Its not age as much as your weight.

I can always tell when I’m gaining weight because my knees will start hurting.

I don’t understand how they can keep it blocked for so long. After 3 days, I’d have a Pringles can my roof aimed at a friend/relative who wasn’t blocked…

America is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to America.

2.2 Km to nearest chemist / convenience store.

They’re already appending ads to the front of the video. Instead of appending an ad at key frame 1 they append the ad at key frame 30,000.

It has to know which blocks to chose to get the next part of the file anyway. Except the next part of the file is an ad. So yes there is overhead but not for the video stream server. It doesn’t need to re encode the video. It’s not any more taxing than adding the non skip ads at the beginning that they already do.

If you can get a hold of Dubai Led bulbs, they are supposed to last extremely long

https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-lights-you-cant-buy/

It wouldn’t cost any CPU with custom software that Google can afford to write. The video is streamed by delivering blocks of data from drives where the data isn’t contiguous. It’s split across multiple drives on multiple servers. Video files are made of key frames and P frames and B in between the key frames. Splicing at key frames need no processing. The video server when sending the next block only needs a change to send blocks based on key frames. It can then inject ads without any CPU overhead.

I wish there were more Nickel Iron (Edison) home battery options. Those run for over 100 years and are perfect for a home where size/weight don’t matter.

15 year olds drinking beer during lunch at school isn’t a thing. 15 year olds tiktoking through lunch is.

Yes c++ == c. That’s the point Bjarne Stroustrup made. It is the C language but then it’s better.

Nowadays they’re not completely compatible. But originally it was a preprocessor that created the C equivalent to be compiled. You could write C++ that compiled with a C compiler as long as you didn’t use the extra features.

I still don’t understand why you are bringing up the rare case of a company going bankrupt and shorting the stock?

MSFT was $28 in 1998, $58 in 2000 and back to $28 in 2001. You’d have paid capital gains tax for 3 years despite making $0 capital gains and taking $0 losses. There’s no bankruptcy.

Having diamond hands, you don’t want to sell, but you owe 28% of the $90k you “made” on the stock, which can be spread out over 9 years.

No it can’t. Unless you are proposing a radically different tax proposal. You owe 28% of the $90k that year. Not in 9 years. This year. $25k owed because a group memed a stock that you owned long before it was a meme.

As to my example being the exception, look at any long term stock chart and you’ll see multi year increases and multi year declines. MSFT was the same price in 1998 and 2001. 3 years of paying taxes on a stock that gave you $0 capital gains and $0 losses. No tax break. Just a tax bill because of Internet stocks were popular for a few years.

Give me $25k today and I’ll agree to pay you back over 9 years without interest. Deal?

???

If c = 1, then c++ = 2

#include <iostream> using namespace std;

int main() {

int i = 10;

cout << i++ << endl;

cout << i << endl;

}

postfix ++ increments the variable.

If paying a large amount of taxes on money you didn’t make today because you can save a little money on taxes later makes sense, then I have a deal for you:

You give me $60k today and I agree to pay you back $3,000 a year until you’ve got that $60k back.

Stocks can and do frequently spike for a year or two just because the public has a fad. The stock goes back to the price you paid for it. You don’t have any losses when selling. You paid taxes on money you don’t have.

Google “have you seen Kyle”

And here I thought I came up with an original joke.

The sandbags need to be this high. Everyone got it? Now everyone show me how high!

That has absolutely nothing to do with buying a stock, it goes up crazy for a year. Then you owe a huge tax bill despite the stock being worthless the next year when you need to sell it.

Thousands of companies go up one year and go down the next. They aren’t bankrupt.

This isn’t about borrowing against assets. I’m fine if that’s taxable.

This is about holding a stock and paying tax just for owning it despite it might be worthless when you go to sell it.

Could you explain what you mean? This isn’t about shorting into bankruptcy.

This is about you buying a stock in a company and it goes up like crazy (Game Stop). You now owe thousands in taxes that year. The next year it goes down to less than you paid and you need to sell the stock. You paid taxes for losing money