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It is just another data point. With everything else equal, I am unconcerned about where the money is cloistered. The correlation between FED actions and wealth distribution is interesting in the least.

Many economic indicators are useless alone. When combined with other data they create a picture. For instance, if I tell you the price of gold per ounce went up today, that information is relatively useless, even if you own gold. If I add that the USD went down, then we can be pretty certain that the gold asset price went up due to the fact that the currency that it is priced in went down.

The wealth disparity information combined with tax and monetary policies creates a picture as well.

This is equivalent to saying, "So it's not the semiconductor that makes it fast, it's the electrical current."

The medium that is changing conductivity is water in this case, and it is able to do it much much faster.

That said, the system involves a laser that adds to the ability to switch quickly. "Because the laser pulse is so fast"

> As long as vaccine side effects cause less deaths and less harm than the virus, vaccination is still the way to go.

Assuming the vaccine prevents or lessens the effects of infection, this is logical. A common belief is that the vaccine is virtually useless. If this belief is true or close to true, then taking the vaccine would result in an increase in risk.

Nonsense. Utter nonsense. There are multiple video angles of this if you do the research. Dan Gryder has done some research and has come to a very logical conclusion. General aviation is his forte. Check out his analysis: https://youtu.be/prk0j8cveYY?t=1352

Basically, it appears that the organizer/commander instructed the p-63f to take the 500ft path (distance from the crowd) and the b-17g to move to 1000ft distance while they were at the same altitude. Disorganization from the getgo led to the crash. If you see a general aviation crash and want to know what happened, check out what Dan has to say first.

I've been playing Diablo 1 for about two decades, not every day and not every year, but I assure you it is countless hours. I have not found all the items that would perfect my characters. It takes an extraordinary amount of time to find them. Some items I may never find in all my life. I enjoy playing the game. Some people are willing to play, some pay.

I do not know about a Pi, but you can run Pi-hole on old(cheap) hardware with linux. You do not need a Raspberry Pi. I have Ubuntu Server running it. It is quite simple(two commands?) and there are plenty of tutorials out there. Odroid is a good alternative to Pi that can run Pi-hole.

The underlying reasons detailed in that report, again, are gripes about the corporate structure, transparency, and illegal practices. There are no current or past hardware or software threats detailed in that report. The "National Security Threat" posed by these companies is potential not actual. The justification to eliminate this potential is predicated on corporate shenanigans. The real threat they pose, in my opinion, is likely to U.S. corporation's stock price.

This post from 2014 has some very relevant comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7513388

He is referring to federal sentencing.

His book "Race and Culture: A World View" was an eye opener. After being very politically naïve for many years, my reading of this book changed how I view economic, regulatory, and political consequences.

The World of Carbon by Isaac Asimov started my fascination with the sciences when I was a freshman in High School(grade 9). Chemicals in general just made more sense after reading. He is incredibly clear in his non fiction writing. Prior to reading that, none of my science classes in school had captured my attention.

That is innovation! I like scrcpy for controlling the phone from my desktop.

> Does this mean I'm "using" this knowledge?

Yes

> ...if I know my future it would definitely affect my actions

Not if I, as the originator of the question, say it cannot.

> What do you mean this knowledge cannot be used?

The knowledge will not be able to affect the outcome of your present, past, or future.

> ...but I don’t see how it is possible for me not to use that knowledge.

I don't see how it is possible for you to gain omniscience either.

I have been focused on many things through the years, but my only true passion is making music. My current passion is the 1960s Martin Style 0 I picked up at goodwill for $0.50. I enjoy playing it and am looking forward to setting up my PC after a recent move to record music. I generally cannot play well without others, so I desperately need to lay down a track and play off of that. I play by ear. I could play for years on an instrument by myself and create some beautiful things, but with another person or a track a lay down myself, my fingers play a totally different tune. I played a cello tonight for the first time and it was wonderfully fun. I think one day I may just give everything up to be a musician. It is the only thing I truly love.

