Jurgis

Here you go: http://www.cornerofberkshireandfairfax.ca/forum/general-discussion/plagarizing-stock-picks-by-the-greats/20/ There is another thread on this in 2014 too...

OK: I would like to read a book by Jeff Dean or Demis Hassabis. Two guys with tons of geek cred, interesting lives/careers, and definitely not losers. 8) Make it so. ;D

What do you want to know? ;) I don't have a one or couple paragraph summary of my insights. Maybe if I thought for a while, I could come up with something. Perhaps I should write a book... ;) Of course, my perception is gonna be colored by mostly-East-Coast, quite-a-bit-of-research-side, a-bit-of-large-company, a-bit-of-failed-startup (yeah, me loser too 8) ) perspective. Right. I guess I discarded his geek cred by his career progression and by his whining in the beginning chapters about his GS trader overlords. ;) Maybe I was too harsh. He makes some good points about certain things. And I haven't finished the book yet.

Started to read this on the flight. It's not bad, but couple observations: - Part of the saltiness is that the authors of these books (I've also just skimmed through "How I lost 170 million dollars" - crappy book, don't bother; and read the article based on the upcoming/released book by the guy who did Silly Valley TV series) is that the authors are losers. ;) OK, maybe this is harsh, but the critique of SV from a position of "I'm an English/Business major who got into startup, had no clue, thrashed a while, got fired later" sounds a bit like sour grapes. "Chaos Monkeys" author is way more professional than the "How I lost 170 million dollars" though. - Most of these pretend to be geeks writing about geeks. But they aren't. They are English/Business majors and their observation about programmer culture is still an outsider perspective even if they have worked in tech companies for a while. They may have a good business observations and they may have a good writing style, but they don't necessarily have a great understanding of what the programmer side of SV is like. Yeah, they have some very astute observations... and some of their observations are still not understanding the geek side.

Doh, several feet. I have probably about 50ft of books I haven't read... 8) :-\

In case of small investor, usually (?) you just sit and wait. I've gone through one of these with an energy company. The results were crap. Bad selection of the debt/company on my part though.

I have bought prefs in Fido last year and before that. But clearly the situation is dynamically changing and Fido does prohibit buying grey/no info stocks, so it's possible that you cannot buy the prefs anymore. I did put in a limit order today just for fun and it seems to have gone through (but not executed, since price is higher): Buy 100 Shares of FNXXX with a Limit Order (Day) at $12.00. So... I don't know. :) Maybe they allow me to buy it because I already have a position...

Cash? Nah, I think the way to go is to buy airlines. :P

I can't outdo ScottHall - he's the best - but I still decided to become Trumpian. I'm a rich white guy for x sakes! Go Trump! Screw Muslims, immigrants, women, working class, Mexicans, Democrats, Europe and all the other low energy people. Down with government shit. No taxes baby! Who needs EPA, NASA, public schools, abortions, and assisted suicide. Actually who needs the obstructionist Congress and Senate? Just give this guy unlimited power - none of that lawsuits against EO crybaby business. Gonna buy myself a ranch on DAPL, a bunch of guns and f u commie city liberals. There you go. Born again Jurgis Edit: this is so f liberating! You guys should try it too! Don't be gov't slaves!

A thread is like a room. A thread like this just so happens to attract a whole bunch of people into a room to incessantly yell at each other. This isn't productive discussion, in my opinion, and it also leaves other rooms vacant. This room is more like a gigantic clusterfuck of an argument that naturally leads to posters becoming more defensive and holding even stronger to their beliefs than when they first began. There is no middle ground left. I know many here who have a libertarian bent and believe in freedom everything. But some things just aren't productive. What frank87 said. Also, this forum - for better or worse - is a community (or maybe "was"). Yeah, there are forums where I only read one thread, but not others because these forums are not communities. In these other forums a single thread may be a community. Here the whole forum was for a while. So, the participation was per whole forum and not per thread. It's possible to say that the forum community is gone and just leave this thread (btw, politics is now creeping into investment threads too, so that might be short term solution). It's not very satisfying solution, but I'll consider that as possible choice too.

I am for "no politics" policy on investment boards. The benefits of ignoring ~50 members of this forum are not really outweighing the fact that the forum is likely going to disintegrate from the divisiveness. I am considering to leave CoFB. Not that many will care and not that my participation matters, but just an example of where this goes. Good luck.

Oh, but is it? Is it? Or is that just your biased pro-Trump opinion? There are clearly questions whether Trump EO was legal. Even if pro-Trumpians want to dismiss them.

Sally Yates is a hero. Well, Republicans wanted her to stand up to the president... so will they support her now? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/us/politics/donald-trump-administration.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/a-clarifying-moment-in-american-history/514868/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/trumps-immigration-ban-is-already-harming-americas-scientistsand-its-science/514859/

./support

Perhaps you should ask this question to couple CEOs who post on this thread. ;D Edit: Although we are all "grown ups" here, IMHO, political threads are toxic for communities like this. I've seen investment communities destroyed by political threads before. I have asked Sanjeev to consider not allowing political threads. His choice was to allow them ... and I respect it. But, yeah, political threads are mostly a sewer and your comments/questions are well given. Peace.

I'm not saying that US should pursue confrontation policy with China because of Tibet. Just wanted to QFT. Peace.

Not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_Tibet_into_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China The first China rule on Tibet is 1717–1720 if you look at it. It is probably reasonable to call it history. Are we now going to not even respect logic and make everything anachronistic? What logic? You said bolded above. This is clearly not true. So China's earlier rules on Tibet doesn't count? This logic. So past occupation justifies new re-occupation? I am sure Vladimir Putin would be happy to hear this.

Not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_Tibet_into_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China The first China rule on Tibet is 1717–1720 if you look at it. It is probably reasonable to call it history. Are we now going to not even respect logic and make everything anachronistic? What logic? You said bolded above. This is clearly not true.

Not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_Tibet_into_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China

Interesting article. Covers a lot of ground.

LOL, so now the uberlibertarians are advocating against universal voting and promoting rich-voting only. This thread would be hilarious if it wouldn't show how screwed up apparently intelligent human beings are.

There's tons of his writings at http://www.edwardothorp.com/ The site was redone for the book, so no guarantee if they kept everything, added or removed stuff. E.g. old site pointed to articles he wrote to some math newsletter - not sure if these are still around.

LMCK is FWONK now. And it was never priced anywhere near $3.42.

It's not that harebrained. I know people who do the "medicinal" snake wine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_wine ) and it is very profitable ... for them. TCM and other folk medicine crap is usually very profitable for sellers. ::)