Axstrom's Notes

1. The list is here: big jump list
2. The draw (1-5548) is 877, 1520, 4754, 5265, 1478
   1. Drawing 5 so there are backups in case of issues, but the jumper gets to choose among 4
   2. 877 is Earth Final Conflict - A TV show whewre aliens come and uplift Earth but have a hidden agenda
   3. 1520 is Investiture of the Gods - A fantasy tale in Zhou Dynasty
   4. 4754 is Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep - a Disney mashup videogame
   5. 5265 is The Fountain - A film about contuinity across time, grief, death, and growth
   6. Jumper chooses The Fountain
      1. Jump Doc
      2. Reddit discussion
   7. Jumper buys access to The Biosphere Supplement
      1. Supplement Doc

Build Notes

1. Drawbacks - None - Part of the point is that you can't have everything
2. Companions - None - This is the journey of an individual soul
3. Origin
   1. Past: Noble - setting the stage for grander thigns
   2. Present: Inventor - striving for progress
   3. Future: Witness - seeing what has become of the world
4. Perks
   1. Noble Thought - free for Noble, stay connected to the people who are affected by your actions
   2. Noble Deed - free for Noble, your actions have greater impact and are remembered and recorded
   3. Inventor's Vision - free for inventor, studying a problem gives increasing insight in how to improve it
   4. Inventor's Intent - free for inventor, your creations are harder to misuse
   5. Improved POV - free for witness, observe / remember events from multiple perspectives
   6. Bystander - free for witness, events can unfold around you leaving you unharmed
   7. All Together Now - merge all your past origins into a complex mind
   8. 500 Years of Practice (Teaching) - mastery beyond mastery of the chosen skill
   9. Soothing Presence - calm strong emotions and suffering
   10. Absolution - If someone genuinely repents, you can allow them to move
5. Items
   1. Meditation Garden - self-explanatory warehouse attachment
   2. Biosphere - Full purchase activates the Biosphere Supplement
   3. Tree of Life Sapling - Grows six immortality fruits per decade, which can (over very long time) grow more trees

