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Research grants, laboratories, partnerships. Government funding of universities are usually not handouts but investments.

For example:

| Sarah Fortune, a professor and chair of the department of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, woke up Tuesday to a stop-work order for a large contract focused on unraveling how the immune system fights tuberculosis, with the goal of creating better detection and vaccines.

> The observations also provided a tentative hint of dimethyl sulfide (DMS), a possible biosignature gas, but the inference was of low statistical significance.

From the source paper. It is a very important result but not definitive, false positive is still possible as well as us finding a new way in which DMS can form without a biological process.

Still freaking exciting and fantastic scientific achievement. JWST is already bearing incredible fruits.

I would agree if it was not a response to a similar argument about pumping money into alternative. So its consistent to that.

The government does not have all that right tho. First amendment and all.

I would invite you to read the government letter if you have not, but look at each demand and put yourself in the position of the recently affected but also try to see if you can hold a "controversial" view of the world that should be fine but would be put in danger by these demands: https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...

Civil rights, suffrage, they were all the controversial opinion at some point. Some people still argue that they are but anyone against those can go pound sand.

No need for that. There is more than enough money being funnelled into defense to fund Harvard + everything else you can think of and still have the largest defense spending in the world.

Arguing that Harvard gets too much while ignoring 99% of the budget is not a reasonable stance.

This one I believe is not the collectible one. I think is the marketing one. Is the concept car of watch world. The LaFerrari that makes people buy the expensive but cheaper Purosangue.

Everyone will see and praise how good you are. The elite swordmakers of royalty did not think their elaborate swords would see battle, they knew it was a show piece. The point was not the use, was the position and recognition it brought you.

More than half of the watch world does not appreciate the engineering. They appreciate the exclusivity.

The engineering and craft is beyond reproach, beautiful, involved, unique.

The market in which it needs to exist is exclusive, arrogant and elitist. So there is a bittersweet response to it. Makes me think of Royal arts of the past, made to adorn the palaces and display wealth. beautiful, but they're better now at museums. I believe this watch shall too.

And there is even more games! https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/oegames/

exactly is not like a president can override congress powers and be able to dismantle agencies or set tariffs for example. everyone will trust the stability of the policies then.

I assume the game is meant to be played with the knowledge of some supplementary course and material.

the coordinates seem to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Grid_Reference_System

Their capital was named after a Texas city, no?

Executive orders are not laws, they're fancy memos. Puerto Rico is in the US btw where the official language is also Spanish.

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

> On March 1, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14224 to symbolically designate English as the official language of the United States for the first time.[2][23] The U.S. Congress has never passed legislation declaring an official language at the federal level,[24][25] but English is typically used by the federal government and in states that do not have an official language.

Emergency services are supposed to be for everyone in your country. Now its easy to narrow down just to citizens or residents but the US will have at all times a large quantity of visitors who are not expected to speak english I would suppose. If you get an emergency alert or message related to safety of a particular area it is in the best interest of society in general for that message to be understood by everyone in that area.

There is very little reason why a Business would prefer cash other than have some freedom in how it's reported. This is considering how much of a hassle and risk is involved in having large sums.

There is even less reason why a person would, most people in regular jobs get paid via bank accounts (Brazil even have a special kind with no fees for it). Now informal (non registered and non tax paying) employment is cash heavy: house cleaning, small repairs, produce vendors, etc.

I don't even think is criminal, it's kinda Business as usual in Brazil.

Money usage fell in Brazil, pix is the most used method, 37% of the workers are informal (no formal labour contract). They would mostly not be required to even report because of low income, the evasion in this case is being done by the employer, where they don't pay labour and the social security equivalent.

Is he removing a veil or merely understanding another aspect the implementers of the change do not grasp.

I have serious doubt that anyone currently running the US have much capacity to understand the impact of their actions that much.

This is misleading and borderline false.

Most people don't have to do much during tax season nor keep any receipts. You download the declarations of your bank, receive one from your work. Fill them out on a free software and you're done in 15min.

