You can pickle anything really

Thanks

Entropy always increases; this is the same as saying time moves only in one direction

The question was 'what's metadata?'

What you're describing isn't really metadata, it's the outcomes/process by which google anaylzes data/metadata.

Wtf OP

Absolutely agree, but of course in US republic systems, politics plays a role in minister/secretary appointments as well. The system is only as good as the people running it...

I think you're missing something... in parliamentary systems there are public servants (in canada, deputy minister) who in theory is the expert on the portfolio. The minister is the politician accountable (politically) for the portfolio. It's not as if the defence minister is 'running the army' all by themselves.

Not saying it's better or worse, and certainly I have seen abject morons given a portfolio when they can't tie their own shoelaces.

I agree it's crazy, but there has to be some metric that determines the denominator

This is poorly done

Is KWC it's own municipality though

This is one of those unhinged-sounding comments that actually isn't all that unhinged.

Do you think those are good-faith arguments?

It's a bold strategy, cotton

You aren't really asking about gold, you're asking about fiat currency. Some people say that the US dollar (or any fiat currency) isn't real, has no intrinsic value, only exists because we say it does... this is not true. Fiat currency is backed by law and the state's monopoly on legal violence. To say that the dollar is useless is basically saying the US economy doesn't exist.

I've read his whole blog. Its excellent.

Found J Kenzi Lopez-Alts alternate

Thanks for this, great addendum. As an aside I love acoup