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>the tells are in pretty much every paragraph. It's not just misleading — it's lazy. And honestly? That doesn't vibe with me. [/s obviously]

as depressing as it is to say, i think it's a bit like the year is 1906 and we're complaining that these new tyres for cars they're making are bad because they're no longer backwar…

exactly. when you're new, virtually any type of lifting you do is going to create sufficient stimulus to trigger maximum muscle growth, because you're going from 0 to 1. unfortunat…

>I'm not saying that pleasure-seeking for its own sake is inherently bad or wrong, but how would you compare and contrast the behavior of a drug addict and a high-risk climber, if …

(not the Ada Lovelace book of the same name)

>My understanding is that evolution is specifically directional change in response to a pressure, not random drift or coincidence. Evolution just means change, and it includes gene…

iirc the pilot retirement age is at least in part due to radiation exposure.

>A more fair approach would be a special assessment on net worth. how would a wealth tax incentivise people to save more and spend less?

>Higher interest rates won't stop greed. we've just come off ~15 years of stubbornly low inflation. if the cause is greed, did companies only just become greedy in the last two yea…

yeah won't allow promotion on either mobile or desktop

>If you take the entire sum of your own unique talents, and find a way to combine them properly, you can become extraordinary simply by finding a new way of looking at the world, e…

Most of the people criticising my points are glossing over the key word of my post, which is listed . Not every business is listed, and those can be run for all sorts of reasons, b…

>Removing any other expense will be detrimental to the business, that is, make it work less well. Nothing will happen to the business if the owners don't get any dividends. I'd say…

>If you'd like a tale about the 1970-80s then feel free to ask and I'll tell you what I saw. With luck, my memories aren't too shot. Please do.

a lot of these read like stealth marketing for bicycles imo

>I expect little to no digital art (images, videos, films, music, writing) will be sold for profit by human artists 10 years from now you think AI auto-generated movies will kill t…

>I worry that the takeaway for people that only read clickbait headlines about the 2012 Stradivarius study was: expert violinists can't tell the difference between cheap and expens…

#6 sounds an awful lot like #2 + #3

>Here's someone complaining $200,000 is not enough. I don't think they're complaining that $200k isn't enough; they're complaining that it's unfair for them not to get a stimulus c…

I'd add on to this: when you listen to a piece of music, you subconsciously anticipate what will come next, and you get enjoyment from the way the piece meets or surprises your exp…

likewise.

https://www.afr.com/property/residential/what-the-national-m... . AUD$955,927 national median and AUD$1.4m Sydney median.

>Damn, I would assume houses must be much cheaper in Australia than in the US? The median home price in Australia is about US$725k. So no.