Like I said, gambling. And states are noticing and not liking it. Note AZ just filed criminal charges. https://finance.yahoo.com/news... May go nowhere, but they are noticing and given the likability factor for the polymarkets, I expect them to be killed.

It is gambling. I'm thinking if the IRS doesn't already, they are going to want an SS tied to the account. They already are pushing towards any crypto gains, and the real casinos do rat you out on a big win to the IRS.

Maybe they could just turn over to interpol the identities of every last one that made a bet on this. Then the table will turn and whoever is threatening the poor journalist will be the one threatened. And really don't care about the collateral damage to the ones not harassing the guy. Just making the bet says you deserve some harassment.

Agree, the pio/pocos are awesome. I've only got two things I'd like to see in the PIO's in my perfect world. The jmp pin allow more than one pin to key off of. Impossible of course, no bits left in the instruction for it. And second a command to set an async jmp on pin. IE branch to label X if pin goes high/low anytime. I find if I use the pico as a slave spi device, noise can sometimes mean a clock is lost and it may mean a second sample is lost as I recover. If the pio could detect CS going high and abort the transaction, would be nice. Again, in my perfect world. Lastly, in my perfect world, re-allocate the silicon for the hardware spi to another pio. The pio's do spi better than the spi.

I find the pico2 in particular an insane value. Less the a starbuck's coffee and packed with processing at very little power. I think I measured less than 40ma at full tilt. And boot times are practically instant.

He is not wrong to care about oil prices. For most here, I expect gas prices are just not budget busters. His followers though on the lower end of the income scale care a great deal. I grew up fairly poor and so am ingrained to notice gas prices. I've friends that can't even tell you the price. So gas prices going up forebode a very bad midterm for him, and he knows it. It is why he is willing to literally bet the country on playing the futures market for oil in an attempt to push down prices, and why he tapped the strategic reserves so early. Recall how he bitched about Biden doing exactly the same thing. Reserves after this tap will be at their lowest point since the early 80's, when they were created.

Really I am beginning to believe he has just gone mad with power. VZ, Iran and now Cuba on the radar. Not to mention the Greenland thing, the Canada thing, ... These are the actions of a madman.

Well the fcc has already gone after mainstream media for reporting on some refueling jets being hit over SA I guess today or last night. Trump is calling it false, but I imagine it DID happen. The D's gave fox a pass while they were in office. Trump is not giving everyone else any room while he is the diktator. Kimmel and other late night hosts who are not even bound by "news" requirements have been hit by the don already. CBS particularly with their desire for that merger bent the knee way down.

The latest thing I've heard though is very concerning. Rumors are starting that the white house may start playing in the oil futures market to try to push down prices using treasury money. As a few have postulated, the oil futures market is absolutely huge, and big enough to hit the US Treasury if they do a bad bet. All because the orange one somehow thought Iran was going to be easy. Stupid, absolutely stupid. And guess who is gonna get the bill, you and me.

Side effect from the LNG hit. Clever method, I knew Nat Gas had helium in it and I guess they cool it a bit more to get helium separated out during the cooling of the nat gas to go liquid. US still in the LNG biz, so I imagine they are also doing a helium extraction. As slashbotagent says, prices about to sky rocket. Great, another memory price increase incoming.

Thanks for mentioning that. Here is a reference explaining it. https://www.afpm.org/newsroom/...

Citation? I'm not seeing that number. https://lowcarbonpower.org/reg... says 25% Nat Gas and https://www.energy.ca.gov/data... says 34% Nat Gas. Figures are a bit tricky for Cal, it imports around 19% of total usage.

I'm sure they will immediately send her payment. /sarcasm

I hope she opts to sue the pants off of them. Unfortunately, likely not, as the lawyer would cost more than the settlement even if she prevails.

GFiber has done the trenching in my neighborhood but not the actual buildout. I've heard usually 6 months. ATT has been steadily raising prices to the point I was going to dump them when GFiber was available. Now what? I was hoping to get the base GFiber speed which I thought had not changed price for quite some time and google sort of pinky swear'ed they'd hold the price. I am one of those rare people who have had a T-Mo cell plan that really has stayed price locked for 20 years. It was guaranteed at the time I signed up and true to their word, they have not changed it. They've tried to get me to switch to other plans, but as one guy in one of their stores said, never switch, and I've no intention to.

Can't say I'm that surprised about google dumping it. Google likes high margin stuff and I doubt being an ISP qualifies. I was surprised they even got in the biz. I guess snooping packets wasn't as valuable as they thought it was going to be.

That could end up being a problem for Apple. If the neo has high sales, to a largely illiterate audience, that then swamps the stores for help. Its a problem. Low margin is not going to pay for the support and will show up as either Apple support has gotten worse (bad for Apple's image) or profits because Apple had to hire more support staff without supporting profit from the neo sales.

This sounds like a non-trivial case with some big bucks. I'd bet his lawyers told him repeatedly, discuss this with no one. Anyone outside of the lawyer is NOT attorney/client privileged. And so what does the fool do? Talks to a chatbot that everyone knows shares. Right there in the ToS. I've had a few peanuts cases compared to this and even I was told speak to no one.

Loose lips sink ships or in this case, his case.

Insurance like that is usually only liability. Collision/comprehensive will be more.

Cost saving from what I understand. Looking a bit stupid in retrospect. A friend of a friend raced a nice sailboat in the 80's that had a system. A roommate in college had a plane with lots of cool radios/navigation stuff. GPS has probably obsoleted many of those systems too, like I think it was called VOR's.