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Also Nintendo, Sony, Ericsson, and Samsung

Firefox market share is certainly down but is usage really down 85%? I thought the market share was down partly because of smart phones and the browser market has expanded a lot of the last 10 years, especially in poorer countries were more and more people get internet access.

> It took a World War that killed millions of people (and was -- surprise! -- a major artificial government stimulus) to get out of it.

You are describing the broken window fallacy here. War and destruction doesn't help the economy. What happens in war is that useful resources in the economy are diverted from productive use and mutual beneficial trade to death and destruction.

A report from last year estimates that 95% of the bitcoin trading volume is fake [1]. There's no real identity behind a wallet so bot networks can easily pump up the volume and price. Another study claims "A single actor likely drove the USD/BTC exchange rate from $150 to $1000 in 2 months." [2]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/cbovaird/2019/03/22/95-of-repor...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03043...

I have no reason to believe these Q conspiracies but I understand why people believe them, when we know about all the past shady activities like COINTELPRO, MKUltra, WMDs in Iraq, all the involvement South America, NSA spying, etc.

My guess, people are moving away from the cities out to the suburbs because the great thing about the cities are all the social events, restaurants, and activities which are mostly shutdown and a lot of people don't need commute to work since they work remote now. So might as well move out from an apartment into a bigger house. Then there might also be a fear of higher crime, taxes, etc

Chris Masterjohn has an interesting talk called "Resolving the Vitamin D Paradox" where his hypothesis is that vitamin D, A, and K all need to be balanced for proper regulation of vitamin K dependent proteins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H7tbWVNrXQ

Swiss cheese is produced in the US and hamburgers are not always from Hamburg. I don't really see the problem. If consumers want to know where it's from then the country of origin can be included on the package.

When I feel good my body and heart has a slight euphoric feeling and alcohol moves me further away from that. I used to drink but sort of just gradually reduced it over time after meeting friends who didn't drink, it wasn't really a conscious decision though, just going by what makes me feel good

Yeah, it would be nice to be able to replicate a warmer and sunnier climate indoors during the winter.

Another thing you can try is to use red to near infrared light which has been shown to affect the mitochondrial electron transport chain. I read "Brain Photobiomodulation Therapy: A Narrative Review" a couple of days ago which is pretty interesting.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6041198/

> I don't understand why having a formal model for that commonality is so important.

So generic libraries can be built and abstracting frequently used operations over many different data types. I've never implemented a monad myself outside of a toy project and am by no means an expert, but it's quite nice to be able to transfer certain knowledge on lists to options or futures. Similar to generic interfaces like a collection interface, so whether you are working on a set or a list you know that 'get' or 'exists' can be used.

> Tax rates on the rich are at historically low levels

Not really. The income tax didn't exist before 1913 and the government was way smaller so there wasn't a even need to collect a lot of taxes. Are you thinking of the 50s? Because even in that time people just avoided to declare all their income (it was easier back then) or used other loop holes to avoid paying taxes [1]

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-on-the-rich-1950s-not-high/

In my experience a lot of drug use is self medication for relieving emotional or psychological pain, people who just don't feel good for whatever reason and want to feel better. Making drugs illegal won't really helps these people and if anything can do great damage to their future if they run into legal problems. People should have a right to their own bodies anyway even if they might cause themselves harm

I heard that rehab clinics in Mexico are often used by the cartels as safe houses for cartel members, and their weapons are taken away during their stay until they actually go out and do their mission to avoid cartel members to go freelancing.

> Below the middle of UV, photons don't have enough energy to ionize anything. Thus begins "non-ionizing radiation", which as far as we know, just burns you

Photodissociation is not simply heating. Red light is for example known to affect the mitochondrial electron transport chain

Not only will you learn more but you'll also show your coworkers that you're enthusiastic about learning and that you are an honest person.

It's not the same though. Fastmail allows a@fastmail.com and b@fastmail.com going to the same inbox. It's also easy to create these aliases.

You have revealed your real email using the gmail plus sign feature. It's not that difficult for the people selling the emails or the spammers to remove a plus sign and some characters after years of knowing this.

No, you can have completely different email addresses (aliases), even on different domains

I think one of the problems with email is that you have one global email tied to one inbox. Fastmail has the option to create multiple emails tied to one inbox so you could potentially have a unique email per sender, then if you start to receive spam it's easy to know who leaked it and disable the affected address

Can always buy US weapons and politicians with dollars

So the solution you propose means higher consumer prices (which hurts the lower class the most) and to prevent poor people from other countries the opportunity for a higher quality of life