Only gets somewhat complicated If you have lots of deductibles and you have to prove them, that's the same everywhere.

I believe it's more related to economic crisis and informal work (tax evasion). Brazil is very cashless for normal transactions.

The appeal is to replace workers by using a generic platform, that when mass produced, costs less and don't require retooling. One human commodity for a mechanical one.

1. Yes and No. I assume Wise or another will offer this at some point with better conditions. A vendor called recarga pay offer this already but charges 4% on transactions. 2. yes, and it is used a lot.

The pix revolution is for very small business: food stalls, mom and pop shops, seasonal sellers, street vendors, independent and informal professionals (plumbers, electricians, etc).

Brazil adopted banking cards very fast and I remember using them virtually everywhere in debit or credit mode as early as my first card in 2008, I never had to carry money around. But they require two things that are a problem in a Brazil sized country with a Brazil density and infra structure: cell coverage and equipment. So small towns, small shops, independent professionals, etc would not have them or even be able to use them sometimes. Even today there are lots of places with internet but not cell coverage (radio, fiberglass or other infra but no cell tower).

This was changing on its own recently, many companies launched new machines that are cheaper and allow more small vendors to accept cards (+ working over the internet). This is still worse than the free approach of pix (for normal people) and a potentially lower fee for companies. Plus it allows people to buy with something they will have on them way more than their wallet, their phones.

I was in Brazil last week and I had to use pix only a few times to pay: parking (beach lot), tire fix (very small shop on the road) and thats it, everywhere else I used my credit card. Even though they accept pix, its not that huge of a difference for traditional business as far as I can tell, the payment terminal will also facilite pix transactions.

ps. you can tap and pay with pix too! https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/14615541

Pix does not substantially changes the tax evasion problem as that is mostly a problem with higher earners and small/medium business who evade tax using cash payment, convoluted setups of companies and "laranjas" (our slang for someone borrowing the name to do something for someone else, the scapegoat) as well as "non cash" transactions.

Pix mostly replaces and eats on credit card transactions that were done for the convenience aspect and no the credit aspect. As well as allow a whole new part of the country to accept electronic payments, and although that would increase tax revenue from business it also substantially increase their revenue since there is no x% from card processors and don't require special rented/bought equipment.

A lot of governments have that ability for electronic transactions. In Brazils case specifically it was implemented as a payment broker between institutions that participate in the SPI (instantaneous payment system) and works pretty much like any other inter bank transfer system. It is also possible to use the system semi-anonymously by using a "non bank" participant that will broker the transaction for you using random keys. Which would mean not even your bank account no gets exposed, because its not used.

As far as I can tell the legal landscape of the solution currently only allow the actual government to look at the data with the standard court orders. I believe not even the 10k report limit is applied to pix atm the same way as the other methods.

Regarding fake transactions, that would be a non concern to me, the system is only centralised in parts, the banks still hold most of the data so they would have to collaborate on this potentially leaving lots of evidence behind. Governments do not need to be subtle to screw you over, see current US deportation news.

Its not that much different than how bank transfers in Europe work in practice. The US is particularly archaic in banking technology available to the public.

The Steam Deck does a good job of running games offline. The mix bag will be the online style cash grabs from Ubisoft and EA but most work too.

DRM is a thing we have to live with but valve does a decent job of making it invisible when it's theirs. The ones that suck the most are the aforementioned studios which roll their own on top.

It's not like the open source engines won't be worked on. Or other companies who are not ad companies (apple, etc)

Browsers will not stop existing because google cannot make one. At worse google would donate to a non profit that keeps the engine and do the influencing under the rug.

He did say it was the best guess. Not that it was accurate by any means.

Someday at the office:

What do you mean our auto scaling strategy stopped working when we switched to Office 360?

I remember de people graph search when no privacy settings really existed and people kept complete and updated profiles. It was the ultimate stalker took. Absolute batshit crazy that it existed even for the short time it did.

Not a single quantum in there. Could be even more advanced!

ouch, I am certain some people did the same for nokia against android/apple :P