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De Beers recently announced that they will start making and selling synthetic diamonds under the Lightbox brand name. However, it seems that DeBeers is doing this to drive the price of lab diamonds down so there is a clear distinction in price between the real and lab-made diamonds...

They can already make man-made diamonds that are so good that even a normal jeweler cannot tell the difference, unless using an electron microscope. Long temr, prices for real diamonds have no way to go but down.

Mathematically your statement is hard to believe. If 33% of blacks were slaveholders, and even if each black slaveholder had only one slave, that would mean that 66% of all blacks were either slaveholders or belonging to a black slaveholder. So if you factor in the Indians, then less than 30%...

Several of the Democratic Presidential candidates have proposed plans to eliminate or reduce student loan payments. What I have not heard is any plans to address the root problem - Why is a public college education so expensive, and increasing annually at a much faster rate than inflation...

Business News: Shares of several brokerage companies trading lower following a UBS note in which the firm's analyst's lowered price targets on the stocks. Schwab target cut from $42 to $37, TD Ameritrade cut from $65 to $56, E*Trade from $54 to $47.

Does Opera have a feature to copy a column from a table? I mainly use Chrome, but occasionally have to use Firefox just for this one feature. I have tried 4 different Chrome extensions that claim to be able to copy columns but none of them work with my tables.

What are the benefits of Opera vs Chrome?

I use a simple CSV text file, one line per tick event, and abbreviate the tick types to save disk space. Example from 5:00:00PM today for SPY. 17:00:00.1239,TP,B,289.69,SPY (e.g. Tick Price, Bid) 17:00:00.1239,TS,b,40,SPY (e.g. Tick Size, bid-size) 17:00:00.1239,TR,BE,QTM,SPY (e.g. Tick...

I keep my own logs. Today between 17:00 and 17:15 EST I received 4,937 tick data events from IB Gateway, including 229 just for SPY. On Friday 06/14 I received 3,924 tick data events. On Thursday 06/13 I received 4,232 tick data events. On Wednesday 06/12 I received 4,373 tick data events.

Maybe we are talking about different things. What are the symptons of this reset?

I have been using IB Gateway for years and never once noticed a reset at 5PM EST. Is it possible that there is problem in your application, or that you are using securites that stop trading at 5PM ?

Which describes virtually every power utility in the United States. After all the blackouts from Hurricane Sandy in 2012, my relatives in Europe couldn't believe that we still run power cables above ground in the United States.

Actually they were murderers and rapists. But, at the time, their acts were either legal or unenforced.

Poorly written article. The article title which should be changed to something like "Why Debt Is Becoming A Big Problem". The author needs to look up the meaning of the word Socialism, since nowhere in the article are any real socialist issues mentioned.

NY Times: Mexico Agreed to Take Border Actions Months Before Trump Announced Tariff Deal. The terms were decided in December. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/us/politics/trump-mexico-deal-tariffs.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Have you tried booting into settings mode? (On an HP usually by continuously pressing F10 while booting)? Disconnect any external speakers and listen for any beeps while booting. The number of beeps and duration can indicate what the problem is. Some computers also have one or two green/red LED...

You might want to consider giving to your brother now instead of waiting until you die. Years from now, after his kids have grown, he might not be in as dire need as he is today.

Harvard’s freshman class is more than one-third legacy ... legacies were five times more likely to get into the world-famous university than applicants without relatives who went to Harvard. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/07/harvards-freshman-class-is-more-than-one-third-legacy.html

Where can I find this report?

I know about Green, but who is Mann?