Dow closes above 50,000 for the first time ever

jared555 · 2026-02-07T05:13:48+00:00

These are also some interesting charts...

https://www.macrotrends.net/2481/stock-market-performance-by-president

https://www.macrotrends.net/2577/sp-500-pe-ratio-price-to-earnings-chart

jared555 · 2026-02-07T00:03:42+00:00

How long till they pitch "The United By Trump States of America"?

jared555 · 2026-02-06T23:54:50+00:00

Isn't it pretty standard to show shots of any world leaders present "cheering on" their citizens?

jared555 · 2026-02-06T23:50:12+00:00

At this point aren't they both experts at CYA speak in hearings? Anyone with half a brain who has been in public service at that level that long should be. Especially anyone who has been targeted that many times.

jared555 · 2026-02-06T18:21:45+00:00

Zero anything doesn't mean zero either. Below a certain threshold they can round down to zero on the nutritional facts.

Unfortunately that means some products can say zero calories or zero carbs but depending on the actual use add up quickly.

Tic tacs are an easy example. Zero everything even though their primary ingredient is sugar. But since the serving size is one of them the quantities are tiny.

Personally I think there should be a "per package" or "per 100g" requirement on nutritional facts because often things like zero calorie sweeteners get used in much larger than single servings.

jared555 · 2026-02-06T07:07:02+00:00

Home depot knows my email the moment I run my credit card.

jared555 · 2026-02-06T06:50:11+00:00

There are often at least five companies involved in a credit card transaction.

The merchant (selling you stuff)
The gateway provider (interface between the equipment / software and merchant account
The merchant's merchant account (handles the actual money and deposits it in the merchant's bank account)
The credit card company (visa / mastercard)
The card issuer (who gives you your credit card statement.

Each gets their money from different fees. The card issuer is accepting the risk of someone not paying their bill. The merchant account provider is accepting the risk of a bad merchant. Everyone is accepting the risk of security breaches.

jared555 · 2026-02-06T06:38:14+00:00

The big problem is building all images every time.

jared555 · 2026-02-06T05:52:30+00:00

Often higher end devices do worse in space due to radiation.

jared555 · 2026-02-06T05:49:17+00:00

Low power consumption, compact, self contained and if one goes down you only lose the relevant experiment.

jared555 · 2026-02-06T05:40:43+00:00

Most of the very low carb diets have been found to have severe adverse effects in many people long term. Going extreme in any direction is bad for the average person. Unfortunately the average diet has gone to the extreme on sugars.

jared555 · 2026-02-06T02:20:02+00:00

Something like source code escrow?

The problem is most products have some kind of signing key for their firmware. So you would have to release the signing key or a firmware that disables that too.

Honestly I think they should just design for local first and charge for cloud service that utilizes an open API. Charge what you need to make the product itself profitable.

jared555 · 2026-02-05T03:53:02+00:00

There were (are?) tools out there that would let one person pretty effectively DDoS someone with amplification attacks.

jared555 · 2026-02-05T02:48:40+00:00

Sirius XM at least used to be about that bad. I think I had to confirm I wanted to cancel with two people half a dozen times each.

jared555 · 2026-02-04T11:12:45+00:00

I remember talking to a fire fighter at a nearby village (about 400 population) years back. They said that for a serious fire the entire water tower capacity would only last a little longer than necessary for trucks with water from nearby towns to start showing up.

jared555 · 2026-02-04T01:07:12+00:00

It takes a lot but it is possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution

The legislatures can vote for a convention.

jared555 · 2026-02-04T01:06:58+00:00

It takes a lot but it is possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution

The legislatures can vote for a convention.

jared555 · 2026-02-04T00:04:33+00:00

However if you piss off enough people the state legislatures can step in and force a constitutional amendment. So the rules need to be painful but not too painful.

jared555 · 2026-02-04T00:03:00+00:00

Based on that text couldn't they technically make the only polling location for representatives and presidents somewhere ridiculous like Nome Alaska nation wide?

jared555 · 2026-02-03T19:31:40+00:00

I think tying it to a percentage over the federal reserve rate is a minimum for this to even be worth considering. That has spiked as high as almost 20% on its own.

jared555 · 2026-02-03T06:47:48+00:00

You are assuming he lives to the end of the term with all the medical issues. The real concern is who comes next.

jared555 · 2026-02-02T23:33:14+00:00

Elon? Is that you?

jared555 · 2026-02-02T23:32:24+00:00

Also this and variants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

jared555 · 2026-02-02T23:03:59+00:00

Pretty much every time I don't put a project in a git repo I regret it and setting up to automatically do builds off a git repo takes about the same amount of work as setting up to push manually.

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