bradshaw1965

<<The existence of call-center work, which is intrinsically dehumanizing and unrelentingly laborious, is considered a failure of our society

The people in the article find it one of the best jobs available and a path to a middle class lifestyle for their area.

If by wealthy having 90th percentile investments 10 years before normal retirement age then these plans are well equipped to make you wealthy. Get rich slow totally works.

Glancing at the abstract it looks like 97% lose money, what larger number in a more suitable sample size would make a difference?

I've heard low single digits of traders and investors deliver Alpha. Impossible? no. Highly efficent? Yes

What's the point of even building a website if Google is just going to scrape the information and put in a SERP? You need to add value and build a relationship with your customer.

It's important to distinguish market cap based indexes and other asset class indexes. Small and micro-caps are notoriously hard to trade but mega-caps typically have much higher liquidity. There is a much higher chance of a micro-cap passive fund having a liquidity problem then a market cap index fund.

Growth of 10K tool on Morningstar is really handy so that you aren't comparing apples to oranges with dividends, splits, etc.

... Google is valued highly today because they print money today. They print money because of search and advertising. They are really good at this and that's why their market cap exceed's Apple's today. ... That would be correct if they were value companies throwing off discounted cash flow but both Google and Apple are priced as growth companies. The market believes Apple has peaked in growth and that Google has a bit more potential. It's not clear why exactly from the earnings report of the holding company. Revenue for Google is 99% ad sales so it's not clear exactly where that bottom line revenue is going to come from. All revenue from the rest of the holding company was less then $500 million.

Both companies will struggle for the kind of revenue growth Wall Street is looking for. Ad sales account for 99% of Google revenue, with speculative ventures generating less then $500 million. It's all about finding products and services that people are willing to part with cash.

There are pressures from both the earn and the spend side, but the surest path to misery is living above your means. Dickens had it pretty much nailed with, "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery."

I love how the engineers in "Halt and Catch Fire" are always talking about "the laws of physics".

The More Cocoa Programming for OS X: book has been in O'Reilly Rough Cuts beta for several years and the tech is pretty old at this point. Not sure if it ever will see the light of day. The Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X is updated regularly and the training program is ongoing so I imagine it will continue to be updated.

At least part of the problem was the resentment that people felt about needing to sign up to paid service to keep their identity and follow their friends. Their was implied social proof in the very beginning but with a pretty big arm twist.

Yep. Should have expressed that it is non-linear.

... Chronic lack of exercise causes people to sleep 9+ hours per day. Put those same people on regular aerobic exercise regimes, and they start sleeping <8 hours.

Peak performance exercise can demand 9+ hours of sleep. I'd be reluctant to categorize sleep needs based on exercise regime.

Who said anything about completely eliminating OpenGL ES? SceneKit writes to OpenGL, OpenGL views are pervasive, WebGL is turned on in Safari, CALayers are OpenGL backed. Metal just lets you tweak the render pipeline.