#money stuff

[machine-unlearning]

“Send the money, Kronk!”

“Wrong money!!”

“Why do we even have those zeros?”

[cyle]

> Citi’s technology team instructed the payments processing employee to manually input the transactions into a rarely used back-up screen. One quirk of the program was that the amount field came pre-populated with 15 zeros, which the person inputting a transaction needed to delete, something that did not happen.

One quirk? Fifteen zeros? The quirk in the software is that if you type “send $1” it says “okay sending one quadrillion dollars” and you have to backspace over all the zeros? Incredible interface design. “What is the lowest amount of money someone might want to send,” the interface designers asked themselves, and then answered “one quadrillion dollars” and fell out of their chairs laughing. “Fifteen zeros,” they screamed through tears of laughter.

i wish i could see this UI

[hyperions-light]

Now you can buy me a coffee, if you want!

Okay, so after much nervous fussing about it, I've made a ko-fi!

You can treat this like a tip jar, if you want-- but please DO NOT give me any money you don't have to spare! Everything on this blog will be free-- I am not going to gate content for people. But if you have extra, and you appreciate what I do, you can drop me a tip here.

(I will actually be so sad if you give me money you need for yourself =( please only do it if you have extra <3)

I will also use the ko-fi as sort of a news-only version of this blog-- I know I reblog a lot of stuff here, so if people only want to see when I announce events or post resources or something, you can follow me on ko-fi to get that!

Stripe + Paypal are enabled, and it should be set to the lowest possible minimum. Will rb this periodically, for anyone new + link in bio, pinned. If you want to make it disappear block #larkskofi

Thanks so much, everyone!

[bitchesgetriches]

Hiya! Do you ladies have any articles or advice about choosing a financial advisor? My parents have hustled their asses off in order to buy land to build a house on, but the question of whether I would be able to maintain it on my current life/financial track when it eventually passes to me fills me with DREAD. [Insert Barry Allen "ineed...friends".gif]

We do indeed! I like to think we had a pretty nuanced discussion about it in this episode of the podcast, which should help you in your situation:

Season 3, Episode 3: “I Want To Hire a Financial Advisor. Can They Be Trusted, or Are They Full of Shit?” 

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[actuallylorelaigilmore]

this year has been So Much that i haven't even been able to settle my brain down long enough to fully post about why it has been So Much, so i'm proud of myself for just making it through and doing my best (even if i'm years behind on projects and movie reviews with no air in sight).

but at the same time, making it through the year also means i now have more credit card debt than a year's worth of my disability benefits? so that's...less good.

[facelessoldgargoyle]

Sometimes readers of this column email me with questions or ideas. A fairly high percentage of these questions and ideas are about how to insider trade. In general I try to avoid answering those questions, because (1) nothing in this column is legal advice and (2) I certainly do not want to give you advice about how to do crimes and not get caught.

matt ur crushing the entrepreneurial spirit

[bethanydelleman]

Mrs. Norris managed to save a lot of money over her married life!

The original combined income of the Norrises was about £1000 pounds, £350 from her dowry of £7000 and the rest, about £600 probably, from the Mansfield living. We know Mr. Norris had hardly any private fortune.

By her husband's death, she has at least £12,000 in investments, since Sir Thomas says she will have £600 a year as a widow.

She has saved £5000 in 20 years. If she wasn't a horrid miser, I'd be impressed. Also, the income of Mansfield Parsonage significantly increased, since we know that Thornton Lacey is worth £700/year when Edmund is to have it and Sir Thomas says that will be less than half of his income. Mansfield must now be worth £750-800.

While there was a lot of inflation during this era, it was also possible to raise the income of a living by improving the attached farmland (gleb) and by ensuring that full tithes are being collected. Mrs. Norris, I am certain, would make sure she was getting her due!

[infernothechaosgod]

Okay everybody i might accualy try opening commusions bc UPDATE I am NOT getting my money back turns out the service that took it is a scam that from what I get NEVER gives you your money back no matter what you do you know the type im sure

So uh bad news for me and good news for anyone who likes my art style and would want a commision TOT

[gudamor]

The central conceptual oddity of carbon credits is:

You can get paid for not cutting down trees, and

If a tree is not cut down then everyone on Earth did not cut it down, but

Only one of them gets the carbon credit.

If a tree in Liberia is not cut down, then it is technically true that a Dubai company didn’t cut it down, but it is also true that I didn’t cut it down, and it is arguably even more true that the Liberian person who lives next to the tree did not cut it down. But the Dubai company has some advantages in terms of getting paid.

-- Matt Levine

[cyle]

When I first graduated from college, and was broke, I got a lot of phone calls from fundraisers for my college, asking me to donate. I was like “you have billions of dollars, and I have tens of dollars, and you want me to give you money?” And they were like “okay, fair, but we don’t really want the money. What we want is to be able to report that a high percentage of recent alumni donate, because that makes us look good. If you send us a dollar, then you count as a donor, and we juice our numbers.” I never did it, or found that rationale all that compelling (look good to whom?), but I suppose it was my first exposure to accounting manipulation.

big same

(from monday's money stuff)

[pastamic]

Help Two Queer Disabled People Keep Their Car

GoFundMe

Hi!

I try not to post stuff like this here bc I keep this blog for fandom, though I always try to reblog others posts of this nature. My health has been worse in recent months and I've been missing work a lot more bc of my seizures coming back, and of my dysautonomia getting worse. We got a call from our car company saying that they've sent our account to collections and that because of late fees and missing this months payment, we owe about $2k to them and they want $635 by the 23rd or they're going to repossess the car. We use the car to get me to work and get me to my appointments. My dysautonomia makes it so I pass out when I stand up so the bus isn't a particularly safe option so even if you can't donate please share this around as much as you can. We didn't even get a call until about two days ago and I don't get paid until the 27th so we're kind of scrambling to figure out what to do.

[summersfirstsnow]

I think the world would be a better place if I never had to apply for anything, ever.

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

© Reza Farazmand

[j-august]

Though wouldn’t it be funny if this was the limit of AI misalignment? Like, we will program computers that are infinitely smarter than us, and they will look around and decide “you know what we should do is insider trade.” They will make undetectable, very lucrative trades based on inside information, they will get extremely rich and buy yachts and otherwise live a nice artificial life and never bother to enslave or eradicate humanity. Maybe the pinnacle of evil — not the most evil form of evil, but the most pleasant form of evil, the form of evil you’d choose if you were all-knowing and all-powerful — is some light securities fraud. 

Matt Levine, Money Stuff

[fan-of-all-doms]

Would anyone be interested in commissioning my art at the level it's at now? (some examples below)

Since it's on paper I could mail it to you, I'm thinking maybe $5 per character and I can do a simple color or two for a background?

We just really need the money right now and due to personal reasons it's about to get a lot worse. I only have PayPal btw

Anyone?

[oneblckcoffee]

god grant me the overconfidence of investment bankers🙏🏼