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I've had very good results with cliqz as far as European search engines go. https://beta.cliqz.com/

I've always been more interested in who the high status women go for; British actors/musicians seem to be a top choice.

A key insight is that knowledge loses value over time. An article a few years old might be a tip to buy a stock, a prediction of the outcome of an election or a technology stack that has since been superseded.

Considering time in the day and human walking speed, it turns out that if people cannot walk to their destination within 10 minutes, they will opt to drive. So if you are looking for a place to live in the city, be aware of your walking radius (walkscore.com will map it for you)

The solution to people not having enough children is to have more children, you could enlist people from abroad to help with the effort, but you could also try to raise the birthrate using the existing population.

Yet China is a global superpower and shut off from immigration

You can learn the principles of good city design / urbanism in about an hour, which could inform your next housing selection.

VICE had did a show called 'Africa's cowboy capitalists' which highlighted how hard it is to move things (vehicles for the UN in this case) across Africa due to poor roads and corruption. An airship would have saved them a lot of trouble.

I had this idea two days ago, but to do it with Douay-Rheims. Then I fiddled around and came to the conclusion that my laptop is too bright for heavy reading even with white text on black background. Maybe an OLED laptop would alleviate eye strain for long reading at night, can anyone confirm?

A quick glance at the voat entry will convince you that whatever comes next must withstand a banking blockade, DDOS, bitcoin dust attack, DNS denial and possibly no one will host your domain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voat

Carol Quigley points out in "Evolution of Civilizations" that institutions over time tend to do the opposite of their initial stated purpose with football being one example:

A game called football was invented about 1870 to provide healthful physical exercise for the undergraduates on bright autumn afternoons. Seventy years later the undergraduates who needed exercise most were seated in the stands of a city baseball park on Friday night, with their flasks and their coeds, while on the grass (or mud) below, the undergraduates who needed exercise least pushed each other about under the floodlights.

Reminds me of the Muji CD player which has just on/off, eject. No skip tracks / rewind

Total agreement. College is largely about trading money for status. I have a comp sci degree from a good school, don't see what the big deal is, if I had to do it over again I would have skipped it and just hustled my way into a programming job at 18.

Employ or feign total ignorance of operations so no one can expect a raise, because the boss/manager doesn't even know what you do here.

Assume loyalty only from those whom you have directly hired; remove all those who predate you.

Make a strict deadline, but merrily add features at your whim, when the deadline is missed, then act astonished "how could this have happened?"

Elicit sympathy from your underpaid minions for crashing your Porsche again while auto racing.

Same as: 'You're not stuck in traffic, you are traffic'

>>additional theft is ultimately put on the honest customers.

That's true up until a certain point, but eventually the business is no longer profitable. I think this explains many 'food deserts' in low income areas

There's a few articles floating around that say shoplifting is greater at self checkouts[1], but apparently its not enough to keep these jobs around without regulatory distortion.

One way of thinking about it is that the store shifts responsibility to both the shopper and the police (in the case of shoplifting) but the police might not agree to the additional workload [2]

1 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/stealin...

2 https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/05/14/shoplifting-cal...

Homeless camps are unsanitary which leads to horrible diseases; Drew Pinsky is trying to get action by screaming about typhoid fever and the plague. Its not simply a matter of compassion for the homeless, there is also a public health angle.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/1/drew-pinsky-...

Its also a big problem in LA, but I'm not sure about other cities

>>places to feel safe that are not guarded by private security

Its a failure of our society for certain, but at the same time that failure seems to be trending up, there's no needles on the street / homeless camps in malls.

My pessimism might be colored by the video "Seattle is Dying" which I just watched a few weeks ago