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> checking at that point whether the content actually changed shouldn't be an expensive operation

This is only true if you have very little "content".

Linked article is just over 11 years old. Is the author's rounding of 11 years down to 10 that offensive?

> Is that not the case?

It is the case, and is the reason this set is put together.

Here's a BBC article on the subject: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19050342

Here is a link to the text of the manual that came with the original sets (warning: Comic Sans):

http://science-notebook.com/gilb-chem01.html

EDIT: Found a PDF as well:

http://keeline.com/chem/1936-Gilbert_Chemistry_Outfit_Manual...

> All shares "pop up" on the first day or so.

Unless the ticker is "FB"...

The goalposts have already been moved to March 31st, 2014 and could be delayed further. What's the rush?

> In theory, this allows people to place orders based on a known price.

This is exactly backwards. Without a published order book there is no "known price" since everything is secret. Your hourly blind cross will go off at whatever price satisfies the rubric but there is no way for a participant to know what that price will be before hand.

Please supply values for the following undefined variables:

1. kagillion (shares, %ADV, notional dollars)

2. good old days (single year or a range)

3. too much (in $ or %)

> You have to do it by hand you know.

Periodically iterating through a set of links and comparing the returned content to a cached copy is trivial to implement.

But it had _something else_ in it...

A credit card slip with her name on it perhaps?

According to the linked story at the time he said "so sue me" he had made ~$32k gross revenue and had no employees.

He made his $400k and hired the employee much later.

Care to provide some links for the less savvy?

> What isn't considered is the thousands of players on farm teams that make 80k.

The NFL has no farm system:

> The National Football League, as of 2010, is the only one of the four major professional sports in the USA that does not have a farm system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_team#American_Football

Do you have any anecdotes (or stronger evidence) to show that the sort of behavior lamented by some in our day existed (or was indeed rampant as your suspicions suggest) N years ago? (where N is anywhere between 20 and 200)?

> This reminds me of the beats by Dre headphones.

These are the same price as a standard WASD keyboard. There is no premium for the "Code, by Jeff Atwood" name. Also, they are comparably priced to "Das Keyboard" ($125) which is a comparable product which has been in production for a while.

Finally, if you want a "high-price geek-out" item, look at the "Optimus Popularis" keyboard, only ~$1090!

The tube will hew closely to existing highway I-5 eliminating most right-of-way issues (since the state controls the land already.

Also B-Y is currently very low density and paying someone $X,XXX/yr for this nearly silent tube to pass through their field is not exactly a hard-sell.

when you say "innocent" I think you mean "exonerate".

The last Cessna 150 was made in 1977 so it would be at least 35 years old.

In fairness it should be mentioned that the first Cessna 150 was made in 1951 and the last was built in the mid-70s so we are not talking about "late model" aircraft by any stretch of the imagination.

Rebasing and fast-forward merging are two very different things.

whenever you rebase you create _brand new commits_ based off another part of the project history which bear a strong resemblance to the original commits but are nonetheless different.

adding -i allows you to do further modification of commit contents (reordering, squashing, dropping, etc. but a vanilla rebase is still changing history.

Linus addresses this in his mail early on: "People can (and probably should) rebase their _private_ trees (their own work). That's a _cleanup_. But never other peoples code. That's a "destroy history" "

Wouldn't work in the least. Property tax delinquency in Detroit is already > 50% (http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130221/METRO01/30221037...)

You can't squeeze blood from a stone.

Out of your list only Opel really qualifies as an "autmotive entrepreneur". It may have been left off the list because it has been owned by General Motors since the 20's.

Companies like Peugeot, Renault, and Fiat produce a very wide array of non-automotive products. MAN Group was founded in the 1700s and while "truck building activities" commenced in 1903 it was hardly the lion's share of their business.

> "every other place"

Vegas is not the only location of legal casino gambling. It is by far the largest but there is significant gambling activity elswhere in the US.

Wikipedia mentions these markets:

    1. Las Vegas Strip $5.550 billion
    2. Atlantic City $3.943 billion
    3. Chicago region $2.092 billion
    4. Connecticut $1.448 billion
    5. Detroit $1.36 billion
    6. St. Louis $1.050 billion
    7. Tunica Resorts, Mississippi $997.02 million
    8. Biloxi, Miss. $833.50 million
    9. Shreveport, La. $779.65 million
    10. Boulder Strip (Las Vegas) $774.33 million
    11. Reno, Nevada $715.23 million
    12. New Orleans, La. $653.05 million
    13. Downtown Las Vegas $523.82 million
    14. Laughlin, Nevada $492.51 million

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino#By_region

There are also numerous casinos on Indian reservations across the country.

I'll take a free Pebble-minus-one-button.

I'd even pay S&H...

Same argument can be made for the gold and silver ETF's but they are wildly popular.

> In college, the kids who were home educated before just seem . . . off

This particular bias is probably why the normal people in college who were home-schooled didn't volunteer that information to you.

> Why on earth would anyone think tying healthcare to your employer is a good idea?

No one did. Employer-provided healthcare (and other perks) came into vogue during the wage freezes during World War II as a way to attract employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United...

Understood, and what you say _may_ factor into the thinking re: loan modifications, but my question was about short sales. In these cses the homeowner wants out and there is a willing buyer at X (which is less than the amount owed on the loan Y). In these cases why would the bank drag their feet when offered X (writing off Y-X) and opt to foreclose and accept Z which is .5X?

Unless they are in some weird tax situation where a dollar written off is worth more than a dollar earned (unlikely) the only motivation I can think of is spite or ineptitude (since the owners credit is ruined regardless and the bank makes less money).

There is perhaps some consideration to the fact that foreclosures are sold "as-is" for cash rather than financed with contingencies but that can't be worth the dollar amounts we are dealing with...

I have the same question on short sales. Banks approve these things but then give buyers the run-around for months until they just give up. Eventually the forclosure goes through and the house is listed for 60% of the short sale price and sells a little higher.

I can't imagine why the bank would throw away 35% of the value and sell a house as a forclosure instead of helping a short sale go through. Has to be messed up incentives but I can't begin to guess how they are set up.

Explain in discrete steps how you imagine this works. What was the prevailing offer at the time you placed your order? How many coins did you buy before exhausting displayed liquidity at 121.46? How do you imaging HTFs front-ran your purchase? how would things look differently in the absence of HFT?