ISP around me had policies like “we can provide Usenet except for the binaries trees”

It’s funny that they went out of fashion at the same time people started getting fat

High rise trousers belt above the hips, giving no chance of showing a plumber’s crack, holding them up solidly

Legal eagle has a video spelling out which laws are broken. Note that there are specific laws against paying people to vote

Use a throwaway email, drop it as soon as the promotion is over

His parents were not all that well off. They invested $300,000 in his new company. That’s within the ability of many middle class workers

His parents were employees, not business owners.

Amazon: people like books; people like next day delivery of stuff; people and companies like making stuff and running stuff in Amazon web services

Minecraft: Marcus Persson owned the game studio (and wrote quite a bit of the game) that made Minecraft, lots of people like it, Microsoft was willing to buy it for billions

Kiran Mazumdan-Shaw made beer, people like beer. They then used beer making processes to make biotech medicines - people like being alive and will pay a lot to stay alive, or even just a bit healthier

Having listened to ‘good bad billionaire’ for several episodes the formula is

1. Create or inherit a company
2. Do good at it
3. Float it on the stock exchange
4. Now own the bulk of a company whose stock values it at enough that your share is worth over a billion

Or

1. Make an insanely popular game
2. Sell it to Microsoft

Or

1. Be the child of someone who did one of the above

Index funds are pretty incredibly safe. Pick one of the big US indexes and look at the graph since before the global financial crisis

Yeah public transport is ideal for most transport cases and should be funded by cities to the level to allow it to provide that

But still some cases call for individual transport and my preference on that is taxis over Uber and the like as taxis have a duty to pick up anyone who can pay which the newer companies don’t

I hope that self driving taxis include accessible ones, I expect there will still need to be a class of staffed cars to help people who need assistance - eg those who can’t lift their bag into our out of the vehicle, those who need assistance to put on a seat belt

Gen X here. I agree torrents are for legit uses only

Usenet is the best for piracy

Generally yes, buy when it is low. Have a look at some graphs of recent performance to see if this is lower than typical weekly low points

Tesla does have room to expand; the biggest risk is that Musk does something stupid that damages Tesla, he has not done so yet - he seems competent at running (or has given important parts of the job to competent people) Tesla and SpaceX

Safer investment is through exchange traded funds, especially those which track major indexes (also known as index funds). You buy these the same way you buy other stocks - you’re buying shares in the fund

They should outcompete Uber and the others. They should provide very low cost point to point transport

It’s pretty cheap

European law says you need to identify paid content, it’s up to the channel to decide how, it’s usually “AD” written in a moderately contrasty color in the top right of the screen

It’s all context. You can tell from the context (an article about landlords) it’s an insult that conveys disgust for the subjects of the article

I live in a suburb in a town designed as a car based place. We have a parkway, even.

We do have local shops - I’m about as far from one as you can be, so I have two in opposite directions each 20 minutes walk away

The local government is trying to densify the suburbs and allow us to build multiple residences on our block, but they limit the number of residences by the size of the block

So even though some houses right by the shops got rebuilt recently they are each 2 individual residences, where that place and its public transport links could easily support as many as would fit

If they really wanted us to increase density they’d let those people build four or five floors of apartments, they’d let me build a quadplex

My socks were flouro. I glowed under the UV lights at the skating rink

Dandruff was worse than death under UV

That’s what it was for. But really it was to make boys feel safe from that possible but unlikely falling mode

Not the crotch, the top bar padding which protects that crotch

Loads of boys bikes in the '80s had that padding

Things were better and fell apart less badly near the center of the Roman empire, the problems of that story were that Rome was no longer supporting their British colony, so the surrounding tribes were trying to take over