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I'm interested in the second part, how # users are determined. Lemmy is federated,instance so if i setup a community instance physically I the UK and cap users at 9999,flying just under the threshold,but i federate with everywhere, my instance don't have enough users to require compliance, right? What if i set up 5 separate instances,each capped at 9999? There's got to be a loophole...for the children.

I was about to argue and then read "legality doesn't matter". You're right.

It's important to remember that Powell himself does not set the rates, it's decided by a committee which he is currently the chair of. I feel like this fact is absent from much of the news I read/hear surrounding Powell & Fed interest rates.

From MSN:

Powell chairs the central bank’s eight annual meetings. But the other 11 voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, get an equal say on each Fed rate decision via a majority vote.

Also important:

the Fed’s four no-cut calls so far this year have been unanimous.

I realize that the chair is an important role, but am I missing something that replacing 1 person would change the interest rate voting outcome?

I was asked this while traveling in another country. I didn't have a good answer. FWIW, I don't own any clothing with any flags on them.

I've found this only to be true in white collar professions. Hanging out with blue collar people, your job rarely comes up, but it's one of the first questions with white collar people.

...but I have nothing to hide.

I'm so tired of hearing this and when you bring up that a Jewish person did not feel that they needed to hide their religion in 1933, they'll say, ""that's different."

Apps and web sites can also apply custom pricing based on the individual's ability to pay. Payday? The parking spot costs more.

A totally not serious answer. Today, I was sitting across from a Starbucks and staring at the logo. It is really weird. I started thinking that if something were to happen to civilization, all these cups, sleeves, merchandise and plastic stir sticks emblazoned with the Starbucks logo may cause future archaeologists to think that we worshipped some half fish woman thing (or whatever the logo is supposed to be).

Alternatively, this xkcd could be fun to do.

States have argued successfully to tax cross state commerce. That's why you get charged local sales tax even when ordering from a company that does not have a presence in your state. I don't see this as any different, but someone will need to go first to set the precedent.

This is the FTC's rule, but nothing prevents each and every state from implementing a law to do the exact same thing, except slightly differently than every other state, making it extremely costly for the companies to implement.

I've tried several times to shoot fireworks. What settings yielded the best results?

I've tried some long exposures and they look interesting, but smeary.

Wxterior lights turn on and off with sunrise and set. It's been running on a raspberry pi b for ages with Misterhouse. I'd like to change it over to something newer, but I automated it because I have other things to do.

I used to download school menus and expose it to my phone as an ical feed, but no longer need that. It still runs. I should shut it off some day...