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iknowicouldturnon US Series I Savings Bonds Now Yielding 7.12%

Interesting. Are the inflation rate and inflation not causal with one another? I feel a bit ignorant now having always assumed they are essentially the same thing. Amount of new money printed.

iknowicouldturnon I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929

The richest woman alive [by far] is the grand daughter of L’Oréal founder. Bloomberg puts the family’s stake all in her name. The info bit also says French inheritance says 50% has to go to one person. So for at least a few generations, the majority of the wealth can remain consolidated.

iknowicouldturnon ReactOS Updates

I have been as skeptical as the parent post. You make a good point though. Getting to Windows 7 at any point this decade will give them a real shot at increasing user base. I assume most people would be happy on Windows 7 as on Windows 10 outside of becoming comfortable on Windows 10 over the past 5 yrs

iknowicouldturnon Ask HN: Why has Apple's software quality steadily gone downhill?

There’s also a difference between advanced users and power users. You can be an advanced user like people I know but not have lots of apps and thus icons installed. So no need for Bartender to hide them.

I do need Bartender like you seem to. But I’ve seen I’m the exception amongst my beginner and advanced friends vs the norm.

iknowicouldturnon Dow plunges 1000 points

Once again, Dow is an awful indicator even without the awful usage of absolute numbers when numbers are obviously higher now.

Now the reason for my post. Where should I go for non-sensational finance news?

iknowicouldturnon SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies

I skimmed the video and read the notes. Pretty interesting. Makes sense.

iknowicouldturnon SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies

It's crazy that Bezos is investing a billion a year consistently into BO. At some point you'd think BO would catch up.

It could've that BO can't attract enough talent. Bezos might not be spending enough time at BO and perhaps the prospects aren't as great there.

iknowicouldturnon We're joining Facebook

Yeah that makes sense and most likely for sure.

iknowicouldturnon Ten Years of Worthless Side Projects

Good on you for doing so many side projects. I barely get started on mine. Give up/stop way too quickly.

iknowicouldturnon We're joining Facebook

Wonder how much they'll be using the technology and how. Will they try to do it like YouTube with trying to keep videos up, and having the revenue go to the copyright owner? Or maybe they won't do much. Comments seem to be divided.