I think the only thing "new" here is aws-cli hitting version 1.0.0. It's been the recommended aws command line tool for quite a while now. I've personally used it for the last 6 months.
I believe LinkedIn automatically define these skills by crawling for keywords in your profile. I've never added a skills section yet every now and then I get emails stating I've been endorsed for a specific skill.
I believe users can also suggest them? I've got a couple on my LinkedIn profile that I didn't add, and weren't there earlier but I got a notification I was endorsed for that skill anyway.
I've had former colleagues offended that I did not endorse them for skills (that I had not witnessed them using, though I knew they used them at that company.)
Awesome idea. Not only does it open new markets that were previously too difficult to monetise, but also give sellers finer control over what they sell. eg. Users can buy one broker report without having to sign up with the stockbroker, read one article without having to sign up for a whole subscription.
Not sure this is in the works or not: affiliate codes will absolutely rock on this platform.
Being a private investor, I agree a lot with what Cuban is saying.
Strangely enough Australia, which Cuban suggests he's been investing in, has a few investor friendly (or trader unfriendly) regulations built in.
1. Hold a stock for over a year and capital gains tax is halved.
2. Tax (franking) credits are given out when dividends are paid. This stops double-taxing and encourages companies to pay dividends and investors to demand them.
3. You must hold a stock for 45 days to take advantage of the franking credits if you accumulate more than $5k worth.
That's a rose-tinted view. All of the things you list as investor-friendly involve exceptions whereby the government fails to swipe money from you.
The effect of policies that tax most investment scenarios is to discourage investment because it reduces your options. Consider this situation: you think that the drop in the ASX is unjustified and want to speculate on this. You're discouraged from doing it: even if you pick it right and provide liquidity when the market is dropping, they'll tax your upside when you to exit. That is, unless they sit on it for those periods, which discourages the first interaction because on that kind of trade you're not necessarily going to want liquidity tied up for a long period.
You get all the risk, but in addition the government eats into your upside.
A quirk of the Australian arrangement - non-residents aren't subject to capital gains tax. This puts them in a better position to supply liquidity in opportunity times, which some people consider the current market to be.
Great summary of the tax advantages available for buy and hold investors in Australia.
How would these concepts integrate with the US tax treatment of stock trading? As far as I know there is no imputation of dividends under USA tax law - capital gains tax concessions might be of some benefit to value investors.
I suspect they wouldn't alleviate Cuban's concerns over the impact of HFT and exploiting market movements. A flat tax on trades seems like a more effective way to reduce the prevalence of those practices (for better or worse).
> Frankly I think any system that encourages people to create homes for others to rent as doing a public good.
I don't see the tax breaks as a good thing as it skews market forces and inflate property prices. They also throw up a moral dilemma: Why should property investors get tax breaks (offset interest payments against personal tax) and not home owners.
What you start to see some single young professionals in Australia doing is buying an investment property to lease out and then renting another property to live in themselves. This is to take advantage of the government-funded tax breaks. So the flow of money goes a little something like: government tax revenue -> property prices. I can't see this helping the public good at all.
I'm surprised that google is really slow to move on this. Our organisation has already been using Google Apps for a year or so and want to replace our network shares. With all our user accounts and email groups, Google is in the best position to do execute yet the lack of good solutions means we're likely to look elsewhere.
There's a couple of third parties that integrate with Google Docs, but none of them fit the bill from some quick internal tests. Gladinet - unreliable with certain functions. Insync - still very much "beta" mode; no folders, no business plan options.
I'm using Google Apps in an SMB, and it's great for zero-admin, but downloading attachments to a download folder, finding them again by filename, doing 'save as' to avoid filename collisions so you can save changes, is a total pain in the ass. And we still need a network drive. We still use Google Apps in spite of this but handling file attachments seems unnecessarily difficult. And no, Google Docs is not a solution. Not all attachments are .docs, some of us use CAD files.
Dropbox, fully integrated with Google Apps and Chrome's Downloads folder, would mean the end for millions of intranets.
You should try Whatsup. Based on contact list phone numbers - no login exchange required. Very SMS like in nature. The gf and I use it as a SMS replacement and it works well.
Same here. However, there's way more lag in these apps (both msgs arriving when not in the app as well as actually just starting the app) than the built in SMS app from Apple.
