One strategy not mentioned is to double on win, not on loss. That way you only play with money you've won. Then you set a rule when to stop gambling, for example after 8 wins. This strategy works if there's enough span between min- and max bet. It was a strategy that worked till the 60s when the casinos killed it by closing the min-max gap. I proved it by simulating a million times.
The last decades has truly been a race to the bottom. Disguised as success and freedom. In various degrees has the westerner abolished the family, the local community and the church on the altar of individualism. The funny thing is that when the shit hits the fan, all those who has rejected this the most, will be the one doing least bad. The ones most despised by the elite and inner city folks.
We will get there for sure. Unless, of course, all of you here and elsewhere wake up and stop advocating just a bit of tyranny applied just to the right place.
Meritocracy is something natural. Maybe less obvious today when we live in relative wealth and the fact that life is a struggle is obfuscated.
But in older times when failure led to starvation, increased vulnerability and death it was probably more clear. Those who contributed most was highly regareded by the simple fact that their existence increased your own chance of survival.
Exercise is good for you. We've always known that. Also we know that eating properly is benificial, as your social situation and that you have a meaning in your life. Modern society rediscover this bit by bit.
My guess is that the last part, meaning, will be discovered and accepted lastly. To bad, cause that's in my opinion the most important thing.
If you believe in the evolution theory you can logically arrive at what is good for you.
one can logically arrive at what is good for one. What is right is what evolution has adapted us to. So the task then is to try to make as qualified a guess as possible and then try to match our lifestyle against it. Some things are obvious, others are more difficult.
Through evolutional history, what happend to individuals that didn't had any meaning, that did nothing that helped anyone, that was useless? Well, they died of.
The killer vpn app would be one that guarantees that no user data ever could be collected. All software open source of course. But it would be complemented with some possibility for anyone to do an physical revision on your sites any time.
The built-in error with democracy is that the politicians have the incentive to be re-elected. Therefore, they will use all available resources to try to satisfy enough before the next election. This makes the decisions they make become extremely short-term, often a time horizon of less than 4 years. A pretty good indication of this is to check on the sovereign debt in all democratic countries. You borrow money to finance reforms, the purpose of which is to get yourself re-elected. Likewise, the political class has strong incentives for the public part of society to grow. Then they secure their own and the sin's survival. A good indication that it is to look at the development of taxes and regulations that over time only increases. There is no currently relevant opposition to this. Every problem discussed has basically all the same solution; some type of public effort.
If you allow yourself to think about this logically, you realize that it is not a viable way, a country needs a long-term perspective. Every decision made in one country must be beneficial for that country in the long term. You have to manage something that your children and grandchildren should live in and it should be in better condition than when you took over it yourself. This is actually obvious. Making decisions at the expense of one's children and grandchildren is unreasonable.
Right now, the whole Western world is actually living on what our ancestors have created, and they lived in times where it was obvious that they did better for future generations. Today we burn it at both ends. Of course, a system that prizes laziness and short-sightedness and punishes fitness and diligence cannot be long-lived. The future will look at the present as a very strange parenthesis in the history of the West. That is, f we do not go under.
If it moves, tax it. If it still move, regulate it. If it stop moving, subsidize it. I'll guarantee, you'll soon see taxpayers money going in to the resturant business.
More regulations to "fix" problems that earlier regulations caused. The only winner is the politicians, who can hire more friends in the ever growing public bureaucracy.
While waiting for new medications to prolong life, you can imitate a paleontological lifestyle as far as practically possible. Not just what and when to eat, but also what to expose your body to and how to shape your social life. In addition to a healthier and longer life, you will also be able to perform more and cope with more difficult challenges, which allows for a greatly increased quality of life.
Okay, it was a shame for them. But why would any Westerner bother? Such things are just an unconscious way of shifting the focus from the disintegrating Western society.
Don't see your point. You can bet that it's quite unique to have 4 out of 5 female navigation officers. They brag about it a lot. One wonder how much affirmative action was needed to get them their. Hopefully none. There is a chance that the investagation is done thoroughly because this is quite serious, then it will show if not classified.