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Not everyone can access the encrypted messages. Only nodes with channel members can access them.

And everything is encrypted apart from the timestamp, so without decryption you can't really learn much.

This system is federated.

The blockchain means that you can access your encrypted messages even if your server goes down.

Unlike Bitcoin this ledger is not open to the public, it only exists on the nodes containing group members.

And everything in the ledger is encrypted except the timestamp. So without a decryption key, you could tell when messages were sent but not who sent them.

The Greatest Generation consists of people who are over 96 years old. They lived through the Great Depression and fought the original Nazis, hence the name. And they are nearly all dead.

This is not for them, this is for their children who are now in their 60s and 70s, the Boomers.

That's $300+ per illegal shift. Which does not seem worth it to me, regardless of how much the employee was paid.

Up to 800 incidents when an employee illegally worked more than the maximum hours.

So that's over $300 per incident, which means the extra hours were not worth it.

If everyone knows that home prices will rise

Some people don't pay attention to forecasts. Some people sell because they need money now. Some people sell because they need to move now. Those people won't wait for prices to increase.

Nobody knows what will happen. It's a forecast. If I forecast 2% inflation next year, my forecast does not automatically cause prices to immediately increase. Next year, everyone will see if the forecast was accurate.

This is a federal trial.

And while some governors can pardon convictions, the governor of Georgia cannot. There is a Georgia state board that can issue a pardon, but only after a sentence has been served.

This trial is now scheduled to start on March 4, so the defense has about six months to prepare.

While you have your calendar open, the New York hush money trial is set for March 25 and the federal stolen documents trial is set for May 20. The Georgia election interference trial date is not yet set.

That's not the only recourse. They could reduce the Court's budget and thus force them to hear fewer cases. They could even reduce the budget according to the number of ethics violations, basically amounting to a collective fine on the SCOTUS.

I don't hope that aid is held up. It's going to Floridians in need, many of whom already hate DeSantis. And anyway it would set a terrible precedent for a President to try to punish people living in states where the governor is a political opponent.

On the other hand, I do hope that DeSantis is politically humiliated by the federal aid.

The article says that it could become a hurricane, not that it's expected to do so.

No, a spectrum implies that a country can "more" or "less" civilized. But there is no civilizometer capable of such a determination.

It's the same reason why countries do not lie on a spectrum when judging whether they have "beautiful" or "ugly" inhabitants. Any attempt at a ranking is hopelessly biased.

Every country can be considered uncivilized in its own way.

We as just observers on the internet

George Orwell:

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Another indicator is whether the people in a country still divide the world into "civilized" and "uncivilized" countries.

Nitrogen can cause a "high" (aka nitrogen narcosis), but this effect only occurs at high pressures. So it is only a practical concern for divers, because they have to breathe high pressure air. Some divers replace the nitrogen in their tanks with other gases to avoid it.

It is unrelated to asphyxiation, and can occur even when the lungs are properly exchanging oxygen and CO2. It is a poorly understood direct interaction between high pressure nitrogen and the brain that does not occur at atmospheric pressure.

Nitrogen hypoxia is a risk wherever liquid nitrogen is used. If too much boils too fast, it will displace the oxygen in the room. People in the room won't even realize what happened until they pass out and die shortly thereafter.

There are reports of people rushing in to rescue those who passed out, and suddenly passing out themselves and needing to be rescued as well. That's how insidious it is. And that's why MRI scanners (which use liquid nitrogen) have oxygen sensors in the room. You can't trust your own body to tell you that all the oxygen is gone.

Putin can survive the loss of Crimea. And he knows that a tactical nuclear attack means he loses Crimea and NATO destroys the Black Sea Fleet. That's not preferable to simply losing Crimea.

Any further escalation means that Putin likely loses his life, too. Definitely not preferable to the other two outcomes.

Congress also created the ATF to regulate firearms, but that hasn't stopped states from banning weapons and magazines that are not banned by the ATF.

Also note that CAFE is a special case, because Congress specifically wrote a provision in the law that states were not allowed to set more stringent emission standards unless they obtained a waiver.

Anyway, states haven't really had reason to ban certain medications before, because until now medications were relatively uncontroversial. There is only one example I'm aware of: Massachusetts tried to ban a new opiate in 2014. They were sued by the drug manufacturer, and the judge sided with Big Pharma to undo the ban.

Massachusetts did not appeal, so apparently all we have for now is two contradictory opinions by two lower courts. In other words, legally uncharted waters. While one can certainly hope that future rulings will undo the mifepristone ban, realistically most observers acknowledge that preemption is a complex issue and neither side is certain to prevail.