I was just at the liquor store and was recommended Basil Hayden's bourbon and found it to be lacking in complexity, low proof, and was far too sweet. Looking for bourbon recommendations that are generally easy to find in small quantities yet are complex, rich, and strong. Thanks!

We generate complicated driveway designs on steep hills. By complicated I am referring to a variety of cut and fill conditions including varying daylight grading, retaining walls, drainage ditches. We use conditional assemblies to generate the "first draft" and then targets to override for various reasons.

More and more these days contractors seem to be relying on engineers and surveyors to do more of the work that they used to do themselves. They want everything staked and a model of the design including accurate quantities. I know there are different approaches to quantities - some firms won't do more than a rough ball park calc, others will separate quantities as a unique scope and contract.

When I have tried to model quantities in civil 3d it has quickly become a difficult and time consuming exercise, primarily due to the number of conditions in the corridor. Excavation for retaining walls is different than for cut/fill slopes, as is the type of backfill material. I have tried developing the assembly to include excavation and material surfaces, using a separate corridor all together for excavation and phases of construction (to represent the material installations).

Just wondering what other folks are doing to leverage civil 3d for this kind of thing. Anyone using the sections method with shapes?

Am I the only one that the more looks at this subreddit the more lose the will to play? The amount of add-ons and mod is just overwhelming. While I played my fair share of vanilla gameplay, I lost interest for the game as it seems to become increasingly complex and unapproachable. How do you cope with this?

After taking a rather large amount of courses in Circuit Design and Signal Analysis, our use of complex numbers has been limited to sinusoidal signal representation (ie. we can easily represent the amplitude and phase angle of a cosine using only one value). It has tremendously simplified calculations involving cosines and sines (as long as they shared equal frequencies) but it has never really seemed to go beyond that aspect. Is there more significance to the square root of -1 beyond these capabilities in other fields and to what extent?

College student here. I stumbled upon equations in physics on my own that take complex valued quantities. My question is: how can something like electrical impedance or current take on a complex value?

Hi guys, sorry about the title, it's hard to convey my question in a few words!

So what I’m trying to do is alphabetically list multiple selections of data so that I can easily analyse it. Specifically, I want to look at products that Indonesia is importing from a certain country from the years 2000-2016.

So turn this:

into this:

Now the above is rather straight forwards but this is what my data currently looks like:

Trying to automatically sort this results in:

i.e Nothing matches up making it impossible to analyse data trends of the different products.

This would typically be pretty easy to sort out manually except my list of products is 1,200 rows long and has data for the years 2000-2016 which will take me literal days to manually sort. Also, to add some extra pain to the equation, the products are listed like this:

> Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles // Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors.

I’ve tried a few things with my limited knowledge of Excel and haven’t yet been able to find the answer online (otherwise I wouldn’t have spent such a long time trying to format this stupid post, fingers crossed i got it right).

Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!

Edit: Added a small section for clarification

Edit 2: Guess I just discovered the magic of pivot tables

I help a friend with their IT for their small machine shop, he's old school but is running some new school machines in the shop. When quoting for work to mill/cut parts it takes a chunk of time; he's got friends that work in other shops and they apparently use software where they can upload/open a DXF and its able to determine the run time on the machine which is a big part of the quote. They won't say much about the software they use, either they don't know as they're not in sales or estimation or they're playing shy trying to keep a secret or something. I'm not a machinist so I asked if the type of machine would be a big factor, he's assured me it isn't - he said a machine can either make a part or it can't and those that can will do it on a similar time... Anyway - I said to him I know where to ask which is why I'm here.

Any suggestions folks?

Thanks for your time.

TLDR; The breadcrumbs dropped by the disclosure team might have a strong tie to the time component of the time evolution operator of quantum mechanical systems.

Disclosure: I am not a physicist.

Lue has stated twice that he leaves breadcrumbs in every interview.

21OCT2021 - Theories of Everything with Lue https://youtu.be/qfa5rWYHCCg?t=1216&#x200B

>Lue Elizondo - "I've always left breadcrumbs in every interview I ever do for the last four years"

19NOV202 - New Frontier Network https://youtu.be/P4yjMl6mUyc?t=4837

>Lue Elizondo - "And again, I kind of left some breadcrumbs. If people know how I work they'll realize every time I have one of these conversation I always leave breadcrumbs; ALWAYS!"

