No, the `least` typedefs are irrelevant aliases for the exact type these days (except supposedly some 32-bit-only DSPs exist though. But 9-bit computing has been obsolete for longer than most of us have been alive, despite talking about it).
The `fast` typedefs are effectively programmer-opted-in to promotion to register size or something. But compiler optimizations often do the same thing on a per-operation level (signed overflow is UB, unsigned overflow masking can be deferred for addition/subtraction/multiplication and bitwise ops (though some can change the mask)).
I don't like it either but its not a bad name. Octothorpe is dumb because there is nothing on it that ocures 8 times. We could call it 'pound', making it like the 8th common thing we call pound, or we can say "the number symbol" which is also dumb. Language filled a gap, hopefully it evolves into something more generic like 'hash sign' or 'hash mark'
Stops??? Who told you that? I know plenty of elderly people who supplement Medicare with private insurance. There's no reason to stop that. Medicare is a social safety net.
It is still not “pure” health insurance. The taxpayers pick up much of the cost, emergency and hospital healthcare, part A of Medicare.
Not comparable to property and casualty or term life insurance, where an unlikely event is insured. I would say those are closer to insurance rather than cost sharing / taxpayer subsidy agreement like health insurance is. And whole life is an investment / tax savings product.
The deposit is max 5 week, but the tenant is still liable for any damage beyond the deposit. Of course the landlord need to take the tenant to court and there is no guarantee they'll ever be able to recover the money.
There was also the Icelandic bank collapse, which was multiple banks totalling tens of billions of euros. I personally lost a large chunk of savings in that, and was eventually bailed out by my own government (i.e. my own tax money).
A monopoly would require they control the entire market for a given product or service. Apple isn't a monopoly in any area - but they are a strong competitor in many areas. They're more like a western take on a chaebol [1] in my opinion.
They are.