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Over half of USAmericans buy stock via 401k/403b or pension

Global Crossing still owes my company money for work I did for them!

Focus groups are the "Uber" of management consulting -- low wage independent contractors doing the same work

Every abstract logo can be interpreted in many ways if people culture jams it.

Yes, causality is one of the ways of defining Time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time

Please link to some reports from reputable sources.

Please link to some example reports.

Tom Delonge of Blink-182 rock band. It seems this new thing is a mix of UFO hokum and music-related sales. Definitely some financial engineering shenanigans in there.

Android fixed the totally messed up Battery Saver in O->P and added Night Light to compensate for breaking Twilight/BlueLight etc.

Carrier is involved only if the carrier "manufactured" and sold you the device. Your choice. This is why Android moved as much as possible to the core Google Play services app inst…

Which Linux programs do you use that benefit from being on your phone when you have a monitor but no computer?

Alt launchers are cool but Android doesn't give them full support for widgets. Accessibility still matters even if you aren't blind, and apps for blind users can still be malicious…

They still crash the foreground app you actively using while it updates

That's why even the no-frills Nissan Leaf S has multiple seat warmers and steering wheel warmer. It's as much a range extender as a luxury feature.

With 5x equity and decades long stable business, you can carry a high debt load. Tesla has more risk of a stock price plummet if they falter.

The real money is in repairs for poorly designed and manufactured components, not service.

If a quiet engine makes the other noises noticeable, they don't need to silence the car, just add a little synthetic white noise like offices and movies have.

Emulators have been SMB compatible for decades . A C64 Port adds nothing in that area.

Are you a woman who wears USA women's pants that are nearly always skin tight and have pockets 40% the size of men's pockets?

I've never known NYC, the sitting famous for a bodega on almost every block, and street vendors with cars of produce, to be short on any produce available in USA. https://www.myfre…

It wasn't long ago when the knowledge that food is made of plants that grow on dirt was common knowledge, not a life hack. Schoolchildren used to grow plants from seed as homework.…

Drop in on your local bank and SBA. They are looking for people like you.

More generally, all open problems are hard, because the economy's limiting reagent isn't mildly intelligent people willing to do easy work for good money.

Even before Paul Graham and Viaweb, the stats were that about 90% of new businesses fail and a big predictor of success (but still at low odds) was ignorance of those odds.