Nothing is 100%. I've always questioned using the cloud without encryption. I use the services like offsite backups.
The bottom line is that it is your data and your responsibility to ensure your work is backed up and recoverable.
Really for how long Google has operated drive, it has as good a record as one could ask for. Stuff happens, Murphy's law and stuff.
I am a smoker. I wouldn't advise this. Before you get any stimulant effects. Which are minimal. You get very sick at first. By the time you have enough tolerance you are addicted physically. Some can quit easy but it can be a slippery slope. It's too risky as you don't know how hard it is to quit for you in advance.
I've tried off and on to quit for 20 years at least. Don't do it, it's a lot of work to get past the sickness. If I weren't young and ignorant, I'd have never started.
I started smoking at 12 and got completely hooked in a week. I also tried several times to quit. I quit for 3 months TWICE and started back up. I finally got off cigarettes with Juul. I also don't recommend nicotine. You'll likely be a customer for life.
I once read a book called 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking' and, as advertised, after finishing it I haven't had a cigarette or craving since. It was literally like magic and it's worked for two of my friends as well.
I occasionally use a 2mg piece of nicotine gum as a pick me up if I've already had too much caffeine or if it's late at night (or if I'm at a conference where I'm getting little sleep), and I certainly feel the stimulant effect and nothing else. Never had any sort of tolerance, never felt any draw to take it except in the sense of "Boy I'm really dragging, I need a stimulant. Should I get coffee or a piece of gum?".
Most weeks I use none, some conferences I've used 2 pieces a day every day for 4-5 days straight. No problems stopping afterward.
Fellow nic addict of 18 years here. If you haven't yet I'd recommend trying out Tabex. I'm still addicted but was able to cut it off by like 85% this year with its aid.
Nope. They just bill us huge amounts to rule money. They are not a function of government. They are a for profit organization with zero loyalties to the US. When the well dries here, they just move on.
The Fed isn't "another" part of government. It's owned privately. That is really the main issue. It functions to make its members rich, anything positive is kinda less benefit than if it were truly part of the government.
You might be thinking of the treasury.
You're wrong at just about every point. The Fed is autonomous but still part of the government. Congress can revoke this if they really wanted to, but they won't because even they know that they'll just use it for their political scheming like they do with anything else they can get their grubby hands on. Jerome Powell made most of his money in private equity, and he could have stayed there he wanted more. Now, his compensation is less than that of a first year associate at Goldman Sachs. Before you bring it up, no, a few million dollars in speaker fees doesn't make up for this opportunity cost for a banker at that caliber.
Yes, Jerome is a public servant who would give you the shirt off of his back.
We'll see what private financial institution gigs he parachutes into after his current role.
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Ben Bernanke now serves on the board of two of them (Citadel, PIMCO). And Alan Greenspan serves on three (Deutsche Bank, PIMCO, Paulson & Co).
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