I just thought it was interesting. What's the protocol to share something I find interesting and not directly related to the main thread? Create a whole new thread?
EDIT: Haha why is this being downvoted so heavily? Is it because it's off-topic, or you don't like the suggestion that someone could be discriminatory against men, or what?
Hah good point. So Theranos is literally fighting for their lives, because if one investor gets 25% of their money back, all the other investors will want the same.
Basically, when she said "our machines, which we have already deployed in production and doctors are using them to make potentially life/death decisions, can do X". At that point.
How do you know that Madoff was malicious from the outset, I wonder? The guy had a 30 year career, have you studied his beginnings? Maybe you did, but knowing nothing I'd find it more plausible that the guy started small fudging a couple of numbers hoping the next year would be better and eventually snowballed out of control.
> I don't think being comparable to Putin is good or smart.
I get what you're saying, but this has been textbook politics since forever. The most reliable way to rally people around you is convince them there is a great danger in X, and only you can save them from X. Every single politician does it. And it's easier if X is external. Clinton does it with "the Russians", Putin does it with "the Americans", Trump does it with "the Muslims and the Mexicans". In the UK Nigel Farage does with Europe/the immigrants.
I'm not saying that aren't some times external dangers. But these four characters I mentioned use this just as a political tool.
And this is was brought me to what I wrote at the top of this thread. This is very concerning especially in the case of Clinton/Putin, because when they've been using each other as a political tool eventually your population have been fed so much shit for so long, they actually hate the enemy country. And when that happens it gets even easier to start war. And that is really concerning :-/
I think that we humans find it hard to conceive such humongous changes in the world around us. We're used to a certain background in our lives and under-estimate the likelihood of any scenario that changes that a lot. Evolutionarily this makes sense: if you always think that the things you've never seen changing will never change, you will be right almost all of the time (and I could just as well call you myopic for not believing _my_ scenario).
But at the same time if instead of going with your instinct of how likely it is that such an outrageous scenario would occur, you instead follow simple game theory, there is only a few ways out of this situation, at least that I can think of:
A) The USA says We acknowledge your concerns and and actually, we're not gonna build that shield after all (or some variation of this)
B) Russia says Actually, I'm just gonna lay down and be bullied into irrelevance
Do you see either of these happening? Things will have to get much worse before either of these happens. Do you see other alternatives?