I don’t even know what an auger is.

Say I have a start up. Series C funding is valued at 3 billion dollars and I own 1/3. I use my stock to secure a credit line worth $250M at the prime rate, and I go and buy 10 houses, a yatch and a plane. I haven't sold anything, but I have $200 million in assets without paying a single dollar in taxes. Why am I able to access it and spend as if I paid taxes on that? Cherry on top is that the stock is still in my name, if Series D makes my stock value 5x, not only did I spend the money, but I'm worth more.

Explain where is the "fair share" here?

I have more scenarios on how the rich avoid taxes, if you like to engage more.

Hey I'm not really interested in debating this any further. If you want to find evidence supporting your belief, you're going to find it. This doesn't mean it's real. The fact that you took my "vinegar cures cancer" search (which is just a fake claim I made up) and now believe there's merit to it because you found a search result that glances at the idea sideways is an example of the problem.

Talk to your doctor if you want medical advice, not social media.

If you start the year with an allocated budget, you are careful to make it last to cover emergencies and essentials. When you have limited time before the next budget arrives you can switch to the 'nice to haves to increase productivity/replace before they fail' it's basic common sense not rocket science. It is a tried and tested approach that works. Underspending is a recipe for future unexpected expenditure.

If I blare huge sound at my ears it will ruin them. Like gunshots, jet engine or concert speakers. If I blare huge opposite sound at the same time are my ears fine?

Let's ignore the practicality of this please

If you start the year with an allocated budget, you are careful to make it last to cover emergencies and essentials. When you have limited time before the next budget arrives you can switch to the 'nice to haves to increase productivity/replace before they fail' it's basic common sense not rocket science. It is a tried and tested approach that works.

Priests can be cardinals too

They only encounter it when it doesn't work; and it's a hazardous chemical that makes their job harder.

If your sink drain is blocked up, here are some things that could happen:

1. You just call the plumber.
2. You try plunging it with a sink plunger; that works. You don't call the plumber.
3. You try plunging it, but that doesn't work. You call the plumber.
4. You put drain cleaner down it, and it works. You don't call the plumber.
5. You put drain cleaner down it, and it doesn't work. You call the plumber.

The plumber only sees cases #1, #3, and #5. They don't see the cases #2 and #4 where you were able to unblock your sink yourself.

The plumber's opinions come from the cases they see:

• Case #1 is usually a really easy fix.
• Case #3 is less easy (because the clog is bad enough the plunger didn't work) but still okay.
• Case #5 is now a sink drain full of nasty chemicals that want to eat organic matter (including plumbers' skin).

So from the plumber's perspective, they'd rather you didn't use drain cleaner. They never see the upside of it (case #4), so for them it's always the absolute worst.

If you have a good budgeting team they will. But generally we will let you keep it if we can manage to get the overall budget under whatever upper management expects the budget to be. No sense pissing everyone off if you dont have to.

Since it went unstated before, the massive boundary created by the Rocky mountains provides a distinction between east and west east-of-the-Rockies from the same west-of-the-Rockies

A method can either do a function by the orders given from the caller and end or it can do a function that change a variable that can be returned to the caller.

Method not returning: "Open a box of eggs and smash them"....Done. The End.

Method returning: "Open a box of eggs and give one to me"...Here I'm returning one egg.

Man... I don't get why people hate google. Google is just the search engine and it matters what results you read.

If I went into Google scholar links or if I read publications from nature, science, harvard, Stanford, etc. it's not the same as saying random blog.

In your Google search, the first few are random blogs and magazines but then there are more reputed sources like PBS that talk about how John Hopkins is actually using vinegar for certain specific things in relation to cancer. So what did you prove?

Maybe you are bad at learning from Google searches. Doesn't mean everyone is. I myself have a good science education, a bachelor and masters from the best engineering university in my country and hold 2 patents. Why be so condescending? I think I am able to read summaries from scientific articles or even regular articles from reputed sources and understand them.

