What a stupid take 😂

Why wouldn’t they be? China has been a major player in international politics for a long time.

Phased out nuclear.

Still burning coal.

🤦‍♂️

It’s a fantasy that he would see jail time for this sentence - even if he weren’t president.

TBF (I don’t often defend JS) - one of those is just “standard floating point issues” that every developer should be aware of. Computers cannot represent an infinite array of numbers between 0 and 1.

I’m convinced everybody who told me that “GitHub actions are great!” were just part of one big prank.

This reminds me of this site.

That’s an awesome link, thanks!

You pretend like insurance companies know best, and ‘market forces’ are these perfect righting forces. I call bullshit.

I pretend nothing. You’re taking this too personally - I don’t care about you and your situation.

Of course they will make mistakes, nothing is perfect. But there will also be many people moving into high-risk areas and forcing others to risk lives and spend money to save them when there is a fire. The same thing happens with floods due to the FEMA flood insurance program. You see homes being destroyed and re-built in flood-risk areas that should simply be moved to a better location instead.

Nice thing about “paved hellscapes” is they don’t tend to have runaway fires that cost millions to deal with.

High premiums is the price you pay for high risk. It applies market pressure against such activities while allowing those who really want the risk to continue doing it, at a cost. I only hope California doesn’t step in to subsidize things like they tend to do…

What would likely be more cost effective long-term is to offer a fair market value buy-out of high-risk homes so you can relocate to someplace less “tinderboxy”.

I hadn’t seen the bit about the gunshot wound yet. Yeah, it likely wasn’t an accident.

I was thinking maybe he was planning some fireworks event and some camping and accidentally set something off.

We need a national SLAPP law…

This seems like a very bad idea… You didn’t want people living in high risk areas. And you’re going to make others subsidize it.

“Hey, how you doing?”

door closes

What are the odds it was an accident? It doesn’t seem like there was any real purpose to it …

If 50% of population accounts for the average

It doesn’t.

does that mean there is another 50% is an outlier?

No.

“On average” is just as meaningless as anecdotal evidence.

It’s not…

You don’t seem to understand how averages work and I’m not sure I can help you.

Humans have only two ways to react. Under and over. This will be fun… again…

“I’ll be in the office when Elon is in the office.”

I haven’t looked much but I’m assuming there is an IPFS integration?

This is what angers me about stories like this…

Population statistics don’t generally map very well to individuals. The existence of outliers doesn’t disprove the population data either.

As an example:

“Men are (on average) taller than women” does not mean “all men are taller than all women”. But that the average height of men is higher, and the extreme ends of height are higher. The existence of short men does not disprove the average being taller.

That said cigarettes are clearly a high risk / zero reward sort of activity that is crazy to see continue into 2025.