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This seems like a completely arbitrary and absolutely biased place to draw a line. Why Bitcoin and not luxury cars or Hello Kitty backpacks? How about we shut down Six Flags and Disneyland?

This sounds very much like you've decided that you don't like Bitcoin (and that's fine, with good reasons) but you have rationalized it with an argument that is almost certainly inconsistent with the rest of your worldview. Bitcoin isn't any more bullshit than countless other systems/goods, the argument based on environmental externalities is a very weird reason to draw such an absolutist line given all the other (arguably) bullshit systems that incur the same costs.

For some reason I assumed that it was referring to subcontinent Indians, and was slightly confused because I don't consider it racist to point out that their road system is absolutely atrocious.

He doesn't need citations. Your citation is completely irrelevant, it has nothing to do with memorization at all. Memorizing 10 digits is extremely easy barring individual memory issues, there's no argument to be had.

The closest Americanism that comes to mind for this term would be "grit", which I think is a bit different as it's more about enduring hardship (or hard work) than actually working hard. I think the word "hussle" is used similarly sometimes.

It's a fairly new feature.

Every party-affiliated "expert". IIRC the intelligence community didn't actually present the case itself. Just people like Colin Powell going up and lying to Congress.

Well they were adults during the whole process. Climate change was starting to get some attention back in the 80's at least, and there were definitely warnings in the 90's. Not nearly as severe or conclusive ones, but still.

Millennials were children at the time.

Most people (I assume) don't look beyond aggregation feeds, or at best, the front/landing page of whatever news source they prefer.

>...advice columnist may not give good advice, but they are somewhat less likely to give advice designed to encourage you to cut your own throat for their personal benefit.

Yeah, they have absolutely no mechanism to verify that their advice is good, or any consequences if it is terrible, and their primary incentive (far more than a psychiatrist's incentive for the malpractice you describe) is to entertain and satisfy you for more attention.

This is a horrible rationalization.

>but there is also an undercurrent of brutality that was not only tolerated, but perhaps even encouraged

Insert "A Few Good Men" rant. It's a really hard problem, but it definitely needs a solution.

Seattle's was due to fires in surrounding regions. For whatever reason, smoke just accumulates in the Sound and lingers in the city, even for fires up in Canada. In LA, typically unless there is a fire in the immediate proximity, smoke doesn't really affect it that much. This article seems to be mostly about smog and ozone, rather than temporary air quality issues that don't really have a solution.

But yes, from what I've read, for a couple weeks last month, Seattle had the worst air quality in the world. And if you were here, you'd believe it.

Absolutely.

And an additional layer, if the victim has the time/resources to countersue, and can manage to prove malice or negligence behind the takedown, the punitive fine should be absolutely massive.

People are only capable of so much, mentally. As the world is increasingly well understood, it gets increasingly complicated, and individuals require ways to interact with the parts that they don't have time to truly understand.

There was an attempt to impose regulation on banks that qualify for this designation, with some (limited) success. Republicans have mostly dismantled it by this point though.

Safeway and Vons are both subsidiaries of Albertson's.

They may not have been "uniquely" expansionist, but they were easily one of the most expansionist civilizations/empires to ever exist.

I take big issue with calling them "devoted to peace". The same as I'd take issue with calling Mongols, Romans, or Alexander's Greeks/Macedonians being called "devoted to peace". They very obviously were not. For selfish reasons, they provoked a staggering level of warfare, on a totally different scale as the typical kingdoms that existed throughout the world.

And typically (always?) single-edged.

>If things seem disorganized at that stage, then I assume that day-to-day operations at the company are even more disorganized

I'm not really sure about that. In my experience there can be a pretty big gap between the initial recruiters (who often understand nothing about the actual qualifications necessary) that are just trying to get as many people in the door as possible, and the actual operations of the company. Granted I have a pretty small sample size, but I've had this misalignment go in both directions.

>first being merit based immigration

Except that to him and his supporters, "merit" is really just code for "skin color". They don't want Hispanics, period. To the point where they are apparently willing to go after natural-born Hispanic citizens on the sketchy basis that they might be fraudulent (of course actually bothering to investigate isn't necessary).

Far easier to enter, because so far there isn't a single one that is more than vaguely useful. As far as I'm aware, there isn't really much business at all for translation because at the end of the day, if you want it done anywhere close to correctly, you have to hire someone that actually knows both languages.

The fact that a company is cutting costs doesn't mean it is "making money". Nothing is being offloaded, it is just a process that doesn't require one of their employees to be present.

I think it is better for everyone this way. It is more accurate, it is less pressure and less demanding on the candidate, and it doesn't require an engineer sitting there asking intro-CS questions to a stranger instead of working.

Is that supposed to discredit him? He started with nothing. Nor is simply having money anywhere near a guarantee of success in that industry.

Man I hate analysis like these. At least yours isn't as flawed as that guy on reddit who didn't understand the difference between a Watt and a Joule (or kWhr), but what you did is still incredibly basic and ineffective. You aren't accounting for reddit simply frontloading the first page view, compared to old reddit reloading pages each link you click, or countless other possible optimizations.

Just measuring single page-loads using a browser extension is far to simplistic of a metric.

Nature manages to cause weather patterns easily enough, why can't we?

Your question doesn't make sense. Many (most) things in nature are incredibly hard to model correctly. Just because they happen doesn't make it easy to quantify usefully.

Not an expert, but my understanding is that while better knowledge/models of the biology might be useful, ultimately it's just a massive computational project to test out and optimize protein folding and such complex chemical behavior. The physics/chemistry and biology are understood well enough, there are just nearly countless paths to explore making it a huge problem.

I've seen this sort of justification of Blockbuster's demise before, but it's hard to buy.

I mean, sure, the business model and support systems between original Netflix and video rental store are fairly different, but Blockbuster still had a huge leg up over starting from scratch. They already had vast inventories, sorting systems, a distribution network (albeit one that would have to be heavily modified), name recognition in a market that consumers considered interchangeable (common consumers just think "video rental", not "brick-and-mortar retail vs. online direct delivery") and I assume a lot of production industry connections and relationships.

It seems like they were already over halfway there, and given that the biggest hurdle is getting off the ground, their existing brand recognition and membership records are a massive advantage.

And it is in no way the responsibility of the passengers to rectify this. It is a symptom of a broken system.

No, it's a fundamental part of the game which forces a high level of variance. That is what OP was complaining about. Even the best decks are prone to mana flooding or screwing. Your brilliant "1/3" strategy is literally the first thing beginners learn about deckbuilding, and doesn't change the high variance of each game.

>And from a recent card randomizing thread, it takes 7 "riffles" to fully randomize a deck.

I don't think you understand what "randomize" means. It doesn't mean "you get proportional hands", it means that the state isn't predictable. It is still subject to variation in the amount of mana you draw.

Seriously, you are reciting trivially basic concepts, that everyone is aware of, and completely ignoring and/or misunderstanding what is being said and the real situation.

He's not talking about mana burn, that was never really a problem except for extremely niche combo decks. He's talking about when you draw lands/mana producers for 5 turns in a row after starting with a heavy mana hand. That is "mana flooding".

>By that logic they should ban gift cards and in-game currency too.

...those aren't money.