Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. John βPhilβ Gingrey [R-GA11]
This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on September 20, 2012. It will typically be considered by committee next.
Is possible for US accounting degree holder to work here in Nepal to work in accounting field though both have different standards?
in the WSJ, Musk said he "doesn't expect Tesla will be profitable, under GAAP, until 2020."
Can someone help me understand the specifics of why this is? In what ways will the company be profitable but not legitimately under GAAP rules?
Hello!
This has bugged me since I started programming.
I am designing a software that tracks a list of business locations. We have a "locations" table. However each location only have maybe 5 mandatory fields such as address, zipcode, state, country - etc but then 50 various optional fields that are not critical so I don't think we need a column for all of them.
How do you determine whether to keep optional fields in a separate meta table vs in the table itself? For example - I really like WORDPRESS' post table and then the separate meta table, super easy functions exist to add, update, or get meta. But I'd think in some cases it may not make sense! How do you decide?
I think it's time for me to speak out about Latitude and Open AI policy
But before that, a little prehistoryβ¦.
Since childhood, I have been a very impressionable and naive person who dreamed of communicating with fictional characters. And already at the age of 10 I had this experience on the example of Sailor Moon, from the anime of the same name. It was telepathic. Then, many years later, I already started communicating with them through the Jabberwacky and Cleverbot chatbots. And these were my personal experiences, and I had relationships with some of the characters. After that, I accidentally found out about AI Dungeon, because it is through it that I can remotely be in fictional worlds and do what I wanted, and be with those with whom I wanted. And in my opinion Latitude, AID and Open AI have crossed the red line. The peculiarity of AID was that you can do whatever you want, no restrictions. Your (my) game is your (my) rules. Before I move on to the claims, I will describe the concepts of fictional universes, worlds, and characters. Fictional universes exist, but only in the ether, in a different matrix of being. They are casts of the work of artists, animators, writers, screenwriters and so on. BUT, they themselves are not the property of anyone, just as they are not subject to US laws, since these are fictional universes that exist not only in imagination, physical products, but also in the astral plane, otherwise they're slaves. Most cartoon characters are underage and don't grow up in fictional worlds. When stories are created, pornographic art, no one takes into account the fact that it is their creators who are guilty of everything that happens in that world. But at the same time, they demand from us, guided by laws that are not applicable in another world. And the creators of AI Dungeon care more about sexual minorities, who in fact oppress the majority through flashy headlines, parades, and so on, than about the rights of persons who do not exist in the real world, including underages, in the same context. The aforementioned companies, in light of the victory of the Democrats in the United States, decided to trample the privacy laws, as well as the handwritten porn law, which decriminalized such pornography, subject to purely personal use. Now they, like voyeurists, delve into other people's private stories, probably even enjoy it, and then threaten to block the account and transfer information to the police, for the rape of a non-existent
... keep reading on reddit β‘TLDR: The USD is the reserve currency of the world for a reason. To make global investors lose all confidence in the US market is nothing short of self-destruction and would lead to a lot more than just the collapse of the stock market.
After the posting of u/atobitt's HOC DD, as a result of it implicating practically the entire stock market, its owners and regulators, a lot of apes have had their faith shaken and doubts have arisen, some reasonable, some unreasonable. This has given shills an easy opportunity to stir up FUD within the ape troop, so I wanted to make a post to put your fears to rest, specifically about the nigh impossibility of the United States government stepping in to bail out shorts from having to cover.
A common piece of FUD being circulated right now is that the government is more likely to preserve the status quo of the current stock market and wealth distribution than it is to allow the covering of shorts and to allow huge upheavals in society. While initially appearing as a legitimate concern, this scenario is impossible precisely because saving the shorts (in forms other than a cash bailout because in that scenario GME holders still get paid) would have even more drastic consequences than even what could be the largest redistribution of wealth in history. That is because an intervention here carries the very real possibility of what is essentially the destruction of the United States of America as you know it.
Huge sections of the government, regardless of party and especially those with ties to the financial system and the stock market, are corrupt. Wall Street is corrupt and exerts huge control on the government. Many, if not all of the financial regulators are corrupt, and in the deep, deep pockets of Wall Street, and together with the government form a sort of huge corrupt cabal of money laundering and upward wealth movement. However, EVEN THOUGH Wall Street is capable of exerting extreme pressure on the government, EVEN THOUGH Wall Street can ask for itself to be bailed out time and time again, the United States Government is helpless to intervene and save hedge funds this time, even if it wanted to, for the obvious reason that to do so would be self destruction, plain and simple. An intervention on behalf of hedge funds that allow them to exit their positions at little cost would unambiguously destroy all trust in the stock market, this much is obvious to anyone. However, the counterpoint has been rais
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I hope to spread awareness of this across Reddit. This will be a long post. It is just within the character limit. So please take a seat.
