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I was executor of my mother's estate and chose not to take any fee. It was a pretty simple estate and I hired a lawyer to handle the paperwork. He wanted to charge the statutory maximum fee, I told him I would pay him his hourly rate, and he reluctantly agreed. (I guess no matter how simple...

I think I have read all the posts on this thread, very well thought out and lots of info. While I do believe that eventually SDC will come, we are clearly not there yet, and there is just so much hype from the SDC companies. From all I can tell the Tesla system is an really nothing more than...

Wonder where Mr. Amerman is coming from... "Dissatisfied with the conventional choices for investors, Mr. Amerman has spent a number of years in researching alternatives. Drawing upon his background outside the individual investor industry, he has developed an interrelated group of...

The sad fact is that for many older people their medical care is just too expensive for reasonable premiums to cover. Better to get rid of them, insure the young. And if you are young, better stay young, because you are screwed when you get old. Why do we keep trying the same things...

From how obviously unprepared and under financed they were for their "dream," this accident may have saved their lives.

I think the part of your statement I bolded really says it all. We can use historical data to get us into the ballpark of reasonableness. But more than that we are just fitting to data, and not gaining any useful insight. Since the market really is not a stationary process, we can never have...

Well, looks like the S&P500 closed at 2581 today, that is 10% down from its peak. I am still sticking with my guess of 30% down, hope I am wrong, but looks like a full blown panic now.

I think a big reason for Spacex's success is not only in its ability to attract top talent, but in attracting top talent with real passion, similar to what NASA was able to do in its early days. Stock options and pay (actually I read he pays relatively little) can attract talent, but cannot...

I meant to make it private, I guess I forgot to check that box. Maybe a moderator can fix it. I am assuming that in a public poll, anyone can see how you voted, and in a private one they cannot? Is that correct?

Just for fun, how low will the current decline go before reaching the bottom. On my part, just a wild guess of course (I am usually wrong on my projections), but if the low interest rate environment that supported high multiples is coming to an end it means the high multiples will come to an...

I think we have hit upon something here. In a lot of countries third base is missing. They don't have baseball. Japan has baseball and see how well they have done? We just got to start getting more people in more countries into baseball. Or maybe we should keep it quiet, and keep it...

Yes I think they do that already, which is why they don't have any of that evil money sitting around in savings :coolsmiley:.

+1 Seems to me that two of the most important things one can learn in life is first, to stop listening to all of the opinions you see in the "news," and now that includes all those memes and "quotes" popping up in social media. And second, to be able to see whatever the current situation is in...

I must be really ignorant but I have never heard of a hot water heater in an attic. Lived in So. Cal. all my life and seen them in garages mostly or a separate ground level outside closet, but never seen one in an attic. It seems like such an insane idea to me. They all eventually fail, who...

I'm confused why would your pot stocks get hammered? Don't you just have to unscrew the mason jar lid? ???

Years ago, when I still had young kids at home, I was looking for my sheath knife to take camping. I had put it somewhere away from where the kids would find it. I looked everywhere for it and after a few weeks of not finding it, I went out and bought a new one. Then when I got the new...

+1 I think you nailed it.

+1:laugh::laugh::laugh:

I guess I should have been more specific, I was not referring to the ebb and flow of jobs during business cycles, but rather to the long trend over what will probably be many cycles. We did not change from a primarily farming economy to a primarily manufacturing one over one or two business...

Seems to me that in the developed world, manufacturing based economies are becoming as obsolete as farming based economies have already become. Today we have more farm production than ever, but we are long past being a farming based economy. In the future I would bet there will be more...

Yes you are right, my boss was intolerable, I was self employed :)

Don't corporations already do that? :angel:

Pennies, even fractions of cent can add up. I was once associated with a medical device company, they made zero profit on their electronic device, which they essentially gave away for cost or under, but made millions on the disposables, even though they only cost pennies, and a fraction of a...

I remember when we switched to drip, back in the late 70s I think. It was because it was simpler and cleaner. It was a pain to have to clean out the percolator every day, and with the drip you only had to dump the paper basket and rinse the bowl. It was never because the drip gave better...

I agree, I turn off my electric percolator as soon as it is finished for peak flavor. If I want another cup after the coffee cools, I just put the cup in the microwave for a few seconds.