He used to win these market timing games because no one was paying attention to huge short positions. You could quietly bet against a company, or, better yet, you could quietly amass a short position and then release stunning negative news that you had uncovered and watch the stock price tank.

These days it is more likely that online investors will notice a large short, and drive the price of the stock up until the person holding the short gets margin called and loses all of their money. The shorters then provide the liquidity you need to get out of the position. There used to be good money in shorting terrible companies, but in an age where hordes of armchair investors can drive the price of GameStop to the moon that strategy is just too risky.

The U.S. rarely attacks or occupies those that didn't recently attack someone.

I mean, the most recent war with Iraq was something of a stretch, though there was at least some justification because of Iraq not holding up its end of international agreements regarding their nuclear program, which were made at least in part in response to Iraq attacking Kuwait just over a decade earlier. Otherwise, it's pretty much peacekeeping actions in response to U.N. decisions, helping out neighboring countries whose leaders ask, etc.

And when we say "keeps alternate parties off ballots", we don't mean "keeps alternate parties off ballots unless they can get at least n% of eligible voters to sign a petition. In the U.S., any party can get on the ballot, including those who just list one of the major party candidates as their candidate (yes, this is weird) just by getting enough signatures. If you can't get that many signatures, you were never going to win anyway, and all you can do is cause less desirable candidates to win by drawing votes from more desirable candidates.

Mind you, we've evolved into a two-party system that basically gives third parties little chance of actually winning any major election, which is, at least in part, a flaw in the way we do vote counting, but that doesn't prevent them from being on the ballot.

So why is Marriott the one telling them that they have to vacate? That kind of notification should be coming from the property owner or Sonder. And more to the point, it shouldn't matter if Marriott cancels their contract with Sonder, because Sonder got paid already, or should have.

Actually, it does. In fact, that's possibly way worse, because unless they kicked you out to an outside website, Marriott literally took a payment from you.

None of this makes the slightest bit of sense. Either Marriott took the payment, in which case they are duty-bound to fulfill or reverse payment, and in the case where this causes severe harm, are liable for damages from that harm, or Sonder took the payment, in which case Marriott's contract cancellation with Sonder shouldn't affect your stay.

Yeah, you missed the part where I said that doing it with an iPad would be impractical because you'd have to find a way to synchronize two of them. :-)

Sorry, slightly off. I think it's actually 24". It's about the size of two 8.5x11 sheets of paper, and it is widescreen aspect ratio, so it ends up being pretty much the same size as two 13" iPad Pro tablets side by side, with a little extra unused width.

• I've burned out more micro-SD cards than I can count by overuse.
• The micro-SD card contacts are a point of failure when equipment gets moved around. And concert day is exactly when you don't want things to go wrong.
• We'd have to manually sync things like PDF annotations between the micro-SD card and the backup, because there's no network at the rehearsal building.

There's just no way in h*** that I'd trust something that boots off an SD card, much less micro-SD, when a failure would be catastrophic. Way too much risk, all of it concentrated on a day when people are rushing as hard as they can to get things set up in under three hours before the concert starts.

I'd much rather have a generic Android tablet for something like that than a pre-built setup or a custom-built setup. It has pretty much the same advantages as the Pi in terms of being able to write software for it or whatever, but likely fewer opportunities for things to go wrong, because the storage is self-contained.

Just my $0.02.

"Because what use do you have for cash at home?"

Allowance for the kid. Pay the babysitter. Pay the guy who just painted your fence. Repay your sister for the birthday card you gave your elderly mother.

Etc.

... their *revenue* was $38B. And they were operating at a loss.

"She left and took the kids,
      Klingons repossessed my car,
        Mah dog died
            And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too"
      Down to Seeds and Stems, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet
                  Airmen

What the hell are you doing on /.? This is "news for nerds", and you're clearly an ignorant idiot.

Go look up "Atlantic Current", and see what it does, and the effect it has on US, Iceland, Greenland, and northern Europe (and the UK and Ireland).

It needs to be inconvenient and convoluted enough that clueless users can't be tricked into doing it via phishing.

False. It's the Dancing Pigs problem.

As long as there's a method, someone will write instructions that people will follow. And malware actors will hijack whatever method to install ransomware. You can bet one step will have people running command line commands and there was that ransomware installed via the command line.

The urge to get pirated apps will drive people to whatever the method is. There will be dozens of easy to follow tutorials, videos, and other things. The only saving grace might be the chance for AI assistants to screw it up completely and wipe people's computers when they try.

Well, better than Hyundai did, where the whole MAGA "oh noes immigrants" overrodw the whole "Made in America" and handcuffed, detained and locked up a bunch of South Koreans in those miserable ICE facilities to the point every one of them filed human rights violations. It took South Korean diplomats a week to get them back.

I'm guessing by the time Trump took over Toyota had sent back all its workers and it's up to the locals to operate the plant, so they got lucky. Chances are though the Japanese engineers that were providing supervision likely left out of caution.

So the plant is there, it's able to make batteries, but it's likely not running at full capacity because the expertise needed to do so doesn't dare enter the US. (Especially after what happened to South Korea).

Though, it's not likely to be an issue, since EV sales have tanked, so it might be too late.

And clearly, that robot had been trained on vodka-soaked Russians...

Take long for them to start exporting the surplus?? It's already started.

Pretty much Samsung and Xiaomi are the only ones that don't seem to be utter garbage. All the rest seem to compromise in quality in many areas.

Yeah we do the same in australia. Its fine. It was the 1980s when we did it, and I remember being a bit bummed out the 2c lollies wouldnt be a thing no more, but I figured I'm a teenager now and probably should be eating something more substantial than 2c lollies from the delicatesan. (although Im sure my mother was relieved, sweet things where banned in the house except for special occasions, but she couldnt control what me and my brother did outside the house)