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mholmes680··on Basic Income Research Proposal
Easy answer: they lose it.

http://time.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/ "It takes the average recipient of an inheritance 19 days until they buy a new car."

mholmes680··on Magnesium and the Brain (2011)
I've noticed the interactions with my doctor are strictly as, or less, informative than interactions with google. It's worrisome.
mholmes680··on A new kind of map: it’s about time
Its cool, and I can see the usefulness. After I used it for 5 mins I started thinking "hey I really could care less which direction I need to travel for lunch anyways", so its doing its stated goal there.

My only issue is that they define it as a "map". Its, well, its not. Its a useful tool, but a map tells you how to go there, and this is not that (until you click on something, so that second piece is a map fine). I can concede its a map in the sense that multiple places plotted are still direction-ally related to each other, but that's counter to going ahead and throwing out the map-streets in the first place.

mholmes680··on Magnesium and the Brain (2011)
I'm curious have you talked to your doctor to complete that feedback loop?
mholmes680··on Magnesium and the Brain (2011)
"Max-nesium salad" would be just spinach though :) "Tasty and colorful max-nesium salad" would be yours.
mholmes680··on Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed
So, I struggle understanding options jargon, maybe you can help -- from your tweet: is 2500 alot? 2500 of what - stock that borrowed? $135 is lower than yesterday's price, but higher than today's open @ 125 - does that mean someone who bought the puts can cash out at $10 profit this morning?

thanks.

mholmes680··on Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
Not sure if this will help, but I was surprised by this: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-th...

SilverPush has since stopped, it seems, but that might just mean others are doing it more profitably that they were...

mholmes680··on Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America
selfishly, i agree completely. But where could all this fit, and cost of doing business here is painfully expensive.
mholmes680··on IBM pitched Watson as a revolution in cancer care, but it’s nowhere close
The old one or the new one? I like the subtle "heart" shape in the new one, especially the animation, to implicitly persuade me to love IBM.

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo...

mholmes680··on IBM pitched Watson as a revolution in cancer care, but it’s nowhere close
I'm on board with that if it means I don't have to pay for additional PVUs [0].

0: https://www-01.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/pvu_licens...

mholmes680··on Demon-Haunted World
Devil's advocate here... I would have hoped the opportunities were so lucrative that whistleblowers would have already, eh, blown the whistle. That's exactly the point of the whistleblower's protection laws.

So maybe these things aren't as widespread as you'd think... at least not in a legal sense. I'd also like to think that maybe people aren't "designing" flaws into things rather than finding the maximum economic benefit, or just are "naive" to what they design.

mholmes680··on Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide into the air
swedens working on it:

https://qz.com/1010273/the-algoland-carbon-capture-project-i...

(wood burning power plant is the second subject, under How to heat a cold country in the 21st century section)

mholmes680··on The Lost Art of Stealing Fruit
On the other hand, my neighbors drive me completely nuts. Each on the cul-de-sac has an acre or so, and i'm the only home-farmer. The rest barely go outside let alone grow some veggies...

Its bizarre and a little infuriating.

mholmes680··on The Lost Art of Stealing Fruit
I don't want to discourage you, because i had the same dream 5 years ago. But what you are saying has gotten VERY expensive. As an initial investment (at least for me, I have very few to share plants/seeds with) its pretty high. Then you have some deer take out a tree and all the berries, so you need to invest in deer block (chemical or physical), then you have the fricken EAB borer killing your 30 year old Ash Tree, and the black fungus that's taking out the pear and cherries, and then you forget to close the fence one day so most of the cucumbers and beans go missing and the rest get taken out by the cucumber beetles and/or the wilt they carry with them. Oh, and i invested about $200 on some "deer resistant, rabbit resistant" flowers (useful flowers like sage and lavender) which slowly disappear each season.

In other words, start saving now :). Though I haven't checked your link yet, so maybe the solution is in there!

mholmes680··on Reserve the 418 status code
I solved this with a WeMo plug, which gives me an app and alexa control. Used for electric hair iron of wife, and coffee pot as backup plan with timeout setting, and also saving us driving back home for the "did you unplug the iron" moments.

