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you can't just say don't drink, smoke and overeat (or even don't eat this, but that) and pretend that it is better.

Okay then, nothing you can do I guess. You're hereby absolved from behaving responsibly towards your own body. Is that better?

While there might exist a lot of smelly swamps, CH4 is odorless so not a super stinky swamp smell substance.

No. All mutations are random. In the past, ASD might have been more or less adaptive than it is today.

We should just make it easy for Apple and other companies by forbidding this mislabeling.

Then I went into a managerial role with a non-tech company, which was a small increase again

How did you do this? I think it would be hard for me to make the same outside of tech. Tech to managerial role outside of tech doesn't sound like an obvious or easy move.

No, the world didn't exist before capitalism. Just like the world did not exist before evolution through natural selection.

Certainly very ironic. But is this line of argument incorrect?

E.g. if I said "I don't believe in the Holy Book because in verse 7 it says that one cannot trust anything written in any books". Isn't that an analogous reasoning?

I think these examples/arguments are ultimately about exposing a liar-paradox statement, and when you can show such a statement you have proven that something isn't right.

When you move into a city you have to assume you are voluntarily giving up your rights

This would be a valid argument if all people were born outside of the city and have plenty of economic and social opportunities outside of cities.

At first I assumed it was because of liquidity problems and not because they wanted to screw customers. But in the hearings later he refused to answer a bunch of easy questions. E.g. the following meme is literally what he said: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/lngem6/do_y...

Q: "Do you realize that you literally manipulated the market. Yes or No?"

Vlad: "Thank you for the great question. When I was a boy in Bulgaria [ladida]"

If he had been honest in his dealings then he wouldn't have had to evade every question posed to him.

in the long term you need to worry about war or terrorism destroying your property

True, although in that case you continue to own the land.

On the other hand, countries also default. So the question is which one is more common. E.g. Argentina used to be a serious economic force with 5% of world GDP. Owning property there (even with all the violence) may have been safer going through the series of government defaults. Greece, Cyprus, Russia, too.

Rent doesn't have to be all from buildings. You can combine with farm and forest to be even more resilient. Low leverage also adds to your ability to recover.

Even if you’d lived in Merthyr Tydfil from it’s best days to its worst and therefore influenced by the local (as opposed to national) inflation rate, you’d have been made worse off by its decline.

I promise you that back then, people spent between 10% and 50% of their income on rent, as they have done forever, and continue to do today.

You happen to track a declining area. If the area had seen 10x more development, rents would have developed by that order of magnitude.

(Local) rents track (local) inflation. So it does represent inflation.

E.g. most chickens (about 2/3) that come out of their egg are male. But a flock only allows maybe 1 adult male for every 5 females, with the surplus murdered by other chickens. So almost all male chickens are superfluous in that sense. It is still selective pressure which makes chickens have 'too many' males, because apparently those chickens/flocks have created more of themselves.

Same for lions, btw, although I don't know about their sex' birthrates.

More than half a decade ago, being a broke college student looking for extra income.

"If you're affected by us-east-1 outages then you're not hosting in other regions and you're doing it wrong".

You are attributing a quote to me which I never expressed, nor was that expressed elsewhere in this thread. You are even using quotation marks....

I certainly didn't mean to blame anyone. You appear to see this AWS issue as one of victims and victimizers. I was just trying to point out an agency that people may have in some situations.

Of course that depends on what services you use and yes, even then there is some remaining correlation just because it is the same host.

are not truly independent of each other

Indeed. They are even on the same planet!

please stop blaming the victim

Excuse me?

Also, you can just take two different amazon regions and hope they don't both go down at the same time.

For extra safety, and extra work, you could even take Azure as a backup if you're not locked in with AWS.

Those camps didn't build themselves.

Yes, you found a contradiction between different Reddit users.

This doesn't begin to address the issue.

E.g. if you work at the fed you buy a 3x treasury index fund if you know rates will be lowered, or short 3x treasury index if you know rates will be raised.

If you are a judge or legislator and you get to say if 30% charge on app stores is reasonable, this affects 20% of the Nasdaq 100 index. So you buy/sell that over a 24 hour period.

When I needed it for fairphone 2, many years ago, they said they would never sell that battery again.

Same here. Bought one on the promise of being able to purchase spare parts. 18 months later the battery is dead and I cannot buy a new one, ever again. That is worse than a regular Samsung on the principal measure they claim to be good at. If there should be just one spare part you sell, it should be the battery. Alas.

if you are at about 60 degrees south of the equator and keep going due west (or east, of course) you can keep going forever without ever hitting land.

No, this requires you to constantly steer left (or right, of course). So you are not traveling on a straight line.

The central bank only sets interest rates directly, but not inflation.

As OP said,

that alone should be setting off major alarm bells

No I don't think that balances out unless you think the 1% is much more important than the rest of society.

Is it any wonder that Ukraine wanted to join NATO, given what happened with Crimea?

You have the chronology exactly backwards.

know that we'd get our shit absolutely rocked in a war with China over Taiwan

Then we should make haste to station more military in Taiwan. A significant, sustained increase of presence on the island itself, instead of only aircraft carriers.

Once that has been accomplished, recognize Taiwan's independence. 2 months later, hold a referendum in Taiwan on becoming a US state with a few special rights. This is done with half the fleet there, plus the very heavy presence on bases on the island.

Taiwan free, China contained. Plus the US have a good base to project power in the future.

Again, from the Russian side, it was first Poland that joined, then talk of Ukraine joining. So an ever east-ward expansion of NATO. Meanwhile economic sanctions and exclusion. When that happened, Russia simply reacted. Much like the U.S. reacted to Cuba. Russian aggression is reactive and the predictable outcome of the behavior of NATO and Western economies.

Communist, democratic, (il)liberal -- the rhetoric all doesn't matter. Containment of China and an international balance of power is the issue, not which flavor of governance domestically.

Is this article trolling?

He stressed that individuals who scored high on tests about human nature do not possess the same knowledge and skills as trained social psychologists. However, he also noted that while “natural” social psychologists will not replace actual psychologists, they could be important players in the real world.

They have found a new class of humans?

at a high enough level it's possible to be a good leader without skills required to do the job few levels below

Sure. But being 68 and not being able to use a computer in 2018? Not recognizing what a USB stick is?

This is more about the fact that this person is not up-to-speed with society, doesn't really understand what has been happening around him the last 20 years. What dense Japanese cave did they find him in? Basic interest in society seems like a minimum to become a minister. The fact that he is minister for cyber security just adds irony to injury.