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by kelnos 3mo ago
As far as I can tell, your article is talking about total salary cost, divided by number of rides, not just the amount that the ambulance crew is being paid during an actual trip. For that, $1500 seems pretty reasonable. In a place like th
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Perhaps, but, for better or worse, it's about optics. It looks better to say a soldier died bravely in war than it does to say they died because of a friendly-fire incident with a drone with shoddy control software.
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by kelnos 3mo ago
OP apparently still hasn't learned that the kids today are taking selfies "blind" using the rear camera.
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Time-honored punishment: revoke various privileges for periods of time until they get it. In this case, seems pretty topical to just take the phone away entirely for a few days.
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Maybe $100B is too much for that particular infraction, but the idea of punitive damages has nothing to do with "fairness" or charging the real cost of the bad thing they did. It's a deterrent. It says: "you did a reall
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by kelnos 3mo ago
The net profit figure isn't all that relevant. But I would be completely unsurprised if they made significantly more than $1M via their anti-right-to-repair practices.
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Passing a regression test suite only proves that those particular regressions aren't present. It proves nothing about robustness beyond that.
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Sure, but behaviors that never have a bug or regression don't get a test. Software of this kind of complexity has all kinds of behavior that has never been broken, and doesn't have a specific test written for it. Getting an exten
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by kelnos 3mo ago
It depends on what you're comparing it to. It is indeed very slow when compared to a C compiler, or a zig compiler, or even a Java compiler. C++ can be comparable, or slower, or faster, depending on the C++ features used. Sure, maybe
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Bullshit. Cops aren't machines who just follow the orders of a computer. Anyone who has the power to do violence to or imprison someone has a responsibility to get these things right.
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Still definitely not trying it if I'm gonna lose access on my subscription plan. "First hit is free", indeed.
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by kelnos 3mo ago
No, OTC means a drug available on the shelf, that people can buy without a prescription. It's funny, I never thought about it, but you're right, it does sound backwards.
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by kelnos 3mo ago
> The "accidental OD" scenario where an innocent patient quadruple-doses is realistic, and anticipated, and the shrewd consumer will avoid this. I think we need to do more around accidental overdoses than suggest that everyon
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by kelnos 3mo ago
I think I have two opinions on this, from different angles. I think the phenylephrine stuff is absolutely messed up. I personally had no idea it was ineffective, and I've bought medicine with that included, believing it would do what
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Same situation in the US. I can buy NyQuil/DayQuil, or I can buy the pharmacy-branded version for a lower price. Here it's usually not such a dramatic difference; probably the pharmacy brand is a a 30-40% discount off the big-na
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by kelnos 3mo ago
In California, at least, if you are a resident of the state, you are legally required to register cars garaged in California with the California DMV. (It's actually a little ambiguous in an annoying way; even if you have a car that&#x
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by kelnos 3mo ago
Not sure I agree. The only difference I see is the idea that there's no expectation of privacy while driving on public roads. That's potentially a huge difference, certainly, but I don't think it makes the negative outcome
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by kelnos 4mo ago
The word you are looking for is "you're". (Can we not play language police? It's boring and doesn't lead to interesting discussion.)
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by kelnos 4mo ago
The judge doesn't accept it, and the Wikipedia page points out that this isn't a good legal strategy for that reason. But it can be a good social-engineering strategy: the "rule" is based on the hope that the person on t
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Right, so with Amazon you have one truck visiting 100 addresses every day for two weeks (because people are buying 2-3 items per order). With Costco you have 100 people each driving to Costco once, on a single day. From a cars-on-the-road
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Amazon's logistics and approach discourage bundling, while Costco's in-store approach incentivizes it. So it's more like 100 people drive to Costco, and they each buy 20 items and drive home. Or one Amazon delivery truck mak
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Yes, nearly all of it. Having the agent write code for me doesn't really save me much time, and the code quality is usually worse (and it takes even more time if I insist on better code quality from the agent). And I don't think
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Yes, it's the classic "first hit's free" marketing plan: offer Fable "free" to subscription users for a while, and then pull the plug, hoping they'll be hooked and want to spend even more money to use it.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Why even bother posting, especially as a reply to a completely unrelated comment? This is just not substantive or useful to the conversation. (And I say this as someone who agrees with you that it's garbage that these companies are tr
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> Statistically parents spend more time with their kids now than in the 1900s Is that true? In more "traditional" times, the husband went out to work while the wife stayed home and managed the household and raised the childr
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by kelnos 4mo ago
That's the classic question of when the state should step in to correct bad parenting, and when it should leave well enough alone. I'm sympathetic to the idea that this is one of the "step in" times, but I think the neg
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Title is misleading (and is editorialized from the actual article title). GLM 5.2 did better than Claude in one specific cybersecurity-related benchmark (finding vulnerabilities of one certain type). I don't think you can draw any ge
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by kelnos 4mo ago
I feel like it's the other way around: Trump got elected because he was extremely critical of the US, and spun that as "America sucks right now because the liberals have ruined it". And beyond that, he just said the right w
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> what sense does it make to vote for an unpatriotic politician? I really dislike the concept of "patriotism". What does it even mean? I think you'll get different answers if you get different people. If people think t
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> This is why the right gets away with saying liberals hate America. The right gets away with it because they are disingenuous children who argue in bad faith. Don't blame the people criticizing the US; those criticisms are usual

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