully an SF studies scholar will participate as this has been a major site of research in recent years, largely due to the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series.
* Just for the record: Polar vortex: what is it and how is it linked to climate change?
* Greta Thunberg: Act As If Our House Is on Fire. Because It Is.
Do you know how rich a billionaire is?
Let’s say you earn $50k/year & save every. single. penny.
After 20 years, you’d have saved $1 million.
After 200 years, you’d be dead, but would have saved $10 million.
Only after 20,000 years(!!!), would you have saved $1 billion.
— Nathan H. Rubin (@NathanHRubin) January 30, 2019
* Kamala Harris picked a fight with the wrong fandom.
* Sanders’s bill, the “For the 99.8% Act,” would tax the estates of the 0.2 percent of Americans who inherit more than $3.5 million, while the rest of the country “would not see their taxes go up by one penny under this plan,” according to aides to the Vermont senator, who is considering a 2020 presidential bid.
* Democrats Must Reach Out to Moderates in 2020 — By Waging a Vicious Class War.
* How a frustrated blogger made expanding Social Security a reasonable idea.
* Joshua Tree national park ‘may take 300 years to recover’ from shutdown. And another shutdown is just a few short weeks away!
* Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate.
How much better? “A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast was in 1980,” says a new paper, published last week in the journal Science. “Useful forecasts now reach nine to 10 days into the future.”
* Cop watch: This Is What Truancy Laws Do. Feds used fake Michigan university in immigration sting. ICE force-feeding detainees on hunger strike. An asylum seeker’s quest to get her toddler back.
* OxyContin Maker Explored Expansion Into “Attractive” Anti-Addiction Market.
* Once you have your sensitivity raised about a particular condition, you see the abuses they suffer everywhere. Florida School Staffers Charged With Using Dark Room, Whistle to Torment Autistic Kids.
* You can report the news in a way that doesn’t inform anyone.
* Bipartisan agreement that Donald Trump is God’s chosen instrument for destroying the United States.
I have been on the edge of my seat for seven damn years. pic.twitter.com/BDpBmkD5Oj
— Kristopher Tapley (@kristapley) January 31, 2019
* No helmets, no problem: how the Dutch created a casual biking culture.
* What happened when Oslo decided to make its downtown basically car-free?
* I basically pitched this story in Graz, talking about the difference between Aquaman and Namor: Namor, ecoterrorist.
* The Beginning of the End of Capitalist Realism.
* Today in the liberal media’s endless drumbeat for war.
* 1984.
* It looks like I’ve accidentally made a terrific financial decision.
“We find that LEGO investments outperform large stocks, bonds, gold and other alternative investments, yielding the average return of at least 11% (8% in real terms) in the sample period 1987-2015,” write the authors of a study titled LEGO – The Toy of Smart Investors. “Small and huge sets, as well as seasonal, architectural and movie-based sets, deliver higher returns. LEGO returns are not exposed to market, value, momentum and volatility risk factors, but have an almost unit exposure to the size factor. A positive multifactor alpha of 4-5%, a Sharpe ratio of 0.4, a positive return skewness and a low exposure to standard risk factors make the LEGO toy an attractive alternative investment with a good diversification potential.”
* What You Should Know Before You Start Watching Porn.
* Scenes from the Anthropocene.
* And just in time for teaching SimCity later this semester: Behind one of the most iconic computer games of all time is a theory of how cities die—one that has proven dangerously influential.
Written by gerrycanavan
January 31, 2019 at 12:00 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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