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by kurthr 3y ago
They key point is that healthcare insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, pharmacies, and healthcare groups are all owned by one holding company which benefits when prices go up. People think that the insurer will try to keep costs down, but i
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by kurthr 3y ago
Even better, if you turn off the electricity and prevent major destruction and nothing happens (other than the power down/up) then you're the one who caused "the problem". There's no reward for fixing a problem that
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by kurthr 3y ago
Wait, Hong Kong was socialist before the National Security Law was passed? I've spent some months in HK-Kowloon (2002-2016) and it was one of the most capitalist places I've ever visited from the entrepreneurs running food stalls
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by kurthr 3y ago
Z-transforms or bust!
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by kurthr 3y ago
I agree, but to be fair... you can't call it socialism. NK has been a dictatorship for literally generations. Even SK has only been democratic for a relatively short time. Just because they put democratic or socialist or even communist
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by kurthr 3y ago
Perhaps you were on the wrong (upper) level? There are 24hr airport terminal shuttle busses that loop LAX and multiple ways to take public transport to DTLA (eg FlyAway busses at terminals 4-7, which might have been full?). You can also tak
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by kurthr 3y ago
I see all sorts of problems with the "western" (as if the Americas much less Europe and the US and/or Africa could be painted with that broad a brush) consumer economics led growth. I also see problems with "eastern&quot
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Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality [pdf](hbs.edu)
2 points by kurthr 3y ago|0 comments
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by kurthr 3y ago
It's kind strange they used buy rather than develop. I do also wonder how access will be controlled to this area, because it doesn't have the look of something that has a lot of low cost housing.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Have you seen the air in "easter-style societies"? I'm thinking of India and China as the two largest non-western populations in the world totaling a bit less than half. To take a Socratic turn: Do you think that air polluti
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by kurthr 3y ago
This seems palpably worse than just having Stable Diffusion (or Sora) kickout something that looks vaguely like you... like they steal your photo/video likeness and can use it to make you say whatever.
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Somebody Cloned Me in China [video](youtube.com)
7 points by kurthr 3y ago|2 comments
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by kurthr 3y ago
"Think of the Children" has been the norm since long before it was re-popularized in the 80s for song lyrics, in the 90s encryption, and now everything else. I almost think it's the eras between that are more notable.
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by kurthr 3y ago
If you want to steal a single print, you would need a moderately long game and pliable player along with wide angle synchronized video that imaged hand/finger orientation. If the video isn't good, or they use different fingers int
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by kurthr 3y ago
Of course one could say the same about oil, coal, and gas on the earth. We're burning a 100 million years of bio productivity. Any such bio productivity could have been occurring and being stored on Titan for 10^8 years as well. It mig
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by kurthr 3y ago
Unless you're playing fruit ninja there's really quite little control over the speed and direction of swipes... many people swipe very little at all or with a different finger than they enroll in biometrics or type on the screen.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Actually, there are two things that stick out to me in the paper. 1 The low FAR (False Accept Rate) is unbelievably high at 0.01% 2 The "partial prints" are described as single or "mixed" minutia The FAR is 1-
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by kurthr 3y ago
Filing patents may suck for you, but it's not like, BigCorp who pays your salary is going to let you out of it. If you're creating something unprotected by copyright (eg physical), and don't completely control the means of pr
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by kurthr 3y ago
The best patent lawyers/examiners are engineers. You really do have to understand the patents and the technology to write/read patents well. However, it is really boring. To be paid well, you'll need to pass the patent bar ex
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by kurthr 3y ago
Although this is generally true of Legal's recommendation to all engineering development, it is often not possible. In particular, once you start writing your own patents (or having counsel write and you approve) then you'll have
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by kurthr 3y ago
Alternately, is their absence/imbalance a cause of disease. Are they simply part of the "biome"?
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by kurthr 3y ago
KYC or you're liable. Interesting solution. It's kinda amazing it's not already that way (since advertisers need to get paid). I guess it would make it harder to advertise, if you're not already big so that could hurt li
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yes, but half of BYD's cars are hybrid. Only ~1.6M are EV. They've also been around making batteries since 1995 and ICE cars since 2003. It's not like Tesla's subsidies have been small, but BYD's have been enormous.
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by kurthr 3y ago
I agree with you, but it does show that having a competent government can make amazing things possible, and having a dysfunctional one with massive corruption makes it impossible. Not Liberia or Oman, but Nigeria, Angola, and Uganda have th
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by kurthr 3y ago
This story makes me want to reread a classic. It's amazing how motivating a good teacher can be!
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by kurthr 3y ago
Went to the beach a while back and saw a family out on towels with kids. For the hour I was there, it was the two parents out frolicking in the waves as the 10? and 14?yr old spent the entire time on their phones, although they occasionall
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by kurthr 3y ago
Every single piece of nuclear ordinance goes through that area. There are likely hundreds of near functional nuclear warheads under maintenance at any moment. They're a larger nuclear power than China, England, France, or any country o
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by kurthr 3y ago
He's been compromised and is controlled by the AIs now! They're calculated to need $7T to gain total global control.
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Just recognize that it's highly fictionalized.
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I will totally agree that there is infighting (esp with the military) within the CCP, but as others have noted it's much more centralized that the last 50 years. That doesn't mean there aren't attempts (within and without) to

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