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What was unknown about remaining?

I struggle to see why that is a problem? You will need to rebalance the portfolio, yes.

If that is the case, how do you explain that there are ETFs tracking the index? E.g. http://www.etf.com/DIA

Surely this is (ignoring transaction costs) reflected in the index performance already. If you sell and buy at the time (and price) of the index you will match the performance. This is not unique to DJIA by the way.

Yes, so you should not allocate the $400 equally across the shares to match the performance of the index. You should buy an equal number of shares of each stock. It may not be a greatly constructed index by modern standards but to my understanding you can in theory get the same performance yourself.

This is the case of most market cap indices. There is no problem with that unless the history is revised. You could replicate the same performance in your own stock account. (Not sure what you mean by "without realising losses"?)

Firstly, my comment regarding DN losing credibility was swiftly clarified elsewhere in this thread as an observation and in fact we have seen other commentators agreeing. I would welcome any observations, or even your personal opinion, you have made to the contrary. The development of DN actually saddens me.

Secondly, in my book, ofcourse being accused of lying, misusing statistics and covering up are journalistic scandals if you strive to be a premier journalistic publication. Maybe we have different expectations of journalism, but perhaps a softer term could have been used to save us both some excitement.

The TV debate was in a well known debate program on state television, and I'm sure you agree that it is very rare for a DN editor to openly receive such strong criticism from another journalist. I have no idea who posted that video on YouTube (I just remembered the debate and googled it) but the original source is state television, so that's an odd comment of you to make.

I haven't seen any sources from you either proving that the mainstream sources I provided as examples have been more criticised than DN.

Your claims of cherry-picking are nonsense. I have picked a few examples to support my argument of deteriorating journalistic quality. Aftonbladet and GP are mainstream newspapers. GP is not right wing by international standards. For international readers, it is worth pointing out that DN is definitely not a particularly right wing publication by any international standard. Sanandaji is a frequent commentator in Swedish media with a best selling book out.

To me it seems that you are letting your own self-confessed political views influence your ability to evaluate the quality of the journalism and fall back on ad hominem rather than presenting your counter arguments.

If you read my post again, you will see that I did not actually say that the Swedish intellectuals (for the lack of a better term) are not reading DN, just that DN has lost a lost of credibility. It is my observation that this is becoming more and more of a wide spread view, based on discussions with friends and colleagues. You are right - I'm busted! - I have not conducted a market study of this. But then again, do you have any sources why they still read DN as you claim?

I was on my phone earlier.

DN under Wolodarski has received a lot of criticism, which I suspect you are actually aware of. Please find a few examples below.

Aftonbladet: Journalists question the truthfulness of a series of DN's articles: http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article23755207.ab

Alice Teodorescu of GP has criticised DN and their journalistic methods on numerous occasions, e.g. "DN on collision course with reality": http://www.gp.se/ledare/teodorescu-dn-p%C3%A5-kollisionskurs... Also worth seeing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRivdUJO1ls

National economist Tino Sanandaji often uncovers errors in DN's journalism, e.g. this example of DN using incorrect statistics: http://tino.us/2014/06/p1-medier-granskar-dn-dn-star-bakom-h...

The DN cover up scandal (their rebuttal): http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/fragor-och-svar-om-dns-hant...

Ironically coming from DN, who under current editor Wolodarski has lost a huge amount of credibility among Swedish intellectuals. What used to be the premier journalistic publication of Sweden now runs a highly biased agenda, and has been involved in a number of journalistic scandals (cover ups etc).

If this works, would it not be more profitable for you to exploit it rather than sell it as a saas and make the bookies aware of their mispricings?

Will it fit in ram? Python + pandas. Pandas is really amazing.

Otherwise, try postgresql or SQLite.

Most people prefer talking to listening, so just asking a few question can get most conversations going. It's not unusual to hear someone say "we had such a great chat" when really that person did most of the talking. A trick that is used by many introverts, with great success.

Honestly, this seems like a stretched comparison to me. How many managers understand options? And what is even the underlying for your call option? Why would it be a call option and not a put option?

Exactly, and actually if you take tax rate into account it looks even more appealing, e.g. if your marginal tax rate is 50% (as it is sometimes in Europe) you would have to earn 12% on your money before it is more beneficial than paying down your mortgage/loan. Hard to beat that Sharpe.

Goa trance. No lyrics, not too hardcore.

The state runs/owns a lot of infrastructure.

Visa and mastercard are already skimming a portion of all payments via their systems. So if we are moving to a cashless society, should this not be state owned infrastructure? Imagine a future where no cash exists and the large banks and card networks coown the infrastructure for all payments, taking their cut. I feel that cash is an important competitor to prevent this from happening. but unfortunately as with most things it's use it or lose it.

What are the modern alternatives to Access? Web frontends?

Maybe it's just me, but I first read the name as "ass-kissing" - intentional?

edit: to downvoters, I'm not trying to be funny here, surely that's potentially useful feedback?

These charts are meaningless with such a short history, at least include 2008 in them.

Does anyone know if this works with numpy?

Thanks, that's an insightful comment as on the statically typed side I have experience primarily in Java/c#/c++ etc. which is really what I had in mind when making the comparison. This makes me even more curious to explore Haskell one day.

I hear this argument a lot, and I'm sure static typing is helpful when refactoring, but I have found that nothing is as important as tests when refactoring. I'd rather refactor dynamically typed code with good test coverage than statically typed code without good tests.

If it's my own domain (probably not unusual among the HN crowd), I would sign up to e.g. kazinator.com by 'inventing' an email address kazinator@mydomain.com, which is forwarded to my gmail through a catch-all email forwarding setup with my domain registrar. Emails to kazinator@mydomain.com now arrives to my gmail and hence it's easy to block email (e.g. spam) arriving to this email address as well as knowing who leaked my email address to third parties.

As people have pointed out, it now seems possible to use the + functionality of gmail which I was not aware of, but the above setup avoids the issue of forms not accepting + in a valid email address.

This only works with a catch-all email forwarding as I mentioned, so if you want bounce on non-valid addresses it will not work, but like I said it has served me very well.

I have been running this setup for years without any administration. Email forwarding tends to be included from your domain registrar so no server is necessary. You don't need a tool to generate the addresses as you can make them up as you go along.

To achieve the same cheaply and without lockin, simply have your own domain with a catch-all email forwarding to your real email address. Then always give out your email address for a specific site as <site>@yourdomain.com.

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Why would a company like GitHub choose Ubuntu over Debian? The LTS policy?