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Temperatures can be given more accurately in Fahrenheit with whole numbers

You want a ton of cards to get good credit

5% is a lot bigger than 1%

Rewards add up

Eh, I think the problem is the customers just take what apple gives them

My girlfriend loves her iPhone 13 mini. Yet when she needs a new phone, she will get the iPhone large whatever.

They know this and don't care to please the small portion of their fan base that want a smaller phone.

Having a mini line is just an extra cost to them and apple cuts all the costs they can to maximize profit. Not to please their consumers.

This is why Southern US has a problem when it snows. Everyone pretty much has summer tires.

In the cold, summer tires are as hard as hockey pucks.

Social security would be a ponzi scheme if it wasn't done by the government. System only works because new younger people are "convinced" to put in money to pay the old in hopes that new younger people will pay them in the future.

The social security liability is currently 23 trillion. If no new people started paying in and everyone wanted to cash out, they couldn't get a dime.

We are 33 trillion dollars in debt. 33 trillion.

If we as a country ever tried to cut spending and save money to pay that down, our economy would collapse so fast.

There's nothing more scary than a person with nothing to lose

So, person that just screwed up their life. Who wants to hire a felon? How is a felon supposed to get to work in Texas without transportation? You're going to now take a large chunk out of their paycheck?

People are struggling in Texas that aren't a felon, can drive a car, and get to keep all their paycheck.

How is a person realistically supposed to overcome basically losing everything?

Driving without a license is this person's last concern, and probably some alcohol will make them feel better...

You missed the point of what I was saying

2 tb flash drives are expensive but exist

Pigeon could carry 4 tb in 2 flash drives worth of weight.

But simply 3 1 tb drives a pigeon can carry so they did that.

If they had to transfer 5 tb of data to win. 3 2 tb drives would have worked.

This article just states that a pigeon can carry 3 1 tb drives and deliver it faster than gigabit internet.

They didn't need to push the envelope anymore

So yes they calculated that the pigeon could carry 3 drives and that 3 tb was all that was needed to carry to win.

But they didn't set up the experiment to favor the pigeon. They set it up to prove it could be done that way.

Yes and no.

If you could put a 1 petabyte flash drive on a pigeon, it would easily crush the gigabit internet

Does a 1 petabyte flash drive exist? Could it exist?

They put 3 stripped-down terabyte flash drives on the pigeon. Could it carry more weight?

You get to the point where the pigeon can't carry the weight.

All this is saying that sending data by pigeon can be faster and using 3 tb sticks proves it.

If it needed to be 4 tb, then they would have had to use 4 sticks. If it couldn't carry 4 sticks, then you have your answer that the pigeon can't do it with current technology.

He only has to come up with 10% of total bail

Let's say bondsman premium is 10%

So trump has to come up with 20k to give court

Bondsman wants a 2k fee to loan 20k and be on hook for 200k (This is probably low. Bondsman probably wants more fee and collateral)

So if trump keeps his 20k and puts it in a super special high yield savings account, it guarantees 10% return in the time between mugshot and court. (Unlikely)

He withdraws 22k from SSHYSA after appearing in court. He has to pay 2k (this is assuming he doesn't have to pay the fee upfront). He will have 20k.

If he paid the bail in cash, he would have 20k.

He has 20k in both scenarios. No matter inflation, he has 20k spending power in both scenarios

Bail bondsman has to lend out 20k. Anyone using a bondsman is over a barrel. Their fee will be high. They also know they have to combat inflation themselves. If it's better for them to put their money in the SSHYSA, then loan it out, they will.

It's possible for him to make money but unlikely with fee being really low and SSHYSA being really high.

Inflation doesn't really play a factor. Because investment into savings accounts doesn't combat inflation. (This is the whole purpose of the fed wanting inflation, to deter people from savings, because spending helps drive economy) He'd have to use his current high purchasing power to buy something that is worth 20k today (Speed Boat) but worth 22k tomorrow because of inflation.

Doesn't matter if the 20k is sitting in court's coffers or SSHYSA. It's affected by inflation the same.

I'm confused at what you mean

Inflation hurts the value of your current money

You always want more money

Giving away a fee would just mean he has less less worthless money

Best case scenario for him is he feels like keeping liquid capital is worth more than the fee and no one wanted to post bail for him.

