• The name of the app: Acorns

Agree. Any type of professional service that has an open ended component should involve face to face time. There's never one "Right" way to do things every time, so you need to get a feel for your client's preferences and motivations. Often, you can only read those between the lines, which is what facial expressions…

This is why the States that have a lot of tow truck drivers like this are always trying to take your guns away. They know this is going to upset people, some to the point of violence, but it makes them and the tow companies money so naturally right and wrong are out the window.

Infinity this.

I have the same problem. I will turn documentation in a couple weeks late pretty consistently because I'm not happy with how three or four paragraphs flow, but the client isn't ever going to read it and it doesn't matter.

Obviously the money they lent you had some value to you at some time.

It's the only graph on Mint that makes me regret taking a consulting job... Ever since I have to pay for travel expenses and get reimbursed, I always have a bunch of debt keeping my net worth near zero :(

I wish my imagination was so lucrative. All I come up with are dumb jokes

But what they bought are use privileges, they didn't and cannot buy the land.

Technically, nobody but the Crown owns any land at all in England or Wales. The Crown owns the whole lot of it and all interests in any real property are the result of grants at some point in history of certain privileges, which can then be resold.

So that makes possession and distribution of it right up their alley.

While I'm sure he'd enjoy your blessing, it isn't worth the billion dollars our young programmer apparently needs to give away to earn it. Not to mention the havoc a sudden, one-time infusion of a billion dollars into the charity market would wreak. Charities need organic growth in order to staff properly, otherwise…

I often hear that Jonas Salk could have earned between 2 and 7 billion 2010 era dollars had he patented his Polio vaccine. For eradicating polio in the US, and enabling the entire world to eradicate polio should they have successfully implemented eradication efforts, our boy Salk would most certainly have earned every…

It's refreshing to see all these people wishing for the world's most evil tech conglomerate to have gotten a better deal buying that one video game all the kids are playing.

They didn't buy the game, they bought the audience. An audience, I might note, which is predominantly on the younger end and which largely had no emotional ties to Microsoft before MineCraft was purchased by same. This is about gaining long-term mindshare with the future citizens of the world. That is worth nearly any…

If that was honestly what somebody did for a living, that wouldn't be so bad. My "boss" essentially connects peeps like me with companies that need my particular brand of nerdspertise. I could not be nearly as productive without somebody else doing the client management, I'm sure tradesmen that don't want to run their…

That is not the point of a Greek organization. They don't want members to be diverse or unique, though they may pay lip service to such a goal. The point of a Greek organization is to create an exclusive club that acts as a social and professional network down the line. You put it on your resume and hiring managers…

That's extortion. They've basically trained you that they will be a bag of dicks unless you pay them not to be.

Infinity this. These kids have to deal with 100 angry people at a time, several times a day, they will move heaven and earth for the one not-asshole that shows a bit of empathy for their situation.

How small of a small business? If you have multiple "bosses" hanging around then it can't be really tiny. Odds are good that someone(maybe you!) will suggest that they turn the business into a partnership or public company. If you show a strong work ethic now, impress the old man and get some capital arranged, you…