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5 things to know before the stock market opens

5 things to know before the stock market opens

✨ Check out this awesome post from Investopedia | Expert Financial Advice and Markets News 📖 📂 Category: Markets News,News 💡 Key idea: Stock futures rose before a technology outage halted trading ahead of the shortened trading session; Stock markets will close today at 1pm EST, while bond markets will end trading at 2pm EST. Major retailers are seeing a rise ahead of Black Friday shopping day today; The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating investment bank Jefferies (JEF) over its ties to bankrupt auto parts maker First Brands Group. Here's what you need to know today. Major US stock…
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The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into

The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: To win the argument for universal basic income, advocates must confront the myth that less work means less worth.BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently.The general idea behind universal basic income (UBI) is almost as old as America itself. You can trace it back to 1797, when Thomas Paine argued for guaranteed payments in his political treatise “Agrarian Justice.” Fast forward to 2020, and Andrew Yang revived the idea with a “Freedom Dividend” during his failed presidential campaign. Despite…
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Capehart and Weiner talk about Trump’s response to the National Guard shooting

Capehart and Weiner talk about Trump’s response to the National Guard shooting

✨ Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: Jun Yang: The president responds to the shooting of two National Guard members by an Afghan national on the streets of Washington with a tougher crackdown on immigration.To break this down for the rest of the week, we now turn to Capehart and Weiner. These are Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW, and Peter Weiner, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at Trinity Forum. David Brooks is absent this evening.This remains the big local story heading into the weekend.Pete, I wonder…
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Unleashing Junk Monuments, Guitar Player Buildings, and Horrific Rigo – Art Week | Art and design

Unleashing Junk Monuments, Guitar Player Buildings, and Horrific Rigo – Art Week | Art and design

✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions 💡 Main takeaway: Exhibition of the weekA memorial to the unimportantWith the birth of modernism, artists shifted their outlook from the heroic to the “unimportant.” This interest in everyday life continues, as Rachel Whiteread, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Guber and others demonstrate. Pace Gallery, London, until 14 Februaryalso appearLasting impressionsA century of publications by women including Faith Ringgold, Laura Knight, and Kathy Kollwitz. V&A, London, until 27 SeptemberHumphrey OceanTranquil architectural views designed by former Kilburn guitarist and highways. Gainsborough House, Suffolk, until 22 MarchTree performanceThe…
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Intel Rises, Nvidia, and Oracle Slip; Bitcoin price is approaching $92,000

Intel Rises, Nvidia, and Oracle Slip; Bitcoin price is approaching $92,000

💥 Check out this awesome post from Investopedia | Expert Financial Advice and Markets News 📖 📂 Category: Markets News,News 💡 Main takeaway: Shares of US chipmaker Intel led the S&P 500 higher as stocks rose in the holiday-shortened Black Friday session, which is expected to be light on trading volume and corporate news. All three major indexes rose modestly, led by the Dow Jones, in late morning trading. It's an abbreviated day for traders after yesterday's holiday: the stock market closes at 1pm, while the bond market is scheduled to close an hour later. (Reads Investopedia Full coverage of…
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A hyperbolic triangle with three cusps

A hyperbolic triangle with three cusps

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Spherical geometry In spherical geometry, the interior angles of a triangle add up to more than π. And in fact you can determine the area of a spherical triangle by how much the angle sum exceeds π. On a sphere of radius 1, the area equals the triangle excess Area = E = interior angle sum − π. Small triangles have interior angle sum near π. But you could, for example, have a triangle with three right angles: put a vertex on the north…
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What to know about the looming federal ban on drinks and snacks containing THC.

What to know about the looming federal ban on drinks and snacks containing THC.

✨ Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: cannabis,hemp,THC 💡 Key idea: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Production lines at Indeed Brewing Co. moved quickly, filling cans not with beer, but with THC-infused seltzer water. The product, which contains the compound that makes cannabis users high, has been a lifeline for Indeed and other craft breweries as alcohol sales have declined in recent years. But this boom seems to be coming to an abrupt halt. There was a provision in the bill that ended the federal government shutdown this month that would ban those drinks, along with…
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My family’s excitement about Outer Worlds 2 was short-lived – but at least we bonded over the disappointment games

My family’s excitement about Outer Worlds 2 was short-lived – but at least we bonded over the disappointment games

💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Games,Culture,Xbox series S/X 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: IIt's been an exciting November for the Diamond family: one of those rare games we get to do everyone Love the sequel was coming out! The original Outer Worlds dazzled eyeballs with its art nouveau palette and charmed our ears with witty dialogue, drawing us into a classic mystery-unraveling story in one of my favorite “little guy versus evil corporate overlords” worlds since Deus Ex. It didn't have original combat, but that didn't matter: it was clearly a labor…
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Confident analysts often miss the mark

Confident analysts often miss the mark

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Investopedia | Expert Financial Advice and Markets News 📖 📂 Category: Investing,Alternative Investments 📌 Key idea: Key takeaways Wall Street analysts have missed the S&P 500's targets by large margins almost every year over the past decade. Even the Fed and leading economists routinely get their forecasts wrong, yet investors often place too much trust in those who appear confident, a long-known cognitive bias. Overconfidence, confirmation bias, and herd behavior make ordinary analysts and investors believe they can predict the fundamentally unpredictable. As we approach the final month of the year, Wall Street's…
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Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: I haven’t published since April because I’ve been afraid. I also avoided social media, news aggregators, and discussion forums for months. I’m done letting fear stop me. What was I afraid of? In this post I detail every single thing I’ve avoided admitting on this blog. Knowledge Gap Confessions First, why am I admitting these things now? I realized I am not the only working software developer missing crucial skills. My learning path through my career looked a lot like a slime mold…
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