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by jghn 2y ago
It's not an elephant in the room. The fact that half of the populace is too brainwashed and/or stupid to understand truths like this is the elephant in the room.
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by jghn 2y ago
We also tax at a much lower rate than we did in the post-WW2 era.
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by jghn 2y ago
Let's move past candidates. If we were to take a random polling of people in a median area of FL and ask them questions like "should we remove regulations on private businesses?". I would be flabbergasted if the polls showed
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by jghn 2y ago
As a state, they consistently vote for politicians who are anti-regulation and pro-capitalism. What do they expect to happen here?
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by jghn 2y ago
Most of them have a free version. For most jobs I've had, I've been AOK using the free version.
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by jghn 2y ago
You know that annoying thing where someone joins a new team, looks around, declares all their friction points to be easily solvable, dives in & starts making changes, and turns out to make a big giant mess? And the reason is they don&#x
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by jghn 2y ago
If something costs more to fix than it costs to leave sitting around, fixing it is less efficient. In this case it's already been investigated prior to DOGE, and deemed not worth the effort to clean up [1]. [1] https://oig
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by jghn 2y ago
> This isn't an audit, it's a blindfolded hatchet job It's actually *worse* than blindfolded. It's extremely partisan [1] [1] https://bsky.app/profile/adambonica.bsky.social/post/3lil7yl
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by jghn 2y ago
Yes, ish. In a previous job we did code review interviews. And went the route you said due to the problem I said. And yes, it's a lot better. But what also happened over time was that the bar slowly raised. Because over time the "
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by jghn 2y ago
This is harder than it sounds, although I agree in a vacuum the idea is a good one. So much value of the code review comes from having actual knowledge of the larger context. Mundane stuff like formatting quirks and obvious bad practices sh
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by jghn 2y ago
Sadly yet another phablet
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by jghn 2y ago
Further: My understanding has always been that "defense" is quite a bit larger than reported as there are a lot of things that are really in the name of "defense" that aren't categorized that way in the budget.
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by jghn 2y ago
Why are they proposing to raise the debt ceiling if the debt is the real issue? It's almost as if it's just a boogeyman they trot out when they're the opposition party, and not the thing they're actually concerned about.
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by jghn 2y ago
> 30+ years ago, Christian thought was the dominant force in society. Was around back then. While there's a lower percentage of professed Christians in the USA now than there was then, the power wielded by the evangelical/Chris
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by jghn 2y ago
Let's just say I'm familiar with steamed hams
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by jghn 2y ago
It also has several universities between itself and nearby spots like Troy. That tends to help these types of cultures flourish. Although when I lived there *mumbles* years ago it seemed like a lot of the stuff was driven by kids from towns
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by jghn 2y ago
All one had to do was go to the QE2 in Albany
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by jghn 2y ago
Well good news. There's not pervasive fraud in the system, so that won't happen.
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by jghn 2y ago
Even if one finds themselves in such a situation, they should allow the locals to pull them in, instead of pushing themselves on the locals.
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by jghn 2y ago
I had a similar reaction. I think of Panama as being one of the higher COL areas in that region. In a lot of areas in the US $650/night is a posh hotel/airbnb.
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by jghn 2y ago
> No one in medical field is interested to cure any disease. All want to manage it so that pharma can get as many "subscribers" as possible to keep that money flowing in. I can assure you this is absolutely, 100% false. *Maybe*
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by jghn 2y ago
Not necessarily but that's the idea. Tumors will start shedding cells into the bloodstream as they start forming. These types of tests are able to identify tumor cells in a blood draw.
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by jghn 2y ago
They're already whining about it [1]. All that'll wind up happening is some sort of shell game and we'll still be subsidizing the midwest red voters. [1] https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics&#
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by jghn 2y ago
1) Elon isn't a fraction as bright as he thinks he is 2) Elon suffers from extreme Dunning-Kruger 3) His boss only cares about adulation & retribution 4) Their enablers are willing to sit on the sideline as the side effects are des
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by jghn 2y ago
Again, this is a well studied topic. Anyone claiming they've identified the one true answer isn't someone who should be believed. The topic is complex, at best. But these are not hypothetical situations. There are data to support
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by jghn 2y ago
I'd argue that you are the one missing the point. These things are already taken into account via population scale statistics. In most cases, it's at best debatable whether more or less screening leads to an overall better outcome
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by jghn 2y ago
Because you can wind up in a situation where the "blip" would have otherwise led to nothing problematic, but the followup for the "blip" actually does cause harm. And at an individual level it's impossible to tell w
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by jghn 2y ago
There is an enormous gulf between what Theranos was doing and these sorts of tests. For starters, one was just making crap up. The other actually has some potential merit.
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by jghn 2y ago
> Worst case with a false positive? You're causing someone anxiety and giving them an extra scan. It is arguable that this as minor an issue as you make it out to be. There has been work to try to assess this (google "cancer ov
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by jghn 2y ago
Honestly they need to crack down on overhead usage in general, and not just for this reason. The thing about air travel that always makes me angriest is how F'ing slow everything becomes because everyone is trying to jam 93 different h

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