JTbane

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   by JTbane 2y ago

   IMO there should be a medicare-for-all option that would provide the bare minimum of care, funded by increasing the FICA tax rate. No doubt this would be politically unpopular with the right-wing and libertarians.
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   by JTbane 2y ago

   Is this why hearing aids are $4000 when they probably have $0.50 of components?
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   by JTbane 2y ago

   C-suite salaries are so high in America I'm wondering if these sort of co-ops could be more competitive on that cost saving alone.
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   by JTbane 3y ago

   Anyone else feel like agile is partially to blame? The constant treadmill of work items, the stress of getting things done before sprint end, the demos failing, the anxiety when you get a bug report?
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   by JTbane 3y ago

   Couldn't the city set up a private WAN for the trains, avoiding the security issues of being connected to the internet?
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   by JTbane 3y ago

   I'm just sad they killed the blue bird, and the "tweet" verb as well.
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   by JTbane 3y ago

   I would RTFM so I actually learn something instead of using """AI""" regurgitation.
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   by JTbane 3y ago

   I don't have a problem with state lotteries because it's essentially charity towards public works. You could argue that the gambling aspect makes it addictive, but it's basically entertainment.
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   by JTbane 3y ago

   That's just the nature of free software- you have to either trust the maintainer or do it yourself. There is not really a way around it. - Corporate maintainers are great until they enshittify things in the pursuit of profit (see Oracl
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    agreed, IMO both he and Snowden should have been pardoned as whistleblowers...
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    Call me old-fashioned but I really hate the idea of telemedicine.
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    What happens when a drug goes viral?(health.harvard.edu)

    1 points by JTbane 3y ago|0 comments
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    I get hay fever every Spring so I hope this field gets FDA approval, would be nice to not have to deal with a stuffy nose for an entire season.
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    nl?
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    This, I saw an anecdotal Reddit post about a guy DDoSing cell phones in a restaurant and showing off to his table. These kind of devices attract the worst people.
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    >Sooner or later, the company is going to realize they can hire the same developer for 15% of the salary that the company is paying you. Yes and no. Admittedly, I'm a full time SD in the US and I do make a decent salary, but offshor
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    Man, the way Google treats paying customers is appalling... It seems very frequent that they remove [WIDELY USED FEATURE] on a whim and tell users to pound sand.
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    Is it even possible to build an AGI with our current computing paradigms? So far our most advanced neural networks are purpose-built for a task (i.e. ChatGPT for text communication, Dall-E for images).
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    Unfortunately I'm locked into gmail, migrating away from it would require days of effort and I would never be sure I moved everything. Also, YouTube is still the best video site despite going full mask-off on adblockers.
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    This. People don't RTFM, I make wikis that are intended to be used by the team and new hires, I make them as short as humanly possible, even suspending grammar and using sentence fragments. Yet no one reads them.
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    Another room-temperature superconductor bites the dust(techcrunch.com)

    1 points by JTbane 3y ago|0 comments
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    While that sounds like a great concept I'd be worried about the constant lawnmower tier noise that GA planes make over my home.
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    My anecdote from the US is that usually my primary care doctor will do a rapid streptococcus test if I come in with a sore throat, and only prescribe antibiotics if it comes back positive. That seems responsible enough for me.
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    Dumb question about land value tax- does it unfairly penalize people who own large tracts of land like farmers and loggers?
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    I don't know, I'm most worried about law enforcement abusing access to DNA data, and courts being absolutely convinces of a 0% false positive rate. We may see a wrongful conviction based on DNA dragnet eventually. https:/&#x
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    Diesel exhaust fluid is just urea + water. I see a business opportunity for truckers looking to save a few bucks.
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    I honestly think this is a great idea, I'd go even further to require a minimum 2-year criminal justice degree.
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    >I'm surprised to see airbags didn't make the list. Some things, amateurs really shouldn't mess with. I don't think auto parts need right to repair, as far as I know companies like Dorman Products are allowed to rever
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    >The car free idea is great, but this looks like it's inevitably gonna turn into a dystopian nightmare since it's actually cut off from the rest of the city. This kind of thinking makes no sense, you can have public transit (or
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    by JTbane 3y ago

    I'm reminded of http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm... Sometimes it really is faster just to do what a rookie would, dump all the work in a single function.