in Wyoming electric is not how people primarily heat homes - no one has a heat pump, everyone has a gas furnace or fireplace with electric strips or space heaters as a backup.

Never understood the backwards move Germany and Japan did from Nuclear to NG... i get Fukushima scared people, but if anything it showed how overbuilt these plants where.. Go ahead and do a proper risk review, but the wholesale backwards slide based on fear of the boogie man set the world back many decades....

I was implying that the "gifted" programmers are going to be in the field doing the work regardless of their CS degree status. And most of the ones i know who have a CS degree where working in the field long before they graduated.

The gifted/code savant end of the bell curve you are right, they tend to come with the anti social bits, but a CS degree isn't going to help them - they need people skills, that is a different topic of conversation..

This is the truth - getting a CS degree in this day in age is just aiming at the bottom of the tech job market.. All of the truly gifted programmers i've ever met where working in the field long before they even got to college .

i've seen this - i've never ever understood this.. I have a wife and a kid, and i was on the road 90% of the time before Covid. I barely had enough time to deal with one wife and one kid - i couldn't fathom having a second family... also how on earth do the afford two households?

As a reliability consultant I always get a chuckle out of companies who call apart when their Lean Just in time process has a hic-up.. At its core Lean assumes reliability - but doesn't dictate it, so many organizations put the methodology in on a rickety foundation and that is what turns it into a house of cards.. ensuring supplier diversity and balanced ordering to ensure an N+1 redundancy in availability is core to the reliability of a supply chain, that reliability that Lean depends on being there.. But then if there isn't and advocate for the reliability eventually a Lean process will see the +1 as waste to be cut out, kind of like a logger cutting the branch off a tree he is standing on..

i thought they where back on the Thorium wagon?

i doubt it is "romance" that leads people to devoice but more the lack of recognizing what a partnership in life is.. The social construct of marriage and the social pressures for it are a big part of the problem. People need to understand what being a partner is - and what time an forever means - and then decide, and that never happens..

and the same applies to the couple with 10$ split in 5, or maybe a negative net worth and the fear of taking on the dept themselves

You completely missed my point - that there is a "point" in which trying to stay together for the sake of not loosing money to the other is just someone's greed - and the impact is never good.

Reality is if your unhappy - get out - life is not a game, there are no play throughs - do what makes you happy and enjoy your life.

Also counting blessings is adding a frugal view to something which should be embraced and not expected - counting them implies you are keeping a score - Counting blessings is like the bankers on the steps of the temple.

there's scale here - 1/2 of more than you could ever enjoy becomes a question of how much do you need?

i mean seriously - if you have 100 million - then loosing 50 million doesn't hurt as much as having 100k and loosing 50k....

If your unhappy your unhappy - and having more excess money isn't a reason to remain unhappy.

i understand - the difference there is a reason why i phrased it the way i did with say "a mailing list" plenty of things in the past have been considered pubic, just because you don't know where to look doesn't mean you couldn't have.

just saying - any bad trader with the capitol to significantly short the stock (hedge funds) aren't going to be the ones who get in trouble here, they always have an out.

But what if they are posting it on their site, open to the public? or via a news letter? that would be considered public information and not insider trading.

Now profiting from a criminal act, that's a different story, but would likely be outside the SEC's area of enforcement.

didn't realize the didn't actual franchise.. still rest of the comment stands

They intentionally over roast their beans for two reasons - one any bean, regardless of quality, tastes the same burned - two over roasting ensure the same flavor at the store, which drives consistency in product regardless of the franchise's ability to run their store. This gives them the benefit of consistency across the chain which (surprise is what people want more than quality, McDonalds proved this years ago). and then the added benefit that they can buy low grade beans as an input to their process which controls their COGS ensuring good margins.

So yeah this changes nothing for Starbucks - they will continue to buy low grade beans and over roast them and sell them to people who don't know what good coffee is.

I'm just trying to figure out how news that an EV company has figured out that Batteries are Batteries and can be used more than one way is news worthy....