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I believe this is current precedent around scraping:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

Check out telemetryhub.com (admittedly I work here).

We offer a free trial and don't charge per a seat.

Rails is definitely still a viable choice.

While I've never used Symfony, when I've tinkered in Laravel it felt like the frameworks were pretty similar (if you've ever used Laravel).

If you want to do something more 'cloud native' in Ruby, you could use something like Ruby on Jets (at its core it uses AWS's API Gateway and Lambda, but can be extended for other AWS services with events)

In moderate to high inflation, usually this leads to raising of interest rates, which ironically makes money more valuable, not from an asset standpoint but from a liquidity standpoint. Assets (in real value) generally don't fare very well in high inflation / high interest rate environments though.

Since liquidity / credit is hard to come by, business have a hard time starting new ventures. For business that do make it through these environments, they usually are much healthier but (potentially) slower growing -- less VC pumped companies that are only (potentially) profitable due to scale

Now in hyperinflation environments, all of this goes out the window: https://fee.org/articles/hyperinflation-lessons-from-south-a...

With that being said, we thankfully/shouldn't end up in that situation as the fed has stated they will keep raising rates (and we luckily have a strong labor market currently to support this) and want a softening in labor market (which hampers wage-spiral inflation as well as driving demand side down) which based on last weeks numbers shows we are not close to achieving, and they want real positive returns across the entire yield -- which we are quite a ways from as well based on the last reported inflation numbers: https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...

Since inflation is being driven by supply side constraints, new businesses in theory should emerge in these areas. In the long run, supply constraints should fall to a more manageable level, so prices should fall thus increasing demand and we end up ideally in a nice equilibrium

Going back to your point though, while money is an asset, it's also a form of trade. Money is way better medium of exchange than say bartering where say I may have a chicken for sale but I have enough milk right now, and so I won't take your milk unless the price is astronomically good -- leading to very inefficient markets. The early history of united states currency is fascinating, as no one really trusted what currency was really worth (many issuers) -- also leading to inefficient markets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zkADfv0boQ

In more recent years we moved away from the gold standard, and currently are in fiat. In a fiat system, the value of the dollar is very tightly correlated with bonds and treasuries of the country -- which are backed by the tax payer base of that country. Here in the united states, we are lucky to have one of the largest educated and wealthy workforces in the world with high property rights, high freedom, and relatively speaking higher equality -- definitely not perfect, but better than most places. Hence why US bonds are considered "risk free". Currencies are complicated as these too can be assets and the FX market is 10x the size of the bond market. These can be manipulated, such as via interest rates as well (as we are currently witnessing)

To improve the underlying populace/tax base though you need to improve the factors of production of the nation: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/factors-production.asp#...

Without that you can potentially pull this off with taxes, but in theory this leads to deadweight loss (how much so I believe has been of debate, and inelastic vs elastic items will vary a lot), and could lead to potential capital flight and brain draining so is a tricky lever to pull

Sorry I went on a bit of tangent/rant. Also, I'm a software developer and not an economist and only have taken a couple of classes in uni and highschool specifically to econ (I was a finance major though) so take this with a grain of salt, but I do find this stuff fascinating

Out of curiosity what league is this? I'm in Colorado as well and I've been looking for a good adult league. I'm a peg or two below you though

Student deserve the college experience as that's what they pay for.

Some students pay a lot of money to go to a university that has brand recognition, others pay a lot of money to go to a school that's known to be a great party school. If you're 18, going to one of the latter schools, and you look at the statistics of death rates for each age group, you're definitely going to go and party.

I think asking an 18 year old who's thinking, "well I'm still paying this much and everyone else got to do it" to recognize the sacrifice is an extremely high bar to ask of them

Depending on the technological level of these societies, they may be able to terraform plants rather quickly

Yeah, there's really no reason for them too. If they are able to do interstellar travel, resource harvesting (from asteroids, comets, moons, planets, and suns) is relatively simple.

