Fintech is a real thing, but briefly it's basically a Silicon Valley startup trying to do financial services.

Note that the Silicon Valley strategy of "move fast and break things" has serious drawbacks when dealing with people's money and health, and that's why we ended up with Theranos, Synapse, Wirecard, and FTX, and that's ignoring the actual scam companies, and not even touching on the code bugs which are plentiful in fintech (not just security bugs, also payment bugs).

People responsible were fined and fired, in addition to a corporate fine.

I don't think banks will want to try this one again, but as always you should only have limited trust in banks (that is, trust them as much as you trust FDIC and the law).

I read it as All Pies.

There was quite a bit, but the sales was targeted at the extreme Republican holdouts. They REALLY don't care about California votes.

If he's seriously pointing a fully loaded gun at other people, he needs a gun safety class, not a reelection.

These stories on the supposedly shortened British working week are never specific as to whether they're working less hours per week for the same pay. If hours per week are the same, then the only thing workers may be gaining is some scheduling flexibility.

Today's workers should be down to about a 30-hour work week based on productivity improvements since the '70s. Either that or about 40% more pay.

I once had a single IT job that contained about 2 jobs worth of work. Maybe I should hook this guy up with them?

That's just a minor side effect, what they actually used it for was to grow corporate profits continuously for half a century while keeping worker pay stagnant. If workers got any benefit from their own productivity improvements over that time, they'd be making 40% more money or working 2 less days per week on average now.

"That article is about Taiwan," -- War is war. "I don't think the US could "conquer" China." -- No because China has nukes. "If they could pull it off swiftly enough, I think it'd be successful." -- No because China is weaker than Russia, and Taiwan is much stronger than Ukraine. Taiwan is a porcupine on an island.

This is interesting to me, why do you think the US won't react? Public opinion seems to favor it helping Taiwan, and Trump seems to have supported Taiwan from the beginning.

There's no required format for what a deletion request looks like. It can be verbal, even. https://docs.maptiler.com/guid...

There are laser weapons being used on battlefields or in armies around the world:

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
3) https://www.navytimes.com/news...

They have limitations and aren't as great as other weapons, but they are actually cheap to fire.

You think China is threatening to invade Taiwan because they want to defend their country? Do you also think China is invading Bhutan to defend their country, or is that just an inconvenient fact you'd like to ignore?

It's too easy to confuse "what I want" with "what is real."

I can see that you have no idea. That is obvious.

Your point is that it would be foolish for China to go to war (assuming they don't win). This article lists a lot of reasons why it would be a bad idea, and I agree. It would be a huge risk for China to attack Taiwan, and not a prudent course of action.

Will they be prudent?