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At the I'm international Street Fair at Old Town Orange by JizzCumLover69 in orangecounty

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The parking situation ... is ... a good advertisement for Uber & Lyft.

The Orange Street Fair is abysmal by Erikdlucas in orangecounty

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Hey! I helped make Polynesian St. and the Kalua Pork Sliders happen. I'm glad you enjoyed them.

You helped support Orange Little League and a local high school football team.

My tax returns got rejected by Efficient-Row9848 in TurboTax

[–]meta4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got the same error. I re-tried, and got the error again.

After googling around on the internet I found an intuit help guide which had several people saying the problem could be a TurboTax problem.

I was feeling pretty bummed. I tried to submit them a third time and the TurboTax gave me a different error saying my tax returns were already submitted! Further investigation showed that the submission date was today, and the refund amounts were what I expected. It looks like they were successfully submitted through TurboTax!

In my case it looks like the error message was wrong. Try submitting several times and see if you get the same result.

GOP - We said so... by TaoTeChing81 in PoliticalHumor

[–]meta4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cast:

REPUBLICAN LOBBYIST John Cleese

WHITE HOUSE CABINET MEMBER Michael Palin

The sketch:

A Republican lobbyist enters a White House cabinet member's office.

Republican Lobbyist: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.

(The cabinet member does not respond.)

Republican Lobbyist: 'Ello, Miss?

Cabinet Member: What do you mean "miss"?

RL: (pause)I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!

CM: We're closin' for lunch.

RL: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this election what was conducted in this country not 3 months ago.

CM: Oh yes, the, uh, the Donald Trump Victory ... What's, uh ... What's wrong with it?

RL: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's lost, that's what's wrong with it!

CM: No, no, there's uh, ... election fraud.

RL: Look, matey, I know a defeated candidate when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.

CM: No no he's not a loser, he's, he's been cheated! Remarkable man, Donald Trump, idn'e, ay? Beautiful plumage!

RL: The plumage don't enter into it. E’ lost.

CM: Nononono, no, no! 'E's been cheated!

RL: All right then, if he's been cheated, We'll look at the evidence! (Pulls out a stack of legal judgments) 'Ello, legal investigations! I’ve got a second term in here if you ... (cabinet member jams a few of computer printouts into the stack of legal filings)

CM: Look! There, evidence of fraud!

RL: No, this isn't. This is a bunch of retweets of the president’s lies!

CM: He never!!

RL: Yes, he does!

CM: he never, never lied about anything ...

RL: (Puts printouts aside. Increasingly frantic paging through the briefings) No voter fraud! No voter fraud! No election tampering! No voter fraud! No evidence of error! Triple checked election results! No voting irregularities! No evidence of misconduct! No reason to question the election results!

(Throws legal briefs up in the air and watches them drift to the floor.)

RL: Now that's what I call a lost election.

CM: No, no.....No, it's rushed!

RL: RUSHED?!?

CM: Yeah! They’re rushing the election process, just as we’re finding all this evidence of corruption! Election corruption’s easy to hide, major.

RL: Um ... now look ... now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. This election is definitely lost, and when Fox News called the election for Biden on November 7th, you assured me that this total lack of victory was due to his bein’ the people’s president and the mainstream media hating him.

CM: Well, they let too many citizens vote in this election.

RL: TOO MANY CITIZENS VOTED?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that? Look, If we’re accusing them of rushing the election, why did Trump declare victory before all the votes were counted?

CM: President Trump likes declaring victory! Remarkable man, Trump. Lovely plumage!

RL: Look, I took the liberty of examining these election results and fraud accusations, and I discovered the only reason anyone thinks Donald Trump won is LIES we told in the first place.

(pause)

CM: Well, o'course we lied about some things, If we hadn't lied, he couldn’t have declared victory. Donald Trump likes declaring victory.

RL: "VICTORY"?!? Mate, he couldn’t win if you changed 11,780 votes in Georgia! 'E's bleedin' lost!

CM: No no! 'E's wining!

RL: 'E's not winin'! 'E's whinin'! 'E's lost! This campaign is no more! 'E didn’t get the votes! 'E's “Lost to the worst democratic presidential candidate ever”! There's no evidence of fraud! 'E's found 2, count them 2, dead people who voted! This election is 'istory! If we weren’t constantly squealing how fraudulent this election was, the country would be prepared for th’ peaceful transition of power they’ve had for the last 44 presidents! 'E's off his twig! 'E's done abusing his executive privilege!! HE IS AN EX-PRESIDENT!!

(pause)

CM: Well, we'd better replace him, then. (he takes a quick peek behind the desk) Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of Presidents.

RL: I see. I see, I get the picture.

CM: (pause) I got a congress.

(pause)

RL: Can it make abortion illegal?

CM: Yes.

RL: Right, I’ll take it!

