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by cloudkj 17y ago
This article claims that the income limits for contributing to an Roth IRA has been removed for 2010. I was under the impression that the limit was removed for _converting_ a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA. See http://www.money-zine.com/Fin
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Asset markets: The danger of the bounce(economist.com)
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Does anyone know if there's a list of all known startup incubators in the US, and which cities they're in?
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Agreed. It's also important to point out that the timeframe was in the span of weeks, which is minuscule in the scope of typical investing timeframes.
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The article makes a good point: despite the "masked" non-adjusted returns, you don't really have an alternative to equities over the long haul. From the linked WSJ article: "All of this might be enough to put investors off stocks entirely,
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For more perspective, check out this timely article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/business/27digi.html?ref=b...
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Amazon strategically places its warehouses just outside of the most populated states. Imposing sales tax would be mean they immediately lose a ~10% pricing margin on sales to states like California. That's quite a big impact. If you look ca
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Anyone know what Manhattan-based startup incubator he's talking about?
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I don't subscribe to any, but the ones I read (either in online or print form via other subscribers) are The Economist (global news, finance, business), Technology Review (published by MIT; awesome tech insight), and Wired (just for fun).
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Don't get me wrong, I'm all for openness and transparency. But I do believe there needs to be some level of legal rights protection, and that it's a pretty fundamental pillar of our capitalist system. Out of curiosity, what do you (and othe
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I'd argue that, rather than banning software patents outright, the process by which these patents are approved should be put under high scrutiny and changed. For a lot of large companies, the approach really is similar to throwing everythin
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One obvious application is using MTurk to solve CAPTCHAs.
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How do you ensure that the .git directory isn't accessible?
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From what I remember from Greenspan's "Age of Turbulence," he mentioned that he was pleasantly surprised that the markets were able to absorb much of the shock that happened on 9/11. I believe he attributed much of that to flexibility in th
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I find #2 and #3 to be contradictory. Being a "business, man" is what Jay-Z is all about. He's made himself into a brand. Kids buy HP computers simply because he endorses them. That brand and iconic status is quite separate from his "busine
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From the looks of the star html and _border declarations, validation is failing due to the IE-specific hacks :-P
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In the more common cases, you get indexes on foreign keys for free. For example, using MySQL with InnoDB, declaring a FOREIGN KEY constraint will automatically create an index on the referencing table: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/e
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I'm guessing tree5 is talking about "Agile Web Development With Rails," in which the authors do give examples of creating hashed passwords with a unique salt and running a SHA1 digest. The book also talks about preventing plain text passwor
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Cool effect. Creating this type of 3D effect for any arbitrary image, however, is much harder since you need to manually splice out individual images and sprites, compute position coordinates, and generate the various CSS3 styles and DOM el
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Intel and NVIDIA generally operate under different philsophies. Intel, of course, adamantly backs the CPU. NVIDIA has for a while been touting the superiority of the GPU and the idea of general purpose GPUs, with projects like CUDA. Not to
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Amen. I've always wanted a way to "diff" the different states that my body has been in.
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Looks like it ended: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/11/20_wheel...
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Buffet's mentor Benjamin Graham also taught at at Columbia. Buffet always speaks of Graham as one of the most influential people in his life. In fact, I watched a few minutes of the town hall last night, and he mentioned Graham at least 4 o
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Also reminds me of Seadragon from Microsoft Research.
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Looks nifty, but the course appears to require quite an extensive biology background and is targeted at biologists. What I'd love to see is a "Bioinformatics Course in Python".
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Well, I'm sure they can do some damage and slowly kill off Google engineers with their awesome jingle: http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/08/0...
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So in summary, most modern browser features are "not ready" and waiting for Internet Explorer x.0 to expire. D'oh!