Not the 401k and IRA funds that I invest in. Mine are mostly either in smallcaps and index tracking stocks. They tend to buy and hold.
I used to be in the Futures market. Sure you could make a little bit more constantly buying and selling, but the transaction costs and hassle made it barely worthwhile. For a lot less stress and barely less money, you could just buy and hold and adjust your portfolio once every few months.
How old is your post? I haven't seen bitcoin at those levels in months. Even when whatsis name from silkroad got busted, it dropped down into the 130s, but went back up to 140 pretty quick.
I have actually not updated any apps on my phone in about 3 months because every single one of them wants access to the camera, contacts, emails, location and a bunch of other crap that I am just not going to allow.
Of course, one of the big reasons not to use your phone for ordering things is that your phone is not a credit card company and is therefore not under any obligation to fix the problem if some jerkwad company slams you with a fraudulent charge. Add to that the fact that your phone company usually gets to share in the stealing of your money with the offending company, and you have a recipe for disaster. This already happens with these stupid $10 a month text of the day sites. They give about 1/3 of that money to you phone company and then the phone company turns a deaf ear to your complaint.
Until the phone company is subject to the same regulations as the Credit Card companies, they can kiss my shiny metal ass.
If the government offers you 2 billion dollars to build a solar power plant, you build a solar power plant, whether you need one or not. It's not like they need to have this facility running 24/7 in order to supply electricity. Arizona still has plenty of coal, nuclear and natural gas power. Those will still supply the bulk of the power. The solar array will be used to supply power during peak times during the day.
You never build a Solar plant because you need more electricity. Because if you build one you also have to build a traditional plant in order for cloudy days and night. it just doesn't make economic sense. But if you don't actually NEED more power, and somebody is offering you a grant, then a Solar plant is a GREAT idea.
For a system of this size, It's expensive. I agree with GP, $600 million is pretty cheap for a system intended to serviced over 100,000,000 people. Less than $6 a user is a pretty good deal.
$6 per user is insanely expensive. Facebook has over a billion users and they didn't spend near this much getting Facebook running, and it has much more functionality than the healthcare website will have.
Where do they have the figure that 100 million people will use this site? Only 45 million are reportedly without insurance. Out of that number, a large number of them are going to obtain insurance through some other means than this site, and some people aren't going to get insurance at all.
And what do those people care if NYC subpoenas their user name/address/phone from AirBnB?
They
a) aren't doing anything wrong, they have the permits.
b) they have the permits, so they've already registered their name, address, and phone number in conjunction with the exact activity in question.
Yes, and I'm sure you won't care if the cops pull you over for a random drug test because you don't have any drugs. If you have nothing to hide, then who cares if your privacy is invaded, right?
I wish GTA would make it a choice between choosing good path, i.e. become a cop. It would be nice to be able to align yourself to more than what they offer.
I do this anyway. I try to do as little harm as I can do while still completing the missions. I don't run over pedestrians, kill hookers, etc. i don't even jack cars that have people in them. I just take the parked cars (Hey, you gotta get around).
Ever since Vice City, I've thought they should add in the feature that if a cop sees you commit a traffic violation (running a red light, speeding, etc.) it should automatically generate one star.
'Twould make things more interesting... add a kind of a 'stealth element,' you know?
That would definitely increase game lengths. It would take hours to complete one mission.
What I hate is when I am sitting there minding my own business, and a cop takes off after somebody and runs into my car. Then all of a sudden I have one star, even though I didn't do anything wrong (at least it is modeled after real life). Then if you run away, you have two stars. And apparently running away is enough to get the cops shooting at you. Also like real life, at least in DC.
The population of New York is 8.3 million. Quite a few I suspect who have no interest whatever in seeing their apartment building being transformed into a cut-price hotel --- without hotel security, fire protection and so on.
In order to operate a BnB, the land has to be zoned for it. Being an apartment, it may already be. However, if it is not, the rezoning needs to be run through city council. Any property owners (not renters) within X distance are notified of the request to change the zoning. Even if you are just a resident, you can still show up to city hall and voice your displeasure.
Yea, and this one company advertised their hammers on Google Adwords, and then somebody bought one of the hammers and hit somebody in the head with it. Google needs to be shut down!
