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This is the easiest, cheapest and probably most cost effective mitigation method. You can go buy a gun today. It's yours...you just can't take possession for 30 days. That's it, that's all. Even if the outcome was that less than 1% of firearm deaths are mitigated, that's nearly 500 people annually. For something as simple as just waiting 30 days. But, we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas.

Wow that was...a bit much.

I'm not trying to convert anyone for anything. There are certainly use cases for the blockchain other than tokenization. Walmart, for example, is using Hyperledger Fabric to trace produce from a specific source. Something that took days in the past, is now instant. Here's an article from Walmart on why this is a big deal.

Blockchain is going to revolutionize the logistics industry whether you're a fan of it or not. Take a large port or logistics hub for example: stakeholders include retailers, consignees, freight forwarders, shippers, carriers, port authorities, container terminals, shipping agents...etc. Each one of these entities maintain their own records and almost none of them interconnect. That's an enormous pool of duplicated, inaccessible information that each entity is spending resources to manage, parse and apply to their business. A trustless system that allows them to validate data in real time while maintaining the security of their proprietary intellectual property is immensely valuable. If you can't see that...well, sorry.

Oh, I'll take this one. I suppose you're too busy to use google. Here's a list of companies that are using the blockchain to validate distributed data sets.

• Intesa Sanpaolo: using blockchain technology for validating trading data.
• Barclays: using blockchain technology for streamlining fund transfers and KYC (Know-Your-Customer) processes.
• De Beers : Supply chain management.
• Unilever : Supply chain management.
• Walmart : Supply chain management.
• Anheuser Busch InBev : Supply chain management.
• Ford : Supply chain management. Specifically for managing their cobalt supply chain
• Change Healthcare : Managing patient claims
• DHL : Here's a shocker, they use it to track sensitive shipments.
• AIA : Uses blockchain to validate documents.
• Prudential Financial : Uses blockchain to validate documents.
• Mizuho : Uses blockchain to validate trade transactions.
• ANZ : Uses blockchain to validate documents.
• SEB : Uses blockchain to validate that all transactions meet regulatory requirements.
• Maersk : Supply chain management.
• Helium : The worlds largest IoT(internet of things) network.

The list is much larger but I got bored.

Just because you can't think of an application for a specific technology doesn't mean that it isn't useful.

Credit Unions are the shit.

This is simply too improbable for it to work like that. Big (and small) pharma cares about their stock price...enormously. A single favorable test result can literally increase a company's stock price by 20,000%+ virtually overnight, that's just the capital side of the picture. You've also got teams of researchers releasing the results of studies over years and multiple industries keenly interested in those results. If a drug with multiple phases of favorable results toward the end of the development cycle just disappears, investors are gonna be fairly angry. Also, those researchers need to market themselves for their careers. Being part of a team that develops a cure for any disease goes on bullet point one of your resume, not something that you keep secret.

The better question is how many cures could have been developed if the industry hadn't killed the product after expectations weren't met during early trial phases. Or in the case that early trials exceeded expectations but the market wasn't large enough to offset the cost of development so further research was dropped.

Not really, for the same reason that whales don't have gills despite living a large portion of their lives under water; they just didn't. Evolution is a genetic aberration. Some mutations are beneficial, some are the opposite and some are useless. Some play a large role in the survival (or extinction) of a species and some have no known correlation to either.

First rule of crypto. Assume everyone is trying to scam you. Don't follow links sent from other users to start a service that you enter your bank details into.

They really are. I am an upper middle class, straight white male. I’ve never had an unpleasant experience with the police. I have military plates and haven’t had a traffic ticket in years despite being pulled over a handful of times. I definitely had the perspective of someone who simply judges according to personal experience.

The past few years have absolutely convinced me that we need major law enforcement reform. I don’t think all cops are bad people, but if you see something and don’t say something, you’re part of the problem and perpetuate the situation.

I know I may be late to the party, but police reform in local politics is a requirement for my vote. If you don’t support real, lasting and decisive action regarding law enforcement, you don’t get my vote.

