Well, the ISP clearly wanted to sell the same bandwidth twice. I mean, when I see a sign "80 acre lot for sale" and buy it, I expect to get 80 acres, not the "reasonable" 0.80 acres. It's just the internet is still mostly wild west and brazen ISPs abuse this for their benefit.
It needs to be a regulated nonprofit independent entity. Trusting an ads corp your medical data is as good as asking a bunch of junkies to look after your home while you're away on vacation.
Nonprofit doesn't mean cheap. I see it as a defence contractor of some sort: it gets big money from the gov, hires the best staff, but is also regulated and doesn't report to wall st.
I'd make a guess that the video in question hijacks the reward system in the brains by showing repetitive, almost identical, but slightly different events: kids still learn to predict the world and when they see their prediction as correct, their brains produces dopamine. It doesn't work on adults because for an adult brain there's nothing to predict there.
Add to this a pdf to html converter, with a focus on official forms (e.g. irs tax forms), ability to easily edit fields and add signatures (similar to how the free android adobe app does it), and you can charge money for it.
Thanks - indeed there is likely a market for it. One of the issues is that to get a commercial app, you have to solve for most of the edge cases and make sure it has a good enough UI for the non sophisticated.
I was thinking about doing it, but it would be a lot of work to do right.
By right, I would want it to be the quality of sublime or emacs / vim :) :)
You'd essentially have a pdf editor that can import a pdf, edit it and export the html back to pdf. Working with official forms is one usecase. Another is an iframe that can preview pdfs without resorting to plugins.
Actually, there's one more usecase for a html to pdf converter: making a book-style copy of a multipage website. I'm looking right now at a scientific site with content spread over multiple pages and it's tiring to find and click all the links to make sure I don't miss anything.
I can tell you why. It's because you gave FB your personal phone number, while any number would work, e.g. a prepaid sim card (a one time 15 bucks expense).
I signed up before Facebook ever required phone numbers.
I never gave Facebook my phone number.
I never had a Facebook app on any Android device, ever.
When I use Facebook, it's in a sandboxed browser that I never log into any other site with.
Facebook, for a time, started autofilling a prompt with my phone number, asking me to complete my account setup.
When Facebook has an app and all the people you know send their contacts to it, they don't need you to give them your phone number for them to have it.
I did some research and it seemed as though the companies would auto-renew and make it incredibly tough to close the accounts. I wouldn’t be surprised if some went so far as to send people to collections for “fees”.
There’s no auto renewal, contract, or collections for a prepaid sim. In most states you don’t even show ID to get one. Just give whatever name you’d like on the caller ID and pay the first month.
Or a Walmart. Years ago, before Google Voice, I got one because I needed a local area code number for my apartment's buzzer. Mainly to see that if I could do it, I did things as anonymously as possible: bought a Tracphone at Walmart with cash. Turns out you needed an existing phone number to activate it, so I used the payphone that was outside a nearby gas station.
Used that method as my primary cell phone contract for many years.
I haven't looked into it recently, but it must be easy. Many games have SMS verification for accounts, and it seems that every person that streams those games has like 10 accounts.
With the amount of facial recognition going on at large stores....probably a good bet. I'm not so concerned with the privacy as the ability to cancel without repeated 30 minute phonecalls to customer service.
Please be aware that this is not true for all countries. I can, for example, not get a SIM without submitting ID and proof of residence (if not already covered by ID).
Well, that's a rather depressing view on life. I'm on the opposite side of this spectrum. This makes me a rather flegmatic person and perhaps the only thing that makes me at least somewhat worried is not doing enough during my lifetime. If you want to join the ranks of flegmatic people, I'd suggest to diversify your bookshelf with Plato, Hermes and Hesiod.
Yes. You need an estate attorney to set it up properly but you can put all your assets into a trust with designated beneficiaries. This also has the advantage of greatly simplifying the probate process compared to a simple will. IANAL but I think this is because the trust does not "die" so all the assets the trust owns are excluded from probate.
> has the advantage of greatly simplifying the probate process
Which is why people do it.
I have seen no evidence that trusts can reduce inheritance taxes. It you have specific examples, I'd appreciate that. I've always been told by wealth management people that trusts are for managing inheritance, not for reducing taxes on it. Maybe I don't have good enough people.
"... An amount up to the estate tax exemption is placed into a trust ..."
Yeah - so not helpful!
Also says:
"... Shares of a privately held company that are assigned a low value are placed in the trust and allowed to grow, so that appreciation passes to the heirs tax-free..."
Yeah, but appreciation passes tax-free anyway. If your children inherit stocks from you, they get a cost basis step-up to the value of the stocks on the day of your death. The article is written as if this has something to do with the trust, but it doesn't.
