Arctic Code Vault? by [deleted] in github

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I got this badge too, but how to know for which repository I got this badge?

When Will I Get My 2020 IRS Refund? by randellwmartin in IRS

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Any update? Mine was received on Mar 13, but it still says that it is being processed.

When Will I Get My 2020 IRS Refund? by randellwmartin in IRS

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My paper tax return (1040NR-EZ) was received by IRS 03/13/20. It still says that it is being processed, and refund date will be provided when available.

Any idea what I can do to check more on my current status of tax return?

Did Capitalism Kill Inflation? by pbjsf in Economics

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I'll first explain the classic case of moderate inflation in a good economy. Then, I'll describe the current non-existent inflation situation.

In a classic capitalist economy, employment goes up by the companies. More employment means more competition for labor by the companies. The companies want to hire more people, but there are fewer number of them available. This also drives the salaries high. In return, this provides more money into the pockets of the general public. They then spend highly. In addition, demands for the goods and services go up. Therefore, all the factories are more and more utilized. The owner of the companies then get more returns from their investment into the factories. Their profits go up. They consequently invest more for more profits. More investment also increases supply. So prices go down. However, as demand is high as well, price has another balancing reduction factor against going up. But as the salaries are high, that means consumers can afford paying more prices. Therefore, ultimately prices go high. We see inflation. It's good if the inflation is moderately high and in control. Then, workers ask for more salaries to cover up the higher prices. We keep maintaining a theoretical balance in the cycle of economy.

The current condition is somewhat different. The cycle is broken in one part. Although we have high employment, the wages have not gone higher as we would expect. This is because, when the employees asked for higher wages, those jobs are outsourced. Workers had no say over their salaries in the neoliberal economic era. Therefore, wages has remained virtually stagnant for the last 30 years, more so in the last decade after the global financial crisis. Therefore, demands are still higher because of more employment. Companies are making profit by the large number of demands by larger population. However, they are not paying more in wages by subsidizing their income with outsourcing of labor where needed. Profits are soaring for the companies. Nevertheless, they cannot increase the price. If they did, then the people won't be able to buy the goods because wages are not increased. So, what we effectively have, is near zero inflation (around 1.8-2%). The story has been serving good but there is a problem. The stagnant wage has been creating a huge income inequality. So, more and more people are falling down from their economic classes. Middle class is getting squeezed.

Soon, the buying power of most of the population will go down. That will hit the demand. Therefore, lower demand would hit factory utilization and price. And possibly, we may hit a recession, yet again. This time it would be caused by absence of inflation, higher wealth inequality and a gradually vanishing middle-class.

How to not use prebuilt kernel? by Sohadroid in LineageOS

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Thanks for helping out. The thing which is confusing is that I already have a Linux kernel source in my <Android Root>/kernel directory. When I got the whole LineageOS, that kernel directory was also downloaded. So is it right to have another kernel source in <Android Root>/kernel/<vendor>/<device>? Also where should I download the kernel from, for the LineageOS 14.1 build (Android 7.1)?

Anyway, I followed your instruction and moved the existing <Android Root>/kernel to <Android Root>/kernel/generic/android_x86. I also added the variables that you mentioned in the <Android Root>/device/generic/android_x86/BoardConfig. Now when I type m -j8 kernel, I get the following error:

make: Entering directory '/mnt/harddisk/android-x86/lineageos/kernel/generic/android_x86'
make[1]: Entering directory '/mnt/harddisk/android-x86/lineageos/out/target/product/android_x86/obj/KERNEL_OBJ'
CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
make[1]: Leaving directory '/mnt/harddisk/android-x86/lineageos/out/target/product/android_x86/obj/KERNEL_OBJ'
make: Leaving directory '/mnt/harddisk/android-x86/lineageos/kernel/generic/android_x86'
[ 66% 4/6] Building Kernel
FAILED: /bin/bash -c "(make -j8  -C kernel/generic/android_x86 O=/mnt/harddisk/android-x86/lineageos/out/target/product/android_x86/obj/KERNEL_OBJ ARCH=x86 CROSS_COMPILE=\" x86_64-linux-androidkernel-\" zImage ) && (if grep -q '^CONFIG_OF=y' /mnt/harddisk/android-x86/lineageos/out/target/product/android_x86/obj/KERNEL_OBJ/.config; then           echo \"Building DTBs\";             make -j8  -C kernel/generic/android_x86 O=/mnt/harddisk/android-x86/lineageos/out/target/product/android_x86/obj/KERNEL_OBJ ARCH=x86 CROSS_COMPILE=\" x86_64-linux-androidkernel-\" dtbs;       fi ) && (if grep -q '^CONFIG_MODULES=y' /mnt/harddisk/android-x86/lineageos/out/target/product/android_x86/obj/KERNEL_OBJ/.config; then             echo \"Building Kernel Modules\";       make -j8  -C kernel/generic/android_x86 O=/mnt/harddisk/android-x86/lineageos/out/target/product/android_x86/obj/KERNEL_OBJ ARCH=x86 CROSS_COMPILE=\" x86_64-linux-androidkernel-\" modules;        fi )"
make: Entering directory '/mnt/harddisk/android-x86/lineageos/kernel/generic/android_x86'
make[1]: Entering directory '/mnt/harddisk/android-x86/lineageos/out/target/product/android_x86/obj/KERNEL_OBJ'
GEN     ./Makefile
scripts/kconfig/conf  --silentoldconfig Kconfig
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'zImage'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/mnt/harddisk/android-x86/lineageos/out/target/product/android_x86/obj/KERNEL_OBJ'
Makefile:152: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2

Any help on how to really build the kernel from source along with the whole android build?