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I got to 8b second try. Get to the most valuable property as soon as possible and then ignore everything else not worth you time/clicks. Then buy as much as you can early in the Boom when prices are lowest. When a Recession starts, start selling everything while the prices are still high. Rinse and repeat. I kept all the debts until the end.

This only really works because the boom/bust cycle is too predictable and consistent, so it really just becomes a 'how fast can you click' game. It would be better if a) more random boom/bust points, duration, and rate of rise/decline, and b) buy and sell in bulk.

Comparing with my friends over at Microsoft, while the base salary is certainly lower, cash bonus and stock pretty much equalizes compensation, at least as an SDE I. Total compensation is lower than Google/Facebook, but that's a high bar for ANY company.

I think this myth really continues both because people tend to only pay attention to base salary and don't consider cost of living/state taxes, and due to the fact that Amazon does underpay warehouse workers, as evidenced by the current strike in Germany.

I can't speak for higher level positions though. But Amazon tends to strongly favor giving out more stock over more cash, which goes back to the same issue of not comparing total compensation.

I guarantee you that people felt quite certain that SpaceX was going to at least have the possibility of making loads of money. No one invests capital or starts a business, much less an aerospace business, if they don't honestly believe it will make money. Even if you have a bunch of idealists who want to see humanity achieve it's destiny and reach for the stars, they would be fools to invest so much time and money in something that they believe was destined to fail.

Whatever Elon Musk is, he's not a complete fool.

While I agree that GMO crops are no more dangerous from a human health perspective, there is a very real concern that the rapid introduction of entirely new varieties of crop, that under cultivation would take hundreds or thousands of years to develop and introduce, can have negative and unforeseen ecological effects.

This more reasonable side of the anti-GMO argument tends to get drowned out and dismissed when people see the pseudoscience 'natural' health arguments brought out front and center. It's pretty evident that arguments for restraint for reasons of long-term sustainability take a lot of effort to get any traction, especially when fighting profitability.

All this to say, the GMO debate, like everything in life, is not as simple as most people tend believe. It is something that should be proceeded with caution, but certainly continued. This I think is where I think the almost religious anti-GMO fervor really causes harm, in the same way anti embryonic stem cell research causes harm.

Move fast and break things is a great slogan when the systems you're moving are relatively simple and the consequences of breaking them are relatively minor. Global ecology is an extraordinarily complex system that we don't fully understand, and breaking it can cause real and life threatening damage to the people of the world. Not to mention the fact that reverting negative changes operates on the same time scale as the original negative change. If it happens that GMO breaks shit, you can't just submit a patch and have things working again in a couple hours.

If you base your security on obscurity, you're gonna have a bad time.

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It's common to have cameras mounted to record you typing your PIN along with skimming your card. It's good practice to cover the pad with your other hand.

Land surveying.

Maybe a farmer uses them to monitor the state of his crops and even spot treat unhealthy areas without installing a huge static sensor network.

Could also be used for intrusion detection on a large property. A small group of drones could detect and instantly let you know when somebody trespasses on your land. Again, without installing static cameras/sensors.

Search and rescue could be made more effective.

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