There used to be a popular app in the early days of the app store called SitOrSquat, that had locations of public toilets along with reviews of their condition. It was really useful. Charmin bought it at some point, and it existed for a while after that, but like most of the cool apps, it’s gone now.
There’s no evidence that this is even going to be a viable business model, commercially or technically. There’s no “moat” around it or obvious first mover advantage. It seems very early to worry about competition.
You’re implying the situation is as stable as it is in other first-world countries. It’s not. It’s brand new, and Donald Trump has sworn it’s going away.
Only since the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). Before that, it was common to not be able to get insurance with pre-existing conditions at all without being covered by your employer. And even sometimes your employer’s plan had a waiting period for pre-existing conditions. I got stuck without insurance for a long time after college (being able to stay on your parents’ plan after graduation is also an ACA provision) and still have nightmares about it.
LLM’s also have no life experience, so they can wrote poems, but those poems aren’t communicating anything real. Poetry in the vein of Whitman and Dickinson and Plath is very much about a person expressing their very personal experiences and emotions.
If it was like other poetry generation programs of the 80’s and 90’s, it was generating a lot more crap than gold. People definitely were picking out the most cohesive examples, and probably even improving on them themselves.
They’re pretty abysmal for things that are StackOverflow related, too? I’ve tested a lot of things recently, and all of them have had pieces that were just absolutely wrong, including referencing libraries or steps or tools that didn’t exist at all.
Like environmental issues, this is a corporate problem being presented as an individual problem. It’s not going to be fixed by every single individual person monitoring every single thing they eat. It’s going to be fixed by removing the incentives for companies to do antisocial things.
If we’re dealing with an all-powerful Skynet intelligence, or even a WOPR or Wintermute, won’t it just figure out how to bypass the verification system?
CVS owns an entire health insurance company, a pharmacy benefits management company, and a chain of urgent care offices, among other things. They’re not a warm, fuzzy monopoly.
I always use “elephant” as my debugging statement, since it’s unlikely to come up in the code and easy to search for when you need to remove it, and also pretty innocuous. If you’re writing software for zoos, you might want to try something else, though.
This is probably the best reason. I had a project where it went in reverse. It was a type of content that was controlled in certain countries. We launched a new feature and suddenly started getting reports from users in one country that they couldn't get into the app anymore. After going down a ton of dead ends, we realized that in this country, the ISPs blocked our public web site domain, but not the domain the app used. The new feature had been launched on a subdomain of the web site as part of a plan to consolidate domains. We switched the new feature to another domain, and the problems stopped.
Also Michael Jackson’s having an amateur anesthesiologist putting him under every night with a wide variety of easily lethal sedatives, and Musk’s use of ketamine and mushrooms and stimulants and whatever else he’s on this week.
Have you tried the prescription thyroid hormone supplement liothyronine (T3)? There’s some good evidence that it boosts the effects of antidepressants and may have antidepressant properties on its own.
There were actually a lot of good freeware and shareware apps for most of that — things like Eudora for e-mail, Fetch for FTP, and NewsWatcher for NNTP.