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Well that’s one way to go to bed on time :)

Would that be this? Just checking: https://www.economist.com/the-world-in-brief

This Tolerance Paradox is something I’ve been discussing lately with family and friends, but was having a hard time articulating. Thanks for the link. I see tons of parallels with …

You can’t provide properly for your family. The drug lord has a fortune. He can put her in the top colleges, fly her around the world, buy any car she wants - when she is old enoug…

A local drug lord likes your daughter. He offers to purchase her for a load of cash. He threats to kill your entire family to get her if you refuse. You do the pragmatic thing and …

Right. Afghanistan had 20M+ in 2001, what’s your point? What I’m saying is that, geopolitically, Cuba is not relevant today the US has no upside in going after it. They don’t even …

I don’t know. I see more comparisons with Libya or Syria or Central America in the 60s-70s-80s. Invasions and government toppling of non-central countries that draw a frown, but th…

What’s Cuba relevance today? Back in the Cold War they had a strategic location, close ties to the USSR etc. But that hasn’t been the case since the other Castro died. Today Cuba i…

In International Relations the most dominant theory is called “Realism”[0], which basically says that States will be self-interested and cooperation happens when both sides gain fr…

So did the US before Trump 2 :)

This is funny after Jan 3rd: > Predisposition to Non-Interventionism — In the Declaration of Independence, America’s founders laid down a clear preference for non-interventionism i…

I envy / admire that kind of persistence. But I think it just makes it clear this is about the money and not the company, product, problem, space, or users. Recently I spoke to a r…

I say that in most of my past experiences I learned how to NOT do something, so when facing a similar scenario, I’d do them differently.

Iraq feelings

Democracy emerge? Good luck.

Can you elaborate more on what you mean by that?

Why do I get a 403 when trying to read this? My IP is from Brazil, don’t see a reason to be geoblocked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Reminds me of this 2019 post: https://ofdollarsanddata.com/climbing-the-wealth-ladder/

Look into Ménière’s disease . I got diagnosed recently and those are all triggers for it. When undergoing episodes I also have vertigo. There’s medication for controlling the bigge…

About a month ago this topic came up and I commented this about “just” creating a new Visa: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611807

Look up “chargeback guarantee”. A lot of fraud vendors do this. Costs 2x or more though than the average transaction