dmcgee

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by dmcgee 4y ago
I didn't suggest that people are good at making that effort. They arent. But the irony is that it's precisely in that difficulty that the act of verification lies. The fact that it's so difficult that it's not at all an
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by dmcgee 4y ago
From a user experience perspective it's interesting that it may be a worse experience to get a set of links and have to pick from them and use cognitive effort to discern which sources are reliable, than to simply use ChatGPT and get a
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by dmcgee 4y ago
Oh man, I ate whale skin in Greenland. It was hairy and tasted like a decomposing car tire. You must have had the good kind.
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by dmcgee 4y ago
Not that replace standard brushing, but I worked with a company in Denmark called Novozymes. They produce enzymes for a variety of applications including dental care. They have a set of enzymes that they license to Unilever for a toothpaste
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by dmcgee 5y ago
Good observation. This already happens within certain hospital systems, based on "protecting the numbers". So for instance a surgeon not wanting to take on a patient because it is a likely mortality on their record.
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by dmcgee 5y ago
> Populism is democracy. Wrong. A democracy, at least a functioning and legitimate one, is not judged by enacting the will of the majority, but by protecting the rights of the minority.
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by dmcgee 5y ago
Interesting, why is Nestjs used by so many online casinos? Is that random or is there some specific feature or approach used that is particularly valuable for that use case?
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by dmcgee 5y ago
Is a blockchain strictly necessary for decentralization at all? If the issue with decentralization is control and governance rather than technology, why not have a cooperative model that still functions on a centralized database?
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by dmcgee 5y ago
Winner, and still champion!
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by dmcgee 5y ago
I'll ignore everyone else here, but the comment on Dewey from that quote is absurd and a total mischaracterization (no doubt to discredit him because of ideological bias). Ironically, Dewey was the champion and creator of child centere
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by dmcgee 5y ago
"There isn’t good evidence that people overuse the ER" Have any of the people quoted been in an ER? Even accepting the premise that hospital prices are outrageous for ER visits, walk into any hospital and it should be clear that a
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by dmcgee 5y ago
> you must also believe that most wealth concentrations arise more from things like theft, and less from things like value creation. Maybe, maybe not. [1] [1] https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/tech/cybercrime-to-top-6
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by dmcgee 5y ago
Very interesting idea, look forward to seeing it. I try to work this way, but using different desktop spaces, but it doesn't work quite as well as I'd like. This is interesting if it can just keep one desktop but easily switch in
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by dmcgee 5y ago
This is the line that got me: >And so we are fairly broadly deployed software and where we enjoy administrative privileges in customer environments. There is a lot of talk about shoring up security practices by many of the people quoted
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by dmcgee 6y ago
An old one: Q: how many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: none they just change the standard to darkness.
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by dmcgee 6y ago
For non-fiction, I'd add The Hell of Treblinka, by Vassily Grossman, a Red Army journalist who was one of the first to enter the death camp. One of the hardest things i've read. "It is the writer's duty to tell the terri