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by mcculley 2y ago
Ah, now I understand why you are confused. No, most people with health problems in the U.S. are paying, at most, only a copay for a visit. They are getting medical treatment at no cost to them directly. It is paid for by an insurer or the s
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by mcculley 2y ago
OxyContin is a medical drug. I have unfortunately had to assist my mother with visits to the "pain clinic" and seen firsthand many patients with a problem with self regulation of consumption. Maybe I am interpreting your assertion
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I was not making an argument about the public/private healthcare debate. I am objecting to the assertions 'a consumer that “doesn't self regulate consumption” is not a thing in medicine' and 'People don’t take drugs
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People eating more than they should, getting diabetes, and then consuming more medical services is a form of poor regulation of consumption. The overapplication of OxyContin is another form of unregulated consumption. Now we have the semagl
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by mcculley 2y ago
Brokerage? You are making assumptions again. I am divesting of a business that has many kinds of transactions. Counterparties often suggest a cash discount so that one or both parties can hide the income.
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Not all transactions are subject to withholding, especially the ones one might want to hide.
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by mcculley 2y ago
> Explain why someone would want to open a new empty bank account in someone else's name other than because they couldn't or don't want to open a new empty bank account in their own name. Putting income into someone else’s
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by mcculley 2y ago
>> Yes, you're not allowed to do that under someone else's name, that's what the crime is. >But that's the objection. That's a stupid crime. The only reason anybody wants to do that is that they can't
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by mcculley 2y ago
I write Java daily. I find a lot of value in marking functions as static to make clear that they are not methods. There is a lot less cognitive overhead wondering if they only operate on their arguments or if they drag in their closure and
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by mcculley 2y ago
Some form of success, yes. “Full Self-Driving”? No. The abuse of language is inexcusable and Tesla should be penalized for the lies.
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Am I missing something? This does not seem consistent with what I have seen going out of the harbors. Exports of both thermal and metallurgical coal from the United States to China have increased [0][1]. [0]: https://www.eia.gov&
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by mcculley 2y ago
China imports coal from the United States.
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by mcculley 2y ago
Your confidence about the ease of this is amusing.
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The computational substrate might just be a side-effect of something else happening in higher dimensions.
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Such exploits always remind me of the line from Stross' Accelerando about the ultimate end game for hacking: "running a timing channel attack on the computational ultrastructure of space-time itself, trying to break through to wha
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by mcculley 2y ago
I have experienced this flakiness using Migration Assistant, using restores from backup, and with fresh installs. Many people do. I believe that it works for some people who don't need it very often. I am happy for them.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I am well aware of how it is supposed to work. All of my devices are on the same iCloud account. Have been since there was an iCloud. It still is flaky for me and many others. (Even if it was reliable, I would rather not have to click anyth
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by mcculley 2y ago
In my experience, it appears sometimes. Opening the Personal Hotspot settings pane on the iPhone may make it appear on the Mac. Maybe not.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I think you are thinking of "Locke" and "Demosthenes" in Ender’s Game.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I have had an iPhone since 2012 and an Apple laptop since they were called PowerBooks. I am often in road warrior mode. No, it is not seamless. I have to restart it quite often. It is nowhere near as convenient and always on like it is with
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by mcculley 2y ago
I just bought an almost completely maxed out MacBook Pro and it annoys me that every other Apple product brags about having a cellular modem and no matter how much one is willing to spend, one cannot have a cellular modem in their power use
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by mcculley 2y ago
This movie is great overall, in my opinion, but I always chuckle when I think about it because I had no idea about Roddy Piper’s wrestling fame and there is a scene where he fights Keith David that is just silly and I had no idea why it was
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by mcculley 2y ago
I am also glad that libgen exists. Liberating human knowledge from copyright will improve humanity overall. But I don’t understand how you can be sure that the big players are using it as a training corpus. Such an effort of questionable le
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by mcculley 2y ago
Someone will. The potential gains are too high to ignore it.
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by mcculley 2y ago
They are not “trained on all publicly available human knowledge”. Go look at the training data sets used. Most human knowledge that has been digitized is not publicly available (e.g., Google Books). These models are not able to get to data
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by mcculley 2y ago
Wordnet is insufficient for disambiguation, right? That’s why you need the query log.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I know a lot of people who are not planning ahead for old age. The Venn diagram of people who cannot think ahead and people who are incarcerated has a lot of overlap.
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by mcculley 2y ago
What do you think the Federal government should be doing to protect companies from foreign intrusions? (Assuming this was foreign.) The U.S. Capitol Police has a pretty clear mandate regarding riots. I don’t want the Feds interfering with h
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by mcculley 2y ago
You did not post any data. You made some assertions about Toyota and Tesla. I asked which data you were using. You linked to an infographic and an article about a recent recall. You seem to have a bias. You should think about that.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I asked about the data you are using when you say it is disproportionate. It sounds like you don’t have any.

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