Operating under the assumption that he and his cohorts have been leaving both intentional and unintentional breadcrumbs for the community to find, you can discover some absolute gold nuggets to many aspects of the phenomenon. This post may reveal one of those nuggets.

You are highly encouraged to dig deep into and re-watch all of the interviews and presentations of Lue Elizondo, Tom Delonge, Jim Semivan, Eric Davis, and Hal Puthoff looking for those breadcrumbs. This post will contain both transcript excerpts, timestamped videos, and web resource links for your reference. Please pardon any misspellings, slight alterations for clarification, or minor errors. Any glaring errors will be corrected if they are found and pointed out.

Please try leaving your preconceived notions of what the true story may be and your personal biases aside. Leaving biases aside means trying to take every word they say literally and applying an analysis as to their intent for saying what they did. The results have lead down a very interesting path of discovery to some very deep and interesting physics. There are several topics of the phenomenon that can be pieced together in this manner that may be posted at a later date.

All persons involved in the disclosure effort have been forthright mentioning that there is something very peculiar about the crafts' ability to manipulate time in various fashions. The evidence for this statement is so overwhelming that there is no need to put every reference to it in this post. This post will contain excerpts of the most interesting comments made on the subject of time manipulation.

A copious amount of questions will be raised to help the reader follow the

Shorts Must Close. Here's How They Buy-in

I've been researching the FTR/FTD (Failure to Receive/Failure to Deliver) system after determining this is what the counterfeit shares (IOUs) are, and after finding about the algorithm that randomly distributes IOUs to buyers of stock instead of real stock (check my last report for a more detailed account). When Kenny naked shorts a sale, the imaginary share becomes two distinct but related electronic and notional constructs. An FTR for a buyer (but not necessarily the one who bought from Ken, any buyer), and an FTD for Ken on the books at the DTCC. Anyone who determines they have an FTR can submit a request with the DTCC for it to be covered. The DTCC determines who has the oldest FTD and is going to have to Buy-in (cover their margin covering the FTD). It's complex, with a settlement system, but all FTDs of the same age are treated as the same, regardless who has the FTDs or which FTR they were created with and covered all at once.

Brokers are complicit in holding these FTRs for Ken and the shorts, this is the mechanism they are using to loan our shares that aren't DRSed. So brokers know they have IOUs, but their clients think they have shares, and they choose not to request the shorts cover. They likely do this because they don't want to have to cover themselves. But if anyone, who knows they have one, requests a buy-in with the DTCC a settlement process begins. (Just wanted to add the part about the brokers is mostly speculation at this point, and my hunch, but based on some verifiable data like buy ins being very rare. I should have made it clearer this involves a synthesis of information and some assumption. Still working on it.)

So, if anyone with an IOU submits a buy request (CNS transmittal notice) with the DTCC, they determine the age of the oldest FTD short positions. Older FTDs are chosen first. Then, all members with FTDs of that age get a notice that they have to buy in with another settlement period. Eventually they have to cover their margin with the DTCC, and whoever had the IOU and submitted the request gets their stock. This is just a short notice what Ken Griffin covering his shorts could actually look like.

Even if you can't DRS we should still be trying to kill the FTRs, but a lot of people say their brokers refuse to tell them if they have FTRs or stock, and I can easily see them lying and continuing to hold the bag for Ken. This is what they were lying about in a roundabout way

Since one of the main criticisms that CCP defenders have is that player feedback is abusive and non-constructive, here's a pseudo effortpost on the issues with Capital Industry from the perspectives of the official best poster in r/eve

1. Volume of Capital Components prevents collaboration

One of the stated goals of the capital industrial change is to make it harder for one player to build everything, and distribute the process of building capital ships among more players. In order for this to happen, players presumably have to trade capital components between each other, then bring those capital components to a different system for final assembly if the players do their building in different systems for index purposes.

The sheer volume of Capital Components makes this very difficult. Every capital component is 10,000 M3 in size, you can only fit 33-36 in one Jump Freighter, and a single Revelation requires ~190 Capital Components (1,900,000 M3), or ~6 Jump Freighter loads just for the Capital Parts. In contrast, the raw materials to build those parts only needs 1 Jump Freighter to carry, EVE industry is filled with these types of things where things get bigger as you build them. This means that by building all capital components in house, the player can save 5 Jump Freighter trips, a large competitive advantage over those who choose to outsource capital parts. This was never an issue before, since the simple Bill of Materials (BOM) for capital ships made it easy for one player to manage everything themselves and the parts would never leave the system they were built in (or in the older days, leave the POS where they were built). At the current this volume is largely preventing capitals ship parts from being traded and players from collaborating.