Jump Notes

1. I wake up in my room in the warehouse apartments, after shutting myself in without even checking the Benefactor's Lounge the night before
   1. I'm still lingering on the frustration of not cracking the riddle of Allabar, and not being able to solve the problem permanently
   2. But there's no going back, so I commit to facing forward for the rest of the week, and head to the Benefactor room
      1. Once again, there are four envelopes with me, and my big chart of jumps up on the wall, like something from a Kindergarten classroom
      2. As I affix a sticker saying "The Fountain (2006)" to the big chart, a small round outline appears next to it: "Biosphere Supplement available"
   3. On my way to call a team meeting, I catch a surprise outside the apartments
      1. Three of our bard graduates are slowly exploring the area
   4. At the team meeting, I announce my intention to go solo on the next jump
      1. The decision isn't popular, but most of them have waited while I've done gauntlets before, so it's not a big shock
   5. We set up the entertainment room to watch the movie, even though I don't expect that meta knowledge will be much help
      1. For the first time, we don't all fit in the Entertainment room
      2. By count, there are eleven of us (me and ten companions), the Halflings are now up to fifteen after two recent births, and we have nine new bards with us, so we set up a second showing in the evening
   6. Finally, before heading in to the jump, I make one last check of the Benefactor's office to see if there's more information on the biosphere supplement, but though my note has been removed, there is no response, and nothing on the tablet
2. I awake from a deep sleep in a luxurious bed, it is early morning and the sun is still rising
   1. I can feel the absence of my abilities; I am reduced below even bodymod, to the level of a baseline middle-aged man in a world with primitive medicine
      1. Nevertheless, I can feel a gift reaching back in time to me - and as I accept it, I am calmed, no longer distressed by what I have lost
   2. In this time, I have duties, both in the mundane sense of the tasks those around me expect me to perform, as well as a greater sense in which I must try to make this world better
   3. My new gift becomes invaluable in due time
      1. All manner of petitioners and officers come to me with grievances, and each of them are a storm of emotions - no one comes before their Count to declare how satisfied they are with things
      2. In short time, word of my wisdom spreads, and my council is sought by King Ferdinand
   4. I lobby my King with an eye to improving the lives of all involved
      1. It is the lives of ordinary Spaniards that are the measure of his ability as a King, not the mass of his treasury
      2. Colonialism brings with it dangers beyond the obvious, and responsibilities for ages to come
      3. Allowing the priests to destroy artifacts of other cultures does not increase our glory, but diminishes it
   5. Despite my ability to make my case clearly and seemingly overcome all objections, my guidance is rarely heeded when I leave the room
   6. And before long, it seems I have made enemies of those who stand to gain by plundering the New World
      1. They do not discuss the matter with me, or make their displeasure known by facing me down in violence
      2. But as the breath leaves my lungs over dinner, my last thought is that I have been poisoned by a coward
3. I awake from a fitful sleep in a large bed, my wife still asleep beside me despite the chirping of my alarm clock
   1. My first throught is of the date - It is September 7, 1999 - the first day of fall semester
      1. This will not be my first time teaching CS 101, but this time will be different, I can feel the power in my body, my mind, and my soul
   2. I arrive at my office early, of course, and make sure everything is in order - the syllabus handouts are ready, my slides are in order and proof-read, and my TAs have confirmed their preparedness
      1. The lecure hall is large - so many students sign up for CS 101 without any prior programming knowledge, just to see what it's like, or convinced that they will be a natural
      2. As the students file in, they sparsely occupy the massive auditorium, afraid to sit near people they don't know, not fully understanding that for the vast majority of them, this is their first class on campus, their first opportunity to get to know eachother
      3. I exhort them to move towards the front so they can hear and see better, and a few oblige
      4. The first lecture flows like a breeze, the students hanging on my words as I understand what each one needs to hear to understand what the rest of this semester will hold
   3. By semester's end, the students and TAs are in awe, the CS department chair has asked for my materials and told me that spring registrations for CS102 are higher than ever, both of the student papers have run articles praising my class, and the dean of Arts and Sciences has interceded to clear my spring schedule to prioritize my research work on the condition that I teach 101 again next year
      1. I appreciate my grad students and TAs, but I don't have a real family in this life, so I head into the warehouse for winter break
4. I awaken rested and enthusiastic on a beautiful spring day
   1. It is graduation day for the first group of freshman I taught after coming to this jump, nearly four years ago
      1. They have come so far, and I'm fortunate that some of the best have continued to work with me, and three of them will be graduate students working under me starting in the fall
   2. It is also the first day of human trials for the drug, a new anti-inflammatory
      1. We were hoping it would treat chronic inflammatory diseases, but early testing suggests that it may significantly reduce hay fever, which would be great if we can mass produce it cheaply
   3. My reputation at the school has skyrocketed thanks to the combination of my groundbreaking research plus my teaching perks ensuring high instructor reviews as well as students learning and retaining more
      1. My tenure process has been fast-tracked, since the dean is rightly concerned about losing me to another institution
5. I awaken slowly, and awkwardly, as if from a coma, as a cocktail of drugs is released into my body, still restrained on my cryobed
   1. Our vessel, the Cyllene, is essentially a large asteroid with a hole carved in the middle, stuffed with propellent, equipment, supplies, expansive aquaponics facilities, and a relatively tiny living area
      1. Cyllene was said to have nursed and protected Hermes, as this vessel must nurture and protect us, the first observers, and hopefully, colonists,
   2. As my body and mind resume normal function over the course of 90 minutes, I get a slow trickle of updates on the status of the Cyllene and our mission
      1. The mission clock says it's 202 years since we left Earth, but thanks to time dilation, Earth has experienced 221
      2. Computer Block 5 (of 8) is currently undergoing automated reconstruction as the block with the highest error correction rate at the time the last automated reconstruction completed
      3. 1575 individuals are currently in cryosleep, and 25 (including me) are active, all sufficiently healthy
      4. I am still Dr. John Axstrom, revered teacher and groundbreaking computational pharmacologist, but my consciousness seems to have jumped forward a few hundred years, skipping past the development of miracle cures, life extension medications, and cryogenic preservation of humans
   3. As I realign with my memories and identity, I remember why I'm here
      1. If colonization proceeds, the coming generations are going to need exceptional teachers if they are to learn their place in the universe, and I'm one of the best there ever was
      2. Our mission is expected to take about 750 years from departure to arrival, and though the vast majority of that time is spent in cryosleep, we take shifts being "awake" to ensure systems are functioning and keep eachother mentally and physically healthy
   4. Since the monitoring systems will throw a fit if I straight up disappear from the vessel, I take a long ride out to the external "observation" check, out of the range of most of the sensor systems
      1. There's not really much to observe in deep space - it's like the night sky, as the ancients saw it with no light pollution, but from a different perspective
      2. Here I quickly form a stunt double duplicate, hand over my electronics, and duck into the warehouse
   5. The warehouse clock confirms my suspicions - I'm nearly seven years into the jump
      1. Since it looks like this isn't going to take nearly 1000 years, the team hasn't been going full-stasis mode
      2. The bards have been poring over J-Borg's personal library as well as the impressive collection of the warehouse media room
      3. But the reason I came is the Tablet of the Free - I'm stuck on a large but still confined deep-space vessel until my scheduled return to cryosleep - how is that supposed to entertain the boss?
      4. After confirming nothing interesting is in the warehouse, I head back to the observation deck, and stash the portable door I've been using back into hammer-space before re-merging with my stunt double, and taking the long trip back to the living area
6. I wake up to an unfamiliar synthetic beep - apparently the Cyllene's version of a doorbell
   1. When I open the door, one of my crewmates tells me that our directional antennas have picked up some unusual RF activity that seems to be coming from our destination system, and they want me (as the on-shift programmer) to help the astronomer, comms, and operations staff to help make sense of it, and ensure we're not about to get nuked by a magnetar or something
   2. Initial findings were sparse and inconclusive - just occasional pulses of a signal that must have been very strong and highly directional at the time of transmission, to reach us so far away
   3. But I had access to diagnostic tools that the astrophysicists and comms staff didn't, for all their training and equipment: a series of perks specifically for teasing out the needles of relevance from the haystack of noise
      1. And as I looked at what we were seeing, and what we weren't, the answer became clear: these radio bursts looked just like a primitive form of RADAR
      2. At first my colleagues on the Cyllene were skeptical, but the evidence kept mounting, with 4 additional series of "pings" being detected in the next six weeks
   4. With the spectre of extraterrestrial intelligence hanging over the Cyllene, our XO followed protocol, and ordered the full complement to be wakened from cryosleep to assist in the work to come
   5. Within six months, we had fabricated and installed a much larger purpose-built directional antenna array on the surface of our asteroid hull, and reports of different signals were coming in almost daily
      1. We needed all the extra hands, even our mining and terraforming experts were lending a hand with signal analysis and attempts to form patterns
      2. The whole crew felt the urgency and wondered at the situation - temporally, it would mean that their early experiments with RADAR and initial RF broadcasts would have happened at about the same time as humans did those things on earth, and if they developed at the same rate as us (a big if), they would likely be more advanced when we arrivedd than humans were when we left (and thus the technology of our vessel), and would almost certainly see us coming
   6. The coming months flew past, each bringing further confirmation of suspicious, but with it frustration, as we had been unable to extract a coherent signal - the broadcasts we could pick up didn't appear to be using either amplitude or frequency modulation
      1. More than once I brought signal samples to the warehouse team, but they were just as stumped as us
      2. Even more "esoteric" means didn't work - we tried every variation of "Tongues" and "Comprehend Language" spells on printed, audioized, and even engraved versions of the RF signals we caught, but they all failed and the representations seemed full of too many discontinuities
   7. I could feel my new Inventor's Vision working on the task of how to decode these signals, and about two years after the first pulse was detected, I had my breakthrough
      1. The signals didn't represent continuous audio (like human radio) or even piece-by-piece visuals (like rasterized video), but something of each, and a little weirder
      2. They were composed of many (from seven to three hundred, and not consistent at all) micro-audio clips
      3. It was like making an ultra-low bitrate recordding of the voice of every singer in a chorus individually, and transmitting fifty milliseconds of one, then fifty milliseconds of the next, and so one, in serial, and then starting back again with the first voice
      4. We couldn't figure out why they did this, but once I was able to identify the break points between each "voice", I could layer them on top of eachother to make a composite audio version
      5. And that composite audio could be played, and was a viable candidate for magic translation
   8. The entire vessel went wild when I demonstrated the isolation and recombination of the signals to produce audio
      1. The sound of the thing was somewhat like the sound of multiple birds, frogs, and crickets in a forest, in very brief clips
      2. Of course, I didn't reveal that I had access to magic translation - I figured the comms and signals staff (and the one cryptographer) should have to earn their pay
   9. The remaining year and a half was spent in intense research, for them, while I mostly slacked off and tried to make conversation with the people doing important work on this front, since my actual mission here was to "observe" as humans of this universe underwent a sort of assymmetrical first contact
7. I awaken in my weird little pod bed in my weird little capsule room for the last time, perfectly aware of the remaining hours in this jump
   1. After the initial excitement died down, the majority of the colonists were put back into cryosleep, with only the decoding specialists and those "on shift" like me staying active
      1. There has been a lot of anxiety around the Cyllene for the last few months - we are clearly a colony ship and the intelligent inhabitants of that system probably do not want to be colonized, and may well be easily capable of destroying us
      2. There were discussions about trying to reverse course and head back to Earth, but we could do that any time, and the closer we get, the more information we can gather about the system and its inhabitants
   2. It would be cruel to try to skim supplies from this vessel even if there were something I wanted aboard, so I just wait my time out, helping where I can and secretly translating any communications we receive when time permits
      1. So far it has all been rather uninspiring, which makes me even more curious what kind of species would develop radio technology but not transmit any fiction or speeches or poetry
   3. When it's almost time, I once again make the long trek out to the Cyllene's observation deck alone, and split off a Stunt Double, who can at least stay here for a month, while I slip into the warehouse
      1. When I enter, J-Borg greets me and informs me of a message at the Benefactor's lounge
      2. The note on the door says "Supplement Pending - please attend as soon as possible", so I go in to check it out
      3. With the choices all locked in, the door unlocks and I head out to meet with the team
   4. With the memories of my time in Spain finally restored, I realize how I had been trying to communicate with myself all along, but failing
      1. The need for calm communcation and education will never end - among our closest neighbors or with a civilization 300 light years away
   5. We have the traditional group dinner in the commons, and discuss what's going on
      1. The team did end up spending most of the time in stasis, and the formerly-newborn halflings are a little over a year now biologically, learning to speak and walk
      2. When I mention the Biosphere supplement and how I wasn't allowed to consult them, they naturally asked when it would apply, but it hadn't even occurred to me that there were now definitely too many of us to wait out warehouse changes in the entrance hall, so I checked with the central control
   6. Afterward, no one was complaining when the doors finally unlocked and we were able to leave the commons hall, only to find that the door led to an outdoor path with a natural-looking sunset on the horizon
      1. I didn't want to spoil the whole setup yet, so I said we could tour in the morning, and turned off a number of the facilities and systems for the night, to give me some time to understand what options were available before letting my companions go wild with them
      2. Fortunately, the obvious items like the tree of life and factory complex were on other islands, that would be difficult to reach without the transport disks running
   7. And then I went to sleep again, wondering what the next awakening had in store for me

