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Update for Illinois law: https://www.gunowners.org/goa-victory-federal-judge-eviscerates-illinois-ar-15-30-round-magazine-ban-permanently-enjoins-enforcement/
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
bernorange replied to Reagan1k's topic in Business and Markets
It's a segment of Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business talking with Judy Shelton about the Fed, JPow, inflation and monetary policy. Watch if you want to or not if you don't. It's no sweat off my back either way. -
2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
bernorange replied to Reagan1k's topic in Business and Markets
video at link: https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6364405600112 -
https://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-gun-laws/ Click a state to drill down to pertinent info
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Peaq goes live Nov 12 (5 days from now). I expect the Silencio beta airdrop will follow the Peaq launch either the same day or the next, but the Silencio folks have not yet confirmed or denied a specific day/time.
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https://silencionetwork.medium.com/silencio-beta-airdrop-just-got-bigger-now-7-5-up-from-5-to-boost-your-rewards-c5af7c2396ed Silencio pushed out an update (at least for Android) and the app is now showing updated estimates for the $SLC beta airdrop. My estimate increased substantially.
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I probably didn't describe the scene properly, but the truck wasn't positioned like they were going to load the bed with something from the front door. The truck was parallel to the front door so that the passenger side of the truck was blocking the front door. The front tires of the truck facing the driveway and the bed of the truck facing the neighbor's yard. It looked like they had parked it in the middle of the yard to show it off like a car on a pedestal on the Price is Right or something.
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Suburbia: the pedestrian frontier ... To explore strange new streets To seek out new vistas and new hexagons To boldly go where no Silencian has measured before! I have to walk at least 45 minutes in any given direction to find some virgin hexagons (that are on a public pavement). The area of the circle within that 45 minute radius has been well traveled already. I went walking through an older neighborhood this morning and saw some funky sights (sorry, no pics): A house with a tree laying on the roof. The tree was a 40 to 50' tall tree (not sure what type - I didn't look that closely - that was laying at a ~40deg angle to the ground and resting on the roof. It looked like it had been blown over in a storm, but - and this is the funky part - not recently. The trunk of the tree looked rooted into the next door neighbor's yard like it had grown that way for years.A house at the end of a cul-de-sac had a brand new, shiny truck parked in the front yard blocking the front door of the house. There was plenty of room on the driveway for the truck, but for reasons that I cannot fathom, they parked it on the lawn pretty much exactly in the middle of the yard (a yard with no trees, shrubs or landscaping). I was just glad they didn't park it so that it blocked the sidewalk.
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
bernorange replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
3 Senate races which had heavy crypto PACs investment [in the (R) candidates]: Ohio - Moreno (R) v Brown (D) - too early to call just yet, but Moreno is in good position Massachusetts - Warren (D) defeated Deaton (R) West Virginia - Justice (R) defeated Elliott (D) -
Markets still falling like whoa
bernorange replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
SMCI might end up crashing NVDI. -
"Easy" Money Come Election Day (Prediction Market Gambling)
bernorange replied to Anastasis's topic in Cloak Room
Good luck NGE - you're swimming with sharks... -
Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
bernorange replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
https://www.cato.org/blog/treasury-advisory-committee-calls-cbdcs-replace-stablecoins -
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I've got more experience using the new app now and I think they also pushed out an update for it since the initial release. In any event, some updated thoughts: My issue with the display was due to a display setting on my phone (to zoom in at max zoom). I changed the display zoom and I can see the hexagons on the map all around the 'you are here' marker.Venue check ins are working now - I think this was due to an update to the appI have started rebooting my phone prior to going on a walking session and the app is a *lot* more stable now. There are still occasional hiccups, but the power down and restart seems to have fixed 95% of the issues I was having.
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Last night was daylight savings change - fall back. I was aware of it when I went to bed (clocks auto-update). I left for my walk this morning at 5am and was happy to see more or less clear skies even though weather forecasts had a decent chance for rain. As I'm out walking, I notice the sun starting to come up about 5:40am and I got a bit disoriented. I was used to having the sunrise occur at a certain timing within my walks and having it rise an hour earlier threw me even though I was aware of the time change. I actually preferred having the later sunrise for more walking in the dark, but I guess that may change in a month or two if it ever cools off around here.
