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| − | ::::You mean that there is so few people knowing how to create category that they agreed on some rule? And why didn't they told me? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:27, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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| − | :::::As I said it is an inofficial {{w|rule of thumb}}... discussed e.g. [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Kynde#Category_book_promotion on Kyndes talk page] --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 10:58, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
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| | When he said "camping" I thought more of snipers in MMFPS games (or gate-campers in Eve) and I was imagining the robot waiting patiently hidden under the sofa until someone dropped a crumb, zipping out and hoovering that crumb up then zipping off back again. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.148|141.101.98.148]] 11:30, 20 February 2020 (UTC) | | When he said "camping" I thought more of snipers in MMFPS games (or gate-campers in Eve) and I was imagining the robot waiting patiently hidden under the sofa until someone dropped a crumb, zipping out and hoovering that crumb up then zipping off back again. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.148|141.101.98.148]] 11:30, 20 February 2020 (UTC) |
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| − | Shouldn't they be dropping the companies from a basket rather than an index ? From my understanding, indices refer to "official" lists of stocks, and custom ones are more known as baskets. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.28|108.162.229.28]] 12:46, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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| − | :I suspect Cueball is more influential than expected [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.202|108.162.241.202]] 14:02, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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| − | In BBC Radio 4's Dickensian-comedy-spoof series {{w|Bleak Expectations}} (from memory, during the [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cwgs6/episodes/guide second series/season] - though not available at the time of writing, at least direct from the BBC) at one key point Pip Bin uses his best friend's investment 'recommendations' (Harry Biscuit is also a notoriously bad inventor obsessed with using swans in many of his own Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg devices) to invest in entirely the opposite manner. Not that I think Randall has heard these programmes (or, indeed, programs), so not an annotatable reference for the comic, but putting it out there as a recommendation in general because there's a good chance of humour(/humor) overlap. And it has Anthony Head in it, if there are any Buffy fans/etc, reading this... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.148|141.101.98.148]] 15:28, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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| − | :Not exactly the same idea, but... in one of Iain Banks novels (Complicity, I think) there's a character who is seriously thinking of setting up as an ''unethical'' investment counsellor, deliberately picking investments that are unethical in one way or another (polluters, products that are damaging in some way, etc.) on the grounds that that's where the money is; ethical investments tend not to make huge profits.--[[User:Marcus Rowland|Marcus Rowland]] ([[User talk:Marcus Rowland|talk]]) 00:00, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
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| − | Maybe Cueball is a 21st-Century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter Timothy Dexter]? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.93|172.69.68.93]] 16:03, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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| − | In the last line of the current explanation, it supposes Cueball is connected to and making changes to the portfolio. I read this more as an ironic counterpoint, indicating that even though he's good at picking bad stocks, he is not infallible. [[User:OhFFS|OhFFS]] ([[User talk:OhFFS|talk]]) 17:18, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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| − | The ads displayed for me on this page suggest investing in Irish Whiskey. Given the context here, would it be better to buy or short now? [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 17:40, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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| − | :I'd give a strict buy recommondation. If you loose money on it, you can at least get drunk. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:50, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
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| − | Anyone else find the "This is the job I was born for" statement and situation strikingly similar to #408: Overqualified? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.53|108.162.246.53]] 22:00, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
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| − | I think the title text intends to say that he's consistently picking good stock now that he's trying to pick bad ones. Murphy's Law.
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| − | Company #1434 --> I lost the game [[User:AoPS is superior|AoPS is superior]] ([[User talk:AoPS is superior|talk]]) 09:06, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
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