I mean, the macro-organism does, in fact, die. It's an unusual way of recycling biological matter, but not a ticket to immortality. It would be akin to if we humans started budding fetal organisms when we died, which would then split off as the rest of us rotted away.
>I think Evolution is the biggest enemy that we as humans must overcome with technology.
I would ask for clarification on this point. Is it that blind, unguided evolution is our biggest enemy? Or how parasitic infections are so well-evolved to exploit our biological weaknesses? Evolution is adaptation to environment over time, the capacity for change. Claiming that evolution as an enemy seems about as useful as raging against the sun or oxygen.
"Not to blindly defend Bitcoin, but it seems like a tropical storm would inflict just as much, if not more, financial loss than this decision."
I know you are just theorizing here, but c'mon. By embracing Bitcoin they did as much damage to their nation as if a hurricane had hit? That seems like an incredibly poor choice for the people who are ostensibly in charge of keeping their nation safe and stable.
In comparison with the hurricane, Bitcoin is going to fix itself (or at least it always did). And projected -$63M damage can be +$200M very easily. I think that the linked article will not age well. Practicly no article of this kind since the Bitcoin creation did.
I was trying to put the loss in perspective, namely that this loss, while bad, is still an amount that El Salvador will be able to reasonably recover from. Not that I sensed there was doom and gloom about the situation, but this isn't the kind of large loss that will financially bog down El Salvador for the next decade or more.
I wonder how much of this was a marketing play by El Salvador. As a result of making Bitcoin a National Currency, they've had their name in the news quite a few times, they've had more tourists than normal (cryptocurrency enthusiasts visiting, etc), and they've likely had increased investment in their country.
They have not realized a loss other than for accounting, which may benefit their debt positions.
Bitcoin is responding exactly like it has in the past, it also represents a better ~one year return than most investments. Now is a time to buy additional amounts as $13k-20k is the anticipated low range during the next 'slump' year
When Australia proposed an international investigation into the origins, in direct response, China started cyber attacks, resentencing Australian prisoners to death, and used economic warfare.
This seems like a conversation we can not have, if China has any say in it. And for a natural origin spillover event, it sure wants to have its say...
If your claims are true, then the fact that I (and others) didn't know this is seriously disturbing. I think a lot of people would have doubled down and pushed for alot more pressure and investigation into all of China's dealings across the board, if they had known.
At the very least it's an indictment on our media which should be pointing out these curious coincidences. Instead I think they have other motives.
I don't know about the other two but Australian coal was put under sanction by china in the wake of their call for an investigation. This, ironically, was quite bad for china since it indirectly led to power cuts in some provinces because they couldn't use the lower grade of coal otherwise available.
Hairstylists at the walk-up-only places that say they do a "super" job often put caustic chemicals on clients where the chemicals don't belong and don't clean it up as they go. The client will be somewhat more comfortable at a better salon. Box color from a drug store is very mild and doesn't last as long, so DIY is not great. Hair straightening chemistry "from Brazil" is so hard-core that pregnant women feel the need to avoid the area (or salon). So not only does the required training matter, there is a huge correlation between what you pay and what it's like.
Barber combines a lot of chemicals on top of people head/face. Just because you don't see them as knowledge worker doesn't mean they can work uneducated.
Chemicals being hair/face/skin products (sprays, gells, shaving cream, creams/moisturizers) which are commercially produced, tested and sold at retail/wholesale?
Yes, they need to be knowledgable (growth patterns/directions, skin issues that may cause complications, hair-loss aware haircuts), but 3-times the training as a police officer, really? To be a Rhode Island State Trooper, it is a "grueling" 24-week program... https://risp.ri.gov/academy/trooper
Maybe prior to the 19th-century, when barbers were also surgeons and dentists that would be a minimal amount of training - but that is no longer the case.
>but 3-times the training as a police officer, really?
This is a crummy comparison, because the problem isn't that barbers get too much training (maybe they do) but that police officers get very little training.
> which are commercially produced, tested and sold at retail/wholesale?
That doesn't mean they won't kill you -> try drinking bleach or pesticides for demostic plants, both avaliable at the nearest supermarket.
Barber chemicals can give you skin burns or render you partially bilnd. That's mostly female products though, being a men's barber is typically simpler.
that being said, most of UK has no special lisence for barbers -> just need to follow health and safety and have insurance.
Not all of them are. Also, a company can sustain lawsuit differently and has access to better documentation to defend its products. Also, you're responsible to follow dosages when you apply them by your own, but the barber is when applying them on you.
Truly you should know the different implications on doing things on one own heads instead of on the head of someone else, and the difference in scale between doing it vocationally when needed and doing it all day every working day, so I don't understand why even bring the teenager example up.
Would you want someone with no experience cutting your hair?
We're in a profession that requires next to no training (except for maybe an odd "leet code" test that has no relevance to our day-to-day work, though there are plenty of jobs that don't even need that.) Maybe we're spoiled.
I've done training on handling acids that will eat right through your flesh, chemicals that make deadly gases, and how to handle biohazards like live HIV, and all were less than a day.
"they train you not to touch things? Must be super easy, don't touch the thing."
"it's super easy not to touch the thing, we have to make chemicals touch people face safely, we don't have the luxury of just not letting the face not touch the chemical"
If the instructions fit on a two pages [1] and people can do it at home with no training, I think they should be able to to cover it in a day certification for professionals.
That's the instructions set for one product. Now enter a barber shop and start counting.
You also need to know all the interactions between products, and between products and skin, and between product and skin in the context of the goal of the sitting client, which might want a color point in between two tints with reflex of another.
I didn't downvote, but I think your solution isn't particularly effective. Part of the problem is food is more fundamental than tobacco; nearly everyone finds some kind of sweet treat appealing. Slapping labels on all the poptarts saying they are 'desserts' doesn't fix the fact that we are almost all hardwired to seek out fats and sugars.
Putin taking direct action to invade will result in needless Russian and Ukranian suffering and death. That seems plenty evil; and if he has deluded the majority of the population of Russia into believing that the current war is necessary, that is evil too.
