I agree, it's economic migration of a 'I can do better somewhere else' kind, more than a "I can't survive here' type. I believe the same thing happens in Australia but the target is the US. Certain bright talents leave because they believe they will do better as a scientist, screenwriter, financier, musician, or whatever, in the states. I once met a guy on Wall Street from AU, he said to me he could have done well as a "big fish in a small pond" in Sydney, but knew he's make a lot more dough in NYC. We almost certainly have lower taxes on the ultra rich but I'm not going to go check on that.

Hasn't reddit had this astonishing technical innovation for at least 10 years?

Besides, this is old news. Literally. Essayist S. I. Hayakawa wrote a great piece on the use of arcane professional language way back in the 1970s...I believe it was in the Washington Star and syndicated to other papers...I'll have to try to go find it.

https://shotkit.com/camera-sur... 1%, kiddo

That's utterly laughable. I've almost never read of real, modern-day professional photographers using Leica. Leica is doing well because the obscenely rich are doing better than ever, and they buy Leica cameras as baubles. BTW you are also conflating rangefinder with mirrorless. Some actual professionals do use the Sony Alpha series, which is really what people mean by mirrorless.

If they are stable year over year, that's a sign they are still a fad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A master huckster like Hirst pulling something like this is further evidence we've truly hit 'peak mathematical parlor trick'...which is how I refer to the the whole crypto/NFT shebang. See also: any other recent NFT stories, btc dropping below 19k which "could never happen" according to crypto "experts" of 6 months ago.

The world stops wasting vast sums of energy on mathematical parlor tricks that create artificial scarcity? In other words, there are no more blockchain based 'currencies'?

these are the same people who were managing risk in the 2001-2008 real estate bubble.

Agreed. The issue with cryptocurrencies is any set of, ohhh, 2 or more masters level cryptographers can get together and create one. There's no reason to think these algorithmic widgets won't keep flowing off the assembly line until the whole investment class becomes a joke. That being said, like everyone else, I sure wish I bought some bitcoins back in 2010!

agreed - this is exceptionally pathetic. I could probably fix it myself with a long sql statement that would take 30 min to write. But then some contractor would be out a 5 million change order.

I'm not sure the branding was always the problem. cf: http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-SD2005-5-port-Gigabit-Switch/dp/B0000C20XG/

I guess you missed: The researchers found that the supplements restore the children's blood levels of amino acids to normal. As for their autism symptoms, Gleeson says, the “patients did not get any worse and their parents say they got better, but it’s anecdotal”. Doesn't sound promising. Since normal brain development is a process that starts in utero, these amino acids are something that might require treatment to start immediately after birth to have any effect at all. Somehow with all the folk experimentation that's gone on with autistic kids, which is not always a bad thing, I'd be very surprised if every possible combination of amino-acids hasn't already been tried out there by someone. Anyhow, moral of the story: don't marry your cousins, or anyone else you may be closely related to.