Healthcare is a cost not a profit in the economy: the Healthcare sector consumes what is produced by other parts of the economy. Similarly government can't exist without businesses. And a large part of healthcare is dependent on taxation.
I've seen multiple friends that could give up an addiction: until after a while and then they couldn't.
For many people, addictions are not that addictive until they are.
Be careful generalizing from your own experiences. Try and learn from the mistakes your (often older) peers have been taught the hardest way.
I've seen it with drinking, vaping, smoking, meth, bad partner, gambling; my friends that weren't hooked, could take it or leave it, and then one day they find they are hooked.
However voting is different. We don't vote for a policy (although that is a common misconception.) The collective power of voting is often voting against a person/party : voting them out.
We spent money on goods/services we choose, and receiving money is a very strong signal to a business. Not spending money is an extremely weak signal.
That all sounds quite similar rather than different.
>We don't vote for a policy (although that is a common misconception.) The collective power of voting is often voting against a person/party : voting them out.
Few people get coffee to support union labor but knowing that a coffee shop is actively antagonistic toward unionization may cause you to choose a different shop. The collective power of voting with your dollar is to 'vote in' businesses. The businesses not receiving votes must change or find themselves voted out. Much like politicians, businesses can also look at where the money-votes are going.
Not swear words or DEI. Mostly sane substitutions e.g. fixing hyphenations and expanding apostrophes. Only oddity I thought was enforcing favor instead of favour.
The file is called badwords.txt but that seems like a sub-optimal descriptor. It looks to be a substitution list word:replacement suggestion. Not really a ban.
Then from [1]
print STDERR "$f:$l:$c: error: found bad word \"$w\"\n";
printf STDERR " %4d | %s\n", $l, $in;
printf STDERR " | %*s^%s\n", length($p), " ",
"~" x (length($w)-1);
printf STDERR " maybe use \"%s\" instead?\n", $alt{$w};
The data required is small. Each embedding might be 1/2 kB per face.
> power budget
To process a video for biometric feature extraction, it might take 0.5% to 2% of the total power used to record a video. Video uses a lot of power (compression, screen, etc)
Assuming you've got a modern device (e.g. with Apple Neutral Engine). Disclosure: Googled info (Gemini).
> The data required is small. Each embedding might be 1/2 kB per face.
"Embedding"? This is what the article says:
"In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed. I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording."
Hugs are massive signals of status (who, where, initiator, awkwardness, yada yada).
My fascination with the politics of hugs might be called autistic by some.
I wonder whether my own status avoidance is on account of being bad at playing at ladders.
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