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The underlying idea is that a dollar today is worth more to you than a dollar tomorrow (all else equal).

The NPV is how much a thing is worth/costs now after taking that into account and discounting future cashflows appropriately.

At large enough size, commission/trading costs are not necessarily a significant factor--individuals are just not great at stock picking and timing the market.

Let's say I sell you an option to buy (from me) a share of TWTR at $100 at any time through the end of January. I have just sold you a call option.

If I already own a share of TWTR that is not tied up in another contract, the call is considered covered (meaning I would not have to go out and find a share to buy if you exercised the option).

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covered_call

They work, but they are "mailto:" links.

It is not denominated in USD. It's a currency, and like any other currency you can exchange it for others, including USD, which is why you often see exchange spot prices in USD.

It's obviously a coin made out of a bit of metal.

I've used it the correct way only to have people try to correct it with the (traditionally) wrong pronunciation.

One of my favorite tweets is by Ed Felten:

"If n > 2, then a^n + b^n does not equal c^n. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this tweet is too small to contain."[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/edfelten/statuses/1806515554

It's not about the cost of college, at least here. Places like Stanford and Princeton have generous enough financial aid programs that if you can't pay for it, they will (presuming you're accepted).

Arbitrageurs, not speculators.

Sacrifice by definition must be voluntary, otherwise it's just servitude, so saying he volunteered is not a good argument against calling his service sacrifice.

Likewise breaking the law is not necessarily wrong, and what's legal and what's moral don't always overlap. Consider slavery.

As for the last part, it could be a duty to leak code if your startup is doing something highly immoral. No one's arguing for what you said; it seems like trolling.

These seem like things one should basically be doing anyway.

I actually started wearing a watch regularly a couple of years ago after thinking a cellphone was enough for a long time.

There are a couple of advantages: it looks good (maybe the only male fashion accessory acceptable in a conservative professional environment besides a wedding band), and also it much easier to glance at and allows me to not check my phone throughout the day--especially helpful in conversations and meetings where it'd be rude to pull out your phone.

The article links to the book's (free) download page: http://10print.org

It's not really his idea, but it's probably a good one. I remembered it as being called a Tobin tax, but that really only applies to currency exchange. Instead, it's just a securities transaction tax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_transaction_tax#Secur... .

You can use mod_ssl: http://onlamp.com/onlamp/2008/03/04/step-by-step-configuring... . Other good resources are an easy search away.

There are basically two steps, both of which can be at no additional cost:

1. get a certificate, and

2. configure your server to use the certificate.

You can generate a certificate yourself, without paying anyone, and it will work fine, but some browsers will throw up a warning page if it is not signed by an authority (more: http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...).

this may have a wider impact, what with "a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan"

just wondering--is there a reason the field name "Craft" is capitalized, but "name" is not?

many, if not most, ibanks have twitter blocked.

Yes, they basically don't say what they're going to spend the money on.

But it may have been (they hint at this) that they didn't need or want the funding so much as to have AH invested in the company. Taking their investment may create something of a partnership and gives them access to AH's advice/rolodex and encourages future support. It also gives them a concrete valuation to cite down the road.

Here is an explanation from Matt Levine: http://dealbreaker.com/2012/05/the-tale-of-a-whale-of-a-fail... .

And one from Lisa Pollack: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/05/11/996131/too-big-to... .

The understanding is that the JPM CIO was writing protection on CDX.IG.NA.9, a synthetic credit default index.

It's also definitely a misuse of 'zeitgeist.'

it sounds like you've also been persistent.

It says at the bottom: "some schools do not report salary data."

http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/education/college-and-career-...

it's sloppy the other way around too. you can have low body fat and still have high BMI.

i'm more muscular than average but have pretty low body fat (consistently <14%). but because of the BMI calculation I'll often get told I should lose weight when I get a checkup (unless they have half a brain and look before they speak).

Maybe so if they do it to shorten the headline, but not if it perverts the meaning. I'd say it's okay as long as they get the point across, but I think this is a mistake--it changes the meaning of the title and still doesn't offer much benefit (one character) in terms of brevity.

I am also an English speaker living (and raised) in the northeastern United States, and I agreed with his differentiation.