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South Carolina has $1.8B but doesn't know where the money came from or where it should go
Posted by Street Hawk on 3/26/24 at 6:13 pm
[quote]COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has collected about $1.8 billion in a bank account over the past decade and state and private accountants are still trying to figure out where the cash came from and where it was supposed to go.
“It's like going into your bank and the bank president tel...
re: Can you find the height of the red bar using the information below?
Posted by Street Hawk on 3/17/24 at 6:40 pm
[quote]I was told there would be no math.[/quote]
To be fair, I think you could have just said "Yes" and your answer would have been technically correct....
re: Uber/ Lyft leaving Minneapolis due to new law. City officials now fear transport shortages
Posted by Street Hawk on 3/17/24 at 6:39 pm
[quote]A lesson in critical thinking I got in undergrad:
Econ 1 prof hands us an article about airlines overbooking & offering money at the gate to bump passengers. Article argues we should ban this. Reasoning is that it’s exploitative: poorer people overwhelmingly more likely to get bumped beca...
Can you find the height of the red bar using the information below?
Posted by Street Hawk on 3/17/24 at 6:35 pm
[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GI394eoXcAEuZ42?format=jpg&name=medium[/img]
[link=(https://x.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1769349380014789064?s=46)]LINK[/link]
Scroll down for answer:
Answer:
1) 8m
From green bar, we can deduce that
t...
A look into the string of crimes and trouble in Oakland, dining room closures & burglaries
Posted by Street Hawk on 3/12/24 at 9:37 pm
[quote]Several fast-food chains in Oakland are implementing significant adjustments in response to the local crime impact. This includes the closure of dining rooms at a Taco Bell and the necessity for Raising Caine's to shut down their indoor seating. Additionally, we'll explore the issue of abando...
Relative humidity hits 100% in southern China last week
Posted by Street Hawk on 3/12/24 at 12:52 am
[quote]Residents in southern China found themselves grappling with extreme dampness when relative humidity climbed to 100% on March 6, according to the Guangdong Meteorological Bureau. The moisture has swept through cities in the country’s south, causing water droplets to accumulate on ceilings. [/q...
The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina
Posted by Street Hawk on 3/9/24 at 2:58 pm
[quote]The road runs to the two mines that is the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers.
There are no alternative sources known. From Conway’s Material World:
[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIPijs-XoAA4aLo?format=jpg&name=large width=600[/...
Road rage: Texas truck driver rips off SUV's bumper after driver brake checks him
Posted by Street Hawk on 3/6/24 at 10:29 pm
[quote]DALLAS — A video has been circulating online showing two vehicles involved in a road rage incident on a Dallas highway.
A little before 1:45 p.m. on Friday, a driver in Dallas captured video of a truck with a flatbed trailer and SUV involved in road rage on an overpass between I-35E and I-...
Blizzard slams California's Sierra Nevada mountains
Posted by Street Hawk on 3/6/24 at 12:14 am
This is what 10 feet of snowfall in 48 hours looks like:
[link=(https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_XaNaYL3RrA)]LINK[/link]...
Coral Gables man who refuses to give up property hit with code violations
Posted by Street Hawk on 3/2/24 at 11:57 am
[quote]For years, Coral Gables homeowner Orlando Capote has resisted attempts to buy him out, even as a new mixed-use development took over the rest of the neighborhood.[/quote]
[link=(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8WujFUFoWg)]LINK[/link]
Pathetic!...
Peter Schiff warns US job numbers up only because Americans ‘forced to take 2 or 3 jobs'
Posted by Street Hawk on 2/26/24 at 9:26 am
[quote]The U.S. economy added 353,000 jobs in January 2024, significantly outperforming economists’ expectations. But according to Peter Schiff, CEO and chief global strategist at Euro Pacific Capital, the situation might not be as positive as the headline figures suggest.
“The only reason that j...
Sylvester Stallone is 'permanently' leaving California behind for Florida
Posted by Street Hawk on 2/25/24 at 6:27 pm
[quote] The "Rocky" icon made the announcement on the season two premiere of the reality show, "The Family Stallone."
"After long, hard consideration, your mother and I have decided, time to move on and leave the state of California permanently, and we’re going to go to Florida," Sylvester told ...
3 Jeeps destroyed in 3 seconds!
Posted by Street Hawk on 2/24/24 at 11:20 pm
[link=(https://youtu.be/_ShPApHoX7o?si=GZHhCRffSyG6IzHO)]LINK[/link]
WTF happened here? :WTF:...
re: Cramer on Nvidia in Sept 2022 - "short Nvidia, it's a loser"
Posted by Street Hawk on 2/22/24 at 3:49 pm
[quote]Well he was right for about a month. You realize when someone makes a call like that, its not a call for the rest of the decade or even year. When he made that call, it did drop to 108 before the run it's had now..[/quote]
You must be fun at parties....
Cramer on Nvidia in Sept 2022 - "short Nvidia, it's a loser"
Posted by Street Hawk on 2/22/24 at 1:40 pm
[quote]Stock was at $135 then, 17 months ago. He basically bottom-ticked it - it's been on a straight line up 5x+ to $770 where it trades today.
He used the Ethereum merge to justify & said that AI "wasn't there"[/quote]
[link=(https://x.com/pitdesi/status/1760731066875400696?s=20)]LINK[/link]...
Tech Leaders fled San Francisco during the pandemic. Now, they are coming back.
Posted by Street Hawk on 2/19/24 at 12:25 pm
[quote]Famous investors and founders that left during COVID have ended up slinking back to the Bay Area. From Keith Rabois to the founders of Brex and Airtable, few can escape the pull of networks and VC money in Silicon Valley.
RTO similarly killed the migration for tech workers.
[img]https:/...
Florida family that bought fishing cottage for $1M in the 80s is selling it for $295M
Posted by Street Hawk on 2/12/24 at 5:42 pm
[quote]“There is nothing like it, anywhere.” That’s the first line describing a home (if you can call it that) listed for $295 million in Naples, Florida. It’s the most expensive home for sale in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Located in an “exclusive neighborhood” known as Po...
Are account executives / sales types the cringiest people on LinkedIn?
Posted by Street Hawk on 2/7/24 at 10:05 pm
[img]https://i.ibb.co/g4YMJWT/7-F828-B9-D-FDE7-48-AA-A5-A0-9-B013-CC84511.jpg[/img]
[link=(https://www.threads.net/@bestoflinkedin/post/C3DiiFjpyVe/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)]LINK[/link]...
Google Maps is getting ‘supercharged’ with generative AI
Posted by Street Hawk on 2/2/24 at 3:44 pm
[quote]Google is bringing generative AI to — where else? — Google Maps, promising to help users find cool places through the use of large language models (LLM).
The feature will answer queries for restaurant or shopping recommendations, for example, using its LLM to “analyze Maps’ detailed inform...
re: January Jobs numbers - WTF?
Posted by Street Hawk on 2/2/24 at 3:39 pm
[quote]They did the same thing last Jan when they claimed there was 800k jobs created[/quote]
Maybe - indulge me for a second - just maybe not everything is political? Is that possible?...
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