Or, alternatively, which of your posts asked a question that is still nagging and hasn't been answered? Can we discuss it here, maybe give it a bump and some more light?
Ha! What do you think this is? Reddit?! Just kidding, here's some well-crafted comics to lose yourself in. satw usually has some humorous take on things that show up in #news pertaining to global politics. She's recently added the Trump version of America's personification. Edit: Well that was totally tangential to you your point, lol. Point taken, though.
The greatest Instagram I've seen all year: and mothafrick'n TURBO JETS on TRAINS in the sixties: Not that I was hoping for much discussion, but I just think they're cool af.
d00d you can't tag it "nosharesjustsmiles" and expect discussion. That's like negging your own post. I'm totally following theswimreaper on Instagram, btw, and was annoyed at gizmodo for ripping off an ancient DarkRoastedBlend article.
I interpret that tag more as “here’s something wonderful/funny that won’t get shared for the usual reasons”. (But then again that’s just me.) Gawker et al. rips off everything. I’m pretty sure sites like that get most of their posts from reddit, just because it’s so easy now.
That instagram account is amazing. Thanks for re-sharing!
Great question. You have plenty to choose from, what's yours?
One website that got me thinking on the subject of increasing the wealth of localities was the blog Strong Towns. I think you've shared an article of theirs. It's pretty straightforward, libertarian-leaning economics applied to the funding of construction projects, like the observation that the federal government attracts jockeying local politicians with sexy spending projects that leave the maintenance bill at the feet of state and local governments (who are woefully underestimating said maintenance's expense). But here's a sample: A Utah Republican might have the best urban transportation plan. It's a timely article considering that infrastructure is one of the things everyone vaguely wants to accomplish and Trump is pawning off on Congress to get done. That article got only one share, but this one had hubski buzzing.
This makes me think about whether or not hubski is actually as small as it used to be. Maybe it was just me, but I felt like back in the day almost anyone who posted something got a reaction from someone else. Then again when I first started on hubski I was making all kinds of shit like art blog posts on an old fake account and the #vaguequestionsbypablo shit. Good times :)
Yea I think there's been a change in the frequency and kinds of interactions. Not bad necessarily. I've always been shooting 30%, though. I feel like about one in three posts gets any feedback. And then one in three of those gets a rollicking discussion. There's no predicting what hubski bites.
Would you be able to explain the origin of #songsforpabs? Don't really understand the tag, like is that your playlist people add to or something?
I believe it was started by thenewgreen! I certainly took them as recommendations, especially out of respect for tng, but I think it just turned out to be one of many music tags like #vibesandjives, and #hiphophubski when there was a decent hip-hop head community here. Not to mention all the tags that I rarely took part in that involved hubski coming together to make original music! Lots of neat history in tags now that I think about it lol
Yeah, nowaypablo is right, I started it. Originally, they were songs that I had hoped that hubskiers of nwp's generation would listen to. I used pabs as sort of a poster boy for all the younger, kick ass hubskiers here. You know... it could have been called songsforgalens but I went with pabs. Both would have been apropos. A TAG I MISS is #higgsy
I added this as an addendum to a Pubski a while ago, and no-one bit. I was teaching the preschoolers to say "I love you" in spanish, and then "I love you forever". A kid asked what the difference was, I told him. He asked what forever means, I told him. Then he asked "where does the love go when you die?", and after a while of not having any idea how to answer, I said "you keep it with you". What would you say?
"You share it with the world, all of it. A bit of how much you loved someone goes to each person around you". People see if you're a loving person, and your love inspires others. In a way, you never really die: your essence is there, forever, in ideas people got from your existence, an influence on the world.
What would I tell a preschooler? Hoo, boy. I have no idea. I'm terrible at guessing or even intuiting where a child is along the developmental schedule when I interact with them. Three years old... can you talk? Ok, can you read? What about an eight year old, are they still pathologically selfish? Oh, that's only boys? Et cetera. I would probably say that the love stays with those who are survived by the dead. It accretes and ossifies... ok, those words are probably above a preschooler. I'd say something like Love is indivisible. Do they know fractions? Good on preschool teachers.
Discussion? Maybe this: I did post some things I thought the local community might find interesting but didn't — not for discussion but for entertainment.
This one about whales. I think it's neat to observe changes in behavior in intelligent organisms.