Plus the original comment took such a strong stance that lemon and honey have no effect on cough. This is so easy to invalidate with even one instance. No scientist would take such an extreme stance. It takes a lot of research and studies to be able to conclusively say something like this.

Are you a doctor who has extensively studied this topic? If no. How are you so confident that lemon/honey cannot help with cold/cough? This wouldn't be the first time that medicine have been reverse engineered from common traditional practices.

Huh? I’m no less confused.

As a cost accountant who set annual budgets for 15 years, it is because we take the money away if you dont spend it. We are usually trying to account for increased supply costs of 3-5%, plus some random budget decrease upper managemnet pulled out if their butts, so uf you have a surplus, we will yank it so fast it will make your head spin.

Money left over is not being used to make more money, and should be allocated to areas that will use the money.

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Because it's still cheaper or more accessible than travelling, buying and coming back. Which means, of your options for getting that product, getting the one nearby is the cheapest.

Imagine you had a smart little robot, Eff, who did nothing but tell you how long it would take to get to a destination in your helicopter, given the two starting points, but it took him an hour to figure it out. So you say "Eff, how long will it take me to fly from Albany to Albuquerque?", and Eff goes away, and returns an hour later with "7.4 hours, boss!". IOW, Eff(Albany, Albuquerque) returns 7.4.

In programming, f(x) can be any function you want it to be. In this case, it returned a number of hours, but it could return a name e.g. TOPSALES(Jan) could return 'Joe Smith' as the best salesman. The term 'return' comes because you give the function the input data, and it 'goes away', figures out the answer, and then 'returns' with the answer. Meanwhile, your main program is waiting, and can't move on until the function returns its answer. Thus, at that point, the function both returns with an answer, and hands control back to the main program.

Currently, this isn't a big deal, as most functions execute almost instantly but in the old days, you could wait five, ten, or more minutes waiting for a function call to 'return'.

Draino used to be made out of lye, which would damage metal pipes and the rubber seals in pvc pipes with normal use. But that's kind of ancient history.

For the past few decades Draino has been made out of bleach. It will dissolve low density clogs, like hair, but isn't particularly effective against solid clogs caused by things like fat.

Its not particularly caustic, so there isn't much of a risk to the plumber's health if they're wearing gloves. But it will dissolve some of whatever was clogging the drain, which usually turns it into a sort of chlorinated poop water. The fact that there will still be some bleach in it also means that if it spills it can ruin/discolor the stuff that it spills onto. Both of which makes it more difficult to work with than just dirty water.

Basically, Draino works on the things that plumbers don't normally get called out for and doesn't work on the things that they do get called out for. If you use Draino on a tough clog, you haven't accomplished much other than to make the repair miserable for the plumber, who has to clean it up afterwards.

This is it. Last century we would call 411 to find out if a store was nearby/open or get someone's home phone number. It was common slang to say, "Give me the 411" or "Here's the 411" when discussing a topic.

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In most cases, it ends the current function and resolves in either a value or void/undefined depending on function type. Of course it depends on language and this isn't necessarily true for all languages, but it covers most.

Computers do lots of calculations. The vast majority of the time, you don't want to actually know the answer to a calculation. You only want to know a certain thing when a certain other thing happens. You use "return" to output the answer.

Let's say you want to look for Pythagorean triples, three numbers a, b and c such that a²+b²=c², where a, b and c are all positive whole numbers. You get the computer to run through different options for a and b. It will square them and add them together. Then, it takes the square root of that and checks if it's a whole number. If it is, then you've found one and you want to know about it. But the rest of the time, you don't care!

You'd maybe set up the code to try 1²+2²=1+4=5. It tries √5, but it's not a whole number.

Okay, now it tries 1²+3²=1+9=10. But √10 doesn't work either.

Then 2²+3²=4+9=13, but √13 ×

1²+4² fails.

2²+4⁴ fails.

But 3²+4²=9+16=25 and √25=5. So the computer has found a solution and returns 3,4,5.