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I've been recently looking for something similar to this as well, but haven't found the perfect product for me yet. Ideally, it would be an application or service where you would add URLs to monitor (perhaps with a list of ids/classes), where for each website, you'd get a long list of changes (timestamped) going back to when you added it, along with the option to diff each change against the current version.
I find it absolutely crazy that you write off the change of someone who could have comfortably served in the Reagan administration (Obama) to a socialist as "zero". Yes, if that's all that happens, he'd be severely constrained.

But you appear to totally miss my point, unless I've misunderstood you:

An electorate that votes for Sanders over issues is an electorate where a majority would be fundamentally out of step with every Republican and pretty much every serving Democrat in Congress with perhaps a handful of exceptions.

The only situation where there wouldn't be massive changes in Congress over such a presidency would be if these people elect Sanders almost entirely over personality or party membership rather issues. Which is possible, but, as I said, it would be truly bizarre.

(I say this as a European well to the left of Sanders; I really hope he gets elected as it would be fantastic to see the US shift more in line with Europe, but I give him a snowballs chance in hell)
Do you think a meritocracy is a good thing? Michael Young, the author of The Rise of the Meritocracy (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/792606.The_Rise_of_the_M...), and the inventor of the term, didn't think so: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

Nor do I. Who decides what abilities are important? How do they go about measuring them?
T Rowe price has a seed fund, too, by the way.
Put this way, it seems like a bet that tech will outperform alternatives: you're constructing a conservative investment out of startup investing.
Presumably you don't want to call NSA/Apple, tell them what a great hack you did, and then ask them for One Million Dollars.
If you have a complicated, deeply interconnected model, updating immutable data structures properly doesn't seem much easier than properly implementing shouldComponentUpdate().
DS9 is different in tone to TNG but every bit as good, it explores what happens when the idealism of the Federation runs smack into an equivalently advanced technologically civilisation that has a horrible social structure.

It's very good.
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The freedom to shout at strangers on sidewalks is a meaningless one in terms of ability to add your ideas to the national political dialog. All meaningful political speech in the modern day has some kind of money spend behind it -- including your posting here on this comment thread. And if we raise the bar from "I guess theoretically this might potentially affect something" to "obviously meaningful speech," then the money spends become quite large.

If the government can restrict any and all money spends on political speech, it can suppress all meaningful political speech. This is the absolute core of the First Amendment.
I'm guessing this is more along the lines of "the best you can do" than perfect. It's not like you have many other options.
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There are quite few direct roads to investing based on dividends alone and there are also a whole bunch of products directly targeting high dividend yield stocks. Surely the people buying/selling those stocks and funds are buying and selling based on that number.

It's just a different strategy, not very popular in the startup world but for more established companies it is not unheard of.
Indeed, the computer never bothered to mention when people were removed from the ship unexpectedly; it was always up to the bridge crew to ask and learn, "oh by the way, yeah, main character X was beamed off the ship by enemies hours ago". Annoying when it happened, but suggests a pretty significant concession to privacy.
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I'd love to get my car tested... Anyone know how I could do that?

I have a 2015 Q5 TDI which while not specifically mentioned has the same size engine as several of the ones that are mentioned (3.0-liter). I would be shocked if they just started using the defeat device in the 2016 model year for the Q5 considering they were already getting pushback from the EPA before the 2016 models even got announced.

I bought the diesel specifically because of the high mileage and supposedly clean emissions. What a crock.
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Blame it on the programmers! /sarcasm
I don't understand how Windows 10 can be used in a lot of small business environments.

If you are big enough to get the enterprise version, everything apparently can be tweaked. But there are a lot of tiny businesses that order a PC from Dell, install some software for their vertical, and then do little more than regularly install updates. My old dentist was a two person operation. They aren't going to get the enterprise version yet they need to handle medical and billing records securely.

Either I'm totally misinformed, or the professional version of Windows isn't suitable for many professionals. I'd be happy if somebody could explain why it's the former.

I also wish Microsoft were more transparent about the data that is sent to them. Why is a machine with all the options set with privacy in mind still in constant contact with Microsoft?
> At what point does it become economical to just run gasoline instead of diesel then (that is, manufacturers selling gasoline models)? If we are talking about diesel still being economical instead of gasoline, but just not as economical as when it was allowed to be more polluting, I'm not sure I can muster much sympathy (but I'm fairly uneducated on the subject, so it may just a matter of not knowing enough).

