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by consensus1 2mo ago
“Move fast and break things” -> “Move fast with stable infrastructure” Lawyers and bureaucrats are organizational cancer.
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by consensus1 2mo ago
It's a simple formula: def do_i_belong_to(country): return this.army * this.commitment_level < country.army * country.commitment_level
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by consensus1 2mo ago
It's too late for that. This would have maybe worked 30 years ago, but since the Patriot Act and FISA we have literal secret courts approving >99% of the government's requests for surveillance. The existence of the data is no
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by consensus1 2mo ago
Never did
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by consensus1 2mo ago
The incentives are horrible. Piss off the government and you won't be included in the pool of sites that are eligible for shakedown money. Piss off Google / Meta and they will throw you out in the cold and make a deal with anoth
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by consensus1 2mo ago
Hard to call it an "agreement" at that point. I thought one of the fundamental rules of contract law is that it can't be signed under duress.
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by consensus1 2mo ago
The theory that these online platforms are stealing value from the news companies is thoroughly disproven by the fact that they would rather ban news from their platform than make the payments. This is a government shakedown and nothing mo
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by consensus1 2mo ago
I used to believe that, but too many times I have been proven wrong. Remember when the "professional journalists" were screaming about a terrorist plot against the UN last year and it was just a garden variety SIM farm running fr
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by consensus1 2mo ago
I would love to know how universal healthcare works in your head
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by consensus1 2mo ago
The perverse incentive of the politician / general / bureaucrat to favor their personal interest over the public interest is identical to the perverse incentive of the CEO to favor his personal interest over the same. I would argu
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by consensus1 2mo ago
Total profits for US health insurance companies in 2025 were $50 billion. The other $950 billion has got to come from cutting: 1. money to providers 2. overall healthcare consumption 3. bureaucratic redundancy and waste 1 is going to piss
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by consensus1 2mo ago
Nobody, including congress, gives a rat's ass about insurance companies and their profits. The truth is that someone has to approve or deny healthcare. Every universal system does it too, but by government policy instead of corporate
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by consensus1 2mo ago
I don't know. I was just suggesting something that may have an effect. BTW I would be very hesitant to take anything that "opens some magic window where everything suddenly becomes easier to learn" if it existed. Increasin
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by consensus1 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure the context here would require college level courses plus industry training on operational procedures to actually understand in any meaningful sense. Not much different than any other time some safety feature triggers
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by consensus1 2mo ago
You may even get a reply from Homer Simpson. I hear he's in charge of that sort of thing
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by consensus1 2mo ago
The entire point of critical safety features is to turn events into non events.
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by consensus1 2mo ago
Psilocybin has this effect. Source: I can't remember where I read it, so low confidence.
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by consensus1 2mo ago
One of the easiest and most effective AI regulations would be to simply require all these labs to run all incoming requests through a suite of the most advanced models asking if the request is likely to be a pathogenic agent.
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by consensus1 2mo ago
I just can't take this seriously. I grew up with TV being literally 1/3 ads and there was absolutely no way to skip them. People complained idly, but nobody really had a problem with it because we knew that TV isn't free.
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by consensus1 2mo ago
So does ABC, which is why we are all commenting on their article here.
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by consensus1 2mo ago
No, it's "We invite popular content creators without regard to their political views."
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by consensus1 2mo ago
Yes. This article is just rage bait designed to rile up the type of people that want the government to restrict freedom of speech on social media.
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by consensus1 2mo ago
Yes, but that is perfectly ok because we live in a society with not only freedom of speech but also freedom of the press, so it necessarily follows that it is ok to distribute speech that you don't like to a willing audience and also t
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by consensus1 2mo ago
The constitution guarantees free speech, but not free drug use (though maybe it should). So I don't see any contradiction here. Meta has every right to police speech as it is a private company, but it has no obligation to do so.
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by consensus1 2mo ago
Seems like the country was more competently governed before the current university system, though. If its job is to gate keep incompetence out of leadership it is failing spectacularly.
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by consensus1 2mo ago
Do we really want the upper echelons of society to be made up of neurotic workaholics? Do we really want universities to be gate keepers here at all?
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by consensus1 2mo ago
Microservices is a deployment strategy. Monorepo is a code organization strategy. They are not mutually exclusive.
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by consensus1 2mo ago
For parallelizable workloads it scales just fine, and giving exams is perfectly parallelizable. Any good programmer would know that.
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by consensus1 2mo ago
Having done both I would say not by much
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by consensus1 2mo ago
I remember reading a theory on this that basically it is a symptom of the decline of the news media industry. The positive attitude in the industry lined up with good times for them until around 2000 when their revenue peaked: https:/

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