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by cycomanic 6mo ago
Well that's a problem with the profit driven US health system (although admittedly other countries have similar problems to varying degrees) not prescriptions in general though? In particular the take home from this should be to make i
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by cycomanic 6mo ago
I would argue that the Scandinavian countries are a much better example to use than Switzerland. In contrast to Switzerland Sweden leads the world in fibre access build out (while being geographically much larger). While I haven't seen
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by cycomanic 6mo ago
> It's nice to wave away policing Hormuz, by simply asserting it can't be done. Is this accurate, however? There have been plenty of analyses pretty much all concluding the same thing. How do you propose to do it? In normal t
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by cycomanic 6mo ago
> A big mistake here was simply underestimating the scale of Iran. Iran has 90,000,000 people. More than 2x Ukraine. More than 2x Germany. Not necessarily disagreeing with your other points, but Germany has a population of ~84 million, s
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by cycomanic 6mo ago
Quoting the OP > These checks are part of how we protect our first-party products from abuse like bots, scraping, fraud, and other attempts to misuse the platform. That implies that OpenAI (or at least this employee) considers scraping a
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by cycomanic 6mo ago
What is good music though? I think the OP meant that the Ramones were terrible musicians in the sense that they were technically "good", i.e. most jazz musicians are much better technically. But that's the whole point the OP
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by cycomanic 7mo ago
Ignoring the reality that some system of age (and ID verification, for certain tasks) system is desired by a significant portion of the population, and does have utility (despite the shouts for "just parent your children") is simp
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by cycomanic 7mo ago
Well first they need to proof that Viktor was actually copyrightable. If it was largely written by an llm, that might not be the case? AFAIK several rulings have stated that AI generated code can not be copyrighted.
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by cycomanic 7mo ago
These discussions remind me so much of the US discussions about federal ID documents as verification. There's a vocal portion of people which opposes any solution because "privacy, government overreach, surveillance ...". So
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by cycomanic 7mo ago
Tell me you don't have children without saying you don't have children. In many places it is essentially impossible for children (even younger than 13) to have a normal social live without access to a smart phone. Just some exampl
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by cycomanic 7mo ago
There exist similar systems in pretty much any other western nation. The problem is that teaching doctors is expensive and isn't something you can ramp up quickly because you need other doctors to teach the new doctors. The supply of d
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by cycomanic 7mo ago
This reminds of a debate in the German parliament 30 years back or so, about the cost for the Eurofighter project (IIRC). Essentially one speaker had argued against the staggering cost, and a second speaker from the government defended the
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by cycomanic 7mo ago
Have you watched sail gp or the recent America's cups. The racing is as incredibly exciting to watch and the skills of the sailors is a huge part of it. I'd argue that technology was always a huge part of sailing, but compare that
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by cycomanic 7mo ago
Well at least it's not Amazon prime where they now interrupt the movie for the same ad/trailer 3 for weeks unless you pay extra again. Fwiw I always enjoyed the trailers at the movies, no the other ads I could very much do away wi
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by cycomanic 7mo ago
What is the point of your post? I find it increasingly tedious to read comments about alledged AI use under almost every post. It's like complaining that you didn't want to read the submission because you didn't like their fo
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by cycomanic 8mo ago
> According to that article, Waymo crashes 2.3x more often than human drivers (every 98k miles vs 229k miles), which is clearly false. Why is it clearly false? It might be false, but clearly? I would definitely like to see evidence eithe
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by cycomanic 8mo ago
I can just give you my view. I've been a TWM user for >10 years than switched to niri via some of the sway/hype land scrolling plugins. My problem with TWMs was always that depending on monitor size you can open 3-4 windows in
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by cycomanic 8mo ago
That's not really true. There's lots of research out there showing that waxed chains result in less power loss over longer time compared to no lubrication and most other lubricants (both bicycle specific ones and more general ones
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Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO 'an idiot'(theguardian.com)
6 points by cycomanic 9mo ago|9 comments
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by cycomanic 9mo ago
Your link actually proves the OP right and you wrong. Look at the graph of the running average of GDP and you see that after a huge spike in the 40s (due to the WW2 effort) GDP growth settles on a new higher average (with significantly less
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by cycomanic 9mo ago
Why are people arguing that icons should be intuitively tell you what the app is about? Since when was that the goal of an icon (in paritucal an app icon)? It should be easily distinguishable from other icons. If I don't know what the
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by cycomanic 9mo ago
This is one thing that I don't understand, take for example Germany, the population barely grew over the last 20 years [1], at the same time there has been a building boom that building costs have risen dramatically (more than doubled
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by cycomanic 9mo ago
Yes completely agree. I always hang up my washing (also in NZ, don't have a dryer) and was recently sorting through my tshirts as we are moving country. I have one t-shirt that is nearly 20 years old and still holds its shape (though t
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by cycomanic 9mo ago
You're joking right? People got arrested and jailed for posting a Kirk meme https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/retired-cop-jail... Let's not even talk about all the other rhetoric of a
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by cycomanic 9mo ago
Not sure I understand your point. In the plot you mention what the OP said certainly holds true for China and Europe (less so for the US). Also the Charts plot investments not just new capacity investments, I'm not even sure how you di
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by cycomanic 9mo ago
Even China who committed to significant nuclear capacity and wanted to ramp up their nuclear percentage to 20% (IIRC) is slowly moving away. The percentage of nuclear has in fact reduced over the last 5 years and initial commitments/pr
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by cycomanic 9mo ago
> Am sure you're already aware, but for others in the thread: > > Absence of titles does not mean absence of hierarchy. Absence of formal hierarchy doesn't mean absence of social power. > > At their best, flat hiera
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by cycomanic 9mo ago
I don't think it is, the aspect ratio seems off, but maybe I'm misremembering (not in Germany right now)
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by cycomanic 9mo ago
I think the difference between sycophancy and NVC (at least how I learned it) is that a sycophantic person just uncritically agrees with you, but NVC is about how to communicate disagreement, so the other person actually listen to your argu
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by cycomanic 9mo ago
Maybe that was necessary to get it passed their CEO...?

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