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by fatbird 2y ago
Markets are only as efficient as their information is good. At this point, we should all have a very healthy appreciation for how warped the infosphere is for everyone, and that will of course have deep applications to the "efficiency
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by fatbird 2y ago
The story here isn't about problems with MAID, it's about inadequate support for the poor and disabled. Even then, your link is about those patients requesting it, not about it being forced on them. It's unsurprising to me
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by fatbird 2y ago
I've rarely seen a less convincing argument than a quote from a TV show. "Dignity" means different things to different people--such as "on my own terms". Your pithy dismissal doesn't capture any of that.
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by fatbird 2y ago
There are around 50,000 MAID deaths a year now. In the linked story, one employee was fired for making four veterans feel pressured to consider the option of MAID. This is obviously inappropriate behaviour, but also just as obviously
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by fatbird 2y ago
Please see my reply to your other post making this point.
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by fatbird 2y ago
"a now-suspended Veterans Affairs Canada caseworker.... which has now uncovered a total of four cases where veterans were allegedly offered MAID — all apparently by the same caseworker". One person. Not the gov't, not many g
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by fatbird 2y ago
The major cost drivers of Canada's single payer health care system are big-ticket tests and interventions: MRIs, surgery, etc. Palliative care is comparatively cheap, especially since it's often done at home with a visiting nurse
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by fatbird 2y ago
Your whole comment frames MAID as something the gov't does to patients, not something patients choose as a better option than spending 6-12 months in agony with only one possible outcome. MAID isn't a cost cutting measure. The co
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by fatbird 2y ago
As a counterpoint, doing a rewrite of an example of the best C codebases gives you a much more interesting comparison between the languages. Rewriting a crappy C codebase in a modern, memory safe language is virtually guaranteed to resul
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by fatbird 2y ago
You have direct evidence above that the book cover is not a superficial thing. If you don't take this into account, then you're not a serious author.
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by fatbird 2y ago
I understand, but you should understand that OP's response will be common to your use of AI graphics: it'll be an indicator of little thought or quality control put into it.
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by fatbird 2y ago
98% of criminal charges end in plea deals. The justice system only works because virtually all charges go through without a trial. Prosecutors are strongly incentivized to find an acceptable plea deal, and they have the threat of massivel
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by fatbird 2y ago
In the 90s the US scuttled an EU plan to create an EU military force that would be relatively small--around 50,000 personnel--but would be the umbrella military organization under which national forces would come together if needed. Trump a
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by fatbird 2y ago
Did you read your own link? Although Russia has obstinately described NATO expansion as a threat, Putin was actually more concerned about the loss of Russia’s perceived sphere of influence in former Soviet republics which were aligning the
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by fatbird 2y ago
Also, to clarify one point: No one is a candidate for NATO who is currently engaged in hostilities. While Ukraine was in a state of war against Russian supported forces in Donbass and Crimea, it was ineligible to even apply. It may have p
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by fatbird 2y ago
Nothing ChatGPT said disagrees what I wrote. Between 2010 and later 2022 (i.e., not in 2014 or in February 2022) Ukraine was officially not pursuing membership, and France, Germany and the US were all unofficially making it clear that NATO
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by fatbird 2y ago
Ukraine wasn't a candidate for NATO membership in 2014 or 2022, and this was agreed to in all major treaties/agreements with Russia. It's still not a candidate, and can't be while it's actively engaged in war. NATO
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by fatbird 2y ago
My employer's coding challenge uses replit and takes 30 minutes in which we're watching them do it (and interacting, asking them questions or prompting them with hints). It's not a hard challenge at all--one candidate who&#x
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by fatbird 2y ago
It's not that he could have reasoned his way to not ejecting, it's that the standby instruments were still functioning, and are there for just this moment. He could have continued without ejecting based on that alone. Reading bet
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by fatbird 2y ago
I noticed my handwriting was terrible, and consciously improved it by writing slower and being more mindful of writing neatly. A fountain pen helped me slow down, but fundamentally it was just a matter of slowing down and consciously formi
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by fatbird 2y ago
It would be more charitable to say that the change forced upon yourself by changing your instrument is a straightforward way of making you mindful of what you're doing and make it easier to break bad habits. Yes, you can break bad hab
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by fatbird 2y ago
Imagine people 100 years from now asking themselves "how did they not understand the effect that microplastics were having?"
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by fatbird 2y ago
I'm sure there's more checks and verifications and signoffs than just "Bob says go!" I'm also sure that such processes are still very fallible [0], as demonstrated by any number of friendly fire incidents over the
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by fatbird 2y ago
If the person blowing them up takes out the entire city block that happens to include my family, then the person blowing them up is also my enemy. Your family dies as collateral damage and your reaction is "enh, they did what was nece
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by fatbird 2y ago
This is the most succinct summary of what's been gnawing at me ever since LLMs became the latest thing . If Ilya Sutskever announced tomorrow that he'd achieved AGI, and here is its economic plan for the next 20 years, why would
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by fatbird 2y ago
there's a saying in Marketing: "I know half my advertising dollars are wasted, I just don't know which half." It's not that SaaS products don't offer some value, it's that they offer a nebulous, hard-to-
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by fatbird 2y ago
they would have to stay in very precise distances from each other over time Is this necessary, or do they simply need to precisely distinguish their relative position? My understanding of the JWT's not-perfectly-smooth lens is that
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by fatbird 2y ago
The Bell Curve wasn't simply descriptive. It contained "policy implications based on these purported connections [between IQ and race]." It opened by saying that if you want to hire good employees, you should hire by IQ...
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by fatbird 2y ago
Does Rose-Ackerman argue that corruption is more prevalent in the public sector than the private sector? I've already said that I don't believe the public sector is free of corruption. Most of the hoops my employer jumps throu
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by fatbird 2y ago
Your example is fraud, not corruption, meaning parties external to the gov't are the guilty parties, not gov't employees. Corruption is carried out by insiders. I'm not saying there's no corruption in the public sector.

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