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Seattle's famous wall of gum(holykaw.alltop.com)
1 points by d2viant 16y ago|1 comments
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by d2viant 16y ago
Here is a short history of who has powered Yahoo's searches: ???? - 2001: Inktomi 2001 - 2004: Google 2004 - 2010: Yahoo 2010 - ????: Bing It will be interesting to see who will power Yahoo after Bing.
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by d2viant 16y ago
Probably not. In fact, even Google returns different results for itself sometimes, depending on the servers your search request gets routed through.
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by d2viant 16y ago
What about those ads they ran with the Mac vs PC guy? Apple just trash talks in a more endearing way.
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by d2viant 16y ago
I use Read It Later quite often. The account specific functionality is synchronization for saved URL's between Read It Later on various platforms: iPhone, Firefox, etc.
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by d2viant 16y ago
That's a big modulo though, most investors react differently to the two.
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by d2viant 16y ago
Or buying back shares.
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by d2viant 16y ago
Why do you say they're incapable of that focus? Visual Studio is a great IDE.
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by d2viant 16y ago
Minor correction, but you said 'efficient' not 'effective' tax collection in your original post, there's a big difference in the solution to either problem, but I still understand your point.
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by d2viant 16y ago
I haven't heard this before. How was their tax collection inefficient? Are you referring to tax evasion?
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by d2viant 16y ago
I've always wondered this as well. Are they contained in pipes or something? How do they deal with mountains and cliffs in the ocean? Do they go right over them or around them? Does anybody have information about the physical characteristic
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by d2viant 16y ago
Did they avoid paying taxes on the original principal? Seems like they paid taxes and then decided to move that capital to another country to put to use. I don't see the problem. The United States is no longer aiding in increasing the value
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by d2viant 16y ago
If you exceed 5 million pageviews, they don't cut you off, they just compile your statistics once per day instead of multiple times throughout the day.
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by d2viant 16y ago
At the state level, but not the federal. There are federal unemployment benefits being granted. We didn't pay into that through past payroll deductions, so where is the money coming from if not current workers servicing the federal debt?
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by d2viant 16y ago
The termination of benefits is a disincentive to take a new job? I would think the continuation of benefits would be a bigger disincentive to going out and finding a job. Why not just eliminate unemployment benefits altogether? As a working
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by d2viant 16y ago
We view it as hard compared to what we have now. However, not having that comparison -- did people back then actually think life was hard? Or was it just normal?
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by d2viant 16y ago
You're exactly right, many people have lost a lot of money trying to bet against the Japanese debt situation. "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -Keynes
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by d2viant 16y ago
CDSs are being sold, but generally aren't available to small retail investors. An investor who is not accredited would need to hedge some other way.
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by d2viant 16y ago
The part I don't understand is why Japanese citizens would accept such low returns on their investment for so many years, when so many investments outside of Japanese government debt would give them higher yields. Is it a cultural thing? Is
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by d2viant 16y ago
Apparently mileages vary, my signup took only a week to get approved. I think it depends on the idea you submit.
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by d2viant 16y ago
Amazon did run a mainframe briefly, but apparently it didn't last more than a year. http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/brierdudley/2008/05/am...
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by d2viant 16y ago
Could you be more specific?
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by d2viant 16y ago
Consistent luck? Over decades and decades? At what point does the success become attributable to the person? Investing isn't really a fair comparison to gambling. Gambling is essentially random -- investing you're much more in control of ho
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by d2viant 16y ago
It's not impossible. Examples that prove this are outliers like Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch. Just because the information is public doesn't mean people are interpreting or acting on it correctly.
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Yes, you can escape -- if this is truly a concern for you (not saying it should be) consider gearing your investments to hedge against inflation. It's reasonably safe to assume that the government would not confiscate ALL your belongings at
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by d2viant 16y ago
No it's not. Someone liking or disliking a product is based on their own perception of it's value. There will never be universal agreement on whether a product is good. Who's to say you're right vs. your neighbor who says the product is cra
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by d2viant 16y ago
Then I don't understand what the general case is that you're referring to. That overall if people invest in products they like then overall they'll get good investment returns? I'm saying that someone liking or not liking a product and inve
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by d2viant 16y ago
That's exactly my point though. Whether the product is good or not has little or no bearing on whether the stock is a good buy. It's all about the underlying financial fundamentals of the company.
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The "buy what you know" mantra will get you in serious trouble if you only take it at face value. Its important to know and like the product(s), but that will only get you so far, it won't necessarily make for a sound investment decision. K
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by d2viant 16y ago
It would really be helpful if each item had a link to the actual article.

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