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boilermaker75

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  1. I used to need 8 hours otherwise I was worthless the next day. As I have aged that has decreased. After about 7 hours I just wake up, usually no need for an alarm. If I have to I can now easily get by on much less, at least for one day. I did know someone who only needed about 4 hours of sleep. He claimed after 4 hours he would just wake up and be fine. That would be nice, essentially adding 3-4 hours to my life every day!

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    I thought this was interesting, not exactly an exercise in value investing but does make you think who might be a winner out of the four.

     

    My 2 cents is that I have to disagree with his view on amazon shrinking in size for one simple reason and that is if I look at my  buying habits, I spend way too much money on that site and I don't see my spending going down unless the prices increase significantly and the service gets worse.

     

    Whenever I am purchasing something, I always go to AMZN to check if it is there (usually is) and at what price. Is AMZN selling cars yet?  LOL

  3. Although I don't know what the problem was, I was able to get my IB data imported into Turbotax. I was downloading the IB 1099 using Safari, which would not import to TurboTax. When I switched to Firefox the downloaded IB 1099 would import to TurboTax.

     

    You can only do this with desktop turbo tax right? I am using web version so I can only manually copy and paste each transaction.

    I view this as a reminder that I shouk not trade too much.

     

    Yes, only with the desktop version.

  4. Does anyone use TurboTax and import their brokerage transactions via a TXF file? Have you tried it this year? I am trying to do that with a TXF file from my IB account. When I try an import in TurboTax, my .txf file is not highlighted/selectable.

     

    I have tried to Google to see if anyone else is having this issue and I have posted my issue on the TurboTax Help Center.

  5. My daughter did her undergrad in business. Where she went to school they had internship programs. She interned at a PR firm in London and also took a class the summer after her sophomore year. It was good because she learned she did not want to work in PR. Besides the formal internship program, her school also had an internship fair where at least a hundred companies came recruiting summer interns. Your niece should look to see what programs the OSU already has.

     

    Another thing your niece should look into is what summer programs other universities offer. After her junior year, my daughter did a program in UCLA's Anderson business school. Anderson's focused on the entertainment industry, but I am sure there are some, especially in the New York City area, that would focus on finance. My daughter now works in Hollywood.

  6. “If you are mindful that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so exert yourself in youth that your old age will not lack sustenance,” Leonardi da Vinci.

     

    Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extreamest [sic] Old Age; but only because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was sell-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul,”  Cicero.

     

    If youth only new, if old age only could.  (I don't know who said this one.)

  7. By far my favorite is In-N-Out. I tried Five Guys several years ago and really did not like it. Since many of you rank Five Guys high, I'll have to give Five Guys another try. Maybe I had an outlier burger experience my one time at Five Guys.

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