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by glitchc 7mo ago
I think the salient point is that in all jurisdictions, there are subsidies for locals, either through government or private industry, to make health care affordable. That those subsidies create perverse incentives is unsurprising. Since pe
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by glitchc 7mo ago
It feels like an attempt to bypass PCI-DSS...
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by glitchc 7mo ago
And we will finally have the year of the Linux desktop!
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by glitchc 7mo ago
The law as is written mainly targets social media platforms. For an OS to comply, all it needs to do is provide a field during account creation that records the user's date of birth as supplied by the user. There is no onus on the oper
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by glitchc 7mo ago
The whole debate is about what insurance companies are paying for those services, right? It's when one walks in without insurance that you see the true cost of the service. > The only reason you would pay that much is if you're
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by glitchc 7mo ago
Exactly, it's roughly on par. The OP was claiming it was significantly cheaper.
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by glitchc 7mo ago
In domains like healthcare, education and transportation, the cost is primarily labour. A wealthier country pays its workers more, which gets passed down in higher prices to its consumers. And, while healthcare and education do not benefit
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by glitchc 7mo ago
Try seeing a doctor in Japan as a foreigner. Just a simple consult costs $300 USD or so, and it goes up from there. It's actually a rather expensive system.
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by glitchc 7mo ago
> At least this form is (psuedo)random, and the odds are statistically fair and published (by law). Only fair until the manufacturer of said lootboxes gets in on the action. This is why gambling is so highly regulated in all jurisdiction
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by glitchc 7mo ago
In my experience, everyone turns twelve when they disagree or are shown to be wrong. Very few have the temerity to accept their faults. Let's not throw stones lest they hit our own glass houses.
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by glitchc 7mo ago
I think we're agreeing. Morality requires some sacrifice. The rich have surplus to pay for it, the poor do not.
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by glitchc 7mo ago
Work is and has always been an economic bargain: Your time for their money. Morality is a luxury that only the independently wealthy can afford. Any business that allows it's employees to function according to their own morals becomes
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by glitchc 7mo ago
Does this mean that President Trump is the (unexpected) champion of the remote working crowd? Not the hero we need but the hero we deserve, and all that.
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by glitchc 7mo ago
That's because some are Indigenous names phoneticized for English speakers (Yonge and Markham on the other hand are entirely English names): Etobicoke. From Adobigok [1] Tecumseh (or Tecumseth). From tecumtha or takhamehse [2] Mi
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by glitchc 7mo ago
It's a cool talk, but the relevance to the present problem escapes me. If you're alluding to gcc vs fbstring's performance (circa 15:43), then the performance improvement is not because fbstring is faster/simpler, but du
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by glitchc 7mo ago
> What's the x86-64 opcode for arcsin? Not required. ATAN and SQRTS(S|D) are sufficient, the half-angle approach in the article is the recommended way. > People have gotten PhDs for smaller optimizations. I know. I've worked
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by glitchc 7mo ago
The 4% improvement doesn't seem like it's worth the effort. On a general note, instructions like division and square root are roughly equal to trig functions in cycle count on modern CPUs. So, replacing one with the other will not
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by glitchc 7mo ago
Society can only support so many sociopaths (~ 1 in 5) before it starts to collapse. We may have reached the tipping point.
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by glitchc 7mo ago
From the TFA: Document Intelligence (RAG): Ingest docs, ask questions by voice — ~4ms hybrid retrieval. Seems pretty clear. You can supply documents to the model as input and then verbally ask questions about them.
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by glitchc 7mo ago
I daresay it will be tricky to make any back of the envelope calculations without the use of fossil fuel products, given that both the envelope and the writing tool heavily rely on them. The pen, pencil and paper are somewhat obvious. Less
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by glitchc 7mo ago
There's at least one wrongful conviction in there.
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by glitchc 7mo ago
Why is OOP lumped with Clean Code? Objects are useful for managing complex states and relationships. They are complementary, not mutually exclusive, to procedural and functional programming.
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by glitchc 7mo ago
It's self attesting. Just set your year of birth to 1970.
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by glitchc 7mo ago
Windows already allows this. Content can be set based on age in Microsoft Family. Set an age on a user's account and MS curates the store experience, regardless of which computer the user is logged into.
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by glitchc 7mo ago
Which happens to be in Asia. Close enough...
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by glitchc 8mo ago
We already have open-access publications: Just put it on arXiV. Most researchers I work with do this already. The problem isn't access, it's citations. arXiV is not considered a credible citation source since anyone can publish an
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by glitchc 8mo ago
Okay I'll bite: How does one find these organizations? They all have high quality listed in marketing blurbs on their websites. No one actually claims their product is crap and quality doesn't matter.
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by glitchc 8mo ago
If you mean Exchange, then yes. It also supports OAuth2.
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Of course, that's because Qatar actually is an authoritarian state, unlike the US. It hasn't stopped Al-Jazeera from challenging the authority of other nations or claiming that they are authoritarian. Pot, meet kettle and all th
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by glitchc 8mo ago
The Atlantic? I kid. I really mean Al-Jazeera.

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