christocracy

Transistors are an implementation of QM. Without transistors…

It also benefits from capital appreciation.

As for breaking even, the security is highly liquid and can be sold at any time to recover one’s capital.

Ok, and how about no more cap gains exclusion on selling primary residence and no more writing off mortgage interest (USA)?

Seatbelts weren’t a thing in the first cars. People weren’t thinking long-term about how fast these things might one day go.

He’s great. I used his Money (for managing money values as cents in the db), Liquid and DelayedJob in a bunch of projects.

Now I run my own Shopify store, selling my software.

No kidding. I’m a 48 year old programmer. If today were 1939, y2k was the end of ww1, when I was a 28 year old programmer.

> one of the most unstable times in history

I can think of far more unstable times in history than the times we’re living in now, recent examples being WW1 & 2, nuclear threat during the Cold War.

> so no clue if they actually use location services

The iOS app doesn’t request Location permission.

I wire-transfer tens-of-thousands of USD / month from my bank to my wealth-management company for perfectly valid reasons (e-commerce revenue), primarily to exchange to CAD (far better rate than bank) for funding payroll and/or purchase Investments.

With each transfer, my investment company has me fill-out / sign a form declaring Source of Funds.

If the gov’t finds anything suspicious, there’s an airtight paper-trail for all these transactions.

Nothing to see here.

And if you miss the small handful of up days while dormant in cash, your portfolio lags.

I remember that comment. I’ve quoted that story a number of times.