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by jdietrich 1y ago
>at the root of a whole lot of them is that the NHS needs a funding increase of 20%-30% to get to similar levels of funding per capita as similarly wealthy countries As a percentage of GDP, UK healthcare spending is well above the EU a
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The median wait to be seen by a specialist is currently 14 weeks, but the range is much larger and some patients will wait as much as a year for a non-urgent referral. Those waits are on top of a lot of de-facto rationing; referrals will of
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I get there's old timers flying their tail wheels from the 1950s that don't have any electrical components Frustratingly, the FAA hasn't certified a straightforward solution to this problem. Here in the UK, we can use a ful
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Not just writing, but reading and comprehension. LLMs are a life-changing technology for a very large proportion of the population. Tens of millions of Americans are functionally illiterate, but are forced to go through life in a world that
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European TVs still use an antenna connector that was introduced in 1922. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling-Lee_connector
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>A more effective defense would be if that police-alarm button also released a quick-acting sleeping gas, but those aren't really available in real-world contexts and carry lots of unintentional risks. Rapid fog generators seem ri
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The UN has only ever recognised one China - they just switched from recognising the ROC to the PRC in 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembl...
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Elite endurance athletes have awful diets by any normal standard, because the only way to fuel yourself adequately for a stage of the Tour de France or an ultramarathon is with nauseating amounts of refined carbohydrates. It's not even
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It's a market where nobody has a particularly deep moat and most players are charging money for a service. Open weight models aren't too far behind proprietary models, particularly for mundane queries. The cost of inference is plu
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We already have that in many countries. It doesn't change much, because the vast majority of consumers prefer to use a payment method that does have chargebacks and various other consumer protections. As long as you have a majority of
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Volkswagen intentionally and persistently lied to regulators. In this instance, Google confused one Dave Barry with another Dave Barry. While it is illegal to intentionally deceive for material gain, it is not generally illegal to merely be
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Fabs can and do recover from major contamination events. In 2021, Renesas suffered a fire that destroyed about 5% of their N3 building. It took them just under a month to resume production and just over 3 months to reach pre-incident produc
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As a professional writer, the author of this post is likely a better writer than 99.99% of the population. A quick skim of his blog suggests that he's comfortably more intelligent than 99% of people. I think it's totally unsurpris
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I'm afraid that this might sound flippant, but the answer to your question comes through another question - why were early 19th century industrialists obsessed with replacing textile workers? Replacing workers with machines is not a ne
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>the war on drugs has effectively eliminated the ability for legitimate researchers to do significant research on these criminalized drugs That's not true any more. We have a substantial body of data already from clinical trials a
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Oregon, Colorado and New Mexico have legalized psilocybin for supervised medical use. There are a number of clinical studies that might be relevant and are recruiting or soon to recruit participants. https://clinicaltrials.gov&#x
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>For fun, I once asked ChatGPT to roll along with the claim that “the advent of raytracing is a conspiracy by Nvidia that involved them bribing the game engine developers, in an effort to make old hardware obsolete and to force people t
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For a relatively literate and high-functioning patient, I think that LLMs can deliver good quality psychotherapy that would be within the range of acceptable practice for a trained human. For patients outside of that cohort, there are some
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>Source: a lifelong recipient of talk therapy. All the data we have shows that psychotherapy outcomes follow a predictable dose-response curve. The benefits of long-term psychotherapy are statistically indistinguishable from a short cour
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No, what they're describing is manualized CBT. We have abundant evidence that there is little or no difference in outcomes between therapy delivered by a "real practitioner" and basic CBT delivered by a nurse or social worker
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European perspective: A large proportion of truck traffic in the EU is regional trunking - regular runs between distribution centres, typically as part of a hub-and-spoke model. To give an example, If I receive a parcel via Royal Mail, it&#
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Here in the UK, the price of the base-spec Dacia Sandero (and comparable cars like the Kia Picanto and Hyundai i10) has more than doubled in six years. The C1, 108 and Up! have been discontinued, as have a raft of other cheap small cars. Th
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Israel's neighbours are absolutely unwilling to take large numbers of Palestinians, for reasons that seem perfectly fair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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The dehumanising thing is to steadfastly believe that deep down everyone holds secular liberal values, regardless of their words and actions. Secular discussion about conflict in the Middle East frequently discounts the possibility that s
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The loss of information from a reduction of bit depth is purely a reduction of signal-to-noise ratio; the least significant bit is dithered to eliminate quantization distortion. In normal domestic listening scenarios this is usually imperce
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The EU is already two steps ahead. https://wts.com/global/publishing-article/20240508-plastic-t... https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/plastics/single-use-...
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As I see it, the fundamental issue is that they're trying to create some kind of hand-made artisanal solution to a problem that is already being addressed on a vast scale by industry. My plastic waste is collected at the kerbside and h
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Operation in GNSS-denied areas is already a stock feature on many relatively inexpensive commercial drones. The manufacturers talk about it euphemistically for obvious reasons, but they're designing drones specifically for the Ukraine
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Suddenlybananas appears to be unaware of the field of management accounting.
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They're under $3 on Alibaba. https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/SAEF-2-13-Inch-High-R...

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