Proposed Solution

• Reduce the Volume of all Capital Components from 10,000 M3 to 1,000 M3

• Reduce the Volume of Core Temperature Regulator from 1,000 M3 to 100 M3

• Reduce the Volume of Capital Core Temperature Regulator from 28,000 M3 to 10,000 M3

• Reduce the Volume of Life Support Backup Unit from 100 M3 to 10 M3

• Reduce the Volume of Auto-Integrity Preservation Seal from 45 M3 to 5 M3

**2. Capital Part Material Requirements crea

Considering these articles:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/neuroscience-readies-for-a-showdown-over-consciousness-ideas-20190306

Here, we can see GNW and IIT as almost having different goals - one to describe the ability of "the global workspace stage" to filter and process information, and the other (IIT) is trying to describe where "the stage" is and why it has a spotlight on it in the first place

Anyway

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=1799

>In my opinion, the fact that Integrated Information Theory is wrong—demonstrably wrong, for reasons that go to its core—puts it in something like the top 2% of all mathematical theories of consciousness ever proposed. Almost all competing theories of consciousness, it seems to me, have been so vague, fluffy, and malleable that they can only aspire to wrongness.

Scott Aaronson shows that a 2D grid of XOR logic gates can produce an arbitary large value of Phi, but blank grids are clearly not what we want if want to quantify consciousness. I'm sold, IIT is incorrect.

But I found an an online tool that would let me play with a grid of XOR gates - and I can see how this could support any arbitarily complex system of inputs and outputs. Point for Tononi. But the grid is only a substrate for such an operation, not the complexity and richness of conscious activity itself.

The point:

So it seems like, rather than saying IIT is wrong to its core, it is simply woefully incomplete. The maximum amount of integrated info that a system could contain may be a vital metric and may be captured by Phi - but it still utterly fails to quantify if the internal information content of that system is in any way meaningful, coherent, or supports agency

Clearly we need these metrics - internal coherency, dynamism, the presence of self motivated behavior, the ability to understand semantics - how can that be quantified and axiomatically formalized? Has anyone already tried or done so? And if that is possible or already done, could it be reconciled with IIT?

Never have I seen any fictional universe as deep, complex and insane as Warhammer 40k. I’m still trying to wrap my head around it, unlike other fictional universes where I’ve got a pretty solid understand of the stories and lore. So what other fictional universes come close or even surpass to Warhammer 40k?

I AM NOT THE OP. My personal cheese problems are entirely emotional, not logistical. The OP is Wordshore on MetaFilter.

Original post

August 4, 2016 4:32 PM

For complicated / irrelevant reasons a friend has suddenly acquired 18 pounds of Red Leicester cheese. It is good quality. However (again, complicated reasons) the cheese must be moved, used or transformed into something else within the next 72 hours or so.

My friend lives mostly on his own, so can't have a cheese party, and does not want the neighbors finding out about this cheese anyway so cannot invite them. He can't eat it all in this time for health reasons (18 pounds). There are no food banks nearby he can donate to, and moving the cheese is problematic anyway (though not impossible). He can cook, though not to a great extent. It would be a shame for this cheese to just be disposed of; what else could he do with it? Are there recipes that can use up 18 pounds of cheese and transform it into (preferably) foodstuff that are not cheese-centric?

[Aside from clamoring for more information, the comments suggest donating the cheese, requesting to have the cheese donated, freezing it, dumping it outside of someone’s door, portioning it up and taking 6lbs with them every time they leave the apartment, abusing flat rate mailing envelopes, fancy cheese sculptures, arranging for it to be found on the Appalachian Trail, and more. Check out the thread for many excellent cooking suggestions.]

UPDATE

August 6, 2016 3:04 AM

I've sent the mods a much longer explanation, as a confirmation that this isn't some made-up hokey but is real. I have seen 18 pounds of quality Red Leicester cheese and I've even run my finger all along one edge of it and believe me, it is real. Oh, yes. I have seen the promised land, Mefites.

One other point - it really is a friend, and is not me talking in the third person or some odd writing thing like that.