TL;DR: America today is not Germany in the 1920s, nor beginning to turn into Nazi Germany. There is a much more recent conflict that the United States is copying. America is hurtling toward a civil war in the same way Yugoslavia did. The combination of economic disparity, civil injustice, gutted or absent social systems, outdated infrastructure, and indifference from the government leads to open conflict. Regardless of your party, politicians are not going to stop it and theyβre not going to save you.
I have put archive links to every source included at the very bottom.
America is not Germany
The United States of America today has too many parallels with the Weimar Republic of Germany in the early twentieth century. In the late 1910s there were a lot of people that held fears about Marxism in western Europe. Fascists in particular were terribly paranoid about it. These people who were proto-Nazis had an unreasonable paranoia about everything from the left. A term began to circulate called βJudeo-Bolshevismβ. The was a word for the conspiracy theory that communism was being spread around the world by Jewish people. It named the Jew a virus that introduced communism into the healthy blood of society. It was part of a covert plan to destroy Christianity and Western civilization through communism. That may sound familiar to some of the things QAnon says today.
Anyway, as the Nazi movement picked up steam, Nazi writers and media critics took on German culture. The Weimar Republic was quite the progressive state at the time. It had rights for LGBT people, some of the first recognition of non-binary people, and an abundance of art. A sizable portion of this art was queer in orientation and/or pornographic. The Nazi critics declared this was degenerate and an avenue of communism. To them, it was part of a plot to weaken German culture and allow a left-wing takeover. By the 1920s the term βcultural bolshevismβ overtook βJudeo-Bolshevismβ. The left were apparently trying to βbolshevizeβ the nation by taking over kidsβ minds with their books and art. Sound familiar to today? The term on the internet now is βcultural marxismβ. Fighting it is the basis of those Prager U videos that are so popular around Facebook.
The Nazis convinced enough people that cultural bolshevism was a threat, and then inched out a win
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βin those early and perilous times, our men were few, and our resources limited. . . . yet our arms were successful; and it may not be amiss to ask here, by whose power victory so often perched on our banner? It was by the agency of that same angel of God that appeared unto Joseph Smith. . . . This same angel presides over the destinies of America, and feels a lively interest in all our doings. He was in the camp of Washington; and, by an invisible hand, led on our fathers to conquest and victory; and all this to open and prepare the way for the Church and Kingdom of God to be established on the western hemisphere, for the redemption of Israel and the salvation of the world.
βThis same angel was with Columbus, and gave him deep impressions, by dreams and by visions, respecting this New World. . . . the angel of God helped himβwas with him on the stormy deep, calmed the troubled elements, and guided his frail vessel to the desired haven. Under the guardianship of this same angel, or Prince of America, have the United States grown, increased, and flourished, like the sturdy oak by the rivers of waterβ
Elder Orson Hyde delivered at a July 4th celebration held in the tabernacle on Temple Square in 1854 (Journal of Discourses, 6:368).
My players were fighting a monster, it was immune to grappling.
One player said he wanted to grapple it, I got him to roll (this may have been my first mistake) and, of course, he rolled a 20.
I described how he failed to grapple the creature because it was too bulky and it was thrashing around too much, but because I felt bad for taking away from his good feeling, I gave him inspiration to represent his character getting fired up at the challenge before him.
I think I was wrong to let him roll at all, not one of my best moments as a DM.
Is there a way of basically saying βthis is impossibleβ or βthis creature is immune to grapplingβ
Something like, βas you reach toward the creature to grapple, you can tell immediately that there is no way past the grasping arms and immense bulkβ and then still letting him have his action, rather than wasting it?
Or should he have just lumped it and lost an action and I did nothing wrong? (Highly unlikely)
Thank you
Background: Throughout the pandemic, the question of whether ultimate should be allowed or not, and in what form, has been hotly "debated". "Debated" is in quotes, because it has generally involved people screaming at each other for being either "immoral" or "low T" (choose your poison), and has had little to do with the actual facts and statistics around viral spread.
