I 100% get your point, but a thought... were Bezos to take profits (whether via his personal income or directly from AMZN) and give them to employees... his valuation would drop. Part of his wealth valulation (mostly via AMZN ownership) is the calculation that he'll continue his known/predictable compensation policies (not the most employee/contractor friendly..), which would slip if he were shown to be caring for employees over shareholders. Such a move impacts him directly, and limits his piles of '$42 million USDs' that he has to invest.

Again, I get your point, just wanted to note that sometimes markets are designed to react to certain cues, and "gives to employees over wealth-hoarding" is a negative for long-term valuation. There are of course other incentives to consider..

I'm not sure I follow.

"200 years of viable energy" - this is like claiming that a fleet of horses and some fields will keep your area/businesses competitive for the next 200 years... in the middle of the Industrial Revolution.

"Getting in the way of their meal ticket is the fastest route to losing scientific progress." - how is depriving people of income they're used-to and still-attempting-to make on a practically price-obsoleted commodity either "getting in the way of their meal ticket" (from the prior example, you sound a bit like a literal luddite, wanting to preserve inefficient old methods over "the reality of labor (energy) pricing") or going to "lose scientific progress" (just a thought - inventing, perfecting, and engineering replacement energy sources is very much 'scientific progress')?

Well put.

A longer version: https://www.theatlantic.com/po...

A choice quote: "The author specifically objects to using what his memo calls discriminatory means to achieve greater gender diversity, then adds that he has concrete suggestions for changes at Google that would “increase women’s representation in tech and without resorting to discrimination.” In his telling, this could be achieved by making software engineering “more people-oriented with pair programming and more collaboration” and changes that would “allow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive,” as well as offering more opportunities for employees to work part time. Whether one regards those suggestions as brilliant, rooted in pernicious gender stereotypes, or anywhere in between, they are clearly and explicitly suggestions to increase diversity in a manner the author regards as having a stronger chance of actually working than some of the tactics that he is critiquing. "

That's the whole idea of "artificial floor". If you can get 56k on Ebay, great! If not, here's a guaranteed 35k JIC...

Per Year.

...and some (this guy) now listen to her more than Mr Reznor. Learn about new bands, listen to their music, then decide if they're sellouts/shills/coat-tail riders. Doing it the other way around shows more that you want to be right than you want to experience life and make optimal choices with the information you've acquired. I happen to not like much of her recent stuff, but the first 3-4 albums were fantastic (a few Dresden Dolls, then solo).

You shot me back to "Foster, you're dead": https://cochranesfsophomores.f... - one of my favorite Philip K Dick shorts.. more "the soviets" than "the terrorists" but the idea's familiar at this point :-/.

My absolute favorite was in Switzerland.

...my container of Ovomaltine Crunchy Cream (think chocolate spread) was confiscated for "being a liquid" ("but sir, you could open that and turn it over and nothing would happen" - "yes but I could spread it with my knife, i'm sorry").

3 minutes later, 50' from my gate, I can buy a glass 750ml bottle of 62%ABV liquor, and a lighter, in the same store.

Ugh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I get the "joke", but just a note, Sao Paulo (largest city in S. America) is mostly Italian...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ão_Paulo#Immigration

I was surprised that a NY-area American like me fit right in (until I opened my mouth)!

Native Americans https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?...

Jews http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/04...

The 2nd is much more illustrative of the mechanisms, and finishes with a simple enough point: sub-sets of society who are marginalized long enough (living in reservations, jewish ghettos, US inner-city ghettos) will end up with increased crime rates (including violent crime). Also note that while what you said is logically correct (your "or both" above helps), the Jews haven't in recent memory been "colonized", as until recently they did not claim any land. Crime records for Jews in (e.g.) biblical Egypt would indeed be interesting to see...

The people on one of my relative's block have an interesting solution to that:

Everyone who's "prepping" all have the same style/caliber of weapon. This way they can all use each others caches if/when they become available.

...I took it upon myself not to point out that this also implies there are lots of people with guns around who know where "things of value" will be found...

...that explains the terrible bagels we got there...

Just a thought, but instead of spending the time telling the GP to pound sand, shouldn't you have asked your city why they're lying about their published weather data? At the least, ask them to install a weather station in your neighborhood, due to extreme local variation from the available measurements?