This is evidence that:

Investors and VCs are not smart/do not have enough information/experience to make smart decisions generally

The only way to escape working for non-smart people (bosses, VCs) is to bootstrap

It is the same mechanism as the mortgages that created the housing bubble -- an almost limited amount of credit with a 0% risk (in theory, not practice as we will soon see).

Something that goes up for no good reason (spurred by margin), will come back down for a very good reason: it should have never been up there to begin with.

Whether it's a week, a month, or a year, their market is going a lot lower yet. It'll retrace back to where it was, no matter what the central government does today. Trillions of dollars in real wealth will be lost in the debacle, as the event sets off dominoes.

Nope, that's not what I said.

Unless you were implying that this will continue, "Are you sure that the market won't fall another 30% in the coming weeks?" is simply a non sequitur. As of now this is something that could be called a correction; it could develop into something that could be called a crash.

As of now, if you invested the index four months ago, you haven't lost a penny.

So Die Zeit is on the same level as the New York Times, you mean.

Safe = reliable = high capacity factor = revenue. Look at the INPO and NRC ratings of plant safety and economic performance. They are directly correlated. So it's in every nuclear startup's best interest to be very safe.

Ummm... this is kind of thing is well in line with the history of science. Clearly dark matter is a fudge factor to make the current model of physics work. Obviously there is a flaw here somewhere, so there are multiple competing theories of which dark matter & dark energy are but one for explaining this. Some theories are more popular than others...

But pretty much within 5 years of a new falsifiable theory that can explain the situation which can be experimentally proven dark matter will go the way of the myriad of disproven theories... whereas religious faith would extend the belief in dark matter out for possibly thousands of years after it is shown to be experimentally incorrect.

So not 'literally' religious faith at all...

> Dark matter and dark energy is just a symptom of the standard model of physics being incorrect.

Possibly, and if there was a better model -- one that was as good at predicting/explaining the observed effects for which the standard model works and did not require invoking dark matter and/or dark energy, the standard model would be dropped in a heartbeat. But right now the standard model + dark matter + dark energy is what works best, of the models that have been presented, at modeling what is actually observed in our universe. So it survives. For now.

Whether it will be resolved by an as-yet-unproposed tweak to the basic model or finding out that "dark matter" and "dark energy" are real things is yet to be seen.

The notions of dark matter and the dark matter particle are incorrect. The mass which fills 'empty' space is beginning to be referred to as the 'dark mass' in order to distinguish it from the baggage associated with dark matter.

'Dark Energy/Dark Mass: The Slient Truth' https://tienzengong.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/dark-energydark...

"That is, all that we are certain about [is] the dark mass, not dark matter, let alone to say about the dark 'particle'."

Particles of matter move through and displace the dark mass, including 'particles' as large as galaxies and galaxy clusters.

The Milky Way moves through and displaces the dark mass.

The Milky Way's halo is the state of displacement of the dark mass.

The Milky Way moves through and curves spacetime.

The Milky Way's halo is curved spacetime.

The state of displacement of the dark mass is curved spacetime.

> Science is literally religious faith.

No it isn't. Not by a long shot. Faith requires that you confabulate to a reach a certain cognitive destination. Science only allows models that conform to reality upon repeated testing.

The farmers get to sell more milk.

have to sell more milk.

For an established cow farmer adding additional cows at marginal cost to receive additional revenue is economies of scale. Forcing them to allocate resources to the areas where they don't enjoy economies of scale is likely to raise their cost and not lead to optimal outcome.

How has your country (you must be American) distinguished itself by doing these same core social and psychological issues? Or are Americans stubborn and ignorant?

America is home to thousands if not millions of volunteer groups, social change movements, debates and university studies on these sorts of situations. There isn't any sort of central government ministry dealing with stuff like this, but large independent swathes of society do try to work to establish where these problems come from, and how best to deal with them.

If anything, Americans would suffer more from fatigue by being bombarded with tons of national social issues to genuinely worry about and try to work against, rather than remaining in denial about them.

In part of the USA, the tradition of churches tending to the flock is still going strong. Also, the local gathering place where folks swap news and talk (the bakery in the small town I'm in) is still a fixture.

Britains of a certain age are stoic and stubborn.

I was in hospital with my gran (born in 1922) in ICU (a pulse of 33bpm - and turns out she had kidney failure too), when alone with me she was gripping my hand and saying "this is the worst I have ever felt", when a few minutes later the doctor arrive d and asked "how are you feeling?" she replied "I'm fine thank you".

I think the current crop of younger people will be more vocal, if their sense of entitlement about their current lives is anything to go by.

Not stoic so much, but my uk wife sliced her hand open on a can of cat food (in the US). 3 inch gash right across her palm. Bleeding. A lot. Wrapped it up in towel and said "we're going to the emergency room, get in the car". She replied "oh no, I don't want to bother them, they might be busy."

My mum (b 1933) did that as well. Either my sister or I had to be there when the doctors came round. Nurses were observant as well and kept records.

Serious question: What gave you the impression he was American? I assumed the opposite -- that only a Japanese person, or at least the child of first-generation Japanese immigrants, would have made that post.