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LouZiffer wrote:

On mobile I haven't found a good solution for apps outside of the browser besides paid versions of some of those apps.

Oops, I didn’t realize the question was about mobile. On iOS, Purify is great as a Safari plugin but it doesn’t block ads in apps. That isn’t allowed on iOS.

You might want to read up on the Facebook app, they do some really shady stuff to violate your privacy. I know some people have switched to just using the browser site because of this.

Dakuna wrote:

I use ublock origin on my PC, and I am very happy with it.

Same.

Switched to it a couple years back when there was something that AdBlock couldn't or wouldn't block. Been happy ever since.

Is there a way to get the same functionality of the Twitch desktop app in a browser?

Is there anything useful to do with baseball/trading cards from the 90's?

Delbin wrote:

Is there anything useful to do with baseball/trading cards from the 90's?

Do you have a bicycle that needs spoke-decorating?

Delbin wrote:

Is there anything useful to do with baseball/trading cards from the 90's?

eBay?

Delbin wrote:

Is there anything useful to do with baseball/trading cards from the 90's?

Heating Fuel. There are an extremely limited # of cards that are worth more than even a cent each. Unless you have some of the rarest of the rare such as autographs, jersey pieces, etc. they're basically scrap paper. Even those ones I mentioned are seldom worth more than a couple bucks each.

Skiptron wrote:
Delbin wrote:

Is there anything useful to do with baseball/trading cards from the 90's?

Heating Fuel. There are an extremely limited # of cards that are worth more than even a cent each. Unless you have some of the rarest of the rare such as autographs, jersey pieces, etc. they're basically scrap paper. Even those ones I mentioned are seldom worth more than a couple bucks each.

Thought as much. I somehow got what seem to be full sets of Alf cards and other interesting things. Maybe worth a few dollars on ebay for those.

Alf pogs?

The novelty trading cards are a pretty niche market. It's all about which specific content you have. They were making cards for absolutely everything in the 90's. Your best bet is to just spot check the eBay sold listings to see if anything is worth your time.

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Delbin wrote:

Is there anything useful to do with baseball/trading cards from the 90's?

Even I collected some baseball cards as a yout. I bet my old Garbage Pail Kid cards are currently worth more though.

In a way, baseball cards were a ponzi scheme that depended on each new generation wanting them and buying them. When that stopped happening, everything fell apart.

Baseball cards weren't intended as an investment vehicle. The idea that they should be worth something simply because they exist is silly. A bunch of people went stupid in the 80s/90s (I'll wait until the gasps die down) and threw stupid amounts of money at something that reminded them of being a kid. Now those people have moved on to something else and the next generation of people with disposable income either a) have less disposable income, or b) are spending it more appropriately (like on booze and ).

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Delbin wrote:

Is there anything useful to do with baseball/trading cards from the 90's?

Even I collected some baseball cards as a yout. I bet my old Garbage Pail Kid cards are currently worth more though.

In a way, baseball cards were a ponzi scheme that depended on each new generation wanting them and buying them. When that stopped happening, everything fell apart.

Must. Not. My-Cousin-Vinny....

There were a whole bunch of things in the '90s that people suddenly decided were really investments. Comic books. Sports cards. Pogs. Beanie Babies.

The economy was booming, people were flush with cash. Particularly the people who could now afford to indulge their nostalgia. EBay made it easy to sell, and people went hunting at garage sales for stuff that their original owners didn't realize were valuable.

Of course, part of the reason some of those things were rare was because they were either cheap or actually intended to be disposable, and therefore few survived. Once you had legions of people carefully archiving sports card and comic books in hopes they'd be worth something, supply shot up and demand cratered.

My guess is that the formula for finding an actual investment collectible is to identify something that the kids are really into that they'll pay through the nose to have back when they're middle-aged and have the cash. Though that requires that they be like the Baby Boomers and actually have cash. And what the future-well-off are into as kids is probably something you've never heard of if you're over 25.

Gremlin wrote:

There were a whole bunch of things in the '90s that people suddenly decided were really investments. Comic books. Sports cards. Pogs. Beanie Babies.

The economy was booming, people were flush with cash. Particularly the people who could now afford to indulge their nostalgia. EBay made it easy to sell, and people went hunting at garage sales for stuff that their original owners didn't realize were valuable.

Of course, part of the reason some of those things were rare was because they were either cheap or actually intended to be disposable, and therefore few survived. Once you had legions of people carefully archiving sports card and comic books in hopes they'd be worth something, supply shot up and demand cratered.

My guess is that the formula for finding an actual investment collectible is to identify something that the kids are really into that they'll pay through the nose to have back when they're middle-aged and have the cash. Though that requires that they be like the Baby Boomers and actually have cash. And what the future-well-off are into as kids is probably something you've never heard of if you're over 25.

Plus it has to be something that is either inherently disposable, easily broken, or (like early comic books) has gone through a sever cull.

Fidget spinners it is then!

Gremlin wrote:

There were a whole bunch of things in the '90s that people suddenly decided were really investments. Comic books. Sports cards. Pogs. Beanie Babies.

Or, in the case of my entire family, antiques!

Guess what boomers? All that antique furniture you collected all your life as an investment you can sit on? It's not worth anything anymore now that The Largest Generation is all selling it in retirement at the exact same time.

My cousins and I are frustrated as heck with our parents in denial about what all their "good pieces" are worth now and it's really hard to convince them that no, we don't need any more "country farm" tables that look like they were My First Woodworking Project in 1917 in our already decorated homes.

