Is there such a thing as an insurance co-op? If not, can that be a thing?

I like the term “specialized” vs “unspecialized”. It better describes what it actually means.

That sure sounds like what would qualify as “unskilled labour”. It basically means that the pool of employees is every healthy adult human being and you can be nearly instantly replaced if needed.

Better that they tell us imo. If someone thinks that the people I care about don’t deserve to exist for reasons no one can control, I’d rather know and avoid giving them money than to help them quietly gain influence and power until they can eradicate these people themselves.

When I was doing my undergrad, there was this sketchy shop in a nearby alley where they photocopy textbooks and sold them for just a bit more than the cost of the paper and binding. If they didn’t have it, you could borrow it from the library to lend them and they’ll give you a free copy in exchange.

It’s a question of risk vs reward, not risk alone. I don’t imagine many would care if their candies look different, but if you take away cigarettes, you’re going to get a riot and lots of people going to the black market.

I wouldn’t say monopolies are good, but there’s a difference between monopolies existing because the one at the top is actively preventing others from offering the same services, versus the monopoly existing because no one else is capable/willing to doing it. How do you resolve the latter without forcing them to offer a worse service?

In the context of programming:

• Good for boilerplate code and variables naming when what you want is for the model to regurgitate things it has seen before.
• Short pieces of code where it’s much faster to verify that the code is correct than to write the code yourself.
• Sometimes, I know how to do something but I’ll wait for Copilot to give me a suggestion, and if it looks like what I had in mind, it gives me extra confidence in the correctness of my solution. If it looks different, then it’s a sign that I might want to rethink it.
• It sometimes gives me suggestions for APIs that I’m not familiar with, prompting me to look them up and learn something new (assuming they exist).

There’s also some very cool applications to game AI that I’ve seen, but this is still in the research realm and much more niche.

I don’t know if the H2O2 is going to cause any problems, but if you have one of those ultrasonic type humidifiers and you do manage to dissolve the black goop, turning it on will just toss that goop onto all the surrounding surfaces.

It’s hard to imagine how you would even begin to learn to read. You see text and you have to translate that directly to meaning without imagining the sound in your head? Witchcraft I say.

There’s no problem with doing pull-ups with an arch. It’s just a different variation that uses a different set of muscles. Most people find it easier to pull with an arched back.

I was that idiot once. Nice to meet you.

It basically comes down to finding the longest chain of carbons, then you number each of the carbons on that chain and list off things that are attached to each of them. For example, 1 carbon = methyl, 2 carbons = ethyl, etc.

Tfw you distrust the scientific establishment and take health into your own hands to stick it to the man. But then you realize you’re the man.

This is the main reason I still keep Windows around. The majority of my stuff “just works” much better on Linux, but every once in a while, you need to interact with someone else via some weird proprietary software and it’s not really reasonable to go “sorry, can’t do it because Linux”, nor is it reasonable to spend several hours figuring out for Linux when I’m likely only using it once.

Windows is completely free though. I don’t even bother to remove the watermark.

A lot of people are under the impression that the new guy is getting paid the big bucks to make some extra unpopular decisions before Galen takes over again to “save the day”.

On my first reading of the title, I understood it as

Subject: 4,100-year-old tomb of doctor who

Verb: treated

Object: pharaohs discovered at Saqqara

Seems that there was one just a few months ago

https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/central-dairies-brand-and-s-milk-brand-2-partly-skimmed-milk-recalled-due-spoilage

Oh god, imagine having to give birth every day for the rest of eternity.

Unlike conventional batteries, supercapacitors have an exceptionally long lifespan, lasting hundreds of thousands of charge-discharge cycles, whereas lithium batteries typically last only five years or less.

So, what’s the conversation rate between charge-discharge cycles and years?