The thing is, I don't think it'd matter technologically. I don't think a kardashev 1 civilization could ever catch up to a kardashev 2 civilization.

Maybe once they've reached a "technological plateau" it becomes mutually assured destruction? But instead of nukes, it's targeted gamma-ray bursts? Who knows...

The main goal of any species is to survive/reproduce.

We don't know if there's any other intelligent life in the universe, or how common it is. The one thing we do know is that we haven't found any.

There could be many reasons for this, and one of those is the Fermi Paradox (great filter).

Whether this is a real thing or not we don't know, but by establishing sustainable settlements in space, we hedge against the idea of us dying out via ourselves, asteroids, etc.

This is assuming a (or near) 100% efficient market. Which it definitely is not.

Analysts use different methods to discount cash flows: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/professionals/072915/d...

Finding R (what to discount by) can be difficult to do: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/021015/advan...

I don't work in IB or PE so take what I put with a grain of salt, just what I've learned.

Also, you know markets aren't near efficient when people invest in $ZOOM and not $ZM and when Elon tweets $TSLA stock is too high.

You can look at daily gainers and losers and watch them over the course of the week. They are extremely volatile.

If you're talking about the S&P500 it's a little easier to do. A little over 50% of the value of S&P 500 is the top 50 companies by weight. The top 100 equate to 70% and the top 250 equate to 90%.

You can always buy a new stereo and install it. If you buy it from Crutchfield, for like $19 extra, you can get it prewired/harnessed so you don't have to splice the wires. Pretty sweet deal.

Also, some stereos come with a backup cam. This has to be spliced in though.

HUGE NOTE: I bought a 4.5-star receiver on Crutchfield, but the receiver didn't have Sirius XM on it, so I basically don't have radio (unless I use an app on my phone to stream the radio). I don't listen to the radio often so it's not a huge deal for me, just something to be aware of.

Your child is miles ahead of where I was. I was borderline failing classes.

It sounds like he has a solid support network around him. I wish you and your child the best

Yeah, that's definitely a good way to do it as long as the kid doesn't feel like they're being forced.

It's sorta tough though with them choosing because if I was in 9th grade again and had the option, I don't know if I'd choose a programming curriculum.

It reminds me of the Steve Jobs quote, "People don't know what they want until you show it to them."

I too was the middle kid. Here's my own anecdotal advice:

I started slacking in school from about 3rd-9th grade.

I found programming between 9th-10th grade during the summer through pretty much sheer dumb luck, timing, and being in the perfect environment.

After that, my grades improved, confidence improved, everything improved.

The school system may not be able to offer your kid the opportunity they need to really find the inspiration that can kick them into drive.

Maybe try to expose them to as many things as you can, and see what clicks?

Another thing is how they learn.

I learned through modding video games and could see instant results, via changing just a few variables, of what programming could do, and would share these with my friends.

This instant gratification and social "confirmation" from my friends, as well as the communities I joined, really pushed me forward. Plus, I really enjoyed it.

Shortly after modding video games, I tried getting into creating websites but didn't quite see the instant gratification or have the social "confirmation" to push me as hard as I did with modding video games.

The spread (bid-ask spread) is the difference between the bid (what the seller is willing to accept to sell it) and the ask (what the buyer is willing to pay for it).

When you buy a stock, you're buying at the ask price, when you sell you're selling at the bid price. The difference is what the clearer keeps.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bid-askspread.asp

Can you post your code?

This is known as Elliot wave principle - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_wave_principle#Found...

Long answer:

On a grand scale, it's hard to tell, as the market is so big. When you break it down, there is the stock market, then there's the derivative market, the bond market, the housing market, foreign markets, crypto markets, and on and on. You also have to look at previous crashes and see what sticks out from past lessons.

