Modulo is much easier to understand with clocks.

Suppose It is currently midnight. What time will it be in 3 hours? 3 mod 24 = 3. It will be 03:00

What time will it be in 27 hours? 27 mod 24 = 3. We go through a whole day (24 hours) to get back to midnight, then continue another 3 hours, for a total of 27. The time will be 03:00.

What time will it be 48 hours from now? 48 mod 24 = 0. 48 hours from midnight will be midnight.

What time will it be 6 hours from now? 6 mod 24 = 6.

Conceptually, X mod Y means that instead of 24 hours per day, we are splitting the day into Y “hours”, labeled 0 to Y-1. We start at 0, and pass through X “hours”. X mod Y is the “hour” we finish up in at the end. 5 mod 2 means we have a 2-hour day, with hours 0 and 1. We pass through 5 of those hours. When we finish, are we at hour 0 or hour 1?

Sounds like a good way to kill social media. Anti-social media will thrive in such an environment.

Sure it will. To bypass the ban, kids will be forced to conceal their identities. If they expose themselves, the platforms will be compelled to close their accounts. The consequence of failure to maintain privacy is the inconvenience of opening a new account.

This ban would teach kids to lie better. To conceal their identities online.

That certainly isn’t the objective of the ban, but it would be a positive consequence.

Unfortunately, the negative consequences almost certainly outweigh the positive.

On the plus side, kids under 15 should be taught not to give their names, ages, locations, or any other personal data on the internet. Avoiding the bans that providers would have to enforce against them instills long-term privacy consciousness, making them better netizens in the future.

On the minus, the kid is now violating the law when they get online. They are going to conceal their online activities from the responsible adults in their lives. Groomers and other predators are going to have a field day.

What the ban absolutely won’t do is reduce screen time or keep kids off social media.

UnitedHealth Group – Stephen J. Hemsley, CEO

Got it. All I needed to see.

Protestors need to shift their attention from ICE to the oligarch signatories of this letter.

You evidently have displayport, so the solution seems pretty straightforward. Pull hard disks, install windows on a blank SSD. Send series of nastygrams to MSI.

i’m well aware.

Clearly, not.

where’s the alliance in it?

Their shared objective in 1939 was to carve up and annex Europe between them. That one party to the alliance unilaterally terminated the alliance does not mean that the alliance never existed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact

All you need to do to make wheat edible is soak it in water to make it soft enough to chew. Wheat in water is “gruel”.

You can improve upon it by boiling, which will make porridge, or baking, which will dehydrate the gruel into a primitive bread. The drained, starchy liquid, if left to sit for awhile, will become a primitive ale. Pre-grinding makes it easier to eat.

Every dietary use is an evolutionary progression from soaking wheat in water.

Wheat doesn’t actually require all that much. Soak it in water, and it becomes gruel. Let gruel sit around for awhile, the liquid becomes a rudimentary ale. Boil off the liquid, you have a rudimentary bread. Want to make it easier to eat? Grind it before you add the water.

Every other use is an evolution of those basic concepts.

Here’s a good alternative.

Blackberry insisted on a 3-row thumboard on the face of the device. I want a 5-row slider, like Samsung’s Relay.

There are a number of potential fixes.

Universal healthcare is one. Completely separate employment from healthcare.

Restore the tax structure we had in our most prosperous decade: 91% top-tier rate. Nobody ever paid that rate; nobody will ever pay that rate. That rate compels businesses to spend $10,000 on “business expenses” rather than keep $900 and pay Uncle Sam $9100. They get to keep $10,000 worth of tangible goods and services, purchased on the market. Or, $900 cash, that they can convert into financial instruments.

We could assign all healthcare bills to the richest person in the country. When we take enough from Musk that Bezos catches up, they can split the bill between them. When they get down to Zuck, they split it three ways. Nobody gets to be the richest. The competition switches from dollars to number of lives saved.

Or, we could roll out the guillotines again. Behead the most problematic tranche of capitalists (as evidenced by their degree of wealth). Repeat as necessary.

The capitalist fucks are swinging the whip. The 25-hour limit is the whip they are swinging. Both are a problem.

The requirement is “proof of financial responsibility” not “insurance” specifically. Every state allows you to establish a surety bond rather than insurance. If you’ve got $30k-$50k lying around doing nothing, you can let the state hold on to. So long as you don’t get sued for damages related to your driving, you get it back when you stop driving.

If mental illness is the problem, perhaps immediate treatment is in order.

Sounds like he’s got a serious case of “cricket bat deficiency”.

Shut up and take my money.

Everybody. Fucking everybody.

#GuillotineParty

Luigi Claus is coming for the executive officers of some smartphone manufacturers.

I’m interested in the Trolley Problem of a hypothetical murder of an ICE agent weighed against the hypothetical murder of a random member of the 1%.