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prasadjoglekar
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  1. There's also the unfortunate stick of a much larger parking ticket that is even more trouble to contest.
  2. A combo of your IP, browser fingerprint plus the fact that you logged in somewhere and that links to your actual name etc. Identify you in isolation is not very useful. It's connecting that identity to another place that's valuable.
  3. China, Russia are not members of the ICC for the same reason the US is not. They do not want extra territorial entities applying laws to their citizens and soldiers.
  4. Of course they can. Good luck trying to serve and execute that warrant though.

    And non ICC countries are squarely within their rights to retailiate. Most minor former colonies of the EU countries can't, but the US, China, Russia can.

  5. TLDR: he's a member of the ICC. Issues warrants against Israeli political leaders. Neither Israel nor the USA (nor China, Russia, India) are parties to the international conventions that formed the ICC.

    He's being sanctioned as a result by the USA, which flowed down to US companies who must follow US law.

  6. Sometimes, a visible example does that. I know of numerous people in Mumbai who do servant jobs, whose kids have gone to engineering schools and gotten corporate jobs. This sort of story - 1st in my family to go college - needs to be prominent for a parent to want to aspire to that for their kids.

    Doesn't work for the absolutely destitute of course.

  7. That's what the court is for. Weighing the different arguments and applying precedents
  8. There's a very nice video from Mustard about the Airbus story.

    https://youtu.be/ln-ffJM9sJc

  9. Down the rabbit hole we go.
  10. The MTA operates in more than just NYC, and the governor controls it.

    They raised ticket prices a few weeks ago, fwiw. He has a bully pulpit, but that's about it.

  11. If you buy a PUT, you pay the premium. You'll lose that if your option expires out of the money.

    If you sell a PUT, your exposure is much greater; you're the one who has to pay up if the option ends up in the money.

    The deadline is the date of the option.

    If you do lose money, it's a capital loss (tax benefit) and vice versa for capital gains.

  12. Everything is AI now. Magic fairy dust.
  13. Not quite. If a company is buying back shares, management believes stock is undervalued. The reverse is paying for real assets with stock.

    Some of this is paying for barely useful assets using inflated stock, or with cash borrowed with inflated stock as collateral for the cash.

  14. This is just one example of the logical end state of grossly over prioritizing capital over labor in the economy.
  15. The "in violation of Federal Law" is crucial. You can argue it's only there to cover the admin's ass, but Federal Law (the actual statues) already prohibits any favoritism or discrimination on the basis of skin color etc.

    The prior admin made it so that their chosen DEI programs fit "Federal Law". This admin has done a complete 180. Courts haven't tested any of this yet. It's all a hammer being wielded by the side in power.

  16. This. The quotes I got for a single 2 ton heat pump with a oil backup ranged from $15K to $45K.

    It's insane and really made me look into the DIY installs. Even if I broke 2 of those it would still be cheaper than one professional one.

    Solar install is another scam. All those companies want to steer you into a PPA rather than let you buy panels.

  17. Haha... an inverse Cramer.
  18. Easy, quick sandbox.
  19. It actually might. Older code running in production is almost automatically regression tested with each new fix. It might not be pretty, but it's definitely more reliable for solving real problems.
  20. Sorta. The reason to go thru insurance is to count the money paid against your deductible. If you pay cash outside insurance, it doesn't.

    And if you have an HSA, you have a high deductible plan.

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