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Insider trading isn't illegal. Certain types of insider trading are. The main difference: illegal insider trading involves information not available to the public. A CEO can sell or buy stock as they please so long as they aren't tying it to info unavailable to the public.

Employees with over 10% ownership are considered insiders. They have to report stock sales of that company to the SEC within 2 days of a transaction. There is also a 6 month blackout after transactions. If they buy shares, they can't sell them for 6 months.

The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 put C-level execs under a lot of scrutiny and it still remains. The government has a strong interest in preventing another Enron from happening.

As with any law and/or regulation everything comes down to enforcement. And I'm sure there are plenty of execs that are willing to roll the dice on sliding a transaction by using privildged info.

Humans are well adapted to short term stress aka fight or flight response. But we aren't evolved to deal with prolonged stress since reasons causing it don't exist in nature.

Why do nitrogen and phosphorus cause algae?

Slightly off topic but i read the panhandle bit was taken off Texas when it joined as it was the dividing latitude for slavery being legal. That bit went to oklahoma eventually.

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Same for kids if Africa and middle East

Babies share blood with their mom, in the womb, Antibodies and other cells are already in the mom’s blood, and the baby gets some of them.

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Generally people with inside knowledge like that are quite limited in when and how they can trade stock in the very company that they are the leadership of.

The last time that I worked for a major public company, upper management could only trade stocks in anything through a specific broker, on a specific account known to the company. Trading stock in the company itself could only be done in specific time windows AND those trades were delayed by a month. All of this to prevent accusations of insider trading.

1. Most high level execs receive their bonus in the form of stock option. A stock option is the option to purchase a stock at a price that is set(usually below current market at the time the option is awarded). They can exercise these options at any time because the price is set before they receive them and it is part of their compensation.
2. When an exec(or some other person who has valuable insider information) wants to transact(buy or sell) on the stock they have insider info for they are generally required to announce their intention and the price at which they are selling several weeks in advance. There are also "black out dates" where they are not allowed to buy or sell, such as around earnings announcements(since earnings are a regular event that often has a big impact of stock price).

It's not automatically insider trading for a person involved with a company to trade in its stock. This law has a lot of subjective leeway. But it IS true that it is HARDER for people in these positions to trade stock in their company without risk.

Oversimplified, you break the law if you have information that is not yet public that would likely affect other traders' opinions of whether to buy or sell stock. But it's sort of time-sensitive and it's easier to get in trouble for short-term decisions than long-term ones.

So a CEO who sells their stock immediately before a bad quarterly earnings report? They'll likely get in trouble. A bad earnings report usually motivates people to sell. However, even if they sell 10 seconds after that report goes public, THAT is fine because now the information is public.

What if the CEO knows that next year a super-secret project is going to release and starts buying in advance? This falls much more on the subjective side of the law. It's harder to argue that if it were known a super-secret project will happen next year that investors in general would invest in the stock today. And there are still chances that between today and next year, things happen that cause the project to be canceled. So this scenario is much more grey area.

So people have a lot of strategies to avoid this. One is to announce projects to reduce how much "secret" knowledge you're leaning on. Another is to buy and sell large amounts of stock on a schedule, so you can argue you're following a pattern and not basing the decision on product announcements.

A problem with it being so subjective is it can look like a lot of times rich people get away with something that less rich people might get busted for. It's a different discussion entirely, but it's more likely that very rich people will employ lawyers and accountants who work together to assess their risk of insider trading charges whereas less wealthy people are more likely to go on their own thoughts.

Texture and colour are very important. And temperature.

Most people think red and white wine taste different, but in tests, blindfolded people cannot tell the difference when the temperature is the same.

Cooked food tastes different when it has gone cold.

Texture of biscuits, temperature of ice cream, sogginess of cereal all count for a lot.

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Humans are very good at dealing with stress, especially when you compare to other animals. Looking at you, giraffe.

However, large parts of human society is actually built on the assumption that, by and large, humanity will rise to the challenge. We push everything to its limit, then pick up the pieces and make adjustments when it breaks. Why? Because that's what the previous winners did, and we are all descendants of winners.

Of course, some won bigger than others...

The wall is plasterboard with a thin coat of plaster to make it look nice. Or a brick wall with a thicker coat of plaster to make it look nice.

If you didn't have the skirting then the joint between plaster and floor would have to be absolutely incredible to look nice. Probably double the time it takes to do the job.

Easier to cover the shabby looking work with a plank of wood. Same with coving.

They hide the fact that they didn’t perfectly cut the floor boards or the drywall so there’s a gap in the corner. Making things look nicer.

But functionally yea those small boards are just for looks.

Not you CAN get skirting that is actually meant to protect the wall by creating a buffer space, like keeping a cart or something like that from scratching it, but that’s much larger.

It's easy to spread culture when you have a lot of people. But those people all need to be fed. China has one of the most fertile farming regions in the world. Many of the rivers from the Himalayan mountains deliver nutrients east through China, providing great farmlands. It's why China currently has the world's largest population. On the other side of the Himalayas, India enjoys the same benefits which is why it has the second largest population.

The other East Asian nations simply could not produce as much food. Korea is on a mountainous peninsula in the colder north. Japan is an island nation. Southeast Asia is a tropical jungle.

Korea and Southeast Asia "embraced" Chinese culture when threatened with China's large military. Japan took elements of Chinese culture through exchange and trade but it didn't stop China from trying to invade.

It’s also IP address, after I set my VPN to anywhere I get every single captcha

When the smartest AI is smarter than the dumbest human, captchas will have to make a tough choice

And it's worth noting that it doesn't mean the skin itself has to change for the file that contains it to change.

Seems like one could just teach the robot to move like a human.

They cover up uneven cuts on partial flooring boards, tile, etc. along the edges of a room.

With a 1hz screen, screen tearing would be the least of your problems:)