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right.. when someone eats at a place and gives it a number of stars rating how good it was, it tells you the same about how good it is as instagram marketing. here's the point - you go to sf, get a place around you with good reviews, and the food is overpriced, overpresented, and average in taste.

The OP literally stated a reason to live in SF is the food. That's simply false. It's not poor quality, but it's no reason to live there. It's not better than in an average city.

so, this tells me that in studies that corrected for the mother's iq, the difference was 2.6 points. My wife is asian, i am jewish, with a lot of phds in the family. This is an increase of less than 2%. Sorry, but there's no way I'm going to believe a study like that has an error/variance of under 2%. The studies also did not correct for the father's iq. The father is not serving the breast milk, but iq of the mother is not "passed on" through food, so if you're correcting for mom's iq, you're correcting for genetics, and the father is half of that. None of the studies corrected for quality of formula.

This is being purposely dense. The entire planet of men disagrees with you that the only purpose of the breasts is for breasfeeding. I guess sex is only for making babies too. Jesus called, he wants his bible back.

Damn it. That's why I couldn't figure it out for years. You can't.. Is the new keyboard standard being used anywhere? Like if I walk into a common office in france and sit down at a laptop - is it likely to be using the new keyboard layout?

What's weird is I sometimes, even 10 years ago, would get an email from people in France, and it would have an accented A. Like, how did they do that..

Right - they have very little in expenses in Australia. Because all the development and maintenance is in other countries. That is my entire point. So they take the market value (transfer price) of the expenses and transfer that money to countries where those expenses are incurred. They then pay for expenses related to their local offices and 2000 employees. What's left over is called profit, is taxed in Australia, and they paid $100mil of taxes on that profit last year.

Lets say you are sitting in Chicago. You create a search engine, get a thousand developers working on it. You then set up an Australian portal for that web page, on which Australian businesses buy ads. In your version, the costs for Australia are zero. In reality, those costs include the development of the search engine in Chicago.

or, follow me on this. i just walk out onto the street, type "restaurant" into google, and pick something with 4 star and up reviews. no marketing or presentations involved - just what people around there reviewed as good. and the food is average. this isn't bad, but average food with some gems you have to know about and take an uber to, is not a reason to live in a city - and it was presented as such in the comment to which i replied.

the reason they go is to socialize. both men and women prefer to socialize in an environment that's not mostly men. bars were listed as a reason people live in sf. i say it's not, because a sausage fest that closes at 1am is not something people find as a reason to live in a city. the people who do are the people who sit at their weird guy-table in a normal bar full of girls, afraid to walk up and say hello.

ok, so can you link any data that is from an actual scientific peer-reviewed study, which takes out the cases where babies were fed formula with poison in it? because i gotta tell you, in my 3 years of searching -all the real data for a formula that has been analyzed safe by a lab, says formula is just as good as milk.

it's the method i used to move capital in my small american business when i opened an office in russia. a company in another country is a separate legal entity. you charge market rates, as you would any other company. it has zero to do with my post.

the complaint is profit is taxed instead of revenue. the complaint is not valid.

so, i'm not getting this. they take revenue, not profit offshore. profit meaning global profit. you want to tax the money they make in your country, without them first paying expenses in other countries?

so if i have developers and research in america, and software sales in australia, my australian costs are $0, and all revenue is taxable profit. yeah, that seems fair. double fair for australia.

so what is that food?

the south is known for great bbq. chicago is the meat capitol, with deep dish and greektown. maryland for crab and maine for lobster, nyc has authentic jew-food that rivals what i ate in israel and jordan.

what is the food sf is known for? because if i literally ask anyone i know, the answer will be 'fusion.' or 'pizza' with ranch and lettuce in it.

you're known for california rolls. the big mac of sushi.

known doesn't mean known just to you.

you may have some good restaurants here and there that people can uber to. the rest is fusion of hipster and lsd microdoses.

in a city i want to live in, i walk outside and pick from 5 good places. you take an uber across town to those. people are leaving now that work doesn't require them there. to a cities with better food.

classic canada, fixing the keyboard. now all that's left is above 69.

korean is worse. they base off of 10k, not 1000. so a million is hundred ten_thousand. bagman. but as bad as that is, it's no 97 amirite.

american here who's lived in france and still use an azerty keyboard because it lets me type in both languages. how do you get a capital A with an accent on an azerty keyboard?