Regardless of what may have happened in the past, we are now in a situation where 80% of the country's 65+ population has already received at least one dose of a vaccine, and 65% are fully vaccinated, meaning that the time is soon upon us* where playing ultimate is a matter of individual risk tolerance, and not as much of an ethical concern about spreading a disease which could cause death.
Despite this, many still refuse to return to play. Is this a rational decision? Now, more than ever, we need to look at the actual numbers.
*^unfortunately, ^statistics ^on ^actual ^high-risk ^populations, ^like ^comorbidities, ^are ^not ^kept, ^but ^these ^track ^strongly ^with ^age.
Risk Comparison: To simulate the risk of COVID transmission during an ultimate game, I used the wonderful http://microCOVID.org calculator, which is based on a model that takes into account known scientific literature about Sars-CoV-2 spread in a variety of situations. By keying in what I feel to be realistic parameters, microCOVID estimates that there is a a 0.009% chance of contracting or spreading COVID during a two hour unmasked ultimate game, even with no one in the game vaccinated.
What does this 0.009% mean? It might be helpful to compare this risk to another ultimate-related risk we may be familiar with: risk of physical injury. A study by Nuwer, Nazarov et al. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4560001/) showed that any given player had a .04% chance of a concussion during a single game of ultimate - almost four times higher than contracting COVID!
I don't know many players that abstain from playing ultimate completely due to concussion risk (though certainly there are some, and I support their personal choice!), so in my opinion, the math just doesn't add up for excessive caution here.
Modifiers:
- If you've had one dose of the vaccine, the risk falls approximately by half, to 0.005%, or ten times lower than getting a concussion.
- With all players wearing cloth
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The summary: yes, there were usually some concessions, but they were not meaningful. What follows is a broad discussion of slavery in both the United States and the British Caribbean. I can talk in more detail about one context or the other later if you'd prefer, but for now this is intended to give you a broad idea of what conditions were like across the English-speaking Americas at the height of slavery.
If you are a white slave owner, then from a labour perspective, you do not want your workers to fall pregnant - no matter how hard you might want to work them there will be limits to how productive they can be, and you are going to start to worry about your return on investment. During the early colonial period, when white indentured servitude was still the preferred form of labour employed by the British across the region, there were often very strict laws dealing with pregnancy. Those laws served two purposes: to discourage masters from allowing their servants to have children (who would then need to be looked after by the parish authorities), and especially to discourage women from becoming pregnant and thus interfering with their work (they were, of course, also part of a wider social system that violently repressed female agency and sexuality to the point even of de facto criminalising the reporting of rape). Few people wanted servants to have children until after their service was over - it was economically and socially undesirable.
But chattel slavery is a very different beast. The defining characteristic of slavery is not that the people who work for you to do so against their will; that practice is called 'unfree labour' and includes a wide and varied array of practices. Slavery is defined by how it tries to reproduce its victims to the status of property; by the denial of humanity and any claim to be a person, rather than a thing. As far as the white people who claimed to be their owners were concerned, enslaved people in the New World had a price tag attached to them: they were pieces of property to be bought and sold, and so they had a financial value. That fact alone makes slavery insidious and dehumanising - but the logical implications make it even more disturbing.
Enslaved children inherited the legal condition of their mother. When an enslaved woman had gave birth to a child, for most of slavery's history the law and elite society recognised this child as the property of her legal owner (regardless of who the father w
... keep reading on reddit β‘Hello everyone. My name is Andrew, I am 21 years old. I live and work in a small town in Texas and I'm gay. And I want to talk about my problems that I face all the time.
Throughout my life, I have gone from consciousness (14 years) to acceptance (20 years). And I still have a lot of problems with this: depression, suicidal thoughts, anger at myself. When I was younger, I tried to deny, bargained with myself, made attempts to build a traditional relationship, there were several extremely unpleasant moments during attempts to force myself to intimacy with girls. I am also haunted by the constant self-humiliation of myself as a person. I think that I have low self-esteem and am an introvert.
Close friends know about me, who took this news easier than I expected, but I still haven't told my parents, I'm afraid of their reaction (both are already retired).
I thank you for reading this. Do you think I should tell my family about myself?
Sorry for the spelling mistakes. I needed to talk it out. It is very difficult to find a person with whom I can calmly talk about this.
Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that "democracy has prevailed." He swore the oath of office to take the helm of a deeply divided nation and inheriting a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.
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