sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
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1yr ago
And the Assyrians. And the HRH. And the Ethiopian empire. And the Carthaginian empire. And...
sarker
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1yr ago
Does New Zealand have a comparative advantage in such questions? Or is it better off trying to materially improve the lives of its citizens and leave those questions for others?
sarker
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1yr ago
Canola oil has similar amounts of linoleic acid to chicken fat, and rather less linoleic acid than almonds or sesame oil.
sarker
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1yr ago
Linoleic acid is an essential fatty acid that humans require in their diet.
sarker
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1yr ago
Not the stupid hat thing again. Replaced.
sarker
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1yr ago
sarker
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1yr ago
Yes I agree, e.g. in Python I use pd.DatetimeIndex.tz_localize
Well, that's your mistake - I'm talking about the standard library, not pandas. No dependency, no bitrot. No need to localize any datetimes until you're displaying them, so as long as you aren't working with naive datetimes it's pretty low overhead.
Also SQL doesn't play nicely with timezones at all, so the problem still very much exists for SQL scripts unless you only want to use SQL to pull the data and will do all your analysis with the pulled data in a different language.
As SQL is fundamentally not a serious language, it indeed does not support zoneinfo.
sarker
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1yr ago
Just about every serious programming language includes zoneinfo related functions in the standard library.
sarker
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1yr ago
Surely olive oil is uncontroversial even among seed oil disrespecters.
sarker
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1yr ago
It won't necessarily drift very much away from solar time.
On 18 November 2022, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) resolved to eliminate leap seconds by or before 2035. The difference between atomic and astronomical time will be allowed to grow to a larger value yet to be determined. A suggested possible future measure would be to let the discrepancy increase to a full minute, which would take 50 to 100 years, and then have the last minute of the day taking two minutes in a "kind of smear" with no discontinuity.
sarker
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1yr ago
sarker
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1yr ago
Left to decide on their own, no businesses will adjust their hours to start earlier in summer and later in winter.
Then there is probably not much demand for this.
sarker
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1yr ago
This matters little since leap seconds will be abolished in the medium term and the difference between UTC and TAI will simply be a constant.
sarker
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1yr ago
Sure, but Seattle doesn't have hot summers, and places with hot summers are usually closer to the equator and don't have such early sunrises.
The point is that there isn't a one-size-fits-all opening time solution, which is why it makes sense to let Sol Invictus dictate noon for consistency and let businesses set their hours to be whatever is most useful.
sarker
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1yr ago
They’d open at, for example, one hour after dawn and be open 8 or 9 hours.
So businesses in Seattle would open at 6AM in the summer? That doesn't sound very useful, and I'd hate to be an employee.
sarker
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1yr ago
What can be done if he transfers ownership of his IP to a trust before his death?
I don't think you can really compare a foundation that has a board of directors etc etc with a law firm administering a trust that holds the IP.
sarker
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1yr ago
That would depend on how his will is written. Presumably he could transfer the rights to a trust with instructions to not permit anything.
You'll have to wait seventy five years after his death for AI Pratt and Rogen to voice them.
sarker
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1yr ago
sarker
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1yr ago
Considering the AMA controls accreditation for medical schools, there's no good reason for slots to go unfilled against their will. Let a thousand med schools bloom.
sarker
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1yr ago
They make money off of denied claims, but the strategy can only go so far without falling afoul of ACA profit caps. They certainly aren't incentivized to pay out much more than 80%, it's just that even with high denial rates they can hit that target due to the difference in what they pay providers vs what they charge customers.
sarker
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1yr ago
This is no longer the case (your citation is from 1965) and is a non-sequitur anyway.
The dynamics today are largely the same.
If you cut doctor salaries in half and double the number of doctors, you have improved physician lifestyle at the expense of compensation but not changed costs at all.
I acknowledge that physician salaries are only a small part of healthcare spending.
However, your opposition to additional doctors seems to obviously conflict with your complaints about working conditions. How can physician working conditions be improved without additional physicians?
Not really.
if UnitedHealth Group decided to donate every single dollar of its profit to buying Americans more health care, it would only be able to pay for about 9.3% more health care than it’s already paying for. If it donated all of its executives’ salaries to the effort, it would not be much more than that.
In any case, insurers are obligated to pay out a percentage of premiums, not profits, so the accounting tricks you described are not relevant. Indeed, UHC paid out 83% of premiums in the year shown. Since the most anyone could expect from them is to pay out 100% (and they obviously can't pay that much), there is clearly not a lot of room to maneuver.
IME it's practically a perfect egg white substitute in everything short of, uh, egg white omelettes. Good for baking, cocktails, etc.
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