I guess her answer stands either way, but the idea that sanctions killed half a million children is Hussein’s phony propaganda, and subsequent research has shown no increase in child mortality during the time of the sanctions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/04...
"We have investigated ourselves and found we have done nothing wrong" is the takeaway here.
Rather than deferring to Liz Sly from WaPo, why doesn't the U.S government submit itself and the administrations of the 90s to The Hague so this can be confirmed?
I’m not deferring to WaPo, but rather two academics at the London School of Economics. Their paper is linked in the WaPo article. I don’t believe either is affiliated with the US government, or even an American citizen, so I don’t see how their article could be called “investigating ourselves.”
One important note for residents of California and New Jersey: if you live in one of these states you must pay state tax on HSA contributions and gains, the same as if it were a regular taxable account. Your HSA is still tax-advantaged at the federal level though
Question, hopefully not too off topic: if I subscribe, can I get the weekly edition emailed to me like a newsletter? Or at least a notification when it’s posted? I want to subscribe but doubt I’ll actually remember to log in and read it every week.
You can sign up for a notification email when the weekly edition is posted, yes. We don't currently have an option to receive the whole thing in email, but that has been on the list for a while...
I love FreeBSD but to me it doesn’t sound like a great fit for OP. It sounds like OP wants something that will work out of the box, and in my experience FreeBSD on the desktop is harder to setup and usually requires some fussing, especially if you need WiFi or have other exotic devices. The docs are fantastic, but because it’s less popular as a desktop operating system, it’s harder to google for solutions to problems.
> I honestly think it is a little stupid not to do any monetization.
This may be a popular sentiment on hacker news but thankfully it is an unpopular view among the best programmers. If everyone thought like this, there would be no Linux, no GNU. We’d all be reading this in Internet Explorer on Windows
Open source doesn’t mean there is no monetization strategy. For example you could be using Firefox on Ubuntu. Both of those are monetized. Plus most open source software couldn’t monetize as easily or harmlessly as a webpage.
There are “free for non-commercial use” licenses, but that is inherently a non-free license. If you restrict what someone can do with the software, it’s not free as in speech.
Rather than trying to find some get rich quick scheme, I really recommend you find work you enjoy that pays money and prepare to work for another 10-20 years. Invest wisely and avoid risky schemes like cryptocurrency or trading.
I expect OP is young (as am I) and our biggest threat is that we often don't know what the wise investment is. My personal strategy is to invest in: Skills > Tools > Relationships > Knowledge > Cash for rainy day > Stocks > Crypto/Prediction markets/gambling. The last one feeds into the Skills/Knowledge investment, and I've often heard it's not worth doing at all; but learning to flip $10 of garbage asset into $11 in a crummy market sounded like a skill worth risking $10 to learn, and it's given me huge respect for existing financial institutions because I was able to personally encounter all the risks/problems they protect society from.
Nobody knows what a great investment is, just understand your risk threshold and be OK with taking risks.
If you want a general rule of thumb look to invest in the broader market mainly and then have smaller portions of your portfolio invested in riskier assets.
The best source I know of for learning to invest is The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing. It doesn’t just tell you what to invest in, it explains the why.
If your time horizon is long enough (which is it because you are young) just put your money in the stock market. It will climb over 20 years even if there are some down years. It's not a get rich quick scheme but its an easy way to acquire wealth over time. It has served me really well and I'm in my early 30's.