People run diesels due to durability. They run at lower RPM than similarly designed gas engines, and last longer between rebuilds. They also make more low-end torque, for the same reasons. Both of these factors are extremely important to the types of equipment that you see diesels in, probably even moreso than the problems caused by diesels. For many years, Diesel fuel was more expensive than gas, but people kept running them anyway in the applications for which they were most appropriate. For cars, yeah, we'll probably just see the death of diesel in that space.

> Did the EPA make rules that required that, or did manufacturers mess up in their attempt to offer the same features as before? Did the EPA dictate this solution, or did the market respond with a poor solution to an EPA requirement on emissions?

The market responded with the only solutions it could come up with. The EPA made standards that are impossible to meet using any available technology without causing some or all of the problems I mentioned.
I want VW to be held accountable, but I don't want them to decimate the company.

While I want clean air, and believe in global warming; I'm afraid that the EPA will use VW as a reason to tighten emmission standards to to point where we will need to buy new vechicles in order to drive. I can't afford, nor really want a new vechicle.

I'm at the point now that I pray my vechicles passes smog checks. I'm not working as a mechanic now, but I have been to automotive school. I take those smog results, I get every two years, and tune my vechicles appropriately. My vechicles are tuned properly. I use a secondary 02 sensor attached to secondary bung holes before, and after the catalytic converter. All, so I can get the engines in perfect stoichiometric values. I clean out my erg valves. I change the oil. I double check some emmission sensors with a DVOM. I look for that lazy sensor and replace it if it's not in spec.

Even with all that, it seems like it's a crap shoot on wether my vechicles pass.

(I can't blame the EPA, or CARB totally. I have found gross errors in Motor Emission publications. Off subject, but smog stations are only required to have one emmission's reference on site. Most shops usually just have the current copy of Motor's Emmisson Manual. It's cheap, and that's what they show you if your vechicle fails the visual. The publication is filled with errors. If you failed the visual on your smog test, double check the information with Mitchell Manuals. I have never found an error in a Mitchell manual. Off subject--yes, but when your arguing with a smog tech. you might remember this post.)
Except that you forget 7 years before that was the big 2001 crisis.

So, the opposite is true: There is reason to believe it's a 7-year economic cycle.
The "dark" fetish in television, particularly in sci-fi, is growing increasingly tired. Shows like TNG, which would take one on a voyage to a positive, better future, are being replaced by blue-tinted melodramas filled with beige characters. Trek's downward spiral began with DS9, and the trip to the future has gotten progressively dingier with every subsequent effort.

I'll be hoping for a Trek with new worlds filled with new solutions to current problems, but expecting another dreary Breaking Bad tinged with Walking Dead, this time--yawn--amidst the stars.
Frankly, itistoday2 is right - the fact that I have to open an external website and open the multiple pages for the days I've been away, instead of simply scrolling up and continuing the discussion, makes for a terrible experience.

Detachable screen sessions make up somewhat for it, but they're still pretty limited (you might have /joined the channel only later), and it requires a personal service running, that must be attended to & etc.
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The only "last ones in" will be the retail investor when they eventually go IPO. That's always been the case, just like with GroupOn, Zynga, etc. The VCs and IBs will hype up the company, and then they get their mutual fund buddies with huge piles of cash to pay up for the IPO in exchange for early access to the next awesome company, and these crappy companies get unloaded to the retail suckers.

That's how the industry works, but no one seems to care, because there are no consequences, and the incentives are such that no one cares if the retail investors lose a bit of money, and VCs and IBs get massively wealthy.
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I was actually thinking just the same thing. It feels young and not quite mature, doesn't it? We have a long way to go. Same to you. Cheers.
You can see similar scenes through the windows of abandoned buildings in Bodie, a ghost town in eastern California. I imagine that the people there did want to take their valuables, but could not afford to. Perhaps the cost of transportation rose as the town emptied out and options for hauling goods over long distances diminished.
Whether nationally or at the state level, it helps the movement to have a figure on the presidential stage doing everything they can to bring special interest issues to light. Lessig's strategy was wrong, but don't think its failure should cause those after him to be discouraged. Although he probably would've had better success running for state office, Citizens United needs to be reversed, and I don't think a state-by-state movement while giving the issue little attention nationally is enough.

Although the example of marijuana legislation gaining momentum is relevant, I think it's incomparable as corruption and campaign finance reform legislation would have loads more money invested by special interest groups to oppose it.

I think it's a tough fight to be waged at any level, and the more exposure given to it the better.
My current 2013 Ford Focus sticker price matched up exactly with inflation on the sticker price of the 97 Escort it replaced.