> And this is the social agreement that Musk is destroying through his game of chicken with Twitter. He doesn't get a pass because "it goes both ways"

It is a choice that is going to cost his company money. Talented potential employees are going to be well aware of the potential to be fired without a second thought(or severance) on the whim of Elon from now on. Twitter will have to increase compensation or settle for less talented individuals to balance that potential. That is where he does not "get a pass".

I agree of course from a human social standpoint that it would be moral and appropriate to give as much notice and severance as possible. However, there are many factors that come into play when making decisions of this nature. I do not know the full compensation package of the employees(were they already overcompensated?) or the total financial status of the company. The company could in theory be on the brink of failure. If Elon gave the fired employees a sweet parting deal and the company subsequently goes broke, leading to even more layoffs that would be terrible for the remaining employees. Furthermore, what of the employees that have to be fired or never hired in order to compensate the employees that are already leaving? I wonder how the vote would go from the employees if a company proposed the following:

"Would you rather we fire without severance pay 100 employees tomorrow or fire 150 with severance pay next month?" That's essentially the question that happens in management when a layoff is happening. Sadly many people fail to see that 50 jobs were saved in the first scenario when they read headlines about layoffs.

Either way we think, the complexities of human interactions in the markets and business is fascinating!

It goes both ways. Employees get to quit at a moments notice, leaving the company scrambling to find a replacement at potentially great costs. The internet is replete with stories of employees quitting, leaving their companies in shambles trying to figure out how to fill the void. I choose to care about my employer and my employer chooses to care about me. I could make a lot more money at a company that does not care, but I value that relationship more than money. Everyone should have the choice.

It was mentioned on reddit August 18, 2022. How this person came to this conclusion is unknown. There is no source. Notably, this is more than a month before her death. Strange.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/ws3kk1/kat...

You are very correct. HELOCs, however, are not as big a factor as they used to be. They will become more popular though.

Wolf Richter shows some nice graphs in the article linked below. He states that mortgages in Q2 were $11.4T and HELOCs a mere $320B.

https://wolfstreet.com/2022/08/04/trip-back-to-reality-start...

> Our results, published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, rule out “solar superflares” as the culprit – but the true cause remains unknown.

> For my money, the Sun is still the most likely culprit for Miyake events.

At first the two statements above had me perplexed. They seem to contradict each other. Further reading suggests that the author(s) believe the solar superflares would have been visible, yet were not recorded in historical accounts, and so a "solar superflare" could not be the culprit, but it could be a different solar phenomenon.

From the source paper (linked in the article) we have these statements:

> These ‘Miyake events’ are likely produced by rare increases in cosmic radiation from the Sun or other energetic astrophysical sources.

>The wide consensus of the literature is that these events have a solar origin, beginning with Melott & Thomas [43]; Usoskin et al. [44]. For example, the events could represent a solar magnetic collapse, a very brief grand solar minimum, with the reduced heliospheric shielding exposing the Earth to an increase in Galactic cosmic rays

> Alternatively, and more popular in the literature, the Miyake events could represent the extreme tail of a distribution of solar flares continuous with those that are observed astrophysically on the modern Sun and other solar-like stars.

> Unfortunately, there is fairly limited evidence in written historical accounts for unusual astronomical phenomena coinciding with the radiocarbon spikes.

What is the difference between "wide consensus" and "more popular" in the literature?

> Millennials are in their prime family-building and house-buying years.

They have less earnings and savings than the previous generation as compared to the price of homes at the same time in their lives. While government intervention in the USA has adjusted the requirements to get a loan approved, it will not be enough to keep up with rising interest rates. Prices have to come down for millennials to make purchases. This will cause a "house-price" slump.

There is a point. I understand your friends point though. In the USA, not giving them permission allows your lawyer to fight the case on the ground that it was an illegal detention. Case law has set precedent that without reasonable suspicion officers cannot extend your detention in a traffic stop just to bring a dog in(Rodriguez v united states 2015). Never ever give permission to search.