Huh. I don't really get the essay. I read it though ;) I must say, walls of texts are tough for me to dive into without a lot of hubski approbation. If it has a lot of shares or a badge, I circle back to them. It's not just that I'm lazy but also the opportunity cost of things are so high.
Thanks for the feedback, nonetheless. It was meant as a explanation of what I do/where I go to relieve stress. Been ruminating on expanding it in a direction other than what it was intended for (portions of which were redacted, probably part of why it doesn't make sense...). What I had written already, I was really proud of, so I guess parts of it will remain as a shell to contain more... TBD.
My shit gets shared a lot. I have to do obnoxious shit like sort it by no votes and even then the algorithm's all "here's some shared once stuff just so they don't look lonely." That said: This article is actually about "IoT" and its uses but since they aren't sexy they don't get a lot of coverage. Ford is legitimately using exosuits in production. For all the people whingeing about their undramatic future, this is muthafuckin' six million dollar man shit and you missed it. An illustration of the power of curve-fitting in finance. Literally ground zero of all modern conspiracy theories, told as an oral history.
I read that curve-fitting parable and thought I commented. I was just visiting some family out of state. Most of them portly hicks, but we love (and tolerate) them. My uncle, upon learning that I'm majoring in economics, asked me for stock picks. And I was like, are you fucking kidding me? Makes me believe that the efficient market hypothesis is rather weak.
a book about the efficient market hypothesis you may enjoy: https://equilibriabook.com (free) a book about the failure of financial models you may enjoy: https://www.amazon.com/Misbehavior-Markets-Fractal-Financial-Turbulence/dp/0465043577 (not free)
LOL if it doesn't work you just need a broader timescale. Ask an arbitrageur how they feel about the efficient market hypothesis.Makes me believe that the efficient market hypothesis is rather weak.
The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) is an investment theory that states it is impossible generally tricky to "beat the market" in the long run because stock market efficiency causes existing share prices to always eventually incorporate and reflect all relevant information.
Actually, I confused the firm foundation investing philosophy with the EMH. It's the firm foundation philosophy that comes apart for me when I see there's nothing in the way of my uncle picking more or less random stocks.
Firm foundation theory isn't really a theory. There's actual math. Let's say you've got $40. We're going to buy a 6-year CD at 2.25%. After 6 years you've got $40.91. Let's say instead that you've got a $40 share of GM. It varies, obviously, but for the sake of easy math let's go with that number. GM has paid a 38 cent dividend the past four quarters; at the end of six years (assuming GM stock hasn't gone up) you've got $49.12. The "intrinsic value" of GM stock over 6 years in this case would be $48.21. Obviously you can get a lot more mathful but basically, the "fundamental value" of an equity is what it earns you above and beyond a "risk-free" investment. Thing is, "firm foundation theory" tends to reward stocks that, you know, actually fucking pay you so it's seriously out of favor in this land of 350:1 P/E ratios and negative goddamn dividends. The "fundamental value" of Tesla stock is well below what it costs you. But I fuckin' own some.
I don’t quite know how to phrase this, but if GM stock pays such a “risk-less” premium, what’s the mechanism by which the GM stock starts to become less valuable? If this information is publicly available, why isn’t everyone buying such dividend paying stocks? Is it that the influx would drive the price up and then the dividend would represent a smaller fraction of the capital used to invest, eventually yielding a return less than the prevailing interest rate?
So go here. Look at the chart for "max." https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GM/ Since 2010, GM has bounced around $40. It's gone as low as $20 (which is whacky) and as high as $44 but it's at like $40. It's been about $40 for longer than that, too - something not shown here is in the recession when GM took money from the government, they had to kill their old stock and issue new stock so the historic record is shorter than it should be. Now go here and do the same. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA?p=TSLA Over the same period of time, Tesla has gone from $20 to $360. So while you've been pulling in 30 cents a share every three months, your buddy who bought Tesla stock, negative dividends and all, has increased his holdings by a factor of 18. So what's the intrinsic value of Tesla? GM has been making cars for a hundred years. They have a good idea how to go about it. Nobody thinks they become 18 times as valuable over the past six years because of their increasing expertise. Rather, they think that they can sell it for more than they bought it. Value investing is well out of favor at the moment. Prices are set by what you can sell it for and what you can buy it for. If fewer people want to buy it, you have to sell it for less.