I was kind of amazed given all the safety improvements.

I did get 250,000 miles out of the escort before the salt rusted out too much.
I posted this in a different thread but am reposting here for the folks that do move to Win10.

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Polygamous marriages are typically frowned upon; at least in the US.
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Well, mostly what they would lose is the None/Security level. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85... has a description of the levels. The minimum for Open License is only five copies BTW.
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> You seem to believe that the EU is one homogeneous, federal entity. It isn't, yet.

I did say 'EU country' didn't I? So why do you think I believe that the EU is one homogeneous federal entity? I'm pretty well versed in EU politics and I'm kind of surprised that you could read that into that line.

> Having the EU parliament vote a motion in favour of welcoming Snowden as a political refugee is great.

Yes, but it amounts to exactly nothing without any particular country taking actual action, the EU parliament has a long history of being ignored on issues like these in spite of well meaning words their ability to exert pressure on the nation states to actually act is in this particular case quite limited. But it's a nice gesture, I'm sure Edward Snowden will appreciate it.

Hence the 'talk is cheap'.
And I think that the entire public market is likely to go down—perhaps substantially—when interest rates materially move up, though that may be a long time away.

Can someone EL5 this? Arguments that seem plausible (to me):

1) higher interest rates make borrowing more expensive

2) higher interest rates make less risky investments more attractive

3) something hand-wavy about inflation and the role higher-interest rates play in combating it (or, more precisely, the signal that sends to the market)
We have public election funding in Canada and it has ushered in the end of days. The voteman came for my last neighbour yesterday. I am certain he will come for me soon. I will save the last bullet for myself. Let this be a lesson to all those who are tempted by public election financing.
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A muli-year global emissions cheating campaign isn't a lark.
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Microsoft arbitrarily cripples or how it's called in business lingo "market segments" their products. Maybe their marketing felt Windows 10 was too good of a product and needed to make it artificially less desirable? Surely no professional or business user wants to be spied on?

There are a lot of examples in the past too. Arbitrarily limiting 32-bit consumer versions to just 4 GB RAM. Letting just one user having an interactive login in the same time. Not having remote desktop server in consumer versions.

Microsoft, please just make one version of Windows. If you must, make a separate server version. But please stop this segmentation madness.
Most of the spam I see in the wild these days is indeed (established) dropped domains which were picked up and then loaded with thousands of pages of "fresh" spun content, with an incestuous backlink profile if any. So indeed 'blogspam'. Everything old is new again; it feels just like twelve years ago. Soon people will be keyword stuffing in a font the same color as the background...

But Google certainly isn't intending to make blogspam a good business to be in, and I'd argue that they aren't; over the past four years Demand Media's stockprice has fallen from $400/share to $4, and the general marketplace for commoditized SEO services has shrunk by a similar degree over the same period. 19 out of every 20 SEOs who were active five years ago have thrown in the towel... just check alexa graphs for the top SEO forums.

The SERPs are clean these days. Google has done an amazing job every year for at least thirteen years now of improving them constantly. The new wave of spam is social. In practice this means Buzzfeed writers stealing user-produced content from AskReddit threads and it ending up polluting my Facebook feed to the point that I can't even find any good counterfeit Raybans.
If your objective is to be quant, I will suggest removing Corporate Finance and Security Analysis books from your reading list. "Trading and Exchanges" is a good addition.

A learning strategy that has served me well is to look at syllabus and recommended texts for an academic program closely aligned to my interest. Going through recommended texts in these programs on my own has helped me gain more structured knowledge on the topic of interest. Each successive module builds on previous modules.

In your case, you want to check out academic programs related to financial engineering and computational finance such as at Baruch, Carnegie-Mellon, UW etc. Here is a link to UW Computational Finance and Risk Management curriculum: http://depts.washington.edu/compfin/content/ms-degree/curric.... The link to course description shows the recommended textbooks. Going through these books will prepare your well to be a Quant.

In case you want to see recommended readings from other programs, check out list of financial engineering program at https://www.quantnet.com/mfe-programs-rankings/. I am sure some of them have detailed syllabus and recommended readings available on Interest.

A few other resources for recommended readings:

Quant net Forum Book section https://www.quantnet.com/forum/books.37/

Quant net Master Reading List https://www.quantnet.com/threads/master-reading-list-for-qua...
The point about the late-stage investments being not-really-equity is a great point. So my question is: why do financial journalists just about always miss it when they write about tech unicorns?