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Check "valcambi combibar". Its a gold plate pre-divided into 1g pieces you can break away (like a chocolate bar).

1g is ~100 of money today, which would be enough for a weekly supply of groceries for a person in HCOL areas.

Prior art: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21883875

I wonder how much of that 12% is due to USD tanking 10%

It is still there

App page => "About this app" => "App permissions / See more" at the bottom of the page => look for "have full network access" in "Other"

huh?

There are smart rings and smart glasses on the market. Some fitness trackers have a necklace mode or can be put on shoe laces.

Watches are most popular likely because they are probably the most widespread accessory people already use.

Post office offering emails is an interesting idea if you extend it further in the physical world. As in, using this identifier to deliver correspondence/parcels as well.

pros:

- privacy. Senders have zero idea where you actually are. mapping to physical addresses is performed by the post.

- no need to update addresses in a million accounts when you move, your email points to the new physical address automatically (no idea how that works in other countries, but here you can set automatic forwarding for at most 1.5 years after you move).

cons:

- goods being sent to gmail addresses

wait-wait-wait. So a SWE investing in VT is just a well-skilled proletarian owning a share of the global means of production? is this communism already?

> A reversal of trends that prompted this change?

Plenty of terrible changes can achieve the similar effect of trend reversal. Say, banning any form of computer networks or banning having children. And people introducing the changes seem to have enough power to discourage any change of minds as well.

What if it has some sort of a booster to increase its kinetic energy just before the hit?

Also the behavior might improve in an area already weakened by a ventilation shaft/previous hit (first bomb turns 40 meters into fine gravel + detonates weakening quite a large are, second and third bomb easily go deeper)

If they have learned on ink areas shaped as letters, what prevents them from having a bias towards such shapes?

empathy is a political issue nowadays

And then you face candidates with a few years on their resume who cannot perform a dfs when explicitly told to! (This is where some of my screenings end up after a few rounds of simplifications/hints for the initial problem)

I have a hypothesys that there is a huge layer of companies who do not "hire the best" because this is not crucial for them and I just do not have experience of what is going on in there, having only exposure to the people who did pass this filter in the software-first companies I have worked at (and I have always enjoyed working with people I have landed with in every company). I do not feel strong enough to do a deeper research on this hypothesis though.

Would you have some examples from modern history of power vacuum not being filled in, say, 1 year?

> conomic sanctions alone would be enough - notice how Trump pauses shooting at our collective feet every time Wall Street reacts negatively?

He might not care about Wall Street and just act as a volatility generator powering insider trading.

> when has The Military Industrial Complex acted in my / our best interest?

[Not a US citizen/resident; never worked in MIC-related area]

a). MIC is an industrial sector creating jobs, doing some R&D (which can trickle down into the civilian sector) and bringing hundreds of billions they do in exports into country; all of those seem benefitial for the overall economy. Of course those can be achieved in non-military-related areas, but so far there was a working machine - and a wrench is already thrown into the gears.

b). The last three years have shown that large-scale wars are still on the table and having a working and oiled MIC is much better than having a degraded one.

The West seems to be not that unitary nowadays. What would be the reason for the half with ASML to keep doing the second thing you have listed?

Not impossible since something similar has already happened in Vietnam (at least once) and in Afghanistan (at least twice)

On the other hand there might exist a deal where everyone involved is guaranteed a pardon as an incentive to sow as much chaos as possible.

that reminds me that a week ago there was a (now deleted but has a copy of the content available in the comments) post on Reddit where the author claimed they have attempted manipulating/manipulated voting on lmarena in favor of Gemini to tip the scale on Polymarket where on a question like "which AI model will be the best one by $date" (with the outcome decided based on the scoring on lmarena) they have supposedly made O(USD10k).

Original deleted post: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1i83mhj/lm...

A copy of the content: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1i83mhj/lm...

And apparently this is what Electoral College was supposed to prevent.

> 2) They should have surrendered on day 1. That would have gotten them a bad deal but not so many people dying.

Well, guess what, they DID surrender on day one. This was back in early 2014. The result? Two more invasions.

It's not limited to deposits. Most money reforms were designed to screw up people keeping their saving at home as well. Also there is inflation, when both deposits and "existing money" get diluted while the printer goes brrr.

And investing/keeping money in assets is not exactly widespread there in general population.

Like that pandemic responce unit dismantled in 2018?

The article implies they were broken for a few years and lots of clients did not notice this.

Snowden seems to live "normal" life with quite public identity.

what if you do a tracker that randomizes bluetooth mac address every few minutes?

there is the "are you a US citizen or a green card holder" question on every application form. probably there are two separate workflows depending on the answer.

can you still set up direct connection between a switch and a light which would work even if the hub is down?

you get used to high speed. I have recently had to download a 3Gb file on a 100mbit wifi. god, it took 5 minutes! that would take <1min on my 1gbit at home.

Why can't regular conductors be used as such glue? i.e. you mix the ceramic superconductor powder into, say, molten copper, and make the wires out of the mix. The result would be copper wires with bits of superconductor in it. The result won't be superconducting per se, but should have less resistance than pure non-superconducting material which might be useful for certain applications.