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throwaway12245on First Bitcoin ETF loses record amount in its initial year

Tax loss harvesting will be big this year.

throwaway12245on Hyundai investigating child labor in its U.S. supply chain

Imagine you are 15 and your parents are struggling and you getting a full time job in the summer and part time job in during school would keep your younger siblings fed. That's "too young" to make that decision?

throwaway12245on What can we learn from leaked Insyde's BIOS for Intel Alder Lake

Their lollygagging on "moderation" is a feature.

throwaway12245on ThinkPad’s 30th Anniversary: An Insider’s Perspective

Old school Think pads had the best keyboards.

throwaway12245on A Universal Cancer Treatment?

Or make it over the counter and pay the $500.

throwaway12245on DOE requires plans to promote diversity from grant applicants

Diversity of what? Thought? Height? Athletic ability? Age? Hair color? Education?

throwaway12245on US National Debt Tops $31T

Discussion of debt and effects on GDP growth: https://www.mercatus.org/publications/government-spending/de...

"the results of every study except two find a negative relationship between high levels of government debt and economic growth"

throwaway12245on US National Debt Tops $31T

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD

There are other times U.S. has paid down debt.

throwaway12245on Fitbit users will have to sign into Google from 2023

Is there a fitbit type gadget that let's you USB or bluetooth to a laptop and keep your health data private?

throwaway12245on The Big Bang should have made cracks in spacetime–why haven’t we found them?

"becoming prime minister"

He was President.

throwaway12245on Scientists hail autoimmune disease therapy breakthrough

Key text from the article:

Blood tests on the patients showed that their B cells recovered about four months after the treatment, but they no longer produced aberrant antibodies and the patients remained disease-free. Writing in the journal, the authors speculate that the therapy led to a “rebooting of the immune system”.

This is amazing if true.

throwaway12245on President Biden test positive for Corona again

It's probably the same infection. Mr. Biden used Paxlovid which inhibits viral replication. It does not eliminate the virus.

throwaway12245on Inflation Has Outpaced Wage Growth. Now It’s Cutting into Spending

Some economists say inflation is over-estimated.

Just a summary ( https://www.economicsdiscussion.net/inflation/top-3-reasons-... ) "[...] top three reasons for overestimation of True Inflation by CPI. The reasons are: 1. Quality adjustment bias 2. Substitution bias 3. Introduction of new products."

throwaway12245on Inflation Has Outpaced Wage Growth. Now It’s Cutting into Spending

"Americans are spending more because of high prices, but adjusted for inflation, they are actually consuming less."

throwaway12245on UK tech talent shortage threatens to stifle growth in the industry

Raise wages. That will send the proper signals to the labor market.

throwaway12245on Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28%

Gross Domestic Product, 2nd Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate) July 28 08:30 AM

https://www.bea.gov/news/schedule

throwaway12245on First Image from JWST

What are the blurry sparkler firework type smears?

throwaway12245on Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin

Biden's probably not going to be taking credit for any images this week.

throwaway12245on Europeans will be able to unsubscribe from Prime with two clicks

Writing a letter would be pretty easy.

throwaway12245on How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public

So do lawyers.

throwaway12245on How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public

Aren't all customers "price sensitive" ?

throwaway12245on How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public

It this a windfall profits tax?

throwaway12245on What should you do with stock options during a recession?

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wage-growth Wages in the United States increased 11.67 percent in April of 2022 over the same month in the previous year. source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

throwaway12245on Apple and MLS to present all MLS matches for 10 years, beginning in 2023

U.S. Soccer is a joke : that goes for international and MLS. Top U.S. club is ranked 122 in the world : https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/glob... U.S. got beat by some central american club and did not qualify for world cup last time. MLS is a rigged league. Purported local "ownership" is a ruse. MLS management decides who wins championship. Real U.S. soccer fans follow top European leagues and UEAFA champions league.

throwaway12245on Implementation of Imagen, Google's text-to-image neural network, in PyTorch

I did the pip installs and installed Cuda. I changed prompt and ran the sample code. It ran to completion. How do I save the image from trainer.sample?