It's literally what got me off Facebook for good. I used it less and less over the years, but would still log in once every couple weeks or so. At least it was always 100% content posted by friends or friends of friends, or at least something that was interacted with by someone I know. Then it seems like overnight they flipped a switch and it was 10% content from people I know and 90% completely irrelevant slop. I logged in one more time after that, and then never again.
Sounds like a new remit for the NRO. Park a billion dollar satellite over an area to keep an eye out for petty vandalism. Then the sheriffs office can team up with Space Force: papers will be served immediately by LEO MIRV deployment, which may also count as execution depending on visibility and aim on the day.
/s - but it wouldn't surprise me at the rate things are going.
In the mid-2000s the company I worked for in Glasgow fitting microwave links to buildings (broadband wasn't readily available outside cable TV aerials) had a pile of ODUs that had been shot off roofs.
Mostly from one particularly benighted area, Easterhouse. If you extensively gentrified Easterhouse back then, it would look like Detroit in the 90s. It's improved a little since then.
I don't think that would happen for the same reason that there are income taxes and yet the government doesn't have every last dollar. Sovereign wealth funds sell assets too.
If you think sovereign wealth funds are communism, someone should tell Alaska.
You can't load someone else with debt. That's obviously illegal. When you buy a company it isn't "them" anymore. And the new owners have exactly the same rights to borrow money as the old ones.
That's true when the debt is taken it is taken by the company (at the direction of the acquiring firm)... and maybe the bigger issue is that banks should be a whole lot more judicious in extending that debt. But some firms have found a heck of a loophole in buying a company, running an extremely high debt line, paying the acquiring firm (themselves) handsomely and then innocently whistling when the business collapses and a bunch of real economic value is erased.
Doing that to a company isn't an activity that should be rewarded since you're destroying, rather than creating, economic value. It is absolutely an exploit or flaw in our system and no more than one person should have been able to get away with it.
It isn't rewarded. If a business you buy collapses, you lose money. You seem to be falling for the conspiracy theory that private equity wants to collapse businesses.
Is there a lower risk, lower interest option with the same capabilities (ability to use the money to pay others)?
Genuine question, I have no idea, but I didn't choose my bank based on interest rate. I can't pay bills or transfer money if it's cash under the mattress.
In the US, depositors are insured by the FDIC (Federal Depositors Insurance Fund) up to $250000 per institution. This doesn't apply to investment accounts, but would cover standard checking and savings accounts, even if they pay interest. The interest on those accounts is usually negligible at most banks, anyway - not even close to offsetting inflation.
Edited to add: not my area of expertise, but I did research it a couple years ago when I was acting as executor for the estate of a deceased person. So take what you will from that. I do notice banks usually have a sign up saying they are FDIC insured. I think it's required, but I don't know for sure. I suppose a shady investment firm could try to suggest they are an insured bank without actually saying so.
There is, it's called a narrow bank and it would probably pay more interest than normal banks. Unfortunately they have been mostly outlawed thanks to lobbying by the banking industry(see also the current lawsuits about usd stablecoins paying yield).
We do not have a lot of MRI data. The average person probably gets a couple MRIs in their lifetime, and this is biased because we wait until something is clearly wrong to get the MRI. If you want to find an MRI scan of an early stage asymptomatic cancer, the only data on that will be the exceedingly rare case that someone has something else unrelated wrong with them in the same general area and gets an MRI for that, and then just by chance also has the early stage cancer at the same time.
> we wait until something is clearly wrong to get the MRI. f you want to find an MRI scan of an early stage asymptomatic cancer, the only data on that will be the exceedingly rare case that someone has something else unrelated wrong
Not always. There are bunch of studies for MRI screening in high-risk populations for specific cancers. There are scoring systems for a lot of them based on imaging features and they do find asymptomatic cancers.
In fact, if you add low-risk populations to the studies used to design imaging scores, you might end up adding more noise and making the study more difficult and the scoring less accurate.
Did Google ruin it, or did advesarial activity between Google's algorithm and SEO ruin it? The latter seems more likely because the incentives make sense, and also inevitable.
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