Content tagged money
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US$100m was recently bequeathed to Poetry, which currently operates with four staff and an annual budget of US$600,000. One writer quips, “That’s … gulfstream/975
The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act makes it illegal for foreign nationals to promise to contribute money to candidates—?! gulfstream/1478
Chris Anderson on the Long Tail: “I’ll end by conceding a point: It’s hard to make money in the Tail.” gulfstream/2554
“Why are we in space?” The Stennis Space Center FAQ explains that NASA’s funding represents a penny out of every dollar in the U.S. … gulfstream/1061
James Surowiecki: “Decisionmakers ... should try to come up with their best estimates of how likely a policy is to succeed, as well as its potential … gulfstream/2584
“More broadly, the data the company gets from transactions could help it improve the way it chooses which advertising to show to which users. Google … gulfstream/2101
On coaching Indian call-center operators to be more, uh, American. After I got some cards stolen in St Petersburg, I called American Express to … gulfstream/1515
Total asshole awards. (Gold is the money.) gulfstream/1852
“There’s no substantial business today in charging companies money for the privilege of indexing one’s book …” I do so enjoy Cory Doctorow’s … gulfstream/1976
Jamie Zawinski summarises what’s known about the thieves who stole from a Swedish money-storing facility: “Now this is how to rob a bank.” (Among … gulfstream/2649
Justgiving collects money for charity, but their fees (5% of donation) are more than PayPal’s… gulfstream/1864
The sad story of Nauru: in the 1970s, the people of Nauru were amongst the richest in the world (the whole island is basically phosphate); now the government … gulfstream/2065
Wow, art conservators take their jobs really seriously: to fixing Steve Wynn’s ripped Picasso they’s (may) attempt to match up individual fibres. … gulfstream/2180
Pleasant Nick Hornby summary of the World Cup goings-on. He tries to argue that some of the footballers view the World Cup as “an … gulfstream/857
What rules govern a “just society”? Political philosopher John Rawls believed that a thought experiment known as the “original position” … gulfstream/979
Improbable news from the IHT: Google handles just 1.7% of Korean web searches—a search engine called naver.com (which apparently delivers Google Answers-style … gulfstream/2300
Web site for London’s (fairly hard-core) campaign to get people to not give money to beggars. “Don’t give to people begging on the street; … gulfstream/1521
Paying for Moveable Type: “… I feel that $65 is insignificant compared to the value I’ve received over the last nine months.” … gulfstream/1008
Great James Surowiecki piece on the Policy Analysis Market that specifically deals with the moral objections: “Let’s admit there’s something … gulfstream/1229
“To this end, Chen has taken steps to ensure that future monkey sex at Yale occurs as nature intended it.”—do monkeys understand money? gulfstream/1767
Little piece (book review) on indexes and indexing. Good books have good indexes. (I really want to write "indices.") Robert Latham, editor of the … gulfstream/713
A decidedly Orwellian turn: the Economist reacts to the DCSD’s poorly written anti-Lomborg judgement (see bottom). (Lomborg has taught me not … gulfstream/1012
Tipping your way into fine restaurants. “Outside, I realized I had just witnessed the gold standard. The maître d’ turned down the money when … gulfstream/1411
Even Homer’s brain knows that “Money can be exchanged for good and services.” Looks like he’s gonna be able to avoid having to declare this as … gulfstream/2057
People don't think rationally about money. This stuff is all extremely interesting. gulfstream/652
(1) The US apparently has a long-standing policy that any food aid must be purchased in, and shipped from, the US. (And is alone among large donors … gulfstream/1907
The New Yorker will apparently make money this year (i.e. 2002), for the first time since 1985. Experts in magazine finance are unconvinced. … gulfstream/995
The Red Cross is apparently running an ad that ridicules almost all well-meaning attempts to “save the world”—except donating blood, … gulfstream/1944
The Indian Medical Association is apparently conducting an investigation into three doctors who were evidently captured on camera offering to amputate … gulfstream/2156
The Long Tail: in an Internet economy, you can make money by selling stuff most people don’t want (e.g. Bollywood films)—because you can find … gulfstream/1594
This is kinda crazy: some dotcom companies are repurchasing their own shares for less than their cash value. (The “cash value” of a share … gulfstream/949
Julian Dibbell makes $11,000 selling items on Ultima Online, asks the IRS if this is taxable income, or what. They don’t know, and suggest that … gulfstream/1937
Quotes Collected
"Saving for well-done" is a time-honored tradition dating back to cuisine's earliest days: meat and fish cost money. Every piece of cut, fabricated food … fortune
This morning I begun a practice which I find, by the ease I do it with, that I shall continue, it saving me money and time---that is, to Trimme myself … fortune
The want of money puts all things, and above all things the Navy, out of order; and yet I do not see that the King takes care to bring in any money, but … fortune
Whom can I talk to? Get advice from? No one. A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money. And I won't take advice, even if I want it. … fortune
