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jcdavis
12y ago
You mean well, but its easy to forget that moving a family a long distance costs a nontrivial amount of money, even if you do it on the cheap. Maybe not a problem for you or me, but much more so for a family already barely scraping by.
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Its hard to quickly find an exact number, but the market cap of ETF's / mutual funds that follow the DJIA is pretty small (for understandable reasons) - the largest I can find is $12B (DIA)
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According to Uber's underlying research ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/253410228/An-Analysis-of-the-Labor... , page 23), $19 an hour is just the revenue they get after Uber's cut, and does not include gasoli
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@sweden does this - Its a different Swede every week. (I think a few other countries do similar as well)
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12y ago
At least NYC builds up, so they fit all of their foreign real estate money in not much space. London is in a much worse position - huge foreign demand with very little new housing supply has made anything remotely close absurdly expensive,
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Suits Seek to Force Lyft and Uber to Treat Drivers as Employees
(buzzfeed.com)
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12y ago
I don't mind increasing immigration, but lets fix the existing H1B system first. Notice how none of these "increase immigration" posts by VCs talk about removing the ties between people and their employer? Of course not, beca
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Apple, Google Reach New Deal to End U.S. Lawsuit Over Poaching
(recode.net)
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Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed – The Real Reason for the 40hr Workweek
(trueactivist.com)
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Except there are S&P 500 Buy write indexes/ETFs, and they underperform over long periods of time.
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Sure, if you are sure the market is about to go into a steep correction or even a recession. But how do you know that? Why not go even further - If you knew for sure the market was going to drop, you could make a lot of money in options. Wh
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12y ago
Decent article, but awfully linkbait-y headline. You'll get that advice at many places around the internet - I recommend those curious to read the wiki at bogleheads.org
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Wow. Blog post about how are able to charge $750/hr?
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12y ago
This is why Exchange support on iOS (not sure about Android) allows remote wipes, and you better remove the account before you quit
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12y ago
For those curious - this is apparently due to laws regarding depreciation: http://www.archdaily.com/450212/why-japan-is-crazy-about-hou... "Collectively, the write-off equates to an annual loss of 4% of Japan’s
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12y ago
1 or 2 lots? The margins after commissions are going to be crap (if anything) for big indexes. I know the phrase "efficient market" gets thrown a lot but its pretty relevant here - there simply isn't much, if at all, to be ma
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12y ago
The account that made that comment is a frequent poster in mens rights & friends subreddits, and probably should not be taken without a SUBSTANIAL grain of salt (particularly given the lack of any data to back it up)
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12y ago
Mostly good advice, but I strongly disagree with > threaten to go somewhere else if they don't give me the raise, this is implicit. Even in an in-demand industry like tech, this is definitely not implicit. Edit: To expand - I'm
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I completely agree with buy + hold vs day trading, but I think you are totally off basis with the tax documentation concerns. Robinhood will surely be issuing people nicely-formatting 1099s and there is no reason to assume you can't do
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Nope. If the city of origin is another airline hub you could theoretically do another hidden-city trip back, though. (eg Denver->Indianapolis->XXX)
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T-Mobile Pledges to Enable WiFi Calling on Every Phone They Sell
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How Northeastern University Gamed the College Rankings
(bostonmagazine.com)
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Judge rejects $324.5M deal between tech workers and Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe
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yea, I'm just surprised they have enough current to power a projector + arm cpu + fan.
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I'm surprised the OBD II port is capable of powering something like this. I hope they aren't cheating by running off the onboard battery while running and charging while the car is off.
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Aftermarket activity is not a great indicator or what will happen the next day. I doubt it'll be up that much tomorrow
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Its definitely more expensive now, when I rented in 2009-2010 rooms in similar places were more like $300-400/month. Still a pretty affordable place regardless.
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Its a MOBA/aRTS (depending on what category you want to call it), where 2 teams of 5 players control characters trying to destroy the opposing team's buildings. (more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_2 ) T
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13y ago
401k allows withdrawls at 59.5, which isn't all that late. Anyone planning an earlier retirement is very likely to be investing in normally-taxed accounts in addition (due to 401k caps), which can they draw from before that. Plus Roth
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13y ago
No way is the drive control software is running linux, its almost certainly running on its own embedded system.
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