Just got American Gods a few days ago. This stuff is fantastic for adults getting into comic books or graphic novels.

Yes, it's an obvious jump and it's already being reported by mainstream news outlets: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

His mind clearly cannot grasp other forms of value. I'm glad they have other investors on the panel like Troy Carter and Lori Greiner who can better understand human/consumer psyches and will invest in startups that address these areas. Those of us who are engineers often have trouble wrapping our heads around intangible value. If you want to expand your thinking in this area, I highly recommend a listen to this podcast episode: https://www.farnamstreetblog.c...

The real issue here is craven bureaucrats and politicians that would rather illegally use out-of-state corporations as their tax collectors than collect taxes from the citizens in their state. There is a reason that these are almost always referred to as Sales and Use Taxes. This was mentioned briefly in the article. Molst states that have a sales tax also have a use tax that is supposed to require citizens and in-state businesses to pay taxes on items that they buy from out of state. Most states do a good job of enforcing this requirement on large businesses, but have had virtually no enforcement with smaller businesses and individuals. So, instead of attacking the problem directly and having a real debate about the declining sales-tax revenues and what to do about it, they're trying to force Amazon to collect tax. You watch, eBay will be next - and craigslist. It's a real problem, but our politicians should do what they are paid to do and find a real solution, not just an illegal band-aid.

And they're traveling back in time to 2007 to announce it. They'll call it .... Foleo.

You're absolutely right. We're just finishing migrating our data warehouse Database, ETL, and BI systems from smaller x86 boxes over to LPARs on a mid-upper-range POWER6 box. The performance and the on-the-fly configuration that our AIX admin can do on this box is SIMPLY AMAZING. We have lots of boxes running in VMWare environment, too. But the capabilities there performance-wise don't even touch IBM's visualization.

I second that. We use Trac daily and have added several plug-ins and hacks to plug a few feature gaps. It's fantastic for our small teams.

While you've posted the question as an academic question, I think the answer is actually more social in nature.

If you want your marriage to last, then you should both find mentors who have long-lasting, healthy, happy marriages.

A couple with similar personalities and family backgrounds, 20 or so years down the road from you would be the best fit. You might have to search at work, professional, social, or religious organizations that one or both of you belong to to find these people. These should not be close family members who see things through a lens of "your side" of any issue, but more likely people you've met after you were already in a serious relationship or married.

Also, if many of friends get divorced down the road, I'd suggest you disassociate with most of them (not necessarily all - I'm not telling you to ditch your best friend). Many of them will give you bad advice tainted by their own bad experiences. Find friends who have healthy, committed, long-lasting marriages to hang out with. I'd also look for mentors who have kids that have turned out the same way as you'd like to see yours.

As with most serious endeavors in your life, supporting mentors and peers will be a huge key to success. Somehow in our culture people get this idea that romance is a deal that you are going to go the distance alone, the truth is that it often requires a lot of support and advice.

In your professional life, you'd try to do the same thing - find other people who have achieved or are working toward similar goals and "network" - to use the modern day term. Of course this works much the same way in every part of your life.

I've heard a quote - "You are the same today as youâ(TM)ll be in five years except for two things, the books you read and the people you meet." from a guy named Charlie T Jones. I know that I am tempted at times to just read the book and then try to do it alone. Whether it be something as simple as building a tree-house for my kids, or as complex as heading up a big project at work, or as daunting as raising a kid with ADD - I've found that finding mentors who've been there and peers who are there can make all the difference in the world.

The failings of the UN are more than adequate for that purpose.