Notes on the Fountain Jump Doc

1. Honestly this doc has been on my to-try list since I saw it - I really enjoyed the movie and gladly rewatched it again when it came up in my random draw.
2. The author took some liberties with the source material, which makes sense because of how focused on Thomas the story is, and the extensions largely make sense
3. There were a few confusing things in the jump, such as how you get essences and what powers you bring with you into each phase of the jump, but a close reading makes them clear enough
4. The jump has a few really standout purchase
   1. the inventor's intention is the answer to a lot of concers that "do-gooder" jumpers are likely to have in their careers
   2. the full tree of life is an amazing item - the ability to grant perfect health and immunity to aging within a regrowing item solves a lot of problems
   3. 500 years of practice is amazing if you have a particular skill or art in mind - literally centuries better than the "10 years of practice" equivalents that you find din many other jumps, and has a lot of potential to synergize with other perks that scale off your skill in a particular area
   4. Biosphere is super cool if you want your fiat-backed warehouse to grow into something more
   5. The Dagger of the Path is a great example of a conceptual weapon, and something I probably would have picked up if I had a bunch more points
5. How you're supposed to interleave the three eras is a little unclear, and maybe I'm not a creative enough author to pull it off. I don't believe SJ Chan ever got around to writing a fictionalized account of jumping to it, unfortunately
   1. If anyone else has done a good jump fiction of this jump, please let me know
6. Overall absolutely a fantastic jump. Obviously a great option for anyone who likes the movie or wants to solve one of the specific problems available
   1. I'd especially recommend it for an early-chain jumper because of the generally low danger level and great variety of rewards

Notes on the Biosphere Supplement Doc

1. I knew this was something I wanted to pick up when I first read the fountain jumpdoc several months ago
2. I use the "Personal Reality" warehouse which was co-authored by SJ Chan, and this supplement feels perfectly tailored to supplement that
3. There are lots of good pickups for people with various interests, or those who just want to keep their options open
   1. Observation Deck seems like the real must-have since a lot of the other buys are controllable through it
4. The structure of the biosphere was a little confusing at first - I thought that there was an island, a void around the island, and a hard shell, and wasn't sure why you'd want to increase the shell thickness, but further reading cleared that up
5. On the whole, a good pick up, especially considering it only cost 400 CP in the jump, and normally buying warehouse upgrades with CP has a very unfavorable conversion, but in this case, the biosphere purchases all seemed cheaper than they ought to be.