Will do a full explanation at some point on here later in the month, unless there's any legal or ethical impediment. Currently I don't know how this (frankly ridiculous and avoidable) situation will play itself out, especially as there are several people involved who are perhaps not the most pleasant, or the most sensible, of people. (probably including me for getting involved in this)

*[More suggestions in the comments, including staging a fake plumbing accident and di

Link here, text below 👇

Hey Adventurers,

Since launch, the team has been working hard to gather, investigate, and address issues surfaced by our players. We know how much our players care, and we resolve to be more transparent and communicate more frequently about how we’re addressing issues.

To begin, we want to provide an update on issues we believe are most critical to our community.

Character Transfers

It is important to us that everyone have the opportunity to choose which server they are playing on. By the time you are reading this, character transfers will have been re-enabled and most players should be able to move their characters. If you have questions about transfers, please visit our FAQ post here. We are committed to making sure our community is satisfied with where they are playing long term. We will continue to monitor your feedback after this wave of Character Transfers is complete and offer additional Transfers if needed. We are also working on region-to-region Character Transfers, but it is difficult to solve and will take time.

Full Server Status

In an effort to ensure that folks actively playing characters on a server are not competing in queue with new players, we have implemented a Full Server Status to prevent new characters from being created. We monitor the active users on each world and ensure that the Full Server Status continues to be accurate. We understand this may mean that new players are not able to play with their established friends and that some worlds are not receiving the volume of new players that others servers may, and this can have a variety of impacts. We continue to monitor this situation and will make real-time adjustments accordingly, as well as provide a 24 hour notice before a server is marked as full.

Economy and Deflation

We have seen a lot of feedback on the game’s economy and wanted to share a recent update we posted in the forums.

First, we want to start with our goals. We want a player driven economy with minimal NPC interaction where gold is valuable to all players, even end-game players.

Touching on the current state of the economy: From a data standpoint, the economy is performing within acceptable levels. All servers are creating more money than is being removed, and by a good margin. However, the economy is tighter at the end-game currently

Modern Pirate Festival/Rumble Explained

Hi everyone, happy new year.

In this post, I’m going to try my best to explain the state of Pirate Festival/Rumble (PF) as it currently stands at the start of 2022. Before that, there are a few things to get out of the way:

1. You can read the basics of the mode here, written by /u/FateOfMuffins. For the purposes of this post, the main relevant points are that DEF is super broken, dual units have no color, and we have a goal of winning every single match. This positioning diagram is also relevant, but the main takeaway is that tanky units go in positions 2 and 3.
2. Some relevant terms and their definitions:
   1. Main Line: Your starting 5 units.
   2. Bench: The 3 units that do not start on the field. Their passives are not active until they are on the field.
   3. 4/4: Team compositions that include 8 units by using 4 Legends and 4 PFRR.
   4. Nuke/Nuke PFRR: Any PFRR that does damage, generally included in a team because there isn’t a better way to use the extra cost if using a 4/4 team. The main “Holy Trinity” of these will be PF Smoker, PF Soba, and PF Whitebeard, but any PFRR that does damage and/or reduces def with their special can qualify. Premiere nukers are the units that serve as the primary offense unit- LT Kid, Yamatos, Roger/WB, VS Akainu are all examples.
   5. Half stats: Status that halves all stats except HP, regardless of buffs. Applied by both Yamatos, Moria, and PF Ohm at present. Tends to dramatically reduce offensive pressure from the opposing team, and obviously makes them much weaker defensively.
   6. True damage: Listed ingame as “ignoring DEF,” and the trademark of LT Kid and STR units in general. Excellent at dealing with defenses that aim to stall out the enemy or simply dealing with tanky units.
   7. Haste: A special effect that moves a unit/units to the front of the queue, making them act next to fire their special or attack normally if not ready.
   8. CT- I’ll usually be using this as levels of the buff that increases or decreases the speed specials charge. Generally, 5 or more CT is going to have a big effect on special timing, whether that be speeding it up or slowing it down. May also be used to talk about the amount of time it takes for a special to be ready (higher = longer).
   9. PF [Character Name]/PFRR- A unit released in and exclusiv

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

They’re on standbi

Hey Spikes!

Usually I try to bring some competitive ideas and a bit of meta analysis to the table, but with the Pro Tour coming up, it seems like everyone is just "waiting to see what happens at the PT." So, I wrote something a little different this time around but I think you all will enjoy it.

