I'll allow that ignoring or abandoning private property is generally the measuring stick that libertarians use to justify seizing it, but as others have said, if the real estate market in Vancouver were less regulated, this wouldn't have happened in the first place.
I've found that undeveloped land in low-demand, rural areas tends to go for about $2,000/acre. It jumped out at me in the headline that the donation was about the same rate.
When writing a work of fiction, the aim is to find truth not in the creative process, but in the un-dogged pursuit of verisimilitude - in the attempt to build reasonably causal events in response to the creative flights of fancy. Theoretically, it should be possible to achieve this in the frontal lobe, but putting pen to paper has always been a more effective approach at striking the perfect balance.
I'd say the author here decided to apply the same muscles that balance creativity and verisimilitude to his own review. Imagining the response to an unknown, unpublished novel is obviously a work of creativity, which he is also able to balance out because he actually knows the novel, knows its strengths and weaknesses.
In this way, he was able to find a simple, comforting truth: he was either about to become a novelist, or he wasn't.
Writing a piece of pseudo-fiction like this review seems like a great answer to allay the fears of failure.
One of the things I wonder about is how many calories your body can actually metabolize into fat and glycogen in a given day. For example, if you eat 15,000 calories, how many of those calories will your body just pass right through your digestive tract? I could see liquid calories like pop or juice being metabolized easily, but do all the beans in a Chipotle burrito end up clinging on your thighs and gut also?
> if you eat 15,000 calories, how many of those calories will your body just pass right through your digestive tract?
Depends on how much you're burning, how much you weigh, and how many calories you normally eat. If you're not used to eating that much, you will find it really hard to.
There are loads of videos of average build people trying to eat 8000 or more calories, and at least some end up puking like this guy -- does that count as passing through the digestive tract? ;)
> I could see liquid calories like pop or juice being metabolized easily, but do all the beans in a Chipotle burrito end up clinging on your thighs and gut also?
When you eat more than you need in the form of a combination of fats & carbs, since carbs metabolize faster, fats get stored.
A Chipotle burrito is very high on fats, and carbs, and calories. So the answer is that the burrito will hit the thighs or waist almost as easily as juice, but it's not the beans, it's the whole burrito, and specifically the tortilla and cheese, sour cream & guacamole, those are the big ticket items.
The reason I asked about beans specifically was because, as I understand it, they're harder to digest. I'm guess the corn I see in the toilet doesn't leave many calories on my stomach either.
your body's ability to metabolize will increase too as you eat more. that's why skinny people who eat massively for a single meal once a week don't really gain weight, it's the regular over eating that does it.
3,500 calories of fat, or 30% extra of carbs or protein. protein is also insulinogenic so eating too much fat along with similar amounts of protein will make someone balloon (i.e fried chicken)
You really shouldn't worry about the beans clinging to your thighs and gut. Nutritionally, beans are high in protein, have zero fat, and high in fiber. The beans are what will allow you to pass that burrito brick in the future.
Not true. I've used high CBD strains lab tested from Washington and they still caused minor paranoia. And the level mecessary for the same pain relief as tramadol, tapentadol, or morphine sulfate, makes a person dumb as a brick and unable to do what they originally wanted to. Pipedreams are nice. Marijuana is not a supplement to opiates except in corner cases. Really depends on the person and level of pain. I have chronic pain and marijuana was not conducive for a productive lifestyle while opiates are.
The exact intent is what you describe plus "make people that read HN laugh". If some of the meaning gets muddied for the sake of comedy, well, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
If it's not funny, well, that's the risk of satire. In any case, I'll keep working on the story.
Yeah, the darkness is a big part of the point. You should feel sort of dirty when you're done reading it, but still be able to see that an entity driven by greed can provide a social good.
Ideally, a good basic income program would provide a mix of incentives to maximize both social and economic good. The story challenges the reader to consider even the slimiest, scummiest greed as an incentive.