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I've shared a few stories from my walking experiences but I don't think that I shared that for the last couple of months, I've been dealing with some herniated discs in my lower neck/upper back area with a large pain center in my upper back between my left side shoulder blade and spine. I get transient issues with nerve tingling and numbness all up and down my left arm from my shoulder to my finger tips. When the issue first flared up, it was pretty excruciating to the point that I could not lay flat on my bed and get a good night's sleep. I was sleeping on my recliner/sofa with a pillow under my lower back. It was not comfortable and I was only getting sleep in 2-3 hour pops. This is part of the reason that I started going for walks at dark thirty in the morning. Something about walking helped my posture and the swinging arm motion from my stride was like a gentle stretch on the muscles in the back that were so inflamed. It would take a few minutes after I started a walk, but while I was in constant motion was about the only time that I was pain free (without taking any pain killer drugs which I eschew - I'm one of those people that do not like taking any drugs). When the issue first flared up, I knew right away that it was a herniated disc. I've had one in my lower back 10 years ago and I will never forget what it was like. I first saw my chiro who gave me a couple of adjustments that loosed up the muscles in the neck dramatically, but did not resolve the pain. Next I saw my GP who took X-Rays which didn't show anything. I had to follow up with her to insist on an MRI. Laying still for 20 minutes without moving for MRI was a hellish experience, but I managed to do it. Of course, the MRI showed herniated discs. Duh! GP wanted to refer me for surgery, but I told her I wanted to try corticosteroid shot first as that cured the issue with my lower back 10 years ago. So she referred me to pain management center, but earliest appointment was 1 month out. At this time, I had already been dealing with shitty sleep and constant, unrelenting pain every waking moment (that I wasn't walking) for a little over a month. Apparently the pain mgmt people are hella busy because there was no way to expedite my appointment. I finally get to see the pain mgmt doc in September and his intern sees me first and does all the work in getting my history and running through their diagnostic procedures. He tells me that most likely they won't be able to schedule me for the corticosteroid steroid shot until after I've done physical therapy (insurance generally doesn't pay for the shot otherwise). I could rage a bit on the whole insanity of the insurance company dictating medical care in this case, but I won't. The doc walks in and I'm a bit shocked. Young guy (maybe early 30s) looks like he just arrived at the hospital from a photo shoot at GQ. He's impeccably manicured and wearing some expensive boots and bling (wristwatch, rings, etc). He literally spends less than 5 minutes in the room with me. He just says, we'll schedule the shot and physical therapy together. Then he walks out the door. Intern asks me if I want to schedule the shot with sedation or not. I ask him what's the difference? He says the last patient he had just seen that scheduled a shot with sedation got the earliest slot in January next year. He said if you schedule without sedation, there are more slots available (don't have to coordinate with sedation peeps) and I would likely get an earlier appointment (maybe in December he guessed). We go to the ladies at the desk that schedule appointments and they were able to schedule me, without sedation, for Nov 1. Intern was genuinely shocked that got the appointment "that early". I went 3 times so far for physical therapy and we've been working on some stretches and gentle motions for my neck, shoulders and back and it's been very helpful. Shortly after my first visit, I felt good enough to start sleeping in my bed again and I started getting sleep in 6-7 hour blocks again. The nerve issues in the left arm became much less frequent and the constant pain in my back actually dwindled to unnoticeable unless I moved my left arm too far in the wrong direction (and wrong direction was never consistent - I'd know when I got shooting pain). I thought maybe I didn't need the shot any more and gave consideration to cancelling the appointment. But then it started raining. Literally, after over a month of no rain and drought conditions, it started raining 3 days ago. I didn't go on my walks. The constant pain in my back started ticking back up. The nerve issues in the left arm started occurring more frequently. The physical therapy I've been doing has helped, but I think the walking that I've been doing with Silencio has made an even bigger difference. Anyway, I did go for the shot yesterday and managed to get a walk in this morning. My left shoulder/back feels super stiff and tender right now. I feel like I just need to follow that quintessential coaches' advice and just "walk it off". Also - I did break the 500 rank barrier this morning (getting to 494). I have to stay active to maintain or improve ranks now. I am credited with 170k hexes measured currently!
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So the good news is we got morning rain yesterday and today and it's in the forecast for the next few days after more than a month of drought. Plants happy. The bad news is we got rain and I'm unable to get my morning walks in. I was about to break into the top 500 - I got to rank 502, but I'm slipping now that I'm unable to get my walks in.