heh. food scene. i don't want a 'food scene.' i just want good food. i don't care if it's on 3 plates with sauce designs, i don't care if it looks like a beef-flower, or if it photographs well for my 'stream.'

btw the british school of cuisine is one of the most famous in the world. not scene-wise though, but good food is for eating, not instagram.

sf is definitely not known for tasty food. it's known for showing off food. good for bored tourists. not good to live there. and no, sf doesn't habe good greek food or middle-eastern food. i've been to greece and the middle east quite a bit, and they have better food at has stations.

sf is all show and hype. that's not what locals want.

i did not go to mission, so my comment about density may not be correct. which is why i asked. that's one neighborhood though.

as far as sake.. i don't drink anymore, for a while now, but you're wrong. serving it warm brings out the taste, and makes any cheap nastiness worse. serving it cold is what hides it. having a store that only sells sake does not make it 'the store for sake.' there are many stores stateside that have a good sake selection. they also sell japanese beer and plum wine. and in the style of true sf culture, you just said japan has crappy sake, which is why they serve it warm, while sf is doing the traditional japanese wine correctly. this -people like you on every corner, is why i didn't like sf. it's the culture -or lack thereof.

i did not say poor quality food. i said very average food, overpresented artistically and overpriced. farm to table isn't good for meat -aged meat is better. aged about a month. sushi -yes. except very little sushi from what i saw in sf. a lot of weird rolls, which is not sushi to me. good sushi was in tokyo, where i have lived for several months.

fresh produce is shipped overnight anywhere nowadays. being near a farm no longer gets you fresher produce. and keep in mind, produce is grown in many, many places. heck, in chicago we got farmer's markets every few blocks.

miami is one little street that's walkable, and a run down city of trash. i never said it was better. la was the example i gave of a city that is not walkable, like sf is not walkable. so density is not sf's pro, which the comment i replied to claimed.

as far as discerning taste, i've lived in moscow, versailles, catalonia, and tokyo. i've had good food. sf wasn't it. it was regular food, presented in weird ways, just to be different. putting avocado on something or drinking sake cold doesn't make it good -it just makes it different.

so, you are agreeing with me that the only reason people are in sf is because of work. the implied question was: he gave a bunch of reasons which from my total of 3 weeks there, were not true. it may have instead been my experience which was not normal though. it was up to op to counter what i said.

i have an honest question here. i haven't lived in sf -just visited. i have however been to most states and about 40 countries for comparison.

food - most of what i saw was not good food. hipsterish overpriced food made by chefs trying to show off by putting a twist on dishes -not to be good, just to be different or weird. tiny portions, not tasting above average, on a huge plate. all presentation, not actual taste.

culture: there is no culture. culture was when i lived in versailles. sf is all snooty people with no content, trying to show off. culture is down to earth, with class.

bars -there are very few attractive girls at bars, or at offices, or even on the street, compared to just about anywhere in the world. and if that's not why you go to bars, i have to ask -you'd enjoy going to bars with mostly men? because that's cool too -once in a rare while.

density is poor in sf. in good cities, you can walk where you want in a few minutes. sf is uber heaven. i've lived in cities with amicable density - without a car, and maybe grabbing a cab once a month. sf ain't it.

the weather's not bad, a little windy. and the ocean is close by. housing prices are being kept artificially high by sf itself -not letting people build housing.

so i can't see anything about sf that'd make people want to live there other than higher salaries. and the first chance they have to earn that salary elsewhere or remote, they jump on it.

so i think that's what's happening now. nothing to do with covid directly -just people who would never live there in the 1st place if it wasn't for the job, leaving as soon as the job lets them.

i think all this analysis of what people are doing and why weirdly avoids the very simple explanation -everyone's just doing what work lets them do. it's entirely dictated by employers.

'It is still potentially remotely configurable and remotely updateable.'

and there's the issue. it is literally not remotely anything, since in the stated configuration it is not possible to get to it unless you are physically sitting at your computer and logged in. you are making stuff up and saying the thing you made up is dangerous.

that's like saying having a flimsy house door lock lying in your kitchen drawer is a security problem.

you have hardware on the cpu no longer accessible by software. you have a mellanox network card the me can't talk to. it's there, in the kitchen drawer. it's no longer in the door -so not a security problem.

the 'issue' requires physical access to the machine, and for you to be logged in with an admin account. if someone is physically sitting next to your server and logged in as root, you have no security anymore. they don't need to break into anything, the can just run what they want already.

someone is in your car with keys in the ignition. you're saying they can steal your car by hacking the entertainment system because it's insecure.

