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Offering liquidity is not equivalent to offering free money. The offer comes at a cost.

It depends on the values of the host society. They may want to promote democratic access to their country.

It's not a perfect solution, granted, but it's less likely to result in implicit selection of only the wealthiest people.

Another way would be to charge a modest lottery entrance fee and limit the number of winners to a sensible quota.

One trick I learned a while ago is that stepping back as far as possible and taking pictures of people taking pictures is far more interesting than yet another picture of the same thing.

There are only so many interesting photos of the Mona Lisa. But there are an infinite number of interesting photos of people maniacally taking photos of the Mona Lisa. If you're lucky, you might snap a pic of an instagrammer falling off a cliff, or getting hit by a truck.

> I prefer people to be themselves rather than pretending to be something else.

Very few people are "themselves" in practice. There's a difference between how one feels and what one conveys. Communication is about conveyance.

Exactly. Social skills can be learned, but often that requires a lot more effort and pain than learning a new programming language or framework. Listening with full attention is the most underrated "best practice" in tech.

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Indeed. It's alarming that such basic scientific literacy is eluding editors at the NY Times.