Where did you see signs of control by Russia or China? The project's github repo states that the project currently has one maintainer, and that maintainer has a very Dutch name and a .nl website.
I have never understood that attitude. Isn't the ability to deal with broken pipes literally part of your job as a landlord? It's like buying a restaurant when you don't like to cook and don't like to process orders - why would you do that? If you don't like your business's business and want to outsource your core competencies, maybe invest in an index fund instead...
>Isn't the ability to deal with broken pipes literally part of your job as a landlord? It's like buying a restaurant when you don't like to cook and don't like to process orders - why would you do that?
Because you want to make money. You hire someone to do that shit for you, and you sit back and cash checks.
Most people who own restaurants don't like to cook or process orders, either.
That it’s economical to hire somebody else to manage it while you both make an increasing profit as rents rise and have your assets appreciate alongside it really goes to show how extractive the process is and how much the cost of rent is inflated in order to protect investment return.
> your recent years of peak lifetime earning potential overlapped with an industry massively overpaying its workforce
Only if the following conditions are true:
1. You spent your entire career in the US, ideally on the West Coast
2. You entered the industry early, ideally right after (or in!) university
3. You did not spend significant time in low-paying segments of the industry, such as in academia, hardware, games, idealistic open source, or the public sector
4. You did not need a significant career break, such as for major medical issues, being a SAHP, or caring for sick family members
Even if all of the above applied, certain wealth-destroying events such as an expensive illness, legal trouble, or bad divorce, might have made FIRE infeasible.
In other words, you're in the 50% of the population who don't get unsolicited d*ck photos sent to them. But do consider that the other 50% may have significantly different preferences on this matter, and that those preferences may drive tech company product decisions.
I don't follow your logic. How would one's membership in a big tech ecosystem determine whether they get unsolicited pics? Or whether they feel they can jump out of those ecosystems?
> But do consider that the other 50% may have significantly different preferences on this matter
Or am I reading it the wrong way? 50% of people want to get those pics? That's either news to me, or I run in different circles than you do.
Either way, I don't feel that I'm evangelizing about it, I'm not telling everyone that they should do what I'm doing. I'm merely telling my experiences and what I've done.
@tetromino_ is expressing a prior that women are sent dick pics more frequently than men.
From that they infer that women might actually like a feature that blurs out dicks automatically (at least, more than men would).
From that they infer that your expressed dislike of that feature means it's likely you're a man.
From that they infer that you're not used to thinking like a woman, and encourage you to try doing that to see if you think it makes Google's actions make more sense.
(now, the real question - did I get "whooosh"ed, or did you?)
EDIT: To be honest, I don't particularly like the sarcasm of @tetromino_'s comment and I don't think your original comment deserved a response like that. But seeing two responses apparently totally miss @tetromino_'s point was too much for me to ignore.
Real estate (or more precisely, the land on which the real estate sits) is a completely unique case due to being a resource in inherently limited supply, and arguments which apply to taxing it do not necessarily apply to any other form of wealth.
The nationalism was always there. At first, it was strongly suppressed. Stalin in 1941 found it expedient to suppress it less (to try to motivate the population to fight Nazi invaders). Brezhnev in the 1970s found it expedient to suppress it even less (to try to motivate the population to not succumb to Western cultural influences). Then Gorbachev pulled out the control rods even further and it exploded.
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