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My hope is that we can at least get a Civ game with a competent AI...

Actuary here. I don't work in ILS but I'm familiar with what you're talking about.

It depends on the details of the product. In theory you could get a product that doesn't have a cliff and it will be priced accordingly. These are basically equivalent to options i…

For anyone looking for a good anime, I would recommend Planetes which is about a crew that protects the Earth from space debris.

My dad was one these ARVN soldiers. In the final days of the war he and his drill sergeant stole a helicopter as Saigon fell and flew west, expecting to keep fighting. They wound u…

When I used a power meter, the data could be exported in some kind of machine-readable format like CSV. All you do is change the numbers.

I'm thinking one way to easily do motor doping is via the bike changes. A rider swaps a doped bike brought in by the team that wasn't checked at the start during the easy portions …

Rideshare and delivery apps have enabled more people to do those jobs than before.

Technology can also reduce the skills needed for jobs. For example, you no longer need to have an entire city's streets memorized to be a taxi driver.

Even if the loans weren't subsidized by the government, the schools wouldn't do it. It's more likely they would be financed by banks like they are with other goods.

There are still elevators like that in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago. In addition to the elevators, it's a great place to be if you're a musician. There are studios, practice r…

Since ChatGPT relies on Stack Overflow and similar sites for training data, it's only really going to be as good what's already on the Web. So it can't replace these sites in their…

In one of his lesser-known roles (Apollo 10 1⁄2), Jack Black plays a kid whose family is involved in the space industry. It takes place in my hometown, Clear Lake. Even though it t…

Even if you "win" that mission, you get the losing cutscene and the commander chews you out for not meeting your objectives even when you did and are put on the losing path - at le…

>We need an industry agreed-upon certification exam. I'm an actuary who had to take 10 of these for my profession (pass rates 20%-40% each sitting, takes 4 months to study for each…

Yes they do.

I'm Vietnamese-American, so I'd say making me pho every once in a while. Yeah...I know you can get it here in the states, but having it at home made me really appreciate that simpl…

Where I grew up in Texas, this was called the Robinhood Plan where rich districts sent money to poor ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_plan

Have you Transport Fever 2? The AI manages growth of the cities while you work on building out the logistics. The better your network, the faster the cities grow. Since there are p…

It only returns one book per genre over 6 genres. I was expecting to find a certain book set in my hometown (Clear Lake in Houston), the book is called "Friendswood," based on the …

Economically, this puzzles me. I'd think that if quantity supplied were so high the equilibrium wage would drop to the point where excess people would stop trying to become doctors…

O'Neill cylinders are also frequently depicted in the various Gundam series.