Imagine government-run employment agency setting you up for a job interview at the brothel. And if you refuse that interview you lose your unemployment benefits, because you turned down perfectly legal job... That's reality for women in Germany, for example.
Small-scale economic downturns did happen once a decade, because that's natural in a healthy economy. Federal Reserve tried to prevent a downturn in 1929, but their misguided monetary policies made it two orders of magnitude worse instead. Milton Friedman once wrote a great analysis on this: https://fee.org/articles/the-great-depression-according-to-m...
That's the thing: taxes should NOT be about wealth redistribution - that's Marxist thinking. They should be about financing basic public services, like justice system, military, or possibly healthcare and education.
Yes, it does at least for those of us who are not US citizens. You can never be sure that one day the US won't sanction your home country in the same way, for some weird reason. Of course for some countries the risk is greater than for others, but still, it's a good reason to avoid US financial markets.
Property rights and such are secondary. The primary issue is: who has the power? Right now the answer to that question is "US", but since China is catching up on GDP, and, unlike US, actually manufactures things. If China decides that they want payments for all the goods that they export to be in RMB then there's nothing the rest of the world can do about it, except stop all the imports from China (which would take decades, because they have to learn to manufacture all those goods themselves). Once most of your imports come from China instead of the US it does make sense to use Chinese currency as the reserve currency, since you are going to need a lot of RMB to pay for your imports anyway.
> Ukraine means "borderland". Historically Ukraine was in a constant state of wars between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Swedish Empire and Russian Empire since before USA even existed.
Don't forget Turkey. Ukraine was also invaded by Turks and Tatars many times.
That's provably false - I witnessed it many times when solving the cube myself. Colored faces determine orientation, in addition to location. In the Rubik solving method that I know (a simple method for amateurs, not remotely close to professional speed cubing methods) there's actually a late stage where ALL the cubes are in their correct locations, except some of the third layer corners might have a wrong orientation - there's a dedicated sequence of turns that allows to solve that.
If I understand it correctly, this visualization does not take into account the constraints of some faces being physically tied to each other, by being on the same cube. So, while it can show the process of solving cube, it is not a replacement for the cube (i.e. you can't use it as a simulation to try to figure out new algorithms)
As long as technology and human society progresses, then yes, GDP is guaranteed to rise, and stocks are guaranteed to rise a bit more than GDP, because they represent the best, most innovative part of the economy (mom and pop's grocery stores are not traded on Wall Street, technological startups are)
Yes, but the point is: even with the worst possible timing you still get ahead of inflation ($1.1M from $184k invested). With regular investments you could double the profits. Also, 1970-2015 period includes three big crises, with crashes of around 50% (1972, 2000, 2007), and a bit milder crash of 1987 (34%), calling it "quite a good one for stocks" is kind of a stretch.
I always thought that "house wine" is just an euphemism for "whatever we could get our hands on" - a workaround for the restaurant so that they do not have to list a specific brand on the menu.
I meant "desirable" as in "there are many millions of people trying to get there, every year". Some of those people even risk their lives for it. How they are treated after they get there is a completely separate topic.
> I've long been embarrassed that US immigration law so often errs on the side of xenophobia and cruelty.
That's the effect of being the single most desirable target for immigrants. If US immigration laws were any more lenient, it would be the most populous country on Earth already, way ahead of India and China.
Are you from the US? US public bathrooms are especially bad for privacy, because they only have thin wooden walls that start about 15 inches above the floor (so that anyone passing by can see if someone is laying on the floor, passed out).
In my country, where drug use is not such a big problem, bathrooms have actual brick walls, giving a person inside much more privacy.
I guess they did not mean the linked site itself, but most of the linked sites. They seem to be personal sites of individual people (developers, bloggers), and typically contain few paragraphs of unstyled text (Black font on white background) and few links. Which might be perfectly fine for such pages, but you can't build, for example, your company website this way. Even putting your company logo in decent resolution would push you over the limit :)
Define "obscene amounts". Ukraine shoots like 6.000 155mm rounds per day. US manufacturers can't produce that much, US government is currently doing market survey for potential new manufacturers, because Army reserves were severely depleted.
There's not enough lithium on planet Earth even for all the electric cars we'll need, don't even start on using lithium batteries for large-scale storage.
The only hope here is that Magnesium-based batteries will become a thing.
EDIT: OK, it seems that I mistook the "mineable lithium deposits" number for the whole lithium available :)
Anyway, unless there is a major technological breakthrough we are looking at few decades of lithium shortages. I expect countries to actually fight wars over lithium they way the US used to fight over oil. So, in the end, building nuclear plants seems more reasonable than building solar and then praying for cheaper batteries.
Well, if they choose Infosys as a company to implement CBDC then at least we are safe for the next 20+ years, because there's no way they complete the project before that time :)
The perfect command for deleting remote tag would be "tag -d(elete) -r(emote) <tag>" The existence of "remote refs" is an implementation detail, and git bothers you with it unnecessarily. And if you really need a command to update all remote refs at once why not call it "git sync-refs"? The fact that you use "push" command to delete something is confusing as hell.
Yes, but this rebellion is against the PARENTS. Teenage kids typically seek for the new meaning and purpose in their lives, that's why so many college students join charities, or civil rights groups, or cults... And they do not join those groups as leaders, they start at the bottom.
No, no one is forced to sell. The two available options (depending on some nuances of how your loan was actually set up) are:
- Your loan is converted to PLN, you get a refund of all the extra costs incurred by the currency exchange rates, and you continue to pay off your loan in PLN.
- Your loan is considered invalid and is abolished, which means that you have to pay back the original sum to the bank, and the bank has to repay you all the payments you made over the years. If your loan was issued a long time ago you typically will come ahead (over years your payments add up). This means you keep the property and are debt-free. If it turns out you still have a significant amount to pay off you can refinance it.
That would create a weird dynamic: is it more beneficial to the airline to issue refunds to passengers, or is it better to give money directly to the DOT, which, as most government institutions, is probably underfunded and will appreciate the "donation"? Cost for the airline is the same if both cases, but indirectly funding DOT might win you some friends there :)