it's not a war over her race - it's one over what that race is called in america. a black person in germany and an african-american are the same race. that race is not "african-american." american is a nationality, not a race.

with nationality the question is, should she be called african-american. the answer in my opinion is no. after several generations in a country, you are now from that country. her dad was jamaican. his dad was jamaican. and so on so forth. many generations back, the person came from africa. and after a few generations in jamaica, i'd call them 'jamaicans.' the race of those jamaicans is the black race.

spain colonized belgium a long time ago. then a spanish person starts a family there. many generations later, a guy moves to america. is he spanish-american now? of course not. he's clearly of belgian descent. just like harris is of jamaican descent. in fact, he only speaks french or german. btw, the race of spanish people is white - not spanish, not spanish-american. but hey, don't let that stop us from calling white spanish people "latino" - or latinX. like mutantX the x-men b-side tv show. it's as offensive as calling the qatari and qataria "cuttery." but we do that too. nukular.

the issue here, which is what's actually being fought on wikipedia despite what that propaganda article falsely states, is that we mistakenly call all blacks african-american. an issue europe (where i'm originally from) does not have. heck, while living in france, I've observed annoying american tourists call french blacks african-american. the issue here is being purposely dense to serve a narrative and create an anger war, which the extremely bias article is doing.

harris is black-indian, or black-asian if you don't pronounce your r. that is her race.

now do we call black "african" just like we call white "caucasian?" that indeed is a valid point. however adding the "-american" to it, and calling the result a "race" makes that point unnecessary to debate, since the result is no longer a race. i wonder if the white people and arab people from africa are black too. i'm a white jew. I guess i'm african-american now too.

and it does make it worse. "if someone is determined to use psychedelics to self-medicate their depression" they recognize they have a problem, are trying things to fix it, and hence have a higher chance of a control group that does nothing, or doesn't acknowledge how bad they feel, or have an urge to get better.

you select a sample of people who want to get better, and are surprised they get better more frequently than a group including people who don't? where's the test on a person depressed and not actively trying to get better taking the same drug? i bet the negative side effects and the death of extra brain cells makes it worse.

yes, if someone tries to use drugs to fix something, you absolutely should stop them. there's a reason you need a doctorate to prescribe those drugs.

new test. my test. I'm going to prove wikipedia makes you a neurosurgeon. let's take 300 highschool seniors who read a wiki article on neurosurgery. let's take another 300 from a random sampling at the dmv. send them all to school for neurosurgery. wow. just wow. the 300 who read the article - a higher percentage of them succeeded in becoming a neurosurgeon. holy crap. wikipedia is amazing.

libed there a bit and have this to say: to cover thise extra costs, they would have to charge a ridiculous amount per ticket. like double the cost if a flight to those destinations. and they do. $300 for a 5 hour train ride. so i can totally see this being profitable all costs uncluded.

here's why i think they get customers. people don't like airports and plane travel, so they'll pay more for rail. car travel is unpleasant. cars are tiny and uncomfortable. their tolls are insane. like $50 in tolls for that same drive. less people have cars, and getting an license is a big expensive thing. they don't do roadtrips.

i speak fluent proper moscow-russian, as i was born there. the way the redneck farmers speak sounds the same as belarus and ukrainian. in fact, the russian rednecks use many ukrainian words, not just pronounciation. hence redneck russian. it literally sounds like they talk in a russian village.

same as to the french (and me) canadian french sounds uneducated. same as canadian english sounds bad, eh?

the other languages you list, outside of your cherrypicked examples, are very different. how do i know? with ukrainian and belorussian, i can just have a coversation in the language. i take a russian word and i say it with a ukrainian accent -they understand me, and i fully understand them. in the ones you list, it's not canadian french vs france french. it's like spanish vs french. i can kinda understand the general idea of what they're saying, if i focus. they sound foreign -like when i hear spanish, only knowing french.

it's southern china vs redneck north china mandarin. your examples are mandarin vs cantonese.

and while most of ukraine and belarus don't even speak their own language, when they do it's not clean. they speak суржик, which is a mix of russian and their language. so it literally is bastardised russian.

and btw, i lived in kiev for almost 2 years, and have visited every country in europe. i really do know what i'm talking about 1st hand. so i didn't watch your youtube video. it would be like you posting a link explaining why water is dry.

