Reminder that because Norway is not an EU member state, they were left off the Euro until around 2007, leading to a phenomenon cartographers call "Sweden dong."
@BioTurboNick And y’know what encourages, say, enterprising rednecks to transport water from areas glutted with it to areas that need it desperately? The ability to profit from the work. Charity is great, but proper incentives are better! All in the thread, btw.
@BioTurboNick Float the price, people start to think how much water they really need. This leaves more on the shelves for people who didn’t get there as quickly. But maybe they still run out? That’s because what’s actually needed in an emergency is a greater SUPPLY of water...
@phylogenomics@Harvard@MIT@ASU@medialab@DrMANowak@LKrauss1 Serious question: who would have benefited from them not taking his money? If there see actual ways in which the supported or enabled him, say so. But his money? Does the money of a bad person fund any less useful research?
@ASuburbian@theFuriousSJW Yeah that’s the play with these celebrity brands: take your basic Walmart level stuff, slap a new tag and a modest price premium on it, profit. It’s not like she really got into the design and manufacture part of the biz, just plug and play name profiteering.
@earlyreports @jiveDurkey @realDonaldTrump “Very big bomb, some are saying one of the biggest, a lot of highly respected people are saying so, now incoming, very strongly incoming, to Pyongyang.”
twitter has very real security questions to answer — if Jack’s account can get hacked, what’s to say @realDonaldTrump can’t be hacked to FAR greater consequences?
@BlookUshan Related: I was pretty young but in the early 90’s my family briefly hosted some Russian-Jewish refugees as they got resettled in the US and I’ll never forget the pure awe with which they regarded our supermarket. It was how I viewed Disneyland. It remains a powerful memory.
@ASuburbian@theFuriousSJW “Libruhls would understand economics if they ever started a business!” 2 days later “look all our stuff is made in China but here’s the thing...”