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Like elves in _Shadowrun_.

And mentally. We never stop playing.

Note the popularity of memes about "adulting".

esoteric

The legal concept doesn't feel esoteric to me. In contrast, "companies" creating governments is quite rare in my mind. The historical concept you're referring to was even more of a legal concept. Those companies were individually chartered by their host governments. They might have inflicted something else on their victims, but ... Let's take the East India Company as an example. It might have appeared sovereign at times, but was trivially dissolved by the British Empire.

When it goes the other way, would it be more appropriate to call those gangs, not companies?

Just assumptions, not extremely strong assumptions. Ordinary least squares performs well in a large variety of cases.

A company is meaningless without a government and law enforcement. The existence of a barrier is necessary for a company to have practical value as a legal concept.

If I only earn when I treat, then I have an incentive to over-diagnose. Insurance thus forces me to document my diagnoses, and I spend much of my time on documentation and appealing denials.

It'd still occur in a single-payer system. The problem is fees for services instead of fees for results.

If not predictability, then regularity, and I believe that's a fundamental misunderstanding -- the system is chaotic.

If only that weren't called a "cycle" as if it had a predictable periodicity.

Isn't the jury responsible for determining what's reliable evidence?

You're right. Thanks for being that guy!

Democrat leadership and large donors may have moved left, but the voters haven't. Which is why Biden was having trouble with some groups previously thought locked-in Democrat.

If the author wrote, "This is satire," it'd ruin the satire.

I'd bet that the median claim is quite different than the mean claim, because the outliers are so large. Much like the "shocking" statements you hear about wealth distribution -- the largest 10 are bigger than the bottom 50% or similar. That's how log-normal distributions work. Though of course the Gini coefficient can vary.

It seems like the ideal plan is a high-deductible with no maximum, like catastrophic medical coverage.

Liability is more about medical costs, no? If it were bounded to vehicle cost, I'd self-insure.

Why Polars and not Dask?

You can solve that with careful licensing agreements.

That was my guess, too :-)

Semantics, I suppose. Those ANNs were Markov chains, in a sense.

They can compare sales figures with other notebook brands', if they buy some competitive intelligence or do some sleuthing. Opportunity cost of lost sales.

some kind of signal

Low sales is a signal. Also, they can hire a UX researcher.

So, that "I am as constant as the northern star" simile is a little mixed?

Unfortunately, to carry that low annualized rent forward, one must move annually.

Two of the suggestions made were brontobyte (from 'brontosaurus') and hellabyte (from 'hell of a big number'). (Indeed, the Google unit converter function was already stating '1 hellabyte = 1000 yottabytes' [6].) This introduced a new driver for extending the range of SI prefixes: ensuring unofficial names did not get adopted de facto.

Rats. So close!

EB

I pine for the day when "hella-" extends the SI prefixes. Sadly, they added "ronna-" and "quetta-" in 2022. Seems like I'll have to wait quite some time.

From the anthropology I've been reading, it seems that many societies got by with debt -- and complex forms of it! -- with no need for money. Especially because of their long lives and stable communities, debt relations would be effective for elves. Money is only necessary in a society where a transaction is indeed transactional, independent from future relationship.

If there weren't so many cars and the associated danger, it'd be easier to use public spaces and not feel like your "small" apartment is cramped.

I bought a house and miss my 2-bedroom apartment. Enough that my wife and I are considering moving back into an apartment and renting out our house.

Feel free. I can be your pseudonymous villain.