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Maloney is a Democrat, though, and will likely vote against the tax bill with or without your say so. Both of our senators are also Democrats. Not that it wouldn't be helpful to provide them with ammunition against the tax bill, just saying that this is not really going to move the needle much in terms of actual votes.

Assumptions: milkshakes are fungible (I can buy a functionally equivalent milkshake), I have the wealth to acquire a replacement milkshake without significantly shifting the balance of my assets.

Under those assumptions, you have deprived me of the exchange value of my milkshake at the time it becomes known to me that you have misappropriated it. This is my moral judgment, not a legal opinion.

[Edit: I did not take your response as a frank disagreement, and anyway, even if it were, there's nothing wrong about disagreeing with me. I'm not an ethicist, just an opinionated rando.]

If someone had only $700 of capital and could not rebalance their investment mix, I feel for them. But I really doubt that's most people.

TBF when he fucked you out of it it was only worth $700 or so (based on another commenter's claim that it increased 70-fold in the intervening time). Most similarly situated people could have re-upped that amount of bitcoin back then, but if you chose not to, it's not like Karpeles forced that choice on you. IMO, being mad about the $50k current value of bitcoin that you lost is overstating the harm he did you significantly.

Those are all your stock picks in the last fifteen years? No losers at all?

Heh? It is also part of their political speech to keep or delete his account. That is an equally important aspect of the free speech right -- the option to allow one's property to be used for a certain type of speech, or not. Not saying I think they should or shouldn't, but you can't evaluate the free speech implications of their deleting his account while only considering his free speech rights. Theirs are equally important.

There's always the option to simply not invest. For those platforms still in a pre-IPO state, you probably can't invest, even if you want to. For Twitter, it's easy enough to not buy the stock, and, indeed, if you bought in Jan 2014, you probably wish you hadn't. But if you bought yesterday, you're probably happy enough right now.

But a $180k gross income is not particularly unusual in the Bay. I mean, that's still in junior engineer territory at one of the BigCos (Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.).

I don't understand, if I'm honest. Chess also has an ELO system, and no one would claim that it creates emotional dependency, even if it controls who you match with. I understand that dating is more emotionally intense, but why is ELO particularly a problem in that context?

And yet, here you are. :P

We all have our vices. And there's not as much of a difference between these various stimuli as you seem to think. It's more a question of degree than a qualitative difference. In addition to the things you mentioned, I also don't reminisce about the (few) long nights of work I've ever put in.

This line of thinking quickly leads to nihilism. Humans like doing things, and different humans like different things. Almost all possible human pursuits have some element addiction, because "addiction" is just a strong form of the way any behavior gets created and reinforced.

To put it another way, what do you "have" after an instance of birth-control-protected sex? It's as ephemeral as anything else on the list. I definitely do not reminisce about each instance of this that's happened in my life.

Even without the data quality issues, there are obvious uncontrolled confounding factors. I don't understand how a real scientist can title this study "Dietary Carbohydrates Impair . . ." when the finding is actually "Dietary Carbohydrates Are Associated With Impaired . . ." Clear evidence that statistical training (or perhaps just incentives) for scientists remains insufficient.

What's really surprising is how many people on here are like, "of course, ketogenic diets!" Where is all the skepticism that is so vividly on display when discussing the latest Google or Facebook product announcement?