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by cpwright 7y ago
Or paid as dividends? Stock buybacks are in part a way to financial engineer around dividends and capital gains being realized and taxed differently.
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by cpwright 7y ago
Retirees are also going to be selling down their portfolio as they age for living expenses. The ultra-wealthy are probably not systemically selling out of the equity market.
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by cpwright 7y ago
Ideally, I would have an appliance that recorded from my 6 Ring cameras without going over the internet. But the cost of that in terms of setting up and maintaining a server/software is actually higher than just paying Ring $10/m
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by cpwright 7y ago
The ridiculous showers are in part a reaction to the limitations of low-flow shower heads. You can get around the limit of 2.5 GPM per head by having multiple heads that add to more than 2.5 GPM.
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by cpwright 7y ago
You can get Money Stuff emailed to you daily, at about noon eastern, without any Bloomberg subscription.
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by cpwright 7y ago
I think the law made sense in the past so that the formation of a company would be well-known and not a secret. Now that everything is available online, less so. That the publication servicing companies know you exist, advertise directly
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by cpwright 7y ago
You can do it cheaper through a publication company, because they've already negotiated rates with the publishers. Though $1000 seems excessive. In Westchester County, I paid $300. There is a large spread in fees that will be charge
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by cpwright 7y ago
One of the problems I have with the software is you need to mostly understand a lot of this arcana anyway. It's just that it makes entering things into the form slightly easier. The only time I didn't do my own taxes and paid a C
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by cpwright 7y ago
Filing taxes does not actually require a separate company to help with. You can download the PDFs (or go to the post office), read the directions and fill them out yourself. I have never actually done that; but my parents did well after
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by cpwright 7y ago
The risk here is that the customer commits fraud by saying they did not receive the TV. Amazon may side with the customer and refund the money; but the merchant should still be able to file a small claims lawsuit or maybe even a police rep
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by cpwright 7y ago
Our company has a 9 and 6 person office in NYC. The space is clean, there are conference rooms available when we need them, and mostly everything works well enough. We mostly don't care about any of the community stuff, just that it i
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by cpwright 7y ago
Cablevision/Optimum (now Altice) added a modem rental charge and network expansion fee, which was the impetus for me to switch to Fios after having Optimum for 15 years across 3 different homes. I ended up paying almost half for the t
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by cpwright 7y ago
The largest amount of revenue comes from the interest spread on cash balances that people have in their accounts.
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by cpwright 7y ago
I agree that they are super durable. My kids are now using the same calculator that I used in high school in the late 90s.
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by cpwright 7y ago
You can get Money Stuff emailed to you for free. If they stop that, I will have to break down and get Bloomberg news.
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by cpwright 7y ago
This is old. Cuomo is forcing Entergy to close Indian Point 2 and 3 in 2020/2021, which were the only financially viable plants mentioned in the article. The governor's desire to prolong their relicensing process made it more co
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by cpwright 7y ago
How would you make it "atomic", unless you have a cash deal; which is rare and likely nets you a worse price (at least in the US). In NY, the standard is roughly that after signing a contract the buyer writes a check for 10% of th
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by cpwright 7y ago
They offer $1 digital credits if you say "no rush shipping", which is equivalent to a $1 discount/item that you are willing to have shipped together with other items that they'll ship to you anyway.
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by cpwright 7y ago
In our area (NY, north of the city) if you can't get natural gas, you heat with oil not electric. Plenty of people also get propane just for the gas stove. The yearly propane tank rental is about $100, since you'll never meet th
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by cpwright 7y ago
Both things can be true: only large companies have been fined, but the cost of compliance means that small companies exit the market or never enter. Many companies will attempt to follow the rules, even if they think that the probability of
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by cpwright 7y ago
One of the differentiators between personal and business use is that when I worked for a big corporation they had excellent negotiated rates that always included unlimited mileage and full insurance. If you rent a car personally, and want t
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by cpwright 7y ago
I agree that cost is likely a factor; but not so much renewable cost as cheaply available natural gas due to fracking which changes the economics of every other energy source; including nuclear and renewables.
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by cpwright 8y ago
Or you own the house, but have external factors like your mortgage; or psychological factors like "I don't want to lose money on it." In which case you will pull the house from the market, rather than correcting the price.
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by cpwright 8y ago
I have a Guardian 3 sensor from Medtronic, which I've been using for about a year. The initial insertion isn't "painful", but can definitely be uncomfortable, and there might be a bit of blood that leaks into the sensor
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by cpwright 8y ago
I think the point is that living paycheck isn't indicative of not being able to afford basic necessities. It is the desire to spend most of your income on more than what are actually basic necessities.
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by cpwright 9y ago
Not at all. It's very common to get an M.S. in CS; which is mostly course work to differentiate yourself from a B.S. holder, which because nearly everyone has a degree has less value than in the past. The reason many M.S.'s are f
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by cpwright 9y ago
On the bottom of every Home Depot receipt is "THE HOME DEPOT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO LIMIT / DENY RETURNS. PLEASE SEE THE RETURN POLICY SIGN IN STORES FOR DETAILS."
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by cpwright 9y ago
Presumbly, Jeff Bezos is not putting out hits on his competitors or disgruntled employees.
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by cpwright 9y ago
We tried the Whistle 3 for our do. It only wants to update every 10 minutes unless you're in "track mode" at which point is every 60 seconds. A dog can cover a lot of ground in that time; so it's OK if the dog just wand
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by cpwright 9y ago
Just because Zillow facilitates a connection between the buyer/seller doesn't mean the seller isn't going to have an attorney. Heck, in NY even the lending bank has an attorney (which the buyer pays for).

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