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by davidgay 7d ago
I could've sworn that malpractice insurance cost is viewed as one of the driver's of high health care costs, and that it's expensive precisely because medical lawsuit payouts are large...
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by davidgay 7d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... has the US at 7th highest out of 22 countries (for which this data is available) for the most accidents per km driven. So it's clearly not that hard
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by davidgay 15d ago
I'll very happily (as a significant benefactor) take this century's medicine over the last. And the one or two centuries before that aren't even worth starting to think about. So something must be working wioth mainstream med
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by davidgay 1mo ago
Editing is fine as long as you keep the signed original for validation purposes.
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by davidgay 1mo ago
> Children are part of hobbies. That is a weird (modern?) delusion. Without children, our species disappears in <100 years. And the last of those years would be painful for those still alive. Those who are having and raising children
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by davidgay 1mo ago
Not killing someone when one can (in a not them or me situation) is not “good will”, it’s one of the most basic ethical principles. I’m surprised you need to ask this question.
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by davidgay 1mo ago
I guess you view what would be the worst crime against humanity ever to be committed (and yes, I really do mean to include all the previous ones in that statement) to be an acceptable answer to “oh, we have no more smart bombs, let’s just k
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by davidgay 2mo ago
> Like, of course you can prevent all memory safety errors by using a garbage collector. That has been known since the 90s. No, it's been known since GC was invented. > In fact, there was a good two decades after Java released wh
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by davidgay 3mo ago
For homework: if you make homework results not count towards the final grade, then there's no reason to use an LLM - the point then just becomes to have practice problems and feedback on how well you are doing. This is what my universi
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by davidgay 3mo ago
The open source policy described above was in place 16 years ago (I went through it to continue working on some existing projects), and I doubt it was very new then.
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by davidgay 4mo ago
You can proportionally reduce the time in the role;) Though the most senior people wouldn't be there long...
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by davidgay 4mo ago
There's about 500k kids in California each year. The 100th smartest is undoubtedly smarter than you or me.
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by davidgay 5mo ago
This is an extremely simplistic view. For instance, the US moves more of its freight (by percentage) than all western European countries except Switzerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag..
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by davidgay 6mo ago
Not to mention India without the spicy peppers...
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by davidgay 7mo ago
I don't think the other governments that collapsed in 1989 in the face of public protest could be honestly described as "relatively liberal".
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by davidgay 7mo ago
> Only as a last resort. If possible, governments, just like any other organizations, should have absolutely no say about anyone’s identity. An unusual position, as historically governments have provided birth and death registries [0], p
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by davidgay 7mo ago
No, this is bunk. App Engine and GCE, the earliest components of GCP predate Kubernetes. [I've been there for nearly all the relevant time]
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by davidgay 7mo ago
Not intrinsically or commonly deadly. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas... says "1 in 10 people will develop a pituitary adenoma in their lifetime" - pituitary adenomas is the more
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by davidgay 8mo ago
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur wins this one, though.
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by davidgay 8mo ago
> Even unemployment, which is your top line, seems... fine? The unemployment one is interesting because if you look at that graph, the universal pre-2022 pattern is basically a spike of unemployment during recessions followed by a gradua
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by davidgay 8mo ago
The bit about "Canon, Sony, and Nikon may have replaced Kodak for professionals" was entertainingly silly. AFAICT, Kodak cameras were never used by a significant fraction of professional photographers? (maybe pre-WW2?) Film is a d
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by davidgay 8mo ago
Except it cannot decide all Horn clauses.
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by davidgay 8mo ago
> In my experience, when one begins to program in Prolog, they pepper their code with cuts to try and stop unwanted bactracking, which can often be avoided by understanding why Prolog is backtracking in the first place. This gets to the
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by davidgay 8mo ago
> renewal mechanisms Conveniently, for individual sports like tennis there's a guaranteed renewal mechanism - the near-term likelihood of 50 year old tennis champions is low, and that of 80 year old champions is not really worth dis
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by davidgay 9mo ago
And then there's Bulgarian, with no cases and definite articles, to throw that scale off...
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by davidgay 10mo ago
> Quite the opposite. The benefits of rent control grow the longer you are in the same apartment without moving as the difference between what the tenant pays and the You're assuming a form of rent control where new tenants pay mark
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by davidgay 10mo ago
The GRE vocabulary is actually based on French, Latin and Greek, not English. Much less rare and unusual once you realise that.
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by davidgay 11mo ago
> Rent control in particular is an economic basket case policy Switzerland has had rent control for a long time, and seems to have (rather successfully) avoided this economic basket case fate.
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by davidgay 11mo ago
> > History shows people are also very resilient at moving on from trauma > i’m extremely skeptical that people move on Historically, essentially everyone who lived long enough to have children had some of those children die [1]. S
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by davidgay 11mo ago
I'd write code after work if I wasn't writing code at work ;) But...

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