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When the subject is China, the reflection isn't "because China". What we are seeing here is "Because US", which is very different.

I don't think Trump is bluffing. However Americans in general are opposed to taking Greenland, and so if Trump does anything I expect Americans/Congress to raise up. Europe should be concerned because this will take months to play out.

Though it goes both ways: non-boomers are not listening because radio has nothing to offer.

Those shakeups have happened many times over the decades. Nothing changed.

Once in a while someone wrote documentation - but nobody read it. Then that person was moved elsewhere in another shakeup and their documentation got obsolete. Often the documentation got obsolete even before than because the person writing it didn't maintain it (possibly because nobody was reading it?)

There are plenty of good ways to assess performance of CEO. However the important ones can only be run 10-20 years from now and so they are not helpful.

I don't. I'm not playing for their entertainment, I'm playing for mine. I get bored with a song long before I get good at it, and so I divide my time between songs I'm starting to get good at, and songs I'm terrible at. I've never reached good at anything though.

3 ball is a lot easier than 5 ball. A good teacher helps, but plenty of books exist that are good as well. Most people are not interested enough to try for 10 minutes.

The problem is the people who advertisers want to target want to hear the same songs every day.

I wouldn't be surprised if people like you want me who want more variety are a majority - but we don't spend money on things advertisers want us to buy by enough to be worth advertising to us.

Many people do, but I don't get it. The typical station has a tiny playlist that they have had on repeat for a decade now. I haven't turned the radio on in years, and never was a regular listener, but I can still tell you what song will be next if you turn it on (for the stations that are played most often in public)

In the US "boom boxes" went out with the 1970s. They need to get with the times.

Okay, in all seriousness: boom boxes were a thing in the 1970s and early 1980s. There are still people who use the latest generation of them, but thankfully not nearly as many. These days people cranking music in a public place are generally doing it as part of a group that all want to hear the same thing. (and in back then the group wanting to hear the same music was the common case)

A company should be judged on longer term metrics than one month. Often the best action is to take a loss for several months while you set the company up for long term success. Often is not always of course. If you take over at a soap manufacture there is unlikely to be much investment that would make a change in the companies performance - soap is a well understood product that has been around for many years and the processes to make it have been optimized for years (I'm sure there is room for improvement, but many will not pay off.)

You are confusing CEO pay with CEO ability. There is plenty of examples of companies doing poorly until a new CEO comes in, and others of a company doing well until the CEO retires and a replacement comes in.

Ivy types have a poor history of figuring out which is which in advance though.

Literature only happened in agricultural societies and mostly by the elites. While it gives us a picture historians have to work really hard to read between the lines to figure out what life was really like for most people. If you were the elite in any time your life is much better than typical.

Many would say life is a constant struggle. However few have any clue what others experience is like. Even the filthy rich consider life a struggle.

What county!

The USA has complex warranty laws and that text has specific meaning and limits what it allows them to not warranty. Other counties have different laws. See a lawyer

Game animals were rarely that in abundance. It happened after plagues but then populations rebounded and life was a constant struggle.

Castles are practical against cannons but only if built with thicker walls than typical.

I like the definition where castle is a fortress where a Nobel lives. Fort is where an army lives but no Nobel leader. Palace is where a Nobel lives but it isn't expected to withstand a siege

I question this. Many of these were stating that something was true, but they weren't actually measuring cardiac vascular disease. They were measuring various markers, which may or may not result in the actual cardiac disease.

Also there wasn't a single chart or other indication of where things compare. Is it the case that more than 5 becomes a real problem, 3 to 5 is only minor and 0 is better? Or is the case that 3 to 5 is better than 0? We don't know. considering most people in the US consume coffee every day I suspect there were no comparisons or even data on people who drink zero and so we don't know if zero is better or not we just know that three to five is better than, say, 10. But I'm making a lot of the numbers up above because the data isn't in any this article and I do not know.

There are a lot of factors. Some things are worse than the past. However other things are better. There is no universal correct weighting of these different factors.

In general I think that nobody would be willing to go far back in time. You don't need YouTube, but would you want to live without it? How about electric lights? Safe drinking water? Flush toilets?

If you live there for 30 years - and don't cash-out-refinance - in 30 years your subscription costs go much lower.

However if you rent for less than the mortgage you can invest the difference into something that will grow in value more than the house (which SHOULD track inflation) and in turn end up about the same in the end.

Risk is why owning needs 10 years. If the economy collapses you value goes down, by 10 years it will likely either have recovered, or at least not be done much. If the economy goes down and you lose your job in the process you have to sell to that down market and lose money.

Management companies have a terrible reputation. While you can use them, it is likely they will be much more costly than doing things yourself. Real estate investors tend to hire their own people for management even though this seems like the perfect thing for them to outsource because they have been burned so often. If they work for you great, but beware.

Even if you find a good management company, if the roof it 23 years old (expected lifespan 25 years) you should expect the big bill to replace the roof - over 10 years this works out since there will likely be one such big bill but not many. However if you live there less than 10 years these big bills will hit you.

Considering ChatGPT was released only three and half years ago ...

Or are they approaching an asymptotic limit?

The more important lesson for those of us are are "old" is to not get stuck in things that were learned in the past when they are found false.

If you are not yet old, remember this - it is very likely you will old in a few years.

Anyone with money in a country with poor education will try to send their kids to a country with good education. That has been mostly the US over the past 100 years, but there are several other countries (most of the EU) that also have great schools that sometimes get them as well. People with money in a poor country tend to be politically powerful, so it is not surprise their get their kids into power.

Both also make the assumption that owning a house is good. Renting should be just as good.

More importantly, nobody cares about the people where renting is their ideal condition (at least for now - in different situations different ways of living are ideal). There should be nothing wrong with renting. Owning your own should be a worse choice if you will live there for less than 5-10 years. Owning a home should be only slightly better if you will live there for more than 10 years - not enough better to make up the hassles of owning.

If you rent make sure you vote. Make sure you have an informed vote, all too often cities will put rules on rental units that make renting worse for you. (bad tenants and bad landlords exist - good tenants and good landlords need protection from the former). Likewise while rent obeys supply and demand, when property taxes go up that factors into supply and will make rent go up indirectly - is it worth it? (I cannot answer the later question - the more important consideration is make sure the taxes are similar for rental and owned units otherwise you are a renter are harmed)

That depends on the state, some do have a registry.

Most of the us has it like that. Some of the early states still do 'nw to the stump', a stump that rotted away before 1800... The newer states learned that lesson and land is to something more likely to last and hard to move. Metal stakes are most common. Though most people are not aware of the stake since there is no reason to look for it.

Image is not the economy. AI is a large part of the stock market, but a much smaller share of the economy.

Does it weaken the US though? It weakens the big providers but most of the economy is in companies buying and this helps them save money.