ethbr1

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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> So fucking sink it Let's think through the implications of that. The US healthcare system is non-functional for a month: what happens? Hospitals and providers start running into cash flow problems and begin having difficulties p
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
Make a Ballmer CEO...
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
The difference is the lack of top-down QA and taste.
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You'd think a supply chain guy would be able to get ahold of some psychedelics too...
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
And why open source UIs are anarchist. :)
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
In my experience, it's usually just UX hubris and ignorance about a product's expert users. UX folks usually have no understanding of the impact of moving a common control and/or keyboard shortcut.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> It is 2026 and UIs are still abysmally slow in many cases. How is that even remotely possible? Because UI/X teams were separated from engineering. (Same thing happened with modern building architecture) It's fundamentally i
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
Bit of column A, bit of column B.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> Sometimes you need an animation to turn your site into a special snowflake of a site, and what better way to do that than to use a snowflake animation? <blink>
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> can't even search properly in all folders I'd be fascinated by anyone from the Office team to tell me why Microsoft can't get global search right in their products. E.g. SharePoint has had broken search for decades a
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
Wasn't this the observation / tension at the heart of Mountainhead ? The solution to this was representative democracy electing independently-minded technical experts, but electoral / parliamentary systems in many countries
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Or even just a github markdown file, considering there's nothing he needed in excess of md formatting. '... it'd be a lot cooler if you did.'
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
You know CMS is under HHS, right?
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
The US healthcare system is like the Titanic: it turns slowly, and you don't want to fuck around with hitting icebergs.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
Trump's Reaganesque in Reagan's weaknesses, without any of his strengths. Except maybe charisma to some people. At this point in his second administration, I'm firmly convinced that the bulk of the details aren't communi
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> dysfunctional middle-management I thought about this a lot while working at a high-growth company recently. Decided that regular (quarterly) manager rankings (HR-supported, anonymous) by 2-3 levels of subordinates is the only way to
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
"It appears to be the only idea" is a bit strong. 'It's the only information about the plan presented in the last 15 hours' would be better.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
"Selectively misread" it? What are we calling having to deemphasize key components then? "Discriminately highlighting"?
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
Well, Trump is probably the least qualified person in the administration to ask that question of, while at the same time no one wanted to risk contradicting his fancies on recorded television. A bad look, but I seriously doubt the state dep
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If you have to spend that many words explaining how it doesn't disagree with you, it disagrees with you.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> Today, congress can be largely ignored by the executive and congress seems to support it vocally. I seem to remember the 116th and 118th Congresses pushing back against executive power, which were the last times the US had divided go
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
> His plan appears to be: "oil companies come in, sell the oil" In terms of nation-building, it's not the worst plan. See Carville's "It's the economy, stupid." Popular support of any government is mo
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Want to point out which / why?
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Always.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
Can you at least appreciate the irony of someone using their own definition that disagrees with yours, you arguing against their using their own definition, and then there being another widely-cited definition that disagrees with your own,
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
So, your conspiracy is that Iran allowed US bombers to strike Fordow, proved by the fact that the Iranian government didn't say anything about it? I'm not sure how that disagrees with my point.
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
Sometimes, but it can go the other way too. Napoleon Bonaparte, Toussaint Louverture, Simon Bolivar, Giuseppe Mazzini, Otto von Bismarck, Mustafa Atatürk, Gamal Nasser
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
Headscratching is not an international consequence. "Right" rarely matters in geopolitics. What matters is who opposes a course of action, and how far they're willing to go in their opposition. Is China or the UK going to ins
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> shock horror... American oil companies taking a significant role in the country's oil infrastructure. And to think that Dick Cheney just barely didn't live to see this. (Died November 2025)
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by ethbr1 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion >> In geopolitics, an invasion typically refers to a military offensive in which a polity sends combatants, usually in large numbers, to forcefully enter the territory of a

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