technical people developed the systems that print out confusing glyphs. it's certainly nobody else's fault.
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oh c'mon, if a technical person receives a piece of paper with a printed out user__name on it with the wrong number of underscores they'd just as likely make the same mistake. Rather than ban the use of paper, how about technical people ban fonts (designed by clueless font designers) that blend multiple underscores together?
Clinical depression is a serious mental illness, it causes great suffering, broken relationships, and far too frequently, death by suicide.
A person suffering to such an extent frequently will seek treatment (if they don't, well we don't generally pursue people with medical conditions) from a trained, licensed professional for evaluation, and the extent to which the patient gets out of the house and interacts with people is part of the assessment. Exercise will be among the suggestions that will be encouraged.
However, you don't need a prescription to exercise, so it's not treated like medicine, but it is recommended. If you are prescribed medication or exercise, if you don't take it or do it, there generally isn't a compliance system that kicks in (unless the courts have become involved)
the big AI players, the first movers, are trying to scare the bejeezus out of everybody on purpose, to cause the government to step in with regulations. Even though the regulations will somewhat stifle/slow down the industry, it will also lock in the current leaders because they will be at the table when the regulations are formulated, and they believe they will be able to keep the smaller players down.
a drop of 40-50% in the S&P 500!? That didn't even happen in the market crash of 1929. It would lead to unemployment and breadlines for the majority of the population, and retirees would get in line like everybody else. Making income from your savings requires a productive economy; bonds are not the answer because bonds also stop getting paid, and even govt bonds would be erased by inflation.
it's just not a scenario that should be on your radar, the chance is tiny, and the result would be completely non-linear. if you tried to hedge yourself against that, not only would you fail (it's simply out of your control, like an earthquake or tornado), you also wouldn't make any income in good times, and most times are good and it's sensible to plan for that retirement.
Le Guin refused a Nebula Award for "The Diary of the Rose" by withdrawing the nomination in protest of the Science Fiction Writers of America's revocation of Stanisław Lem's membership. Le Guin attributed the revocation to Lem's criticism of American science fiction and willingness to live in the Eastern Bloc, and said she felt reluctant to receive an award "for a story about political intolerance from a group that had just displayed political intolerance" toward communism.[11][12] She withdrew the novelette shortly before the announcement of the winners. The SFWA pleaded her not to do that since she had in fact won, but Le Guin insisted on the withdrawal.
Lem was awarded an honorary membership in the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) in 1973. SFWA honorary membership is given to people who do not meet the publishing criteria for joining the regular membership, but who would be welcomed as members had their work appeared in the qualifying English-language publications. Lem never had a high opinion of American science fiction, describing it as ill-thought-out, poorly written, and interested more in making money than in ideas or new literary forms.[42] After his eventual American publication, when he became eligible for regular membership, his honorary membership was rescinded. This formal action was interpreted by some SFWA members as a rebuke for his stance,[43] and it seems that Lem interpreted it as such. Lem was invited to stay on with the organization with a regular membership, but he declined.[44] After many members (including Ursula K. Le Guin, who quit her membership and then refused the Nebula Award for Best Novelette for The Diary of the Rose)[45][46] protested against Lem's treatment by the SFWA, a member offered to pay his dues. Lem never accepted the offer.[42][44]
further interesting tidbits from Lem's page:
Lem singled out only one[47] American science fiction writer for praise, Philip K. Dick, in a 1984 English-language anthology of his critical essays, Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy. Lem had initially held a low opinion of Philip K. Dick (as he did for the bulk of American science fiction) and would later say that this was due to a limited familiarity with Dick's work, since Western literature was hard to come by in the Polish People's Republic.
Dick alleged that Stanisław Lem was probably a false name used by a composite committee operating on orders of the Communist party to gain control over public opinion, and wrote a letter to the FBI to that effect.[48] There were several attempts to explain Dick's act. Lem was responsible for the Polish translation of Dick's work Ubik in 1972, and when Dick felt monetarily short-changed by the publisher, he held Lem personally responsible (see Microworlds).[49][48] Also it was suggested that Dick was under the influence of strong medications, including opioids, and may have experienced a "slight disconnect from reality" some time before writing the letter.[48] A "defensive patriotism" of Dick against Lem's attacks on American science fiction may have played some role as well.[48] Lem would later mention Dick in his monograph Science Fiction and Futurology.
nor was there a reason to blanket discourage treating books as precious and worth preserving. i'm interested in the part where you note what you noted and let the other glaring transgression pass. That was a choice.
Generally, the assumption is that everybody in the market is aware of what's going on, and can adjust their spending accordingly.
Unless you mean discounted future cashflows of purchases, but that would imply by charging a low enough price all future purchases would move to the present.
I'd consider the case of laundry machines. People buy them every so often and then don't need a new one for awhile. Since they didn't buy them all at the same time in the past, one should not expect they will buy them all at once in the future. It seems profit maximizing to behave like traditional monopoly theory, to keep the price high. Is there an economic pressure that would push a monopolist's prices down?
this paragraph mentions it but doesn't clear much up:
>Residents in only eight villages reported knowledge of the species and could accurately describe it. Since people in the region typically have detailed knowledge of local flora and fauna, this supports the notion that Likweli is a cryptic species, the researchers said.
for people getting 7 hours of sleep you're good. Improve your sleep hygiene, ok, but artificial interventions to get 8 may not be worth it for you.
nice goalpost move. just because wikimedia doesn't exist solely for the prurient interest doesn't mean that it should therefore provide pornography to children in places that have made that illegal.
And just because you tilt the table toward providing pornography to children doesn't mean I should be downvoted for honest debate.
if the cameras continue recording, LA can subpoena those recordings on an as needed basis.
not true if all the other knives on the market at that price have the same performance, in which case that's just "the price of such a knife." in order to have paid too much there needs to be cheaper options with the same or better performance.
Reactive arthritis, previously known as Reiter's syndrome,[1] is a form of inflammatory arthritis[2] that develops in response to an infection in another part of the body (cross-reactivity). Coming into contact with bacteria and developing an infection can trigger the disease.[3] By the time a person presents with symptoms, the "trigger" infection has often been cured or is in remission in chronic cases, thus making determination of the initial cause difficult.
The most common triggers are intestinal infections (with Salmonella, Shigella or Campylobacter) and sexually transmitted infections (with Chlamydia trachomatis);[8] however, it also can happen after group A streptococcal infections.[9][10]
and the whole thing is timed counting up, and how long it took is the score.
the way it is now with a countdown timer for each word, the player doesn't get a reward for solving something quickly
you mean the most simple way. "simplistic" would mean they went too far.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/simplistic
simplistic
1. Overly simple.
2. In a manner that simplifies a concept or issue so that its nuances and complexities are lost or important details are overlooked.
you mean the most simple way. "simplistic" would mean they went too far.
EARLS was not accepted, and I had already decided not to try REALS. (is there a rule against plurals?) what it was looking for was LASER which has a more tenuous claim on being a word than those two.