You get 1 million dollars and 1 hour left to live. If you spend the money within that hour you get another million and another hour. What do you spend the money on and how long do you survive?
Stocks.You can buy a million dollars worth of stock in seconds. You can automate the process, so that you spend on a regular interval. The stocks can be converted back into cash as needed, so you’ve got liquidity, and if you want to make longer term investments, you can also do that.Given the life-or-death nature of this process, though, I’d not care about the niceties, I’d set up to spend the money as quickly as it appeared, on a blue chip mutual fund.Then I’d contact a tax lawyer about my liabilities, I’m looking at a 8.76 billion dollar a year income (8.784 billion on leap years) not counting any capital gains.Fortunately, I can also, within an hour, afford to hire a crack financial team. I don’t imagine my trading account is actually going to have to be active for more than a day, there are probably better, more certain ways to make absolutely certain the million each hour gets spent. I need triple redundancy, I need contingencies in case the power goes out (obviously,) the internet goes out (worrisome) the NYSE goes down (hey, it happens), etc etc.I’m reasonably certain this works in the short term, and I’ll spend a significant portion of the outlandishly high income making damn certain there are many many many plans to make sure it works long term.I expect to live until something truly catastrophic, on a truly global scale, happens. “The economy collapses” isn’t enough. “The US collapses” isn’t enough. “Global thermonuclear war kills half the people in the world” isn’t enough.You’re going to need a disaster featuring somewhere on the Consiglio scale to kill me.
Suppose today is your last day and you have 1 hour left of your life. What will you write in that hour for your family, friends, or anyone?
Dear Mom n Dad,Its not a sin to fall in love at teenage or at any point of life. There's nothing wrong in love marriage. You couldn't guarantee me loyal and honest love from the boy you would have chosen for me just because he's an Indian or belongs to same caste as ours. So please don't criticize people who fall for their significant other one from a different caste or country.For 2 years, YES!!!! I desperately wanted to be a doctor but after that my fever of being a doctor had fallen and I could think of nothing else but singing from heart. Please do have a look at the back of copies where I used to write my songs. The reason I was studying for medical was because I wanted you to be happy.I'm not rude as you thought. Its just that I have GUARDED EMOTIONS UNDER THE SHIELD OF ANGER. So I'm sorry for my anger. I love you both more than my life.Now that's not basically a zodiac thing it's ACTUALLY ME. MOM N DAD IF YOU REALLY WANNA KNOW ME CHECK MY PINTEREST ACCOUNT THE CAPRICORN BOARDLastly, Stop thinking about me and getting sad. Move on. You have another child too to take care off. He is definitely a good son. Give him even my share of love and NEVER EVER SHED TEARS FOR ME. LIVE A HAPPY AND CONTENDED LIFE AHEAD. I DON'T LOVE YOU AS YOU KNOW WITH LOOOOOTSSSSS OF LOVE FROM UR DAUGHTER.
My 4 lb pork roast sat out for 4 hours. It was still cold to the touch. Should I throw it out?
You didn't really give us enough information to answer this easily. If your pork was FROZEN when it was first left out, then it should still be safe to eat. Refrigerate NOW. Or Cook it. Use a standard oven or the range top in a covered pot (not a crock pot slow cooker or a microwave oven). Make sure you FULLY COOK the meat meaning the inside temperature should reach a minimum of 170 degrees F (80 degrees C) but 180 F or higher is recommended. Borrow a meat thermometer from a neighbor if you don't have one. If your pork was only refrigerated then left out - like if you left it out after purchasing it from a market - then I also recommend cooking it immediately. Again -- 170 degrees minimum core temperature (180 or higher is best). If your pork was cooked and then it was left out to cool for 4 hours, I would absolutely RE-COOK it. Again, same temperature recommendatioins. If you pork was a cured/salted ham then you have less to worry about. Still I would heat the ham well before eating. To speed up your cooking you can cut up the roast before heating. After cooking, do not leave out to cool -- eat it promptly or quickly refrigerate it. To achieve fast, proper cooling you should cut up the roast into slices or smaller chunks. Pork that is not cared for properly can be very bad news healthwise. But if cooked or re-cooked well, it should be safe to consume without any ill effects. If, even after re-cooking you are unsure whether it is fully safe to eat, then don't risk it -- discard the meat. If you decide not to eat it before you cook it, I suggest you cook it anyway so that it will not smell bad if it sits in your garbage for more than one day. Also wrap the meat so that animals cannot consume it. With pork products, it is always best to cook then within a few days of thawing or puchasing from the market. After initial cooking they will be safe to store in a refrigerator for several days afterwards in sealed containers. Hope all this helps.
