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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Sorry, added a source and quote.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
A day later, after being taken to a separate facility and suffering multiple heart attacks (I have no idea what the connection there is). https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/new-york-mri...
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
This article[1] has a good overview of safety procedures already in use at other facilities: > Melonie Longacre, VP of Operations at Northwell Health, explained MRI safety protocols, emphasizing the importance of multizone procedures to
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
It looks like the policy servers are themselves federated, so it's not really as big a concession as you're making it out to be.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
That "rube goldberg machine" is what makes social consensus possible in a distributed system where everyone is anonymous and there's no single centralized authority.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Users always have a way to compromise their own security, and short of taking away their freedom completely (e.g. putting them in a mental hospital) that's not possible to fix. Sacrificing human freedom in the name of security is a lon
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Making OS level features depend on an external cloud service is a rather dubious proposition in general. It feels a bit anti-competitive to me, if nothing else.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> That is threatening the lives of our law enforcement officers It sounds like he's suggesting the app is intended as a way to target officers for assassination or something? That does seem like it might make a difference if it were
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> Unless you're arguing that Apple has a monopoly. Exactly this. There's no competition, because Apple blocks iPhone owners from installing apps through any method other than their App Store (in the US, where this lawsuit is be
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
GP's comment is also entirely true for the US. PTO and paid holidays are the norm here for full-time (salaried) work. It's not just a European thing.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Yeah, other than that paragraph I think it's a perfectly reasonable sentiment. The threat is obviously not "gone". Just substantially reduced. And we can't relax, we need to be vigilant to make sure they don't rebui
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Yeah, this feels to me a bit like trying to find out if you're addicted to indoor plumbing by committing to not flushing your toilet for a week. Maybe if we were talking about social media or some other non-essential service on my ph
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> it has nothing to do with being private or public It has everything to do with being public or private. Private companies exist to generate a positive ROI; that's literally their whole purpose. Companies with high ROIs attract
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Now you're blatantly ignoring my argument and attacking a straw man. The position I'm expressing: "efficient systems first, then work within those systems to help people" is a middle ground. You asked why not reverse t
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
No, I'm saying that "that sort of thinking", where you naively design your economic systems around "First, look out for people, then figure out efficiency." rather than "efficient systems first, then work withi
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> Why no reverse it though? First, look out for people, then figure out efficiency. Because the empirical result of that sort of thinking every time it's been tried on a national scale is widespread poverty where nobody is able to h
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> Not everything needs to be 'efficient' sometimes things should be 'just' or 'humane' rather than 'efficient' You ignored the second part of my paragraph. It's far easier to be humane when op
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> when someone needs something to survive, the market stops working because the value is infinite to them No, that's precisely the situation where markets work best: when resources are scarce. A single gallon of water isn't wor
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
People and private companies that are reliant on voluntary transactions for their funding will go bankrupt and be forced to stop if they spend too much on negative ROI activities. Governments can just raise taxes/borrow more money and
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
The fallacy is thinking all money spent "goes right back into the economy" and ignoring opportunity costs. If you pay people to break windows and then repair them, that money "goes right back into the economy" but it&#x2
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> Tax money isn't drained out of the economy. The money used for NASA goes right back into the economy, since they use it to buy things. That's not remotely how this works. By this logic, wars are actually free since the money
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
The goal of cutting government spending is ultimately to reduce the amount of resources drained out of the economy through taxes/inflation. Balancing the budget is useful insofar as it reduces the resources that will need to be drained
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I agree. I'm certainly not suggesting those are the only reasons to have kids, just two that I felt might resonate well with the the previous poster given the materialistic thrust of his comment.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I agree this sounds like bad policy, but what's the logic for doing this with actual capital goods then? Doesn't that have exactly the same problem of limiting corporate investment?
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As the article says, for some people it serves as a substitute for having kids/a family. Life is about more than your personal well being. Maybe you disagree; there are certainly a lot of moral frameworks under which that's not a
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
This is why "do whatever the heck I want with it" ought to apply to software, not just hardware. This is one thing I think Richard Stallman got right, all the way back in 1988: > the freedom to change a program, so that you can
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
It could very well be legit, but if you "have not tested its answer yet" the fact that it can generate something that looks plausible doesn't really tell you much. Generating plausible-sounding but incorrect answers is like t
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
HIBP tracks full data breaches, not just password leaks. Screenshot from the article https://www.troyhunt.com/content/images/2025/05/image-19.png If your physical address gets leaked having a unique ran
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How exactly is that supposed to prevent your data from getting stolen in a database leak?
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Yeah I'm confused too. "I don’t like its data model. I wish the data model was instead <perfectly describes Anki's data model>".

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