jmcgough

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by jmcgough 4mo ago
fanduel and draftkings poured massive amount of money into advertising, pumping their numbers to make it seem like gambling was too big to stop.
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by jmcgough 4mo ago
The live scammers targeting kids are pretty vile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYTPI57GLac Seems like it's just a game of whack-a-mole, nothing is really being done to stop scammers from making new accounts and cont
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by jmcgough 4mo ago
They influence clinical decisions by adding to treatment options, but they do not make clinical decisions. If we believe that a drug's potential risks outweigh its benefits, clinicians will not prescribe it.
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by jmcgough 4mo ago
I can understand being frustrated and cynical with the pharmaceutical industry, but I have never worked with a single doctor that approaches patient care with the goal of getting them "hooked" on something for life. The pharmaceut
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by jmcgough 5mo ago
I have a family member who works in estate planning. From all the stories he's told me, a lot of wealthy people compulsively screw over people / refuse to follow the contract they agreed to / etc, simply because they can and
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by jmcgough 5mo ago
How do we know there's any plan to accomplish this, and that this isn't just funneling $25M to a family member?
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by jmcgough 5mo ago
They aren't interested in those responsibilities, just enriching themselves and attacking their enemies.
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by jmcgough 5mo ago
The American right to free speech has never extended to fomenting an armed mob and directing them to commit criminal acts.
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by jmcgough 5mo ago
Took two minutes of reading his Twitter to find him comparing black people to chimpanzees.
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
LLMs can be a useful second opinion for a highly educated patient with good insight into their health and body, but this is not the average patient I see in an urban emergency department. Many patients can't give a cohesive history wit
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
We don't really have a good way to measure whether something has consciousness. Heck, we have pretty limited ways of testing how "intelligent" non-human animals are (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
Doubtful, it's never really deemed worth LEOs time to pursue bike thieves.
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
COVID almost certainly had something to do with it, but the US isn't the only country that faced lockdowns, nor is it the only country that experienced inflation. Why is it that most other countries' happiness scores have returned
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
A lot of things it could be a direct reference to, but the obvious one is Palantir, which is named after the seeing stones used to spy on people by evil antagonists in Lord of the Rings.
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
Panic had a booth at Portland Retro Gaming Expo last year, they were super nice and the Playdates were a lot of fun to play with. Nice to see that people are continuing to enjoy the console, the production process seemed like a nightmare.
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
I can't believe you made a throwaway to pretend to be a HN commenter just to defend your AI store. This is like Scott Adams behavior.
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
Interesting that you made an account just to comment on this and seem to have "heard" a lot of things about this place.
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
Ugh, of course it's written by an AI, which means it's inherently not trustworthy.
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
"Thanks, I hate it"
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
idk my mom still pays for her aol email account
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
It isn't showing anything that would otherwise be hidden, I think this is a stylistic decision. Looks cute and more natural to me.
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
Bribes, campaign donations, presidential ballrooms. The current administration has settled MANY cases that they'd already won, it's very easy to buy favors now.
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
and then some kid gets tackled by a team of armed police when AI flags a bag of doritos as a gun. https://abc7.com/post/student-handcuffed-doritos-bag-mistake...
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
When people do find an edge they tend not to share it ;)
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
Leaking classified information is a crime, and I don't see why foreign adversaries can't monitor Polymarket to get advanced warning of military actions. A less corrupt US government would ban betting on matters involving national
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
Aphyr is unabashedly gay - I remember him repeatedly posting hardcore pornography on twitter at one point to remind people of this - so he probably just decided to block UK visitors rather than risk violating the law by having minors visit
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
By this logic, wouldn't prediction markets be a national security threat?
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
Turns out you can't "fake it til you make it" with SOC2 compliance.
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by jmcgough 6mo ago
They've graduated 5,000+ companies, so some fraud is hard to avoid, especially with young hungry founders willing to do anything to succeed. Honestly, it's a pretty good track record that there's only been a handful of compan
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by jmcgough 7mo ago
I get downvoted here when I call him a racist.

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