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I do this everyday. Made possible by financial freedom from employment.

To curb your craving for unhealthy food or beverage, including alcohol, stare at the item for three minutes. Mediate on it. Allow yourself to be fully present before it. This trains you not to automatically give in to your unhealthy craving. Before long, you will realize that you "can" choose not to eat or drink it.

I am a lawyer who uses ChatGPT to assist in drafting documents. My clients are familiar with it too, but at the end of the day, clients are lazy, and would rely on the lawyer to draft something as simple as a cover letter or HR form. For those clients who pre-generate contracts and legal documents through ChatGPT, the result is astoundingly bad, such that I still had to overhaul their outputs.

Laziness and human incompetence -- these are the reasons why I exist.

Professional service organizations with cross-border capabilities can qualify for this.

As a lawyer who has founded a law firm, it's possible to qualify for all criteria, even item 12, which can be addressed by the founder knowing how to decouple the founder's personal labor inputs (e.g., time) from the firm's revenue and profit performance.

I live in a country (outside the US) with good healthcare system and accessible and relatively affordable healthcare services. Health insurance is good to have, but not having it will not make a person like me teetering on the edge of poverty.

I use Telegram's Saved Messages feature, put there anything I need to remember or anything noteworthy, and that's it. That's journaling for me. It helps me remember things. Is that journaling? Is there a need for me to do journaling other than what I am already currently doing?

That's a good point. I am very, very, very risk averse, as I am both a lawyer and finance guy (risk management).

It doesn't matter. I know my cost of living / monthly expense. My monthly expense has been budgeted to help me live a comfortable life (not just a surviving existence), with occasional luxuries.

I like the writings of Arthur Clarke, but I must confess, this story never made sense to me. How could simply compiling a list of names bring about the end of the world? Didn't the names already exist as ideas even before they were printed on paper? Why would printing all of them on paper make any difference?

On a side note: how fast could a quantum computer generate the list using qubits?

It's interesting to note that not all services that receive government subsidies are public goods in the traditional economic sense. Services like healthcare, education, housing, agriculture, and energy are all essential for social welfare, but they can be excluded and used up by individuals, making them rival and excludable. However, governments often provide subsidies for these services to support marginalized groups or address market failures. So I don't get the nitpicking.

Just wanted to add that usage-based pricing is a form of dynamic pricing, where the price for a given level of service is not fixed or is variable based on various factors like demand, supply, time of day, etc. In this case, the dynamic pricing parameter is based on usage.

When it comes to consumer protection laws, dynamic pricing is often treated as a form of price discrimination, where different customers are charged different prices for the same product or service. The legal treatment of price discrimination may vary from country to country, and it would be intriguing to see how usage-based pricing will be received in other countries.