(but I'm not bitter...)

Gremlin wrote:

There were a whole bunch of things in the '90s that people suddenly decided were really investments. Comic books. Sports cards. Pogs. Beanie Babies.

The economy was booming, people were flush with cash. Particularly the people who could now afford to indulge their nostalgia. EBay made it easy to sell, and people went hunting at garage sales for stuff that their original owners didn't realize were valuable.

Of course, part of the reason some of those things were rare was because they were either cheap or actually intended to be disposable, and therefore few survived. Once you had legions of people carefully archiving sports card and comic books in hopes they'd be worth something, supply shot up and demand cratered.

My guess is that the formula for finding an actual investment collectible is to identify something that the kids are really into that they'll pay through the nose to have back when they're middle-aged and have the cash. Though that requires that they be like the Baby Boomers and actually have cash. And what the future-well-off are into as kids is probably something you've never heard of if you're over 25.

Don't forget you'll also need a generation that decides en masse that re-living it's (early) youth is worth spending vast quantities of cash on.

My grandmother-in-law was incredibly dejected when nobody wanted her Raikes bear dolls. She spent thousands and thousands of dollars on them and now I don't think a single one is going anywhere near $100 bucks on ebay, and some are under $10.

Yonder wrote:

My grandmother-in-law was incredibly dejected when nobody wanted her Raikes bear dolls. She spent thousands and thousands of dollars on them and now I don't think a single one is going anywhere near $100 bucks on ebay, and some are under $10.

For some reason this makes me incredibly sad.

thrawn82 wrote:

Must. Not. My-Cousin-Vinny....

I lived in Jersey as a yout, so...

Ranger Rick wrote:
Gremlin wrote:

There were a whole bunch of things in the '90s that people suddenly decided were really investments. Comic books. Sports cards. Pogs. Beanie Babies.

Or, in the case of my entire family, antiques!

Guess what boomers? All that antique furniture you collected all your life as an investment you can sit on? It's not worth anything anymore now that The Largest Generation is all selling it in retirement at the exact same time.

My cousins and I are frustrated as heck with our parents in denial about what all their "good pieces" are worth now and it's really hard to convince them that no, we don't need any more "country farm" tables that look like they were My First Woodworking Project in 1917 in our already decorated homes.

(but I'm not bitter...)

It's like every episode of Hoarders.

The thing about collectibles is that they generally have no inherent value because they're not useful; such a thing's value is simply what you can sell it for. Action Comics #1 is valuable because it's rare and it was the first appearance of Superman. But if in 50 years everyone in the world has lost interest in Superman, that comic will be pretty much worthless.

At least furniture is useful, but buying them as an investment because you expect them to appreciate? People would rather just go to IKEA.

I actually didn't even try to convey how soul-crushing it was, because it was terrible. This wasn't a "does anybody want one" one and done question. It was a Christmas where after we opened presents she started bringing them out in pairs or threes to see who wanted them, and nobody did. She slowly got more dejected and defensive of them until she (thankfully) gave up after the first dozen or so.

It was painful, I felt really bad for her. She had told us that she only wanted to give them to us if we wanted them, not out of pity, because she would "just sell them", so a combination of that, and I assume lack of trust in our acting abilities, kept anyone from pretending to want them. Although we did gently try to stop the slow torture (of her more than us) at every opportunity.

and now you've made me shed tears before I've even had a proper breakfast. That is brutal, but I'm not sure what i would have done differently in y'alls place, i'm not that good an actor either (and little bear figurines don't seem too appealing.) But to bring out something you love to try and share and have it rejected... ouch.

Oh, I don't think she really loved them, and if she did legitimately love him the rest of her family would have wanted them more I think, because of the attachment to her. She did like them, but a large part of her purchase of them was as an "investment" into the collectibles.

Do the Fairies of Gloss Angeles have a deep respect for marriage and don't want to destroy the devotion made by those humans and Fairies who marry or is it that humans who marry Fairies become immune to the Fairy magic that makes them think their time in Gloss Angeles was a dream and that's why humans who marry Fairies can't leave Gloss Angeles?

RolandofGilead wrote:

Do the Fairies of Gloss Angeles have a deep respect for marriage and don't want to destroy the devotion made by those humans and Fairies who marry or is it that humans who marry Fairies become immune to the Fairy magic that makes them think their time in Gloss Angeles was a dream and that's why humans who marry Fairies can't leave Gloss Angeles?

Whatever you're smoking, I want some.

Coldstream wrote:
RolandofGilead wrote:

Do the Fairies of Gloss Angeles have a deep respect for marriage and don't want to destroy the devotion made by those humans and Fairies who marry or is it that humans who marry Fairies become immune to the Fairy magic that makes them think their time in Gloss Angeles was a dream and that's why humans who marry Fairies can't leave Gloss Angeles?

Whatever you're smoking, I want some.

He asked the same thing in the Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread. It makes me think this is some weird SEO thing, or guerrilla marketing. RonaldofGilead going for the twelve year long-con.

Coldstream wrote:
RolandofGilead wrote:

Do the Fairies of Gloss Angeles have a deep respect for marriage and don't want to destroy the devotion made by those humans and Fairies who marry or is it that humans who marry Fairies become immune to the Fairy magic that makes them think their time in Gloss Angeles was a dream and that's why humans who marry Fairies can't leave Gloss Angeles?

Whatever you're smoking, I want some.

Matel fairy dust. *nod nod*