I too live in Nevada County. While I largely agree with the claim that most people recognize and respect the safety implications, most years I still see (or hear) illegal fireworks. It’s clearly the odd individual doing it and not the majority of people, but the asymmetric risk they impose is a real bummer and I would love to see more/better enforcement of the restrictions on such individuals.
Per Apple’s rules, app developers are not allowed to explain the App Store rules and pricing models within their apps, leaving customers in the dark - a form of censorship, to be sure.
I found this notable because it's the first time I've received a push notification in the U.S. about an earthquake, which I received about 10 seconds before the shaking started.
This reminds me of a question I’ve had for a while, and have not been able to formulate it well enough to do any searching for an answer on my own (total layman here).
Do we have any hypotheses of what the matter inside a black hole might be like? I mean “hypotheses” in a strict sense; I do not mean “a good/definitive answer”
To oversimplify a bit: white dwarves are supported by electron degeneracy pressure, and if such pressure is exceeded by gravity then e.g. a neutron star can form. Neutron stars are supported by neutron degeneracy pressure, and if such pressure is exceeded by gravity then a black hole can form.
For each of those “steps” we have an idea of what the matter within must be like to support/exceed such pressures. Are there any hypotheses for what the matter might be like after such known pressures are exceeded and a black hole is formed?
Then this leads me to wonder if interest rates are too coarse-grained for what would have helped folks the most. I don’t know what would have been a finer-grained approach, but universally lowering interest rates had a huge effect on other areas (like home purchases) which were not in dire straights like “keeping food on the table and a roof over their heads”
Phrasing like “2023 tax year” typically means for taxes paid in 2023 (i.e. your return will be due in 2024 with any concomitant payment/refund). So this won’t take effect for another year, basically.
One thing that still confuses me is that brokers/agents are very common, or practically a requirement, in other areas but not at all in vehicle shopping. I would definitely pay a handsome fee to a broker to just absorb all the shopping/haggling pain, to cut through all the BS, on my behalf.
I have tried this once with one of the very few brokers I could find, and it was definitely better but it was obvious there were several areas of the experience that could be massively improved. I chalked it up at the time to a lack of competition between brokers, since there really aren’t many.