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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
There's another reason. The harder you make it for a provider to get reimbursed for a service (in order to cut down on fraud), the more difficult it is for legitimate patients to access that service. Medicare patients are elderly. Many
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
I'm working on a project in an area of healthcare where there was massive Medicare fraud decades ago. Medicare now requires extensive documentation for each claim and the paperwork is so onerous that providers have exited the market an
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
David Simon and others have written extensively for decades about the problems with the Baltimore Police Department, and other departments around the country. They trace these problems back to the war on drugs and other purely American fact
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
What DOGE was doing here effectively erased any non-white person from history. It goes way beyond rolling back "DEI". Essentially they were saying that a project on an incident in history where the participants were white was OK,
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
Excellent questions.
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
Yes, because he can't answer basic questions about the code. He was hired because we needed a contractor quickly and he and his company represented to us that he was a lot more experienced than he actually is.
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
I used gemini to look up a relative with a connection to a famous event. The relative himself is obscure, but I have some of his writings and I've heard his story from other relatives. Gemini fabricated a completely false narrative abo
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
My company recently hired a contractor. He submits multi-thousand line PRs every day, far faster than I can review them. This would maybe be OK if I could trust his output, but I can't. When I ask him really basic questions about the s
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
The volume is different. Someone submitted a PR this week that was 3800 lines of shell script. Most of it was crap and none of it should have been in shell script. He's submitting PRs with thousands of lines of code every day. He has n
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by apical_dendrite 7mo ago
This happened to me yesterday. I give a junior engineer a project. He turns it around really quickly with Cursor. I review the code, get him to fix some things (again turned around really quickly with Cursor) and he merges it. I then try a
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by apical_dendrite 8mo ago
> Coding agents had collapsed the barrier to entry for launching a delivery app. A competent developer could deploy a functional competitor in weeks, and dozens did, enticing drivers away from DoorDash and Uber Eats by passing 90-95% of
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by apical_dendrite 8mo ago
There's some truth to what you're saying, but it's a huge exaggeration. It's absolutely incorrect to say that the US helped the Shah kill all of his secular political opponents. It's generally true that SAVAK had ne
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by apical_dendrite 8mo ago
I've actually read quite a lot about the fall of the shah and what you are saying is bullshit. See, for instance, Scott Anderson's recent book King of Kings which goes into a great deal of detail about the US government's und
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by apical_dendrite 8mo ago
I believe you're referring to Syria, not Iran. And I don't think you're describing the situation accurately at all. The Syrian civil war is incredibly complex, and there are many parties involved. The groups that led the offe
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by apical_dendrite 8mo ago
There's an old interview on C-SPAN's BookTV with a CIA polygrapher. He seems to genuinely believe in the validity of the polygraph, but watching the interview, I was convinced that the only value comes from intimidation and stress
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by apical_dendrite 8mo ago
I'll second this. An external recruiter was under the (incorrect) impression that we are a 996 company. We found out because she said that no senior people she talked to were willing to work those hours. Ultimately you can make a lot o
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by apical_dendrite 8mo ago
I am only seeing that if the person writing the prompts knows what a quality solution looks like at a technical level and is reviewing the output as they go. Otherwise you end up with an absolute mess that may work at least for "happy
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by apical_dendrite 8mo ago
I'm trying to work with vibe-coded applications and it's a nightmare. I am trying to make one application multi-tenant by moving a bunch of code that's custom to a single customer into config. There are 200+ line methods, dea
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by apical_dendrite 8mo ago
One wonders if a German in 1600 would have cursed the invention of the printing press. The printing press accelerated the reformation, which led to over a century of bloody religious wars. Something like a third of the German population die
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by apical_dendrite 9mo ago
I think this is something that a lot of supporters of the Gaza protests tell themselves, but I am not sure that it's actually true. The US and other Western countries sell weapons to Saudi Arabia and have extensive economic ties to tha
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by apical_dendrite 9mo ago
The New York Times' The Daily podcast had a very good episode on it a couple weeks ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/podcasts/the-daily/iran-p...
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by apical_dendrite 9mo ago
If you look at some of the most active groups in the pro-Palestinian left, like the PSL in the United States, you'll see that they have a very long history of praising horrific, oppressive regimes (even North Korea!) that oppose the Un
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by apical_dendrite 9mo ago
Did you also think that protests of the Darfur genocide were pointless?
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by apical_dendrite 9mo ago
If the US alliance with Israel is the reason why this conflict generated so much protest activity, then why didn't the pro-Palestinian left object to US ally Saudi Arabia's bombing campaign and blockade in Yemen? The US arms the S
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by apical_dendrite 9mo ago
I'm assuming that the goal of the bloom filter is to prevent the model from producing output that infringes copyright rather than hide that the text is in the training data. In that case the model would lose the ability to provide rela
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by apical_dendrite 9mo ago
NBC News reports that this was contrary to the officer's training and DHS' own policies. > ICE officers are trained to never approach a vehicle from the front and instead to approach in a “tactical L” 90-degree angle to prevent
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by apical_dendrite 9mo ago
NBC News reports that this was contrary to the officer's training and DHS' own policies. > ICE officers are trained to never approach a vehicle from the front and instead to approach in a “tactical L” 90-degree angle to prevent
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by apical_dendrite 9mo ago
Seems like the car was turning relatively slowly away from the ICE officer. At 00:18 in the video when you can hear the gunshots, he's not in the path of the vehicle. Even if he somehow thought the vehicle was heading towards him, it l
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by apical_dendrite 9mo ago
I liked it a lot, but I'm stuck on what I think is the final puzzle.
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
Do you have any evidence of that?

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