How many women actually think it's cool where it originated? That's my point which you seem to ignore. So "finding a girl" that thinks it is cool is about as likely as finding a girl that thinks my model train collection is cool. Yes some women like that may exist but MOST do not.

But that's not your original point. You said women will care less about a diamond based on how it came from a lab. They really do not care about that at all. The price of the diamond is a different thing than how it was made whether in a lab or in the Earth's crust.

Color is another aspect that has upended the natural diamond market. Colorless natural diamonds were worth more unless the color was intense which was rarer. Pink diamonds were the rarest and most expensive. Diamonds with just hints of color were worth less. Lab grown diamonds are able to replicate color reliably and one main clue that a diamond might be lab grown is if the color is too intense. If the diamond was natural, most people could not afford it.

The point is the salesman made her diamond's flaws as a selling point. Natural diamonds with flaws are cheaper as perfect, flawless diamonds are rarer. However synthetic diamonds have fewer flaws as the process can be tightly controlled. In order to keep selling natural diamonds, they have to push the narrative that flaws make natural diamonds more attractive somehow.

Isn’t Enterprise Windows a subscription model with a minimum number of seats ? That's a hard no if it is.

Huh, that is a strange omission to make.

I heard that pitch one time from a bride: "My diamond had this small distinguishable crack so it can be identified later if it got stolen." I did not say what I thought. "My new car has an identifiable scratch so it can be recovered later if it gets stolen."

Also being cheaper, it is gets lost or stolen, it is easier to replace especially since nearly identical diamond can be ordered again.

And which girls think it is cool that someone dug up a rock in a mine? Most of them care how diamonds look. Between lab grown and natural, there is no difference in that regard. Without lab equipment it is hard for any person just to look at a diamond and tell where it originated. The value of the diamond is currently about bragging rights; but that price is artificially controlled by DeBeers.

Diamonds are not as rare as the industry would like the public to believe. Cartels like DeBeers control the supply. For the purposes of jewelry, synthetic ones have less variability which makes them more attractive for manufacturing. The main drawback is the stigma. If the public sentiment shifts to not caring, then DeBeers will face a decline.

One human pyromaniac with a bic lighter can probably do more damage.

I'm picturing a robot powered dog sled.

They should have put it closer. But puttering down the strip on foot checking everything out, and then hitting the monorail for a 1-way ride all the way back, is a pretty common thing I think. That, or staying in the hotel where your meetings/conference/gambling is, and hardly going outside. Or going to the Raiders game or F1 race.

At least I think we can all see the monorail does have decent ridership, and the extra-wide sidewalks of the strip are relatively crowded, much moreso than typical in the US other than exceptional places like NYC.

I will say this, of all the places you might want to visit without a car in the US, which can probably be counted on one hand, Las Vegas might be at the top of that list. Most visitors are going to the strip, which has the monorail, or the football stadium.

China will figure all that out for us, they're like 30 years ahead in adoption of high speed rail

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