(Builds to come in a separate post due to length restrictions)

Dancerush seems to have tracks with typically barebones charts that players then embellish with whatever moves they want whilst still adhering to the basic indicators on the chart. Is there a rhythm game equivalent for PC where you're essentially allowed to improvise the rhythm however you want and be creative but within the constraints of the track for scoring purposes? Another way of looking at it would be a rhythm game where you're basically improvising on the drums but through keyboard/controller as an input device, and you can hit whatever you want to hit, whenever you want to hit it as long as you also hit the beats listed in the chart.
Rhythm games are cool as a concept to me but I've never gotten into them because I hate the idea of having to only play through a track in one and the same way every time; where I want to hit a note is not where the map/chart says to hit it, and where I want to hit could change every time I play through the track. Looking for recommendations only really led to Dancerush which I think is an amazing concept as a dance game, so I'm really hoping there's an equivalent for a rhythm game instead. As long as it's on PC and has at least some tracks I like, I have no other requirements.

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At my previous company we used https://prestodb.io/, but I was simply a consumer and had no hand in managing that setup. Is there an equivalent AWS service or third-party solution you are happy with for this use-case? I'm looking for more of a managed solution since we don't have any data engineers to maintain this. I see folks talking about AWS QuickSight but my first impression is it seems very dated (maybe not true!) and I've heard it can be expensive (also maybe not true!). Just wondering what you are happy with using.
Also, any best practices I should be aware of? Like use a read replica for analytics? Maybe I'm overthinking this and we can spin up a cheap EC2 w/ Docker for an open-source equivalent?
Thanks. 🙂

I run into a few cheap Generac 070185ES oil filter, I am planning to use it for my generator, but when I check cross reference chart, it shows this filter is equivalent to Mobil 1 M1-103. If M1-103 is suitable for 2018 Corolla then can I use this Generac filter for the car? Any comments appreciated!

I'm trying to mimic a tutorial but I can't find what would be the citadel equivalent to the panzer aces paint colours. Does any have a chart or something I could reference

We are looking for technology to replace current BI system based partially on SSAS.
Where you can create measures, for example, a section of the auto generated SSAS Cube would have:

{ "name": "3223_27527_ Vendor Name", "expression": "DISTINCTCOUNT('Form_3223_ Market Vendor Attendance'[23503_ Vendor Name])" }, 

Then, if the end user then uses this in dashboard that supports SSAS (eg: BoldBI, PowerBI) in a chart that displays a number, it would show a single numeric results of a query equivalent to:

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT `23503_ Vendor Name``) AS DistinctVendorCount FROM `Form_3223_ Market Vendor Attendance`; 

However, and here is something really cool about what SSAS does, that I have not found any other solution in the market to provide the same functionality:
If the user now goes, and creates a Bar Chart, drags the SAME measure expression defined above, BUT also drags a filter, say Vendor Type column - the bar automatically populates! By reverse engineering, the matching SQL query is:

SELECT `23505_ Vendor Type` AS VendorType, COUNT(DISTINCT `23503_ Vendor Name``) AS VendorCount FROM `Form_3223_ Market Vendor Attendance` GROUP BY `23505_ Vendor Type`; 

This gives the same data needed for a bar chart!
I cant programmatically create varying views like that, when the user does not know how he want to slice the data until actually working on it, because I only have one data point without the filter.
Adding the filter in advance is not practical for the business needs, and playing around with changing it in one part of the platform, then going back into dashboard to see the effects of the newly generated View, is also not great UX experience.
For business reasons, there is a constraint forcing the use of this model, relying on user defining partial things like I've explained, and only later slicing into dimensions.
However SSAS has to go its just too slow (and expensive).
The only alternative I've found, is Apache Kylin, but it seem to be old, Java based, not well maintained, lacks community support - I've spent hours trying to set it up using:

1. Docker (no arm image), and even using amd64 on Mac, it just gets stuck on some components.
2. Direct install using the tar file - ${KYLIN_HOME}/bin/kylin.sh start just hangs there, no log file is created I can't tell what's going on with it.

This and lack of documentation in various aspects, makes me feel its not something we can base a new solution on.
But I have not found any other solution that'd provide the above described functionality.
Any advice, please?

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(Disclosure: I'm up 16% YTD. I only hold my strongest convictions with a 7 positions at one time max. Paypal is my strongest conviction at the moment, relative to valuations in the wider market and my own portfolio. I've had a sizeable position in Paypal since before the Q3'23 report (at $51) and bought along the way. Today I doubled down and it's now my largest position with a weighting of 33%.)
Q1'2024 in a nutshell:

Q1'24 saw accelerated revenue growth (revenue +10% on currency neutral basis, total payment volume +14%) and faster EPS growth (+27% YoY on new non-GAAP accounting measure where, they take into account the impact of SBC, a unique transparency on the Nasdaq!). Free cash flow was $1.8B in Q1.
Q1'24 was the 7th straight quarterly earnings beat and the 3rd straight quarter of margin improvement. GAAP operating margin at 15.2% which is healthy as the company claims it's in a transition year.
Shares outstanding have reduced 5% on a trailing 12-month basis.
Cash & cash equivalents are $17.7B with a net cash position of $6.7B. That's 10% of their current market cap ($67B)
Share buybacks $1.5B in Q1'24, heading for $6B for the whole year (company guiding "at least $5B"), so another 5-6% reduction of shares outstanding this year.
FCF guidance for "about $5B". That means at a $67B market cap it's trading at 13.5x FCF including net cash, as the S&P500 is trading at a 26x multiple.
Active accounts are actually up on a sequential basis. Very small drop YoY. Keep in mind Paypal (like other online payment services) had a boom during Covid and this had to correct eventually. It did, and now they're starting to show the first signs of new growth

