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by lr4444lr 3y ago
That's not an invalid point of view, but if the expertise, trade secrets, and skill of your labor is evident in the product, and it is now takeable at no cost, you've sold WAY more than your skilled time building the product: you&
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
RMS was right IMHO when he said that software that runs without the permission of its users, doing things to or preventing use of the hardware owned by the user, is an infringement of freedom. But he goes too far in demanding that all softw
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I don't know what's at stake, but I hope Reddit refuses to negotiate with these extortionists, which will only embolden future ones. If and when the criminals are found, may they be punished to the fullest extent of the law!
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Don't you think they perhaps just considered that making a pro forma altruistic sounding demand on top of the venal one would put public pressure on their target to comply and make themselves merely look like Robin Hood?
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Having leadership that can't help you see the big picture and leaves you feeling like a duct taper or a goon is a problem in and of itself, for multiple reasons.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Because doctors are humans, and humans make errors. I would never go into surgery without having at least a radiologist confirm the results of what the surgeon was seeing unless it was a life or death emergency. Also, because people heal na
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Good luck finding high quality doctors though, especially specialists, that take Medicaid and don't make you wait over an hour beyond your scheduled appointment time. The reimbursement rates for Medicaid are notoriously low, and as a r
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
What on earth did your friend have wrong with his hand that he agreed to surgery on the same day as an initial consult? I know we run a ton of expensive diagnostics in the U.S. to rack up bills, but surgery is not without its risks, not to
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
What economic system isn't interested in those things? Barter? Mercantilism? Socialism is just about the ownership model, not the operation.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
A substantial majority of outer borough households own a car compared to much wealthier median income non car owning Manhattanites. It is regressive.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Why haven't the authorities moved in on the host of the site offering the data?
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Doesn't amino acid uptake generally decrease with aging, leading to sarcopenia/osteopenia? Doesn't exercise generally improve amino acid metabolism? Why focus on taurine?
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
And in the USA, unemployment is really low, and is usually lower than other countries in most economic climates. Investors are more prone to invest in new or expanding companies when the leadership is able to protect their assets faster by
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Considering the prices adjusted for inflation, and how little computers could do out of the box beyond the business applications they were designed for in that era, it was really quite an expensive hobby to be a hacker!
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
More or less. Otherwise you can get easily stuck arguing that any profession that fixes problems is untrustable for fabricating problems. E.g., doctors deliberately give us bad advice to keep us sick or overdiagnose so that they have more p
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
All those other professions have preventative value. It is wholly desirable for cities to run homeless shelters - the incentives are rightly aligned to make it temporary to keep down costs. Involving private outfits as contractors, just as
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but how do you reasonably stop fires in attached wood homes from becoming a huge problem fast?
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
The Dept. of Homeless Services doesn't track this? It is done in NYC, and it was a major bone of contention that the high level of service was effectively magnetizing the city for homeless in other parts of the country to come here, or
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I repeat Djikstra's refrain: asking whether a computer can think is like asking whether a submarine can swim.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Let's not kid ourselves: Americans are terrible about looking out for their health. If an annual physical is what it takes for PCPs to effectively route people to the necessary screenings, so be it. That saves lives.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Uh, no. Hypertension is a silent killer. Mole checks? Colonoscopies? Testicular cancer screenings? These are all worthless? Preventative medicine has a long way to go, but it's currently the best it's ever been. Thank God I don&#x
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
That's usually a shorthand for a child's limited understanding of complex factors when parents are too tired or unable to explain things better - not an actual moral claim.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Anyone who dishes out criticism should be able to take yours seriously and change his own code. That means you're partners in helping each other get better. Anyone of your peers who thinks his $%^& smells like roses and everyone el
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
How do you get a gig like that?
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
No mention of Cal Newport? I'm torn on this. Yeah, it'd be great to have a hard line between dev and ops with both groups also having managers to shield them from the business team that protects the mental states of flow of each.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
And have it teach you AI generated lessons on Plato's Cave? Oh, the irony...
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Meaningful to whom? The worker, the employer, or the consumer?
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
This specter of this has been raised for over 20 years now, and it never seems to pan out.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
One of the silver linings to AI mass generated fake news IMHO is that the professional gatekeepers of traditional media will once again be appreciated for the value they add in verification. The so-called "new media" with few exce
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Gonna add in here for those of y'all US-based: get tested for apoB levels regularly, and once in your life (the sooner the better) for lp(a). They are not part of the typical panel ordered by most primary care/internists. If the

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