It's over at HorseOfWill.com, and it's about how I got into Magic and why I tend to gravitate toward complicated decks. http://www.horseofwill.com/#!Feeding-the-Machine-3-Man-Bant-Company/fj63n/571933db0cf253d6b39bd0e7

There's a few deck lists in there as well... Take a look at the Temur Investigate list... You'll be surprised!

There's a bevy of other interesting articles up as well, all written by spikes, for spikes.

Cheers!

So, I've always had this one stowed away for a rainy day as I think it was a pretty cool tale from back in the day (Circa 2015-2016). I started out my career contracting, usually, 3-6 month gigs just scrounging by to get experience, not particularly concerned about what company and the pay packet as I was still living at home at the time.

Contracting allows you to work at some preeetty big companies for short durations of time, looks nice on a resume (I hope), and gives you the experience and feel for what it's like when you see how IT operations are carried out in smaller orgs and bigger orgs and in this case, Fortune 100 Civil Engineering.

My role at this company initially was very broad, we were consolidating two offices and moving them about 2-3 Kilometers down the street to a different office. On top of that was also a device refresh so we were receiving an office's worth of Dell Latitude laptops, some of their CAD ones with Quadro graphics cards in them, some snazzy 14" foldable ones for Execs etc. Dell was awarded this contract from us because apparently, HP couldn't play ball and wasn't able to provide the goods within our tight deadlines, suffice to say - this was a fairly large contract given the context of the numbers of devices and the organization they were going to.

Anyway, so we're finished with the rollout (post complimentary upgrade to 64GB ram on our laptops which came out of the factory misconfigured with only 32) and now we're in the meat and potato part of the project - moving all this stuff down the street. At the new location, we'd already purchased a metric crapload of peripherals (with spares) and as with all moves you then have the luxury of going through things and addressing the hiccups and bumps that occurred along the way, "defects" if you will with the move.

Well, one fairly large defect that reared its ugly head relatively soon into the office move was the rate at which our keyboards were failing on us, not the mouse - just the keyboards. Certain keys actually and they were failing at a rate of maybe 20-30%. Normally, if you only bought maybe 10-20 or maybe 30 you'd probably be okay with these margins but if you blow these out to 200/300 keyboards (with spares not in the field) you can see how this would become problematic.

Anyway, fast forward a bit I'm sitting on an email chain about 8-10 emails deep at this point with generic Helpdesk from Dell who of course, needed to run through his checklist for things which wen

This was my first year doing Advent of Code and I just got my 50 stars yesterday. Thought I'd share some thoughts.

I've been working in the software industry professionally for around 15 years now, though I've spent that last 5 or so of them more on the management, production, recruitment, training side of things.

I've never really done coding challenges before so after day 16 this became a bit of a baptism of fire.

Having the community here was great. I avoided looking at the subreddit until after I had completed the day's challenge, which was fun - it felt like walking into an inside joke. Getting to enjoy the memes is almost as satisfying as getting that star.

Though I did need to get a hint on Day 24 and peeked at the subreddit early on days 19 and 22 to make sure I was on the right path and not wasting my time (was doing this around work).

Anyway - some general thoughts and lessons learned.

# This is nothing like coding in real life.

Saw people saying this a lot in the comments and I agree with this sentiment 100%,

That being said, there are obviously some really valuable skills and techniques to pick up and apply to your real world development.

For example - when trying to debug a complex problem it's generally a good idea to start with a smaller dataset that you can keep in your head. Take that to the real world with you - use known quantities to debug your code.

Or the importance of reading and understanding the question. On a couple of days I misread a few key points and it set me back hours. You will have the same struggles reading product specs and technical documentation.

Or that instinct you start to get for when something is going to be really slow? That 'uh oh, 9^14' moment. That's a great instinct to have, so you can target your real world profiling and optimisation efforts in areas that really matter.

In moments of frustration I reckon it's good to think about the skills actively being honed as a result of that frustration.

# Exploring your language of choice's standard lib

I was a lot of fun using Python built in datastructures that I've never really used before, like collections.Counter.

Also played around a lot with more complex list/dict comprehensions and more functional approaches that I have typically done. Using map, filter etc...

This was a great sandbox to explore a language I already know pretty well even deeper.

