ethbr1

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by ethbr1 1y ago
Interesting! I've gotten a wide enough variety of stuff (mortgage paperwork, homeowners insurance, game service accounts) that some of it has to be organically entered, but that is a good note. Crazy that any system would be set up tha
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> Their budget dwarfs others like the DEA and CIA now with the "big bogus bill" What numbers are you looking at? For reference, FY25 budgets: "CIA budget" (which isn't publicly split from the general IC top lin
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by ethbr1 1y ago
This is the way. Allowing appliances to connect to the internet, when it's not necessary, is insecure. At least with a single-purpose device, you know you're not at the mercy of some minimally-funded, likely-outsourced software te
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Ref Silicon Valley: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HcXu4_K1tMQ&t=45s
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Same, albeit it seems like multiple people. Or at least someone who moves states. It's bizarre though... who puts down an email address they don't own on a job application?!
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Given YouTube's profits, I think it's fair to say there's a substantial viable middle ground of much more vigorous (and labor intensive) appeals than what's currently done. And that requirement can be created by more rob
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by ethbr1 1y ago
There's pros and cons to that decision. At the very least, it's not great to send an ex-president who still has substantial support to prison while same ex-president is also spouting conspiracy theories about election fraud and
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by ethbr1 1y ago
It would have precedent in the Supreme Court... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison#Political_d...
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by ethbr1 1y ago
When you are a backstabbing administration who demands yes-people, you have difficulty attracting qualified candidates. As a result, you have incompetent people running things. People who do things like violate federal law because they&#x27
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Why would it be ignored? Say what you want about the executive branch trying to weasel out of things and get the Supreme Court to lift holds, but they've so far been unwilling to out and out disobey finalized court orders.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Considering the FAA has been fucking around for decades attempting to recapitalize and modernize the ATC network -- yes. See: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-108162 And I do not use "fucking around" light
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by ethbr1 1y ago
When I was younger, I would have agreed with you. With a measure of time, a counterpoint -- patriotism is that essential glue which holds together a pluralistic, multi ethnic, multi religious, multi cultural society. Can it be corrupted and
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Businesses that are profiting off un-paid-for externalities aren't socially sustainable businesses. They're just economic scams that happen to be legal. Imho, we should do what we can to make sure they're required to pay for
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by ethbr1 1y ago
The difference between good CEOs and bad CEOs is how aware they are of the game. Good CEOs say they're a {whatever pumps the stock price/gets us the most VC interest} company, but continue to invest and excel in being a {core comp
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> 'pot cosy' to insulate the pot and stop radiated heat loss Is this a product that exists? The closest I could find was ceramic fiber insulation [0], which could presumably be cut to shape and fastened (high temp fastener?)
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Not treating people like that requires a fundamental move away from capitalist primacy in the US. You're barking up the wrong tree if you're expecting it to be corporation-initiated.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
This is part of the K-shaped economy. Highly skilled jobs can absolutely be 'perform or be fired', because you're paying for a person's ability to do a specialized thing, and there's usually only so much specialized
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by ethbr1 1y ago
I meant that the Fed, Treasury, etc. have powerful levels they can pull to head off initial effects. What can overwhelm them is if those effects cascade and compound into second-order effects, typically multiplied in magnitude. That's
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by ethbr1 1y ago
And what do they use those individual models for, after they've built them?
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> Never enough manpower to do review for each case. Manpower at a given salary cost. All content platforms could throw more money at this problem, hire more / more skilled reviewers, and create better outcomes. Or spend less and
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> a system that enables functional and effective customer support I'm not saying that it's humans, but it's humans. Augmented by technology, but the only currently viable arbitrator of human-generated edge cases is anoth
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by ethbr1 1y ago
We require auto manufacturers to include certain safety features in their vehicles, to decrease deaths to a socially acceptable level. The central ill of centralized web platforms is that the US never mandated customer/content SLAs in
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by ethbr1 1y ago
The problem with this is that it runs counter to AI company valuations. Their valuations: AI all the things Reality: AI the minimum number of steps, surrounded by guardrails and traditional deterministic automation But AI companies won&#x27
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Insurance is a simple business: collect enough money so that in the long run you earn more than you pay out. American health insurance generally does this in two broad ways. (1) Insure a large enough population group that averages hold and
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Some of them are solved by using managed-services that abstract away the messy config / security ops stuff. The blog entry was wordy and repetitive for what it expressed (AI?), but the cloud argument should boil down to a few simple qu
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by ethbr1 1y ago
I know it's popular with the US transgender community, looking for gender reassignment surgery. Cost of travel to Thailand < savings on medical procedures (with equivalent or better outcomes)
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> It isn't insurance if the provider can't consider risk factors for the policy though. Insurers are welcome to consider risk factors... for populations in aggregate. It turns their actuarial models into population-subset mod
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Exactly. Tax complexity drives the CPA / tax prep need. That said, there is a huge swath of America that's being preyed on by strip-mall tax prep, who derive zero benefit from it. (And an industry whose profits ultimately trickl
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by ethbr1 1y ago
Yes and no. Compounding market effects can. First order effects? There's a lot of firepower to blunt those. Especially when the person in the White House is scared about losing the midterms.
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by ethbr1 1y ago
> and (importantly) the supreme court has upheld this stance Caveat: on a preliminary basis in most of the decisions Important to differentiate SCOTUS saying "there isn't a compelling reason to block this power before we deci

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