Both appliances actually have their own auto-off, but I like redundancy.

mholmes680··on Blue Apron Tumbles After Losing Customers in Second Quarter
That's a good point. looks like they took the lowest historical price vs the IPO, without regard for current situation. Far from "total return". Good catch.
mholmes680··on Tesla Burns Through Record Cash to Bring the Model 3 to Market
Eh... assuming demand is there. I guess it could be, but price of the car matters, prices of oil matter, politics and lobbyists matter, success of this rollout matter. There's some risks here before you call it "too late".

Also... nissan has an interesting play here. Waiting to see what they do.

mholmes680··on Launch HN: Sunu (YC S17) – Sonar wristband helping blind people navigate
not OP, but i think the overall challenge is cheaply coming up with a not-cheap product than can apply to the largest section of the limited market. Its expensive to advance the tech here, for a limited economic benefit to the company trying to advance the tech.

As the brother to a visually impaired person, I found the website fine. If only you could ship by his August 1 birthday! :)

mholmes680··on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
I keep an unofficial[0] representative "Death By Amazon" google portfolio. current companies tracked, against AMZN:

KSS M DDS ZUMZ SSI JCP JWN ASNA BKS TUES BGFV FRAN BKE KIRK SMRT GCO FIVE SHLD BURL BBBY SPLS APRN

1yr (excluding dividends): amzn + 42.90% (even excluding today still +39%) deathByAmzn - 25% (today also up... hmmm).

For what its worth, AMZN isn't the whole story of retail. There's a PE story there too [1].

[0]: There's an official one out there if you google, but I disagree with some of it. I exclude Walmart because its a big enough competitor to survive, as an example. Also i don't have a desire to track 54 stocks for this purpose.

[1]: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/05/its-more-than-amazon-why-reta...

mholmes680··on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
the Breadth just means they are a conglomerate. A new age conglomerate. Breadth has nothing to do with monopoly.
mholmes680··on A hacker stole $31M of Ether – how it happened, and what it means for Ethereum
I know very little of Ethereum aside from the articles that pop up here, but I'm trying to compare this event to my existing currency. I have cash under my bed, i have it in 10+ accounts in financial institutions, and most of it is insured by the FDIC... so I've reduced my risk profile greatly.

Does ethereum/ether allow me offline wallets? Can i have multiple accounts/wallets and easily administrate them? Is any agency insuring this yet? If so, then isn't this also user-error here? Don't allow a wallet of $X size that you can't afford to have disappear?

mholmes680··on Hedge Fund Uses Algae to Reap 21% Return
Also, hasn't been tested under bear market conditions... I'm skeptical that past returns prove future gains here. I can take any small subset of something and say its beating the market.
mholmes680··on Elon Musk says he has a green light to build a NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC hyperloop
This is never going to fly in New Jersey. Its so damn corrupt, take any cost and multiply by 10 for our section. And add a newark or jersey city station too, you're not going under us without that.

Maybe best to just go around us.

mholmes680··on Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned Toddler?
DO: as a parent, wake up repeatedly and check your infant for symptoms of SIDS three times a night. Ensure wife does the same 5 times a night.

I'm speaking a little in hyperbole here, but you get the point I'm sure.

mholmes680··on Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned Toddler?
Both of my kids can happily float /doggie paddle in floaties so far, with the older one in daily classes. She started at age 6 months--she's old enough to understand it, but the article that prompted my fears was about a 6 year old who just happened to inhale enough water to make a difference a week later. My younger one is still testing to see what he can get away with, and can't communicate things like "hey my chest feels funny" yet.

When my wife and I were on our honeymoon we watched a couple throw their 6 month old (10 month maybe? wasn't walking, only crawling) in the pool over and over again. Most of the pool looked on in horror, but they had taught her the "leg kick to turn over onto her back and float" skill. Definitely gave us perspective.

mholmes680··on Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned Toddler?
since i first heard of dry drowning earlier this summer, i haven't been able to enjoy a pool with my 1 and 2 year olds. It's taken the place of SIDS for me.
mholmes680··on How Checkers Was Solved
can second this recommendation. good, quick reading.
mholmes680··on Show HN: GreenPiThumb – A Raspberry Pi Gardening Bot
what if the tray was the way to detect moisture level? or, you could drip it back into the supply water?
mholmes680··on Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
Sheryl Sandberg.

edit: nevermind, Kara says no. https://twitter.com/karaswisher?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwc...

mholmes680··on Mars, Moon on Google Maps
i've always wanted them to float that scale bar, so i can drag and rotate it.
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