Here is the source for a lot of what I’m reading on the bailout. It’s the most consistent explanation I’ve come across. It breaks things down without getting caught up in fuzzy abstract things that are all mysterious.
Warning: you may find that reading this carefully and with an open mind is a lot like taking [...]
On the way home tonight I passed by the local Washington Mutual branch. It was late, so it was closed of course, and there was this memorial someone had constructed on the corner of the building, complete with candles and personal messages. I thought it was pretty funny.
The active approach
diving in and out
trying to get ahead
sometimes it works
sometimes it fails
sometimes it fails badly
The passive approach
staying the course
accepting the status quo
symbiotic
active ones maintain
balance
passive ones maintain
sanity
indistinguishable
when the shit
hits the fan
Prosper and Zopa have emerged with a fresh new idea: person-to-person lending. The basic idea is as follows: borrowers register with the site, have credit reports taken, then post their request for an unsecured loan, with some interest rate cap and a description of their situation. Lenders, who are also registered with the [...]
The prices of individual shares of stocks are meaningless. This fact should be obvious, but it turns out the world doesn’t understand. Read more only if you’re ready to learn why, and then be beaten into submission with how silly people can be about such things.
I’m sure this idea isn’t original. It’s too obvious. In fact, I’d bet money that somebody is already doing it.
Consolidate the social networks. Write a nice abstract social network layer, and connect all the data into one large, meta, …social internet.
Wired predicts that in 2007, if this doesn’t happen, the social networks [...]
It’s easy! This ad makes it plain as day:
20.28% omfg!!! Over 7 years!!! and the last 3 years are way better than that! Since we all know that the past 3 years’ performance is the best indication of future performance, this is a clear buy.
And they use fancy industry terms like “Basis [...]
Potentially a neat idea:
http://www.zillow.com/
This site lets you look at home values in your area. It already surprised me to see how prices were in my area.
Needs work on the map interface and the firefox support.
And what a wierd name.. wtf is a zillow?
Ah, here we go:
Why “Zillow”?
Once they hatched their idea, they needed a [...]