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investing the first rate hike this month did not stop the spending, both economy and job market seem stable. the quarterly reports in late October should give us some clues about the economy and the job market? the end cause is still the Iran war. so end the war, open Hormuz and let the oil flow. Defying higher bond yields: Consumers keep spending and the economy keeps booming? In a panel on Friday, Cleveland Federal Reserve president Beth Hammack said a number of factors are driving up yields, pointing to a strong economy as a key one. “I think that the growth numbers have come in in a pretty solid way,” she said on the panel in Cleveland. “I think that expectations of continued performance, if you look at earnings and profits for various public companies, they’ve been coming in above expectations, and there have been signs of resilience that I think the markets are starting to price in.” She acknowledged that markets are pricing in more interest rate hikes and that the US is on an unsustainable fiscal path. ...

临溪流以静对，访草木以素心。登高极目知天地之大，置己苍茫知寸身之微。 当欲望得不到满足便痛苦，当欲望得到满足便无聊，人生就像钟摆一样在痛苦与无聊之间摆荡。– 叔本华(Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788 - 1860) (Life is a constant oscillation between the desire to have and the boredom of possessing. Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.) 杜甫 《登高》 风急天高猿啸哀，渚清沙白鸟飞回。 无边落木萧萧下，不尽长江滚滚来。 万里悲秋常作客，百年多病独登台。 艰难苦恨繁霜鬓，潦倒新停浊酒杯。 “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” – Elie Wiesel the only thing new in the world is the history you do not know. – Harry S. Truman ...

江汉曾为客，相逢每醉还。浮云一别后，流水十年间。 欢笑情如旧，萧疏鬓已斑。何因不归去？淮上有秋山。– 韦应物《淮上喜会梁川故人》 investing Oscar Wilde wrote in his story, The Picture of Dorian Gray, that nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. I guess that it is hard to know the value of things. Take the example of stock prices. IMO, there is no such thing of good stocks but over-valued or under-valued ones. the value of a stock is changing that is hard to know. You must be patient to buy at the under-valued price and be patient to hold as long as you could. ...

Rivers, like men, only learn why they were born near their end. – José Saramago (1922-2010) “Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?” – W.E.B. Du Bois 乌托邦（utopia）由来已久，其要旨就是用简单的方法解决复杂的问题，其根源就是面对复杂的世界人总是希望可以有一个简单的解释。长久以来，人们知道这是做不到的，却从来没有放弃，总是不断尝试不断失败。因此反乌托邦（dystopia）也会时不时出现。 讲故事应该比乌托邦的历史更久远。一个故事就是对世界或对人生的一个简单解释，让我们多一种理解。这也是源于人渴望对复杂不确定的世事有所明了。讲故事写故事的冲动就是为了构建一个虚拟世界，从而更好地理解面前的现实世界。 世界是复杂的不确定的，而人自己其实也是复杂的变化的，没有人确知世界和自己的未来。 There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless. – Milan Kundera ...

The Summer Day Mary Oliver (1935 – 2019) Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw ...

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.” – James Baldwin “Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.” – Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All Don’t just teach your children to read … Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. – George Carlin Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. – Theodore Roszak, 1933-2011 ...

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. -- W. B. Yeats, the stolen child, 1886 Writing and reading about Fairies some may deem to be mark of a trifling turn of mind. On this subject … dulce est desipere in loco. (It is sweet to be silly in places.) – Thomas Keightley, the world guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and other little people ...

“Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid, — what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!” – Herman Melville, Moby-Dick ...

“The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.” – Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower “When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one’s dreams if one is not to be troubled by them; there is a way of separating one’s dreams from one’s life which so often produces good results that I ask myself whether one ought not, at all costs, to try it, simply as a preventive, just as certain surgeons make out that we ought, to avoid the risk of appendicitis later on, to have all our appendices taken out when we are children.” – Marcel Proust ...

人生天地间，忽如远行客。 故不积跬步，无以至千里；不积小流，无以成江海。– 先秦荀子《劝学》 Life always offers you a second chance. It is called tomorrow. – Dylan Thomas 以前与猫有关的绰号都在我家猫身上一一应验了，比如夜猫子、萌猫、小馋猫或者小懒猫。同时，猫猫的好奇、耐心和速度也展示得淋漓尽致。每一个房间和各个犄角旮旯，只要有机会，猫猫都会去转转去闻闻。当守门员扑球，一抓一个准儿。 Earthseed: the book of living All struggles Are essentially power struggles. Who will rule, Who will lead, Who will define, refine, confine, design, Who will dominate. All struggles Are essentially power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together. investing 20260714: IBM stock plunged 25% Tuesday, its worst since 1968 as money rushed to chips and servers from software (Atlassian, ServiceNow, and Adobe) except cybersecurity such as CrowdStrike, PaloAltoNetworks and Fortinet. the art of boolean prefixes to name your variables prefix domain function examples is identity and state what an object is isActive, isEmpty, isDeleted has containment and features ownership or feature presence hasAccess, hasChildren can capability permission or potential action canEdit, canDelete, canRetry should intent or logic a business rule recommendation shouldRetry, shouldCacheResponse besides these prefixes, never use negation in the variable name. no hasNoAccess or isDisabled. instead use hasAccess and isEnabled. notes Dwarf Nose from The violet fairy book by Andrew Lang, 1901 ...