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Vol - for volatility as it usually results in a price change. Timings of tweets seem to coincide with market openings\closings.

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Localisation of films\tv shows\educational material.

Often English language films are poorly dubbed for local (mostly non-English speaking) markets. Having a local/recognisable actor filling the role would be a big improvment.

Thanks, I was not aware of these. I'll have to research. I suspect they're somewhat desctructive, but could be justified with more than 1000USD worth of metal.

Yes, there is trust when purchasing precious metals. The idea to to deviersify. A little gold, some silver, and perhaps some digital currency.

We cannot eliminate risk, but we can reduce and mitigate.

That would defeat the purpose of owning physical gold. Most physical gold owners do not want any third party dependancy, or couterparty risk. They would stronly prefer discretion.

I make the distinction with physical ownership over a gold-linked fund or future contract, sometimes refered to as paper gold.

The suggestion is the sub may have been carrying a Cobalt Bomb, a nuclear weapon encased in cobalt to increase fallout. In the case of a water detonation I'm guessing massive radioactive contamination that would end sea life for a large area - perhaps even planetary.

Pure speculation to fit the "planetary catastrophe" remark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-media-nuclear-torped...

This smells of identity verification. They offer a payment mechanism which needs to be legally compliant.

Bingo! Social credit system with verified ID.

The crypto part is just to make sound hip.

Perhaps the perceived shortcomings appear to be obvious to even the non-aeronautically trained?

I recall the MCAS issue being discussed here well before governments grounded the 737max. The FAA being one of the last to ground.

The F-35 issues appear to share those common in engineering. Over promising, over spending and not able to deliver on those promises, because no solution can satisfy all wants/requirements.

In my explicitly unqualified view, the F-35 tries to be everything to all services, yet my limited understanding on aeronautics is (similar to marine engineering); is the best designs are those that focus on a specific task.

I tend to look at the risk as being relative.

For me, downtown Rio around 'Central do Brasil' bus and train station were far higher risk than many slums.

Various areas around Rio (and SP) have 'Cracklands' (Cracolândia) with many crack cocaine users who are frighteningly unstable. Reports describing hold-ups, with victims cooperating and getting shot - usually in a better parts of town put things in perspective for me.

Some slums are trying to open to tourism, as a starting point you could look up well-reviewed bars\restaurants in slums to get an introduction. As the article suggests, there are many legit businesses in slums, so going to the ones with a lot of business activity is usually a good bet. The economy of a slum can only develop if there is a reasonable level of security.

I can only trust my judgement. I have not encountered any problems so far. YMMV.

Plenty of legal businesses too, e.g. Bank of Brazil in Rocinha:

https://goo.gl/maps/pK3K1Lc24fgh7wzv6

When I lived in an affluent part of Rio, I often got my haircut, bought fruit, veg and groceries in the local slum.

Many locals believed the slums were strictly no-go. While some certainly were, many were fine. Rather than build a mental barrier around these places, I find its better to interact.

Common sense, courtesy, some humility are all that are required - that goes for the high brow malls as well as the favelas.

Those who are privacy conscious prefer to be spied upon by TLAs and surveillance corporations?

To clarify I'm not in favour of one type or another, but it's unlikely China can have any influence over my life.

This will find appeal among those that wish to minimise their interaction with Google.

Having a smartphone (access internet, email etc) with camera is appealing, contributing to large surveillance corporations like Google, Facebook etc is not.

This will be a tiny minority of potential users.

My experience with heavy luggage on the French TVG was positive and so efficient Il Duce would be jealous.

My ticket told me where to stand on the platform. When the train pulled to a precise location, I did not have to move any distance. One door for boarding, one for deboarding, passengers did not bump or block each other. Luggage storage located immediately inside train, pass a sliding door to my assigned seat.

The train seemed to stop for less than a minute, we were moving before I took my seat.

No security in boarding station (Morliax), a little over 3 hrs to Paris, 450km as the crow flies.

Perhaps our French colleagues could chime in and let us know if this is a typical experience.

Baggage security in France and other EU countries is quite efficient, not everyone carries bags.

I got a laugh out of frAgile.

https://fragilemanifesto.net/

By far the best indicator of quality I have found is the acidity level. The higher acidity oils tend to omit this detail in packaging. I aim for 0.3%.

The higher quality olive oils have been sold in 'tin-cans', but that alone does not indicate quality.

> Increased remote working or changing the core hours people work would both solve the issue of adults not being around during the day.

If you plan on spending you're remote working hours supervising children, your not really working. Working at night will not allow more time to supervise children during the day.

I'm not convinced the OP was suggesting that limiting women's rights was a solution, merely that increased female labor participation will result in less time spent with children.

> There are plenty of good solutions that would work well

I'm not sure there are many.

> progress we've made towards equality

We've made progress in some areas, and regressed in others.

This is an issue about the amount of available time. Focusing more time in work will divert time from other activities. There is no other way of looking at it.

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Judges (like any actor) can be corrupted and benefit by the for-profit system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

On August 21, 2014, Ulbricht was charged with money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics. None of the procuring murder allegations were part of Ulbricht's indictment in New York, although the evidence was factored into Ulbricht's sentence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Silk_Road,_arres...

Roundabouts are simple to navigate. You simply go around them.

I agree that tech companies do not pay their fair share of tax.

But this is an EU tariff against US companies. Will any EU company be affected?

The EU was strongly against any trade tariffs.

What differentiates this 'tax' from a tariff?

In the same vein: The War Game.

Recorded in 1965, but not shown until 1985 as

"the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting. It will, however, be shown to invited audiences..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Game

Soap was traditionally made from the ashes of hardwoods combined with rain water (higher nitrogen content).

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Ash-Soap

There was a previous sell-off 2015, the buyer was almost exclusively Belgium.

I had assumed (without evidence) it was the US. A plunge protection team of sorts.

ZH suggest the buyer was China.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-18/revealing-identity...

Russia recently dumped the majority of its UST, widely believed to cause the treasury rate to hit 3%. Some commentators speculated the reason for this was

1) to avoid future potential sanctions

2) a trial-run to gauge how the market would react to a similar move by China.

At its peak Russia held less than $0.2T, Russia liquidated approx $50B per month for 3 months. If China dumped $75B per month for 6 months, there would be pain that would likely spread into corporate bonds.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/30/investing/russia-us-debt-tr...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-16/russia-s-...

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The low-res version is available by replacing 'www' with 'i' in the url for a much friendlier mobile experience.

eg https://www.reddit.com/r/backpacking vs https://i.reddit.com/r/backpacking

Helpful for bookmarks.

I agree. I'm going to give Mastodon a try.

https://mastodon.social/about

Google can ban youtubers for breaching a threshold of community guidelines.

Apply the same to process to incorrect flagging of copyrighted content. Break the rules, prevent Sony from uploading for a day or two (or some other functionality).

This will never be implemented because there is a symbiosis between a mega content creator and an advertising company.

Sanctioning a producer like Sony would be a sanction against google itself.

I'm afraid the little people will have to suck it up.

Excellent book by Jan Karski.

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World. Reads like fiction. He also entered a concentration camp to report on the activities there.

Interviews with him can be found on youtube.