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by gridlockd 6y ago
Democrats had eight years to fix healthcare, they didn't fix this problem and they created numerous other problems. This particular problem is due to heavy regulation creating a moat for large pharmaceutical companies to arbitrarily se
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Those compliance costs are in the best interest of large pharmaceutical companies, they lobby for it. If these regulations did not exist, small companies would be destroying the disproportionate profits to be made from generic drugs. I woul
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by gridlockd 6y ago
It's gatekeeping regulation under the guise of "quality control". Drug companies don't want competition from the bottom, they're happy with a regulatory framework that keeps small companies from entering the market.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
This is a dubious explanation, considering that high blood pressure by itself is largely symptom-free. Consider that if bloodletting had benefits, we would be unlikely to find out about it in our system.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
There's nothing to convert, Excel natively supports CSV. It just doesn't read beyond a million lines, it presumably won't warn you about that, and if you save the file again (as CSV), the lines will just be gone.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Compatibility. It's reasonable to predict that some of the participating entities are running software that is at least a decade old.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Like I said, that's the way I heard it , the way it was narrated to me. The Guardian reported my version: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/05/how-excel-m... CSV would to me make more s
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by gridlockd 6y ago
The way I heard it, it was an Excel problem: They had a CSV file that had more than 1 million lines, and Excel dropped the lines beyond 1 million. I can imagine an automated process that appended to the CSV and then Excel saving back to t
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> Using an Excel sheet as a database? You wouldn't (want to) believe how incredibly common that is.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
The story I heard was that it was indeed a CSV and that Excel (silently) drops anything beyond 1 million rows.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> People find joy in discovering weird facts. People also find joy in going "Well, actually..." and so on. This is balance of nature.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> In the remake she sings a song about female empowerment where she tells everyone off, but it turns out to be a dream sequence. Sigh. Any "empowerment narrative" that has "be a princess" as step one is doomed to fail
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by gridlockd 6y ago
They must've given you the Potemkin village tour.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
The stock market hit all time highs during the pandemic while the economy is in shambles. Why? Because there's a lot of cheap money chasing those assets, and it's going to stay that way for a long while. Therefore, those house pr
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by gridlockd 6y ago
I didn't mention culture at all. I'm not sure how you would define culture in this context and to what degree that is measurable. Instead, I would point out various socio-economic factors, such as Sweden having a higher rate of et
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by gridlockd 6y ago
I'm not saying that any of these problems aren't real. Many applications on Windows and some on MacOS disregard theme settings as well. That's not a security issue though, and it's fixable.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> They don't mention sandboxing on their frontpage, at all. This is not a goal. ...and without this "fake sandboxing" strawman, flatkill.org is left without a convincing argument. The security trade-offs that come with fla
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by gridlockd 6y ago
You can already do that with Javascript, it is just less efficient than using the hardware meant to accelerate NNs.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
This API does not implicitly give access to the camera or photos. The things that you are concerned about are already possible by doing the NN part server-side, or less efficently in software. If anything, keeping the NN part on the client
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by gridlockd 6y ago
What "tracking" or "GPU abuse" do you expect this API to bring to the browser, that isn't already enabled by existing APIs?
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by gridlockd 6y ago
You have to consider the trajectory. SF is already a dumpster fire, if enough affluent people leave, property prices will tank and you will be paying off a mortgage for a larger sum than what the property is worth. Meanwhile, all these affl
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Keep in mind that the vaccine has, on average, efficacy of 50%.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Intent isn't necessarily the significant part of a historical artifact, but even then: The way these photos look is part of the state of the world at the time. The way they aged is part of history. What does it mean for something to
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by gridlockd 6y ago
It's not even so much about stylistic choice but about the historicity of it. Van Gogh belongs to an era in art history. If you chose to paint in this style today it would have a different meaning, even if it looked the same. The way
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by gridlockd 6y ago
The sky did not literally look like that either, when Van Gogh painted it. You are missing the point.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Disregarding that your numbers are slightly inaccurate, these tax rates need to be put in perspective, because you get a whole lot of service, insurance and infrastructure for it - whether you want it or not. By comparison, in the "soc
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by gridlockd 6y ago
It is a problem because that "quality of life" depends on demographics. If there's a huge amount of old people relative to the amount of young people, pension systems turn into a Ponzi scheme. People that are paying into the
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> I would actually put that as a plus, as a super-soft demographic control policy. It is not a plus, because in the US there is no need to control births. To the contrary, there are not enough births.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
I just picked the first google result, which happens to be metric, so I mixed that up.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Why compare Sweden to Norway and Finland? Because they're "nordic"? They do have quite different economies, different populations, different healthcare systems, etc. These comparisons can be made arbitrarily to make Sweden

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