# Sticking with it

It can be hard to get up every day and do something you know will be c

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---Disclaimer: This story may be triggering to people who suffer from simple/complex anxiety and/or PTSD. Please read on at your discretion. I didn't [] Tcakqaal's use of 'hell' because I thought it would break emersion, know that she is using an equivalent of 'hell' in the abstract sense, not actually referencing the Abrahamic afterlife of torture---

---Loneliness---

---[13 years] BF (Before Fluffy)---

The galaxy… is vast!

It contains fourteen billion terrestrial planets, of those, half are lifebearing, of those, one in a hundred are currently host to a permanent sapient population, of those, only a little over thirty thousand are cradleworlds of sapient species, of those, one… is a deathworld.

Lightyears separate stars! The size and quantity of objects that can move through the void without being detected is immense!

This was a lesson my polity, the Galactic Union, learned hard… all too recently!

Around [20 years ago] we discovered that our society had been cohabiting the galaxy with another domain…

This wasn’t the normal First Contact situation, where we’d find a species bound to one planet, maybe with a few extrasolar colonies!

They had a territory that already made them the most numerous single species in the galaxy.

Hundreds of planets and 1.7 TRILLION souls!

And they’d been hiding… right under our eyes and, yet, in the last place we’d look for them!

On deathworlds!

Worlds where the gravity is high enough to crush our silicate

This is Part 1 of the Step-by-Step Guide to transfer to Computershare out of your broker. I eat yellow crayons for breakfast and my last IQ test came at 69 so this is NOT financial advice. This is simply a gathering of information available publicly.

^(Last update: Oct 20 @ 07:45am NYC Time)

Note

As per above, this is not financial advise but if I were in the US and my broker mentioned DRS would take more than a week, I would transfer out to another broker like Fidelity and DRS from there.

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TL;DR Part 1

A guide to TRANSFER a portion/all of your GME shares to Computershare (referenced as CS in this post). This Part I covers most US brokers as well as Wealthsimple and IBKR:

• Fidelity 🇺🇲
• TD Ameritrade 🇺🇲
• Ally Invest 🇺🇲
• Merril Edge 🇺🇲
• Schwab 🇺🇲
• Webull 🇺🇲
• WealthSimple 🇨🇦
• Interactive Brokers/IBKR 🌎

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Part 2

Part 2 is covering the following brokers: Commsec, DNB, Danske Bank, Hatch , Interactive Brokers/ IBKR , Nordnet , Questrade , RBC , Revolut , Scotia iTrade , Stake, SwissQuote , TD CanadaTrust , Tradestation

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Part 3

Part 3 is covering the following brokers: BMO, Chase/JP Morgan, E*Trade, Firstrade, Rabobank, SoFI, Tastyworks, TradeZero, Vanguard, Wells Fargo, XTB

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Part 4 [COMING SOON]

Part 4 is covering the following brokers: M1 Finance, Public, Hatch, SwissQuote, Tradestation

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Can't find your broker?

This sexy ape called u/Bibic-Jr is keeping a good log of all brokers. It's worth checking if you can't find your broker in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 or 4.

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IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SLOW DRS TRANSFERS

USA:

If your brokers is taking more than 3-7 days for a DRS transfer, it is most likely because they plainly don't have your shares and will duck around with you to get the transfer done. Of course, they could be really busy but still, I doubt it's a good-enough excuse. A few solutions:

1. YOU ARE OK WITH THE WAIT: Enuf said
2. YOU PRESSURE THEM TO GET IT DONE FASTER: They will more likely push back but you can try
3. YOU TRANSFER TO ANOTHER BROKER WHO CAN DO IT FASTER (Personally, I like this one)

**In that case, you

Recently, I shared with an friend of mine my petty frustration: I couldn’t choose between playing Hearthstone and Magic the Gathering: Arena (MTGA). “Why not just play both?” he countered. “You don’t have to be exclusive.”

As I then attempted to explain, my sense was that as both games had so much to offer, I was not going to fully appreciate either by dabbling between the two. My experience playing Hearthstone the past two years or so has been a fully immersive deep dive, where I played daily, stayed up to date on competitive meta trends, spent time engaging in various online communities, and grinded to Legend or at least high Diamond every month. If I was going to play MTGA — and I was increasingly feeling the desire to, for reasons I will share below — I was likewise going to likewise go all. in. Which game then, better rewarded my time and efforts?

In the following piece, I intend to detail the relative strengths and weaknesses of these two giants in the Digital CCG (Collectible Card Game) sphere. Hopefully, my experience in both worlds can be a helpful starting point for those curious about the experience of playing in a parallel CCG universe; if not, I believe detailing these differences might at least engender a clearer vision of what one’s chosen game “could be”.

