Reminds me of a joke:

The faculty of the engineering department at a university are gifted a free vacation retreat. Once everyone is in their seats on the plane, the captain announces that the very plane they’re sitting in was designed and built by their own students.

Chaos breaks out as the passengers scramble for the exits, until only one professor remains, calmly and confidently poised in his seat.

Naturally, he is asked why he didn’t panic like his colleagues. With a knowing smile he replies “I know the abilities of my students, I’ve seen what they’re capable of accomplishing when they apply themselves. I can assure you this piece of shit will never start.”

Latin has more rules, but they’re more utilitarian than fancy. Latin rules are there to make sure you understand exactly what is being said. French rules are there to make everything elegant and confusing, like high fashion.

I just have some high school Latin from long ago, but if you parse “fancy” as “ornamental at the expense of utility”, then I think it’s a fair description.

That sort of limited trading does happen for some very niche products that don’t have a lot of potential buyers and sellers.

It’s actually way more common than you’d think. Trading is frequently internalized in order to maximize arbitration profits.

I think brainstorming is specifically a group activity. When you do it alone, it’s just called “thinking”. The point of brainstorming is to bring in ideas you thought of individually to co-mingle with the ideas other people thought of individually.

Double it

Is it? He looks very different

Typically, ‘complex’ refers to fundamental properties and ‘complicated’ refers to distracting details. It is indeed very complicated (loopholes and such), just not terribly complex.

AIs were elected to public office 18 years before the first one gets citizenship

Don’t forget the sigils. If you don’t align the right rocks with the right sigils then it won’t work

Not seeing stats for Surf City

I just bought a new printer. After reading lots of reviews, it came down to Brother color laser and Canon color laser. Consensus seemed to be Canon was equally reliable with slightly better color quality.