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Also, dedicated drone corridors that are over roads or uninhabited areas, so at least only cars would be hit in case one of them drops out of the sky.

I don't believe there are any spoilers either way.

> Which leads me to the "but money can't buy happiness" position so many people have repeated over the years. Bull. Shit. Anyone who has ever said that simply doesn't know where to shop.

If happiness for you is about things you buy in shops, then you are a shallow person, and you are missing out. A lot. In fact you are poor, but in a spiritual sense. The next statement: "money spent on physical items can bring people a huge amount of pleasure" reinforces the impression that you have some concepts confused.

It's great to have cool stuff, and thanks for the probably sound advice on how to achieve that. You don't have to try to convince (yourself?) that this equates happiness.

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“Specifically, I never coerced a woman to have sex in a hotel room."

I feel like I have heard this kind of word game before somewhere...

Barbarians at the Gate is a classic business book about such a case (the takeover of RJR Nabisco).

It's fine for India, but I don't think a lot of the business models and know-how that works in India transfers easily to conditions in the U.S.

Since we're here, this is just counter-propaganda. There are thousands of organizations doing similar things. The whole "Russia is creating strife on Facebook!" thing is ridiculous too if you think about it for just a few seconds.

Great idea! We could call that team 'Operations' and they would do all that stuff so developers don't have to!

The history of banking in most countries is the story of a repeated cycle of abusing the trust of the people with money in the bank: The bank holds people's gold -> the bank issues 'gold certificates' -> the bank issues more certificates than it has gold -> system crashes and everybody loses their money.

In the end, the establishment of national banks to regulate/nationalize the appropriation of wealth.

Here is the history of the Swedish national bank, as an example (it could be copy/pasted from every other European national bank): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_Riksbank#History

Interesting. Isn't that what Microsoft was tried and convicted for in the 90s?

Steve Jobs was not passionate about Zen buddhism, whatever he may have said at some point in time. It was a passing interest of his. He was very obviously passionate, even obsessed, about developing great computing products for consumers.

The example is horribly chosen.

We use it for a large kitchen and it's okay. Run it before leaving the house and the floor is clean when you get back. Who cares how long it takes or that it is noisy or whatever. It does like 75% as good as a human would and that's good enough most of the time.

But it's true that a part of the time you save is spent on maintenance instead.

The funny thing is that when you do that, you almost always make up your mind immediately. It's like deep down you already know what the right thing is, and the act of explcitly stating the 'business requirements' (doing the morally right thing, for the long term good) just makes it obvious - no divine intervention needed! I'm pretty sure it's just a clever mental hack, but it does work.