No way to be sure? It is absolutely sure that they are harvesting every bit of data they can from you.
My wife was shocked when she googled herself and found information that could only have been obtained by reading all of her emails. I explained that Gmail and other mail services are not charities, and if you're not paying for them with money, you are paying with something else.
My town has a population of 300. There is no way they could afford full-time employees managing the water treatment system.
The hydroelectric dam near my home runs with 14 employees on site, who work from 8:00 to 4:00. All control and monitoring is done remotely at an office about 300 km away.
It's obviously to Lenovo's benefit to have people believe that RAM prices will not drop, so that they will not wait out the current price surge.
The price will drop if supply exceeds demand, and if competition increases.
There are claims and counterclaims. Both sides sound convincing, but that's what prosecutors and defense attorneys are supposed to do.
I can't believe I'm reading this. Obviously universal healthcare is not without flaws, and there are many variations on the theme. Some work better than others.
But for a developed, "rich" country not to provide it to their citizens is a crime. Of course, the people most affected by the lack of healthcare are they working poor, while middle class people are generally insulated by employer-provided insurance, and the rich naturally have the best health care on the planet.
I think that this is another case of the majority of Americans not being able to conceive what life outside the greatest country in the world^TM^ is like. Ask anyone from another country if they would prefer us-style healthcare, and you will get a resounding "NO!"
John Bigbooty, you are the weakest individual I ever know!
Bigbooté! Bigbooté!
What are you talking about? None of the Gospels were written by apostles. It's very unlikely that any of them could read or write, before or after Jesus.
If Christians are people of the Book, why do they eat pork and shellfish, wear mixed fabrics, and why don't they stone to death adulterers and children who disrespect their parents?
What's that? The New Covenant, you say? Okay, then why, given the example of the Lamb and the Suffering Servant, do Christians fight in armies as opposed to turning the other cheek and loving their enemies? Why don't they sell everything the own and give the money to the poor?
There's always a justification for doing the opposite of what was explicitly commanded in the Bible. Before Constantine made Christianity the state religion, you could not be a Christian and serve in the Roman army. After Constantine, to serve in the Roman army you had to be a Christian. Hmmmm.
That sounds like a very Catholic interpretation (I grew up Catholic). Funny how we need to be told what to think, by people who have a vested interest in maintaining the existing power structures of the church, when the original teachings of Jesus were to illiterate farmers and fishermen.
Do you want a list of the contradictions in the Bible? Or discrepancies in all the manuscripts that we have found, let alone all the translations?
There is an enormous amount of justification and adoption of bizarre interpretations, just to try and fit our theology (both current and past) into what the Bible says, and what supports people's preconceived ideas.
After a while, I just got tired of difficult passages in the Bible being explained with, "oh, you have to interpret it like this for it to make sense". Or, "it's a mystery". A few times yes, but over and over again? No, it seems obvious that we are making the Bible do things it was never created to do.
And, if you can, try to approach it without the implicit or explicit understanding that it is a divinely inspired text. If it can't stand up on its own, it's definitely suspect.
Dan McClellan has a good YouTube channel on biblical scholarship issues.
It took me over 60 years, but I have finally understood that the mistranslations, misunderstandings, and outright fabrications of a small group of people thousands of years ago maybe influential, but that doesn't make them true.
The number of logical, philosophical, and moral backflips that you have to do in order to make any sense of it can only work if you have already decided that they are true. Without all that hand-waving, it's ludicrous.
If there was a way to predict how stocks would move, then I think it's more likely the people with billions of dollars of computers, ai, and low latency connections to the market are going to figure it out and extract that money.
Like a casino, you may win once in a while, but on average most people lose. Who do you think pays for those Manhattan offices?
What you are doing is hoping that you will come out ahead by pure random chance, because any actual algorithm or pattern has already been predicted and detected by someone with much more money and influence than you.