nimz
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
Blessings to you for this warning. I'm going to do something about changing the location of this mailbox asap.
We live in a different age today in terms of safety awareness. I vividly remember playing with powerful fireworks during Diwali celebrations. We'd light them in our hands and hurl them skyward moments before they burst. Today the mere thought of this makes me shudder, and I can't even imagine my children playing this way.
As an example that supports your point, the Japan stock market (Nikkei) peaked in 1989 and STILL has not returned to that high.
However, even if you were incredible unlucky and had bought in at the 1989 peak in Japan, if you had an internationally diversified portfolio, you would be OK. E.g. a 30/30/20/20 Jp Stocks/Intl Stocks/Jp Bonds/Intl Bonds portfolio purchased in 1989 at the Nikkei peak would have more than doubled by 2014 (see here: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=265807 and also https://www.afrugaldoctor.com/home/japans-lost-decades-30-ye...).
One piece of feedback on your use of the term AI. While adding the term "AI" to the description of /most/ products seems to increase their appeal, in products that are for children, to me, it reads like this product will be buggy at best and ends up decreasing the appeal. Words like researched, "smart", advanced, cutting-edge etc may be better suited. This is just one person's reaction, of course. I could be wrong--perhaps to non-engineers, reading "AI" on kids' products now has a more positive reaction.
Here is a more detailed NPR Segment on this story with pictures: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114280...
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/05/28/illinoi...