Jurgis

CoBF is a Vampire Forum because it sucks the life out of you. Everyone one of us a finite time on this earth and it passes quickly. Do you choose to interact in person with real people or this forum? Do you want to do deep work or stay in the shallows? This article is about young people but adults are massively addicted too. I have come to realize for myself that time spent away from phones, screens, etc and with real people is so much more meaningful. Here are my recommendations: 1. Turn off all notifications about CoBF - text, email, facebook, etc. 2. Check CoBF 1x per day month. 3. Turn off CoBF for intervals during the day month. 4. Go into nature without CoBF or any distractions. 5. Put CoBF out of sight when at work or even at home. Seeing it has a mental attention pull. 6. Read more documents in paper for better understanding. In essence, don't be a slave to CoBF. There. Fixed that for you. ------------------------------------------------ And, yes, "guns don't kill people, phones (and CoBF) kill people"

Yes, ASFI-AFSI confusion has been going for years. I know both cos but I still have hard time to remember which is which. I guess the key is ASta Funding = ASFI, but still. 8)

OT. I have Nest that I got through MASS Saves. I like it less and less and I'm likely gonna give it away. Do you want it? (Anyone else in MA is also welcome to PM me and I'm likely gonna give it away for free. I can ship too, but that's a bit more of a hassle.) The issues: my wiring does not have the power wire. This is minor issue: most of the time Nest works just fine without power wire. Sometimes battery goes below threshold though and then Nest goes into power saving mode. This is minor inconvenience, since it gets the power back eventually. It's a bit risky if you leave house unattended for long time in winter, since Nest may not recover and then your heating system may go kaput. Bigger issue for me: Nest self-programmed itself correctly for XX temp during the day, YY during the night. But it also has some other logic that's not displayed which makes the temperature go way below XX and YY even though that's what is indicated on its UI. E.g. today's schedule indicates XX through the whole day. I left and then found the temperature 14 degrees F lower when I returned. This might be Nest Auto Away feature ( https://nest.com/blog/2011/11/18/what-is-auto-away/ ), but it's not acceptable to me that I cannot turn it off. Edit: I found a setting that may turn this off - what sucks is that you don't know unless you leave for long time and see how it behaves. This is unrelated to the power wire / power saving mode above. This is not acceptable to me since I have a heating system that does not tolerate low temperatures well. You can force Nest not to go below 45F (called "safety temperature"), but you cannot make this higher than 45F and that's way too low for safety of my heating system. BTW, there was recently MASS Saves sale of collection of LED lamps for really cheap. If interested, PM me and I'll try to dig the URL and see if it's still available. Sorry that I did not notify you about it (although you should have received email about it from your utility - that's how I got info about it).

How so? I live in Canada. I have to heat my house. All electricity (hydro, in my case) used by this is then converted to waste heat, which helps heat my house. This is just a smaller version of baking in the winter (you get food and heat -- cogeneration?) reducing how much the furnace has to run... I think the possible critique is that it's not efficient use of your computer/money. Assuming running programs on computer increases risk of failure (vs computer sleeping - I think this is true), it is likely much more economic to donate $X00 to run this on blades in data center rather than risk a failure of your cooling system/motherboard/CPU/GPU/HDD that would cost more in money and inconvenience to replace. Especially on laptops where piecemeal replacement is hard. The goals are worthwhile so I am not trying to dissuade people from doing it. I've done SETI@home 15 years ago or so. Whether you run these or not: backup often and well. 8)

Happy vegetarian Thanksgiving! Let the turkeys live and procreate without artificial insemination! 8) That too. 8)

I've done my best to keep this struggling company alive. I have no idea how many AAPL computers/laptops I have bought. Probably more than a dozen going back to my first one a MAC/SE. Same with iPhones. I have also bought two original iPads and two iPad Pros. Mother-in-Law had a PC. About 4 months ago gave her one of our original iPads, which is all she uses now. So will probably get her an iPad Pro for Xmas. You guys are myiHeroes! Keep it up!

I really hope that at some point humanity will grow up and stop scamming/killing/exploiting/screwing each other. How much productive would the society be if we did not have to spend time/money/effort/braincells to prevent all this crap. Oh well, it's all communist childish dreams perhaps. ::)

Let's get together and buy the company for $400 thousand. 8)

I have no issue with writser's post. 8)

Just when stocks start falling, a bunch of people come out to say that they don't average down. ;D I'm surprised nobody yet said "stop cutting your flowers and watering your weeds". You guys are slacking. Yes, never buy anything cheaper than you paid for it before. This is sucker's game. Only pay up. Especially after 10 years of rising market. Clearly if the stock price fell, it's a crap stock, crap company and it's going to zero. Yeah, even if it's BRK. I mean look what happened to SHLD - this is what happens if you average down. So don't even think to do it. Will Rogers got it right: “Buy good stocks. When they go up, sell them. If they don’t go up, don’t buy them." 8)

LOL. 8)

Todd and Ted would (might?) be great if BRK was 10-100 times smaller. At this size it's going to be tough ... for anyone, even Buffett himself.

OK. We have completely opposite views on Berkshire, but that's OK. Best. 8)

It's a good question, but I'll counter that people still invest into BRK... (And I'm personally in the camp that Buffett is irreplaceable and his succession however well chosen is going to be subpar for a lot of reasons). So maybe Barry can do a Buffett and be there for 2 decades?

Didn't know that re: health insurers. Will have to look at that. So what happens to health (or pet) insurers in an environment where there is a contagious disease like the Bubonic Plague or the Flu Epidemic in 1921? I assume these guys get blown up unless they can re-price policies faster than a disease spreads. They are not life insurers, so deadly disease won't impact them much. Huge hospitalizable chronic disease might, but likely (I guess) it would overwhelm hospitals and doctors first, so that would provide a buffer for insurers. I am trying to remember what were the big losses in health insurers in the past. I think it was mostly wrong policy pricing (due to competition?).

No, I get the attractiveness of NYC for young (over)achievers. I also get the attractiveness of it as one of the top world cities. I even get its attractiveness to Bezos and some employees. I still think it's not the best choice for Amazon, but then ./shrug. 8)

Crystal City sounds plausible and possibly good choice. I don't know much about it though. LIC seems to be subpar choice for the costs, the job market competitiveness, and adding to NYC concentration. I would have guessed/voted/supported a lot of other finalist places before NYC. But perhaps it is based on NYC attractiveness to Bezos... and employees.

LOL.

I would not. Prime now has tons of other benefits that I'd lose if I did not renew.

Source, Jurgis? [ : - ) ] Source: firsthand experience. I'm not gonna post emails or their contents here.

What were the approximate prices of latest BRK Apple buys?

@Guy Spier or whoever is doing Aquamarine marketing: sending unsolicited emails to MIT email addresses is not very cool. ::)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/20/space-robots-lasers-rise-robot-farmer?CMP=share_btn_tw Robo Farming in UK

Godfather says hi.

Oh no, they are going to the mattresses.