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by caymanjim 2476 days ago
Hindsight is the only meaningful metric for investments. Was it a good bet or not? Full stop.
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That's like saying the supreme court's verdict is the only metric for whether something is constitutional. If that's so, then where do they get their rulings from?

You're implicitly denying the difference between correlation and causation.