Yes, but there are two different ones - one for medical appointments and one for medicine.

Sweden.

A few alternatives:

• I could book an appointment at the local health center. I would probably get a time at the earliest next week, and it would cost me $30. Health center doctors are generally quite overworked, and can sometimes be a bit dismissive of your issues in my experience, but they will help you. If you need specialist care, they will give you a referral, which could take several months depending on the priority of the case and the type of specialist.
• I could use an app to get access to a video call with a doctor, after having described my symptoms in the app. I would get a video call the same day and it would cost me $30. Given the remote nature of this kind of contact, they can be a bit limited in what they can do for you, but will try to help you regardless. If your case requires in-person examination, they will ask you to go to a health center instead. If you need specialist care, they will give you a referral and you’ll have to wait the same amount of time as for a referral in the health center scenario.
• I am lucky enough to have a private health insurance plan through my employer. If I have any problems, I’ll submit them to this private health insurer, and they put a human on the case and connects me with a specialist right away if the problem warrants one. Typically this happens the same or the next day. This costs me nothing, apart from what I pay in benefit taxes to be on the private health insurance plan.

All in all, things work fairly well in Sweden, but having gotten private health insurance has definitely jaded me a bit on account of how much better the experience is when you have that. If only the public system wasn’t systematically underfunded and run by the dumbest politicians on offer in the country, then maybe everyone could have great patient experience.

I’ve had my Fjällräven backpack for 8 years with more or less daily use for a large part of that lifespan. It could do with some minor repair, but it’s largely still going strong without any maintenance

Fwiw, I believe they manufacture their stuff in China these days.

Oh shit, my bad. Yeah, hard agree there

Additionally, the platform being owned by an outright Nazi should give even the most out of touch people pause.

How is Daniel Ek a nazi? That’s a wild take if I’ve ever heard one.

Tangentially related, but I really enjoy Hard Fork, which covers the tech industry generally.

Saturn Devouring His Beans

I use Rectangle whenever I need to do some tiling go decent effect.

I’d be impressed with any model that succeeds with that, but assuming one does, the complete works of Shakespeare are not copyright protected - they have fallen into the public domain since a very long time ago.

For any works still under copyright protection, it would probably be a case of a trial to determine whether a certain work is transformative enough to be considered fair use. I’d imagine that this would not clear that bar.

I don’t think anyone would consider complete verbatim recitement of the material to be anything but a copyright violation, being the exact same thing that you produce.

Fair use requires the derivative work to be transformative, and no transformation occurs when you verbatim recite something.

It’s extremely frustrating to read this comment thread because it’s obvious that so many of you didn’t actually read the article, or even half-skim the article, or even attempted to even comprehend the title of the article for more than a second.

For shame.

…no?

That’s exactly what the ruling prohibits - it’s fair use to train AI models on any copies of books that you legally acquired, but never when those books were illegally acquired, as was the case with the books that Anthropic used in their training here.

This satirical torrent client would be violating the laws just as much as one without any slow training built in.

I’d agree, but my understanding is that Elitewheels are quite trustworthy.

I’ll let you know if they break and I eat pavement

Scored myself a very nice set for under $400, for road use.

The key in this case is of course to buy from China

A decent road bike. Not top specced, and with none of the additional gear you’ll probably want, but you can definitely get started with €1k. I bought my current bike for approximately €700 and have upgraded + bought additional gear for probably a bit over €1k, but that has gotten me some really great stuff and I basically want for nothing in the sport.

I think it’s entirely a coincidence, yes.

It’s not likely they lean towards subtlety when it comes to naming things in their ideology, having named their more explicit auth-left instance Lemmygrad.

That’s not what the .ml stands for, fwiw. .ml, the ccTLD for Mali, was previously given away for free.

If the fire department is happy with one staircase, great.

Fire departments make for very poor authorities on these matters, unfortunately. See the issue of them mandating completely oversized roads, since they can’t imagine smaller fire engines that have precedent around the world.

It just doesn’t sound plausible that 6-15% premium for additional staircases is a root cause of the housing crisis, when developer profit opportunity is clearly the greater constraint.

That’s the thing though - there is no single root cause for the housing crisis. It’s just a bunch of small issues stacked on top of each other, and each has to be addressed individually.

It’s important for public projects to manage their costs as well, as it affects how much can be built using the limited public funds available. I think we can all agree that we need large amounts of public housing in constrained places like San Francisco, to alleviate the current situation.

It is in fact one of the major advantages of building public housing - you unlock the lower costs of building at scale, which reduces costs in several ways:

• Building the same type of units makes workers familiar with the product and allows them to complete them faster
• Pre-fabricated modular units can be constructed off-site and shipped in, and making them at scale drives costs down
• Large contracts are more lucrative and can hence be negotiated to better rates with contractors

For a wildly successful example, look to Miljonprogrammet that took place in Sweden during the 60s and 70s. Following that project, a vast supply of housing was available for the population, with housing costs below 1% of income being common.