I’ve often thought that the Northeast of America heavily suggests an “Intelligent Hand”. The sheer amount of plants that are edible is mind boggling. Apples, acorns, elder/choke berries, walnuts, hazelnuts, onions, garlic, cattails, dandelions, cabbage — just to name a few. And that doesn’t include all the medicinal plants like willow bark for aspirin or aromatics like violet, lilac & sage.
And it’s not just the sheer number of varieties, but also how incredibly accessible and nutrient rich that they are. It always feels to me like magic that I can eat entire meals for weeks at a time just off the land in the northeast during the spring, summer & fall seasons. It feels like someone tweaked things to grow these kinds of plants specifically for easy human consumption.
Fruit-bearing plants aren't edible for the sake of whoever is eating them, but for the sake of the plant itself. The animals consuming the fruit are used as a vessel for spreading the seeds.
By being edible, tasty and nutritious, the likelihood of an animal eating the fruit and spreading the seeds is increased, and so both the animal and the plant wins.
Lloyd’s of London is a large insurer and is very interested in the potential liability that they are exposed to from the various insurance policies that they’ve underwritten.
In 2013, they published a report[0] considering the effects of solar storm risk to the North American electric grid.
This article is great for getting a practitioner to understand how to calculate a logarithm. For non-math friends, I still reach for this[0] as a great way to get an intuition for the utility of logarithms.
Your analogy is sound but your conclusion is not. There are many home owners that live by the shore that can’t purchase flood insurance from any provider. Similarly with life insurance, if I die engaging in certain risky behavior, it voids my insurance policy.
The purpose of insurance is to socialize losses. But if a few participants in the insurance pool engage in outsized risky behavior, that’s not fair to the rest of the pool that chose significantly less risky decisions.
The conclusion holds since there are a great many homes in CA alone that cannot be insured against fire. They were built before that was an option, or were otherwise grandfathered in after fire codes were established. Same with floods and other threats
This title is wrong. It should read, “Startups learn the easy way how to manage cash…”. Because there are truly no long-lasting repercussions for the mismanagement of their cash balances.
Perhaps a better story would be, “Fiscally Responsible Startups learn the hard way that their work didn’t matter.” Because the market taught them that spending time considering their cash management was a waste of time. They should have just done what their peers did — act surprised and beg for immediate access to funds that are literally defined as ‘uninsured deposits.’
Just like catching a kid that’s about to fall off a fence, I sympathize with emotional toll that founders had to deal with during that long weekend. But it wasn’t the ‘hard way.’
The disclosure isn’t a statement of what Coinbase would want to happen, but rather what a bankruptcy court might do. Bankruptcy law is very pro-debtor. An entity in bankruptcy court is like a Hoover, aggressively sucking any nearby assets into the bankruptcy estate.
This isn’t true in the case of bankruptcy. Note that in early 2022, Coinbase updated it’s disclosures to include that customer coins could be used as collateral to pay debts. That would leave customers as unsecured creditors (ie, stuck at the back of the bankruptcy line).
Agreed that the lack of docket support is frustrating given how pervasive docker has become. However I’ve been using jails[0] in my home lab for 12 years and it’s a delight to use.
And it’s not just the sheer number of varieties, but also how incredibly accessible and nutrient rich that they are. It always feels to me like magic that I can eat entire meals for weeks at a time just off the land in the northeast during the spring, summer & fall seasons. It feels like someone tweaked things to grow these kinds of plants specifically for easy human consumption.
Then again, could be I’m just overthinking. :o)