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How Big Tech made Trump 2.0(therealnews.com)
3 points by dopylitty 2y ago|0 comments
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I call it..the Wolfram Apparatus
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if states like Idaho and Florida that don’t have functioning public health departments start having TB outbreaks to go with their measles outbreaks once the CDC is decimated and can’t provide a backstop anymore.
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Something I've learned from 404 media is journalism actually has a fine business model. People are willing to pay for good journalism. The problem is (much like the rest of the economy) what passes for news media is incredibly top heav
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Right, English is just a plain bad way to tell a computer to do something. The signal to noise ratio is too low and references are too ambiguous. You see this with the ridiculous "prompt engineering" crap that has sprung up where
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by dopylitty 2y ago
There might be one case somewhere that could be found where a firm that technically counts as PE isn't shady but in general the very idea of private equity is shady so it follows that all the PE firms would be shady also. The point of
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I looked into this "ClearChoice" company and unsurprisingly it's private equity owned through a chain of sketchy intermediaries. If you're having any sort of medical or other work done make sure the company is not PE own
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by dopylitty 2y ago
While that’s true it’s good to be vigilant. Viruses are constantly evolving and flu can also exchange parts of its genome with other flu strains (reassortment). It may become more (or less) virulent by chance while evolving more fitness for
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Something people may not realize is that the fish that swim upstream to spawn and then die become food for more than just fat bears. The carcasses also fertilize the land surrounding the river. The trees take up the fertilizer and are more
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The Company Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care(propublica.org)
70 points by dopylitty 2y ago|30 comments
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by dopylitty 2y ago
And don't forget states with those policies are losing OB/GYNs and other medical professionals rapidly[0] so even if you don't care about abortion your medical care or the medical care of the women you love is going to be shi
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by dopylitty 2y ago
This is something I think people are missing but which is really important. AWS is flailing now and pissing off all the competent workers. Those who have the skill will leave for newer gen cloud companies without the baggage like Fly or Tai
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I gotta say don't sleep on this article thinking it's just another article about IPv6 adoption stats. There's a lot of interesting thought in the second half about what the Internet fundamentally is and where it's going.
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by dopylitty 2y ago
> Another thing that changed on the server side was that, thanks to AWS and the like, it became trivial to set up a massive private network. Nowadays you can have a cluster of thousands of virtual machines that communicate with one anoth
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by dopylitty 2y ago
And if you're a customer you need to start looking for alternatives. I've thought about making a website that just trawls press releases and PE firm sites to detect when a company has been bought by PE and adds the company to a li
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An Elon Musk-Funded Pac Targets Muslims and Jews with Opposing Messages(404media.co)
5 points by dopylitty 2y ago|0 comments
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I had the same but with a cracked crown. The dentist did the bite wing x-rays, did whatever examination they do, and then at the end said it all looked good. They even did some fancy 3d scan trying to sell me on a mouth guard or those trans
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I'm glad you mention dentists/vets. I make it a point to verify local businesses aren't PE owned before I will use them. Of course one of the problems with PE is they hoover up _all_ the businesses in an area so you don'
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by dopylitty 2y ago
It should've been expanded into driving a long time ago. There are laws against distracted driving but I still see people weaving around like they're drunk on the roads. When I look into the car they're usually holding a phon
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I'm curious why you include antibiotics in your trusted medications list. Over the past several years we've found that antibiotics have a huge impact on beneficial microbes in your body which then has downstream impacts on your he
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by dopylitty 2y ago
They really are hard to work with compared to languages where you declare which exceptions you'll throw,. I always get angry when pylint raises an error for catching over-broad exceptions[0] Of course I'm catching broad exceptions
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Whether it's true or not I don't know but it would be good if fewer people went into tech. We don't need more people working for ad companies endlessly rewriting chat apps in the flavor of the month JavaScript framework. We n
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by dopylitty 2y ago
All of these amazing therapies coming out of applied biology are based on years and years of basic science that has been done in universities across the world. Much of it funded by the US NIH. Unfortunately funding for basic science is very
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by dopylitty 2y ago
It’s time for governments to levy extra taxes on companies that require employees to commute into the office. The taxes should pay not only for the transportation infrastructure but also for the childcare costs that are incurred by employee
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by dopylitty 2y ago
It’s not realistic to expect individual workers to slam the door in the face of someone walking behind them. Companies that want to prevent tailgating need to spend the money on mantraps or other infrastructure that is clearly designed to a
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I've never understood why these things don't cause food poisoning due to bacillus cereus. There are all sorts of theories about vinegar being used in cooking or whatnot but I've never seen any rigorous study of the microbiome
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by dopylitty 2y ago
If a company wants systems up 24/7 they should hire three shifts of people to support it. Not willing to pay for three shifts? Shut the system off.
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I like the dig at "first generation" clouds. There really is a wide gulf between the services provided by the older cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and the newer ones (fly.io, CloudFlare etc). AWS/Azure provide very leaky abstra
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by dopylitty 2y ago
My theory is eventually every ticket tracking system converges to the same bloated thing which is a completely customizable slow mess because every company and every team within every company wants something slightly different. The develope

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