For a while Netflix didn't support 1080p on browsers other than Edge on Windows or Safari on Mac. This has changed somewhat but they still reserve their resolution content for their "blessed" OS/browser combinations
Regardless of potential bribes to politicians, its easy to look at the increased yields from GMO foods as a benefit for a country where ~20% of the population are undernourished
It is an artificial dichotomy tbh. When you say GMO foods, you usually refer to foods that have been introduced to populations across the globe in environments they are not suitable to be grown in. Yes GMO rice will probably grow better and feed more people in drought prone regions of India, but so would the indigenous millets that were replaced by rice. They require less water (and fertilizers and pesticides that GMOs require), are more resilient to climate events and more suitable to local climate. Not saying GMO foods are A solution, just that they aren’t the ONLY solution if the goal was to feed enough people.
Behavior follows costs. There is probably some stumbling block regarding millets. That being said, seed companies are very interested in land races, do not be mistaken. They are a good source of phenotypic variation and potential traits that might be favorable to introduce into the elite cultivars.
Thought there was no way this was from the same Haribo that makes gummy bears, but apparently it's them. Makes me curious on what other companies have licensed products that would be unexpected given their main business
No state can claim to have a 0% false conviction rate. Would accept inhumane treatment while imprisoned if other, more deserving, people received the same?
The development of the Global financial system is an ongoing narrative though. It was never going to continue indefinitely. The modern euro dollar system is fairly new, spawned in the 70s. Before that you had a huge shift with the Sterling losing dominance. Then go back another 50 years and you have swarms of independent banks issuing their own currency.
It's a mix of a constantly churning "history rhymes it doesn't repeat" cycles (ex: stablecoins being rehypothecated/used as base level collateral with which to generate leverage is somewhat of a modern version of the late 1800s bank currency cycle), combined with what may be best described as technological development as theories and tools and ecosystems develop.
The zeitgeist is very much that it's about time for the Eurodollar (offshore dollars/Eurodollars bound by the 20 trillion dollar Eurodollar derivative market) to fade, but as of yet there haven't been any good alternatives.
It's a big burden to export your monetary policy and backstop global economic fragility, because it becomes your responsibility. Ex: that doesn't work with a system like China because they don't like putting their own people last in a loud and public way, while in the US the average person regularly and obviously comes away worse off during big interventions. It's also a bit of a trap to step into this, because central banks have mandates to protect systemic stability, yet by unwinding this sort of arrangement, capital flows reverse en-masse which is a clear threat to bond markets (and asset markets in the US's case, since it is so hyper financialized). That's something that is often missed in this conversation. It's a service that has to be provided, and it has costs.
Or perhaps we will attempt to give a system with no bank/regulator of last resort a go again. Probably a "history rhymes" style outcome, but you never know.
The global financial system has gone through successive iterations, each somewhat distinct from the previous version. Ex: post ww2 Bretton Woods to the aptly named "Bretton Woods II" post 1970 gold standard break.
The current iteration is almost certainly a phase, not an end point.
The system itself can be viewed through the lens of a sort of technology that is evolving like any other technology, and concepts like "paradigm shifts" can apply to the monetary system as well.
This particular system that we have is stable (perhaps only) within the context of a stable US centered world monetary order. Usually the conversation quickly veers into the decline of the US, etc, but that's not my point here to be clear. The current system is based on offshore dollars (eurodollars - confusing name, nothing to do with the euro currency) bound together in a 20 trillion dollar eurodollar derivatives market, which essentially takes Fed policy and propagates it through basis trades to the global Eurodollar system that is technically entirely outside of US jurisdiction. When the Fed does something like change interest rates, which is apparently quite important if you look at Bloomberg/Reuters etc, ask yourself what exactly is happening when interbank lending rates change. Map it out, it may be surprising. What's even more surprising is the lack of discussion about what things like rate changes actually mean technically, despite the vast mainstream discussion around these topics.
Since 2020 we have seen first hand that the world is actually quite isolated from the traditional banking space in many ways, on a first order basis. It's the higher order effects (such as policy propagation into global markets which are quite disconnected from Fed policy) that matter. The matter to note is that this is increasingly vestigial in nature, and evolution tends to eventually drop the vestigial remnants.
(I know these conversations tend to veer into doom and conspiracy, that isn't the intent at all. I think most would be surprised if the current system as it stands persists for another 100 years, if not 50, and that's a standard idea to have.)
>If they're not forced to produce something of value to give to you, then how can you ever be made whole again? Does the state pay? If so, why do taxpayers who didn't commit a crime foot the bill? If it's insurance, then why do non-criminals paying insurance premiums foot the bill?
Are any of these solutions that unreasonable when you consider that the state/taxpayers are already footing the bill to keep prisoners incarcerated?
