Unfortunately and by industry standard, a ship's owner and operator are often obsfuscated under multiple layers.
It's about as easy to figure out who actually owns and is operating a ship as tracing an international bank account ~1980.
It'll be curious if one outcome of the Russian shadow fleets is a stronger worldwide push for verifiable true commercial maritime registration. Essentially: mandating transparency in shells and KYC reporting, in the same way post-9/11 financial reporting was implemented.
Improved transparency is already the direction of travel, but pushing back on that is part of "Project 2025" and Trump has signalled that's an important objective.
Having worked at those, they are shoestring to the core. Guests see beauty, behind it is paper mache and $8/hr college students whose wages are garnished for rent and class fees.
At Disneyland? Where there’s a union for food and beverage workers?
> We perform everything from preparing and creating treats like turkey legs and churros to serving grant and exquisite meals at the famous and exclusive Club 33. If you are eating in the parks, our members are making that happen.
I don’t really see how/why/etc Bitcoin would achieve that use case. If governments and financial institutions aren’t bag holders then they are extremely financially motivated to stop that from occurring, and afaik those groups aren’t holding huge Bitcoin reserves (maybe fidelity is, or at least was).
Meanwhile, Huawei Harmony just embedded the digital yuan at the system level.
All the ETFs mean is that it will be so much easier to get out of the position and cause even bigger cascades of selling than before when the next shock happens.
You can't have a reserve currency with an asset that has so much volatility it can't even function as a currency.
This seems like a comment from 10 years ago. In 2025, Larry Fink just announced he's a "big believer" at Davos, and the President of the United States ordered his team to evaluate creating a huge reserve.
Yeah everyone who isn’t purposefully burning money has people whose sole job is just to spend less money on stuff that doesn’t work and more money on stuff that does. Pretty much every platform (DSP) has some fancy deep learning that bids up or down based on the quality of the individual bid (taking into account the user, host, banner size, likeliehood of fraud, etch
Do you expect people with decades of experience in medicine to just up and switch jobs over 3 months? A doctor can't prepare for something like this, all they could do was hope for the best. And now that its beginning, yes - its confusion and anxiety.
I'd really like us to not continue creeping down this dividing line of "I don't give a shit about this entire group of people", which started up at the billionaires, down to the top 1%, down now to just anybody with something like a medical or legal degree.
My partner works in a cancer clinic at a major university hospital. The staff is terrified of what is to come and this looks like the first domino. Without research grants a critical stepping stone in medicals careers will go missing, along with research into new medicine and treatments. Relying on pharmaceutical companies to take on this research doesn't make sense - a lot of research isn't even about treatment but managing side affects, improving quality of life, testing existing medicines, etc. Very concerned for what will happen here.
My friends in Bio are actively being recruited by "Europe in general", and the big pitch is that there aren't any Republicans or school shootings. America has no answer to that.
Of course it works. Every young couple considers the deal.
The salary for work in the US is $0.00 if NIH grants don’t get approved.
Even if grants were resumed tomorrow, the fact they ever paused, at all, for capricious political reasons, means there isn’t good job security, even if the salary is good.
Salaries are a bigger problem for European industry. Relatively speaking, the academia is more competitive in Europe than in the US, because the gap between industry salaries and academic salaries is lower.
European academia is usually constrained by the lack of funding and permanent positions. Many European researchers end up in the US, because it's easier to find a job there. Partly because it's a big country and the right kind of opportunities are more likely available at the right time. Partly because American researchers are more likely to end up in the industry, because the salary gap is higher. And partly because the American immigration system makes it easier for foreigners to get an academic job than an industry job.
But we also like to joke that we are in the US, because we are not good enough to get a job at home.
Not everyone is purely money-motivated. And while salaries for some things may be lower, the cost of some things is also lower (health care being a major one).
I don't know what the salaries are in Bio, but with regards to developer salaries you can live a very comfortable life on a "low" European developer salary (excluding perhaps a few countries with deeper structural problems such as Portugal).
A friend was doing her post doc in Switzerland (still Europe but of course an outlier). She got some job offers in top pharma companies in the UK. Her notional salary was lower than her post doc one, and tax would have been higher.
I was going to say, it is a common story for many academics to be living at basically poverty wages. Living in Europe where the baseline level of support is significantly higher sounds like a terrific deal.
Adding to that — the mission of academic research centers is to train the next generation of researchers. PIs use this money to fund grad student and postdoc positions in their labs.
Just a short pause to your circulatory system, clearly it's the system at fault.
A weakness in a system that can only be exploited by malice from those in power isn't necessarily something we can always expect to protect against, and at most only mitigate.
Did you see that I wrote "the system" and not "any system". I'm genuinely curious, are you intentionally missing the point, or do you just not understand?
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Then why not point out the flaw in the argument instead of gesturing vaguely at a metaphor.
It seems you only want to go after points like that instead of engaging with the central point of anyone's actual arguments. Reducing every argument to a lab on "it's last legs", or a mismatch in a metaphor that's not central to the point being made.
If you want to argue to quiet that little voice in your head I suppose it might work, but if you actually care about the truth of the matter or even just understanding why people are saying what they're saying then you've lost the plot entirely.
Here I can spell it out for you. The second sentence from my first post:
> malice from those in power isn't necessarily something we can always expect to protect against, and at most only mitigate.
That's the central point/argument. To drag out the conclusion here, do we even want government institutions that continue to function once the executive pulls funding from them? Ignoring whether it should be expected, are we really at a point where we are saying "look I know I intentionally pulled the funding but I want it to keep working anyway!"
By hey if you want to go back to speaking to the ad homs (of which I've delivered many that you clearly deserve at this point), or continuing to fail to understand metaphors, be my guest, but don't pretend you're actually engaging with the argument.
I don’t know for sure but it looks like in the image the oh so simple is a different product line. Seemingly similar to all of Lays chips which come in normal and the healthier line.
I wonder if it’s feasible to keep a drum of this in the garage and spray it yourself around your property and home if a fire is approaching.(obviously actual fire prep like removing flammable material from around your home is better).
I agree, though in my job I send many many near-pointless communications. Many jobs you are just required to pump out garbage, and AI is real good at pumping out garbage.
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