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How to root your Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 (SCH-I545)

I have been working on this for months now, so once I finally got it working, I thought it deserved a blog post Prerequisites Kernels OC1 OF1 Odin 3 Wondershare MobileGo Instructions Enable USB Debugging in Android Go to Settings->About phone Scroll to the bottom to "Build number" Tap "Build number"7 times After the third tap, you will see a dialogue box that tells you are only X taps away from being a developer, ignore it Boot phone into Download Mode Power off the phone Press and hold Volume Down, Home and Power buttons Release buttons when "Warning!!" message appears Press Volume Up button to confirm Download Mode Device will show green Android with "Downloading… Do not turn off target" message Connect phone to PC with USB cable Install OC1 via Odin Run Odin Click AP button and load OC1 kernel Start, install should take a few seconds Disconnect phone from PC Install Wondershare MobileGo Reconnect ph

Wealth disparity explained by a poker tournament

I calculated this originally as a comment to a friend's Facebook post, but I have come to think it is a good enough explanation of the economic problems in our country that it deserves a wider audience. 80% of the population has roughly 7% of all the wealth 1% of the population has roughly 40% of all the wealth 0.1% of the population has roughly 22% of all the wealth Let's look at that wealth distribution in terms of poker. In the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event, there were a total of 192,600,000 chips in play to start and 6,420 entrants. If we started the Main Event not with all players having the same 30,000 in chips but rather with a chip distribution matching that of the wealth disparity in the US today, here's what the tournament would look like: 64 of the 6,420 participants - 1% of the field - would have roughly 77,040,000 chips among them, an average of 1,200,000 chips per player 5,136 of the 6,420 participants - 80% of the field - would have rou