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Knowing China, a phone call involving someone from the US as well as Zelensky would probably go a long way. I doubt Xi is particularly invested in Chinese companies helping Russia, but he would take issue with Ukraine not going through him about it.

So then I guess C is salamander. Also lays eggs and lives by a pool, but doesn't do anything extra, and is a necessary step before most of the other modern languages.

COBOL is a coelacanth. To everyone's surprise, they're still out there. We thought they were an old, very extinct example of a non-terrestrial lobe-finned fish, but they actually hung on in some odd environments. They cause massive indigestion to anyone that has to consume them.

If Node is a mosquito, Javascript itself is another hymenopteran: the yellow jacket wasp. Just as hated, and with a tendency to injure handlers, but widely successful and defended as filling an actual useful role in nature. They build delicate, arguably pretty nests.

Roaches don't spread nearly as much disease as 'squiters, and IIRC are actually important in some ecosystems.

Yep, that will fix the underlying weakness! /s

This and things like banning short sells are bad news on two fronts, in that they both reveal a problem and will be ineffective at solving it.

I wonder if this is actually an effective motivator for most people. It's just way too easy to look away.

What, could you have done better in 70-whatever?

I've definitely never been guilty of this. /s

Alright, I'll never, ever write something this way now. Good to know.

Absolutely not. Demographic data shows it's shit, income distribution data is best explained by a random walk process (neat graphic explainer here), and all the data on startups and investing show that there's no free lunch; capitalism actually does ensure everything gives the same steady return on average.

Every rich person won some sort of lottery. Even the bona-fide engineers are never the only ones that could have invented whatever thing - as technical person myself.

Honestly this seems less evil than a lot of stuff Google itself does.

There's a whole bunch of different movements that got crammed into "environmentalism", and the it's kind of confused as a result. GMOs being another stark example, where anti-science people highly oppose it, conservationists suspect it, and people concerned with adapting to or fighting climate change see nothing but potential.

Apparently they at least tried.