Noxchi

It's not really spending. If you look at the resale values it is investing. High art is more investment than consumption (as they say, the rich get richer...)

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - he goes a little bit into how he did the stuff he did.

What you fail to consider is that no one owns money. Once you die, you dont take your cash to the grave. Im getting philosophacal here, but people are only shepards to money. They are maintainers and once they die someone (or many) will take their fortune.

Like energy, wealth can not be destroyed - only transferred.

The reason billionaires are allowed to exist is because they do a good job of maintaining that money for themselves and others.

Agreed.

I found that a strong feeling of mortality brought upon me the basic humanity described in the article.

I immediately noticed a difference in how others treated me (and how I treated them) for the rest of the day.

Is anyone else disgusted by these "X should have responded like this" articles?

They are so cringy. It's like asking a kid what he would do if he was president... but actually taking it seriously.

The problem with critics is that they have no skin in the game. If they're wrong, they just shrug their shoulders.

You're a paid (if that) journalist writing for profit. Figure out some other angle for peddling your gossip.

In my experience, these things have nothing to do with the language itself, but rather that it's a second language.

As a non native speaker, you just don't have those strong emotional connections to words that a native speaker would have.

Studies show that a foreign language uses more of the thinking brain rather than the feeling brain (they showed this by asking personal / sexual questions in different languages to multilingual people.)

Realize that your opinion and ability to predict market actions is completely unfounded.

Whatever they're working on is like research. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. If you tell them it won't work (and you lack any relevant experience), they don't have a reason to believe you and neither do you frankly.

That's how I deal with it. I say to myself, who am I to judge?

I think that was the joke

Certainly should leave?

The difference has more to do with fiber, fats, and vitamin s

How fast are you really going?

One of the things I've thought about is relatively.

Consider a toddler strapped to his car seat in a luxurious BMW cocoon while his father speeds down the autobahn at 200km/h. He calmy drinks from his sippy cup.

You're in a passenger jet above him going 700km/hr. You're going 500km/hr faster than him.

But how fast are you really going?

Consider that the Earth is spinning around the sun at a rate of 1 billion kilometers per year or about 100,000 km/hr.

You're on Earth, so is your jet's true speed 100,700 km/hr?

Relative to the sun, yes, but everything that orbits our sun is considered our solar system which itself is orbiting our galaxy at a rate of 800,000 km/hr.

So if we add the 800k, 100k, and 700 km/hr your plane is moving, is it not fair to say you are traveling at almost a billion kilometers per hour?

I'm sure you can infer the galaxy itself is hurling through space at an ungodly speed.

I ask two questions:

1. When does this stop? What is the most supreme center in the universe?

2. Just as the child could roll down his window, and have instant access to the outside, is there a way we can do the same?

Yours is but one perspective.

Consider the alternative that you are the only person in the universe. What would be your modus operandi then?

Modern day outhouses are serviced by a truck that come s and vaccums out the waste.

How is hauling off a bag any better?

It's a question if uber can race to self driving cars fast enough.

That's really the only way their financial model can make sense.

They should really be seeing this as essential to their survival, like nuclear bombs in WWII.

Nazi Germany had maybe 1000 people working on their version. USA had 180,000(!).

I suspect in this analogy, uber is not USA. Someone else will get this rolled out first. But I'm not 100% sure.