Some thoughts and numbers I wanted to share but don't want to neatly organise:
Everyone been saying its a dead company for over a year. The numbers keep telling a different story, with Q1'24 being the 7th time in a row they've beaten expectiations significantly. They are still a blue chip with 38% market share in a futureproof market thats growing its TAM at 9.5% CAGR into 2030. Their agressive buyback program is putting a turbo on your future returns whenever this idiotic market starts looking at financials instead of charts again. A nice buy and hold and eventually you'll be rewarded by simple math and patience. They still have $17.7 billion in cash to do buybacks, while they generate another $5 billion per year on top of that. This company is fucking flooding with cash and MGMT has told explicitly their buyback is one of the mail pillars to drive shareholder returns. (+27% YoY increase in EPS is a testament to this).
The Covid-boom in online shopping and payments, combined with the general stock market boom in 2021 led to an insane valuation and as with all these stocks: when the bubble burst there were LOTS of retail bagholders. Remember Terry Smiths quality-fund 'Fundsmith' used to have a sizeable Paypal position, but sold out because of capital allocation issues by the former management and declining margins. He was right about that. However, the company has since gotten new management, and their Q1 results have already seen significant improvement in the key metrics. Revenue growth is accellerating, margins are improving, active accounts have at least stabilized and it looks like we have reached a turning point. That's one of the main things I'll be looking for in Q2'24. Imo, the decline in active accounts is a sole result of the Covid-boom&bust. Lots of users who didn't need it after the lockdowns stopped using their accounts. We've seen the bottom and I'm pretty sure we're gonna see it return to growth into 2025. Their new offerings and marketing inititives should support this.
The new CEO (Alex Chriss, ex-Intuit) and CFO (ex-Ernst&Young) have strong track records and (at least to me) have given a pretty decent impression in their first few months.
American retail (and fund managers) vastly underestimate the moat of Paypal in Europe.
Our bank services and credit card culture differ widely from Americans. For A LOT of Europeans, Paypal is one of the only trusted options to pay for products and especially services (Netflix, Spotify, Office, etc) online. I know more without credit cards than people who have. They all use Paypal for their subsciptions (Netflix, Spofity, Office, etc.). Paypal is convenient AF and never had any issue. The only payment service that provides their level of costumer protection. I cannot stress this enough: their brand name in most EU countries is véry strong.
Paypal is more than Paypal branded checkout.
Paypal owns Venmo. They haven't fully explained how they are supposed to make it generate cash, but I'm confident they'll eventually find a way. Just reminding people they're not that out-of-fashion as commonly believed.
Paypal owns Braintree. It's a payment processor that also runs the backend when you use Apple Pay for example. They compete with Adyen and Stripe on this. Paypal branded checkout kinda competes with Braintree internally. Paypal branded checkout used to be the strongest, now branded checkout is stalling, while Braintree is growing double digit every quarter. Braintree is a lower-margin business, so when transaction volume shifts internally from branded to Braintree, overall margins decline. This has been the main driver for the margin decline post-2021. Margins have been improving for 3 quarters in a row now. The narrative of online payments being a fast race to the bottom is untrue. Even Adyen (strong growth company who stole Ebay from Paypal) has seen a significant decline in margins so they're not interested in a price war. TAM is huge, there's more than enough room for multiple strong companies to co-exist. Paypal is still the largest with 38% market share, while simultaneously having the best balance sheet and the lowest valuation.

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Bovada Sportsbook Review 2024

Bovada History
Bovada has firmly established itself as the most popular offshore online sportsbook for players in the U.S. Bovada covers a typical range of sports. It has a top-rated reputation for paying customers out on time, and we have always found the customer service at Bovada to be responsive and has multiple ways of staying in contact with a customer.
Bovada was initially part of the Bodog, the brand launched by entrepreneur Calvin Ayre in 2000. Bovada is the U.S. sports betting app, If you are looking for a sports betting sites in Canada Bodog is available today.
Customer Service
The customer service team works 24/7, 365 days a year. Bovada’s customer service team tends to be active across the web’s sports betting and gambling forums. There is chat, email and of course phone options for getting in touch with Bovada. If you are on X then there is a Bovada handle to follow.
Is Bovada safe? The site uses SSL encryption software to keep the connection secure. Bovada has been in business for over 20 years. If it was one of those rip off sites, then it would have gone out of business a long time ago. The team at Bovada has made it a premier offshore site and a large part of the credit goes to the responsive nature of the customer service department.
Website Experience
The Bovada site has all of the sports betting wagers than a US customer would expect. Ease of navigation, betting menu and overall aesthetics. It is easy to browse and the various sports and markets are laid out in an obvious manner. The site is devoid of unnecessary clutter.
The menu at the top of the homepage allows you to choose from the most popular sports, including football, basketball, soccer, and hockey. There are also icons that take you straight through to the live betting section and to a list of all the sports covered. A Quick Links section to the left of the sports betting homepage also alerts you to big sporting events that are about to take place, while you will see the most important upcoming ball games listed in the middle of the page. You can switch from American odds to fractional or decimal odds.
Sports Betting Experience
Bovada offers a wide range of betting options for anyone that likes to bet on sports. All of the major sports are covered, football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, tennis, golf, boxing, and UFC. They also offer smaller markets like, table tennis, badminton, winter sports, and Aussie rules. European sports like darts, snooker, cricket, rugby league, and rugby union will see them covered at Bovada.
As a US focused site, the United States customer will see their favorite sports offered with a large number of bets available. NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL fans will find betting options to choose from on each game. You will often find more than 100 different bet types on offer when you click on an NFL game. The odds include, spread, totals, and win as would be expected. However, Bovada provides fans with alternative spreads and props as well. Yes, Bovada offers same game parlays just like Fanduel and Draftkings do. If you are currently wagering at one of these books then it is worth taking a look at Bovada to see if your bet has a better return at Bovada. Why make an SGP bet for +800 when Bovada is offering +950?
What about European sports? Bovada offers more than 100 betting odds on a big Premier League or La Liga game. Popular betting options such as draw no bet, correct score, and half-time/full-time betting to corners, goal props, and more.
There is also a politics betting section at Bovada. If you want to bet on politics in the US, you must use an offshore site. Political wagers are banned at Draftkings, Fanduel, BetMGM, Caesars and all US located betting sites. It is against Federal law for any betting site located in the United States to offer bets on politics.
Betting Menu Odds
Bovada generally offers everything you would expect from Draftkings or Fanduel. In fact, when Draftkings & Fanduel first started out, they were just clones of Bovada.
Mobile Betting App Review
The Bovada betting app is a browser extension. Bovada offers a mobile betting interface with all of the qualities of an app but with one big difference. An app from the Google or Apple app store would also include a lot of spywares. Your every movement would be tracked. This is how BetMGM and Caesars apps operate. They have access to all of your phone calls and text messages on your app. Bovada doesn't operate like this. There is fare more personal privacy with using a browser extension than using an Apple spyware app.
Casino, Poker, and Other Gaming Options
The Bovada site includes sports, online casino, live dealer, poker, and horses. The online casino at Bovada is one of the largest casinos in the world and will satisfy 95% of online casino customers. Casino games including blackjack, table games, slots, and specialty games. The casino section displays a collection of featured games when you arrive, made up of classic slots, popular table games, and Bovada is constantly adding new games to satisfy the US gaming market. The video poker has 17 different game options such as; Deuces Wild, Joker Poker 52 Hands, and Double Double Bonus Poker. There is also a large variety of live dealer games.
Reputation
Is Bovada legit? The site has been around since 2000. It is not one of those betting sites that comes and goes in a couple of years. Bovada has been around for over 20 years because of customer loyalty. The customers know that the Bovada motto, "never missed a payout" is vital to staying in business. Bovada has also stayed in business this long by evolving to meet the changing desires of the US betting market. When customers want a new type of bet or a new casino game. Bovada responds.
Bovada Pros

