darawk

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by darawk 1y ago
This particular person seems to be using LLMs for code review, not generation. I agree that the problem is compounded if you use an LLM (esp. the same model) on both sides. However, it seems reasonable and useful to use it as an adjunct t
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by darawk 1y ago
There's no point in protecting one individual against an unconstitutional search that proves him guilty. The constitutional issue is the ability to have conducted the search in the first place. The only reason we suppress accurate, but
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by darawk 1y ago
The loss of trust issue is the one I worry about most. However, it's also true that the key players who we've implemented tariffs against have had them against us for years, and we've simply absorbed that. I don't like t
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by darawk 1y ago
This has been a cornerstone of his campaigns since the beginning. I don't necessarily believe they understand the details, but I do believe they understood he would impose high tariffs, and still voted for him anyway. Tariffs weren&#x2
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by darawk 1y ago
Yes, they are badly implemented, I agree. He is calling them reciprocal tariffs though, which implies he will lower them as they lower theirs. I don't think he's chosen a good way of estimating theirs, and so I don't think it
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by darawk 1y ago
Not retaliatory, reciprocal. Retaliatory tariffs are dumb. Reciprocal tariffs are the Nash equilibrium. Whether or not these particular tariffs are in fact reciprocal is something we could debate, though. At best they are a very crude appro
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by darawk 1y ago
The reason for my "optimism" is that it's just as easy for him to undo this as doing it in the first place. If he keeps them in place as constructed for more than say, 3 months, without shooting them through with loopholes, t
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by darawk 1y ago
He's been articulating this policy for his entire campaign. Half the country voted for him. If you are saying that the details of its implementation are insane, then are you suggesting that Trump actually personally developed and scrut
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by darawk 1y ago
That's why you implement them reciprocally, to force anyone else implementing them to reduce theirs. Their problem is that the method they used to identify the tariff levels was, generously, crude. And also that it was implemented too
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by darawk 1y ago
This is a good take, but I think I can answer your question about the midterms. This is timed specifically for them. The drop we're seeing in markets right now isn't a pricing in of the tariffs, per se (at least, not yet), it&#x27
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by darawk 2y ago
The term 'credit score' is sufficiently general to encompass literally all methods of comparing borrowers. You could certainly take issue with some specifics of how particular agencies calculate it, but the idea that there is some
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by darawk 2y ago
> Also when we talk about preventative measures, people going to a pill mill doctors to get a refill are already addicted, but what can have a long term impact is putting in the effort to prevent people from becoming addicted in the firs
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by darawk 2y ago
> Portugal Portugal is not the ringing endorsement that it is sometimes touted as. Some indicators have improved, some have worsened substantially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal#Observ... Cau
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by darawk 2y ago
That was a very long time ago. I don't think the middle east was a significant producer of Opium during that time.
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by darawk 2y ago
Fentanyl lollipops/patches are useful in rare circumstances where someone can't swallow pills for some reason, like this one. There are other ways of achieving similar effects but its possible fentanyl is the best way to go in thi
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by darawk 2y ago
I mostly agree! I'll quibble on two points. "used as a wedge issue by foreigners", while perhaps true in some moral sense, it does not really make much sense, on closer scrutiny. To reduce things down to being some foreign
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by darawk 2y ago
> The same thing happens with ADHD medications, the timed release dosages are supposed to last 12+ hours, but in reality they vary from 8 to 16. Modern ADHD meds are really not comparable to powerful opioids. They are both dopaminergic,
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by darawk 2y ago
> The on-ramp from minor pain or surgery to a massive, blindly-renewed, over-prescription of Oxy to an opioid addiction that spirals into street drugs This is mostly not a thing. I have known hundreds of current and former opioid addicts
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by darawk 2y ago
Oxycontin was, and still is, a prescription drug. I'm not sure if you're aware, but at least in the United States (where this court judgment was), it is doctors that write prescriptions. Listening to them is how the first opioid c
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by darawk 2y ago
np, > Follow-up Q for you. What is the realistic way to prescribe opioids routinely and safely? The simple answer is "less and with better monitoring". The first half of that was the equilibrium that Purdue intentionally shifte
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by darawk 2y ago
> Opioid addiction (I have seen a lot of it, not had it) is a social problem and is best managed with, opioids I don't entirely disagree with you, but I have also seen enough people stop, who probably wouldn't have if that were
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by darawk 2y ago
> Prescribing doctors are responsible for the opioid epidemic. Doctors failed in their duty of care to patients. Doctors failed to track their patient's medication usage, and failed to spot addictive behaviour. Why aren't we ho
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by darawk 2y ago
Yes of course there are realistic ways to prescribe opioids routine and safely. Purdue did not invent opioids, what they did is patent a particularly strong formulation, and then work to undermine the cultural taboo in medicine around their
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by darawk 2y ago
> Twitter (and other platforms like it) self-impose those costs on themselves in order to maintain the feudalist structure. No they don't. The site would not exist if they did not "self impose" those costs. By simple analo
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by darawk 3y ago
who cares about casualty numbers when one side initiated it by killing civilians? Israel has license to kill every single one of them until the hostage taking, rockets and murders stop. Israel didn't initiate this. Palestine did. They
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by darawk 3y ago
If only there were some sort of technological method for disintermediating banks without sacrificing their advantages. Ah well, nevertheless.
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by darawk 3y ago
Giving a 50 million dollar donation does not mean you owe zero tax on 100 million of income. It means you owe exactly the same amount of tax on every dime you kept. Deducting charitable donations just means reducing your income by that amou
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by darawk 3y ago
Lol. Nobody is choking on smoke. The earth is fine. Humans may make life slightly more difficult for themselves in the next century or two due to global warming, but those difficulties will be more than offset by advances in technology, eve
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by darawk 3y ago
> When, for a couple of months in 1992? There are always a few people who dislike new ideas but that one was popular from the beginning because it was so easy to understand: just like ordering from a catalog but you get your stuff a week
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by darawk 3y ago
I thought that about tablets too! I still don't really use them myself, but they just seemed like a dumb interface to me. I do understand their appeal now, though.

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