Yes, he can. It is illegal in New York to rent real estate for any length of time without the proper permits and licenses. Listing a room on AirBnB is prima facie evidence that you've broken these laws and easilly rises to the level of probable cause (with an "e").
So if you list a room for rent on AirBnB, that automatically means that all of your permits and licenses are revoked? I'm sure there are some people who just decided to list a room without going through proper channels, but anybody running a real BnB would have gotten all of those permits and licenses. This article, and apparently most people on slashdot make the assumption that nobody who ever starts a BnB actually obtains the necessary permits.
I don't really care about NYC or the poor widdle startup that decided flaunting the law was a reasonable business model.
I don't really see where airbnb has done anything wrong. it is their clients which are flaunting the law, and probably not even all of their clients. This is about the same as shutting down an ISP because some of the traffic that goes through their pipe is child porn.
By the way, this "loophole" that the businesses exploited is the same sort of loophole as your mortgage interest deduction, or your automatic deductions for dependents.
How do they know he got 600,000 bitcoins, and how do they know that he didn't spend them after he got them? As far as I can tell, they can't prove that he ever received 600,000 bitcoins, and chances are, he has spent some of them. The fact that he lived in a shared apartment and had not real business facilities makes me think that the whole thing about him having made any decent amount of money is made up. Probably this isn't even the guy. He's probably just a loud moth ego maniac whose lies have now got him under the FBIs lamp.
The obvious problem with this is that if a machine replaces the Grade D cooks, then there is no point in anybody new ever starting cooking, so once your current supply of Grade A B and C cooks dies off, you no longer have anybody to cook for you except for the grade D machines.
The hilarious part of all this is that most people really don't give a rat's as about performance when selecting a phone or even a tablet. The criteria are things like: how does it handle? How intuitive is the UI? Can I watch my favorite online video feeds on this thing? Are any buttons in annoying palaces? What's the price? Does this thing have software to view and edit MS Office files I get sent by mail? The only performance tests these smartphone and tablet things usually get is playing around with a display example in the shop and seeing if the UI is nice and snappy. Nobody excepts tech nerds gives a rats ass that a Samsun Galaxy 4 get a few more FPS in Modern Combat than an iPhone 5.
Don't forget "Does it start with an 'i'". For some people that is the strongest factor. And it could be a plus or a minus factor.
If you measure it, it gets better. Nobody ever stops to think why. They mostly just think they are good managers. But in fact, if you create a measuring tool to measure qualities of a device, the manufacturers will work to make that measurement better. If you make a measurement to determine how your employees are performing, they will perform better according to that measurement. That's just the way it works.
You can't measure everything, so you're best bet is to try to keep the measurement methods secret and change them frequently. Unless, of course, your measurements are intended to improve a particular area, then by all means, measure on.
This happened to me where I work right now. Literally on the day that we were supposed to be paid, it was announced that they didn't have the money to pay us, but the would get us paid later that week, or whenever an expected check from a customer came in.Of course, by that day, it was too late to cancel any automatic payments for mortgage, utilities, etc. that were due to occur on that day. They also knew in advance that this could be an issue but decided not to tell anyone because they knew that would damage moral, so they just hoped the check would come in before payday. It didn't. Of course, moral was blown by even more for them not telling anybody that this could happen. The upshot of this was that I literally lost about a hundred dollars due to late fees, NSF fees and interest.
The lesson here is never work for a company unless you are independently wealthy and not actually dependent upon getting a paycheck from them on a timely basis.
I'm personally surprised, living in a country which does have relatively high taxes and an extensive social welfare and universal healthcare system, that you people are so gullible as to somehow believe that welfare systems are inherently not in your best interests and a violation of your rights and somehow designed to make it so unemployed "bludgers" can get shinier things than you.
Honestly, how do you people believe that crap?
By observation, of course.
GTA has an online mode? I guess that is why there was an update the other day. Ho hum. Well, you guys have fun on your online racing. I've no interest whatsoever in GTA online.
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Sure he could have been stopped. All the government would have had to do is stop doing illegal stuff, and Snowden would have had nothing to report.
Not the 401k and IRA funds that I invest in. Mine are mostly either in smallcaps and index tracking stocks. They tend to buy and hold.