• Generous welcome bonuses for crypto
• Excellent referral bonus
• Bonuses are credited instantly
• Easy to claim and use the bonuses
• Large betting menu
• Rewards points can be exchanged for cash bonuses
• Support for multiple languages, including English, Spanish and Portuguese

Bovada Cons

• The non crypto bonus for sports maxes out at $250
• While Bovada operates in 46 states, it does not take bets in DE, MD, NJ, NV.

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Using Crypto
Bovada offers better bonuses and quicker withdrawal times if you use crypto. If you are new to crypto and need a guide to getting started. Bovada offers an online video series on how to setup a crypto wallet. Purchase crypto and how to deposit & withdraw from Bovada.
See videos on how to setup a crypto wallet and make your deposit.
Video – How to Get Started Using Crypto
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Registration Screen
This will be your first step to opening an account with Bovada
You will need to provide the following:

1. Your First and Last Name
2. Your Date of Birth
3. A mobile number for verification
4. An email address for promotions and verification
5. Preferred currency. You do NOT need to make all withdrawals & deposits with the choice.
6. Your Zip Code. Bovada does not accept bets in: Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, or Delaware.
7. Click on verification text or email. Bovada Registration Screen. This will be your first step to opening an account with Bovada. You will need to provide the following. Your First and Last Name Your Date of Birth A mobile number for verification An email address for promotions and verification Preferred currency. You do NOT need to make all withdrawals & deposits with the choice. Your Zip Code. Bovada does not accept bets in : Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, or Delaware. Click on verification text or email.

Making a Deposit

1. Login into your Bovada account
2. In the upper right will be an account icon
3. Your account deposit / withdraw screens & available bonuses are here
4. Choose deposit
5. Choose deposit type
6. Choose deposit amount
7. Choose your bonus (if you want to search your bonuses, click here before choosing type & amount)
8. After making a deposit a verification screen with reference number will show
9. Once a deposit is confirmed, you are ready to start gambling. Making a Deposit at Bovada Login into your Bovada account In the upper right will be an account icon Your account deposit / withdraw screens & available bonuses are here Choose deposit Choose deposit type Choose deposit amount Choose your bonus (if you want to search your bonuses, click here before choosing type & amount) After making a deposit a verification screen with reference number will show Once a deposit is confirmed, you are ready to start gambling

Choose Your Bonus
Scroll down to choose your bonus before deciding what amount you will deposit. There may be additional bonus offers available that are better than the one you were going to use.Choose Your BonusScroll down to choose your bonus before deciding what amount you will deposit. There may be additional bonus offers available that are better than the one you were going to use.
Bonus Screen
The "Choose Your Bonus" Screen
If you click on this, every bonus that you are currently eligible for will show. This is not just for new customer's initial deposit. This is the screen that will have all bonuses, including retention bonuses.
The Bonuses will have important information on them.

1. Type of currency
2. Type of game the bonus can be used on
3. The amount of the bonus
4. The minimum and maximum deposit
5. The rollover requirements if you choose this bonus. Bovada Bonus Screen. The "Choose Your Bonus" Screen If you click on this, every bonus that you are currently eligible for will show. This is not just for new customer's initial deposit. This is the screen that will have all bonuses, including retention bonuses. The Bonuses will have important information on them. Type of currency Type of game the bonus can be used on The amount of the bonus The minimum and maximum deposit The rollover requirements if you choose this bonus

Deposit Verification
Once you have chosen a bonus type and made a deposit. You will receive confirmation of your deposit. If you think there is a mistake. Contact customer service immediately so it can be corrected.Bovada Deposit VerificationOnce you have chosen a bonus type and made a deposit. You will receive confirmation of your deposit. If you think there is a mistake. Contact customer service immediately so it can be corrected.

What are the deposit limits?

