JamesBarney

It's unrealistic for people who have no money to invest.

But the top 5% in the US make 300k+. If you can't save anything making 300k you have a spending problem. Honestly I'd you're making 100k can can't save you have a spending problem.

As a Microsoft fanboy I have to list our their biphasic additions.

Linq. Have a a set of collection manipulation methods that could be run in c# or transformed in SQL.

Blazor. Have components that can run on the server, or in the browser, or several other rendering tactics.

What crimes did he commit to get elected? Trump is a crook but his crimes are almost all sleazy real estate and tax fraud. He didn't commit any crimes to get elected before his first term.

175.10 has been used before. There are many things which are firsts, and a lot of shaky legal theory. My I'd put 10 to 1 odds this gets overturned, and 5 to 1 odds it happens before it gets to the supreme court.

1. Usually they charge the predicate crime.

2. FECA has never been used as a predicate crime.

3. I don't believe a campaign finance reporting violation has been tried as election interference.

4. There are a lot of unsettled questions about these laws like can 175.10 point to a federal crime? Is hasn't been prosecuted that way before. Can it point to FECA despite FECA's broad preemption?

Law professors discussing these issues below.

https://shugerblogcom.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/a-potential-p...

https://law.syracuse.edu/news/professor-gregory-germain-writ...

I think that is 99% true, with the exception of civilians who take up arms against the US.

Imagine the civil war if the union couldn't kill confederates.

Not less than the average sacrifice a soldier made. The average soldier would not sign up if they had a significant chance of going to prison afterwards.

Yes it's too much to ask every president to significantly risk jail time for being president.

Enemies are not static they can react to our policies. If our policies are never to kill anyone who is near a civilian, enemies would just always be near civilians.

Also he didn't illegally appoint the board. That was not the issue in this case.

Maybe you missed this but it was the shareholders who voted for it again. Not just the board members. The concern was that even though the shareholders were fully aware of the package and voted for it maybe they relied on the expertise of the board to make sure it was a fair package.

It's surprising because it's after the fact. They get to keep the gains even if they revoke the pay package.

But the shareholders voted for it again. If the board and shareholders all agree to pay the CEO a share of their money, who some judge in delaware to disagree.

> If this stock starts being liquidated at any significant volume, the stock will also definitely drop. Even if these holdings are to be doled out & possible exercised, it sure seems like the company could hire & keep a lot of great people with this stock holding.

Yeah but maybe not Elon, and I believe based on this vote the shareholders fear losing him.

Why is it illegal to choose who you sell to? That's not bullying their competitors out of their own market.

Why couldn't they put in restrictions such as a having worked in California for x years or lived there for y years.

This really depends how you calculate cost to society. Everyone dies, and the healthiest people die the slowest. So when you look at the cost of the alternatives the difference looks much smaller or non-existant. If the alternative of getting a heart attack at 57 is retiring at 67, collecting social security for 20 years, getting Alzheimers at 73 and spending 10 years in a Medicare funded memory care facility, obesity and alcoholism don't look as expensive.

Wages aren't keeping pace in housing, education and medical care. It's not owner greed that's makes those industries different from others.

I still can't believe the 2nd circuit looked at this case and decided it was acceptable behavior.

My experience in Europe was if you went to a random restaurants it was better than the US (3-4.3 stars on yelp). But the good restaurants (4.5+) weren't any better. And there's a ton of great food in the south. New Orleans, Atlanta, Houston all have great food scenes.

I have noticed a lot more status/hierarchy jostling from immigrants who come from certain cultures. But I don't see that in their children who tend to have a much more western view of status/hierarchy.

Video games, entertainment, and avatars seems like the big ones.

> "We would essentially be the same person if we had been adopted at birth and raised in a different family.".

If you look at twins that are raised apart this is freakishly true. Twins raised apart have outcomes that are far closer than 2 unrelated kids raised together.

> And what about all the studies about the consequences of father absence?

If you look at children with an absent father vs children with a dead father you find that 80% of the effect disappears in the second group. And that still doesn't entirely eliminate the genetic component because genes influence behavior that can lead to death. This strongly suggests that sharing genes with a deadbeat dad is worse for you than not being raised by a father.

Have you found any studies that show that shared environment makes a "huge difference" on broadly how a kid turns out? I haven't seen any.

And that cdc site isn't evidence. If you look through any of those studies it's all correlational. So they have literally 0 power to differentiate outcomes driven by genetics vs shared environment.

Housing affordability has little to do with an oligarchic economy and everything to do with policy decisions we made to make housing expensive.

Anger comes from change they perceive to be bad.

> Okay, they also have side effects, and it is possible the disease burden caused by the side effects may (in the long-run) turn out to be worse than the disease burden they prevent. But, while that's a possibility, it is only a possibility, a possibility which could easily not come pass to

This is very unlikely to happen. This isn't like other obesity drugs that were first in class, glp-1 agonists have been around a long time and have a great safety record.

And generally far less scrupulous around content.

I had assumed Google/Microsoft/Apple had better security teams than the US Government because they could pay so much more. I wouldn't be surprised if maybe the NSA had better red teams than Google, but I'm honestly surprised the US Government outguns Google outside of that.

One thing I learned recently is that switching from cookies to ice cream leads to several improvements in health.

Genes. It's most likely not the stomach but the hypothalamus. It basically controls hunger and some people's hypothalamus is really good at defending against weight gain, and other aren't.

Yeah, to expand on this, peer groups probably have a larger impact on your child's outcome than parenting when looking at a long enough time horizon.

You're right it doesn't but they can regulate what operations a surgeon can perform and what drugs can be prescribed which is de-facto regulating whether or not an abortion can be performed.