Jurgis

Hmm, I also have AdBlocker (ABP). But I still get ads inside FB. How did you set it up to kill the ads/promotions there? (We could take it out of this thread). I read FB once two weeks. Like Zuck said, it's not a social network, it is a (curated) newspaper. What I mostly get is not friend life stories, but their links to newspaper/etc. articles. Lots of fun/interesting stuff. Although for some subset of friends their life stories or just tidbit comments are interesting too. So let's say I've warmed up to FB a bit. I don't post there at all though. (OTOH, the fact that I warmed up to FB is a definite death knell for it. 8) )

I never click on ads. Yet I clicked on one FB ad. So, yeah, likely way more clickthrough than elsewhere... 8) (The ad I clicked was advertising ScottHallofFame of course. 8) )

Can I be your agent and sell ScottHall Brand? 8) We gonna make multi-BUHLLIIOOONS! I want ScottHall Brand listed on the NYSE this time next year. It is a high-margin platform compounder that licenses the ScottHall brand name and other acquired names for use on private label clothing. The numbers totally aren't made up. We'll start with bespoke T-shirts and pret-a-porter ad enabled ultimate fighting leisure suits. We can always add makeup to make up the numbers. Initial investment options of $2 billllion dollars minimum available on request. Hyper qualified investors only. Usual two and twenty twenty fees apply.

Please God, Just One More Bubble! 8)

Right. I'm in US and most of my money is - for better or worse - in tax deferred/exempt accounts. In taxable accounts outperforming tax-efficient index is mostly FOGETABOUTIT. Compounders may work. (Though a secret ScottHall'ish goal of this thread was that forever holds don't perform as well as people think they do 8) ). Also for US-only: I donate appreciated taxable stock to Fidelity Charitable Trust, which I then disburse to charities. Good way to get rid of those pesky capital gains. Thanks to all who contributed. Please continue. 8)

Can I be your agent and sell ScottHall Brand? 8) We gonna make multi-BUHLLIIOOONS!

Yeah, I think it's a good exercise. I've owned (and own) too many stocks to do it. It's easy to remember the ones that were huge mistakes of selling (or not buying, or buying too small position). I think I've mentioned them already: AAPL, GOOG, ARM, Tencent, various Liberties, BRK, MNST (before it was called MNST), ORCL, ADBE, NKE, SBUX, NFLX. I've owned most of these for millisecond or a bit longer. And at least considered the remaining ones. But yeah, there are stocks that I've sold and that eventually went to zero. And probably some that went flattish/down - most semis and semiequips I'd guess. I've been planning to go down a memory lane of my buys/sells sometime. I've got some record of that on SI.

Resistance is futile! 8)

So to echo the VIC thread: Is MOI worth it? Answer before Thursday. 8)

What is your longest held stock? From when to when did you hold it? What was the annualized return on it? What portfolio percentage (approximately) was it? Any lessons you learned from the experience? Only stocks that were continuously held for the whole period please. It's up to you if you want to include board namesakes BRK and FFH. To exhibit my total incapability to hold anything long term, I don't know what I have held for very long. I believe I may still have some shares of BRK I bought ~2008-2009. Probably my longest held position... And it probably was ~1% of my portfolio at most. Maybe others have more interesting stories. 8)

ScottHall just (re)discovered one of the big claims of The Gorilla Game. News at 10, crash at 11. 8)

My wife has Project Fi and we love it. But you're wrong about the bolded. T-Mobile has had this for the last 5-10 years. Project Fi only has it because they MVNO on top of T-Mobile (and Sprint, but not for Intl coverage) I have T-Mobile for 17 years now...

Beam me up Scotty!

Programmers in general are not good in thinking in terms of user experience. Depending on area/product/company there may or may not be a dedicated team that does the user experience (that includes UI, but not just UI). The team may be good/mediocre/bad. It may be supported by the rest of the company or just tolerated. Success of the product(s) may depend on that team or not at all. For most enterprise software my guess is that the user experience is not thought out much. But I don't have non-anecdotal data.

OMG, some Bayes rule love here. 8)

In Boston area Vietnamese own the hardwood floor business. I've hired them twice and like you said, I got the 1/2-1/4th the price of the real contractor and good quality. I won't ask where they got materials, where they disposed of garbage and most likely no insurance, no health for employees, etc. :-\ I would have loved to hire them for other jobs, but I don't talk the language so it was hard to ask if they did other jobs and how/etc.

Not to start a discussion here, but "politics" refers to political discussions on CoBF that have potentially antagonized community members against other possible attendees. It does not refer to anything at the last dinner. Although anyone can interpret options any way they like.

Isn't the major "secret": I.e. owner works 24 hours, their family works 24 hours, and/or hires (potentially illegal) immigrant workers who work 24 hours for below official wage salary. Which makes the operation the low cost operator. There might be more to it, but the huge-work-for-cheap is likely major component, no?

BTW if person buys $100CAD option and wants that to be donation (i.e. they won't attend), is there a way to easily indicate that? Or other easy credit-card/paypal donation option for non Canadians?

Not really true. He owned a chunk of UVIC - Florida nanocap contact lens company that was bought out by B&L (Valeant). http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=27642316&srchtxt=Baker He left director position and sold his shares to company for not much gain before the B&L buyout though. So maybe you're somewhat right. ;) (I also sold out for a wash to small gain before B&L buyout too. :'( )

I tried to select option that allows users vote for more than one option. Not sure it works. Edit: it seems it does Note that users can select multiple options, so it's not single user/single vote.

Sanjeev, I appreciate CoBF a lot. I see three reasons for the attendance fall off: 1. People are disappointed with Fairfax. 2. People are disappointed with Premier. 3. Politics threads on CoBF push people away. Not that explanation will make you happier... I am not attending this year. Best regards and best luck Edit: I started poll which may show other reasons.

:o :o ::) ::) :-X :-\ Good luck. Emphasis mine.

OK, now I'm a proud member of Boston Public Library. Thanks folks for suggestion. 8)

http://www.heforshe.org/en For gender equality