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by peezd 13d ago
Yeah I came here to post that, such a nonsensical statement
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by peezd 13d ago
Truth. lol I ran a sizeable team around 2020 and I had to educate a couple of our new hires straight from college that they actually needed to check their work email, after they missed important HR related stuff and they had just completely
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by peezd 16d ago
Exec branch has the authority to direct the U.S. Board on Geographic Names as it's under the US Dept of the Interior. That does mean the U.S. Gov't / federal depts have to use the recommendation from the board I believe as th
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by peezd 16d ago
All the handlers around him that are plundering and stealing and doing all the heinous shit. Trump is insanely easy to manipulate.
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by peezd 16d ago
Yeah, it seems like such an easy value add (especially since they gate it on gemini subs) to make Gemini do a great job in the google productivity apps, but they are generally pretty awful. Claude with MCP access to the google workplace API
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by peezd 16d ago
We have a similar situation here in Colorado, with our single provider continually raising rates (with one of the reasons being better mitigation; from what I can tell that means just running ads constantly talking about how great they are)
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by peezd 20d ago
They are too big to fail at this point.
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by peezd 20d ago
Yep, exactly this.
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by peezd 20d ago
Protecting Workers, I'd add a couple more; it's not smart to be fully dependent on a trading partner or partners for critical and essential products, such as food, tariffs can help ensure you maintain domestic industry. Also help
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by peezd 20d ago
[...wanted to bring your dad's factory job back, he'd specifically target whatever industry he was working in AND ideally spend the tariff money boosting that industry.] Which was more or less the intent of the CHIPS and Science A
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by peezd 20d ago
VC funding (much of it from big tech). They have a freemium model and offer some pay for enterprise features, really just private repos, permissioning, etc. but not sure if it is meaningful
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by peezd 21d ago
there's a difference between allowing exposure to unsafe content, against systematically and deliberately doing everything their psychologist/behavior economists could do to make sure kids were addicted to the product.
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by peezd 22d ago
the story of how she wrote this is fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTLXYJGvhI4
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by peezd 22d ago
Yep this was really it. The amount of storage on the ipod was amazing and just opened up the idea that "yes you put your full music collection on it".
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by peezd 23d ago
I can't imagine it going any other way than what we've seen from every other country in your set of examples, honestly.
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by peezd 1mo ago
You are both sort of right and wrong; based on a quick analysis, knowing this isn't perfect due to how plans have different characteristics, and states had different characteristics.. in the 2000s (pre ACA); * Employer plans averages
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by peezd 1mo ago
I think it's generally gotten better for insurance companies, at the expense of both end customers and providers (with the exception of providers that have vertically integrated into the ecosystem, e.g. Aetna/CVS, etc. to capitali
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by peezd 1mo ago
I got the impression from a previous thread that the continual issues were largely driven by the required move to Azure, and underlying Azure stability
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by peezd 1mo ago
I've had this conversation a lot with my wife, as we have divergent philosophies. I'm an old Peace Corps hippie that then road warriored for a few years where I would do a 4 day work trip and limit myself to a bag I could fit unde
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by peezd 1mo ago
I think they were all in on open until they started falling behind, then decided to go all in on closed source thinking they could build a frontier SOTA model; that didn't pan out so they are whiplashing back.
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by peezd 1mo ago
I saw that and chuckled.
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by peezd 1mo ago
What a world we live in, that someone finding a 35 year old candy bar while cleaning out a hoarder's house gets its own tier 1 news article.
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by peezd 4y ago
Exactly this, a good therapist will focus the first session or two on fit, they want to make sure you both understand each other. I will caveat by not knowing what country you are in and the norms there, so this is coming from a US centric