PacketPaul

I love coffee ... when I'm addicted to caffeine. I found when I get off of caffeine my love of coffee disappears.

I've been on/off caffeine numerous times. Mostly because I have a big backpack trip where obtaining caffeine is a pain. It takes exactly a week for me with days 3-6 being miserable. I feel I am not fully "there" almost as if I'm an observer in my own body.

There are two advantages I see in being off caffeine. First you are not dependent on a drug. Second, if you do need the drug for a rare occasion (maybe driving late into the night etc.) it is there for you. Being off caffeine then drinking a cup of coffee gives you a huge jolt.

I got back on caffeine recently to see if it would help me lose weight. It did not. Now I'm fat and addicted.

How did he get so rich from a government salary?

Yes. Like the Bruno Mars song says "I want to be on the cover of Forbes magazine...". At one time that was a big deal.

The purpose (and only purpose) of the company is to increase shareholder value. That is done via dividend and stock price appreciation. Buying the stock of a company increases demand of that stock and hopefully share price.

I agree. It was like listening to my six year old tell me what happened. Every story begins when he woke.

If you buy land where the only access is through another person's private property, that is your own fault. The purchaser has a responsibility to do their own due diligence.

How are they losing money on each ride? They are not managing fleets of cars, employees, etc. It's an app.

How are these guys not profitable? It is basically an app that gets paid to match riders with rides.

My guess is they are spending a lot of money expanding. Once done, they will be instantly profitable.

I guess you have never rode Uber during "surge" times. Sometimes the pricing becomes insane.

Physicians get paid more if you remain sick.

How much is the paid service? You could roll your own for around $15/month using an Amazon EC2 T2 micro instance.

Can polio spread globally again or is everyone vaccinated thus containing the disease to those small regions?

Or a competitor comes along with a self squeezing pack.

About 1/3 of the food in the US is wasted. And this is exactly what we want!

Food is a renewable yet spoilable resource. Easy to create, hard to store long term. Having more food then we need means the system has the capacity to absorb disruptions. If we consumed 100% of the food created, any disruption such as a cold spell in Florida would cause people to go hungry.

Then they would not have a reason to charge more. They need low cost and a premium option.

Why would Jobs not get credit for the Apple 2? It's not like he engineered any of the other items on your list. It was his marketing that made the Apple 2.

I own 3 and still don't know the answer. I've been wonder the same. Steve Jobs swore the iPad was the perfect size and any other size was a failure.

Do it now. Every year it will get harder to find the time.

The expansion of NATO deep into former Warsaw Pact countries.

If you were using the Exodus plugin for Kodi, you were a part of a botnet. Make sure you upgrade to 3.0.5. Who knows what the other apps are doing?

He had a big meeting with manufacturers two days ago and is incentivising US manufacturing through the threat of tariffs.

Just remember 0-40c is 32-104f. So a decimal point in Celsius gives a higher resolution.

Actually a lot of people believe they are a random distribution. There is a great book "A Random Walk Down Wallstreet" which explains it.

The basic idea is the market is efficient (the Efficient Market Theory) and all information about the stock is alreay priced into the stock. Picking a stock to beat the market average is basically a random chance.

It will. No company remains dominant forever.

Amazon is pretty good with billing disputes. They don't want the bad publicity of shutting someone down.

Source: I work for a startup who does not pay their bills.

One more reason to fly SouthWest.

And you will never get an OS update again. Android products seem to be orphaned at whatever OS is current at the time of production.

Just bought a new Android table and it had lollipop. Turns out you cannot get the most recent OS for it so I am stuck with a 2 year old OS.

Pilot here. Airplanes have autopilot. While on autopilot you are still expected to be monitoring the flight and take control at a moments notice. Autopilot does not allow the pilot to take a nap or go in the back and party with the flight attendants.

Autopilot is the correct term. I'm tired of always having to cater to the lowest common denominator.

I also think Siri fails with Text messaging. I should be able to have an IM discussion using just my voice. But the Siri interface is simply not that involved. I'm constantine having to say "Read Latest Text Message".

Two reasons:

Stock Options

Work at Facebook