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Buy based on quality, but you have to be willing to pay for it.

From what I understand only about 2 billion of the 70 billion tons are economically extractable.

The worst aspect of this game is the tedious inventory management and awful UI. You only get 10 storage crates which each only hold 5 different items and they all look identical so you have to run around trying to find the right one to add it to the right stack. There's not enough space to be able to store most items especially if you need intermediate items for crafting, even if you limit yourself to storing only one stack of one type of item. You end up using all the exocraft just for storage and never use most of them besides only for storage. Progression is largely centered around buying extra storage slots for your exoskeleton which ends up allowing you to carry more stuff on your body than you can on a large vehicle or in one of these giant storage crates that barely hold anything. The item icons are also unnecessarily huge in them and there isn't an easy or efficient way of interacting with them. The big storage cubes allow you to access the inventory from anywhere so that somehow justifies the very limited space, but there is no option for building a container that you can only access locally from inside a base other than building portable refiners to abuse as storage, which hold hardly anything and sometimes despawn randomly. So you end up building like 50 refiners in a base for storage and you constantly run around trying to remember what each one holds so you can go store something in an existing stack to save space.

For Berkshire in particular most of this cash is part of the float for their insurance business which they need to have on hand and available to pay out for potential claims and they will only ever keep that part of the float in cash equivalents. Still they have a large amount of cash beyond what they need for the float which they attribute to lack of opportunities to invest in given their immense size and investing style. They also want to be able to be in a strong position in a downturn or crisis situation. Hoarding all that excess cash still presents a major opportunity cost for them, although now not as much as before with higher interest rates.

Because it has low solubility it will be less toxic compared to a more soluble form of lead, but it is still highly toxic and there is no safe dose. It has been implicated in numerous documented cases of lead poisoning from adulterated turmeric and you wouldn't want to be consuming it.

We need to abolish the TSA already

What about these seat belts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysvyXDebsM

Another system similar to this but with more information is STAR voting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_voting

They all have different strengths and weaknesses. We should be trying to move to more optimal systems.

There's more than two parties. Nobody is forcing you to vote for one of them. Parties are also an anti-pattern. Again we need a better system than first past the post that naturally biases towards a two party system.

Why does everyone keep reelecting them? Vote for someone else. We also need a better voting system than first past the post.

I keep JS disabled by default and only enable it in certain situations. If your site doesn't work without JS and I try to view it I am probably just going to leave.

Sub Saharan Africa is still mostly in this situation and much less productive in farming than most other parts of the world. They are slowly improving but they lack the capital to invest in more productive methods. If they could improve their efficiency it would probably lift a lot of people out of poverty.

Also nonce misuse is a common failure mode among novices who might not understand what a nonce is supposed to be. People do all kinds of mistakes including using hardcoded static nonces. Its also fairly easy to come up with a bad protocol where someone can trick you into nonce reuse. Or there is a complicated error path that might involve a device going through reset where a nonce reuse might occur. Some of these are not so trivial to identify either.

If only there was a way to do direct air carbon capture for the home and office with high CO2 concentrations to lower them economically

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/start-up-wants-to-do...

I wonder how this compares to the cost of properly ventilating in an non ideal climate for ventilation. My guess is that it is way more expensive

I got a 4A recently (2 yrs ago now?) since it is supported by grapheneOS. My previous phone lasted 13 years, I intend to use this almost as long, or until there is a major hardware failure(failure with mainboard - not battery or screen or fixable issue). Next one might be a pinephone or fairphone if it is any good by then.

After a few decades of inflation from now that will be a much more common occurrence and the laws will probably never be updated to reflect that.

The limiting factors for superconductors in fusion power generation efficiency is the strength of the magnetic field they can generate which is limited by how much force the superconductor can withstand since the strong magnetic field induces enormous forces on the material. It also requires very high currents. This material seems fragile and can carry very little current.

It is open access though, and linked at the bottom of the article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02318-3

It is highly dependent on make/model but most of the time the data is transmitted through the telematic control unit (TCU) which often has a cellular modem that can connect to cellular networks and you might be able to remove or disable/cut power to the TCU.

