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stock price hit an ath and have been falling since

can someone explain what this means for the general economy? my understanding is that the spread widening is compared against the US treasury bill, and these junk bonds' prices are going down.

as the junk bond prices decreases and the demand for yield increases, this increases the cost of borrowing and can potentially create a ripple effect of defaults.

recent cracks where these these companies issued junk bonds include First Brands, Tricolor, and Saks: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-12/first-bra...

Is this AI writing? What does Hunter Biden have to do with the article?

does anyone know if it still damages the ear at below decibles, let say 80dbs, for long periods of time (10+ hours a day for 3-5 days straight)

Most supplements are garbage. Since they don't actually work, most people would never know if you replaced their magnesium or calcium supplement with chalk. Some supplements do work, but since they're not regulated, they're drowned out by nonsense and noise. OK, so you don't want to be a rube?...you do your research and then piece of shit fitness influencers tell you "ohh...that vitamin you bought form Walgreens or Costco didn't work?...of course not, you need to buy mine...it's CHELATED!!!!! thus is more BIOAVAILBLE...or some other random scientific work which is either incorrectly used or outright fraudulent.

Half of my family spends a huge fortune on supplements, most of which are placebos. If you're young, you may not understand, but for us over 40, life starts to suck, physically. When you're young, your body is very fault-tolerant...have 6 beers and a cheeseburger for supper every day for a week?...nothing a few tums can't fix. Now that I'm over 40, I do everything right (daily exercise, eat healthy, get sleep, etc) and still feel like shit most of the day....same with most my age...thus we're desperate for anything that will make us feel better and not have any side effects that make things worse.

Supplements are the dream and an age-old scam. Maybe punishing big retailers who tolerate fraud will not only reduce false claims, but make the public more aware that so called health experts online are ignorant, scammers, or both.

personal experience..in one of the school systems i went to (grade K-12), i had to pay $2.50 for lunch because my parents had a certain income. $2.5 was still a lot to me, so i rather not eat and felt really bad for using my parent's income. i think about it from ($2.5 * 5 days a week) for a whole school year.

most of my friends didn't have to pay as their parents didn't meet the income threshold. they just have to show a certain ID for school lunch and get a pass.

i remember, i did have some sort of resentment...and the smell of food that my friends ate during lunch even made me more hungry!

Does anyone have insights/thoughts as to the implications of this variant growing as fast as it subsides? Does that mean a new variant will emerge which will be more/less infectious or more/less deadly?

How can bitcoin participate in services/goods which have shrunk?

I'm impressed with the information and detailed discussions about this topic from a gaming forum...

Could someone please expand on the current outrage?

Article did say "The 11-member committee voted nearly unanimously in November that Biogen's drug should not be approved, citing inconclusive evidence that the drug was effective.", but was wondering why the some would think otherwise for the approval.

I work so much that I do not know what to do with my freetime, and become really bored. So I just go back to work. It's a vicious cycle. It's brutal.

A lot of my peers are in a certain age that should be dating. But it's been 1 year now, and there are paranoia and concerns about safety. It's really tiring. Missing out on 2 years of developing a healthy social relationship with other people -- it really is a lost of time in a prime age.

What are waking fantasies? Can you describe that a little more?

From the article:

Bloomberg: You seem optimistic researchers will succeed in coming up with vaccines. How do you assess the prospects and potential risks?

Stohr: The coronavirus is not a particularly difficult virus to handle. Even the conventional vaccines could make a difference, and we have different approaches, vector vaccines, mRNA. That is very promising.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-18/covid-mos...

You change partners, but that usually means it's the same partner working in the same group and so all know each other really well. Also, that doesn't mean anything since the team can stay the same. Partners would question the work and can look at it, but rarely any partner would bother to go into the bank statement and make sure the work is tied out. They are too "above" that. That responsibility falls onto the senior and managers, and in many instances incompetence or laziness from those staff will let things go through. It's very tedious work, and it's annoying to do the same thing for 8+ hours a day for a month or two. In the end, the team just want things to tie out, and make whatever documentation is necessary to make sense of things. No need to upset the client or partner and lose the potential business.

I can come up with a few things: managing the calendar ,sending emails printing, scanning, mailing buying lunch, handling documentation e-signatures

"...life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

It's why saving lives are the most important, even at the expense of liberty and your happiness. Without life, the other two wouldn't exist.

Can someone enlightenment why opening your windows or just general walking in the public, observing social distancing, is safe from lingering viruses in the air?

Wouldn't we just breathe those virus in the air if we kept our windows opened or walking by a person who was infected?

Do you have an alternative link for hog prices? The graph and prices are blocked by adblock or noscript.

I'm looking at this for hog prices: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lean-hogs - does this reflect the pork prices you are describing about?

I want to point out that a lot of these valuations are signed off by well-known accounting firms, valuation firms, and consulting firms. If it's really one big conspiracy to prop up valuations via recent financing, loans, or market comparables, then wouldn't one of these parties call it out (well, inherently a lot of these are paid by organizations to do their valuations, so true independence is a question here).

Additionally, corporate management theoretically exercise due diligence, along with the valuation committees and the board looking into the reasonableness of the models and associated inputs and outputs. It would be awkward to say that these valuations are wrong with so many people having their inputs.

Does anyone know how to bypass Bloomberg's paywall?

