It's as frivolous as asking why the executives of Nike have millions but the majority of people who buy Nikes don't.
My favorites:
MA, V, BABA, GOOG, FB, JNJ, GILD, HD
That's not many, but these are some of the best long term investment ideas I can find. Stay away from volatile, macro-sensitive sectors like oil, materials, and retail and stick to healthcare, consumer staples, and utilities. People are getting older and wanting to live longer which is bullish for healthcare, and the web isn't going anywhere even if oil is going to $40.
Or you can try an ETF linear combination http://greyenlightenment.com/?p=1540
There are many strategies that beat the market and provide as good risk adjusted returns as an index fund .
Warren Buffett , btw, broke his on advice of avoiding tech by buying IBM, which has lagged the market considerably. most of the time Warren Buffett doesn't pick stocks in the traditional sense but instead gets special preferred shares that pay huge dividends and other perks. The performance of BRK.B is influenced more by the private companies like Geico and than stocks like Coke.
I have a cool idea for a plugin: it checks your Reddit posts for any post with some threshold of negative karma (-1, 0 etf) and then deletes it automatically. Occasionally I'll post something that for some reason people hate and it will get 7 or so down-votes before I can delete it. This plugin will scan your recent posts every 5 minutes or so and auto-delete the bad ones.
Do the people who write the tutorials actually consult with the people who want to use the code? It is like every time I want to code something simple, the guides always have tons of superfluous stuff. Most end users have simple needs, so have tutorials for those. Consult end users and ask them what they want.
Many pundits lament that twitter and other micro blogging services have created an 'ADHD' environment where longer form content is being neglected, but I see an opposite trend of too much 'long form' content, which is promoted using short-form content. So someone will tweet or post on a link on Reddit to one of many uneneding 'long form' articles published by one of many popular sites such as...