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It was not even the farmers. It was mostly the government pimps of agricultural products and the rice smugglers of Punjab who got rich selling inedible rice to the government are a high minimum support price by smuggling it from other states. This raises a lot of questions but sadly there is no other way that figuring it out. One simple question western audience should ask is why only two states in the entire country give a damn about the new 'reforms' (the new law was about removing an old law meant to mimic soviet styled collectivist farming with Indian twist).

The protests were seen by Pakistan's ISI and other Indian separatists group as an opportunity to show Indian government was some kind of tyrant, when in reality the government showed exceptional patience with absolutely vile protestors who raped women and chopped off arms of people with no consequence.

As an Indian I am glad with whatever is happening to Trudeau. If you are going to shelter and support people trying to hurt other countries, those societies will hurt you back.

Yeah. Somehow "What is good for Delhi, is not good for Ottawa" and actually in case of Ottawa the protests are about freedom and actually peaceful. (The protests in India were demanding preferential treatment to certain groups and protection from market forces).

I am not surprised, this is the usual hypocrisy of the far left wing do gooders of the western world. Anyone who opposes them is a "violent fascist" even if there is no real violence and their own supporters turning violent are social justice warriors fighting the inequality.

Trudeau is a pussy and a tyrant and I hope the honking continues and truckers wont back off. Indian community in USA and India would gladly contribute to the protestors. For FREEDOM.

Fair point, but they should apply that standard uniformly. Wasn't the ice bucket challenge dangerous ? And it was literally dangerous.

I know, but it is impressive that they are doing it for $400.

Well, all civilizations are full of stories of men waging war on oceans, burning down forests to reclaim lands, breaking mountains and all the wageries of such things.

Dune was neither the first nor is the last and linking it with climate change is purely some kind of bias.

Not sure what work you did but working on farms was something I despised. It was terrible work and made me depressed and feel like shit.

Felt pretty pissed at this. I am both a landlord and tenant. I worked with my tenants to help them pay, reduced the rent etc. Now I feel pretty stupid. I lost money just for being nice to my tenants. As a tenant I paid my bills regularly as I could, feel pretty shitty that I did.

Sorry California this is simply unacceptable.

I recommend Taleb's recent paper that tells why gold is no more good inflation hedge.

> One could argue this is Good.

Milton Friedman has several lectures around this. While excessive taxation and inflation are both bad for various reasons, inflation disproportionately hurts the poor.

People who own homes, businesses, stocks, cars, gold, silver, bitcoin, farm land etc. dont have to worry about inflation as much. Those who have only cash in hand are the losers. Poor people who typically have only few thousand dollars in cash deposit savings see their money being wipes out by inflation. You dont have to worry if you have sp500.

We sent few million emails using SES over few weeks, Sendgrid's deliverability was around 12 times better than that of SES.

Don't get me wrong, it might be perfectly fine choice for smaller projects but it is not a solution you would rely for scale. You have to build your own mailservers with warmed up IPs.

I have seen far too many articles of these types.

As someone who has sent billions of emails I can tell you the following.

1. SES is shit. 2. Value of mailchimp is not in its interface. It is in mail deliverability.

Use at least sendgrid.

I find price gouging to be perfectly normal and perhaps even desirable during times like these. If the toilet paper prices go up drastically people will not be able to hoard it the way they are doing today.

Honestly they don't even have to support most roads and road conditions and still build a useful product. Thinks of malls, sports complexes, university complexes, airport etc. where you can have Waymo shuttles to help ferry people from fixed point A and point B.

Having self driving cars plying from airport to nearby transportation hubs alone could be pretty useful.

I also see the potential for building infra that is specifically for automated vehicles (private roads and such).

Waymo can still be 10 years away from a good autonomous vehicle and still deliver value to consumers.

Did the students know this beforehand and despite knowing this joined UCSC ?

I think your analysis is spot on.

This is all about what principle you are applying and whether it scales or not. It is a bit like restraining order. In some specific instances it might be safe to let the person in your house. However that kind of hurts the overall restraining order terms and sometime in future you can get into trouble.

>not only they are compulsory institutions that force you into their ranks whether you want it or not, but even those who join them don't get a fair representation and have to strike on their own.

That is very definition of 'Unions'. As an individual you have limited resources to take on a big adversary (employer) hence few people come together and pool in money. If this process is voluntary it is entirely up-to them to come up with the terms of engagement. Once you agree to those terms going back on those terms must be seen as dishonesty. If the union membership is forces them obviously union leaders have zero incentives to actually offer better terms to members.

The only way this can be resolved is by having some kind of "enlightened" union leadership. The superhumans who will instantly know what is the right thing to do and will have 100% freedom to do so. Sadly, such humans are very very rare.

As a gamer I have bigger issues with Google. I would rather prefer Japanese or Chinese companies to be better custodians of gaming industry than Google. Microsoft too in my opinion has done a better job.

It is only matter of time before some google snowflake would call a game transphobic or "too violent" etc. and write lengthy posts that the game be pushed off Stadia. Right now this is not a problem but if google becomes 1st or 2nd largest player this would be increasingly a problem.

I am a big lover of violent video games and Google is not good for such games IMO.

Honestly, I took up smoking Cigars because I saw all villains smoke Cigars. Call me stupid but then a lot of people do get influenced by the bad guys and buy the products for the reason it is being used by bad guys.

> You are not required to provide access to an inspector from TV Licensing to confirm that your TV isn't hooked up to an aerial or satellite box, but it makes life easier if you do.

They have a TV license inspector ? Who actually enters your house to inspect ? What happens if you are found watching Doctor Who without her highness' permission ?

> but the government pays it for you if you're over 75 years of age.

What do you mean by government pays it for you ? You mean the BBC tax is waived off if you are too old. (That way I think the Queen and half of her family does not need license).

> and there are people in prison for non-payment.

Sorry for the first question.

This whole system is incredibly stupid. BBC has like this free revenue stream backed up by coercive power of the government. (Imagine Netflix could send people to jail for sharing their subscription or torrenting their shows).

Isnt uk a country where citizens need a 'license' to own a tv ?

Which law is being broken? Also (in my personal opinion) criminality should be obvious to a general person, some kind of complex technical illegality may not make the whole company a "criminal organization". A lot of reputed companies like Google get fined on regular basis world over does not make them criminal organizations.

A lot of companies would also willingly break the law depending on the risk tolerance they have, many of those laws result into civil penalties and not jail time for CEO so that also matters.

I was genuinely hoping OP worked from some underground enterprise that provided hitmans to rich people or something. La John Wick style. But thats just the romantic in me.

> Various fly-by-night self-driving startups?

What is the alternative other than holding these companies responsible for the deaths they might cause ? The only solution I see is mandating very high insurance requirement than a human driver. For example 25M per death they might cause.

Next step for UK is to reduce regulations compared to EU to make it easier for people to setup shop in UK compared to EU.