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"The Untold Truth Of Grant Imahara From MythBusters" (2019, 12 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7PdllrAoL0

In my day we'd feed the Spinning Jenny punch cards all day long.

We should also stop using ROBOT which means "forced labor" (slave) in Czech.

Master and Slave Cylinder.. Automotive and Engineering. Will blue collar thought police be as compliant as (ahem) WHITE collar workers?

Uh. "Workers" has slave connotations. Employees. Wards of the State of Private Prisons. Hard Labor = Slave Labor. Are pregnant women now offended? WoMAN. I mean FeMALE. Damn this is hard..

Rating systems can be gamed, but micro-rewards and reward-limiters could subdue this effect if tied to some proof-of-individual system which also enhances the community. IRL; standup comedians get rewards, and patrons add to the entertainment thru feedback and therefore enhance the event.

But to your main point; Are creators/contributors more authentic when struggling to survive, or more authentic when their time/reward matches their basic needs? Are we motivated by rewards, or does lack thereof restrict our production? It depends on individual circumstance or character, or some raw potential of the network effect which has few winners if poorly designed.

Fans are in a ponzi race to discover talent before the masses pile in. (Who's Got Talent meets Democratized Dragon's Den)

Imagine if we taxed pre-existing conditions, like propensity to diabetes or obesity. Your genetics will set your tax bracket. Politically-incorrect enough?

Right, so target drinks.. slippery slope.. all sugar.

Then people buy the cheaper cuts of meat to afford a soda or two. Bacon ends with huge chunks of fat. Congrats, we just swapped one issue for another.

Isn't orange/apple/etc juice full of sugar? What about whole fruits? What about flying in bananas from the other side of the planet? Can we do that with less carbon emissions?

I'm just getting started. :P

Yes. Or otherwise we should get a full rebate for running or other exercise. Send in a BMI receipt with your yearly tax refund request. Now that is some serious job creation!

People actually travel to Asia for their cheap and delicious food. Rice takes a little more effort, but so does exercise. Recipes are free.

Exactly. "Death & taxes" both being certain is not a passing coincidence. What is the relationship of poverty to death rate? Oh, wait, so poverty kills more people than sugar? Who knew.

I think caveat emptor also applies in this case. We don't ban sky-diving, or any other extreme sports to protect people's life or health.

.. "the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and suitability of goods before a purchase is made."

Wuhan recently tested all 9 million residents and found only 300 currently positive cases, which are not included in official figures since they are all asymptomatic. If they had tested the residents for antibodies instead then we would have a much better understanding of mortality vs immunity. So it seems like a wasted effort other than forcing residents out of their homes to stand in long queues. CFR depends on knowing the percentage of all cases, not just those showing up in distress at hospitals, as i suspect their official figures actually indicated.

Indeed. NZ & Aus exchange about 20% of each other's tourism in a regular year. Sometime in July we should see open borders across the ditch, saving a good number of jobs in travel and tourism sectors. Job subsidies have been timed to maximize this 'bounce back' economy as well.

China, Singapore, and Qatar seem to have less-lethal strains if their recent numbers are to be believed. Perhaps in lieu of an early vaccine we might see weaker asymptomatic strains as providing a safer path to herd immunity. Someone here from these countries might be able to explain their low death rates in more detail.

There was another site that had 30 day deletion policy, but if you logged in during the 30 days then deletion was automatically cancelled. Squirrelly behavior obviously.

As an aside, when i top up my prepaid mobile i have the option to donate the top-up to another number. Yet dating sites i've seen don't allow subscribing someone else for a limited time (by opting-in on their side of course). Is there some reason as to why this is not an option on most dating sites? Seems courteous, but it might lead to scams or begging perhaps?

The 'digital diary' app [0] sounds fairly innocuous.

[0] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300016238/nz-covid-tracer-w...

The next issue is whether to count positives who are new arrivals placed into quarantine of 2 or more weeks. Countries will be reluctant to blemish their clean virus-free records even though quarantine may be effective and necessary to have limited allowable travel. Seems we should only count people who test positive after passing through quarantine if they were first cleared as negative and released.

NZ is also postponing app tracing as our cases hit zero, and our PM recommends old school ppl power. (200 tracers on standby with more being trained just in case)

None, because as they finally pulled back on QE in 2019 the yields inverted and the overnights jumped, so Trump forced them to dive back in around Sept '19 to keep the gravy-train trucking for the election year bragging rights.

> TSLA - with gas so cheap, electric vehicles are less attractive

One suggestion was that the big players will postpone electric while their ICEs get a temp boost, thus giving TSLA an even more unassailable lead.

I think this is why ppl (msm) should tune out the "Obamagate" nothing-burger, cos it's potentially less dangerous than anti-asian sentiments given the population demographics in the US. Who's next after; Muslims, Blacks, Mexicans, Jews, Asians??

Also when we save a page the number is in the title.

Well said.

Somewhere along the line house-owners became endless cash-cows for bankers and got political support. I guess an asset-owning class is deemed a more stable reliable voter in this scenario. Renters are just so many fish in the sea.

Moreover, politicians advocated house ownership as a solution to an economy's woes. The mortgage-holders are tied in to life-long jobs (when jobs were for life) and continue plowing money into their asset endlessly. Kinda like buying the latest fashion of car year-after-year in a consumer driven economy, where just getting from A-to-B is no longer the real objective.

Now we are seeing a younger (wiser) generation who saw their parent's treadmill for what it truly was and are rejecting that path by opting for tiny homes or mobility etc.

Right. The title implies renters lose too. But if you're not "contracted in" (long-term lease) then keep an eye out for discounted rentals and remain flexible. It's not like after an earthquake or other natural disaster where housing stock is reduced leaving renters price-gouge-able.

This is a SpaceX sim isn't it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-Nksc7Oh0

The Invitation (2015 film)

I looked, and she's wearing an Ouroboros necklace.

"The Ouroboros, an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail, has been said to have a meaning of infinity by depicting the cycle of birth and death. The Ouroboros eats its own tail to sustain its life, in an eternal cycle of renewal."

At least they don't have to fire 1 million.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mO6UY6uTg

Indeed. MS just announced building a new datacenter in NZ (which happens to be close to eradicating CV'19 given it's geography) so expansion even during a global crisis is certainly possible.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121422743/microsofts-signif...

Googled Venus Simulation. Found Terraforming Wiki.

https://terraforming.fandom.com/wiki/Venus_Simulation

MS have always been zealous about TM names. Since the purchase i suspect many like myself are sitting in the stadium waiting for whack-a-mole to start, popcorn at the ready.