Full service escort only 61 clients? Would expect that to be per month, not per lifetime.

Asian only 5% of sex workers and Indigenous 12%?

The survey results seem kinda odd.

A higher plane of thought would be "was AI able to remove 5% or 50% of the code while keeping or adding functionality and not diminishing clarity, consistency, and correctness"

I'd trust Manilla drivers over Miami drivers any day. They are tempered in a hotter furnace

Having been to all three, driving in Miami and San Francisco is child's play compared to driving in Manila. Driving in Asia is a whole other ball game. There are no rules, and honking is a "hey I'm here" every couple of minutes. LA freeway raffic ain't got nothing on Manilla.

I did, at any rate, get a sunburn there one November

My understanding is that there simply aren't enough judges for the ~15,000,000 cases that need adjudication. IIRC,they were even falling behind during Trump's first term, and the Biden/Mayorkas surge has left the system completely broken (I would not be surprised if that were the intent)

In a high trust environment, I suppose easy addition is helpful. Probably not best used in loan agreements.

Fun fact: Chinese has separate "financial numerals" precisely to prevent one digit being changed to another, the way that could be easily done with regular numerals like turning 一 (1) into 三 (3) or 十 (10). A lot harder when they look like 壹, 叁, and 拾 instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#Financial_num...

Another fun fact: German registration plates use a font for which it is difficult to change one digit to another, for example by adding a bit of tape. The font is called FE-Schrift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift

But they left S, X, and Z rotationally symmetric, so if you choose a non-palindrome vanity plate with only those characters, you can mount it upside-down and fool plate-readers.

But at least in Germany the plates always start with some letters and end in numbers. So mounting it upside down can't result in a valid plate.

Custom ("vanity") plates aren't allowed in Germany?

Neat, you made me one of the 10 thousand today.

Interesting, is there a background to how they created the financial numerals? The standard ones seem obvious.

The paper goes deeper

I think I pulled this out of Epictetus

"In between the action and reaction is myself".

And took that as one of the fundamentals of Stoicism.

I liked the intro -- thanks!

The immigration system for the USA is broken not only beyond repair, but IMO broken beyond reasonable discussion because it's so complex and multi-faceted.

It doesn't need fixing, it needs replacing, and replaced by some mythical group that would put long-term good for the country over partisan gain

Nowadays, there's both welfare and voting concerns that weren't the same in the 1800s.

If the USA offered food and shelter security, billions would come in