Finally, in case my click-baity subtitle causes confusion, I would like to state from the outset that I do not intend to definitively prove which game is superior; there is a high level of subjectivity in arguments such as these and I merely hope to open a meaningful discussion and offer some clarity. In other words: no need to be defensive! Personally speaking, both games have offered me immense amounts of fun and each has unique qualities to offer to their respective audience. All that being said, for fun and giggles I will offer a “winning” verdict for each category.

I should also note that I will mainly be limiting my discussion to what is now known as “Traditional Hearthstone” (as opposed to it’s many offshoots such as Battlegrounds, Duels, and Mercenaries).

Accessibility

Hearthstone: The first and perhaps most obvious strength of Hearthstone is it’s sheer accessibility which is not to be underestimated, especially for someone such as myself for whom this was my first exposure to deck-building card games. Though I have been made to understand that the tutorial may be lacking, the gameplay itself is relatively straightforward: 30 card decks; 3/4 cards in an opening hand

Pilot on me!!

https://preview.redd.it/v28yc5f2th981.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=53a5a90337f49fcc3b468f6bbc9b25d8b5a83167

Note: This post also exists in podcast form, if you prefer to listen.

Scout

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2 Plays

Scout is an interesting mix of Bohnanza’s locked hand of cards and a ladder-climbing mechanism similar to Tichu. The new version comes at us from publisher Oink Games who fittingly crams it into their classic tiny box with a colorful, minimalist makeover. The only concession that seems to have been made here is the unusually thin/flimsy cards that were likely selected to ensure that everything could still fit in the box.

In Scout, you play as many rounds as there are players as you try to accumulate the most points by the game end. Each round, the entire deck is dealt out, and immediately one of the most important decisions you will make is whether or not to flip your entire hand upside down. The top of each card will feature a different number from the bottom of each card, with these numbers ranging from 1-10. So the first thing you’ll have to evaluate is which orientation has the most potential.

Just like Bohnanza, you are not allowed to flip or reorder individual cards in your hand. So once you commit to one of your two options, you’ll have to deal with what you’ve got. The thing to look for is sets of the same number or runs of consecutive numbers that are either ascending or descending. Sometimes you get unbelievably lucky with one or more sets of 3 or even 4 cards perfectly lined up together, other times you start a round with hot garbage, and this is undoubtedly the weakest link in Scout’s design.

Fortunately, there are a fair amount of clever plays you can make, regardless of the hand you are dealt. And typically, consistent cleverness can really pay off over the course of multiple rounds.

While your first ever round or two m

TLDR; The breadcrumbs dropped by the disclosure team might have a strong tie to the time component of the time evolution operator of quantum mechanical systems.

Disclosure: I am not a physicist.

Lue has stated twice that he leaves breadcrumbs in every interview.

21OCT2021 - Theories of Everything with Lue https://youtu.be/qfa5rWYHCCg?t=1216

>Lue Elizondo - "I've always left breadcrumbs in every interview I ever do for the last four years"

19NOV202 - New Frontier Network https://youtu.be/P4yjMl6mUyc?t=4837

>Lue Elizondo - "And again, I kind of left some breadcrumbs. If people know how I work they'll realize every time I have one of these conversation I always leave breadcrumbs; ALWAYS!"

Operating under the assumption that he and his cohorts have been leaving both intentional and unintentional breadcrumbs for the community to find, you can discover some absolute gold nuggets to many aspects of the phenomenon. This post may reveal one of those nuggets.

You are highly encouraged to dig deep into and re-watch all of the interviews and presentations of Lue Elizondo, Tom Delonge, Jim Semivan, Eric Davis, and Hal Puthoff looking for those breadcrumbs. This post will contain both transcript excerpts, timestamped videos, and web resource links for your reference. Please pardon any misspellings, slight alterations for clarification, or minor errors. Any glaring errors will be corrected if they are found and pointed out.

Please try leaving your preconceived notions of what the true story may be and your personal biases aside. Leaving biases aside means trying to take every word they say literally and applying an analysis as to their intent for saying what they did. The results have lead down a very interesting path of discovery to some very deep and interesting physics. There are several topics of the phenomenon that can be pieced together in this manner that may be posted at a later date.

