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Transistors are an implementation of QM. Without transistors…

It also benefits from capital appreciation. As for breaking even, the security is highly liquid and can be sold at any time to recover one’s capital.

>You might be surprised how much of modern tech was developed by racists and other bad apples William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor. See section “Views on Race and Eugeni…

Ok, and how about no more cap gains exclusion on selling primary residence and no more writing off mortgage interest (USA)?

Seatbelts weren’t a thing in the first cars. People weren’t thinking long-term about how fast these things might one day go.

Tim Hortons in Canada is being probed for using Radar Labs in their mobile app. "Tim Hortons' parent company, Toronto-based Restaurant Brands partners with Radar Labs, a Brooklyn, …

He’s great. I used his Money (for managing money values as cents in the db), Liquid and DelayedJob in a bunch of projects. Now I run my own Shopify store, selling my software.

> except by mistake No small threat; plenty of room for those, according to Daniel Ellsberg’s book ”The Doomsday Machine” . https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-doomsday-machine-97816…

No kidding. I’m a 48 year old programmer. If today were 1939, y2k was the end of ww1, when I was a 28 year old programmer.

> one of the most unstable times in history I can think of far more unstable times in history than the times we’re living in now, recent examples being WW1 & 2, nuclear threat duri…

Isn’t it Cytoplasm ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasm

> so no clue if they actually use location services The iOS app doesn’t request Location permission.

I wire-transfer tens-of-thousands of USD / month from my bank to my wealth-management company for perfectly valid reasons (e-commerce revenue), primarily to exchange to CAD (far be…

And if you miss the small handful of up days while dormant in cash, your portfolio lags.

I remember that comment. I’ve quoted that story a number of times.

I’m 48 and I rent a nice place at $2100/month. All my loot is invested in balanced 60/40. 0 debt. Absolutely, if you’ve won the house lottery, cash out now, invest and rent a nice …

But the “olds” are using it.

I’m 48 with childhood story similar to the author. I do like TikTok for some reason.

It doesn’t make sense to pay off the mortgage when money is essentially free, where interest rate is lower than inflation. I believe it does make sense to invest what you can now i…

For the best Canadian financial advice, including variable vs fixed mortgage and investment strategies, read http://greaterfool.ca daily.

The invention of the transistor was stunted by ~5 years because of ww2, when Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain were redirected to war projects, such as bomb sights, magnetic detection…

While I stewed after the dotcom crash during early 2000s, I had a short 2-year gig working as a headend tech for a small cable company. It’s not about demand, it’s about climbing p…

Over 5 years ago, I created a background-geolocation plugin for Cordova. I later ported it to React Native and now flutter. It’s not every plugin that could be monetized. Geolocati…

Build an app. There are many things in the plugin api that you don’t interact with in the app. The plugin api is the bridge between the front-end and native iOS / Android apis.

I’m a professional plugin developer. I make plugins for Cordova, React Native and Flutter. Flutter is my favorite. You should do a hello world at least.