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In a way; but even 'savings' are easily manipulated with business vs w2 income. You can do mega 401k contributions (60k-100k+ per year dependent on circumstances), can roll to IRA, use a self-directed ira for further investments in family land or businesses ($millions per year).

Management companies in different states/countries work wonders to drop your tax and increase money you can spend. Even small guys $1mil rev are doing things like a Dubai management company nesting.

article hinted at it via the IP onshoring talk.

Yes; in the same way you can influence gravity by a spinning mass, albeit we do not possess (by orders of magnitude) material or energy required to spin a mass fast enough to detect an effect. Spinning supermassive blackholes show a gravitation/time frame-dragging effect dependent on speed of spin. Showing it occurs with EM is amazing.

The experiment provides support to the idea that the Superradiance effect (where waves are amplified when interacting with rotating black holes) may not be pulling energy from the blackhole, but from different dimensions. In theories involving extra dimensions (like those proposed in string theory or braneworld scenarios), rotational effects could alter how energy and momentum are distributed across dimensions, leading to observable phenomena similar to what was demonstrated in the experiment.

If rotation within this higher-dimensional space causes analogous effects to the rotational amplification observed in the experiment, it could imply new ways of energy transfer between dimensions. AKA -- ZPM from Stargate

Now I want to see the same but with near-adjacent chemicals. Is it SRF, or do the other closely related ones for repair and rejuvenation do it as well, just entering at a different stage. nmn, sirtuins, etc

This is tough as at the heart is manufacturer / seller liability for use / misuse / abuse of the product they sold.

For the locks analogue, most of the advertising for the common homebuilder and homeowner lock varieties are fabrications and lies; it's incredibly easy to get through common locks. In applying the analogue to cars, it works because Ford and Toyotas are harder to steal. But what is the liability in that? Does Kia actively market the safety, security and anti-theft portion of their car like the common lock manufactures do? No-- they do not. That's where your analogue falls apart, specific anti-theft claims (moreso than general "has anti-theft") are not there for Kias, they are there for 'locks'.

There's numerous analogues for this that 'sorta' fit but with widely different outcomes. Is this like victims suing a dress manufacturer for dresses that make them more likely to suffer sexual harassment? Is this like a phone manufacture being sued by those who suffered malware/cyber attacks because they're brand of phones are targeted for vulnerabilities far more then other manufacturers are?

The court of public opinion and the case itself is going to be filled with widely different assessments of what the base 'analogue' should be. This is going to settlement without established caselaw I think, as caselaw established on this would be just such a mess.

The point the article is making about the BLS statistics is they do not represent the ground truth of inflation, and indirectly how it impacts different economic classes, due to both difficulty in capturing real inflation AND there are ways to game it. There are reasons for BLS to come with reduced official inflation, same as other countries. The real inflation rate as experienced by the poor and middle class is normally higher then what BLS claims.

Many 'military' radios are commercial or have nostalgic value. The article is short on details, and given the spottiness of the records of this unit (obvious they aren't tracking property as required by DoD policy considering this was allowed to occur) it's entirely possible this guy just owns DRMO'ed equipment himself he buys/sells. Take that out of the mix, and the rest of the 'evidence' point to this being an overworked sysadmin/engineer who takes his work home with him. It's a common occurrence in every workplace even the DoD; many of the NSA leaks is from individuals trying to work on their personal computers at home.

I get the want to immediately monetize the userbase, including to chip on overhead and whatnot, but you are competing against companies which monetize their userbase silently without the user directly paying.

I'm not sure what's truly brought to the table here until you have portfolio management (and all the costs that brings)

You are not wrong; I did not think about this until you brought it up but it's a great plan to wrap nearly free customers, then get in bed with Health Insurers to reduce cost of care by recording and transcribing all doctor conversations, then alerting to possible fraud or excessive care based on patient input against your huge DB of patient interactions. Historically recording of the patient DR interaction has always been incredibly hard sell to do for the management types. Then insurers mandate chat capture with the visit summary billed to them. Love it!

Moderate/higher dose of Gabapentin is well-known to also cause a loss of desire to drink. Basically you can still drink, you just don't enjoy it nearly as much. Kudzu extract does this as well. Article is pretty terrible, but it is somewhat still an open question why both Gabapentin/kudzu reduce the enjoyment/want of alcohol

Since the study was released; I was waiting for a class action against Hershey to occur. The original study I believe used California defined lead and cadmium levels though, so I assumed it would have occurred in that state under the terms of no warning on the chocolate.

Aldi's (Grocery Store chain) chocolates were low in heavy metals for those interested.

Unfortunately the rollout of the program in the Canadian military veteran community leaves something to be desired as well; numerous vets calling for assistance kept being informed of the assisted suicide program versus getting the help they had asked for. Considering how it's starting to make news waves in Canada i'm surprised they don't mention it at all.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/christine-gauthier-assisted...

Notice how the stock cratered after hours? Growth is slowing on cloud revenue. It's lower than expectations. Cloud is a big reason for the expanded PE ratio on both Amazon and Microsoft. Amazon reports in 2 days, already it's taking a hit. A bit of the assumption is cloud spending would not be as impacted as the Microsoft one is showing. Tech companies in general will likely show red tomorrow, as the markets digest this news.

Agreed; but certainly the red line is sites which some people believe are scum and others believe are holy (thepiratebay, fox news, RT, DDGs direct competitors).

If anything this story/non-story has taught us is, there still exists potential cursed product changes which can sink large internet phenomena, like Digg was sunk.

If I were president, I would give Hotz a mid-tier medal, as its people like him that empower America, lead to our world dominance, and create the billion dollar industries we profit from. I'm waiting till their product gets a bit better but I'll be a buyer once that occurs. It's damn close for the comma three

I agree on all points but there is another after the ones you've listed.

Join the movement and push for a cure for old age. There's no reason for us to die beyond things that should be correctable through medical science. The sooner we have this breakthrough, the better for everyone. Multiple different organizations and groups currently support various means and methods of achieving this goal. I myself plan to start local advocacy and even throw my hat into a federal primary just to have it listed as my candidate position.

Everyone who makes ~>250k would assumingly lose on this idea. Cost of insurance + maximum out of pocket would be smaller then the tax increase.

I assume it would also be restricted to Cali without procuring a reciprocity agreement with a national insurer.

If Dems managed to repeal the SALT deduction cap OR Cali just codes it to get around it (payroll tax direct to company only, and independent contractor business tax), this would be a much better idea.

What the officers did in both the original and comment article I would deem criminal abuse of power. Thankfully I believe police in America are have become more keen as of late on the whole not acting like an outlaw gang; with the rise of police accountability, police being charged/convicted/sentenced, and departments paying massive sums for poorly trained wayward officers.

The speed/level of abuse of force stories has dropped substantially in the past 6 months; I suspect it's not because the people becoming quieter.

Should anyone here serve on a jury panel in America, do not forget you can vote not guilty if you believe the officers acted improperly or the punishment of trial/detention/seizure far outweighs the original non-crime. Jury nullification is a strong force of good which legally cannot be brought up in the courtroom itself, but is important for cases like these.

No mention of Gorilla Hooks, my favorite method of attaching anything to the wall up to 50 lbs.

Basically you drive a curved piece of metal through the wall, as you drive it in it curves up to impact the drywall above your insertion point, and it has a hook on the end.

It works so much easier then any of the stupid anchors, and I haven't had one fail over 15 years of using them for everything.