That's an assumption. I have my concealed carry card. I can/ do/ and would continue protect myself. Other people can do the same without resorting to hiring.
There's also a long history of self protection without the use of hired goons.
I think colloquially, lay people may not know the ontological origins of the word but when they use the word "proof" they mean it as some indisputable fact. At least most people I know use it in that manner.
One thing that grates on me is when people say science "proves" X. Or and A/B test "proves" Y. Science never proves anything, it provides evidence for the existence of some phenomenon or relationship. People need to repeat this to themselves whenever they are tempted to say the word "prove": Some arbitrarily complex hypothesis can also explain all of my evidence. Said in plain language, there is always another possibility.
I think cheap money expands the economy unsustainably. When you can't make any interest by saving people look for higher ROI via investing. I think in those climates VC money comes cheap, finances unsustainable business models, those businesses employ people which now compete against established businesses for talent and wages rise. With higher wages comes competition for a limited supply of goods and voila, the cycle of inflation. At least that how I understand it, but I'm no economist.
The government has been shaping public opinion though traditional news media for some time, look at all the "ex" government employees employed as "analysts" at MSCBC, CNN, etc. Since they can't inject talentless talking heads directly into social media's newsfeeds to push their agenda they exert pressure in a different way. It's not surprising at all.
Classic Red Herring logical fallacy. What's happening in Russia is in no way relevant to the arguments about government murder and the dissolution of the purported "rule of law" in the USA presented in the piece. This is a distractionary tactic used to prevent discussion about the real issues presented in the writing. Shame.
This diversity stuff comes from the very top, when I was doing my PhD the three most productive (and published) grad students and post docs were a few white and chinese guys. But every grant I proofread from my advisor extolled the "diverse" make up of the lab and the contributions from underrepresented minorities therein (women of various backgrounds) who largely did not contribute to any of the prior work on which the grant was premised. This is universities taking their cues from their funding agencies, the government, and expounding on them.
If we are only free from "draconian" action when it's convenient for the elites then we are not really ever free from "draconian" action. The first thing china did was lockdowns and masks, we did exactly what the authoritarians did, we just didn't travel down that road quite as far.
I think we need to remember this is just the first time this guy got caught, how many previous defendants are now imprisoned because he tipped the scales of "justice" by destroying exculpatory evidence? The problem is structural and cannot be fixed, LEOs, judges, and prosecutors all have a vested interest in working together to imprison defendants regardless of guilt. Whether through financial coercion, ejecting impartial jurors, or losing evidence they have a well greased machine that is designed to railroad the innocent just as quickly as the guilty.
I'm not really sure I agree Uber was "built" by cab drivers, but for the sake of argument, sure, but what's the alternative? The subway has way more crime.
Yes companies and people should disobey the law more often, we should all strive to minimize the effects of government control and coercion enabling us to lead our lives as we see fit for the short time we're on earth.
For me, I'm happy Uber is around today, most likely because the flouted the law. Win/Win for me and them IMO.
Yes humans communicate using "words". Nothing is ever "proven" in science since there is always an arbitrarily complex hypothesis than can explain captured data. Instead, the weight of evidence is considered.
Anyway it seems like this whole conversation is out of your depth currently. There are many good X-ray crystallography texts available if your interest continues.
In my experience it's always been easier both growing and solving organometallic compounds. Borrowing the phase from previously solved structures is trivial for organometallic compounds which simplifies the density modeling while the fact that most organometallic compounds lack the chirality found in every protein generally means they pack into higher symmetry groups facilitating the growth of larger high quality crystals.
Growing high quality crystals of Organometallic compounds is easier than many other disciplines in chemistry, orders of magnitude easier than proteins, as an comparison.
I published a number of crystal structures using a powerful X ray diffractor and high quality crystals where H density was both found and modeled. Modeling H density in and of itself is in no way a sign of fake data, it is just a rare occurrence.
In a two tier society like the US (the govt class vs the productive class) the government class protects their own with made up legal doctrine like "qualified immunity" which gives them carte blanche to steal, rape, and murder the productive class.
If the blame were to lie with one single individual at the FBI who committed multiple crimes effecting this illegal search that person would still not be held accountable by the courts, the FBI, nor any other government agency.