rrrazdan (u/rrrazdan)

rrrazdan commented on What Do the Best Investors Do That the Rest Don’t? behavioralvalueinvestor.s... · Posted by u/gmishuris

drumhead · 2 years ago

For traders maybe, because they pyramid the position on the back of any gains made. But you also don't want to have so much invested in one company that it becomes make or break. A 10% loss on 5% of your portfolio is way more manageable than 10% on 50% of your portfolio.

rrrazdan · 2 years ago

No even for buy and hold investors. The best investors get only 55% of the bets right. Only a little better than a coin toss. The only reason the performance for them is better than the 55% metric would suggest is because they cut losses on losers early and push on winners.

rrrazdan commented on What Do the Best Investors Do That the Rest Don’t? behavioralvalueinvestor.s... · Posted by u/gmishuris

drumhead · 2 years ago

It may be that risk control is one of the key factors in success. Either through diversification and a broad spread of investments, or having a defined loss per position and then having the discipline to sell. Position sizing is also important, not putting too much into one investment.

rrrazdan · 2 years ago

You are right that position sizing is important but for the opposite reason. Knowing your winners and then full on concentrating in them is statistically a big part of what makes successful winners.

rrrazdan commented on React PDF Viewer github.com/react-pdf-view... · Posted by u/rgbrgb

rob74 · 3 years ago

Yeah that's the most forgivable part ;). I never understood this particular idiosyncrasy - after all you don't say "it costs dollars three", and you also put other units of measure after the value, e.g. 80 mph, 100 °F, so why on earth does the dollar sign have to go before the amount?

rrrazdan · 3 years ago

Yeah even if we consider USD a unit, most units are appended after the number. It is weird. Never thought of it this way. Huh!

rrrazdan commented on Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/fi... · Posted by u/toxik

martythemaniak · 3 years ago

If they had to choose, NATO would probably rather have Sweden and Finland in and Turkey out. Here's an interesting thread on Finland's strategic importance: https://twitter.com/tomiahonen/status/1525959053490458624

rrrazdan · 3 years ago

Not at all. If Murmansk's importance causes Finland to be strategic then what about Crimea? Turkey blocks Russia's warm water sea access. Much more important for Turkey to be in NATO than Finland purely on the basis of geography.

rrrazdan commented on David Rosenthal on cryptocurrencies blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee3... · Posted by u/codebolt

yrral · 4 years ago

I am not aware of any other large consumer of power that can cut power with seconds of notice without economic harm.

Eg: google/facebook datacenters, aluminum smelters, factories, etc.

rrrazdan · 4 years ago

Aluminum smelters do this all the time btw.

Also there is economic harm in shutting down mining I.e loss of mining fees.

rrrazdan commented on Millions Still Months Behind on Rent After Eviction Moratorium Ends cbpp.org/blog/millions-st... · Posted by u/paulpauper

tjr225 · 4 years ago

This is one of the strangest things I have ever heard anyone say.

Landlords buy something, and then charge someone else more than it is worth to use it- because it is necessary. They are essentially home scalpers. Don’t feel bad for them.

rrrazdan · 4 years ago

You just described commerce as scalping. A grocer is a scalper according to you. So is a meat distributor.

rrrazdan commented on Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum bbc.co.uk/news/uk-norther... · Posted by u/iechoz6H

ttt0 · 4 years ago

> For one remove anonymity from social media. That in itself should clean up half this mess with existing laws.

And it should also enable going after people with unpopular opinions even more.

And preventing people from spreading disinformation doesn't mean that the disinformation will magically go away. It's just that the only people allowed to spread disinformation will be the government and the capitalists. And you will be punished if you call them out on it.

rrrazdan · 4 years ago

People going after people for unpopular opinions is a society problem. Did that happen in the US or Europe before Twitter? It did not.

I see this touted a lot. But supporting trolls to spread disinformation online isn’t protecting free speech. Free speech protection comes from society and it’s laws. Not anonymity.

rrrazdan commented on Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum bbc.co.uk/news/uk-norther... · Posted by u/iechoz6H

moksly · 4 years ago

> The individual admitted running a campaign which "involved the systematic dissemination of false and defamatory allegations" against Mr Nolan.

I think that it is good that someone got to own up for the turdslinging they do online, but why are we ok with platforms that aren’t held accountable for the “systematic dissemination of false and defamatory allegations” they enable? What if you don’t have BBC lawyers and resources behind you when you or your little company is targeted?

I know this may be a little too Scandinavian for some HN users, but I simply don’t get why we don’t hold the social media platforms accountable for the content that gets posted to them. We have laws and bureaucracies in place to govern traditional media, exactly because the two world and the Cold War showed us what propaganda is capable of, and yet, we let these new platforms do whatever they want?

Maybe that would break Social Media, because their automatic moderation wouldn’t be up to the task, but so what? The way things are moving forward, the platforms claim to have upped their moderation, but as long as they aren’t actually held accountable by any democratic institution, they will still mainly be moderated by the advertising industry and that’s just not not what’s in public interest.

I know Donald Trump is a touchy subject to bring up. But why was he banned when he was? Shouldn’t he either have been de-platformed long ago, or not at all? Sure was convenient for the companies to do so when they did, wasn’t it? I’m personally happy that I haven’t heard a single thing about American republicans in 2021, but I still think it’s a democratic issue that it is a select few tech-billionaires that can remove someone like Donald Trump from my life and not any form of public institution.

It all goes back to the lack of moderation and the lack of consequences for these Social Media platforms. Yeah, one “ systematic dissemination campaign” was stopped because the BBC protects its journalists, but how many go unpunished?

rrrazdan · 4 years ago

I was in the “libertarian” camp on this. But now looking at all the damage caused (including killings in India on false social media rumors) I certainly think “mainstreaming of social media” is warranted.

For one remove anonymity from social media. That in itself should clean up half this mess with existing laws.

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xyzelement · 4 years ago

This may be lost on you but perhaps can be clear to others. You woke up on a Saturday morning, made a new account, just to post an anti religious/anti Jewish comment.

What's your life/set of priorities/spiritual balance like?

rrrazdan · 4 years ago

OP seems to be himself an Israeli and presumably a Jew. I did not read his post as being anti-Jewish or anti-religion in anyway.

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Angostura · 4 years ago

I always like the fact that the average musical birthday card, popular in the 90s had more compute capacity than the computer in the Apollo command module.

rrrazdan · 4 years ago

Citation please? That sounds unlikely!