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by rmrm 15y ago
Had never tried, so I just tried to create an underage account at Yahoo, they handle it thusly: Please get your mom or dad! You need your parent or guardian's permission to continue. Show them this screen. Parents, Please Sign-In. To comple
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by rmrm 15y ago
knowing the childs email address in and of itself appears to be data collection in regards to COPPA. http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus45-how-comply-childrens...
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by rmrm 15y ago
"By way of background, hypothecation is when a borrower pledges collateral to secure a debt. The borrower retains ownership of the collateral but is “hypothetically” controlled by the creditor, who has a right to seize possession if the bor
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MF Global and the great Wall St re-hypothecation scandal(newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com)
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by rmrm 15y ago
I'm sure the trend lines look about the same, but the absolute numbers have to be quite a bit off as they aren't including black navbar induced visits. I'm not a big G+ user, I followed a bunch of people who post publicly, I visit maybe onc
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by rmrm 15y ago
I agree, I think we underestimate how awesome these technologies could be if brought together into a coherent service. I would like my kitchen to tell me what I can cook based on what's on hand, and then give me the recipe for it. And say
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by rmrm 15y ago
why? you can upload private videos to youtube. http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=1...
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by rmrm 15y ago
I like my Google TV, but there was room for massive improvement literally everywhere -- performance, UI, features. I hope they really hit on a lot of it.
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by rmrm 15y ago
2. Change that to "limit leverage, everywhere". 30-1 and up leverage never has been and never will be safe, necessary, or a good idea. Not for Fannie and Freddie, not for investment banks, not for Citi and Wamu, not for LTCM, not for the E
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by rmrm 15y ago
Exactly, taxes act as incentives and de-incentives. Why do we have a health care system based on employer based insurance? Because employer based healthcare is tax deductible, and personal health care is not. What effect does the home mort
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by rmrm 15y ago
our corporate tax rates as I understand it are second highest in the world. That is offset by the fact that they are riddled with loopholes and deductions. We really need to eliminate special loopholes and deductions and then reduce corpor
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by rmrm 15y ago
GMail users are the biggest users of "other" Google services around, because of the integrated login. Because of the "contagion" working over time. Most normal people like that behavior. I had all these Google contacts on my computer, now
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by rmrm 15y ago
my point is that most people dont create a different google account for each google service they use. They use one account, for however many google services they do use. my sister uses her account for gmail and picasa and for uploading to
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by rmrm 15y ago
most normal people that use a google account already have a single account they use for gmail, google maps, google search, youtube, etc. They have long had account integration across properties. What they have never had was very much of a f
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by rmrm 15y ago
if you have an android phone and g+, all your photos are automatically uploaded into picasa and available for easy sharing g+
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by rmrm 15y ago
yes, there is a rolling cost but it's fairly small, at least relative to the mgmt fee. All up it costs around 0.87 a year. Not cheap and more than I would normally pay, but it does what I want. I didn't want to be seen to make any specifi
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by rmrm 15y ago
yes, most do -- that is what I alluded to in my original comment about all methods having their downsides. Most are not suitable for long term holding and you would end up with assymetric exposure (more downside than upside, over time, for
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by rmrm 15y ago
I bought an inverse, rather than shorting. I don't think it likely, or possible, for the 30 yr to go much lower. I can wait, my position doesn't have any time decay, and I'm in no hurry.
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by rmrm 15y ago
I decided I needed to hunt bubbles. I knew housing was in a bubble but I didn't make any money off of it. When I realized what I could have made, I realized I needed to keep my eyes open for the next one. There is a large bubble right now
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by rmrm 15y ago
Isn't the fact that Google Maps appear at the top of any results page that might be location related the smoking gun evidence? It's an obvious truth. I understand the need for diplomacy, but acknowledging the obvious and then explaining A)
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by rmrm 15y ago
Microsofts case would have been (or should have been) bolstered if their next largest competitors were all doing exactly the same things. All Google has to do to point out that these things are a natural part of search is point at Bing, Yah
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by rmrm 15y ago
I think Google would be well served if Schmidt had a little more Steve Jobs in him. Not a lot, as I think Jobs might get so frustrated he'd melt down, but a little. Eric makes everything sound somehow slightly sinister, even when it isn't
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Yelp: Seeking a Level Playing Field(officialblog.yelp.com)
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by rmrm 15y ago
my history with startup options: 1st company: acquired 2nd: ipo 3rd: bankrupt 4th: acquired Net value of all option shares : 0 Meaning, in toto, my strike price x shares is almost exactly what they ended up being worth. The net present val
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by rmrm 15y ago
People seem to like Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, eBay, Youtube, etc. They haven't stopped the internet from the 1990s from existing, its still there and available. Most people just seem to like this other corporate internet a lot more. It seems
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by rmrm 15y ago
"Democracy works because we assume that communication can be done freely and anonymously. If these assumptions don't hold true for major communication platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+ we do have a significant problem." Face to
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by rmrm 15y ago
I can appreciate that thought, but I think you are overlooking that we are moving from the primary medium of the telephone for these types of communications. Telephones certainly weren't anonymous, or undetectable. In fact when they first
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by rmrm 15y ago
you could adjust for the fact that Motorola has 3 bil in cash and some deferred tax benefit of roughly equal amount -- the actual cost to Google is around $7 billion.
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by rmrm 15y ago
you need to adjust for the fact that Motorola has 3 bil in cash and some deferred tax benefit of roughly equal amount -- the actual cost to Google is around $7 billion.
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by rmrm 15y ago
the Nexus device gets a lot of press as its the first out of the gate with the new build, but realistically, even if that remains as they say it doesn't seem like it would matter much if Google does the rest of it right -- meaning stock And

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