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by erentz 7mo ago
The founders mistake was creating a presidential system.
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by erentz 7mo ago
You have to couple that with their use of STV voting and lack of a presidential system.
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by erentz 7mo ago
Hearing your heart beat like this can be a sign of an arteriovenous fistula in the brain.
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by erentz 8mo ago
At this stage tech companies should be pushing for very strong legislation that makes the US a bastion of data privacy to restore trust. But they are still pushing in the other direction.
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by erentz 8mo ago
The people in this regime and their supporters really seem surprised to discover that actually other countries do have agency and national pride. Serious empathy gap in these people. The US owned the world’s tech stack and countries let it
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by erentz 8mo ago
The adult engineers and adult managers responsible for such things should get the same treatment as any adult having such conversations directly. You can’t just say “wasn’t me, it’s the AI layer I built to do the abuse for me”. You’re activ
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by erentz 9mo ago
https://archive.ph/ZBjKV
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by erentz 10mo ago
Depending on your situation, if non emergency and you were able to ask the cash price beforehand you might be surprised that you can get the same CT scan for less than what insurance ultimately paid. At least that’s my experience ($450 vs $
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by erentz 10mo ago
We used to have Google search and Google maps which solved this problem of finding information about symptoms and finding medical centers near you. LLM doesn’t make anything better it just confidently asserts things about medicine that may
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by erentz 11mo ago
The US isn’t pouring money into Ukraine. Under the PURL agreement this year it has switched to selling weapons at a mark up that is being paid for by NATO allies. So this plan is not only screwing our own defense industry in the short term,
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by erentz 11mo ago
Can’t you just limit scope for section 230 by revenue or users? E.g. it only applies to companies with revenue <$10m. Or services with <10,000 active users. This allows blogs and small forums to continue as is, but once you’re making
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by erentz 11mo ago
Yet residual or enlarged thymus is seen as a potential cause for autoimmune conditions like Myasthenia Gravis. And it’s often removed in these cases. So is it really good to have a thymus after 30 or not?
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by erentz 11mo ago
It is so hard to believe there was a time where bundling a browser with an operating system was a huge scandal requiring a huge government antitrust case to correct. Maybe it’s just that I’m old and crotchety but we need regulation to debun
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by erentz 11mo ago
You’re seriously cherry picking the best authoritarian comparison here. Singapore is definitely an outsider. Let’s also include Russia, Belarus, Venezuela, Iran, China, North Korea, Afghanistan, Angola, Congo, etc.
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by erentz 1y ago
The Netherlands is 18m people. Germany is 83m with its MMP system. There are ways to adjust and scale these other systems.
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by erentz 1y ago
> Treasury’s efforts to shore up Argentina’s currency are part of a broader effort by Secretary Scott Bessent to stabilize the South American economy before President Javier Milei’s party faces midterm elections Sunday Things like this u
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by erentz 1y ago
> And then there's little bugs everywhere that just grind away at you on a daily basis: When I create a new folder or file in a directory in explorer it hangs for a bit and doesn’t show up unless I click refresh. Ditto if I save a f
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by erentz 1y ago
Brings to mind this change the UK made. Simply reducing the size of paracetamol packets reduced suicides. https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f403
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by erentz 1y ago
Taxing the land and removing zoning limits on it is the big hurdle.
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by erentz 1y ago
From real world experience as a patient that has had a lot go wrong over the last decade. The problem isn’t lack of automation, it’s structural issues affecting cost. Just as one example a chest CT would’ve cost $450 if done cash. It costed
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by erentz 1y ago
> They’re finally acknowledging that they allowed Biden to censor Americans by calling their viewpoints “misinformation”. No they aren’t. Your own quotes say they terminated for their own policies. Not because of pressure by the governme
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by erentz 1y ago
It’s definitely very sprawling from Olympia to Mt Vernon. We only just managed to pedestrianize Pike Place Market. I struggle to think of a pedestrian neighborhood. Just cuz you can walk doesn’t rise to that level. Ballard no. It’s all ca
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by erentz 1y ago
And yet Seattle has very few pedestrianized spaces for the size of the city. It’s as car dominated and sprawling as any major North American city.
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by erentz 1y ago
Value is in fingerprinting and tracking people and the websites they visit.
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by erentz 1y ago
SSA doesn’t just have social security numbers. It has a lot of information about earnings, health, and disability of people.
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by erentz 1y ago
Who verifies this data and how is it kept secure. Too easy for a regime to burn the records on the way out. Don’t work in law enforcement if you don’t want to be seen doing the job.
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by erentz 1y ago
Given these projects will be overseas we shouldn’t use the extreme outlier of Vogtle in the US as the benchmark.
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by erentz 1y ago
There was a deconstruction of his tweets timeline somewhere. He said he was questioned for two hours but the timeline shows the time his plane arrived and then an hour later his tweet that he was out. It leaves more like 20-30 minutes for q
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by erentz 1y ago
There must at this point be lots and lots of actual walkthroughs of people coding using Claude Code, or whatever, and producing real world apps or libraries with them right? Would be neat to have a list because this is what I want to read (
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by erentz 1y ago
The shareholders got what they wanted with Intel. If it was the wrong decision for Intel doesn’t mean it’s the wrong decision for everyone and should be banned. The idea that the stock market can only be used to flow shares in one direction

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