I'm sorry, but you think you can buy electricity from anywhere in the world? in any american city, you have one choice where to buy it from. 3 companies can put up their antennas on a tower. 3 companies cannot dig trenches through chicago to every house to run wires.

there are some small exceptions where it was traded on the power grid with deregulation. it caused the enron scandal. do you remember enron?

the issue is we have limited frequencies to use for cell phones. any time you have another player, you are wasting that bandwidth by splitting it up more. we should have 1 cell phone provider for each area of the country, and it should be regulated like a utility. that is what will make cost lower, not more competition. there are things that are physically limited, so running it capitalist style is not appropriate because of high barrier to entry. capitalism only works well with low startup costs.

i like how most of europe has internet for dirt cheap. it's public land, it's public cables. all an isp does is lease cables and provide service with their equipment connected.

of course it will. belarus is more of a russian republic, not its own country. they speak russian -most people don't know the belorussian language, which is just redneck russian. it's an open border with russia. you know how you're driving in illinois and there's just a sign on the side 'welcome to indiana?' welcome to belarus.

they also have a co-mingled army, as in not just joint drills but belarus soldiers taking orders from russian generals. in fact, in case of a war, the agreement is russia commands the belarussian forces.

so, dictatorship notes aside, it would absolutely be proper and expected for putin to help the government of belarus, as per their agreements.

source: am russian, went there for work for several years as an adult, have been to belarus, have friends from belarus.

if you asked your 90% what iOS was they couldn't answer you either, despite having an iphone in their pocket, so don't see your point. and those people won't have a 4yo phone in the pocket either -it'll be refreshed every couple of years, and still under automated ota updates.

so again you're moving the goalpost. the claim of the op was old phones from apple are superior because they get vendor security patches, and android does not. which is factually false.

i think you completely ignoring the main point i detailed out, that order matching is a tiny part of what uber does, is what is not in good faith. it's a company with 4 million workers in most countries and cities worldwide. let's say you want to start a taxi company in tokyo. find and hire about a thousand drivers. your costs are just writing an app, right? how about saudi arabia? now take those costs and multiply by 4000.

you want to compare to nyse? cool. ask them how much money it will take to trade every stock worldwide following local rules, for any country's citizen. hire 4 million workers. make sure i can use the same app for every transaction and just put it on my amex.

the difference is in the details. what you say is incredibly hard. they set up a global service in thousands of legal jurisdictions that let's you use one app. in rome you can only legally get a black mercedes qualified as a limo. in dubai you can order a lexus taxi or an uber helicopter. in chicago anyone with a car can be an uber. in moscow they have to go through yandex taxi. to me, in any city with all its different rules, I pop open an app, order what i want, and it just gets charged to my amex. they handle insurance rules, they handle refunds and disputes, they provide mapping software drivers use - worldwide, so you can look at your route and not get ripped off by a cabbie. they provide car leasing services to drivers like a dealership.

this is an insanely complex feat to accomplish. it's also expensive.

what does a taxi service do? it's a guy sitting at dispatch assigning calls to cabs.

the stock exchange is complex too. not nearly as complex, with much more well-defined and common rules. but even they don't just charge you. they also charge listing fees, regulatory fees, governance, access to data fees, and sell services and software for trading. you are also comparing a trade transaction to a cab ride. sorry, a cab ride is a much bigger and more involved thing than a button you click on a website.

this is like saying to only buy mac laptops, because an os is hard to install on your laptop. I guess that's why the corporate world and other people don't run a bunch of linux. because it's a "community project." redhad and ubunty are community projects. gotcha. they are. just like lineageos. supported by hundreds of paid developers and many huge companies.

installing an os on your phone is not simple. but it is harder than installing it on your laptop. and because installing it on a laptop is hard, people don't buy copies of windows and never have.

i am not glossing over complexity. but this is not complexity. anything apparently is complexity to you if it's not "buy small computer, and literally do nothing." yes, doing something is "complexity." opening a door requires keys. too complex.

us somewhat technical people, like this entire site and literally a third of the population, can follow xda directions. my gramma can watch a 15 minute youtube video and just click exactly what it says. the complexity is not complex.

as far as unlockable bootloaders, there are some. i can count on one hand, out of the hundreds of phones I can buy. if by many you mean 2%, sure. i guess that 2% means don't use 98% of phones. strange how apple is unlockable on 100% of their phones, yet that 2% is "worse."

When you play pretend with fake information, the only thing you are doing with the narrative is making yourself look like you're spreading narrative. this works for fox news watchers like yourself. not on a forum with a bunch of downvoting nerds.