I thought in the USA you had the right to sell your life insurance policy if you no longer want it. The buyer keeps up the payments and collects the premium when you die. Which sounds a bit macabre, but it means you can get some value out of your policy rather than having to lose it entirely if you can't keep up payments.

Life insurance is a low value offer for many, and it's value is inversely proportional to wealth. Term life policies are especially low value compared to whole life. As I got older, I dropped my term policies as they became more expensive, and kept my whole life as dividends now pay the premiums almost entirely. Younger policy owners have different priorities than older people in many cases. The choice between life insurance and rent/mortgage, car payment, and other household expensed or life insurance for someone in their 20s means the life policy is likely the first item to go away. As many employers offer some level of life insurance, that can erode personal policies. Also, as younger workers reach their 30s and may have been contributing to retirement plans through their job, they are more able to self-insure against death, again eroding the need for those policies.

I think Linus said that Stranger in a Strange Land was his favourite book growing up. https://archive.computerhistor...

(I wonder if it could be the origin of the name 'git')

But the point of recycling isn't energy efficiency. I don't doubt it takes twice the energy. The idea, surely, is to reduce the amount of plastic waste that goes into landfill.

I did a double-take when I read this. I haven't seen Jennifer Oueletteâ(TM)s name in years! I was an avid reader of Cocktail Party Physics, read a couple of her books, but haven't seen her in the scientific circles in what seems like a decade. Flash back Tuesday?

Couldn't agree more, this needs to be handled as expediently and efficiently as possible.

If you're that wealthy, you're sending your kid to Yale to meet future employees (the smart, hard-working, non-legacy students) and future partners (the rich, legacy students of arbitrary skill).

Great idea; no notes.

There are aspects of capacity planning that were seemingly ignored. You can have a system that can accommodate 1 million users, obviously across multiple nodes, but if you forget that all of those users may login at the same time you've failed. The initial wave forces you to dedicate more resources initially than you need during a steady-state. Who else remembers the "NetBIOS waves" we used to encounter when we first connected corporate LANs across all locations with centralized Windows NT domains? We knew exactly when the slowdowns were coming, you could set your watch by them.

The one without the Gannet

I'm on my fifth, including my current one that was replaced as part of the recall. I've never used a different make, and I'm pretty concerned about switching when the time comes.

Iâ(TM)ll keep it simple, and only since you asked, itâ(TM)s a System 76 Thelios Mira. Normally wouldnâ(TM)t blatantly promote a product here. 14th gen i7, nvidia 4060, 64GB. Iâ(TM)m using their Pop!os, so far no reason to switch to anything else.

Same here, in fact last year I moved away from Mac after probably a decade and a half and went back to Linux. I speced out a machine specifically to have a modern Unix workstation-class feel, and I couldnâ(TM)t be happier.

No one under 50 perhaps. The rest of us go right to the AM clear channel (nearly âoecoast to coastâ powerhouses) stations for news and weather, especially when driving.

A replacement for AM broadcast radio would need to be as bulletproof, specifically meaning it is a distributed system that doesnâ(TM)t depend on infrastructure such as the internet that can be compromised. FM radio is a poor option due to its limited range of 20-50 miles in the best conditions. Shortwave has been dead in this country for almost a century (and used mainly AM mode anyhow for scheduled programming).