randywaterhouse

This is common practice across the US and the rule-of-thumb 40x generally tries to take most cases into account. i.e., 40x after taxes and other typical debt levels is "risk appropriate" for landlords... Though don't get me started on how this reduces landlord risk to a level where they should not see profits...

It does seem odd though when you consider one person with 40x may have a completely different net than another.

Underground, perhaps (although German's U-Bahn is the equivalent). Metro, accent aside, is in common use worldwide, isn't it? (Tokyo, Washington DC, to name two Metro systems)

I think it's largely too early to say (in the sense that it has yet to be thoroughly researched in vaxx'd areas). It's clearly taken over the population of infections in South Africa but they're rolling with fairly low vax rates (I have seen a few figures reported but < 40%).

There are some protein/spike characteristics of this variant which alarm scientists who think it might evade vax-generated antibodies better--i.e. alpha/delta-targeting vax antibodies may provide less resistance to this one.

So on the one hand it //could be// worse than Delta but I am personally waiting for more data to flow out (esp. beyond SA).

Deep fried at 350F for just over an hour. Bird was ~17lbs. Pulled with the thickest part of the breast at 155F (other parts were hotter).

Did pseudo "dry brine" by salting it lightly 48h before it's molten bath. Came out juicy and, more importantly for the skin lovers, crackly.

> "for his involvement in the Sparks Group, an international piracy group that illegally distributed movies and television shows on the Internet."

(from the announcement) in case you were wondering if this was some "simple" torrent usage or what...

> "In furtherance of its scheme, the Sparks Group fraudulently obtained copyrighted DVDs and Blu-Ray discs from wholesale distributors in advance of their retail release date by, among other things, making various misrepresentations to the wholesale distributors concerning the reasons that they were obtaining the discs prior to the retail release date."

Thought this was a compelling illustration of how market dynamics intersect w. potential shenanigans... Carol is careful to not level any direct accusations, which I appreciate--but the presentation definitely suggests the data is either inaccurate or the liquidation was in Binance's favor (unwittingly or otherwise).

Wholeheartedly agree about process vs. color-by-number recipes... For those who do like to read offline, I do recommend Ruhlman's "Twenty" [0]. It is well written and illustrated and provides a lens into process via carefully selected recipes.

[0] Full title being ``Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques, 100 Recipes, A Cook's Manifesto (The Science of Cooking, Culinary Books, Chef Cookbooks, Cooking Techniques Book)``

Seems to be using a university proxy to get around FT's usual paywall. I had not seen this method before, am somewhat surprised the university proxy doesn't require some kind of SSO/auth. (if it's indeed working the way I surmise.)