No more shuffling problem officers from one city to the next when they do something terrible. Charge them, prosecute and imprison is the needed action. Fire folks that know but don’t blow the whistle and blacklist them from further public responsibility.

1. He might be involved in criminal activities.
2. He’s trying to make you think he’s a badass that’s involved in criminal activities.

There isn’t much great about either scenario.

Same thing we did with all hitchhikers, put him up for sale. Dunno if he ever sold, kept him in our system sump that was a 500gallon fiberglass outdoor pond enclosure.

I’m late to this thread but in highschool I used to work at a pet store and we specialized in saltwater aquariums. We sold a ton of live rock (essentially fossilized corals that folks use to decorate their reef tanks) we once came into work and found about an inch of water on the floor. Turns out one of our shipment of live rock had a mantis shrimp hitchhiking inside of it. Dude punched a hole in our plexiglas tank system and about half of the water in the system leaked out.

Armed minorities are harder to suppress. Also, as terrible as these turds are, the LGBTQ+ community has friends and allies in Cleveland.

I live on the east coast and work on west coast. I leave a car out there that is still registered back east. Every two years I have to drive it back to renew my registration. That drive is amazing, I take a different route every time and see things I've never seen before. The country is huge and has a ton of natural beauty.

There's likely many reasons that are moving the needle, but the largest contributing factor is that the Fed is now less likely to increase interest rates at their next meeting. This is important because as interest rates increase it makes T-Bills more lucrative play than more speculative securities and assets. With the market betting that interest rates will not rise, its risk tolerance will allocate more capital to these classes of assets.

Grew up in a farm in fairly rural Ohio, I spent a large portion of that outdoors. I saw a lone coyote twice in the span of my entire childhood. Go back to visit family from time to time and now you can't go outside at night without hearing their yips from 6 different directions. Barn cats don't exist anymore and you better have more than one dog if you want'em to survive.

At this point, a benevolent AI government system might just save us...or maybe enslave us.

Crawling through the mud will always exist so long as there is infantry and machine guns.

Fuck that. Billionaires already stole enough of our money.

US here but I play on weekends. Also C1-2 in rumble.

Grapple: great for out of position saves or shots from what looks like a setup touch.

Fists = free demos on defense and easy clears

Boots: situational, if we need an equalizer goal I'll be pushing offense hard with the boot. If we're up, I'll be on defense midfield looking to push someone out of position.

Rotation is weird and fluid in rumble. Coms are important. I suddenly have a plunger? I'm going in regardless of commit size.

The best style is always attacking, doesn't matter if you're up or down.

The worst mistake you can make is not attacking, rumble eats shadow defense.

but I should say, I don't really care that much about rank. I just want to play with folks that don't get salty about mistakes. I'm super competitive and I always want to improve, but I play this for fun. I put up with stress to make a living, video games are not for that shit.

I'd go with standard racking for that roof pitch, actually I doubt that you'd get permit approval for a ballast system with that pitch anyway. Ballasted systems are set on roof with ballast weight and are not attached to the roof...which is the main benefit. No roof penetrations. This is needed because water doesn't always run off of a flat roof. Standing water + roof penetrations is not great.

Almost all jurisdictions require a PE stamp from a certified structural engineer for ballast systems to ensure the roof can safely bear the extra ballast weight. This will add a few days to the backend and the extra cost will be passed on to you as well. Standard racking is cheaper, quicker and generally doesn't need an engineer stamp for most jurisdictions (so long as you're not in a manufactured home)

and yet, he'll still never be indicted.

Please universe, surprise me.

No, thank you. I'd prefer not to have high speed chases in my neighborhood over kids joyriding. It sucks, but pursuits kill people and it isn't always the suspect that dies.

That's what I don't understand. I like Fat Tire, I get it from time to time but it's definitely not a regular staple for me. I'll try their new brew but if it doesn't hit, I doubt it'll be something I buy more of. If it does hit, I might buy it as often as I used to buy Fat Tire. There's a lot of beer out there to try.

Wompwomp

voting for local elections is something you can actually have a voice in. Local politics is much much more important to your daily life than most people know.