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I myself see a big pullback coming in the next six months but I don’t know that I have ever been correct over 45 years. I will put a lot of money in if a 10% pullback comes. I expect you r being prudent depending on how old you are. The thing is, if you’re young, you might as well stick it out and not try to time. He said.
@lB,
That explan was courtesy PKrugman, not me, and not really original with him, though he does indeed have a gift for clear explans.
Wonder if there is a betting pool somewhere about finding the "president" derelict in his sworn duty to uphold …
Wife and I got a new iPh 5S battery per Apple offer and it makes a nice difference at least as to fretting
@Sven, roger re maintenance, but the other thing about cars is they now need so little, or so much less frequently. Wild. Tolerances, man. It…
This too seems wrongheaded to me (not about you, but Cooper, in part, in that blinkered quote about Miele) --- but maybe somewhat less wrong 10y ago?
TVs have dropped in price like a stone, and still they almost never break. People get new or bett…
This could be big, really big; wonder what will happen:
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/10/17/16489526/take-care-clause-obamacare-trump-sabotage-aca-illegal-cities-sue
It is altogether true that sex appeal and first-best-most for consumers real and mythical have overcome good engineering and certainly reusable engineering. One gig I did recently that I did not mention was for google's modular cellphone. You actual…
come on. I stay at least on substance. Of course I read the NYer article. I think you are not getting its point, not at all. No personal shots. You have not addressed any of my points about Moore's law (inevitable improvements in power, and what tha…
Wow. As if Moore's law does not exist.
All of your other points are true but quite to the side. Did you think CDs was chiefly this plot to get us to buy our music collections a second or third time? Did you think hi-rez audio (which is bullshit, b…
Sure about ink cartridges, but seriously, is that all you got?
I worked for tech companies for 40y of a widely varied range, CE, security, software, hardware, mil, robotics, med devices, networking, and much more. From wee startups to Bell Labs, fr…
Maybe you did not read to the end of the article, and in any case this is not that, really (designed in from the start).
I rest my case about your unsophistication here. I am pretty surprised, I must say. I find you so savvy and self-correcting in …
Cost-driven product design (plastic parts) is real for sure. I am surprised otherwise that someone so sophisticated about so much would make these unsophisticated claims as a generality. The chief reason for OS and similar upgrades is performance. N…
@VF, I was talking about not only its electrical usage for what you get but its wack transatlantic travels
This
>> You paid good money for something in olden days, then it WAS good. It was built to last. That's how companies made their repu…
Per Dwight's insight, ACA for dummies (Krug):
Explain it in terms of preexisting conditions. Assuming you want to cover those, you need to ban discrimination by insurers. But then you need something to get healthy people to sign up --- like the man…
That GE fridge has a carbon footprint like no other fridge in history.
And ongoing --- a new one will drop her electric bill enormously.
The rest of your points: it depends. Some things are well-made and tightly QCed these days. Audio included. And…
See all the recent articles covering wwc and farmers and self-styled evangelical types in Pa and Iowa and 'bama (Sheila Butler!) with utterly wack quotes about giving the guy a chance, let all of his policies work their magic despite my own personal…
@VF, looong recent thread about this prior
they hate the right people, us resented overeducated libtards who condescend to all of the wise and worthy working people in diners and bars and know nothing of the real world or common sense
so goes the…
Only two? Impressive. It appears to take me a dozen bad experiences for my greed to be dope-slapped and become averse or at least avoidant.
That said, I did hold some recent pharm bomb for years, yet another hindsight-terrible tip from some pluto…
This, not alarming clocked dollar amounts, is what chiefly matters, but yes, it's rising and will go up a lot higher, and we should increase gov revenues bigtime:
https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/charts/united-states-government-debt-to-gdp.png…
@Crash, you are having your neg MS karma repaid. j/k.
h,lmgtfy:
googling produced this, which is complicated for most of us:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-permanently-disable-windows-defender-windows-10
but it also says Defender disables i…
Well, more ram will help, and somehow checking for avast conflicts w the builtin programs would be wise if you have not done so already, turning one or the other off for keeps.
Not HD space, but ram on the motherboard. That's the biggest difference-maker.
I use W10 builtin security, works fine, fewer problems now than third-party ones ime. Plus free malwarebytes.
How much ram do you have? W10 enjoys a lot. With enough ram, my experience is that W10 works better and better with each update. They can take forever, for sure, and obvs ymmv.
And yes about clock update timings (chronstamp is the insuck term), although I had this explained to me several times via c/s email, and each time it was a different explanation, so my new confidence is not high about timeliness either.
I was once…
There was a near-total / major (their terms) overhaul in the past, maybe more than once, so I ain't excited, yet. Though each time I kvetched they said they were escalating to top software management, har, since I was a longtime and worthy customer,…
I have used it for years and have always had (different) problems with it. It was Yodlee at one point, yes. It is inconsistent about the insuck (technical term) from certain other shops, and differently inconsistent over the years. Worst of all rece…
I am relieved these people will not suffer any further:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/30/eye-popping-payouts-for-ceos-follow-trumps-tax-cuts-747649
@LB,
This sounds like looking for an excuse to buy WFC.
Perhaps 'easy' is a better characterization for Beery's blog.
As for US slavery, you can join the debate of what to do about Boston's Faneuil Hall's name. To this privileged white guy (and …
I think I posted that famous taibbi link here when it came out 8y ago
sure, that ultra-fatuous shira beery piece is by definition godwin, can't not be
the wfc sales culture was not (imo) like anything I have read about in moderately deep delving o…
@ Crash: Any thought of a part time job ?
Derf
I might be open to the idea. My background, though, is not suited for ANYTHING. EVERYWHERE I apply--- literally--- the employer will wonder what the hell …
@Ben,
>> In my case there is no correlation between how many times a week I look and when I sell.
you would think (I would think) there has to be at least some correlation at some faint level if only because if you never looked at all presum…
wow, you hit the godwin rule so early!
there has been truly new news since this, no?
plus this from not so long ago:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/business/wells-fargo-federal-reserve.html
I pose the question to you of how to punish any in…
My editorial point was that laetrile was widely identified before these applications (see google's ngram for it, starting early 1960s, peaking well after Chad Green's death, which is when registration / protection efforts commenced, looks like) and …
