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by rskar 10y ago
"...Eventually they need to put money in the hands of investors." I get your point, and did not mean to oversell "Option 2". But then the shareholders do get to vote on how they'd like it. BTW, a truer example of &q
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by rskar 10y ago
"...Boskalis can pay a dividend, without actually paying a dividend." That is so very wrong. While the overall picture seems the same, the tangible difference is in what each investor actually has at the end of each transaction: O
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by rskar 10y ago
American revolution? Is that one a flop? (I mean for now, future trajectories aside.)
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by rskar 10y ago
The biggest knock against VB6 being a "real programming" language has much to do with its pedigree as a proprietary language largely meant for a proprietary platform evolved from earlier language designs meant for 8-bit (GW-BASIC)
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by rskar 10y ago
If you don't see yourself or your dad in their labels, that's OK. But there's no need for guessing. Per Wikipedia: Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom approximately between the year
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by rskar 10y ago
I am wondering how bad the disincentive to work really is. In the microcosm of my family home, our kids have their basic needs (and then some) met, they receive allowances, and yet they still seek ways to earn extra money. My expectation is
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by rskar 10y ago
I'm trying to imagine under what political circumstance the Roth IRA would have its basic premise completely up-ended. Between a breach-of-contract and a gaggle of irate retirees, I see no slam-dunk here at all.
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by rskar 11y ago
I concede my math is off. The algebra is good, the arithmetic bad, right at the part I was declaring basis points. They're not bps, they're straight percentage points (making the profit margin reductions off by a factor of 1/
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by rskar 11y ago
>...then Walmart could double their profit now by raising prices. I doubt this. ... >If you assume revenue goes up without an increase in costs, then yes, but there's little reason to assume that. Well, let's review, and ple
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by rskar 11y ago
>You'd need to increase profits, not revenue. I wonder if we're starting to talk past one another. I'm just a layperson here, but I believe I got the meaning of revenue ( http://www.investopedia.com/terms&#x
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by rskar 11y ago
> Mandating a minimum wage, and letting those workers become unemployed, just makes things worse. I'm not sure what you mean by "My point was the reverse" - "public good" is not charity I guess? I'm trying t
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by rskar 11y ago
Interesting what you've given us to consider, in regards to "charity benefiting its owner", to suggest these two things as comparable: (1) insufficient wages (per Adam Smith) as set by private enterprise (2) privat
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by rskar 11y ago
Per http://www.dol.gov/general/topic/youthlabor/wages : The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires a minimum of not less than $4.25 per hour for employees under 20 years of age during their first 90 consecut
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by rskar 11y ago
I think the sort of people who ran (and run) the financial industry leveraged the political sentiments behind the Community Reinvestment Act for their own personal gains. It should be noted that the CRA got legislative changes in 1999 (enac
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by rskar 11y ago
Snippets from NY Times, September 30, 1999, "Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending", by STEVEN A. HOLMES ( http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-... ): In a move t
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by rskar 11y ago
Money: It's not a Ponzi scheme, not debt, not IOU's. Money is an instrument of entitlement. It's what enables you or somebody else to purchase things or settle (actual) debts. Not really debt. Money began as anything with wid
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by rskar 11y ago
Yup, Visual Basic (Classic/For Applications) is the new Cobol. Thanks to the ubiquity of Microsoft Office, and the tremendous utility of Excel and Access within the business community, it will just keep on getting rediscovered by many
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by rskar 11y ago
Per wiki, 35% + up to 12% of State/Local income tax; less any foreign tax already paid (as tax credit); less any other deductions and credits. Per http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/sep&
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by rskar 11y ago
Freedom, as in freedom from work? The supposed upside of that freedom is based on the assumption that one is still somehow entitled to some of that good stuff that AI/robots may bring. But that's exactly the issue. Right now we un
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by rskar 11y ago
Scored 26/26. Clearly the music samples are meant to be familiar to nearly all Americans. As mentioned before, the errors aren't subtle ones. One should be considerate that 2 to 5 percent of the U.S. population has problems with p
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by rskar 11y ago
Of interest: http://singularityhub.com/2014/08/10/burger-robot-poised-to-... Per the above: Momentum Machines says your average fast food joint spends $135,000 a year on burger line cooks. Employees work in a
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by rskar 11y ago
Adding to brudgers comment: Rather than "Excel dangerously overused", I feel that technology is generally overused in an undisciplined unmindful inefficient way. Excel is often presented as the exemplary to such overuse. I think t
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by rskar 11y ago
Per http://www.federalreservehistory.org/Events/DetailView/33 : In the 1960s, European and Japanese exports became more competitive with US exports. The US share of world output decreased and so did the need for do
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by rskar 12y ago
I bought a 2009 Toyota Corolla a few years ago from Hertz. At the time anyway, their Rent-to-Own program gave you up to 3 days to decide on whether you wanted to keep it. The no-haggle price is given to you up front. In the meantime, you we
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by rskar 12y ago
Wikipedia is also your friend. Using it as a resource, I was able to draw these connections: Shoemaking ==> Cottage Industry ==> Urbanization. It seems reasonable to believe that at least some farmers would know something of shoemakin
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by rskar 12y ago
Sigh, yet another misapplication of the term "Ponzi scheme". Even the author almost admits that "Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme. It is simply a ["George Goodman"] supermoney scheme." Carl Menger's definitio
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by rskar 12y ago
It could be a typo or other mistake. To be clear, "medium income" was the phrase used by Philip Longman in the cited PDF. I also wonder if he actually meant "median income." I googled on "define medium income",
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by rskar 12y ago
Are you suggesting that the bottom 90% of households are predominately headed by under-40 year-olds? According to payscale.com, among those with college degrees or higher, pay for men stops growing about age 48; for women, about 39. (See h
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by rskar 12y ago
The simplest explanation: Implementation costs, as in what it takes to design internet based systems in order to connect with and make sales to consumers and businesses. The grand dream has long been to have a set of standards which web bro
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by rskar 12y ago
Your HR strategy is already dead. Over-biased on the desire for the "senior/experienced developers". Meaning that your organization and the thousand others like yours perpetually create this apparent "shortage," sin

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