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And NYC is one of the prime examples of "defund the police" movement, isn't it?

Nobel prize winners are bad example, because their work is usually theoretical, hard to put to use. If someone writes a paper tomorrow proving that faster-than-light travel is possible then the only immediate value it brings is that you now have a nice lecture to read in bed. There are still thousands man-years of work required before an actual spaceship will be available for sale in your local dealership.

> I think we're past believing that our top .1% is bringing value that's worth billions of times more than the rest of the population.

Fortunately, we do not have to rely on our beliefs here, we have an objective measure, which we call "money".

If someone starts a company in their garage, and a decade later that company is worth few billions of dollars then that's the value this person brought to society - because people willingly paid them those billions of dollars for their product/service.

Of course the whole logic breaks down with purely speculative financial assets such as crypto.

That's a myth. We can easily produce food for 20-30 billions of people using our current farming methods (and that includes meat production). The reason people are starving in Africa is because they do not have enough money to buy food (for various political reasons), not our inability to produce enough of it.

All those years I spent emitting CO2 finally paid off :)

Actually, with Pope Francis that's debatable...

> The difference in length between the two rows is 100 times that 1um tolerance.

Doesn't tolerance work both ways? One brick is 1um longer than it should, another one is 1um shorter - in the row of 100 bricks those differences will mostly cancel each other out, won't they?

This thing would work equally well without any engine or batteries - it's called "roller-skates", and has been there for over a century.

Or you can just keep the generator fueled (they tend to come with built-in fuel tanks), and have a spare 50-gallon barrel of fuel stashed somewhere.

Yes, I kind of missed that. On the other hand, sales tax in the US is very low compared to European VAT (0-7% vs 18-25% VAT), so it's much smaller issue.

Poor people already pay next to nothing in taxes - the bottom 60% of society, making less than $50k only contributes 7% of total tax revenue from income taxes, while 0.3% of those making more than $1M per year contributes 27%. [1]

I think the US has pretty good revenue structure in that regard. In my country 62% of federal budget comes from sales taxes (e.g. 23% VAT), which disproportionately affects poor people.

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2017/january/feder...

Yes, but that was a design/security choice. What OP described seems like a pure negligence ("setting up authentication is hard, so let's skip it").

It blocked me in 2018, because I went on extended business trip to US, and tried to convert my personal account to a business one (to get proper invoces for expensing). My activity became suspicious, and now Uber wants scan of my credit card and government-issued ID, which I'm not willing to give it.

Not to mention the money they would save on electricity bills.

Wait, I always thought that they would let them grow up to full size, and then kill them for meat? Why kill them immediately?

Isn't it a well known fact that virology lab in Wuhan received funding from the US? Although I do not know if this can be tied to Fauci personally.

Well, Tesla still has some of the "first mover advantage" left: they secured gigantic supply of batteries, other manufacturers might struggle to get their hands on sufficient quantities.

The "well-to-do tech workers" are being fired by the thousands. That might limit the demand for new Teslas.

What you really want for avoiding security cameras is more high-tech solution (and I know I might be crossing into science-fiction territory here):

A device that looks like forehead flashlight, but actually has a camera and some computer vision AI (or some other way of detecting security cameras), and a laser beam that it can use to blind those cameras.

Or you need something like this: https://futurism.com/the-byte/watch-invisibility-cloak-milit...

LOL, no. Asking ChatGPT is no different than just googling the question, except the answer is more nicely formatted. ChatGPT has no actual intelligence in it.

Or it's just a miscommunication: The boss was throwing the party with the intention of everyone having a chance to relax and have fun, but everyone else saw it as a career opportunity and "dressed for success".

I am such person, stuck at "local maximum". I do still live in my country of birth, though. One of the reasons I'm stuck is I keep thinking: "Should I invest more time in learning English, or maybe it's better to start another language? (Spanish perhaps)" ROI with learning new language seems much higher than learning more English, just to avoid occasional hiccups in my conversations.

Those studies talk about different things: sexual desire vs the actual sex had. Is it possible that the men who do less housework are the macho types, and while the wife might have lost the desire for her husband, she still would have sex with him just to avoid quarrels?

>> the delivery guy slammed the box down after refusing my help carrying it up the stairs when I saw him struggling

Seems like a very heavy GPU, GeForce 4090 RTX, I suppose?

Jewels, as in diamonds are non-metalic. gold is different beast

But in many countries this view is even directly written into the law.

In my country for example, employer must know at all times where the employee is, because they are responsible for any accidents that happen to them during the work hours. And to avoid those accidents you have to provide them with stupid things like instruction manuals for microwave, or electric kettle usage, because apparently employee cannot be trusted with operating those devices safely. You, the employer are also responsible for doing their taxes for them (i.e. paying monthly deductions), as well as sending them to the doctor every once in the while for routine check-ups.

One of the reasons that I work as freelancer is to avoid such bullshit.

On the plus side, your liability, as an employee, for any damages caused is limited to 3 monthly salaries, because, being just a kid, you cannot be held fully responsible for your own mistakes.

Europe seems to be hell-bent on committing suicide, economically. Brits can consider themselves lucky, to abandon this sinking ship just in time :)

>> Illegal immigration is a market response to a failure of the government to provide a legal framework for sufficient legal migration.

No, it really is not. There's really no upper limit on how many people might WANT to immigrate to your country (other than the obvious 8B world population size), but there's an upper limit on how many immigrants your country can accommodate in the given time frame. Increasing limits for legal immigration won't stop illegal one, it might even encourage it (e.g. when one person gets an immigrant visa and some of their relatives don't but they still decide do go, illegally)

Some US generals disagree with you, especially when it comes to fight about Taiwan: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/03/us-will-lose-fast-i...

Taiwan is a small island, it lacks lot of basic natural resources, like oil, iron ore, etc. One simple thing that China could do is to send their navy to cut off all the supply lines: it won't take long before Taiwan is degraded to third world country. Without the US navy to counter Chinese they do not stand a chance.

You're talking about it being hard to resupply Chinese troops over the air, how about resupplying the whole Taiwanese population?