If you had 1 billion dollars and one hour to spend it, what would you buy? (Cannot keep the money)
I “spend” it on my little sister, with the sole condition that she give it all back, save a couple hundred she can keep. Here’s how it would go. Someone gives me a check for i billion dollars, And I must cash it in at my bank. Once done I have 1 hour to spend it all or else they take it back. I go to my house, tell my little sis, and spend all on, say, a random piece of paper. I hand over the card, she hands over the paper, and then we are done, then she gives me the card, and I the paper, as a GIFT, there fore the money is still spent. I make a bank account for her, put a few hundred in, and let her rip.The rest of the cash, I use for my older sisters collage, my families remains of debt, my grandpa who is fairly short of funds at the moment, and then cash gifts to my family, making sure to tell them that when I die, they get none, but while I live, they get continuing gifts. They won’t be in any hurry to kill me. Don’t think they would anyway, but greed is highly corruptive, even to good people like my family, so I want to make sure, luckily I am not very trusting, and instead constantly suspicious. For example, if you said, “Hey Will!” And though I know you, you are not withing my minuscule circle of friends, the first thing I automatically think is, “What is it they want from me?” Btw, my circle has about 5 people in it max, and its more like a flight of stairs, with one most the way up, one a little behind them, and the rest half way or (more commonly) much less.My “stairs” start like this:Then each stair is about this tall:Then this tall:Then:And then:Oh, then:Can’t forget:And:Pen-ultimately:And lastly:Ya, I’m not very trusting, in case you didn’t figure it out.Anyway, suspicion aside, there’s a nice loophole for you to exploit, knock yourself out.NOTE: For those who don’t know what pen-ultimately means, it means next to last.I don’t even trust myself anywhere near the last one, cause I mess up.Now, thank you if you managed to suffer through all that, and enjoy looking at your electronic device some more, I might do that myself…
Why isn't the trading day for stocks 24 hours? What then is the significance of the 9:30am-4pm "trading day", and why do stock price charts only cover those hours?
One of the key purposes of a market is to enable trading at a fair price. To do that we need enough number of buyers and sellers.Imagine buying vegetables from a bazaar. If the bazaar had only one merchant and a lot of buyers, the seller could charge exorbitant amounts. The reverse is also true with a lot of merchants chasing a few buyers.The central tenant of capitalism is to have a lot of buyers and sellers who will help bring fairness to both sides. This is why governments go strong on monopolies and why free trade & competition are holy words in a capitalist’s book.In a stock market, this concept of having a lot of buyers and sellers is brought in a concept called “liquidity” - it means things are flowing rather than staying stagnant. When you go and sell your share of say Google at a time when there is a lot of liquidity, you will get a fair price for it. There will be a lot of buyers and you will have the choice. The same when you want to buy a share of Google.This is true when the markets are open and the traders of big banks [market makers] are operating. After the working day, most get home or do other activities [such as absorbing information and doing research]. If you attempt to keep the market open past the working day, you will have fewer traders and the price you get might not be fair. Especially, if you are an inexperienced investor not using limit orders, you could get seriously burnt.If you are an experienced investor you could try other trading methods to trade after hours in the electronic exchanges, but these tools are deliberately kept out of the reach of novices to protect them from themselves.In summary, trading hours are needed:To enable fair pricing through sufficient liquidityTo enable traders absorb information without panic. Major news like earnings announcement or interest rate changes are thus timed when the markets are closed.
A car is travelling at the average speed of 50 km/hr. How much distance would it travel in 1 hour and 12 minutes?
v = d/twhere v = speed, d = distance, t = timethen rearranged = v*t1 hour 12 minutes is 72 minutes which is 1.2 hours. Now substituted = 50 * 1.2 = 60km