As I said https://slashdot.org/comments....
AFAIC ruzzia can and needs to go to hell. I hire people, I won't hire a ruzzian, the world needs to get its act together and start using space without them.

They are a scourge, always were, always will be. The American scientists, that passed information to the USSR about nuclear weapon design and manufacturing were not just traitors, they made a gigantic mistake, they truly made the world a much worse place to live. Preferably the soviets and by extension the Chinese and then the Iraqies, Iranians, North Koreans and who knows who else should not have nukes, at least not immediately after the Americans designed and built them.

Americans are exceptionally good at delivering innovation, but they are also exceptionally naive about the rest of the world. All Americans, their scientists incorrectly believe in basic good human nature, their politicians incorrectly believe that others are just like them and want to do business. Ha! Business is the last thing on the minds of foreign despots. The first thing is to make sure their population are controllable so that nothing can dethrone them, this means the status quo must be maintained, business does not help to maintain status quo, on the contrary, it may provide extra resources to the population. Once the population has more resources than the absolute minimum and once the population does not depend on the State to provide this bare minimum, once the population can provide for itself it starts demanding change and this is unaaceptable. The change is a political demand, population must be dependent and ready to die for a few scraps off the table of the rulers, business interferes with this. Americans think putin or whatever other dictator wants to do business, what a stupid notion.

American people believe they can just keep to themselves, nothing concerns them about the rest of the world, they do not need to try and control the outcomes. They are the naive wealthy mark, walking carelessly through a foreign open market, there are enough eyes on their pockets and there is a guy with a knife in a dark alley waiting for them specifically. This is a metaphore. Americans need to build alliances with the Europeans, not break them, they need to understand that ruzzians are not friends or business partners. They also need to understand that global caliphate is a real thing, it is the goal and if Americans care about their way of life even a little, Israel and Ukraine are their lines of defence right now and must be supported as if the war was already in the USA, bevause it is.

See, I avoided pointing out your bias leading to your conclusions earlier, because I figured you'd write it off as if you were just explaining someone else's idea. But the hot tub remark makes it your own. When you've already decided, without looking at it, that there's no value added, of course it's only waste. Well done. God forbid someone asks for some data pertaining to perceived value from actual consumers- they'd probably just mess it up by telling you access to a hot tub is worth more than $0 to them.

That's actually a good question. Inks have changed somewhat over the past 5,000 years, and there's no particular reason to think that tattoo inks have been equally mobile across this timeframe.

But now we come to a deeper point. Basically, tattoos (as I've always understand it) are surgically-engineered scars, with the scar tissue supposedly locking the ink in place. It's quite probable that my understanding is wrong - this isn't exactly an area I've really looked into in any depth, so the probability of me being right is rather slim. Nonetheless, if I had been correct, then you might well expect the stuff to stay there. Skin is highly permeable, but scar tissue less so. As long as the molecules exceed the size that can migrate, then you'd think it would be fine.

That it isn't fine shows that one or more of these ideas must be wrong.

Why would a grocery chain pull out if they can drop some products and give that shelf space to the rest?

And plenty of oh-hell-naw features.

Americans are quite a bunch, land of the free, ha? Jay walking was invented and popularized in the States, in most other countries there are no such laws safe for a few. Germany, Singapore are very strict too but they are the exception, not the rule.

they only care about one kind of reputation - fear. This is what keeps them warm at night, the thought that the West is afraid of them, because it is definitely not gas that keeps them warm.

I know, it is true, the front lines have 50+ year olds, no doubt. Ukraine hasn't dipped into the pool yonger than 25 yet, this is the conscription age while orcs have sent 18 year olds to die for their tsar already. Ukraine also allowed 18 to 22 year old males to exit the country, over 45 thousand left to Poland. None of this changes what I said.

I didn't need to call anything out by name- we weren't having a citation battle. You just plain can't frame this stuff appropriately, that's not my fault. You let me know when you've attended lectures in the memorial series for the former university president with a doctoral student in economics in the process of defending their dissertation that cites the guy, then we can discuss when and whether it's necessary to name drop. I'll give you a hint: only one of the two people referenced has a last name that starts with 'B.'

Let me make this easier for you: my public food bank will spend all of my donation as well. If that donation was big enough they install a sink to wash the produce, I'd indeed expect someone to consider its value to the clients, not arrive at a conclusion to which their political position is a necessary precondition. But it won't surprise me at all 10 years from now when the employees are paid twice as much while distributing the same amount of food.

Two problems: 1) relative to enrollment. Did you deal with the reality of increased enrollment? No? 2) They're not mutually exclusive. If you want to say universities are to blame, you've got to show that it's more relevant. Which begs the question- you have to assume it's the driver to show it's the driver. Leading to 3) Baumol is good on empirical data across a huge swath of the economy and at least a half a century. And I guess 4) Martin and Hill, the most prominent of the academics to try to address that overlap, make tons of questionable assumptions in the higher education environment. Like various student support expenditures being a result of that revenue rather than an investment in value- like the reduced suicide rates for college students. They don't attempt to even assign a value to what any parent on the unlucky side of the status quo ante would probably call priceless. There are others.

I know you *want* to believe you're better educated and smarter on these issues. More power to you

Releasing a database of personal info? Shame on you! But we have laws against that...

Read through the comments in that telegram post, the amount of denial is staggering, the amount of cheerful propaganda is even greater, but there were some worried notes gleaming through all that cheerleading, where someone hoped they would still have a job later on. Someone thinks that the things may not turn out so well, they think that out of all of the options they may end up with the option I listed as number one here https://slashdot.org/comments....

what I can tell you from the very tone of this cheerful post, they do not have all of the necessary components and it will not be simple at all. Obviously they will try to launch Proton in December as scheduled by trying to do it without the service cabin, there is maybe a way, a bunch of wooden planks and ropes, who knows. The number of ways this may end up disasterous for the launch are too many to be listed here.

competing with spaceX is tough indeed, how exactly would you propose the Chinese bill uncle Sam for billions, consistently launching empty oversized buckets that burn up while delivering a banana to the Indian ocean?

You've convinced me. Demand only comes into play when there's a lack of it. That is indeed how you know that it *is* the evil auction houses that have driven up the price of Monets.

And you're also right about all the things we measure about the medical economy- it's a giant typo when the BLS says "While the weight of each CPI medical care related index is determined by out-of-pocket spending, price change reflected by the indexes measure the total reimbursement to medical care providers." They just left out the part where they use outcomes, regional care, times to care, and many more to adjust that figure so that it reflects actual changes in spending power like an inflation figure would. Because it's their first day explaining methodology, maybe.

it's quite devastating to be called an idiot by such a brilliant and knowledgeable thinker. Especially one who can so smartly reference money supply, because of course when we've been talking about inflation, what we're actually interested in is checking account balances, not the change in purchasing power of an actual dollar over time.

If GDP per hour worked is now over $100 in the US, how can you be so sure $50/hr minimum is "no answer"?