There is no such thing as a politically neutral place. Especially not for an organization that has financial ties to many other organizations around the world.
In games with hidden information, yes. In open games? There is an optimal path from start to victory, for one of the players. No need to deviate randomly.
In the Netherlands some/many people work 40 hours on a 36 hour contract, resulting in almost 10 weeks of paid vacation as well. It's worth a lot to me.
People usually don't go to a status page to see if a page is reachable from their computer. They know that already. They want to know if it's a global issue, and if the company is aware that it's down, and when it will be back up.
For a site like this I would put the tracker that's being hit by sites on a different (sub-)domain, to prevent massive traffic spikes on client sites from also taking down your own homepage.
Statistician here with experience in the financial world: you're wrong. Don't confuse the existence of Wikipedia pages and books written by people wanting to make money with actual science.
Moving averages have a function in statistics. But there is no evidence that they can be used to time the markets. If they could, it would be done algorithmically by hedge funds, closing the possibility.
Please show actual analysis of market data (i.e. recent published scientific papers) supporting your positions. Without those, it's quackery.
Presumably the advantage of this over a standard filter is that blocking (hopefully!) checks SPF/DKIM and verifies that the person being blocked is actually the sender of the email. Simply blocking a From-address would not be effective.
If you got paid as an employee to build the app, his position isn't as weird as it seems (ignoring verbal promises). After all, he had already borne most of the risk at that point.