Short selling has unlimited downside and the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

"Professor" Jiang is a high school teacher with a B.A. in English literature and is unqualified to lecture on this topic.

He also thinks the Illuminati are real and control Western civilization from Jerusalem, so maybe we shouldn't listen to him about most things.

This might sound ridiculous but I recommend watching with subtitles on. The accents are strong and the dialog is quick.

The OG Nazis were actually bozos too, they just had very good propaganda. So good that you're still seeing the effects today.

The 1983 movie WarGames. This is the computer's conclusion after simulating every possible outcome of Global Thermonuclear War.

Lots of people seem to be missing this - Chase Passive Income is a satirical account.

If the members don't deliver a strike mandate to Union leadership, they have no leverage during contract negotiations. Voting against a strike is directly voting against your own interests no matter how good the employer is.

Long before my time, my WW2 veteran grandfather checked himself into the psych ward at the local hospital, spent several weeks there, then discharged himself voluntarily and never spoke of it again. The mental health stigma was real.

You mean Amal Clooney, the international Human Rights Lawyer? The adjunct professor of law at Columbia University? Advisor to the International Criminal Court? That Amal Clooney?

The fact that she's married to a celebrity is the least interesting thing about her in the context of Israel and the ICC.

There are two kinds of people who own a pressure canner - people who enjoy making preserves and fucking crazy people.

The same Pierre Poilievre who was just glad-handing with Rob Primo? The same Rob Primo who's been hanging out with Jeremy MacKenzie? The same Jeremy MacKenzie who publicly threatened to rape Anaida Poilievre? That Pierre Poilievre?

The expensive part of making books is not the paper. My wife is an independent author and between editing, typesetting, cover design, etc. she spent about $1500 to publish each of her books.

While she could price her books at $1, that would present her with a few problems.

Firstly, people often value things based on what they've paid for them, so pricing your book too low makes people assume it is of poor quality.

Secondly, having positive reviews is extremely important for indie authors because the Almighty Algorithm will reward you or punish you based on the book's rating. Other indie authors she has talked to have seen a noticable decline in their book's rating after Amazon put it on sale and a bunch of people who might not have otherwise read it started buying copies. If you've ever worked retail or food service, you probably know that bargain hunters are often the people who are least reasonable and hardest to please. If the book is too cheap, you may attract an audience that harms its reputation.

Finally, trying to sell 2000+ copies of a book is pretty daunting for small authors and that's about what it would take to break even at $1 per copy.

Could big publishers and well known authors sell books for a buck? Probably. But for the majority of authors who aren't making their living by writing and only sell a few hundred copies ever, that's not really realistic.

You cannot substitute sugar for salt. Foods with high enough sugar levels are shelf stable because they are high in sugar and low in moisture. This suppresses microbial activity completely.

Honey cured meat usually uses the honey for flavour only and will still have salt in it. For ham in particular, there will also be sodium nitrite (this is what gives ham its distinctive colour).

In pickle brine, salt is important for suppressing the growth of unfriendly microbes. Friendly microbes like lacto bacteria are very tolerant of saline environments, where unfriendly microbes are not.

There are different kinds of pickles.

Fridge pickles are the most forgiving because the low temperature limits microbial activity.

Vinegar pickles are packed in acidic brine. The acid (usually vinegar) kills c. botulinum. The salt flavours the pickles but also hampers the growth of unfriendly microbes. These are also usually sterilized in a water bath for shelf stability.

Fermented pickles have very specific salt requirements to ensure you get the right kind of microbial growth. The fermentation process also requires sugar for the microbes to metabolise into acid and prevent the growth of c. botulinum.

Obligatory warnings in case this was not a hypothetical question:

Use tested recipes from reliable sources. Use recipe books from the Mason jar manufacturers, USDA recipes, books from well known chefs, etc.

If it smells like death, throw it out. If in doubt, throw it out.

Do not screw around with this - it is very easy to make yourself violently ill and if you make a bad enough mistake, you could die.

Cernovich is a right wing grifter who pivoted from red pill / pickup artist / manosphere / GamerGate to trying to ride Trump's coattails during his first term. He's the same vintage as Milo Yianappolis and whatever that Return of Kings douche's name was.

I've worked in bash. I've written tools in bash that ended up having a significant lifetime.

Personally, you lost me at

reading from the database

Database drivers exist for a reason. Shelling out to a database cli interface is full of potential pitfalls that don't exist in any language with a programmatic interface to the database. Dealing with query parameterization in bash sounds un-fun and that's table stakes, security-wise.

Same with making web API calls. Error handling in particular is going to require a lot of boilerplate code that you would get mostly for free in languages like Python or Ruby or Go, especially if there's an existing library that wraps the API you want to use in native language constructs.

We had family visit from the UK many years ago. They said after they visited Niagara Falls, they wanted to "pop over" to Prince Edward Island to see Anne of Green Gables. That is an 18h drive if you don't even stop to pee. They finally realized how big Canada really is when somebody showed them a map of England superimposed on a map of Canada.

Heroes. The first season wrapped up its story beautifully. The second season was an aimless disaster.

I've read online that the original plan was for each season to tell a stand-alone story with a different set of heroes but the network was insistent on keeping the popular characters from season one on for season two. Peter Petrelli's power is universe-breaking after he learns to control it, so the show ended up tying itself into a pretzel to explain why the answer to every problem isn't "get Peter to snap his fingers and fix it". There was also a writer's strike in the middle of the season, which didn't help.

Put the clove under the flat side of a knife and press down with your palm until you hear a crunch. They're really easy to peel after that.

Sundowning is also a group of symptoms that can affect dementia patients late in the day: https://www.mayoclinic.org/...

I loved Transformers when I was a kid. My parents never worried about putting food on the table but we didn't have a lot of disposable income, so I never had the Power Wheels or the Action Figures, or whatever when I was growing up.

One day in my late 30s I realized I could just buy Optimus Prime. So I did. He's hanging out on a shelf in my office.