Robin_Hartell

• Robin_Hartell 2 Dec 2014 21:08 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: Metus’s comment on: Open thread, Dec. 1 - Dec. 7, 2014

  MoneyDashboard.com—links directly to my credit cards and bank accounts. I hear that the US equivalent is mint.com

• Robin_Hartell 6 Oct 2014 22:07 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Lumifer’s comment on: Open thread, Oct. 6 - Oct. 12, 2014

  A couple of points:

  1. You don’t agree to “buy it today”, you “agree to buy” it today. Both exchange of payments and assets take place in the future

  2. The price of a future isn’t determined by prediction any more than the asset is. The price of a future is given explicitly by the price of the underlying, suitably adjusted for cost of carry and cost of financing

• Robin_Hartell 30 Apr 2014 12:54 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: Tenoke’s comment on: Open Thread, April 27-May 4, 2014

  How much appetite would there be for shorter windows on the Open Threads? Having one every 4 days would have some advantages:

  • The material would be spread out more evenly through time, rather than having the majority of the posts in the first few days of a new thread

    • The start day would vary over time

• Robin_Hartell 20 Apr 2014 7:07 UTC

  0 points

  on: Math­e­mat­ics and sav­ing lives

  Reminds me of this: http://​​math.stackexchange.com/​​questions/​​71874/​​can-i-use-my-powers-for-good