Caffeine is definitely addictive, physically speaking. It's not nearly as bad as other substances, though.

My rule of thumb is: if I feel like I can't "get going" in the morning without caffeine, then it's time to lay off it for a while. (It's likely masking some other problem that is going on and needs to be debugged/fixed).

I don't know if that is an accurate heuristic, since people do some really, really stupid things. Meth is still around, for example.

So, Vegas?

It should be noted that as soon as copyrights expire, the work will be taken up by hollywood who just wants to make a quick buck without compensating the original author. That can't be good, either.

Birds are carnivorous.

It's called Market Segmentation.

Splitting customers into subgroups and marketing to them separately with different pricing is basic business.

That was a tit-for-tat because the American government banned Huawei.

Irrelevant. Prices can go up for many reasons.

Prices are ALWAYS raised "because they could".

You seem to have a profound misunderstanding of both economics and business.

1. Inflation is a rise in prices. When it ends, prices stop rising. They don't "go back down".

2. Businesses exist to make money. They aren't charities. They don't lower prices to be nice guys.

3. Oats are grown by millions of farmers and processed by thousands of mills. If you really believe that many people are colluding to raise prices, you should have a mental health evaluation.

Verification is not the same as creation.

You can verify the factors of a 200-digit composite number in a microsecond, but finding those factors may take longer than the lifetime of the Universe.

Verifying a decoded message is easy because the resulting plaintext is grammatically and semantically valid. But finding the key is far harder.

Reading a charred paper is very similar to cryptanalysis.

The ultra-rich (or at least rich enough to make endowment donations) are admitted as legacies, but once admitted, they have to work like everyone else. The profs aren't gonna grade them easier. They only do that for athletes.

You can try to claim financial independence.

Some of the criteria are that you have your own income and you're not declared as a dependent on your parent's tax return.

Not many 18-year-olds qualify.

I eat the eggs, not the chickens.

Indeed. My breakfast is oatmeal, the cheapest food in the grocery store.

There are some sites worth paying for. The WSJ isn't one of them.

How are backyard chickens a fallacy?

I have six hens. How can I tell if they're fallacious?

That's what they admitted. They decided it's less important than Magnus. And that is true.