I hate office google products. My work place uses it.

Google Driver File Stream is slower than share drive, along with it always "streaming" in the background. VPNing makes it even worse.

Can't use hotkeys in Google Sheets, and there are limited functions to it as well. I hate clicking when using Excel all day.

Chrome is slow and bloated. Sites sometimes don't render properly.

GMail is slow, and its UI isn't making things better. Notifications do not always appear, and missing a scheduled meeting/call can be embarrassing or make you look irresponsible -- and looking at long email threads can get confusing.

GChat/Hangouts or whatever it's called runs within the browser, which I entirely dislike because it takes up a fraction of what you're looking it -- so I just end up using the hangouts software.

The whole GSuite thing is only good for collaborative purposes. But it slows down the PC so GODDAMN much that it brings inefficiencies and headache. I really wished the employer didn't go Google and chose an alternative.

It is unlikely that I will uninstall it. It's a great way to talk/connect with friends within the US and outside the US. The ease of making a group chat and and group event surpasses a lot of the all-in-one apps, as if there are any, when there are greater than 5 participants.

With privacy in mind, the content you disclose is optional, and you can manage those content that you do disclose to see who can view them. I do not see how location tracking is a concern, and there is an option of not allowing FB to obtain your number and contact list.

For me the convenience surpasses the privacy given up, and I'll continue using it as long as my friends do.

How does one actually invest into these startups? Are there requirements? It doesn't look like google is much help here.

Here's one of the most recent take from Chairman Jay Clayton for ICOs not following state and federal securities law:

applaud our fellow regulators in the United States and Canada who are coordinating and participating in efforts to police fraud in the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) markets. These state and provincial regulators play a critical role in protecting Main Street investors.

When investors are offered and sold securities, whether through traditional channels or through an ICO on a sales-oriented website, state and federal securities laws apply. These laws have applied to our securities markets for over 80 years. At their core, these laws require full and fair disclosures of material information about both the securities and the venture being funded. Unfortunately, some market participants seem to believe that the use of new technology provides a basis for ignoring the core principles of our securities laws. In the United States, we have built a $19 trillion dollar economy by facilitating investments in our public and private capital markets through our disclosure-based approach to regulation. Certainly there are improvements that can be made to our regulatory system. There always are and we are pursuing various initiatives to increase efficiency and enhance investor protection. But there is absolutely no case for abandoning our core principles. I know NASAA shares this view.

source: https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/statement-nasaas-a...

I agree. Less is more. The less you have, the more happier you are -- you spend time more on what counts.

Thanks, so from my reading of this, this certificate had no functions of an actual root certificate and thus having MITM or other attack vectors aren't possible.

As a non-techie, can someone expand the reddit post below, and why each individual's person private key is thought to be secured? Is the private key like a super password?

This is very concerning. The implication of this is super super dangerous. If anyone gets hold of the private key (which I sure hope is secure, but I'm not holding my breath), they can snoop on all of your traffic, and steal your password and credit card numbers. Usual Root CAs (Commodo, etc...) are held to very very very high standards in how securly they store their private key because of just how bad it is for it to leak. They are forced to undergo a very thorough audit process before being trusted. But since blizzard is not an official CA, they don't have to undergo the same process, even though a failure would be equally disastrous.

There is no valid reason whatsoever to install a Root CA here. What blizzard is doing is simply wrong, from a technical and ethical perspective. From what I understand, it is used to implement facebook login. There are other, better ways to do this. They could use an embedded browser instead of the default browser. They could use http instead of https (the url should be local anyway, and as such, secure). They could have registered a Custom URI scheme. The alternative, secure solutions are plenty.

Furthermore, Battle.net is failing in other ways. Everyone that has battle.net has a permanent server on localhost:22885. From what I gather, this is what they use to implement the facebook login, but the server is always on, instead of being only enabled when facebook login is actually in use. This is another big can of worm. We've seen previously that such things can lead to Remote Code Execution (basically a very convenient way to spread viruses) because any browser can make connections to it.

Blizzard needs to fix this shit now.

So far what I've done under my Windows 7 machine is to placed the certificate under "Untrusted Certificates" and under properties, turned on "Disable all purposes for this certificate". Are there any other measures that I should take to completely prevent this certificate from causing potential harm?

This happened to me.

1. I believe it began with the hacker getting DOB/SSN. 2. Called wireless provider, and hacker forward all calls and texts to a burn phone. Eventually, the hacker ported my wireless phone to another provider/number (not sure which), and the phone registered to my provider did not work anymore. The landline phone was also forwarding calls to another number.* 3. Hacker gained access to email (as that email was also within the telco's site). At the beginning, the hacker did not reset the password. After I changed the email's password, hacker was still gaining access to our emails and he/she eventually reset the email blocking my access. (reason was all the text and calls was forwarding to his/her burn phone so he/she can reset the pass anytime) 5. Requested 2FA from bank. 6. Gained access to bank account.

This was over a course of 3 months. It was a nightmare to resolve and paranoia still remained. The hacker later on went opening several bank accounts. Fortunately, this was discovered early. The entire situation was communicated to the FBI, local police, and bank institutions, but I do not think anyone cared.

*I saw two numbers that were being used within my wireless account site to forward the calls.

What's wrong with keeping the proceeds in China?