Not only were they completely wrong with their numbers, they even were wrong in their assessment of Fauci. They said they “are actually seeing the patients, Dr Fauci hasn’t seen a patient in 20 years.”
In 2015, Dr Fauci personally helped take care of an Ebola patient when most of the world was terrified of Ebola.
Shifting left by n bits on a signed or unsigned binary number has the effect of multiplying it by 2^n. Shifting right by n bits on a two's complement signed binary number has the effect of dividing it by 2^n, but it always rounds down (towards negative infinity).
Pretty cool! I use the "Retirement Planner" from Personal Capital (like Mint but for investments)
Some of the notable features are:
- Adding future income events (social security, pension, etc)
- Inflation adjusted.
- Set future spending goals (buying a house, wedding, health care)
- You can also save different simulations and get a percentage chance of hitting that goal. I have one for if Social Security doesn't exist when I retire, another one for early retirement, etc.
I like how this calculator includes fees. Fees are so often overlooked when calculating retirement.
"Lots of people are unknowingly paying 2%, and more, in annual fees. At a low-cost brokerage you can get away with 0.5%. See what a difference that does to your final balance."
Pretty cool! I use the "Retirement Planner" from Personal Capital (like Mint but for investments)
Some of the notable features are:
- Adding future income events (social security, pension, etc)
- Inflation adjusted.
- Set future spending goals (buying a house, wedding, health care)
- You can also save different simulations and get a percentage chance of hitting that goal. I have one for if Social Security doesn't exist when I retire, another one for early retirement, etc.
They have a referral promotion going on right now. You get a $20 Amazon gift card and I receive a $20 Amazon for each referral. I couldn't find the HN rules about referrals so if it's in violation, I'll remove it. https://www.talkable.com/x/v3V09g
Initially I was regretting upgrading as well. Crazy high CPU as a 'kernel_task' which in turn made my machine unusable. It would completely lock up.
I ran 'kexstat' via the terminal to check out what kernel extensions I had that might be causing the issues. The only third party extensions I had were VirtualBox and Avira. Uninstalled Avira and now things are buttery smooth.
One thing that gets overlooked commonly with the the Red Cross is that it is a congressional charter. [1]
According to the charter the purposes of the corporation are:
(1) to provide volunteer aid in time of war to the sick and wounded of the armed forces, in accordance with the spirit and conditions of:
(A) the conference of Geneva of October, 1863;
(B) the treaties of the Red Cross, or the treaties of Geneva, of August 22, 1864, July 27, 1929, and August 12, 1949, to which the United States of America has given its adhesion; and
(C) any other treaty, convention, or protocol similar in purpose to which the United States of America has given or may give its adhesion;
(2) in carrying out the purposes described in clause (1) of this section, to perform all the duties devolved on a national society by each nation that has acceded to any of those treaties, conventions, or protocols;
(3) to act in matters of voluntary relief and in accordance with the military authorities as a medium of communication between the people of the United States and the armed forces of the United States and to act in those matters between similar national societies of governments of other countries through the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Government, the people, and the armed forces of the United States
The problem is that sure we can donate to other organizations but the Red Cross still is in a way a representive of America. And if they are so bad at delivering aid to Haiti; I wonder how effective they are at their other duties. I wonder if congress can revoke their charter? Or force reform? But that seems like an almost impossible task.
I am a big fan of Google Fi. It's $10/GB pretty much everywhere in the world. Really great if you are hopping around to different countries. Also you can get additional data only sims for no charge.
I used T-Mobile for a trip in the past and found it to be pretty frustrating.
There are some skeptics. "Their main concern is that Silvera and Dias really only have one data point: a single measurement of the reflectivity of their sample at high pressure. While that could indicate metallic hydrogen, it could also be something else, like the alumina coating they used on the diamonds to prevent hydrogen from leaking into the crystal and making it brittle."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/samlemonick/2017/01/27/theres-re...
There are even mods to add a better lens. https://hackaday.com/2021/12/19/gameboy-gets-ridiculously-go...