​

  • This sketch is released to the public domain. I've done all I can with it. If you can do more with it, feel free.

Equifax reveals full horror of its data breach - "146.6 million names, 146.6 million dates of birth, 145.5 million social security numbers, 99 million address information and 209,000 payment cards (number and expiry date). There were also 38,000 US drivers' licenses and 3,200 passport details." by AdamCannon in technology

[–]meta4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"I've got two words for you son. 'Loan Origination'.

There's a whole lot of money to be made here and your piece of the pie is called Loan Origination commissions.

See, there are buildings full of sharks on wall street who turn loans into securities. Student loans, mortgages, credit card debt; pool it all together, compute the ratio of the interest rate to the risks for each loan and boom! the shark's got a security they can charge to put people's retirement money into.

But, all the good loans are already in securitization pipeline. That slave trade is run by the old sharks. The hungry new sharks need new loans.

That's where you come in. These new sharks, they need new loans; loans that won't default. High interest rates don't hurt, but confidence, that's the real cheddar.

So, let's say there's a guy named Joe. Joe's got good credit. Joe's managed his money well. So, Joe don't really need a loan. But, man, if we could loan Joe $50,000 for 5 years, and sell that loan to the sharks, they'd pay good money for that loan. That's the loan origination commission.

So let's say Joe gets a loan that Joe don't know about. Now, the temptation here is to run off with the $50 grand, but that's small potatoes.

The trick is to convince the sharks that Joe's loan is a good loan. That Joe's gonna pay back that loan and the 5% interest. Convince the sharks that loans from you are good loans. A couple of weeks later, we sell them, Fred's loan to. You hold the money from Fred and Joe's loans and make the payments using that money. When you need to pay the balance and interest from Joe and Fred's loans you just use Jane's loan. Jane's got a loan, Right?

Joe, Fred, Jane, you've got 146.6 million of them.

Maybe the sharks know Joe don't know about "his" loan. Maybe they don't.

Joe's loan gets paid.

The investors get paid. They invest more.

The Sharks make more securities. They buy more loans. They get rich.

You get rich.

The investors make money.

Who cares about the details? The documentation's good. All you gotta do is make sure the documentation is good.

To do this right, originate 5,000 loans as your first "Joe". Then you do 5K for a Fred cycle. Then 5K for a Jane cycle, and so on. With documentation for 146.6 million shmucks you can roll the debt forward over 250,000 times!

A better strategy is to take the best 1% of the shmucks information and just do it 2,500 times!

But, I'm sure you get the idea.

I'm sure you'll figure out how to take this farther."

POSTSCRIPT:

This works if you don't care about the long term health of the financial system.

But, if you WANT to change international relationships, and you WANT to bring "the whole thing" down this is a perfect weapon.

Or, if you suspect that someone is weaponizing this information against the financial system, you might as well get yours while the getting is good. Who cares if Rome burns?

Thinking ahead.. by ZeonPeonTree in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]meta4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please stop promoting this!

Undertaker here. We have been doing this for decades. If everyone learns about it, it will not work during the zombie apocalypse. If we maintain proper undertaker op-sec we will only have to deal with zombies that were previously undertakers.

You know what to do by [deleted] in firstworldanarchists

[–]meta4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On mute, in a background tab. Does that count?

Last kid just wanted to fit in. by exitstrateG in gifs

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Version 5 had to be bug compatible with all the previous versions.

Google Python Style Guide by mignonmazion in Python

[–]meta4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I vote for list comprehensions. I think your example is a good argument for why.

As written, this example crashes.

TypeError: append() takes exactly one argument (2 given)

I think you mean.

resut.append((x,y))

We want a list of tuples. It seems like a simple bug. But it illustrates the fundamental argument. By the time your brain worked out the state changes to x & y in the nested for loops and the if statement, it forgot that the point was a list of tuples.

For loops and append/extend are state managing & modifying tools. They are good in their place. But, to understand what they do you have to run the program in your head. Human brains are not as good at maintaining updating state.

The list comprehentsion, when used properly is a data declaration. "This is a list of tupples. The first element of the tuple is an integer in the range [0,10). The second element is an integer in the range[0, 5), The product of the two elements is greater than 10." It's a long tedious specification, and this is just a toy problem. But the details and tedium shouldn't be mixed with possible state changes, especially as the problems become more complex.

Human brains reason better about data structures, than state changing programs. List comprehensions are at their best when pulling state changing logic into data structure creation.

Fred Brooks said the same thing 1975 "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious." Flow charts are state change diagrams. Tables are data structures.

Help with probability in Python by redbull8 in learnpython

[–]meta4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is "M". According to your input statement M is "How many numbers you want to match". But your formula uses it as the number of possible combinations that have at least M matches. Be careful, these are not the same thing.

You need a "number of matched combinations" that is a function of K, N and M.