With the stock market, you can look at average P/E ratios over time for the Nasdaq and get somewhat of an estimate. To dig a little deeper, you can look at individual sectors index, such as the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index - NBI

Derivatives market - Deutsch Bank last year was facing a semi crisis mode due to having too big of an open derivatives position. What was it? Idk, I didn't dig too deep. Derivatives markets are still, well, derived from an underlying product. So in theory, if you find the product, you find the bubble. Something like soymeal futures last year, is a good example.

Bond market - falling due to increasing rates. 1981-82 was caused by interest rate hikes, to fight inflation, but they were like 15-17%. We're struggling to get the glorified 2% inflation. Granted this is all what's reported to us, who really knows.

Housing market - new housing starts, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST does seem to be a somewhat of a leading indicator. General housing index doesn't seem to show a general cool off -https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA.

Foreign markets - A lot of countries for the past couple years have been in the shitter, in terms of GDP - Russia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, etc. Then there are countries who have cooled off - UK, Germany, China, etc. However, the US and India just keep charging up the hill. Also, a lot of it is based on speculation. China a couple weeks ago announced that they had tied last years GDP growth, when analysts thought they were gonna miss. Regardless, this is still one piece to a massive puzzle. If you look at participation rate through out the world, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.ZS?page=2 it's been falling. This could be explained by an aging population of basically all WW2 countries - http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-larges.... As well all know fine and well here, this may not be a big problem YET due to automation. In other words, it's hard to truly tell where and which pillar could break, that could really push this beast downward.

Crypto markets - the fun new kid on the block. Super entertaining to watch people hodl and meme about it, but is still no where near the size needed to cause a correction.

A few other interesting things I've seen floating around:

The VIX is at an all time low. Someone commented somewhere that they believe this is due to too many people believing there's gonna be a crash soon. As such, they're holding more cash than usual.

Around $4.2 trillion is now tied up in index funds. As such, if there is a panic in the index fund market, it could cause a crash. Idk about the validity of this one though, market makers could easily prop it, and buy on the panic and sell when it's cooled off.

You're right, a couple months ago it didn't have that

Surprised they didn't mention https://gtmetrix.com.

The problem I have with lighthouse is that it emphasizes total page load, instead of first paint.

One of Keurig's cofounders had caffeine poisoning after drinking like 30-40 cups a day back in like 1995.

He then, in 1997, got pushed out by the company, with no equity, and sold the patents to the company for $50,000.

Pretty rough

I throw rain on. If someone's straight yelling it won't help. For just general background convo noise, it works well

I honestly just meant the term, but to what you are saying, I think it depends. If a company outsources their work force to a sweatshop in Asia is that following the TBL? Maybe, but probably not. It will, however, cause their stock price to go up and make them more competitive in their market.

Most public companies only started reporting a sustainability report about 4 years ago.

http://www.ga-institute.com/nc/issue-master-system/news-deta...

First time I've seen someone discuss the triple bottom line in the wild.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/triple-bottom-line.asp

This is also known as Agency Problem.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/agencyproblem.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem

I agree with what most people are saying on here, but I believe there's a bigger picture to it.

Let's say that your computer has been completely 'pwned', and that you are currently reading an article with an ad for Cow Porn, or whatever, on the right hand hand side of the site. The hacker can write some code to check what your eyes, and eyebrows, did when you looked at the ad. If it peaked your interest, the hacker can maliciously add more 'Cow Porn' ads to sites you visit - via swapping out the regular ones.

Now one day you get curious and click on it, and boom they take a screen shot and try to blackmail you.

This is obviously quite outlandish but think about purposefully planting posts, lets say on reddit, by switching out posts. They then look at your head movements, and, or, eye movements then boom, you're added to some list that you wouldn't have be added to if it weren't for your eye movements.

Funny how that works. I'm a soon to be college grad, born in Denver (currently in Boulder,) looking to move to SF and get into the start up life. Want to switch places?

BTW: I love Denver, just want to see what's up with SF.

It's like DiCaprio is running this ish...