Crash 4 was pretty good. Maybe not quite on par with the first three (some hidden secrets were a little too hidden in my opinion), but definitely felt like crash.

Prediction markets are just “sparkling” insider trading.

Do you like the tactial RPG gameplay, or the story and elements around maintaining and building up your clan?

For example Final Fantasy Tactics has you building up a team as you progress through a story with tactial rpg combat, but not as much about management decisons about keeping your party alive.

There are also games like This war is mine, which has no tactical RPG elements, but is about making hard decisions trying to keep a group of people alive during war.

At first I thought you were talking about this game - Forgive Me Father

Not if the economy crashing causes increased inflation and interest rates, then you’d wish you had assets that hold value rather than currency which will lose its value.

Although, given the numbers most Americans live paycheck to paycheck and don’t have a wealth of assets or cash.

I’m not going to say the US is great at public transit, but the DC metro transit system is one of the best in the country. This stop is a bit of a cherrypicked example as many of the stops for the DC metro are in heavy urban areas surrounded by apartment buildings.

If you look at Philly, Denver, Chicago you’ll see that the average stop in DC is better utilized than in other places.

I would argue they’re pretty dumb when it comes to economics, but they’re good at enriching themselves. None of them see that the long term leads to a destitute America, which means most of them end up being dragged down too. A prosperous America benefits everyone, a destitute one “helps” a very select few, which will not include all of them.

S(preadsheet)aaS does not sound like a good replacement for excel. I’m all for alternatives, but giving up even more control is the wrong direction.

And yes there is a self-hosted option, but that’s not the main pitch on their website.

After you turn 65 there is no penalty for using your HSA for non-medical purchases, you just have to pay income tax on withdrawls. This effectively turns an HSA into an IRA after you turn 65. So you can contribute pre-tax, it grows tax-free, then you can withdraw without any penalty - making it effectively just another retirement account.

https://ourtaxpartner.com/hsa-distribution-rules-after-age-65-medicare-premiums/

They’re both tax advantaged accounts - meaning you don’t have to pay taxes on them in most situations.

HSA is supposed to be a Health Savings Account, but has turned into more of a retirement account. 401k is Americas sad replacement for pensions as workers need to contribute to it and so it largely only helps wealthier people.

The more general advice would be - make sure to save and invest money (preferably in ways that avoid taxes if possible).

I’m afraid that Nintendo is basically just creating open world game with different skins at this point.

Locking the battery behind a screw has been a thing forever. For the switch though, you have to pull the casing apart, which is a little more involves than most people are used to. Additionally it’s a corded connection, not just slotting a battery in, I don’t think that’s a big deal, but probably not something most people have worked with.

Its really only Africa that bucks the trend if you Iook region by region.

I’ll admit it seems easier to access the battery, but that is not what I would call replaceable for the average user. I definitely thought it would be externally replaceable when this was announced.

Edit: You still need to take a part the shell and access the switches internals to swap the battery. The big changes seem to be removing the need to remove some adhesive parts and the heat shield doesn’t cover the battery anymore.

I think Shia, I can’t spell his last name, acting was the weakest part, but outside of that I thought it did a good job by most accounts.

There is a pretty decent cast that does a good job hitting the comedic and serious tones for what is a ridiculous premise (advanced robots disguising themselves as vehicles). The plot also gives a somewhat reasonable explanation for why the transformers are on earth and links it to human history in a neat way. And I don’t think anyone could argue for the action sequences, at least for the time it released.

Sure its no Oscar winner, but for what it’s supposed to be I thought it hit most of the marks.

Now the sequels and future movies, those are all a mess.

While a lot of the plot is embellished, cause it’s a movie, the base premise is based on actual events. The Wikipedia has a good section on the historical accuracy - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hustle(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hustle)

No matter how you slice things up you will be creating minority and majority voices. It may be that splitting up districts by population means there is no race based majority district or it makes it so urban voices have a majority in most if not all districts. If you slice by some geographic definition you’ll absolutely create districts with varying population sizes, giving certain people a larger voice at the state and national level.

In the end, just the decision of what a source of bias even is will likely have some bias to it. I’m not saying that we can’t make things better, but that there is no such thing as a perfect way to draw districts and at the end of the day just choosing which algorithm is used will benefit some people over others.

I think part of the issue is that fewer movies and tv shows use licensed music anymore so most music in movies its just the score now. I blame it on streaming as it eats into profits, as can be seen by things like scrubs reruns not using the original music from the episodes.

Sadly there is no such thing as an unbiased algorithm, every algorithm will be biased towards some form of outcome. Algorithms are just overtly biased as their intentions are more clearly defined.

I got that he is supposed to come off inexperienced, the issue is that I’m not sure the plot of the entire movie changes much if he were removed from the events.

He never solves the riddlers riddles, he has to be told the answer (which the riddler might have told to anyone at that point). He does disarm the shooters at the very end, but he doesn’t stop any killings/assassination attempt/flooding. It could be argued that maybe the politican would have been successfully killed if he didn’t stop the riddlers henchmen (I don’t think the shooter misses because of Batman, but can’t recall). Additionally, he was the one that really set off the falcone plot point, which may have been dealt with very differently if he didn’t get involved.