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by qdog 13y ago
Social Security isn't a vehicle that attempts to return your principle + interest. Regardless of how many contributors there are, SS benefits would pay out at a % of the target if it could not cover the complete benefit. Ponzi scheme
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by qdog 13y ago
True, but I think in this case the you have to keep your eye on expectations. A year ago Zynga was making 900 million gross, now it's 205 million. I'm going to assume that they are looking at their portfolio and realizing they are
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by qdog 13y ago
If the average person there makes 100k per QUARTER I can see how they'd be losing a lot of money. Either you mixed quarters and years, or I'm in the wrong type of business.
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by qdog 13y ago
I'm getting old. Wasn't even aware of Nest. However, 5% of Google seems like a large amount of money to acquire a startup. What did I miss?
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by qdog 13y ago
Also not clear what kind of searches those are. It sounds like it could have been public records of ongoing court cases. I suppose the question to ask is who reviews these types of talks (no doubt many agents talk to PIs etc.) to make sure
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by qdog 13y ago
Most polling places are staffed by locals and will often recognize someone trying to commit fraud. If the person who you are trying to impersonate also votes, it will also trigger an event. Worst case you show up to vote after someone has
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by qdog 13y ago
I've played Dominion, it's kind of interesting. Magic has 'Draft' and 'Cube' formats where deckbuilding with whatever you end up with is important, but it is indeed expensive.
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by qdog 13y ago
The other team will take the accolades for your work, your team will be mad at you for mot pulling your weight.
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by qdog 13y ago
This is a pretty popular thing at many large companies. Everyone somehow wants to hire the cream of the crop, yet there are only so many cream of the crop candidates. My own experience is that after a couple of rounds of these layoffs, mos
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by qdog 13y ago
There were 300 fatal fires last year. So far Tesla has 0 fatal fires. Figure in http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/fire-tesla-model-re... It's not clear whether the Tesla catches fire more often than
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by qdog 13y ago
I took that advice about 10 years ago, unfortunately. Currently Wizards of Coast has a no-reprint policy on most of the old high-value cards. While I don't know that I would invest in them, until that policy changes the value of those
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by qdog 13y ago
Right, my mistake. Not sure why I was thinking they didn't get to vote at all right now, but still, yes owning a share of Class A doesn't entitle you to very much right now.
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by qdog 13y ago
Shareholders don't have voting rights, how can they pressure Google to do anything? I don't know if they should be paying a dividend at the moment, but their stock conveys no power to the stockholder. It's like paying taxes
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by qdog 13y ago
Google doesn't pay dividends or give public shares voting rights, while I get it that people believe the intrinsic value will appear at some point, this is not how I would like to invest money in a company, regardless of what price the
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by qdog 13y ago
If you have git style branching available, you can commit half-finished ideas and save ALL your backup versions. Almost all my directories are littered with files called sourcefile.v1 sourcefile.v2 sourcefile.old etc. etc. With git if yo
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by qdog 13y ago
Just getting something above "don't suck" seems extremely hard. I have a Dell Vostro 1510, it was basically the cheapest Dell laptop with available discrete graphics at the time I bought it, haven't had any problems. M
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by qdog 13y ago
I have a laptop that runs XP, I'm unlikely to upgrade it until it dies. I don't do anything on it that requires a newer OS, so not sure why I'd pay the $$ to upgrade until I get/need a new laptop.
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by qdog 13y ago
The note about inflated titles is the biggest real difference I see. If you hired a bunch of brand new US/EU recruits and stuck them in an office and just said "get it done" you'd probably end up with the same amount of
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by qdog 13y ago
I've had this type of request for certain online things before. I've always assumed it was for the company's security, not mine. While it might be unreasonable for a purchase, if you want secure shell or something on a host
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by qdog 13y ago
I run Steam under Wine for Skyrim on a reasonably priced system with a decent, but not great Nvidia graphics card. I use steam for most of the other games and buy stuff from humble bundle. Currently I use a mish-mash of Apple TV and an o
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by qdog 13y ago
It sounds a lot like someone making money. You play these over your $150,000 speakers with $10,000 speaker wire and you can pretty much hear the money hitting the table. I heard this story on my way to work this morning and was just shakin
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by qdog 13y ago
I have not, but anecdotaly it's one of my own main concerns for being able to join a startup. If/when health coverage follows the person wherever they may work, it would make moving jobs a lot easier.
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by qdog 13y ago
Not mentioned: You might now be able to hire a much wider variety of people who couldn't come work for you before because of healthcare worries.
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by qdog 13y ago
I didn't mention the alleged murderess, which doesn't appear to be a federal case. I agree that being held without bail seems bad. He does not sound particularly innocent, though, failing to file tax returns, haggling prices on t
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by qdog 13y ago
Roger Christie dispensed pot for a donation of 'The Approximate Street Value'. I'm not sure that a non-profit religious organization that is in effect 'selling' un-taxed goods is going to get out of jail soon. If
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by qdog 13y ago
I think the problem is selectively enforcing federal laws isn't a good option. Even thought he supreme court struck down DOMA, they stated that until that happened the administration should have still defended it. While I think they s
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by qdog 13y ago
Giving money to companies is fine by me. The only desire is that a company that provides false data must be held accountable. Also someone running a scam facade, prosecutable, imho. I don't see the lottery as analogous to putting mon
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by qdog 13y ago
Regulations aren't binary. Some good, some bad, but not binary.
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by qdog 13y ago
He's insinuating that people should be allowed to do whatever they want with their money and that any protection via regulation must be bad. However, if you are someone who isn't an arbitrager(investor isn't the right term) i
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by qdog 13y ago
I think my wine drinking progression went something like Red Blush ($3bottle, or box wine)->White Wine->Merlot->Cabernet->Pinot Noir. Not sure what I would recommend to new wine drinkers at this point, maybe dry Riesling. Lots

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