Limits are based on the deposit method chosen. Please refer to the chart below, the limits indicated are on a per transaction basis:
Method Minimum Maximum
Visa/MasterCard * $20 / $1,500
BTC, BCH, BSV, LTC * $10 / $5,000
ETH * $50 / $5,000
Player Transfer * $10 / $15,000
Direct Bank Transfer * $50 / $450
MatchPay * $20 / $1,000
USDT * $5 / $5,000
\Deposit limits may differ per account; please check your limits in the cashier page for more information*
\*Amounts are in USD market equivalent; however, as these can fluctuate - Litecoin (LTC) and Ethereum (ETH) deposits of less than 0.01 LTC/ETH or Bitcoin (BTC) deposits of less than 0.0002 BTC will not be honored.* What are the deposit limits?Limits are based on the deposit method chosen. Please refer to the chart below, the limits indicated are on a per transaction basis:

Making a Withdrawal at Bovada

Once you have chosen the type. The next step is to choose the amount.
After selecting Request Withdrawal - below a "Reference Number" will be generated. If you have any questions about your withdrawal. Contact customer service and provide this number as verification for your withdrawal.
Before you withdraw, take note of the following:

• The amount of your withdrawal request is deducted from your account balance immediately for the review stage.
• Withdrawals are processed on a first-come, first served basis and take approximately 24-48 hours to be reviewed. With Bitcoin, Player Transfer and Voucher takes about 24 hours for approval.
• Delivery time frames vary depending on your method of withdrawal and can be viewed on the withdrawal screen for each method.
• We're unable to ship a check by courier withdrawal to a P.O. Box or military address. Double check your address on file to avoid any delivery delays.
• A $100 processing fee will be charged for each Check by Courier withdrawal request.
• Checks requests exceeding $3,000 will be sent incrementally every 7 days until you are fully paid out.
• Cryptocurrency (BTC/BCH) requests exceeding $9,500 will be sent incrementally every 3 days until you are fully paid out.
• Should you lose or misplace your check, a STOP PAYMENT fee of $40 may be charged before the funds are returned your account. Deposit your check as soon as possible as it may become non-cashable after a period of time. The STOP PAYMENT option is unavailable on checks older than 6 months.
• Withdrawals via Bitcoin will not be processed until all deposit transactions have been confirmed.

When will I receive my withdrawal?
When you request a withdrawal, the funds are deducted from your account immediately.
All requests are then reviewed, in the order in which they are received and the timeframe depends on the type of request you submit.
Once approved, delivery times may vary from one withdrawal method to another. Check the estimated time frame by clicking the method on the cashier page.
If you’re looking for the fastest payout, we recommend using our cryptocurrency methods. Once requested, it'll take about 24 hours for approval. Compare the time frames below:

• Bitcoin: Up to 24 hours from when your funds are approved.
• Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Ethereum, USD Tether and Litecoin: Up to 1 hour from when your funds are approved.
• Check by Courier: Approximately 10-15 Business Days via courier once your withdrawal is approved within 24-48 hours.
• Bank Wire: Once your request is approved within the mentioned timeframe, it takes approximately 10-15 business days to reflect on your bank statement.

Understanding the Rollover
If you do not understand what a rollover requirement is then please take the time to read.
What is rollover?
Rollover, or playthrough, is the total monetary amount of bets (aka handle) you need to place in order to cash out your bonus along with any winnings attached to that bonus. When it comes to Rollover, your wins and losses don’t matter, each qualifying bet contributes to handle, and the Rollover required.
Sportsbook Details:
Meeting Rollover in our Sportsbook is a tad different. For winning wagers we’ll credit the lesser of the risk amount or win amount. If your bet loses, your risk amount contributes toward Rollover no matter what. However, bets graded 'No Action', a tie or Pushed bet, along with canceled or voided bets, do not contribute in any way to the playthrough requirements of a bonus.
Casino Details:
There are also some games in the Casino that contribute differently to your requirement.
For full bonus details, including the Playthrough Requirement for your bonus, click the drop-down menu or Bonus Description.
If the bonus you’ve claimed is a Deposit Match, the requirement is a multiplier of the Bonus + The Deposit Amount:
Ex. Deposit $100 + $100 Bonus = $200 X Rollover Multiplier (Varies by Bonus)
Biggest Complaint at Bovada is the Roll over If you do not understand what a rollover requirement is then please take the time to read.What is rollover?Rollover, or play through, is the total monetary amount of bets (aka handle) you need to place in order to cash out your bonus along with any winnings attached to that bonus. When it comes to Rollover, your wins and losses don’t matter, each qualifying bet contributes to handle and the Rollover required.Sportsbook Details: Meeting Rollover in our Sportsbook is a tad different. For winning wagers we’ll credit the lesser of the risk amount or win amount. If your bet loses, your risk amount contributes toward Rollover no matter what. However, bets graded 'No Action', a tie or Pushed bet, along with canceled or voided bets, do not contribute in any way to the play through requirements of a bonus. Casino Details: There are also some games in the Casino that contribute differently to your requirement. For full bonus details, including the Play through Requirement for your bonus, click the drop-down menu or Bonus Description. If the bonus you’ve claimed is a Deposit Match, the requirement is a multiplier of the Bonus + The Deposit Amount:Ex. Deposit $100 + $100 Bonus = $200 X Rollover Multiplier (Varies by Bonus)
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• BVCBITCOIN150 — Bitcoin users will receive a 150% first-time deposit bonus (up to $1,500)
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Bovada Sports Betting Bonus Codes

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Bovada Poker Bonus Codes

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Please add.
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A non-exhaustive list of Traditional Western Predictive techniques currently in use.

1. ⁠Solar and Lunar Returns
2. ⁠Secondary Progressions
3. ⁠Solar Arc Directions
4. ⁠Primary Directions
5. ⁠Profections
6. ⁠Planetary Ages/ The Ages of Man
7. ⁠Firdaria
8. ⁠Directing by Triplicities
9. ⁠Transits
10. ⁠Zodiacal Releasing
11. ⁠Eclipses
12. Horary

B
Books I have read and can recommend;

1. ⁠Oner Doser - an overview of the application of most of the techniques with examples
2. ⁠Bernadette Brady - An inside view into how to apply Multiple Techniques. Rare.
3. ⁠Chris Brennan - Impossible to overstate his contribution to Zodiacal Releasing, which along with the three Robs, IMO, provided Hellenistic Astrology with an equivalent to the Vedic Dasha System.
4. ⁠Carol Rushman - The natal Promise. Nothing unpromised manifests unless the Natal chart testifies to it, following Ms. Moore. You may like Rob Pelletier, Planets in Aspect to understand the Natal Promise.

