K0nKuzh0n's Account Talk

[Frixxxx]

I liked this article:
One Company’s New Minimum Wage: $70,000 a Year

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/b...ing-a-new-minimum-wage-70000-a-year.html?_r=0

tid-bit of info I found interesting was:
"The happiness research behind Mr. Price’s announcement on Monday came from Angus Deaton and Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist. They found that what they called emotional well-being — defined as “the emotional quality of an individual’s everyday experience, the frequency and intensity of experiences of joy, stress, sadness, anger, and affection that make one’s life pleasant or unpleasant” — rises with income, but only to a point. And that point turns out to be about $75,000 a year."

I enjoyed this little tidbit myself. Then the pessimist sneaked in my head and I started asking these questions:
1. How can an employee leave a job they don't like (even at that scale) and find pay equal to that at other companies NOT doing this?
2. Do they have matching 401K implications for the company.
3. Now the experiment starts, the guy answering the phone, do they have the same work ethic as the CEO?
4. If another company wanted to buy this company, would the salaries be honored?

 

[k0nkuzh0n]

FYI, XM/SIRIUS radio is free this week if you have a receiver

 

[k0nkuzh0n]

Thought this was a pretty cool tool:

https://compareme.voya.com/#/home

Compares you to people that have similar situations (age, marital status, income, etc.)

 

[k0nkuzh0n]

Robinhood android app .apk is available. This is not an official version obviously since it's not on the playstore. Proceed at your own risk, as this version is probably Alpha.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0SYYhtXFowcSkJIU3gtTVJLSkU/view

 

[userque]

Thanks,

It has a clean bill of health at virustotal; first analysed on 7-20. Nevertheless, since I already bought an iPhone, I probably wouldn't use it unless in an 'emergency situation'...whatever that may be.:blink:

If you can safely say, where'd you get it?

Robinhood android app .apk is available. This is not an official version obviously since it's not on the playstore. Proceed at your own risk, as this version is probably Alpha.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0SYYhtXFowcSkJIU3gtTVJLSkU/view

 

[k0nkuzh0n]

I got the link from a poster on a different forum, but it originates from reddit. It's not my Google drive.

 

[k0nkuzh0n]

Thanks,

It has a clean bill of health at virustotal; first analysed on 7-20. Nevertheless, since I already bought an iPhone, I probably wouldn't use it unless in an 'emergency situation'...whatever that may be.:blink:

If you can safely say, where'd you get it?

So you've been using the apple version? If so, how do you like it? Other than free trades.

 

[userque]

So you've been using the apple version? If so, how do you like it? Other than free trades.

It only has basic orders. No frills. Otherwise, execution is like most other discount brokers I've tried.

EDIT: No interactive charts, etc.

 

[k0nkuzh0n]

It only has basic orders. No frills. Otherwise, execution is like most other discount brokers I've tried.

EDIT: No interactive charts, etc.

Good to know, Thanks! The REAL interesting part will be how tax friendly it is .... I sure hope it can be imported to tax software!

 

[userque]

Good to know, Thanks! The REAL interesting part will be how tax friendly it is .... I sure hope it can be imported to tax software!

I've been avoiding that whole aspect. :worried:

 

[k0nkuzh0n]

I've been avoiding that whole aspect. :worried:

The great thing about using software that is supported by the 'computer geek' community... even if it doesn't have the feature itself, there is a good chance 'they' will come up with a tool to automate it!

 

[userque]

The great thing about using software that is supported by the 'computer geek' community... even if it doesn't have the feature itself, there is a good chance 'they' will come up with a tool to automate it!

Hadn't considered that! Shouldn't be too difficult to parse it into a format TurboTax, for example, could read. I'll let you know what the real deal is around tax time.:smile:

 

[k0nkuzh0n]

So apparently I jumped the gun by a day! Robinhood is now available on the Google play store today. I got my email notification this morning.

 

[k0nkuzh0n]

Good to know, Thanks! The REAL interesting part will be how tax friendly it is .... I sure hope it can be imported to tax software!

"Robinhood customers can use TurboTax Premier to easily import trade history when filing taxes. When prompted to “Import from my bank or brokerage,” select Robinhood from the list provided. TurboTax will ask for your Account Number, and be sure to add 10- before entering it. (Your Account Number can be found on your Account Statement in the app).
We hope to add support for Mint and several other services this year."

https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/204085999-Turbo-Tax-other-integrations

 

[k0nkuzh0n]

FYI: China stock markets will be closed Thursday and Friday for a national holiday

 

[Wiff007]

FYI: China stock markets will be closed Thursday and Friday for a national holiday

Wonder with China closed tomorrow and Friday if markets could go up or will the job report and fed scare the market.

 

[FAB1]

Wonder with China closed tomorrow and Friday if markets could go up or will the job report and fed scare the market.

the commies never sleep, they will find some way to spit in our eye. In fact with so many people repeating this I would not be surprised if the bottom falls out taking them all by surprise!

 

[Wiff007]

the commies never sleep, they will find some way to spit in our eye. In fact with so many people repeating this I would not be surprised if the bottom falls out taking them all by surprise!

Eek! So are most people looking at getting more risky say from Oct-Dec, seems that some people think we can still get to highs before the year end.

 

[userque]

Been meaning to ask you, do you code? VBA? etc.?

 

[k0nkuzh0n]

Been meaning to ask you, do you code? VBA? etc.?

Sure do! But mainly from an EE's perspective, as opposed to a CS's. Most of my college courses were in C, and revolved around micro-controllers.

I learned VBA mainly from an internship that involved a lot of tedious stuff that I refused to do manually. As well as fantasy football/basketball strategies and data crunching . For example, most recent program would go on the web and gather the data necessary to create a list of players currently starting on my teams (3) as well as a list of players that are starting against me. Organized by position, highlighted duplicates and players that were both for and against me, as well as updated point totals.

My 1st job required me to learn LabVIEW, a graphical language, as well as TestStand, a sequencer. Both are National Instruments 'languages'. Kind of revealing quite a bit of who I am here, but these two languages are used to automate testing of Electro-hydraulic servo actuators. And within that realm, I specialize in control and program architecture.