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This is a pretty complicated market that yields well to complex modeling using marginal abatement cost curves of mitigation technology. If that is all beyond you, it's probably not a great place for you to be trading as the people who do understand it will be able to kill you pretty easily.

I've been on the funded side of an angel investment and so perhaps can shed some light on this from the opposite perspective, i.e. the perspective of the company looking for funding. Here are some random thoughts in no particular order: -If you've got a solid concept that has achieved traction...

I lived on the Peninsula back when I was on a military salary, so I'm pretty up on both prices and how to save money. Your point in no way changes the fact that to have the same quality of life where you live costs 4X what it does where I now live, and no-where on the Peninsula could you get a...

Back 15 years ago before ETFs came out with redemption and creation features there was a whole close end fund industry with lots of funds that trading at persistent discount to NAV. A couple activist hedge funds did exactly what you mentioned, buying up enough shares to get seats on thee boards...

Actually I have read all his books, I think he's a great author. But no one, least of all him, would claim he doesn't have a bone to pick with the i-banking industry. Merely pointing out a "jury" needs to be either unbiased or at the very least represent both points of view on an issue. The...

The guy who has a very public beef with pretty much the entire investment banking industry, that guy? Talk about bias!

Criminal is a pretty strong word. I guess technically if there's a law in China restricting currency flows and you violate that law then in China you're a criminal. If you're a woman in Saudi Arabia and have the audacity to drive a car you're a criminal as well under their system. As an American...

I theory, sure. Just like a men's magazine is probably not going to do a good job covering a technical case like this? However, maybe I'd trust anyone who had the actual facts about a case over those who didn't and were admittedly just speculating? And maybe, just maybe, you might want to get...

Sadly mass transit sucks and the Peninsula where you can take Caltrain is more expensive than the City. You gotta make it to Pittsburgh/Antioch to see any dip in prices combined with a place you actually want to live (i.e. not Oakland/Hayward) and then you've got a tunnel and a bridge to fight...

Again, you have a lot to learn about the rest of the world my friend. Starting with the fact that "California" is a huge state and the cost of living in San Francisco vs just 80 miles away in Stockton are night and day, let alone whatever "area" your fiance is from. In fact $160K in SF is...

They obviously aren't, but I'll certainly take one over a bunch of jackasses that Esquire put together who sit around pontificating without even knowing the actual facts of the case!

So clearly you haven't. Once you do, you'll realize that everything is far more expensive when living in a big city. You want a car, you'll need to pay as much for a parking space in SF as you probably pay for your rent. Oh, no need for a car because you're in the city, then you pay at least 2x...

What expensive cities have you lived in?

As I understand it the prosecutor just appealed the trial judges decision to throw out the case and the state supreme court overruled the trial judge. That's not double jeopardy at all, that's just an appeal. That said, as I mentioned in the last thread where we litigated this ad nauseam, GS...

Great explanation, I think most aren't aware of those distinctions but you did a good job of explaining them. Back to the OP, I think in almost all cases you'll get better up time from a vps then a server at your house given that you've got your internet service to worry about, your power, and...

The jury determined that he did. A "mock jury" brought together by a men's magazine to present a highly colored view of the case (evil Goldman!!) didn't have access to the case, not to mention that they openly said it was fine to take code you were paid to produce because "everybody did it", so...

It was only ever thrown out based on a technicality, basically under an obscure 1967 law that if something is written on paper it isn't "tangible". There was never any doubt that he stole code that was written by him and his team while being paid to do so by GS, never any determination that he...

That's horrible, you know that translates into 4.38 hours of down time a year right? If you're actually getting anywhere close to 99.95% you're getting a really bad deal; I use Liquidweb and haven't had a second of down time in nearly 3 years per my independent monitoring. A couple of major...

Yeah, you're not the first person to have figured this out, or even the 50th. And the guys offering Islamic accounts are way ahead of you on that one.

It's a bit of a pain to get there, but the area around (but definitely not in!) Bocos del Torro is very gringo friendly and gorgeous. You just may only be able to get to your house by boat. Belize is definitely gringo friendly, no need to even learn Spanish, but priced accordingly. A few of the...