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NHS versus paid public health

I am currently in a country where people take it for granted you’ll pay for medical services you receive. In the U.K., where I live, the National Health Service (NHS) has long made people take it for granted that you receive medical services for free. The British system is conceptually very straightforward: public. The Japanese ‘paid’ service is not so

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Conversations with ChatGPT

I unexpectedly have fallen into the habit of conversing with this chatbot daily. Well hourly in my waking life. I ended up paying for subscription even though I had a niggling suspicion that I got coerced into it. It’s not cheap. But I have no regret whatsoever. Earlier I totally underestimated it without using it except for trivia. It’s got

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The Maths of Doubles Matchups

A quiz first. How many possible combinations of matchups do you think there are, if you have eight people, who want to play two doubles games of, say, tennis, concurrently? So you have two courts. And if you have Players A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H, AB vs CD and EF vs GH are one such combination.

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