All persons involved in the disclosure effort have been forthright mentioning that there is something very peculiar about the crafts' ability to manipulate time in various fashions. The evidence for this statement is so overwhelming that there is no need to put every reference to it in this post. This post will contain excerpts of the most interesting comments made on the subject of time manipulation.

A copious amount of questions will be raised to help the reader follow the thought pr

TLDR; The breadcrumbs dropped by the disclosure team might have a strong tie to the time component of the time evolution operator of quantum mechanical systems.

Disclosure: I am not a physicist.

Lue has stated twice that he leaves breadcrumbs in every interview.

21OCT2021 - Theories of Everything with Lue https://youtu.be/qfa5rWYHCCg?t=1216

>Lue Elizondo - "I've always left breadcrumbs in every interview I ever do for the last four years"

19NOV202 - New Frontier Network https://youtu.be/P4yjMl6mUyc?t=4837

>Lue Elizondo - "And again, I kind of left some breadcrumbs. If people know how I work they'll realize every time I have one of these conversation I always leave breadcrumbs; ALWAYS!"

Operating under the assumption that he and his cohorts have been leaving both intentional and unintentional breadcrumbs for the community to find, you can discover some absolute gold nuggets to many aspects of the phenomenon. This post may reveal one of those nuggets.

You are highly encouraged to dig deep into and re-watch all of the interviews and presentations of Lue Elizondo, Tom Delonge, Jim Semivan, Eric Davis, and Hal Puthoff looking for those breadcrumbs. This post will contain both transcript excerpts, timestamped videos, and web resource links for your reference. Please pardon any misspellings, slight alterations for clarification, or minor errors. Any glaring errors will be corrected if they are found and pointed out.

Please try leaving your preconceived notions of what the true story may be and your personal biases aside. Leaving biases aside means trying to take every word they say literally and applying an analysis as to their intent for saying what they did. The results have lead down a very interesting path of discovery to some very deep and interesting physics. There are several topics of the phenomenon that can be pieced together in this manner that may be posted at a later date.

All persons involved in the disclosure effort have been forthright mentioning that there is something very peculiar about the crafts' ability to manipulate time in various fashions. The evidence for this statement is so overwhelming that there is no need to put every reference to it in this post. This post will contain excerpts of the most interesting comments made on the subject of time manipulation.

A copious amount of questions will be raised to help the reader follow the thought pr

Shorts Must Close. Here's How They Buy-in

I've been researching the FTR/FTD (Failure to Receive/Failure to Deliver) system after determining this is what the counterfeit shares (IOUs) are, and after finding about the algorithm that randomly distributes IOUs to buyers of stock instead of real stock (check my last report for a more detailed account). When Kenny naked shorts a sale, the imaginary share becomes two distinct but related electronic and notional constructs. An FTR for a buyer (but not necessarily the one who bought from Ken, any buyer), and an FTD for Ken on the books at the DTCC. Anyone who determines they have an FTR can submit a request with the DTCC for it to be covered. The DTCC determines who has the oldest FTD and is going to have to Buy-in (cover their margin covering the FTD). It's complex, with a settlement system, but all FTDs of the same age are treated as the same, regardless who has the FTDs or which FTR they were created with and covered all at once.

Brokers are complicit in holding these FTRs for Ken and the shorts, this is the mechanism they are using to loan our shares that aren't DRSed. So brokers know they have IOUs, but their clients think they have shares, and they choose not to request the shorts cover. They likely do this because they don't want to have to cover themselves. But if anyone, who knows they have one, requests a buy-in with the DTCC a settlement process begins. (Just wanted to add the part about the brokers is mostly speculation at this point, and my hunch, but based on some verifiable data like buy ins being very rare. I should have made it clearer this involves a synthesis of information and some assumption. Still working on it.)

So, if anyone with an IOU submits a buy request (CNS transmittal notice) with the DTCC, they determine the age of the oldest FTD short positions. Older FTDs are chosen first. Then, all members with FTDs of that age get a notice that they have to buy in with another settlement period. Eventually they have to cover their margin with the DTCC, and whoever had the IOU and submitted the request gets their stock. This is just a short notice what Ken Griffin covering his shorts could actually look like.

Even if you can't DRS we should still be trying to kill the FTRs, but a lot of people say their brokers refuse to tell them if they have FTRs or stock, and I can easily see them lying and continuing to hold the bag for Ken. This is what they were lying about in a roundabout way with the