Funny how nuclear power plants are taboo, but building thousands of nuclear warheads all over the globe is no issue.

Why?

Why? If people really truly deep deep in their hearts, fundamentally disagree about something, why should they continue living together?

Couples break up, roommates move out, people immigrate, empires expand and recede, borders change.

Why must the US be this sea to shining sea empire? It’s not like there is some natural or physical reason.

Why does one border have to be here versus there, it’s arbitrary anyway, it’s changed in the past and it can change again.

Well, a lot of stock trading isn’t as simple as just stock picking, buying and selling individual stocks.

Much of the market is made up of derivatives trading, such as options, where you aren’t trading the stock itself, instead you are trading the option to buy the stock.

The value of the option is derived from the value of the underlying asset, but it is not absolutely coupled to it (this is how a lot of the money is made, by finding market inefficiencies and capitalizing on things like slippage, where there is a mismatch in the value of the derivative and it’s underlying)

What the person above is saying is that, when it becomes no longer profitable to trade underlying assets directly, new derivative markets will be invented that trade around other underlying assets.

Think about unregulated Bitcoin trading for example, while contrived, imagine a crypto currency that is coupled with the price of another asset (these exist, like USDcoin) such as a stock, future, option, or something else.

I should add, typically the derivative kind of collapse into the underlying at some point, but in the case of an option, it might be traded 100 times before that happens, during each of those trades the actual asset (e.g. the underlying stock) doesn’t actually change possession, and a given side of the contract may or may not be changing possession. If you write a call option for a 100 shares of Ford you own, you aren’t selling the stock unless the actual call gets assigned and you are required to fulfill the contract, but the ‘buyer’ side of the contract could have been sold 100 times in the meantime.

All this to say, it’s complicated and there are lots of opportunities for shady shit to happen.

You know, you can just do things. Like, laws don’t need to be applied unilaterally. You can, at the same time, tax a 100,000,000 dollar loan, and not tax a 1,000,000 dollar loan.

Kind of like how generally, low income people do not pay much or any income taxes, or how certain products are subject to additional sales taxes.

I mean I think the guy is stupid, but let’s honestly reflect here, who gives a fuck about some leaked Nintendo game getting played a week or two early. Like honestly, it might not technically be victimless (though even that can be argued), but the ‘damage’ is so small it’s like being upset that someone stepped on your grass.

Don’t mail in voting concepts kind of contradict a lot of these points?

What? I’ve never heard of this. What are those questions?

More specialized is critical.

You have to understand your domain, what your goal is, how much time and money you have, etc.

There is a concept called prior art in patent law. Prior art is information about the invention that exists before filing, it can both help secure a patent as well as prevent someone filing a patent for someone else’s existing invention.

Trash disposal isn’t free, yea the dog poop is probably a negligent amount, but most people have to explicitly pay for trash disposal, and so filling up other people’s trash cans can either cause an additional financial burden on them, or mean that they can’t effectively dispose of all of their trash.

It looks like in your case, each unit gets a can assigned to it, and service fees and replacements cost the individual directly, additionally, there are fines for trash violations, so having other people put unknown trash in your bins can result in a direct financial burden. I think it’s pretty reasonable to be relatively protective over your trash bin if you are the one that has to pay for service, replacements, and fees.

I struggle with trig because it’s a lot of memorization. The fundamentals are pretty easy, but I never remember the unit circle and I never remember all of the identities.

Plans? No, threats.

That’s a valid email 🤷

I like graffiti. Every city I visit without it feels soulless.

If it was an economic issue, why did they vote for the person who has an explicit plan to enact inflation driving tariffs?

Care to provide some context? I’ve never heard of Google permanently disabling pixel phones.

Reddit was like that 15 years ago.

No it’s not at all.

It’s literally an aluminum sheet, it will slice your hand open.

One of the most common uses is when you remove something like a fairing or a panel, to access something else, when you put the panel back on there are gaps between them. They are not structural, but it does hurt the aerodynamics of the plane, affecting the fuel mileage and cosmetics.

The solution is sealant in the panel gaps, this helps prevent moisture from seeping, and improves aerodynamics.

The issue is that the sealant takes a long time to cure properly, and when it isn’t fully cured, it will splatter everywhere (I’ve seen this happen). A common scenario as an example is, putting the final panels back on after an inspection, it’s nighttime in the winter, the sealant isn’t curing, instead of the plane sitting idle for 48 hours while sealant cures, you can just put speed tape over it, the tape holds the sealant in place while it cures and then mechanics can take the tape of after it’s fully cured.

Yup, it’s just aluminum foil with an adhesive.

Worked in an mro so mostly was removing speed tape, but occasionally we would send a bird out of a heavy check with speed tape on.