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I miss nothing. Buts thats me. If you need visual basic scripts, maybe it is not for you. AFAIK it has its own scripting language. There is no risk to test the free version. You can actually use the free version, the limitations are not tremendous. I always buy it.

Yeah, like the Americans with Madoff? Who "did not run a hedge fund but provided services to hedge funds"?

The SEC had also data provided from professionals that Madoff is either fraud or a ponzi and always ignored it. The sentence above was enough that they did not further investigate him.

What does this mean?

That you can not trade the stock for now. Trading has been resumed. On many stock exchanges there are rules for this. Something very common.

And what is the reason behind that? Is it guaranteed that shares of a company that files for insolvency are worth 0?

No. The company could recover, could get bought etc. As a stock holder you are the last in line. Should the company get liquidated, bond holders will have a higher priority for any money recovered.

And therefore the exchanges want to save uninformed investors from buying them?

No. Please look up Hertz, the car rental company and what is happen recently the stock. They are bankrupt, people are buying the stock and Hertz was even allowed to issue more shares.

Dude, nobody is worse in getting a job than me. But let me tell you a few things:

1. Mostly it is how much people like you and how much they share with you.

2. 1st class people hire 1st class people, 2nd class people hire 3rd class people

3. Being rejected tells nothing about you. The guy they hired tells a lot about the company.

"scientists are not in the business of filling reports, but doing research."

You obviously have never worked in science.

"If you get money from the USA, there is no law saying that you cannot get money from China."

The USA does not give money to you. The NIH does. Darpa too and many others. This government institutions have their own rules and regulations.

"The science is the same and the money is the same. What the US is trying to do is to stop innovation and criminalize the collaboration with Chinese institutions."

The US is trying to control the hemorrhaging outflow of US taxpayer funded research.

I disagree. Most companies are actually trying to INCREASE diversity, be it based on skin colour or gender. So it may actually be much EASIER to get accepted in this companies if you are black.

I know in some STEM fields (not all in STEM is CS), you have MUCH MUCH higher chances to land a good job at a big company if you are female. But being female in medicine or law buys you nothing since there is no imbalance.

IANAL. But, for example, in some jurisdictions you can write in the contract that all over time is already compensated with your salary. As long as the salary is significantly above market pay there won't be any issues. If you pay market rate and the employee is regularly pulling 60h work weeks, you are setting yourself up for big liability issues.

I am not into racing/professional cycling. But two honest questions:

1. Some positions look super forced. Do cyclists really hold their body in this position?

2. When it is going down steep my major concern is to be TOO fast, not too slow. I mean what kind of speed to they have on they way down?

In fact, when I was in my mid teens, I cycled over this mountain in France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Ventoux

Once you are at the apex, it is down for like 20km. Your biggest worries will be your breaks. We were a group of youngster and some had back pedal brakes. Most of them went up in smoke. They had to use a rope to drag a small tree behind the bike as a way to slow motion in the end. No kidding.

In nearly all countries any contract must be at "arms length". Otherwise you could do fancy things, for example regarding taxes. :-)

This is actually a reason why you can not, for example, enforce something that is given freely. E.g. I give you a contract where I promise you to give you my house for free. If I change later my mind, in many jurisdictions you could not force me to write over my house since there is not "arms length". It is something for nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm%27s_length_principle

"the Wild West that seems to be most of the US. "

You can write anything you want into a contract. Even that you are obligated to give BJs until the end of your life to your previous employer. Good luck trying to enforce this in court. A shitty non compete? I would tell my previous employer "go sue me". A friend actually had this problem and he met with his previous employer and told them: "Look, I don't care what you want, I will keep working for my new employer. If you don't like that you can pay me the same amount of money and I sit a home and do nothing." They passed.

I think ink roller and gel pens are very similar. In fact, I bought my first ink roller pen by chance, assuming it is a gel pen and only looked into the brand and type after the ink was finished and I considered it the best pen.

LOL. I remember how it threw me off guard when I was asked by young Chinese students about stroke order for the Latin alphabet. It really puzzled me and I had to google to confirm that THERE IS NO STROKE ORDER for the Latin alpahbet.

Yet, in Chinese (and Japanese I assume) there is. It is actually very very important. You actually won't be able to look up a character if you don't know with how many strokes to write it. It seems to be of no meaning for character recognition software, like Pleco.

Maillard reaction 6 years ago

"The Maillard reaction is complex. So complex, in fact, that it's only in the last few years that scientists have begun to figure out what it actually is. While they still don't entirely understand it, they do know the basics"

Well, the Maillard reaction is actually well understood. There is also early and late Maillard reaction products and not all products are necessary good for you.

"The Maillard reaction is many small, simultaneous chemical reactions that occur when proteins and sugars in and on your food are transformed by heat, producing new flavors, aromas, and colors."

...when proteins and REDUCING sugars... Fixed that for you.

Maillard reaction also occurs in your eye, what is a bad thing in the long run...