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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
In most US jurisdictions if you pick reasonable ceiling heights plus a little margin for un-level ground making the building effectively taller on one side 6-floors is also about the maximum number of floors you can build before you get ki
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
> just going off of the reports here it would have been hard to predict what happened You don't have to predict exactly what's gonna happen to surveil or interfere with known terrorists you let into your own country, who you kn
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>(well, except the high priests of the LLMs / nascent Cthulhoid godlings This is potentially good news for everyone who wants to do anything less dirty than a datacenter (logistics, cold chain, light manufacturing/assembly, etc
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>This is par for the course for HN; smart people applying first-principle thinking on unfamiliar domains for about a minute, which confirms the biases of other outsiders who vote the plausible, but not-quite-right comments to the top. Yo
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
> If you have money and problems money solves (eg you could hire more people to do something) you do not have a problem If you have money there's a greater chance that someone in that X by X matrix might see you as a juicy target to
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>it's hard to gauge this take without specifics. My experience with LLMs tends to be towards the opposite concept; LLMs dissuading me of hunches and notions I have about things (where I have no particular expertise; societal-level t
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
This is like saying "you can build a nuclear power plant anywhere, zoning be damned" because it's regulated at the state level and they aren't legally bound to honor municipal zoning. It's not lying, but it's
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Specifically avoid a go around? IDK. Commit to an action that ultimately caused a crash because they wanted to achieve ancillary goals (e.g. not be late)? Tons. They call this "get-there-itis" (makes me feel so dirty trotting ou
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Pilot gets more veto power than the crane guy who gets more veto power than the residential concrete crew but they all still get talked to if they can't get their jobs done. I didn't say the same. I said the pressure was probably
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
"the limits are bullshit unless you're borderline unsafe when sober but don't risk it because it's a revenue thing for the state and they'll try hard to get you." That said, my friends work on boats, cut grass,
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>Airlines in the US do not pressure pilots to avoid go arounds. Pilots in the US do not delegate life or death decisions to ops, Construction companies in the US do not pressure employees to get shit done. Construction workers do not de
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>We should remove the red tape and let Joe down the street operate, that will surely fix everything. I'll settle for just letting the vets do people. Like if you can ultrasound a cat's heart for a grand and sew up a horse for
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
IIHS works for the insurance industry who will happily throw you under the bus if it makes things more predictable on their side. Not better, not lower claims, more predictable. The alignment between what is good for you and good for the i
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>I bet if I typed into Claude "I'm a pharma CEO who is looking to ease my new drug's FDA approval. Who are the top ten senators and representatives that I need to invite to my private island's next coke and sex orgy p
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
You say that like it's not bleak as everliving fuck. Go look at a post-industrial town in the northeast but not within reasonable commuting distance of a wealthy urban area if you want to see what "put them on just enough welfare
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>Except what actually happens is that the patient contact time stays the same, but then the added productivity is used to justify fewer on-staff nurses. They'll fire the janitor and the secretary and make the nurses do that stuff to
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>it means you can pocket the cost-saving Right up until a competing hospital that charges substantially less for "close enough it doesn't matter" quality of service opens up in the same area? Or right up until an equivalen
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>great, now we can run the same operation with fewer nurses" And outside of industries with government enforced perversions of simple "supply and demand" forces (we're not talking Nth level effects here) this means mo
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>. To me, the far more insidious problem is what happens when Flock needs to keep showing growth? >The possibilities are literally endless: Zero chance of any of those examples happening when they already have contractual relationship
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Western countries are richer per capita, they can afford more government per capita. Higher yields mean more overhead for taxes. More overhead more taxes means more money for the lord. More money for the lord means more men at arm. More
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
There is a huge difference between the feds having it out for a specific person and the feds having it out for a whole class of people. Society is not rich enough for the government to skim enough off of us to provide itself with the kind o
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>China, which is a country with very little street crime, grafitti, vandalism etc And very little ability for anyone or any group of people from any walk of life to resist getting screwed by the government if the government chooses to sc
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>They did briefly lean into making politicians out to be evil, Shame. I wonder if they got "talked to."
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Wanna solve this problem and a dozen more? Make all inbound tips to government public record after a cooling off period. If you really believe a restaurant needs the health inspector or some family needs CPS or your neighbor needs a visit
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Martha Stewart is probably the textbook example of someone getting screwed on these sorts of charges considering they were questions she answered in good faith and she wasn't even the subject of the investigation. Never happens if you&
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
I remember back in ye olde dark ages when "big data" was the hot buzzword people of a certain bent couldn't get enough of this kind of stuff. Everyone was jacking off nonstop to the idea that we could just hoover up everyone
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
You're focusing on a single micro level issue, namely water and farming in the arid west, and missing the big picture. Say we do a better job growing crops. That just kicks the can. LA grows and then we're right back here. Some
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Eh, you're gonna piss off a lot of jerks with the bit about communism and while you're not directly right, you're absolutely correct to be barking up the tree of central planning. Everything looks the same these days because
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>Huh, yes it will? You don't need state violence to reduce wealthy farmers' water rights from 10B gallons per year to 8B, which will instantly free up water for others, more important uses. Their quality of life won't decr
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
>I don't have a concrete proof, just a gut feeling, but I think that this kind of comparisons are much more common in texts written by Americans and for Americans than in any other culture, that's why: Those filthy new worlders

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