The section on proverbs is missing the point, despite overthinking it.
You're not meant to take a proverb and apply it literally in all cases. It's a piece of wisdom you pull out when you deem it appropriate. The analysis and individual judgement of the human being is implied.
Totally disagree. Killing my third party app reduced my reddit usage by like 90%. Now I really only use it on my desktop PC.
On mobile, when I tap reddit search results I am never logged in which means I have to go to old.reddit.com to see the full thread and comments. If they added a log in wall I'd just stop tapping reddit results on mobile.
Immersion will absolutely get you speaking and listening fluency (with enough time). Reading and writing? That's another matter. If you're coming from a Latin alphabet language and trying to learn to read and write Chinese or Japanese then you've got a lot of study and practice ahead of you. Acquiring the knowledge of several thousand Chinese characters (needed for both languages) can only be done through deliberate study.
Or maybe they're just depicting making signs with their hands? All of the images in the article can be replicated by making hand signs and using them and stencils.
Seems unjustified to jump to ritual mutilation. Reminds me of that joke that everything archaeologists don't understand is a ritual artifact.
> One that can compete with and defeat democracy, in fact.
If it's better then why shouldn't it win? Frankly the lines are blurred. So called liberty is not so clearly championed by the west any longer, and on top of that robber barons and corporations are running rampant through our societies and governments. There's no apparent upside for ordinary people to a Western victory any longer, or at least it's not clear cut.
After all if we're going to be ruled by elites, and be under a system which can compete with capitalist "democracy," might as well be ruled by elites who are ideologically aligned with the people's well-being.
Better in what? This is really shallow relativization of someone mad at current system.
It is not better in any values valued in "western civilization".
I'm not seeing any innovation here as distinct from what is already done for inexpensive field hospitals, except that it's in a retail tent.
> Sharma says the hospital is the first of its kind in India, but is reluctant to make any grander claim as she is not certain of similar developments in other countries.
As smart and rich as this guy was, and I know very little of him besides his critique of cryptocurrencies, I wonder about his empathy. That dorm design...https://youtu.be/VKXOQ8duhRg
The lack of windows sucks, but there's another term in the equation -- one the high-brow architecture critics I guess think beneath their dignity to mention. And that is: All rooms have a single bed, meeting the prime requirement for a young couple's first "love nest".
Furthermore I'll argue that "sexiling" is really a gross injustice, and damaging to the education of the sexilee, as if he hadn't already been dealt a pile of misery. The Munger dorm then shows great social wisdom and benevolence in its proactive elimination of sexiling through architectural design.
The reason for the design was to put the communal areas by the windows so people would come out and mix. It seems popular at the one they built https://youtu.be/LzsjKdGehb0
I'm more interested in the savings account integration. I've found it super convenient. Too low APR for long term savings, but the convenience is worth the difference to me for short term savings parking. I keep $30K or so in it revolving for moving money around. Not to mention the cashback deposit right to the account.
What APR is your baseline for long term savings? I'm interested in where you see significantly higher APR savings accounts because the Apple Card Savings Account is 400x my previous savings account APR.
I don't have a savings account but buy CDs on a regular basis. For the next two years, I have something between 5% and 6% maturing every 3 months. Apple Card Savings is 4.15%.
So you can definitely do better than the Apple Card, but to some extent you're paying bankers to do what I do manually every 3 months. (You just pay them in "spread"; they're buying the same CDs I am, but keeping some of the profits to themselves. And letting you withdraw the money whenever you want, not just when the underlying CD matures. I get only a small amount of interest on my "what if I get fired and need to eat for 3 months until the next CD matures?" fund, sitting in my checking account.)
I never bother with actual savings accounts because in a year or two interest rates will be back down to 0.0000001% or whatever, in which case just holding the cash in my brokerage account is easier. (At least it gets swept into an overnight account that earns 0.0000015% interest! Wow!)
There’s at least 50 different online banks that are paying more than 4.15%. Check out depositaccounts.com. Off the top of my head, Ally, Capital One, Vio Bank, MyBankingDirect, SoFi, and a bunch of others. If you’re getting less than 5% it’s time to open a new account.
I have a HYSA with UFB Direct (5.25% APY) and if you use Wealthfront or Robinhood, their paid offerings have 5%-ish. Apply is like 4.5% or something. I've been meaning to move that out to one of the 5% accounts.
You're not meant to take a proverb and apply it literally in all cases. It's a piece of wisdom you pull out when you deem it appropriate. The analysis and individual judgement of the human being is implied.
If you included more it wouldn't be a proverb.