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First of all, NSA could give fuck-all what you're doing on your internet, no need to flatter yourself about your sense of importance. But if they did, using a VPN in a third country is going to require them to take an additional 5 seconds to break the encryption to read whatever it is they want...

From a former professional pilot and maintenance officer I can't really recommend either of these. Car mechanics can charge/make far more than aircraft mechanics and the quality of their work is seldom a life and death matter like an aircraft mechanic's often is. As for becoming a pilot, you...

Just slightly lower then when that time in 2016 when @botpro started this thread! One wonders what a "space stock" is doing with airport security screenings, but I sure hope they put that whole $26M of market cap to good use.

So they only have info that other users of the app have supplied to their version of the app and agreed to share. Not really intrusive and pretty much impossible to reach critical mass anyway.

Went to one of these in Singapore where you could buy beer futures and options as well. Or maybe it was just futures. Between the Singlish and the beer it wasn't ever super clear to me!

With the bid/ask spread on options it's more than reasonable to expect a 10% loss when The Algorithm at IB dumps your stock at the bid/ask with a market order.

We do all realize the McAfee is batshit crazy right? He totally lost it several years ago, quite a sad story really. Regardless any allegation of government persecution from him should be taken with a massive grain of salt.

Obviously an on spot criticism we see now!

And Henry Kissinger, ex-Secretary of State George P. Schultz and former U.S senator Sam Nunn all used to serve on the Theranos board of directors. She was able to fool a bunch of illustrious people, not sure what her holding a fundraiser for Clinton has to do with jack shit but it's certainly...

TLDR, no, while that may be correct in one scenario, that scenario doesn't exist in a meaningful way, so it's not accurate. So first off, your average diesel engine efficiency is less than 45% efficient. When you do the math train on that you get .9*.95*.45=38.5% The efficiency of a combined...

The picture was purposely made in too low a resolution to see the date of this issue of the Economist, 1988. From the article: "THIRTY years from now, Americans, Japanese, Europeans, and people in many other rich countries, and some relatively poor ones will probably be paying for their shopping...

And of all of those, only the 9% and 3.8% can be changed by moving to FL from NYC. If you're making several million dollars and "flee" to FL from NYC to avoid the 12.8% (which you don't really entirely avoid since FL doesn't operate it's government for $0) when you'd otherwise prefer to live in...

I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about United States "states" here, not countries. If you want to have a different conversation I'm happy to do that too. If it wasn't so damn cold and dark in the winter I would in fact be quite happy paying a marginal rate of 62% to live in a country as nice...

Why stop there, if you're making up ridiculous shit why not 150%, 5,000,000%? At the point the state tax rate impacted me such that I no longer had the wealth to live where I wanted, I would have to move. If I couldn't buy food because taxes were too high, then I'd no longer be wealthy enough...

We actually used some pretty sophisticated statistical analysis software that the private sector has come up with for probabilistic supply chain optimization, as well as doing our own analysis in SAS. You need the smart folks to program your problem set in though, and know which tools are...

In general, any statement with "always" or "never" is going to be suspect. Often times private industry is more efficient, but it won't always be nor as I demonstrated is it always workable. Let me give you an example though, of where private industry could do something but may not be more...

Not so much. I live in a "high tax state" I live here because it's where I want to live, full stop. I'm fortunate to have done well as an entrepreneur and a trader, which has provided me enough money that I don't have to consider the tax rate when deciding where to live. I simply feel sorry for...

That's exactly my point! I understand the logic of "Florida=low tax=you die with significantly>$0 in your bank account". I just think the last step of that equation is idiotic. My equation is "more money=I get to use that money to live where I want and enjoy life and not inconvenience myself one...

Then you moved to Palm Beach because you wanted to move to Palm Beach, yes? Taxe rates would have had nothing to do with it. If you would have preferred to live in Manhattan and instead moved to Palm Beach as an extremely wealthy individual because FL has lower taxes you've pretty clearly lost...

It's pretty sad really, if money is so important to you in and of itself that instead of using wealth to live where and how you want, you're driven by it to base your decision on something as impactful as where you live on tax rates. Serious loss of perspective.