There can also be other devices similar to a black box in the vehicle which record data and store it in case of a crash for forensic purposes. I would leave these alone as long as they don't have network connectivity.

This is what I think about most when buying a car. This is why I plan on keeping my current car for as long as possible since it was one of the last Toyotas to not be connected to anything.

Yes that too. It also has some of the best quality companies which accounts for a lot of it, but even then it is still pretty extreme.

What was also interesting and caused some issues was when Naspers owned ~1/3 of Tencent when at its peak was valued over $800 billion and their stake was worth more than the entire GDP of South Africa causing them to basically dwarf the rest of the Johannesburg exchange.

That helps illustrate that a lot of US equities are relatively overvalued. Very high valuations and relatively low risk premiums for US equities.

If your doctor prescribed you that then that is fine you should follow your doctor's advice. They might have specific reasons for the high dose.

I was once prescribed a 50k dose by my doctor but had very noticeable negative effects and I know that was far too high for me.

The recommended daily allowance is like 400 and that should cover the needs of most people. If you are deficient then you probably want quite a bit more than that until you get back to normal. The safe upper limit is 4000 /day so I would probably try to stick to doses below that. If you take 2000 per day that should be well within the safe range, and even if you take 2000 on as few as 2 days/week that probably covers your needs. Some individuals might have trouble absorbing it and might need higher doses though.

20,000 is way too high even though you are doing only once/week. 2000 or less daily is more appropriate.

Doses that are too high can also cause blood calcium to spike and can pull it out of bones and deposit into soft tissue.

>When you're logged in, the Get Minecraft button... also encourages you to buy the game again, instead of taking you to the download page

Did a fresh install on Windows 10 this weekend since, you know, I had to upgrade to Win 10 since Microsoft dropped support for Win 8 earlier this year and hadn't installed MC on it yet. I spent probably about 10 minutes trying to find the download page through the site before finally clicking log in to find it.

Then I ran the installer and after the installation finished I logged in but gave me an error something about that I wasn't logged into Windows Store or something. I've never run or logged into Windows Store and intend to never do that. I don't even think I have it installed right now. I tried finding a workaround for another 10 minutes before copying over an old installer from 2017 I had saved somewhere and that installer just worked flawlessly. I've now made a backup of that installer for long term use and just plan on using that one from now on...

I think it would be prudent to download and archive older versions of the game, especially ones that let you run it offline, for long term use before they take those down, as well as older installers and install them in a container/image/VM as a backup. Just be careful running old versions of the server with vulnerabilities like log4j etc. Of course you can also run cracked versions but there's no real need when you already have access to these if you don't care about having the latest updates to MC and you already own those older versions if you had the Mojang account.

>so many of you are already enjoying benefits

Not enjoying it at all. I just want to use the Mojang account. Haven't used a single 'feature' of the Microsoft account that wasn't on the Mojang account.

Beware when migrating, Microsoft will lock you out of your migrated account on first or second use and the only way to get it to unlock it is to receive an SMS... except it rejects a large proportion of SMS numbers. When I first migrated it worked the first day and the next time I logged in they locked me out of the account for no reason (I also only logged in from the same computer both times from the same IP address so not like there was any suspicious activity...). This has also been reported by many users. I spent about half a day trying to find an SMS service that I could use to unlock the account and none of them worked. As a security engineer, I find this to be a poor design pattern -- don't require or assume the user has access to SMS, or even a cell phone, or even any phone (even though I did, wanted to avoid using my personal SIM for it), although allowing the option of 2FA through a phone is still a good practice. Also allow users to use older insecure options if they really want to as long as the risks are made really clear (but don't make it the default either).

edit: Looked at the original email when buying it from Mojang a decade ago and amazingly the links to download the launcher still work:

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/launcher/Minecraft.exe (Windows)
    https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/launcher/Minecraft.zip (Mac OS X)
    https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/launcher/minecraft.jar (Linux)

At least I have chicken

It all seems a lot like Second Life or Active Worlds and feels like this has all been tried before. Look at where all those types of games are now.

The probability of a bubble nucleation from false vacuum decay[1] is astronomically low, but the probability that it has already happened is still non-zero. If it did happen we would never know, but if it reached us then we would all be destroyed in an instant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay

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