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Petition denied. Next move is petition for reconsideration. Docket link is here.

We won't have to wait very long to find out.. Prior to the case being docketed by SCOTUS, the case had been held up in the 10th. Concerned it would never move past the 10th, Brunson used rule 11 of the Supreme Court, which states “A petition for a writ of certiorari to review a case pending in...

@MrBlond , please educate me here. Certainly, if you have a job offer from inside the US then getting a work visa is not difficult (a few months, I believe). Are you suggesting that queue of people (assuming "illegal immigrants" is an incorrect term - again, please educate me) captured in the...

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Now for incoherent rambling about how you might might measure and forecast this stuff... Get ready for some tin-foil hat shit (if you can stomach reading this). The only thing that matters in calculating and forecasting GDP, inflation, or any one of thousands of financial indices, is if you can...

Acknowledging upfront that this will be disjointed rambling... First, a few reasons that CPI is bullshit: 1. The primary constituency of the Fed is banks. Especially big ones. It's constituency is NOT 99% of America. Think about everything that you know that is tied to CPI. From rent...

Sure thing, but it will have to wait until Monday as I can't access those data sets from where I sit. So I'll have to explain less rigorously, for the moment. To understand inflation you need to take into account purchasing power. We'll accept that CPI average around 2% for recent history...

Put this tweet on your refrigerator door and keep it there for a long time. Michael Saylor is CEO of Microstrategy.

Amazon has maybe the best measure of inflation with a basket of goods numbering about 1.5MM. Their models show inflation far higher than what the Fed reports, in part becuase they examine purchasing power. The Fed has always worked to remove inflation from inflation measures. Inflation over the...

Hollywood agrees with you. They have always said the rules don't apply to them. Below are the rules germane to this conversation. Everyone who puts their hands on a firearm is responsible for following them, not the person who handed it to you. Because you are a celebrity does not mean you get...

Cerberus, a private equity firm, bought Remmy and ran them into the ground. Here's a NYT article that is interesting for its angle on things. The Bush's, other politocos, and Saudi's have been firmly planted at Cerberus, as have other foreign interests

Nah. If you wanted to fuck up ATT, the NSA, internet traffic, or some combo, that RV would have found itself in Atlanta. The interests of all three of these targets in Nashville are quite minor by comparison. Some of ATT's largest DBs are in Atlanta, the NSA has a large spy hub there (and a...

The wintry mix... first snow up here at the cabin in Blue Ridge , GA. The wife has whipped up some egg nog, which has been melding with the Four Roses for a few hours... soon she will blend in the egg whites... The Parker's is the best of this lot, at least for sipping

Yes. The question is, who cares? Using the coin toss example, do you really need to put eyes on a coin to see if it is a trick coin (either two heads or two tails) or can you just look at the results of the tosses and determine of it is a legit coin? Even though every toss is an independent...

Yup. We spin up VMs with A100s on GCP all the time. I've seen a few instances where the tab was as much as an average house. And that is one of the problems with GCP, you may have no idea what it is going to cost. This is one of several reasons I love Snowflake as there is a great deal more control.

Just for the hell of it I entered a hackathon hosted by one of our most prominent universities. Funding was provided by a wall street firm. The problem to be solved was analyzing language via a branch of AI known as NLP, or natural language processing...

It's the weekend of Feb 27th. Vortex Optics Team Sniper Challenge Swainsboro is doable. I just sent them a note. Thanks

I couldn't agree more. Numeracy is the mathematical analogue to literacy. It seems most people are happy to proclaim themselves not good with numbers, but almost no one is happy to say they are illiterate. There is no excuse for this, no matter how much explanation may be offered. Right now...

I haven't shot a PRSish match this year and need to get tuned up for the Vortex Team match in NC, and do it in a hurry. AL Precision has their match the same weekend so that is out. Any match suggestions would be appreciated.

Just for the hell of it I entered a hackathon hosted by one of our most prominent universities. Funding was provided by a wall street firm. The problem to be solved was analyzing language via a branch of AI known as NLP, or natural language processing. Basically, we took a huge volume of text...