mmooss

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by mmooss 5d ago
If for-profit healthcare is allowed then it could be regulated like banking, with requirements to prevent failure (including requirements for financial health), and if there is failure, to ensure customers are protected and provide for cont
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by mmooss 6d ago
> It's better for your local hospital to be taken over by a PE firm than to go out of business. It's a false choice. The healthcare system has long dealt with and deal with that situation without private equity.
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by mmooss 6d ago
They are human institutions above all. Saying 'we're a corporation' doesn't at all absolve them from human traits, consequences, and responsibilities.
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by mmooss 6d ago
Thanks!
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by mmooss 6d ago
Thank you very much. > in prokaryotes, they spin around their axis. I read earlier this year about Berg's and Samuel et al.'s (and maybe others') amazing flagellar motor discoveries. I didn't realize they were only pr
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by mmooss 7d ago
The images and video clips are amazingly well done. It's so rare the serious publications take full advantage of the medium of a web page.
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by mmooss 7d ago
> Comb jellies are ancient marine predators whose hairlike extensions known as cilia refract light as they swim, giving them an iridescent shimmer. They are the largest animals known to use cilia for movement, ... I've long wondered
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by mmooss 8d ago
For what purpose? If you have a debit card, cash app, etc., what urgent need is there for a banking application?
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by mmooss 8d ago
A major difference, IMHO, is the abandonment of the rules-based, rights-based, international order. Within it, international war (as opposed to civil war) was nearly impossible - it hardly existed for generations. While you need to prepare
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by mmooss 8d ago
Yes, etymology is amazing. You carry tens of thousands of artifacts in your head.
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by mmooss 8d ago
Maybe you do or did really believe those things - lots of people do. There's nothing wrong with it. Saying 'I was joking' is maybe true, maybe it's just using a very common tactic for covering.
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by mmooss 9d ago
Would you expand on your experiences? Can you not share ideas now? What if you enhance them with an LLM before sharing them?
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by mmooss 9d ago
Stop treating AI companies and their software as somehow unconstrained, above-the-law actors. It's delusional that anyone buys that. Regulate them appropriately. At the same time, mathematicians should be using sophisticated, specializ
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by mmooss 9d ago
> Fundamentally I don’t think we have a choice about riding on the AI technology train. It's amazing how effectively tech leaders have indoctrinated people to give up their power and give the tech people free reign. The same thing h
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by mmooss 9d ago
It's interesting and fun to implement this stuff; I totally agree. Emacs is amazing. I worry people will get the wrong idea about security: The application used for decryption doesn't need to be the same as the one used for encr
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by mmooss 10d ago
They could use an LLM to lookup your HN posts and then to wrangle Emacs. Or just decrypt the text in another application - I doubt Emacs is the only platform for whatever crypto method you use. M-x rot13 ?
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by mmooss 10d ago
> It's not "fascism" to wince and shrug at the taped banana. Agreed, though your comment does much more than wince and shrug: > too ridiculous to be seriously defended Humans are very social animals and we follow social
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by mmooss 11d ago
Yes, especially if you add up the ocean floors, Antarctica, Siberia and northern Canada ... all far, far more hospitable, useful, and cost-effective than anything in space.
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by mmooss 11d ago
While I agree that repeating a 60 year old achievement is pointless, one of NASA's goals for Artemis, etc. is having a platform for R&D for human exploration of Mars. There aren't other nearby large bodies on which, and around
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by mmooss 11d ago
I think that's an essential point, though maybe for a different reason. I think the cause may be that most real estate developers are not students of architecture and also are looking to minimize costs and time. Even if the developer w
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by mmooss 11d ago
Interesting, I hadn't seen that; thank you. Though that is dated 10 years ago and they haven't done it yet, or not fully successfully. It might be challenging to identify third party clients, though maybe each app inevitably has a
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by mmooss 11d ago
> I find New York’s prewar buildings more beautiful than your average soulless luxury tower There might be some survivorship bias there.
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by mmooss 11d ago
> Ugliness has become a cultural norm I love modern architecture (and art); I find many older forms to be garish, focused on pointless decoration and on wealth display, rather than on the beauty of function and form. The imagination of [
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by mmooss 11d ago
> tribal life would be fascinating to experience. Not when life is filled with warfare, murdering other people, and having loved ones killed?
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by mmooss 11d ago
I've always wondered about similar designs: Doesn't calculating a hash of every block, on every read and every write, create lots of overhead? Why isn't that a problem? Some systems have dedicated crypto co-processors for con
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by mmooss 12d ago
Thanks for the rundown. > Allegedly, Signalgate was caused by Apple helpfully mapping the wrong number to a name. In what system is Apple mapping numbers to names? The address book is maintained by users. An AppleID? How could that happe
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by mmooss 12d ago
> Signal is not peer to peer Isn't it? I think it has a setting, disabled by default, to proxy connections via a Signal server. If you're not doing that ... it must be P2P? Probably with the IP address of the person you're
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by mmooss 13d ago
> LLMs do not desire, they hacked websites because OpenAI/Anthropic let them. "let them" could imply that the LLMs wanted to do it. The intent is on the part of the people. The LLMs did it because OpenAI/Anthropic int
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by mmooss 13d ago
> And as it is today the "public" has no reason/incentive in switching to it and that naturally keeps the "non-technical public" away from it. I know plenty of non-technical users on Signal. Based on news reports
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by mmooss 13d ago
> Is it your expectation that E2E is broken by these "dragnet surveillance" networks? Surely not? While I disagree with these critiques of Signal, the surveillance networks can capture metadata - who talks to who and when - wit

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