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by nradov 4mo ago
Why is it necessary to track humans? It might be more profitable for advertising but that's not the same as necessary .
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by nradov 4mo ago
What data is being stolen? Are you referring to copyright violation or something else? If you don't want LLM companies to scrape a site then just restrict access to authorized users. Simple.
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by nradov 4mo ago
The HTTP User-Agent header was a mistake from the beginning. There is no legitimate need for the server to know what software the client is (or claims to be) running.
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by nradov 4mo ago
The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Scholarship Program and Indian Health Service Scholarship Program will pay for medical school in exchange for agreeing to work in underserved areas for several years. Some states have similar program
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by nradov 4mo ago
Can we quantify that? Does it apply equally to every college and major?
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by nradov 4mo ago
Nah, the point was just wrong. In many cases these primary care doctors are doing more than just maintaining a treatment plan prescribed by a specialist. Apparently you don't understand how the practice of medicine is legally defined i
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by nradov 4mo ago
The south SF Bay Area cities of Los Gatos and Monte Sereno have persistent problems with traffic gridlock during summer weekends and holidays due to navigation apps routing drivers off of southbound SR-17 and onto surface streets. It gets s
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by nradov 4mo ago
This tends to run into problems with people not actually reading their email, especially when the messages are falsely classified as spam. That might not be a problem if all the members are on the same school mail server but it's probl
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by nradov 4mo ago
That's a weird perspective. Certainly not everyone has an iPhone. As for other messaging apps, I also see widespread use of GroupMe for certain domains like sports teams. Some clubs also run their own Slack channels.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Your point is simply wrong. Especially in underserved rural areas you'll often see primary care doctors delivering cardiology and nephrology treatments even though they lack board certification in those specialties. There are no certif
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by nradov 4mo ago
Medical licenses are not revoked based on lack of certification. There are plenty of working and employed physicians who lack board certification. Hospitals and health systems in areas with a shortage of doctors can't afford to be too
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by nradov 4mo ago
OK but what's your point? Colleges usually classify performing arts like singing and fine arts like painting or sculpture as separate from liberal arts. It would be good if more colleges offered majors suited to students interested in
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by nradov 4mo ago
OK but how many? There has to be some upper limit. It's hardly fair to ask citizens who went to work or joined the military out of high school to pay taxes to fund free education for an unlimited number of liberal arts scholars.
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by nradov 4mo ago
And yet many of our greatest artists never attended college at all.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Right, economists describe this as a signaling mechanism. Most regular office jobs don't require skills beyond the high school level. But a college degree signals to employers that the candidate has some discipline and ability to compl
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by nradov 4mo ago
I think you might be a little confused about how the practice of medicine works. State medical boards license physicians. Earning a license usually requires an MD/DO degree, passing the USMLE exam, and completing some amount of post-gr
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by nradov 4mo ago
So called "AI safety researchers" are themselves unserious so of course I don't take them seriously. LLMs are extremely useful, I use them constantly for a wide variety of tasks. LLMs don't cause harm: humans cause harm.
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by nradov 4mo ago
The things being built in Silicon Valley don't include much housing or infrastructure. Mostly just software and other IP.
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Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid(npr.org)
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by nradov 4mo ago
There's no such thing as "long COVID" specifically. Any serious viral infection has the potential to cause sequalae in susceptible patients for reasons that are still not well understood. Some of those are detectible in lab t
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by nradov 4mo ago
There's a lot more to the world than web apps. What if you need to build a 6th-generation fighter? Can a team of 30 do that with some AI agents?
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by nradov 4mo ago
It still can't even accurately recognize my wife's name for voice dialing. And I don't even have a speech impediment or strong accent or anything.
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by nradov 4mo ago
I'm not religious but just looking around it's pretty obvious that many unmarried adults act quite immature (delayed adolescence). Which way the causality runs is harder to determine, but when you're responsible for and accou
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by nradov 4mo ago
Russia has attempted to jam Starlink satellites but with very limited success. The problem for Russia is that the constellation is enormous and uses highly directional phased-array radios which are naturally resistant to jamming. They can
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by nradov 4mo ago
In California at least we no longer build housing or infrastructure. Not much of it, anyway.
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by nradov 4mo ago
There is no rein on progress. You can buy electric motorcycles without speed governors. And you can drive them on public roads (subject to traffic laws) as long as you're properly licensed, registered, and insured. The distinction betw
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by nradov 4mo ago
Most of the world's problems are fundamentally social, political, and religious. These cannot be solved with current non-AGI models. Probably not with AGI either.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Right, the so-called "AI safety researchers" are worthless clowns and grifters with nothing of value to contribute. We would all be better off if they spent their time on something productive like writing entertaining sci-fi stori
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by nradov 4mo ago
While it doesn't apply in this particular case, for healthcare organizations the HIPAA privacy rule implies a legal responsibility to lock out terminated employees from any access to protected health information.
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by nradov 4mo ago
Yes, primary radar has been useful for detecting airspace incursions since 1939. Nothing new here.

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