$20k. Some people he knows just cracked a bottle of wine worth that. Yet none of them would post his bail.

That's more telling than him just using a bail bondsman.

You pay 20 in cash because you get 20 in cash back if you show up to court

If you take a loan with a bondsman, you lose a fee. 5 of the 20 is lost because you used a bondsman. Only get 15 back after you show up to court.

You don't want to use a bondsman unless you have to

No

You lose money using a bondsman

There is a bail bond fee or premium associated with using a bondsman

This is non-refundable to trump.

If he comes up with the cash himself and cuts out the bondsman he would get all his money back from the court after showing up to court.

Bondsman gets all money back if trump shows up to court. They are not losing a penny. But making money because of the fee or premium.

Only way it would make sense is if he was really trying to skip town. Then, losing fee would be less than 10% of the bond.

"Cheap Trick"

Celcius isn't rocket science

For 99% of things it's simply reading a thermometer or typing in numbers on a device to set a temperature.

Just like I would have to look up what temperature to bake my cookies, 325°F, 350°F, 400°F. I'd have to look it up to cook them in C.

Me "knowing" the system doesn't help me. Because I have no idea what 325°F really is. That would cook my skin, no way I'm "feeling" it. All it is is just a number to me. If I had to push 325 or 163 on my oven it makes no difference to me.

When someone says I put a liter of gas in my car, I can reasonably think and know what a liter is. To me, the easiest way is that it's half of a 2L of soda because soda is sold in metric liters, and it gives me a reference. I also know that a liter is basically 1/4 gallon.

But when you say 28°C, I have nothing to compare it to. I know 40°C is really hot, and 20°C is basically room temperature. Even that doesn't even help me. So I guess I can deduce it's somewhere in the middle? It's 82°F. But I have no reference to how 28°C feels.

82°F. Is low 80's, I know what low 80's feels like. Easy for me to figure out the realitive temperature.

Fahrenheit and weather temperatures just line up so good at 0-100.

But if you just thought of 82°F as 82% hot you could easily get a general idea of how hot it is.

Livable temperatures are between 50°F and 100°F. Humans like it halfway between the two. ~75% hot. 65°F is a cold house, 85°F is a hot house. 99% of homes are between those two and still averages to 75°F.

1°F is smaller than 1°C.

82°F vs 83°F a normal person wouldn't be able to tell the difference. But you know, as it approaches 85°F or 90°F it's definitely heating up.

I could say 93°F. 93% hot. That's pretty hot. I'm sure you could wrap your mind around that.

But tell me 34°C and how am I suppose to really quickly wrap my head around that?

6° less than the hottest realistic temperature outside? I don't even know how 1°C drop feels, much less 6°.

• or - 5°C

23°F to 41°F is -5°C to 5°C

If it's below 40°F I'd be cautious of Ice. Once again, it doesn't matter that water freezes at exactly 32°F at standard pressure.

It's like boiling water. No one puts a thermometer in water to make sure that it hits 100°C exactly.

150°F water will scald you in a second (65°C)

140°F water will scaled you in 3 seconds (60°C)

120°F water will scaled you in 10 minutes (50°C)

+100°F water has the potential to scaled you (~40°C)

I'd rather know that +100°F water has a chance to burn me than remembering +40°C has a chance.

That's way more important knowledge than the freezing and boiling temperatures of water at standard pressure.

Oh they definitely advertise to doctors as well

If you skip out on court, you owe the whole thing.

Water freezes at 0°C at standard pressure, sea level.

If you are above or below, it will be different.

Saying "It's not 0°C outside so there's no ice on the road" is dumb. Because there could definitely be ice on the road.

You should be looking out for other things while driving. Not if the one thermometer, who knows where, is saying that it's 0°C or not.

What's 28° C? How can I envision in my mind what that means?

0-40 as a scale. 28 is about 3/4 between the two. So it's towards the hotter side but how far into it?

It's 82.4° F

Low 80s. I know exactly how low 80's feel.

0-100 is easy to compare with %

82.4° F is 82% hot.

Humans like it around 75% hot between 50-100.

So 82° is hot but not pushing 90s

You can get a general idea of temperature very easy.