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I would say way more than 90% of my photos are useless. Heck, every time I take a photo I actually take 3+ and then share the one that looks best. Meanwhile, dropbox automatically backups all the photos and my photo folder keeps getting bigger and BIGGER and BIGGGGER.

QUESTION: What program works best to go through a lot of pictures and delete those that don't matter? I tried the default windows once, xnview, and a few others, and they are all so slow at navigating photos that I would never finish :(

I don't play the lottery, feel it's stupid and just a tax on impossibly optimistic people (or those good at math), and would be quite annoyed at having to play this lottery and pay money for it.

Now, about your point... given on the info he had, Putin thought he was able to rush Ukraine, obtain a fait accompli, and then the sanctions will stop. He didn't knew his army was so bad (dictator's bias and all that), and he cared about his image for posterity, not about the wellbeing of Russia itself. In that case, war was anything but unlikely.

But about the bombs? What does Putin gain with a tactical nuke?

a) It somehow fails during the flight, or fails to detonate = Humiliation b) Soldiers refuse to pull the trigger, he gets a rebellion. c) It explodes, he manages to wipe out 1-2 battalions at most, so it doesn't change the outcome of the war. OTOH, Russia becomes a pariah state and gets blockaded hard (potentially even by China/India), Ukraine gets every weapon they need, and they risk actual NATO intervention.

None of the options improves his own outcomes, so I don't think nukes are as likely as news/reddit posts make it look like.

Even 5-10 years ago I heard stories of researchers criticizing the "beta-amyloid cabal" for blocking every other avenue for research, as they were the ones in control of the journals (the referees, editors) and grants.

"Response" is many different things. The vaccine boosts response b/c you have antibodies, so it's much less likely that your body has to do a hail mary las ditch (cytok storm).

> why so many governments have stopped publishing the case rate breakdowns by vax status.

But there's enough data out there to have a clear picture: vaccines or previous infections won't protect you from being infected by the recent strains (BA.2.75, BA.5, etc) but will protect you from severe disease or dying. Maybe it can be improved by nasal vaccines (what happened to those?) but who knows...

> It makes a kind of intuitive sense: if you make your own body produce some key portion of the virus, maybe your immune system gets tricked into thinking it's not such a big issue?

This one is completely off the mark. For starters, not all vaccines have your "body produce part of the virus", yet all help to prevent severe cases and death.

To get as screwed up as this you can only achieve with centralized planning, where a single decisionmaker mistake can mess up the sustenance of millions.

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

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

(And yes, for instance Murdoch is technically an American citizen, but for technical reasons i.e. "to satisfy the legal requirement for US television network ownership.")

Because of the GPU shortage, game makers couldn't rely on enough users having the best/latest card, so now there is not much point in having, say, a RTX 3090, where a 3080 performs as well for most non-mining purposes.

Now, what if crypto enters a crisis (or ETH switches to PoS, which is less likely), and then the next generation of GPUs has almost no demand at the inflated triple-digit prices. That's going to be a huge hit to its market cap

But agree with the other commenters that implementing this is often quite difficult and there might be extremely high constants involved.

Used it to watch Ted Lasso and Foundation, and the browser experience was _terrible_ for discovery and had lots of bugs and counterintuitive things. And it was Windows+Chrome, so no excuse for having such a terrible interface.

Now I don't even care about it, and find it easier to just open netflix or youtube or something else rather than to waste time and brain cells dealing with their crap.

Would be a great way to make a few extra billion and of course the SEC won't do mcuh

Say we give duplicate the amount of money in the economy(M1 M2 etc) and prices immediately double. Won't that also double firm revenue, profits, dividends, and thus firm value in nominal terms?

Thus, if stock prices and home prices are +10% in nominal terms, with inflation close to 10%, doesn't this mean they are just breaking even?

> Details: Analysts surveyed by FactSet expect the release to show 8.4% inflation over the last year. That would be the highest inflation rate since December 1981. The rate was 7.9% for the year that ended in February.

From this morning (6am) Morning Brew:

> Good morning. Today’s consumer price index reading is expected to show that March prices surged 8.4% over last year. You know who’s not contributing to inflation? The Brew. Today, we’re launching a revamped referral program with cheaper “prices” on swag items…that were already free to begin with.

So the NEWS of the release is that it was 8.5% instead of 8.4%. That's why they pointed it out. Everything else was already priced in by markets.