Thank you. I had not heard of this product before. I want one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

> According to Iraqi police officer Jasim Hussein, "The vast majority of the people we stop, it's because of their perfume". A fellow officer, Hasan Ouda, commented that "Most people now understand it's what gets them searched, so they don't use as much."

Wow!

> Results in confusion and frustration in the canine – As stated previously, under doubleblind testing, the determination of the team’s accuracy cannot be made at the time of the alert. Therefore, to provide or withhold a reward from the canine under such a condition can result in confusing and frustrating the canine, which will lead to an increase chance of incorrect responses.

Juxtapose that with the real world. I am not an expert but I sincerely doubt that K9s in airports get treats every time they correctly identify a illicit source. That is why they are trained constantly(I presume). Testing for one hour or one day will likely not have an effect on the long term ability of the dog to correctly sniff illicit sources.

The NNDDA article is addressing the "double blind attack", which in my opinion is their way of redirecting from the notion that the K9s should not be used as a gold standard to ascertain probable cause. I would have to think more on the subject to comment on reasonable suspicion. If they truly believed in the idea that handlers are benign, they would embrace the double blind process.

> Ultimately, the authorities concluded that Willingham was a man without a conscience whose serial crimes had climaxed, almost inexorably, in murder.

This is what has condemned innocents throughout history to death, torture, and prison. His history is what got him convicted, in my opinion. So many people forget to shield themselves from future indictment by acting "normal" in the present.

Similarly, handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes to at least some degree as indicated in this study:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3078300/

> No conditions contained drug or explosive scent; any alerting response was incorrect

> Within marked conditions, handlers reported that dogs alerted more at marked locations than other locations.

> The overwhelming number of incorrect alerts identified across conditions confirms that handler beliefs affect performance. Further, the directed pattern of alerts in conditions containing a marker compared with the pattern of alerts in the condition with unmarked decoy scent suggests that human influence on handler beliefs affects alerts to a greater degree than dog influence on handler beliefs

I found this to be very telling. It at the very least warrants more study. At the worst and in my opinion, warrants elimination of dog scent detection as the sole factor in a search.

To be fair, I did tarnish the simple explanation with an opinion on why the lower classes are worse off. I knew the risk I was taking when I added that.

If entity A can create something(labor/product) cheaper (more efficiently) than entity B, then B can purchase that something for cheaper than what it would cost B to do/produce it. Now B has extra resources to devote to what B is efficient at creating and A purchases products that B is efficient at producing at less than what it would cost A. The net result is each entity has spent less time and resources for goods and services, and can use the savings (capital) to devote to future endeavors.

This basic idea scales up to the country level provided all the rules and regulations do not interfere. The problem with the shrinking status of the lower classes in the USA is not division of labor throughout the world. The imbalance of worldwide division of labor is primarily a symptom of disastrous monetary policy by the Federal Reserve bank and Congress and ill conceived regulations.

> After much discussion, we determined that we can no longer continue to invest in accommodating SMS in the Android app while also dedicating the resources we need to make Signal the best messenger out there.

I did not need emoji's, groups, gifs and all the other neat stuff that signal has introduced throughout the years(to varying degrees of success). I had been using it, while none of my friends were. What I did need was a single messenger to handle sms/mms with the default being secure when security was available. I have multiple friends now using it and sadly will revert back to a 100% insecure messenger for my phone for 99% of my messages. The new one will do everything better than signal does except security, so it will have some benefits.

I will be on the lookout for a replacement. I hope signal continues to bring security for entities that need it through the future. I have not looked at tox in a while. I'll check that out again.

Carbon is wanted for steel production, but at specific levels. DRI is further worked to oxidize carbon and remove it before processing. Eliminating the carbon/oxygen from natural gas reduction allows a more controlled introduction of carbon and or less processing to make ready for steel production.