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Note that you should never buy raw cells from Amazon. They are always fake or under-spec. At the very least, this seller claims "Multiple Protections" when this is a fully unprotected cell.

Distributors usually won't sell to regular consumers, but there are specialized retailers who base their reputation on selling quality goods, usually to the RC, flashlight, and vape market.


FWIW, this is definitely the opinion among Ego tool users on reddit. The aftermarket stuff comes with a discount and the possibility of a free surprise inside every box.

The Flameshot screenshot tool uses an interesting variant of pixelation that does protect the text from unredaction: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/commit/533a1b7d55...

> Since pixelation does not protect the contents of the pixelated area (see e.g. https://github.com/bishopfox/unredacter), _pseudo-pixelation_ is used:

> Only colors from the fringe of the selected area are used to generate a pixelation-like effect. The interior of the selected area is not used as an input at all and hence can not be recovered.

The edges of the pixelated area are used the generate a color palette, and then each pixel is generated by randomly sampling from that pallete's gradient.


The two recent examples I can think of are the Gaza ceasefire, as well as the general concept (and not actual implementation) of re-industrializing the USA in the context of China's dominance.


"re-industrializing the USA"

Call me when the party starts. Many of the decisions this administration has made are having the opposite impact. The re-industrialization of the US (what little bit of it there is) is in spite of the trump administration, not because of it.


Well, people are still dying despite the ceasefire and the reindustrialization seems mostly to build data centers. What parts of these do you think are good?


Has there actually been a ceasefire in practice? People are still dying, guns are still being fired afaik. And the broader plan does not instill confidence with Tony Blair proposed as a technocratic leader of the area


I don't know. It's tragic but unfortunately not surprising there is still fighting.

My recollection is that during the early, and perhaps overly hopeful, days, left-leaning media avoided saying Trump's name when reporting on it.


Of course I have no sway, politically or otherwise, but I would have happily given credit to Trump where it was due if it panned out.

But Israel does not seem to have abided by the ceasefire, and the larger peace plan now feels like it's going to be stitch up for the Palestinian people.

It is definitely tragic


The problem with Tether is that they are tight-lipped about their backing assets. No one knows if the peg is real, it's just "trust me bro"


Well they publish attestations from third-parties, but no full audits, so sure they could be much more transparent.

But the claim about USDT ever claiming that its supply wouldn't increase is pure fantasy. It literally makes no sense if you understand how the peg is maintained (technically by minting and burning tokens).


I took their comment to mean that tokens valuations are tied to stablecoins. Sufficiently tied enough as to be de facto properties of tokens themselves.


Also interesting that tether is the private largest holder of gold at 14 billion $ xaust


Deflation is an economic disaster. The Great Depression, for example, was related to deflation.


I don’t know one way or another but what specifically are the pain points of deflation and how do those compare to the never ending inflation? I’ve lived under inflation all my life, it’s a slow creeping nearly sub threshold insidious process that erodes the value of money. Buy what is life like under deflation, is there pain but ultimate correction to a sane state? It feels like there is no correction to inflation.


In Japan it is known as The Lost Decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades

There is no "sane state" that is eventually reached, it is always painful. For Japan, it took the financial innovation of negative interest rates to finally address it.



Holy shit, perfect!


There's no need to zone for airport noise in Atlanta because the highway passing through the city center and hotrodded cars already are much louder and more disruptive in practice. I wish I was joking.

Also, the map you're looking at there is relatively low resolution. I would suggest looking at it in https://maps.dot.gov/BTS/NationalTransportationNoiseMap/; make sure to switch the "Modes:" to "All Modes"


With how low fees have gotten, I think the more likely and more damaging situation is that where people's employers have negotiated much worse pricing for their captive audience. I wouldn't give 0.08% vs 0.037% a second thought any day. That's only difference of $400/yr on $1M!


The real mover for lower retirement plan fees was lawsuits. There have been loads of 401k excessive fee class action lawsuits and this got almost every employer negotiating to avoid this. Of course there's some plausible deniability in some cases but there is something on the other side against that https://hallbenefitslaw.com/401k-excessive-fee-class-action-...


Compound it over 30+ years and even those few bps add up to a significant amount.


Not really. If you start with a million dollars it’s adding $400 a year and compounding beyond that. But the median person doesn’t have that much in their portfolio…well, ever.

For most people micromanaging below 0.01% is like gaining a cup of coffee every year.


The question was - I don't understand why people keep money in their old 401k accounts.

The answer is - there are situations where it is favorable to do so. It may or may not be favorable for you, and it may or may not be favorable for the median person. But these situations exist. And everyone can check for themselves and make the best decision insted of arguing over a blanket "X is better" or "Y doesn't make sense".


Sure, I agree with that general sentiment, but I think there’s probably a ~90% chance that you should rollover somewhere else.


This doesn't seem needed to me, I've never seen an android app have a way to close it. Or any kind of battery life impact from KDE Connect for that matter.


This sounds nice, but what I've run into is that the model fails to write changes if the code has changed under it. A better tool, where it takes a snapshot at the start of each non-interactive segment, and then resolves merge conflicts with my manual changes automatically, would make this much easier.


I run the model against its own dev branch and either cherry-pick commits or do merges the old-fashioned way.

I'm using Aider though, which makes this easy: it's just another tab in the terminal.


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