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   by D13Fd 3y ago

   I honestly think we'd be better off if doctors and nurses charged for their time like the good lawyers and paralegals due. No fixed fees. No per-visit charges. Just bill for the time spent (including pre- and post-visit paperwork) and
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   by D13Fd 3y ago

   Honestly, I wish I could pay my doctor $25 after insurance and get a prompt response from him to an e-mail. That would be incredible. As things stand, I have to call. He doesn't take e-mails. If I have a quick question, I can schedule
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   by D13Fd 3y ago

   > to evade questions about previous statements where he claimed to know something. I’m not sure that’s quite accurate, although it’s not that far off either. The full context is here: https://web.archive.org/web/2016
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   by D13Fd 3y ago

   Yeah. I chime in all the time to recommend it. It's a great product that I use many times every day, and I don't want to see it go away.
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   by D13Fd 3y ago

   He’s getting downvoted because people are reading his comment as “thanks Elon Musk, our conservative hero” rather than “thanks Gwynne Shotwell.” I don’t know how he meant it.
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   by D13Fd 3y ago

   Video games can definitely have a lot of benefits over television. My son, who is the third of five, has played an online competitive FPS game since he was four years old. It’s had a number of benefits, including motivating him to learn to
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   by D13Fd 3y ago

   I’m surprised that this is what made the person lose trust in Google - not the years and years of ignoring privacy and treating users as the product.
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   by D13Fd 3y ago

   > If you ask generative AI for a picture of a "nurse", it will produce a picture of a white woman 100% of the time, without some additional prompting or fine tuning that encourages it to do something else. > If you ask a gen
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   by D13Fd 3y ago

   > ~5000 word mini-essay that I wrote I think what your coworker did was horrible. But generally, in the jobs I've had, a "~5000 word mini-essay" is not going to get read in detail. 5000 words is 20 double-spaced pages. If
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    Exactly. Even for movies, the Rotten Tomatoes we knew is gone. New movies don’t get as many reviews and some of them are clearly biased. A good rotten tomatoes score doesn’t mean a whole lot today.
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    I see a few issues: (1) One of the biggest values the attorneys add is in prosecution. Absent attorney help, there is a big risk that you'll do things during prosecution that may impact the effectiveness of the patent during any litiga
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    I recall many trips to the beach as a kid where I sat and read a book while other swam.
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    I strongly disagree with this comparison but I’m having a hard time putting my finger on why. Part of it is that all current AI generated imagery is an imitation of something, but an imitation that doesn’t and can’t follow the rules of the
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    > I really expected Apple's headset to do better. I never thought they would ship a headset with an image that's so soft around the corners. Just out of curiosity, are you speaking from direct experience with a headset or based
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    The currency is worth 30% of a U.S. dollar but the cost of living is also significantly lower, so to a person living in either country $600 feels like about the same amount of money.
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    Yeah, same. I don't know why this couldn't be a blog post with links on Twitter or whatever closed platform.
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    That would be an incredible mess. If it's not pre-weathered, weathering steel leaves rust stains everywhere during the weathering process. You would have thousands of people suing Tesla for the damage to their driveways and garages. I
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    The answer to all of your questions is that trucks are marketed largely to people who don't need trucks and will only subject them to light use. If the truck bed were solid steel it would cost more and wouldn't sell that much bett
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    > It is literally just a neutral technology. It's not. It's a technology with big societal costs and few benefits.
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    Meta also suffers from their views on privacy. I refuse to buy a meta quest and risk letting them monetize my whole life.
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    My thoughts exactly. Does the convenience store clerk have to love her job? The garbage person? The bus boy, dishwasher, or line cook? The assembly line worker? There are aspects of all of our jobs that we all love and hate to varying degre
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    Many supply constraints are “artificial”. It’s not surprising that the producer optimizes for maximum profit.
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    Thus impacting the supply.
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    This article boils down to “demand exceeds supply so prices are going up.”
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    I have zero problem with people using AI to write or create. I think that's great. But I don't like it when people start a sentence "Well, I asked ChatGPT what it thought, and . . ." If I wanted to know that, I'd as
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    Yes but it should be the consumer’s right to simply say they don’t care about the risks, and prefer the convenience.
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    I didn't notice the price and don't really care. Either way it's much cheaper than eating out and I'm happy to pay a bit more in absolute terms for better food. (E.g., even if the relative difference is a 100% price incr
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    Isn’t regenerative braking similar?
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    by D13Fd 3y ago

    I dunno, I tried it and greatly enjoyed it. I didn’t notice any uniformity problem but I’m also not that all that discerning when it comes to pasta.