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Or via non-paywalled links?

Thanks.

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No humans may engage in any behavior that might endanger them, and every human action is carefully scrutinized. Suicide is prohibited. Humans who resist the Prime Directive are taken away and lobotomized, so that they may live happily under the direction of the humanoids."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands

   - A provider of "a charity shop back-end as a service", which disposes of donations 
     received by charity shops.

     e.g. https://live.ctrgroup.co.uk/third-sector/textiles-collection/ 

   - A person who collects things purchased from charity shops.
     
     e.g. "Harding is an avid charity shop collector, especially of sad and neglected 
     ceramic animals".

On the one hand, if they are incinerating millions of dollars every month, that's an argument that they could easily afford a few more - after all, they are getting cash from somewhere.

On the other hand, if they are losing money, in a certain sense they have not got even $1 to spare.

They made $804M after all expenses? Or before?

When a person can speak, and change their mind, and everyone involved in care isn't present at a particular instant or on the same page with what to do.

If that clarifies.

Thank you for being relatively polite.

All of the replies to my original comment have veered off from what I tried to express with the phrase "right now".

I was alluding to a situation with rapid terminal cancer much later than diagnosis, but earlier than morphine + the end of communication. The fentanyl or oxycontin stage, as I recall it.

I think most likely if you are ever so slightly insulated from such a situation, you might not realize it.

Having a parent die of cancer when you are ~7 may not prepare you for having a parent die of cancer when you are ~37. That is how I see it now.

It's easy to say that sort of thing, so everyone does. It makes plenty of sense.

People don't want to die in the hospital or go through hell in their last days or weeks.

But nobody wants to die right now, ever. No matter what they said before or what papers they signed.

The standard picture, the logic, makes perfect crystalline sense up until there is a choice between going to the hospital right now and living an undefined amount of time, maybe only a day or a week, but longer than the next few minutes.

Was the Terminator superior to all humans in intelligence? Either in the original or the first sequel? It didn't seem like it to me. It was just good enough to infiltrate and destroy.

I am now learning that:

"A famous person known to have fallen victim of the scheme was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%E2%80%93Reynolds_affa...

It sounds odd to my ear to matter-of-factly state that the US is deprived due to being capital-poor.

I mean, I'm not disputing anything specific, but where do middle-class people have better access to consumer finance than the US?

If you'd asked me what single fact represents American homeowners to people interested in economics around the world, I would've guessed it's the access to 30-year fixed rate mortgages.

As far as I know this is a deliberate policy in the US, that has not been emulated by those envious of the American economy, but why I haven't a clue.

For Americans who don't know anything about housing in the UK, there is an interesting article at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_house

Being Wikipedia in 2024, I wouldn't assume it's not all AI hallucinated references, but still, it's interesting.

I guess the idea is if you didn't notice the initial quake then you should be warned there might be a follow up.

What do they call a lawyer who passed the bar exam at the 15th percentile?

It reminds me of a time I went to a Honda dealer and started listing the reasons why Toyotas had better engineering.

The salesman appeared to take it very personally, but I was thinking "duh, can't you see I want a Honda because I know all about their competition and yet I'm here?". Maybe he thought I worked for Toyota.

"The parietal eye is found in the tuatara, most lizards, frogs, salamanders, certain bony fish, sharks, and lampreys...It is absent in mammals, but was present in their closest extinct relatives, the therapsids"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_eye

You may wish to consult your pineal gland.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-tesla-worth-14...

The question is whether 20 euros per liter is obviously looney tunes to any HN passers-by. Or if "everyone" knows it is in fact what gasoline should cost.

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I mean, maybe it's already been suggested, but I haven't seen anyone come right out and say it.

I would like to understand what this means.

I don't have any idea if it's accurate or not but the implications make me think it requires some explanation.

If the true cost of travel by car is about one euro (currently $1.08?) per km, then - using ~4.7L / 100 km mileage of my car - by my arithmetic gas should cost on the order of 20 euros per liter to internalize the costs to society.

Some very brief research indicates to me that Danes price gas in DKK, but converted it's around 2 euros a liter.

So is Danish gas underpriced by as much as 10 times?

Specifically, someone in Mulvey's position may, I speculate, be interpreting it as "not worth saving or reforming", and when she denies it is "broken" is affirming reform as worthwhile and giving up as wrong.

That could be a biased perspective! It might be objectively wrong if we could survey alternate universes to determine the outcome of policy changes for sure. But not stupid or obviously false with our limited knowledge.

"New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets – worlds that drift through space untethered to a star – far outnumber planets that orbit stars."

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/new-stud...

Americans don't have a lot of respect for, for example, Jehovah's Witnesses - just look at all the jokes about them knocking on doors.