I used to be in the Futures market. Sure you could make a little bit more constantly buying and selling, but the transaction costs and hassle made it barely worthwhile. For a lot less stress and barely less money, you could just buy and hold and adjust your portfolio once every few months.
How old is your post? I haven't seen bitcoin at those levels in months. Even when whatsis name from silkroad got busted, it dropped down into the 130s, but went back up to 140 pretty quick.
I have actually not updated any apps on my phone in about 3 months because every single one of them wants access to the camera, contacts, emails, location and a bunch of other crap that I am just not going to allow.
Of course, one of the big reasons not to use your phone for ordering things is that your phone is not a credit card company and is therefore not under any obligation to fix the problem if some jerkwad company slams you with a fraudulent charge. Add to that the fact that your phone company usually gets to share in the stealing of your money with the offending company, and you have a recipe for disaster. This already happens with these stupid $10 a month text of the day sites. They give about 1/3 of that money to you phone company and then the phone company turns a deaf ear to your complaint.
Until the phone company is subject to the same regulations as the Credit Card companies, they can kiss my shiny metal ass.
If the government offers you 2 billion dollars to build a solar power plant, you build a solar power plant, whether you need one or not. It's not like they need to have this facility running 24/7 in order to supply electricity. Arizona still has plenty of coal, nuclear and natural gas power. Those will still supply the bulk of the power. The solar array will be used to supply power during peak times during the day.
You never build a Solar plant because you need more electricity. Because if you build one you also have to build a traditional plant in order for cloudy days and night. it just doesn't make economic sense. But if you don't actually NEED more power, and somebody is offering you a grant, then a Solar plant is a GREAT idea.
For a system of this size, It's expensive. I agree with GP, $600 million is pretty cheap for a system intended to serviced over 100,000,000 people. Less than $6 a user is a pretty good deal.
$6 per user is insanely expensive. Facebook has over a billion users and they didn't spend near this much getting Facebook running, and it has much more functionality than the healthcare website will have.
Where do they have the figure that 100 million people will use this site? Only 45 million are reportedly without insurance. Out of that number, a large number of them are going to obtain insurance through some other means than this site, and some people aren't going to get insurance at all.
And what do those people care if NYC subpoenas their user name/address/phone from AirBnB?
They a) aren't doing anything wrong, they have the permits.
b) they have the permits, so they've already registered their name, address, and phone number in conjunction with the exact activity in question.
Yes, and I'm sure you won't care if the cops pull you over for a random drug test because you don't have any drugs. If you have nothing to hide, then who cares if your privacy is invaded, right?
I wish GTA would make it a choice between choosing good path, i.e. become a cop. It would be nice to be able to align yourself to more than what they offer.
I do this anyway. I try to do as little harm as I can do while still completing the missions. I don't run over pedestrians, kill hookers, etc. i don't even jack cars that have people in them. I just take the parked cars (Hey, you gotta get around).
Ever since Vice City, I've thought they should add in the feature that if a cop sees you commit a traffic violation (running a red light, speeding, etc.) it should automatically generate one star. 'Twould make things more interesting... add a kind of a 'stealth element,' you know?
That would definitely increase game lengths. It would take hours to complete one mission.
What I hate is when I am sitting there minding my own business, and a cop takes off after somebody and runs into my car. Then all of a sudden I have one star, even though I didn't do anything wrong (at least it is modeled after real life). Then if you run away, you have two stars. And apparently running away is enough to get the cops shooting at you. Also like real life, at least in DC.
The population of New York is 8.3 million. Quite a few I suspect who have no interest whatever in seeing their apartment building being transformed into a cut-price hotel --- without hotel security, fire protection and so on.
In order to operate a BnB, the land has to be zoned for it. Being an apartment, it may already be. However, if it is not, the rezoning needs to be run through city council. Any property owners (not renters) within X distance are notified of the request to change the zoning. Even if you are just a resident, you can still show up to city hall and voice your displeasure.
Yea, and this one company advertised their hammers on Google Adwords, and then somebody bought one of the hammers and hit somebody in the head with it. Google needs to be shut down!