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Just put these glasses on.
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WSJ - Texas A&M Is the No. 1 College in the State
bernorange replied to Macklemore's topic in Daily Texan
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Markets still falling like whoa
bernorange replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
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Markets still falling like whoa
bernorange replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
Thread title is a continuation of a thread started on Shaggy circa 2007-2008 GFC IIRC. Had markets run a natural course, it likely would have been appropriate. Instead, the Fed decided that inflating assets was the only path forward and here we are. -
Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
bernorange replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
A hack of the BTC code has 0% chance of happening. BTC code (ie. "the network") runs on thousands of machines (every machine that is a BTC miner). Updates to the BTC code require proposals to the Github developer community and go through a process of code vetting and proposal voting. It's very unlikely that malicious code survives that process. A disagreement on the development of the network can happen and has happened in the past. That is why Bitcoin Cash exists - it's a "fork": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Cash Bitcoin is potentially vulnerable to a 51% network attack. This can happen when a single entity controls too much of the network: https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-glossary/what-is-a-51-percent-attack-and-what-are-the-risks The risks mentioned above are very unlikely to materialize IMO. The much bigger risk for BTC is the security model failing. By design, BTC undergoes a "halving" every 4 years or so. This programmed into the system - it's not a human controlled event. The halving cuts in half the amount of BTC generated by mining activity. As that diminishes, miners generate less BTC and thus, less income to pay for their expenses. Miners also get a percentage of the gas/transaction fees every time some BTC moves from one address/wallet to another, but BTC is also constrained by it's PoW design on the max transaction throughput it can handle. It's possible that in the future, the economics might make it unprofitable for miners to maintain the network. ~~~ Fedgov is already prosecuting a war on crypto. Sen. Warren seems to be one of the main drivers though she is likely just a pawn of the banking lobby. SEC Chair Gensler is one of the main actors trying to bully players in the industry. However, BTC is not like almost every other crypto that followed. BTC was released to the world for free and the network grew without promise of commercial gain. This is why the SEC has clearly stated that BTC is not a security (and not [directly] subject to their war on crypto). Since Fedgov cannot outright ban/prohibit participation in the BTC network (1st amendment issues - it's just data), they have been prosecuting a second layer attack on the industry with Operation Choke Point 2.0 - trying to debank crypto companies: https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/30008-operation-choke-point/ They nearly destabilized the banking industry in their efforts to kill Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank. The crypto lobby has been flexing it's muscles this election season and some elements of the Dem party appear to have gotten the message. Whether they are really serious about reigning in the Warren wing or not remains to be seen. The issues of decentralized finance (crypto), CBDCs and the Federal Reserve are in the conversation lately. I hope liberty and sanity prevail. -
FWIW, Peaq has announced this morning that their token goes live (trading on exchanges) on Nov. 12. Silencio has not yet announced a date for their SLC token airdrop, but I expect it will follow the Peaq release fairly quickly.
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Walked around before sunrise this morning. I chose to walk a road that extends off of a major artery through the city. I've driven past this road hundreds of times, but never traveled on it. It's an old road without curb or shoulder. It's also a cheap blacktop road that has many scars from buckling and pothole repairs. The road was bordered on both sides by large properties (2+acres minimum) and few properties were actually fenced. It felt like I was in the country walking this road. The homes, from what I could see were mostly older ranch houses. I was pretty far along this road when some dogs started yapping at me from a house up on the right. It occurred to me that it might be possible that folks let their dogs run free out there, but thankfully the dogs must have been constrained as they never came within my sight. I made it to the dead end of the road and heard some roosters crowing in the yard of house at the end of the street. That tracks, I thought. As I am heading back (on the other side of the street to get them hexagons of course), I see something crossing the road ahead of me. Bigger than a cat. Smaller than a dog. ... Seemed tall - is it a loose chicken/rooster? I get a bit closer and dread floods my body. It's a skunk with it's tail raised. I was pretty sure I was about to get sprayed, but the skunk shuttled off into some brush and left me alone. Whew! I did not want to smell that skunk shit for the hour plus walk home...
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"Easy" Money Come Election Day (Prediction Market Gambling)
bernorange replied to Anastasis's topic in Cloak Room
https://newsroom.aboutrobinhood.com/introducing-the-presidential-election-market/
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