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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is getting wildly off topic, but I firmly believe that "we tried everything and free market capitalism is the best we have" is a myth. It's incontrovertible that, under certain conditions, an unrestricted price system (a
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's a great demonstration of the granola-to-libertarian pipeline. Jumping the gap in the horseshoe, so to speak.
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In theory health insurance in the US has the same incentive. But it's cheaper to deny preventative care and then deny or minimize or cap coverage later on.
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> Americans felt the matter is important enough to start a civil war around it. The answer was the same then as it is now: big business. Slave labor cash crops were central to the economy of the South. Great Britain was not dependent on
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by nerdponx 2y ago
How is fluoridating water better than giving out free toothpaste and toothbrushes? Has the latter been tried? "Not keeping people trapped in poverty" would be nice too but for some reason that one seems off the table.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Water treatment is usually done at the municipal or regional level. The state government is declaring that towns and cities may not do this. The alternative would be each and every municipal water authority deciding on its own.
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Nim was great along these lines when I tried it. But that was before the v2.0 which apparently was accompanied by drama and a fork.
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Convenient timing!
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They might believe that they are, or might publicly claim that they are. That doesn't mean that they are. It should be pretty clear that, if they intend to be honest state servants just trying to make things more efficient and less exp
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I'm a "data scientist", but I have absolutely improved my productivity in the last year or so by conversing with LLM chatbots to work through tough problems, get ideas, figure out project plans, etc. I can see the effect in m
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This has been my complaint about AI from the beginning, and it hasn't gotten better. In the time spend I figuring out how to explain to the AI what I need it to do, I can just sit down and figure it out. AI, for me, has never been a us
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Fully functional, if you don't mind a dishwasher with less functionality than 40 years ago when the buttons were still physical locking buttons with springs.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Shame on CR for not calling this out. I've become a little mistrustful of them in recent years after having not-great experiences with their high-rated products, and great experiences with products that they didn't rate at all. Th
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Bundling ads and selling data. Double revenue stream, double incentive for enshittification. Also the marginal cost of an app is basically $0, whereas the marginal cost of hardware like buttons and 7-segment displays is >$0, so it's
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I disagree. He has always been excellent from the beginning of his Youtube career. Maximum potential skill levels and skill acquisition/growth rates vary from person to person. I think most people wouldn't have as much success eve
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is a great example of how you can ignore politics all you want, but politics will not ignore you.
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It's literally $0 with LetsEncrypt.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I just said something like "If you don't remove me from the list within 24 hours I will report this to the FTC as a violation of US federal law." That's the easy part, the hard part is actually getting through to someone
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I missed that FAQ item, thanks. I've seen (and used) the "report fraud" page before, and I had seen something to suggest that it was the right place to report illegal spam, but it wasn't clear how "spam" and &q
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If you're in the US, I've had success by contacting customer service and threatening action under CAN-SPAM. The FTC has never really provided an easy way to file complaints or request enforcement by the public, but it seems to get
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's just fastmail.com, that would be insane to blacklist. Also you don't really use these for sending, it's more for signing up for things and online shopping.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Unions need to stop marketing themselves as a way to get better work-life balance. The main benefit of unions is that employees are protected from individual abuse, because the entire union can put pressure on management in support of indiv
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The M chips are pretty much perfect for this.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Idris 2 has some really interesting stuff with linear types. IO is implemented using a linear "world" token. Every I/O operation consumes the current state of the world and returns a new state of the world. Each state of the
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by nerdponx 2y ago
By that logic, paintings aren't copyrightable either because of all the chemistry involved in drying pigment.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's only dumb if they get caught doing it. If they do it once and keep it quiet and then someone finds out 2 years later, it's going to be a footnote in history.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Isn't that the classic problem of software engineers also being responsible for UX? There's a reason UX is a whole field of its own.
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This is for people who don't want to switch notebook environments, because Jupyter(lab) is getting better faster than alternatives (which support things like reactive cell execution) are becoming usable for day-to-day work. It's j
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It's great if you are a wealthy business owner or investor, and you want to push deregulation propaganda, because deregulation would allow you to get even richer.
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It's about putting together individual pieces of information to come up with an idea about something. You could get 5 books from the library and spend an afternoon skimming them, putting sticky notes on things that look interesting&#x2

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