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Ah, fractional reserve banking. That hasn't been a thing for decades. Banks don't work like that. Money is just loans that haven't been paid back yet, mostly mortgages.

Where did you get this idea?

> I used to think this was a bit boring. I’d get a new phone, restore it from a backup, and then think “what now?” It wasn’t usually appreciably different than my previous phone, and I felt like I missed the pre-iPhone days when I’d switch form factors all the time to try new things: a Sony Ericsson slab phone, a Samsung flip phone, a Nokia with a truly bonkers keypad layout. I even tried a Windows Mobile phone for a spell.

I wonder how many thousands the author has spent chasing the dragon.

Youtube quality really let's stuff like this down.

Bitcoin isn't a product.

No, because this is explicitly the design of Bitcoin. If you give me a foo machine but it makes a bar, that's your fault. If you give me a foo machine and the foo hurts me, that's my fault.

What data? The article only seems to be about the US?

Indian diets are very different from the average American diet. Loads of vegetables. Even non-vegetarians get tons of fibre and are often eating 20-30 different plants in a day. Most of it fresh too.

"Should not be a correlation" is a weird thing to say. A quick glance shows dishwasher use has been steadily increasing over time.

Source?

A two day ferry to Spain will set you back more than that!

Worth noting, though, being able to "afford" this kind of thing isn't just about the money. Most people get only a few weeks holiday per year, and many aren't allowed to take more than a couple of at a time. To get the most out of something like this you'll ideally have a month at the very least to holiday, which is not possible for most.

They aren't. I think that's the point. If you type "SS" into Wikipedia you get straight to Schutzstaffel. It's hard to find what it means in the context of ships.

> The opening premise baffles me. What kind of illusion must one be under to believe that employers would ever pay you the same amount of money to do less work?

You do much less work than a farm labourer 200 years ago and get paid more.

Individuals doing bad things is not the same as corporations doing bad things.

For genomics, look into viruses, in particular RNA viruses like influenza and HIV. You can fit the entire genome on your screen and learn to read it like code! There are some good text books about viruses that include genomics from scratch (I can't find the one I used now but could look later if you're interested). My advice would be to learn the biology first and understand why we care about genomes before looking into the computational stuff.