4A. In her excellent textbook Astrology: The Divine Science, the late Marcia Moore mentions what she refers to as The Law of Three. She said that anything important in the chart, anything that is a truly dominant theme in your life, will be shown in the chart in three different ways. Or it is not a theme.
It's a one time Event.

1. Tracy Marks - For reinforcement of what you must absolutely pay attention to.
   
2. Judith Hill - Medical, and why you will never escape Sign/House overlap. Ever.
   
3. Mary Fortier - Interpretation of Solar Returns. And much more.
   
4. Robert Hand - Planets in Transit. You're never going to read the entirety, but you'll USE it.
   

C
Honourable Mentions - for me, that I've read, and found invaluable;

1. ⁠Arielle Guttman on the Venus Star Point
2. ⁠Gary Cantos on the Mercury Elemental Cycle
3. ⁠Ebertin- CoSI (reference)
4. ⁠Bill Herbst - Houses in the Horoscope

D
Additional Reading:
Anything in the Wooden Book Series but especially the Quadrivium which covers Sacred Numbers, Geometry, Music, and Cosmology. (Trust me, it's amazing) Erin Sullivan - pretty much anything, but especially Retrograde Planets for Natal Promise.

From: Bills16 5/15/2024 9:58:36 AM --- From SI board
.Re: Meeting this AM. Please revise/add anything missed.
An interesting interview- basically a company update.
Update on Zenguard
- 1 ½ years of 3rd party testing to verify effectiveness- results have been spectacular
- Rehash of the TO announcement last week showing city savings of $40 million/annum using MERV 9A filters coated with Zenguard- equivalent to MERV 13. MERV 9A uses less energy, changed less frequently, reduction of 3000 tonnes/annum of CO2 emissions so green impact. “The product will sell itself”. Full patent. Working with potential partners- federal, provincial, municipalities and private entities. Building a pipeline of customers just awaiting PMRA approval. HVAC manufacturers very excited and other jurisdictions accept the PMRA approval.
Update on Aptamers
- completed influenza aptamer- used against various strains including H5N1 which has a 50% mortality rate.
- keen interest
- early results tested against virus proteins and worked well.
- immediate need and opportunity. Working with various global governments.
- testing is ongoing and expect further announcements in the next few weeks.
Both areas are the focus right now for revenue generation.
Questions?
1) What other jurisdictions accept PMRA?
India primary area and established partnerships already exist. UK is changing to accept 1st World approval- should be in place by June so another focus area. Greg also mentioned Australia and that some jurisdictions have no requirements as they lack the ability to test themselves.
2) What margins are expected with the plant in Guelph?
The plant can produce 26 tonnes/annum of Zenguard so expect 150-200 million in revenue with an expected profit margin of around 50%.
3) Length of Contracts?
Usually long-term- 3-5 years. There will also be direct to customer sales. Long-term- the hope is that HVAC manufacturers put the filters into their own channels.
4) When will Zentek be cash flow positive?
Very quickly after PMRA approval.
5) Length of approval for aptamer?
Usually anything health related requires phases 1, 2 and 3. However, not the case for military- because of bio-chemical concerns they get immediate access without approval- interest is there. Greg again emphasized the speed and cost advantages of aptamers versus monoclonal antibodies.
6) Update on Albany
They continue to be excited. Tried to take it public last year, but not a strong period for battery metals. That has changed and now there is tremendous government interest and support. Big strides are expected in the next 6-12 months.
7) One participant provided a chart update claiming we hit a double bottom. Expectation is for ascension from this point- some resistance at around $1.80, but it should be overcome.
8) Update on Icephobic and Turbine testing.
Zentek continues to move the testing forward with Pattern Energy with assistance from Quebec University. The product for application is tricky as it needs to be effective on all areas of the blade. They expect to have the formula finalized and the coating ready for application to blades prior to this coming winter.
Meeting was over and Greg was to do an interview.

So Drumhead Authority has this awesome site where you can compare drum heads, filter by things like "warm", "bright", "attack", etc. Is there an equivalent site for cymbals? I'd love to be able to select "bright", "long sustain", "high pitch" or whatever and see what models fit the description.
If such a site does not exist, then I respectfully request demand that someone other than me compile all of this information, organize it, build a site, pay for hosting, and allow the world to access it for free. /s

This morning in premarket, some interesting things happened. The market open was interesting too but for now let’s focus on premarket.
During premarket, we gapped up to $80. Including January ‘21, this is the most volatile this stock has ever been in a single day.
For some of us it’s easier to think in terms of presplit numbers. When the market closed on Friday last week, it was at $18.31 or $73.24 pre split. In two trading days, it made a 436% gain up to $80 or $320 presplit. This is more gain in a shorter time span than any day in Jan 21, the previous most upward movement. This is the equivalent of a $246 gain in two days.
Daily drops are remarkable too. After it peaked at $80, it dropped as low as 37. This is a 53.6% drop. Previously March 10th saw a drop from a daily high of 87.13 down to 43. This was a daily drop of 49.4.
This is the largest ever daily gain by percentage, and the largest ever daily dip by percentage.
Another fun fact: by market cap, adjusted for the dilution that happened in June of 2021 in which GameStop sold 5 million shares, got itself out of any debt and had about 1 billion leftover in cap raise, this 80 price would have put us at right about $346 a share which is what GameStop capped at in March of 2021 and again in June before being violently knocked down.
I donno what to make of any of that, but it’s fun to look at th colorful charts and eat some crayons.
Edit: volume is also interesting. In March 10 of ‘21 was our previous most volatile day with a daily volume of 286 million. It’ll be interesting to see where we end up today on the volume chart, but as of writing this with 10 minutes to close, we’re at 184 million.
Incredible.
Edit: now I’m going to settle down and watch the battle of $180.
3rd edit: just got my first reddit cares message, that was fast there aren’t even 100 likes lmao