Yes, he can. It is illegal in New York to rent real estate for any length of time without the proper permits and licenses. Listing a room on AirBnB is prima facie evidence that you've broken these laws and easilly rises to the level of probable cause (with an "e").
So if you list a room for rent on AirBnB, that automatically means that all of your permits and licenses are revoked? I'm sure there are some people who just decided to list a room without going through proper channels, but anybody running a real BnB would have gotten all of those permits and licenses. This article, and apparently most people on slashdot make the assumption that nobody who ever starts a BnB actually obtains the necessary permits.
I don't really care about NYC or the poor widdle startup that decided flaunting the law was a reasonable business model.
I don't really see where airbnb has done anything wrong. it is their clients which are flaunting the law, and probably not even all of their clients. This is about the same as shutting down an ISP because some of the traffic that goes through their pipe is child porn.
Oh, then I am correct. It is not a loophole. It was put there on purpose, like mortgage deductions or deductions for dependents.
By the way, this "loophole" that the businesses exploited is the same sort of loophole as your mortgage interest deduction, or your automatic deductions for dependents.
Allowing the weak to survive, yeah very dangerous.
Six billion years of natural selection agrees.
How do they know he got 600,000 bitcoins, and how do they know that he didn't spend them after he got them? As far as I can tell, they can't prove that he ever received 600,000 bitcoins, and chances are, he has spent some of them. The fact that he lived in a shared apartment and had not real business facilities makes me think that the whole thing about him having made any decent amount of money is made up. Probably this isn't even the guy. He's probably just a loud moth ego maniac whose lies have now got him under the FBIs lamp.
The obvious problem with this is that if a machine replaces the Grade D cooks, then there is no point in anybody new ever starting cooking, so once your current supply of Grade A B and C cooks dies off, you no longer have anybody to cook for you except for the grade D machines.
The hilarious part of all this is that most people really don't give a rat's as about performance when selecting a phone or even a tablet. The criteria are things like: how does it handle? How intuitive is the UI? Can I watch my favorite online video feeds on this thing? Are any buttons in annoying palaces? What's the price? Does this thing have software to view and edit MS Office files I get sent by mail? The only performance tests these smartphone and tablet things usually get is playing around with a display example in the shop and seeing if the UI is nice and snappy. Nobody excepts tech nerds gives a rats ass that a Samsun Galaxy 4 get a few more FPS in Modern Combat than an iPhone 5.
Don't forget "Does it start with an 'i'". For some people that is the strongest factor. And it could be a plus or a minus factor.
If you measure it, it gets better. Nobody ever stops to think why. They mostly just think they are good managers. But in fact, if you create a measuring tool to measure qualities of a device, the manufacturers will work to make that measurement better. If you make a measurement to determine how your employees are performing, they will perform better according to that measurement. That's just the way it works.
You can't measure everything, so you're best bet is to try to keep the measurement methods secret and change them frequently. Unless, of course, your measurements are intended to improve a particular area, then by all means, measure on.
Everyone else is reporting the news.
News meaning an agenda that aligns with your agenda.
This happened to me where I work right now. Literally on the day that we were supposed to be paid, it was announced that they didn't have the money to pay us, but the would get us paid later that week, or whenever an expected check from a customer came in.Of course, by that day, it was too late to cancel any automatic payments for mortgage, utilities, etc. that were due to occur on that day. They also knew in advance that this could be an issue but decided not to tell anyone because they knew that would damage moral, so they just hoped the check would come in before payday. It didn't. Of course, moral was blown by even more for them not telling anybody that this could happen. The upshot of this was that I literally lost about a hundred dollars due to late fees, NSF fees and interest.
The lesson here is never work for a company unless you are independently wealthy and not actually dependent upon getting a paycheck from them on a timely basis.
I'm personally surprised, living in a country which does have relatively high taxes and an extensive social welfare and universal healthcare system, that you people are so gullible as to somehow believe that welfare systems are inherently not in your best interests and a violation of your rights and somehow designed to make it so unemployed "bludgers" can get shinier things than you. Honestly, how do you people believe that crap?
By observation, of course.
GTA has an online mode? I guess that is why there was an update the other day. Ho hum. Well, you guys have fun on your online racing. I've no interest whatsoever in GTA online.