ryathal

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by ryathal 5d ago
You absolutely can and should exclude the known bad drivers from the stats because they are essentially outliers. If you don't, it's very possible that widespread adoption of AVs actually makes the average driver more dangerous.
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by ryathal 7d ago
Copyright doesn't protect a work, there's probably also a reasonable argument that exact reproduction of a work is overrated in the first place. Others could just as easily produce a verbatim copy of 1984 if there wasn't copy
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by ryathal 8d ago
Safer than the highest level numbers isn't really a win though for autonomous driving. All human caused deaths includes drunk drivers, inexperienced drivers, and elderly drivers. An autonomous system should never be any of those things
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by ryathal 12d ago
C suites typically aren't middle management though.
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by ryathal 16d ago
1. The damage was understood, fairly easily measured, and could be done repeatably. 2. The cause was widely agreed upon. 3. Solutions weren't predicated on massive societal change. 4. Compliance was fairly easy to track and enfor
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by ryathal 28d ago
As a former manager once told me, "if you aren't replaceable, you aren't promotable either." It makes sense for the company even if it sucks personally, but it's something you can also address yourself.
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by ryathal 29d ago
Medicare has been playing a shell game with reimbursements for decades. They cut the base rate for an office visit or hospital stay to below the cost of the actual service, but allow for separate charges for various things that make up the
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by ryathal 1mo ago
Later is just as likely to never happen, as happen. Billionaires have promised all sorts of things to get tax breaks for the things they want and never followed through with the parts that benefited others.
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by ryathal 1mo ago
With AI doing all the work there is more time for meetings. Product folks aren't going to tell AI to make the code, they are going to still have a meeting to yell at someone that their AI generated requirements weren't followed th
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by ryathal 2mo ago
The Apollo program successfully beat the USSR after having been noticeably behind. As a proxy for conflict it was a great deal.
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by ryathal 2mo ago
Nursing has become a pretty bad job in modern times, and being a male nurse tends to have more downsides. Exploitation is high in the nursing field, support staff are non-existent, mandatory overtime is common, patient ratios are trending u
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by ryathal 9mo ago
This was also closely related to their initial plans with the Xbox One to essentially kill used games, which they were about a decade to fast on rolling out.
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by ryathal 9mo ago
There's already a growing amount of smoke in almost every sport, it's not going to explode like it should because no one is actually interested in enforcement outside isolated players.
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by ryathal 11mo ago
It's pretty close to one. Having all your games in a single digital library along with cloud saves and achievements for those games in a single place is a real benefit that would lead to a monopoly.
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by ryathal 1y ago
PFAS was used in a lot of different things, the sources of major contamination are military bases and manufacturing plants, but it was used in a wide array of consumer products so there is some level of contamination almost everywhere.
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by ryathal 1y ago
Our system is great at preventing private capture at the small scale and great at ensuring it on the large scale
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by ryathal 1y ago
That's close enough to my experience in state government. The biggest problem was generally a lack of widespread competence. There was plenty of red tape, but there were also lots of people whose job was to deal with that tape.
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by ryathal 1y ago
While most the manufacturing work has left the US, the Midwest is full of engineering universities. It's not a coincidence that the big 3 auto companies were based in Detroit and Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are
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by ryathal 1y ago
There's plenty of material in Harry Potter to serve as a useful book for the basics of literary analysis. The quotability isn't really relevant to that. There's bravery, slavery, love, loss, fascism, resistance, classism, rac
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by ryathal 1y ago
For the farmer that owns the land the windmill got built on it's great. The handful of houses in the area get fuck all though and actually have to deal with the externalities.
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by ryathal 1y ago
If an 18 year old achieves a great score on an 8th grade test they are above average for adults.
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by ryathal 1y ago
Dollar stores are generally more expensive in the long run than other stores. They make their money on higher per unit margins and/or vastly lower quality of products.
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by ryathal 1y ago
I'm not sure I can agree with that. I think the top level of curling has reached a point that's boring to watch as too many shots are perfect. It leads to boring games of waiting for a missed shot. It's far more entertaining
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by ryathal 2y ago
A manager of developers should know how to code, but any formal expectation of them coding shouldn't exist. This holds for medium to large organizations. The managerial duties should be enough to require the vast majority of their atte
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by ryathal 2y ago
It's saying you don't need to be proud of your app that has multiple layers of abstractions to be immune to every possible change. There are hard problems, but the most complex solution is rarely good or best.
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by ryathal 2y ago
I'd argue just making everything POST is the correct way to do a public Api too. REST tricks you into endpoints no one really wants, or you break it anyway to support functionality needed. SOAP was heavy with it's request/res
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by ryathal 2y ago
Maine, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and Vermont are the only states that don't have any limits on the increase in property taxes. California may be on the low end at 3%, but most are limiting to less than 10% growth. You can read more her
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by ryathal 2y ago
Many states have similar laws and they don't see the same massive real estate costs. High property cost is almost entirely demand based.
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by ryathal 2y ago
There's not a market for healthcare in America though, at least not accessible to the average person. There is a market for Companies and insurance providers, insurance providers and doctors, but essentially nothing for a person and a
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by ryathal 2y ago
The vast majority of houses aren't rebuilt with any regularity in the US. The extreme high-end McMansions are commonly rebuilt, but that's an outlier. Much of the affordable housing is the luxury apartments of 40-80 years ago.

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