... to Harman's house, and took him to a tavern hard by and we to discourse of our business, and I offered 500l. And he declares most ingenuously that … fortune
Perticularly, he [Mr. Eveling] intertained me with discourse of an Infirmery which he hath projected for the sick and wounded seamen against the next … fortune
What right have I to write on prudence, whereof I have little, and that of negative sort? ... I have no skill to make money spend well, no genius in … fortune
Reserving government contracts for domestic companies violates international law, of course. It seems like just the other day that Donald Rumsfeld was … fortune
There had been a period at the beginning of the five years she [Nastasya Filippovna] had lived in Petersburg during which Totsky had not spared any money … fortune
Then to the office a little, and so to Lumberd street to borrow a little money upon a tally, but cannot. Thence to Exchequer, and there after much wrangling … fortune
... a while back, I went to a writers' conference. I was making chitchat with another writer, a critically acclaimed literary novelist who taught at a … fortune
Move close to where they live. "You need to move into a rich environment," says Ginie Sayles, a Houston marital consultant and author of How to Marry … fortune
"What is it?" he'd [Bigfoot] tell them on the phone, playing the confused dumbo for a while before the metal jaws clamped shut. "I don't pay quickly … fortune
I am also somewhat uncertain what to think of my going about to take a woman-servant into my house in the Quality of a Woman for my wife. My wife promises … fortune
The most terrifying realisation is that so many millions in the world would like to be in my place: I am not ugly, not an imbecile, not poor, not crippled--I … fortune
Did you ever read what they call Science Fiction. It's a scream. It is written like this: ``I check out with K 19 on Aldabaran III, and stepped out through … fortune
Thence, mighty merry and much pleased with the dinner and company, and they with me, I parted; and there was set upon by the poor wretches, whom I did … fortune
So putting all together, we are, and are like to be, in a sad condition. We are endeavouring to raise money by borrowing it on the City; but I do not … fortune
Up---and this day being the day that, by a promise a great while ago made to my wife, I was to give her 20l to lay out in clothes against Easter, she … fortune
No matter how hard it is to make money out of Linux, it's much harder to compete against it. -- Andrew Tridgell fortune
That's why you don't see many employers buying insurance that covers smoking cessation programs or the various expensive drugs that can help people to … fortune
Fortunately the turnout was very low, ensuring that we can continue to be free of the corrupting influence of money. -- Jamie Zawinski, on the the fortunes … fortune
Why did Western Europeans come to dominate the world? Historian Paul M. Kennedy, in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987), says western Europe … fortune
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Hacker News | Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money?
Paul Graham: "One thing you learn when you get rich, though, is how few of your problems were caused by not being rich. When you can do whatever you want, you get a variant of the terror induced by the proverbial blank page. There are a lot of people who think the thing stopping them from writing that great novel they plan to write is the fact that their job takes up all their time. In fact what's stopping 99% of them is that writing novels is hard. When the job goes away, they see how hard."
Paying Zero for Public Services | Exploring the interactions among public opinion, governance, and the public sphere
"In India, petty corruption is pervasive – people often face situations where they are asked to pay bribes for public services that should be provided free. 5th Pillar distributes zero rupee notes in the hopes that ordinary Indians can use these notes as a means to protest demands for bribes by public officials."
Seth's Blog: Debt, equity and a third thing that might work better
Third thing = selling a share in your profits.
Living on $500,000 a Year
How F. Scott Fitzgerald lived: "What can be learned from Fitzgerald’s tax returns? To start with, his popular reputation as a careless spendthrift is untrue. Fitzgerald was always trying to follow conservative financial principles."
The Circular Letter of Credit
page explaining letters of credit, the means by which travellers were able to withdraw money in foreign countries before the advent of credit cards and atms, etc. the chief means of forgery detections seems to have been the signature.
Why money messes with your mind - science-in-society - 18 March 2009 - New Scientist
list of some of the ways in which we're irrational about money: more concerned about a different of $10 in buying a meal than in buying a house, for example. (i suspect that part of this is due to necessity ... it's somewhat true that if you look after pennies, the pounds look after themselves ... buy only somewhat.)
money-band :: The original rubber band wallet. The simplest alternative wallet.
Confessions of a Car Salesman
nice, long, article by undercover car salesman
Prosper: The online marketplace for people-to-people lending - Prosper
person-to-person microfinance lending
How a lottery winner spends his multi-million-dollar jackpot - Feb. 21, 2007
lottery winner "sensibly" invests his $85m winnings