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We don't want people thinking, I can steal a billion and if I'm caught get out in my 30s.
When you give 100 year sentences, I'm not sure what you are doing other than feeding the public's vengeance.
I do, however, like the idea of surge pricing for sit-down restaurants. If restaurant prices raised to guarantee available seats (like hotel rooms), there are plenty of instances where I would pay a premium to eat near an event I'm attending.
I realize my poor grammar made it difficult to fully capture what I was trying to say.
My core argument is that I have now seen twice what looks like Yishan making excuses for moderation decisions that fall outside most people's discourse window.
I also am not making claims about what makes more money. It could possibly be true that people with a particular political pursuasion are more likely to convert.
What normies are fairly noticing in these corps is moderating not by the overton window of the normal consumer, but by the overton window of the managerial class who run the business.
Having a dog can also be cumbersome if you are renting, because you will pay a premium to ensure your future apartment is dog friendly.
At my local Humane Society most young dogs seem to get adopted quickly. Senior dogs or dogs with health problems have a hard time.
I think anyone who wants to get a puppy should be willing to re-home as soon as possible instead of crating or banishing their dog because it's misbehaving (or you don't want them on your furniture).
Certain dog breeds (e.g Dachshunds) are really easy to re-home because there are rescues dedicated to them. Seems like my local shelter is usually full of pits and lab mixes.
There are several industries (microchips have recently become one) where finance has figured out the normal rules around competition don't matter. Boeing can capture the upside and there is virtually zero risk of bankruptcy or being nationalized from mistakes.
Like you are joking about how you are going to die from being too busy 忙死 and the speaker responds "add oil". Their actual intent is to say "I believe you can succeed"
What we are avoiding here is a CEO asking, "What caused the outage" and your manager responds "Bill wrote some code that caused a deadlock". It's possible Bill is working on fragile parts of the system, or writes most of the code. Blame at an individual level for an incident is unhelpful and, as OP points out, possibly creates a team with worse delivery incentives.
"ROC claims the mainland" only exists because any change from the status quo would look like declaring independence. It's not taken seriously in Taiwan.
However, it's beyond simply the public needing simple systems; the number of experts that would be required to lie about the certainty of a system is low enough that you really do create a less secure system. Paper ballots are harder to cheat because the systems scale in a way that you require more people in on the heist, which is the hardest part of any scam.
It's much easier to lose friends then gain them. So as people marry, have kids, move, keeping the close allyship becomes more difficult.
The kinds of activities most US 30+ adults are open to are relatively small and easily prone to be disrupted. For example, I might invite someone to watch a basketball game, but it will take a fairly long time for that kind of contact to blossom into a strong friendship. Moving just resets everything.
Also consider I would never call up a coworker I might have known for years and invite to something more personal, like a ski vacation. If I was in college, I wouldn't think twice about doing that with someone I didn't even know that well.
I'm a DINK myself; I've watched the complexity of my friend's divorce with children and I perceive it as more evidence I've made a good decision.
I am saying it's not signaling wealth or virtue to take care of your pet. Some people really love their animals, and are willing to part with their money for them. Using your example, I would never begrudge someone spending lots of money on their family either.
It seems you don't like pets, and that's OK. It's also OK for other people to love their pets even if it doesn't make sense. It doesn't have to be signaling.
This problem doesn't seem new to me. Startups letting people bring their dogs to work was a benefit before remote.
Here is an alternate hypothesis: People with expendable income, or the insecure, are paying for cosmetic surgery just like they always have.
My take is that China just plans to harass Taiwan. Last week it's believed China cut internet cables. We might continue to see China escalate until they start creating real economic damage (i.e an embargo).
This military build up is to make the US more hesitant to get involved in behaviors that don't quite warrant a war, but are severe enough to start pressuring Taiwan for concessions.
This whole situation is honestly pretty scary still, because it relies on no miscalculations. My own take is I blame Xi. Past presidents, like Obama, are often blamed for their weak stance against China, but many don't realize Hu Jin Tao was an entirely different leader. All the NYTimes articles about China joining the global order seemed far more reasonable, because Hu was very pro-globalization and no where close to as nationalistic. The KMT (Taiwan's pro-China party), was much stronger when China was run by Hu.
Recently Xi has broken convention and is in his third term. He has through anti-corruption campaigns and politicking filled the politburo with his people. There was a brief belief that post-covid, the country would pivot, however that now looks unlikely. China and America are going to have a tumultuous half-decade at-least.
To me, it seems society should have some ability to do this for the sake of public health, however I also understand not wanting to wanting to grant this kind of power to the state, even if we are trading it for welfare.
It's often just someone who appears friendly and speaks English. They might tell you they are a student looking to practice.
In China, and really anywhere, it's sadly best to not respond to anyone approaching you.
There is a reason nicotine is addictive and popular. It's mildly enjoyable.
UK's old drug czar, David Nutt, got in trouble for calling alcohol Britain's most dangerous drug.
The relocation management company racked up a bill I would have never incurred if I allocated the money myself.
My lesson here was: Never take a relocation package that has the company sorting your housing and travel, just ask for a large signing bonus instead.
I moved into a foreign students dorm and most of my classmates were Korean and Japanese, but I spoke to them in Chinese. The friend I hung out with the most was Korean and I didn't feel like there was a gap in hobbies. We had a group that would go out and play pool, drink soju, and sing KTV. I never had good opportunities to meet and hangout with other Chinese students. When people go to bars, they really don't go and socialize with others. Socializing is usually contained to the group you are in.
I think I'd say though there is still a big advantage in just being able to converse with taxi drivers, retail workers, etc. People are pretty chatty because westerners speaking Chinese is kind of novel. It is a great way to better understand what I consider a fairly misunderstood country.
Where I lived, Shanghai, there was a western community that essentially interacted with each other in their enclaves and never developed any meaningful relationships outside maybe dating someone who was Chinese. In Shanghai at least you can get along just fine without learning the language, but you will miss out on so much because most people around you can't hold conversations in English.
The interesting part of this article, IMO, is that Pope Francis believes it's also the church's responsibility to undo laws against homosexuality.
My point is, I think the banks actually want churners for the reasons I mentioned.
The WSB crowd mocks r/investing because a 50 year timeline optimally turns 10k into 220k (not enough to be rich). With options you can do half that overnight.
However, options lose in most cases. With options pretty much everyone who uses them will have the experience of a loss even though their theory is confirmed. For example Tesla misses sales and the stock price goes up. The fact that the miss was priced in, makes it feel like retail investing is simply there to be shaken down in the same way a casino has a house edge.
"Don't fight the fed" has been a better slogan than "Diversify in stocks with dividends and good fundamentals"
I imagine this bias exists because law schools are a dime a dozen, and lawyers have created another form of gatekeeping to augment their licensing rules.