They were close, but it required the best people bashing their heads against each other for years until they got it.

It is configurable by theme or by changing something like bottom-active.xpm size.

Oh fuck off. My grandfather survived the Nazi occupation in southern Russia, was playing Hitler in the school theater comedy some 5 years later.

It was always called Turkiye in Turkish.

I promise to use it in English as soon as Germany becomes Deutschland and Japan becomes Nippon.

I know that this was tongue-in-cheek, but I could imagine living in a world where naming countries as they name themselves is the dominant linguistic convention. Why not call Japan Nippon in a sentence.

I could imagine living in a world where there are 3 sexes and everyone walks on ceilings.

You're free to call Japan Nippon as long as you're fine with people raising eyebrows, sometimes not understanding what you mean, or deciding you're a pretentious twit.

The request that we use a character that doesn't even exist in the English alphabet (ü) is particularly ludicrous.

If there is a mechanism by which the English language can lose letters over time (such as þ or æ), why wouldn't there be one by which it gains it?

It would make even more sense, after all we lose letters because we write those sounds using other letters or letter combinations, however the "ü" in "Türkiye" doesn't have an analogue in the existing alphabet.

I don't know how exactly that works, but definitely not by fiat from another country.

Coutry wide only 16% of dental practices are DSO, and it's not that functionally different from junior dentists getting loans to set up their practices with practices themselves as a collateral.

This equally applies to any investment income wouldn't it? Dividend, loan interest would all be classed as "unearned income" by a certain economic theory I won't name that keeps causing people suffering a century later. Don't do that.

Investment is generally considered profit-seeking behavior (i.e. not rent-seeking). Building an apartment and renting it out is clearly profit-seeking behavior, but if you were continuing to rent it out doing the bare minimum to keep it from falling over 40 years later, that would be pretty clearly rent-seeking.

From this, we can conclude that there must be some point after an investment is made where continuing to benefit from it transitions to rent-seeking behavior.

Would holding some stock 40 year after buying it for dividend also be rent-seeking?

Would rebuilding the apartment every so often straighten you back to profit-seeking?

Rent-seeking is just a meaningless insult if framed like that, it highlights no economically net-negative behaviour.

Predatory loans were maligned as "usury" long before "rent-seeking" or Scary Marxists came along. For good reason. They're bad for society and the economy writ large.

Classing all loans as usury help Europe back for a long time.

I guess you could class some rent as predatory as well, allowing others to use your property for a fee is not necessarily predatory (unless you're of "property is theft" kind).

So you can find the place where car thieves took it to take pictures, already knowing which city it was in from the ad. How useful is that!

An experimental cryogenic device doesn't sound very good in terms of reliability. A train could have a few free rubber-coated wheels dedicated for precise odometry, there could be cameras with optical flow/reference markers on the tunnel walls every so often, virtually anything seems to be better than sinking millions in quantum devices.

Sounds like a grift with the only redeeming quality of advancing technology perhaps useful elsewhere. There's no way encoders on wheels with resets on stations/junctions is not enough for precise train positioning.

It could reasonably be a non-insider, just someone monitoring comms activity, ship movement, pentagon pizza and parking indexes, and other open sources.