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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Name a span of time in which there wasn't war, starvation, or economic reasons that would have produced any emaciated set of people.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Economics, famine, religious upheaval, war - all factors that have kept people starving and pushed down the scale.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Agreed. Anecdotal: I helped my dad a few years ago do a lot of genealogy. He had pictures going back to the late 1800s for one branch of the family that just arrived from Ireland. Most of the men were shirtless and you could count every rib
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Because some of us have high levels of skepticism with that stuff. Even the GLP-1 inhibitors are too new to really get a handle on. The only proven methods to health are those that have existed before we ever came along: a clean diet and (g
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
> But every hero has a fatal flaw. America’s is its sharply increasing addiction to government debt. A problem so big that even a non-American takes notice.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Good points - my company has already committed to #2
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
LLMs will just write code without you having to go copy-pasta from SO. The real secret is talent stacks: have a combination of talents and knowledge that is desirable and unique. Be multi-faceted. And don't be afraid to learn things th
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
You're also only going to get clean outdoor air in rural places where there is no/minimal farming and construction.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Up next: let's get some Most Wanted posters of grifters, charlatans, liars, pundits, media personalities, and politicians to create an expression of life-endangering intent.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
It just means that their costs have correlated with revenues, which is to be expected in certain industries. The better comparison would be with other insurance carriers.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
I agree, but demonizing the profit motive isn't the ideal path. The system, as far as I can tell, needs work. The fiduciary model works in other places, it will probably work in insurance and healthcare as well.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone will have to bear a cost somewhere along the way.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
How far does this carry? Is the charge of the insurance company to keep you alive at all costs?
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Because it's popular?
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
The timing of this with respect to AI/FR being a hotly reported technology used in the search of the UnitedHealthcare Insurance CEO is kinda gross. But such are the times.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Reminder that single data points aren't fully indicative of the health of a large system.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Sounds a bit like Team Topologies
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Request: version the library so it's a little easier to manage.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
How anyone could consider Marx to have any positive influence on humanity is beyond me.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
This is just an argument for POSIX-like systems (simple tools that do one thing very well).
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
What percentage of output is accounted for in the lower tier (not good) farmland? If the land is truly suboptimal the additional costs will not scale with the reduction of output.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
The person who crippled her country's power grid has thoughts...
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Two movies, one screen.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Because that's a manifestation of the struggle, not the struggle itself.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
> a writer's financial situation does not make art immortal. That was not the point of the article. The point was that the narrowness of circumstance - living between riches and poverty and what type of person can handle that (not t
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Which book would this be? His catalog, the great bulk of it anyway, is quite prolific.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
There are no free lunches in nature.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Assuming the other six get any news at all, does that mean the other six get it from the traditional sources (nightly news, NYT, etc.)?
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Agreed. In the southeast, even during droughts we do not have water availability issues.
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by brodouevencode 2y ago
Hope they don't run in AWS.

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