Oooooh, okay, I misread. Apologies.

The “running joke” used by millions for serious and playful projects? [edited for punctuation]

Used to know someone who looked for cars around a restaurant, or long lines waiting to get into a tiny cafe, asked wait staff for interesting places they liked to go; went into non-chain stores where locals shopped (off the main streets); asked walkers and service station workers for directions. Always had wild stories about what happened, if you could get past their private nature. Weird fucker, unpredictable, never could get used to’m. Likeable enough, though.

Exactly. A more accurate headline would be “Americans are Falling Behind on their Income.”

Yes, though in some locales there are “work crews” (slave labor) that clear brush, road litter, and such for businesses, organizations, the state, and individuals.

Yeah, there are two basic approaches to safety: evidence of harm and evidence of safety. Evidence of safety is the higher standard (e.g. broad long-term independent studies). Evidence of harm is a low standard (e.g. small studies, short-term studies). Guess which one is used for herbicides, pesticides, food, …

Yeah, that sounds reasonable in the long run (years), while the laptop plan is more immediately useful.

And what would be better recommendations for the poor individuals trapped by loans?

The reactions follow a KFF Health News article published by NPR outlining how licensed brokers’ easy access to policyholder information on HealthCare.gov has led unscrupulous agents to switch people’s policies without express permission. Those agents can then take the commission that comes with signing a new customer.

The original NPR and also the linked KFF articles are worth reading.

What if the RAID 5 gets encrypted with ransomware, how many backups are there?

LibreOffice does “develop and maintain a certification system for professionals of various kinds who deliver and sell services around LibreOffice.”

And, as a quick aside, a side effect of the sweetener is to damage DNA.

Here’s a non-recommended, non-standard, bad practice work-around:

• After a bullet list,
• put a hash tag (“#”, the code for header) on its own line.

This looks somewhat like a blank line in a browser, but who knows what’ll happen in other apps. (Click the “view source” icon for this example.)

After a bit of research, I’m forced by facts (NS records can be cached for an undetermined time) to see what you’re saying. Thank you for teaching me.

The workings are, of course, a bit more complicated than what either of us have said (here’s a taste), but there is a situation as you describe, where separating the registrar from the name servers, and the name servers from the domain, could save the domain from going down.

If a registrar goes out of business, ICANN transfers the domain(s) to another registrar.

If a name server business fails, you change name servers through your registrar.

You can’t really fix registrar services in your name server, nor name server problems through your registrar. (Unless, of course, your registrar is also your name server.)

It’s a decent testable hypothesis. If there were a center. Which seems obvious in the familiar mechanical way of say a firecracker. It certainly has a center with debris going every direction from that point.

However (to use a problematic oversimplification): what if the universe has a similarity to the surface of a balloon being blown up, where is the center?

Wherever you put your finger, the whole rest of the surface of the balloon is expanding away from that point. One center point is earth. Every other place in the universe also appears to be a center.

When looking at the evidence, data from telescopes and such, describing the expansion of the universe is closer to the balloon surface theory than the firecracker theory. Even though the firecracker theory is easier to comprehend.

Source: Passmark (CPU Benchmark).

The way the market works: You charge a competitive price that allows you to cover your costs and make a profit. If your product provides enough value to the buyer, they’ll pay for it.

That’s what’s taught. There’s quite a bit more in practice, including: what insurance companies learned from management consultants.

But they aren’t colluding to eek every ounce of money from people.

Maybe so, though there appears to be a common interest.

Small enough to fit on a CD, which isn’t everyone’s definition of “small.” There are, of course, much smaller Linux distros, less than a tenth the size; particularly if CLI is adequate.

In addition to traditional answers (Plato, Solipsism, Descartes, …) this question is also the next-to-last step of coming of age: the realization that other people have minds, feelings, reasons, memories, and existences as complex, varied, and real as your own.

Though, rather excitingly, this does not reduce the questions.