chronos00

I agree Zelensky is a legitmate ruler.

But the Russian narrative would be that Viktor Yanukovych was ousted by the Ukraine Parliament in 2014 in what Putin described as a "coup". So Moscow will allege that any president from a future election is illegimate.

Just listened to the Trump press conference, it seems Machado won't be involved in the US-led transition government. He said she is deeply unpopular in Venezuela and it wouldn't work. Conversations are developing between Sec.State Rubio and Venezuela VP Delcy Rodriguez who is Acting President.

This situation feels messier by the minute.

That justification feels weak because of how much it could parallel with Putin's special military operation, where Zelensky is an illegitimate president, Viktor Yanukovych is the legitimate ruler and is entitled to ask for Zelenksy's removal with Russian assistance.

I don't like how Trump has unilaterly decided this extreme of an action, but at the moment I am glad that this didn't fail like it did in Ukraine. I am still worried about what the aftermath will lead to. I don't think peace and democracy is having a particularly winning record at the moment.

An edge of 100 from X to Y means "move 100 from X to Y", which is the same as "subtract 100 from X and add 100 to Y"

I think this is a perfectly succint explanation for people who have trouble grasping the double entry system. Because they are usually stuck thinking in terms of "move 100 from X to Y". And its hard to get them to think in terms of "subtract 100 from X and add 100 to Y".

* the article still loses me because it defines transactions one way (the edges) and then seems to make this big switch that each edge/transaction is really two transactions suddenly (one on each side of the edge)

The author messed up by charactizing edges as one way transactions because in that moment he is only looking at the movement of cash. When he switches to edges being two transactions, he is now recognizing that the exchange of cash leads to the recognition of equities and liablities.

If you give your startup $5000 in cash, you expect to have $5000 in equity on the company books. When you charge to a credit card to buy food, you spend $13 buying food and paid $5 to your creditor so you still owe $-8 in liablities.

Paying my landlord is "obviously" a transaction from my banking account (negative) into their banking account (positive). How it becomes four transaction is,the magic bit glossed over.

The magic of double entry is that you are only taking into account how your transaction affect your own balances. Thats why you need two entries, If you only debit your own account for rent, you would have a non-balanced set of books which would indicate that something is really wrong. So that why you have to credit Rent expense which is an account that doesnt track an actual balance in your bank account but a running total of all your rent expense for the year.

In the wikipedia example, you have your own set of accounting books and the landlord has his own set of books. That is how there are four entries, but you as an indivdual would only see and deal with your own double-entry.

the sum of the left two balances is minus five, and the sum of right three balances is 505.

Recheck your math the left two balances is actually 505.

5,000

-4,495

=====

  0505

So it all balances out, which is what accountant actually do but intstead of choosing any two disjoint sets. Specific nodes are grouped into either Assets or Liablities+Equity. Essentially group all the accounts with negative balances and all the accounts with positive balances into another set. Which in this case is 5008 and -5008.

That is a bit of a over-simplification. Its true that there would be corresponding $200 entries that balance. But the store did make money on the transaction, and the journal entries would show it in a manner as shown below (assumption 50% margin on sales). (COGS is Cost of goods sold).

    Cash $200 - Debit

    COGS $100 - Debit

         Inventory $100 - Credit

         Revenue   $200 - Credit

Seems like a plausible explanation, the government should reform the price regulation laws to avoid this endrun around price controls.

US residents can buy medicines abroad the FDA link says personal importation is allowed as long as the medicines are FDA approved and are not being imported for commercial purposes. Now in the context of the original post maybe generic versions of Ozempic won't technically be FDA approved yet if the company that produces it has to wait for the US patent to expire.

Expedited removal is part of their existing authority to deal with fraud and misrepresentation with visa entry requirements. It only requires a few hours to process and results in a five year ban from the United States as a deterrent. Detaining someone indefinitely under these specific circumstances is not something that happens in France and Germany. And until now wasn’t something that was happening in the United States.

https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Fact...

The outrage here is that she was detained. One thing is to be denied entry even when you did everything right, another is to be detained for an indefinite period of time.

Exactly, they even had the authority to do an expedited removal which would bar her from the US for 5 years. This would have spared her the detention while still having a deterrence effect. The detention is just pure cruelty and a waste of taxpayer dollars. While also adding to the immigration courts backlog.

They ask questions during the customs process, the typical “business or pleasure” thing. And if the agent senses any deception, you are sent with another officer that will interrogate you. What I don’t understand is why she was detained, immigration officer are allowed to deny entry to tourists. This whole ordeal could have been avoided if she was allowed to go back to Mexico and rearrange travel to Germany.

The government should have just denied her entry if they believed she would violate her visa. I don’t understand the cause for detaining and putting her on the path to deportation.

Hey, Whats your Youtube channel name? I am interested in watching the videos of your Solutions for these Data Puzzles.