I also have to do this kind of work (with financial data), and actually built a product to make it easy. It's currently in closed beta but please send me an email (listed in my profile) if this is truly a frequent pain for you and you'd like to try it out.
I think what they're saying is that by electing "far right" secretaries of state and governors states are electing sec-states and governors who will be more willing to overturn federal election results by invalidating votes, curtailing registrations, and fiddling with electors. They're probably looking at people like Doug Mastriano[1][2]
Not the same elections. There are people running for state positions now who say that in future elections, they will overturn the results in favor of their party's side if the future election doesn't go their way.
The coup isn't the current election, it's the future one in which the votes of the people are thrown out.
Note also the people on the Democrat side who claimed that the election of 2016 was invalid. They were fewer in number and didn't get any traction, and they didn't do anything, just shot their mouths off. Still, it's concerning that both sides have people who are willing to go down that road.
Imagine that in 2024, Trump runs again. (Please, God, no!) And imagine that he wins - legitimately, genuinely wins, with no funny business in any state. Are the Democrats going to accept it? Or are they going to say, no, that's illegitimate, because all these states have extreme Republicans fudging the numbers?
Now imagine that it's the exact same scenario, except that Trump wins because those people fudge the numbers.
Will you be able to tell which scenario actually happened?
That's why the Democrats crying "illegitimate" in 2016 was so bad. They cried wolf when there wasn't one.
(Nothing in this post is intended to deny or minimized the insanity and the moral bankruptcy of the Republicans' response to Trump's 2020 loss.)
I think some people genuinely see the world differently. They label differences in opinions and preferences outright aggression and violence (see "silence is violence"). People are so radical and extreme these days it's no longer okay to just not be on the opposite side, you have to prove that you're serious about being on the same side.
Get ready for the "calories in calories out" people to come after you. Intermittent fasting also helped me lose around 15 pounds but in around half the time with a 20 hour fasting window.
It's interesting in that I have no calorie data but here is what it feels like:
1. Initially I lost weight more rapidly (2 lbs a week) but it seemed I was eating more since I really anticipated the eating period and would stuff myself.
2. After a few weeks, I adjusted and I basically seem to have just eliminated a meal. I get full faster and so I don't stuff myself but eat normally for my two meals. However my weight loss is more steady but less - 0.5 to 1 lb a week.
Money doesn't automatically grow – you need to take risk to get a return. Your checking account takes no risk, so your bank shouldn't really pay much for you to keep your money in your account.
Not sure I fully agree. The bank does not just hold my money. It’s going to turn around and lend some of thst money and make a decent return and especially in a high interest environment. They wouldn’t be able to do that if I didn’t keep my deposit with them. My risk is non existent because of the govt and not because of the banks clean character of protecting my money.
Yes, so they take risk, and they should get a return. You will get your money no matter what, so your return is close to nothing. There's no greed or deception here – it's just market forces. If you want a higher return, buy a bond like the bank.
It's more about convention. Typically, PUT overwrites data, whereas POST adds data. If you PUT to /users/3 you overwrite a user, whereas if you POST to /users you add a user.
If you really believe it doesn't have "any value at all" then I invite you to sell it short. That's a free $30,000. The nice thing about markets is that you can express your opinion, and that market opinions without corresponding positions can be ignored.
The fact that I've seen many, many rejoinders to "crypto has no long term value" in the "well, just short it then" vein makes me think these talking points must be what the cool kids on r/Bitcoin or somewhere are spewing.
I don't necessarily believe all crypto is going to zero, but for Bitcoin specifically I believe (a) that proof of work is definitely unsustainable as the market cap grows and (b) given the power of miners in the BTC protocol, I have a difficult time believing they'll ever transition off PoW (e.g. compared to what ETH has done).
But, of course, shorting an asset requires conviction not just that its value is going down, but when. I would easily bet that within some decent extended time period, say 15 years, that the value of BTC will be zero or near zero. I am unaware how to short an asset feasibly over that long of a time period.
I don't use Reddit or any other social networks. This is the only site I post anything on. My suggestion to put a trade on instead of just saying stupid things on the Internet comes from institutional trading culture.
Anyone can say anything. Almost nobody backs it up with money.
There's a difference between having a price and having value. I could order a truck load of glitter and dump it on my lawn. It has no value to anyone but it still cost me money to obtain it.
It's questionable that Bitcoin has any value but there is enough money sunk into that ecosystem and propping it up that it's unlikely to ever fall away completely. There are billionaires' egos at stake here!
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Shorting for any decent stretch of time is not free, and you more or less have to do it on one of the many rigged casinos operating in the crypto space. It's a fool's game.
Banks and large investment firms are more than happy to create exotic instruments. With enough money at stake, you can definitely find an institution willing to take the other side of a bet against crypto (specifically BTC or ETH).
If you want proof, refer to what happened in the lead-up to the 2008 Sub-Prime Mortgage crisis (or check out the movie The Big Short if you want somewhere to begin).
Beyond a certain level, salary doesn't matter. There's a base salary and there's upside, so if you create something profitable, you'll get paid significantly more. In finance, bonuses are many multiples of your salary, dependent on your performance. It's similar in tech, where the RSUs are how you make your money.
You can't post bonuses/equity, since it really depends on your performance.
Your post assumes that you're doing some task, but with most of the jobs people on this site go for, you're paid to be creative and commercial and not to just perform some job.
The MacBook Pro Touch Bar taught me to use caps lock as escape. I recently got the new MacBook Pro 16" that has an escape key, but I still use caps lock now.
