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Have you tried not paying taxes?

Our entire dev team switched from MacBooks to laptops running linux.

30 years ago in order to navigate somewhere you had to ask someone for directions and write down notes. If you missed a turn, god help you. We fundamentally move through the world vastly differently thanks to digital maps. Many people (and in a few years, the majority) are doing so in cars that use electric motors instead of internal combustion engines.

One way to tell whether you're in an 80s house would be to look around for reference books, encyclopedias, rolodexes, filing cabinets. If you wanted to know more about something, you probably had to go to a library, which might not even have a book on the topic (maybe if you were particularly determined to know the answer you'd wait a few weeks for an ILL).

Its a bit sad to me that you look at this enormous sea change in how we interact with the world and see Angry Birds.

In the US, the required reserve ratio has been 0% since March 2020. I personally wouldn't view the traditional financial system as about as trustworthy as things get.

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Search being broken for local files is infuriating. I've tried to do registry modifications to fix it and remove Cortana and it STILL won't find a file searched for by name in the root C: directory! But it'll give you random web results!

Much like US Defense spending subsidizes the rest of the globe, US for-profit healthcare spending spurs massive investment in pharma and biotech research that benefits the rest of the world. Are there inefficiencies and waste? Yes. But outcomes overall are much better for it.

The Navy isn't dumb, and that's why they build submarines.

Carrier Groups still have an important role to play in lower-intensity conflicts, but in a Pacific war with China they'll be about as useful as Battleships were in WWII.

Our criminal justice system is designed to incarcerate black people. A third of black people will be incarcerated at some point in their lives. You're six times as likely to be incarcerated if you're black than if you're white.

That's actually part of the problem I have with this model. These companies are charging you to reduce the amount of time you have to play the game to achieve the goals set in the game. They could make a game where you get the same satisfaction in 30 minutes as you do in 3 hours now, but then they wouldn't be able to charge you for the shortcuts.

I have my own gaming addiction (with games that have complex systems), but I find the mobile gaming model perverse and manipulative.

Increase interest rates.

A decade ago Lyme disease landed me in the hospital with carditis and neurological issues. I still worry that my brain doesn't work as well as it used to, but I don't have symptoms severe enough to make me seek out additional treatment (yet).

It should be noted that while there is some evidence that Disulfiram has effectiveness against Lyme, it's not yet well-studied and the incidence of significant side effects, particularly neurological side effects, during treatment is high enough that I wouldn't risk it. Both the risks and benefits haven't been studied enough to quantify, though I'm glad it worked well for your family.

Source on high incidence of side effects: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7184924/

While its possible that climate change may slow or reverse this trend, the number of people globally experiencing malnutrition has actually been falling over time.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-undernourished-regi...

It's hard to say for certain, but it sounds as if you may have been doing things that caused lots unnecessary re-renders. React has some pitfalls for beginners, but I've built highly complex frequently updating webapps without the degree of slowness you're speaking of.

Cargo trains are much longer than container ships (at least in the US). The average train is over a mile long, and trains that are 3 or more miles long are not uncommon. A single ship is of course still going to carry a lot more cargo, but don't underestimate the throughput of trains.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-19-443.pdf

Depop is reuse. Progress is made on the margins. Absolutist judgement of something a lot of people like does nothing to help.

The President of the United States supported it. There's evidence that the National Guard specifically wasn't deployed in order to increase the danger to the legislature.

A bit of fluff unrelated to the main story might diminish the reliability of the narrator a bit, but I don't think you can conclude the entire story is fictional as a result.

Except it won't, because the government decided to skip due process.

Interesting that the UK-based Independent did this reporting without mentioning that the NHS still hasn't issued approval for Truvada to be provided outside of trial programs.

A corporation that didn't take its customers demands into account would be quite likely to fail. There are many governments that continue to exist by enriching and providing for a small segment of society, and uses force to suppress the demands of the rest of society. A corporation generally doesn't shoot dissatisfied customers.

Even in relatively liberal democracies, governments are clearly more beholden to forces other than citizens and their vote. There's a reason why US governments did little to respond to massive BLM protests this summer, as government viewed its responsibility as more aligned to police unions than citizens.

If you want to call that margin, it's margin with 100% collateral. It's not margin in any meaningful sense. It's like if you handed your broker a check and said you wanted to make buy a stock for the value of the check. Would the trade clear before the check? Sure. Is that margin? I really struggle to see how.

That's absolutely not true. You have to specifically opt-in to trading on margin, read disclosures, and have a minimum $2k balance.

Instant deposit is not trading on margin, it's trading on deposits that you make that are instantly available in Robinhood but take a day or two to clear ACH. That's all made clear up front on the screens about Instant Deposit, not buried in T&C.

The question was asked and they didn't respond before the article was published, a timespan which in this case is likely a few hours.

Five years ago civil society was in general agreement that racism was bad and that we should respect the democratic process instead of seeking to violently overthrow it. Of course there were people who disagreed but they were at the margins and their voices were isolated to a few forums most people never heard of.

A demagogue came along and used mass media platforms to destabilize the norms of civil society and give a large platform to previously marginalized views. Being able to air those views on mainstream outlets perpetuates the problem and shifts norms.

We need to at least try to put this genie back in the bottle. Most people will revert back to previous mainstream views. The significant segment needs to go back to an insignificant segment. That insignificant segment will be angry that they didn't win, and likely some of them will be violent. But they've always been that way anyway.

Printing money has not had much impact on consumer prices. But it seems very plausible that it is causing inflation of asset prices, including equities, and that that is a distortion of the market that could have negative long-run repercussions.

Black market? What laws are being broken? The only thing illegal about this is the Federal government seizing the product.

We're fortunate to be in a position where the profit incentive has led to a situation where, when there is a disruption in the demand distribution points (restaurants), the biggest problem is that we have too much production.

Without the profit incentive, we have seen time and again, far more severe disruptions to the food supply (USSR, Venezuela, DPRK). Capitalism does not provide for everyone, but it does an excellent job of providing for the vast majority of people. Charity and welfare programs are a good supplement to that, but profit itself is an immensely powerful and useful tool to keep people fed.

They're both. They're selling a service to consumers, which they buy with their personal data. They then use that data to sell to advertisers in the form of better targeted ads.

They didn't even run ads for the first three years of their existence.

No, New York mandates that everyone who wants a bed in a shelter gets one. The City does a lot to try to get people into shelters, unfortunately, some people would rather be on the street than in a shelter (some due to mental health issues, some due to concerns about safety in shelters).