He’s a lousy businessman.
Any investor who listened to Vanguard’s John Bogle would have done about the same during 1984-1998 – just buy the S&P500 index, and hold it, reinvesting the dividends. The net returns would be ~20% per year — without giant fees or excessive risks necessary.
So despite all the middle-class-disrupting, race-to-the-bottom, Swiss-bank-account, pay-no-taxes, outsourcing pain that Bain Capital was responsible for, you’d have been better off just investing in an index fund.
Some businessman.
Unless you’re Mitt Romney. Apparently he made out like a bandit.
h/t BdL
Tagged OWSNo one cares if you’re two years late and 2x overbudget if you succeed.
Congratulations, Curiosity team.
“The error bars are smaller than the line.”
Two things:
Also, random internet commenters: It’s California, dudes. Not JSC in Houston. Hairstyles and attitudes. If they weren’t on TV, it would be shorts and flip-flops.
Nothing like eating sun-warmed blackberries straight off the vine, complete with spiderwebs. Luscious, sweet, so ripe they fall off in your hand. The blackberry stain doesn’t wash off.
No, I’m not saying where.
Photorec. Worked a charm.
Pro-tip: run it twice. I tried it on two different cards, and it didn't work the first time on either, but the second time, it found everything, and I mean everything, even though I'm pretty sure that one of the cards had been formatted in camera.
Bonus – it's free, and terminal based. $ sudo ./photorec
I dropped an application for a new passport in the mail last Thursday, after checking the State Department page for timing, and seeing “3-4 weeks” for expedited processing ($100 more, with overnight shipping both ways), and “6-12 weeks” for vanilla processing. I ponied up for the expedited, on the theory of you-never-know.
The processing center got the application on Monday (so much for $28 overnight shipping USPS), and I had a new passport in my hands the following Thursday. So that means it took them not 3-4 weeks, but more like 24-36 hours.
Extrapolating, I guess I should have saved the $100, and I'd have still gotten the passport in at worst another week. Or maybe linear extrapolation is not the right metric, but still pretty impressive. At least for $100, I got my money's worth.
There’s a new kid gunning for Nobel in town. Seven of the nine prizes went to string theorists. I kinda thought ST might be a bit in disfavor now that the LHC has pretty much ruled out supersymmetry in any reasonably testable regime. No experimentally verifiable SS means that ST is kinda in there with luminiferous aether and N-rays. Better yet is that either the committee which determines the prizes just gave it to themselves (kind of a Cheney vetting the veep moment), or more likely, the past winners get to select the next winners. Meaning more ST lottery winners.
Of course all smart folks. Just no evidence that ST is the right horse. Or even a horse. Or even equine. Much less in the right race.
Tagged Nobel, physicsIn the previous year end summary, I forgot this. And the other Bigfoot memoirs. Laugh out loud funny. Seriously. I sat on the porch and guffawed through the whole thing. Woulda been funny even without the G&Ts.
And not so much for eating. Drought, persistent 15% unemployment, austerity in the air.
Is it me, or does something smell like 1937 around here?
Should be this. Or quote the going rate (you don’t wanna know).
The obvious reply is that no one knows everything, and sometimes you just want a quick question answered yourself. But that kind of turns it into a barter economy of favors.
Nonetheless, I think I spend a lot more time fixing other people’s tech issues than they (the in-toto “they”) spend on my non-tech issues.
Hannover unterHbf
Los Angeles doesn’t care
So I don't have to search for this link again. Los Angeles doesn't care:
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