pas

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by pas 9d ago
I'm not saying absence of evidence of wrongdoing is evidence of absence of wrongdoing. But note, you have very concrete things to claim about Bitfinex. Criminal enterprise, scam, organized crime funding, facilitating arms dealing and e
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by pas 9d ago
it's the Ed Zitron style of arguing that something big/expensive/unprecedented/hard is bad, going to fail, because [____________]. and if you put something trivially true into the blank the implication seems logical, and
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by pas 11d ago
there's a difference in semantics between clinical reason and billing, agreed, though it seems that the news article did not sensationalize the study, and the study uses at least one valid code that can be a primary reason for a visit,
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by pas 11d ago
apparently there's an ICD code for it i guess if someone gets a meltdown (mental breakdown) after losing a lot of money
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by pas 11d ago
> emergency department visits in which a gambling disorder was recorded as either the main or a contributing reason for the visit. from the study > An ED visit for a gambling disorder was defined on the basis of the clinical judgement
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by pas 11d ago
> emergency department visits in which a gambling disorder was recorded as either the main or a contributing reason for the visit.
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by pas 12d ago
they don't seem mutually exclusive
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by pas 13d ago
> express our own agency ironically a local model and Playwright/OpenClaw is pretty close
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by pas 13d ago
https://status.app/
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by pas 20d ago
they connect ideas all day. xenophobia is that, making fast and loose connections. unfortunately we are deep into the TikTok times, and simple, but catchy ideas dominate. it's flat Earth, QAnon, anti-vax, anti-economics but now in 4K.
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by pas 20d ago
yes, but also there's a real obvious unserved/underserved voting bloc https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-boring-theory-of-the-populist... without convincing the people (winning their hearts and minds, and so on)
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by pas 23d ago
yes, just as age verification can be fooled by an older friend who gets the check mark.
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by pas 23d ago
it's entirely possible that that specific communication from that Amazon exec/rep (?) was just one of many "messages of concern" (and the one that eventually the WH picked)
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by pas 25d ago
> Is this actually measuring "underemployment" Sort of. It's "all of the above". So basically low demand for labor. * Looking for a job. * People who don't work full time but want to. * Poverty wages. (b
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by pas 27d ago
The set of symptoms is roughly recognizable and treatment protocols are established. There's some data and bad theories, and informed consent based on all this. (Imagine how informed the patient can be downstream of this!) So yes, just
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by pas 27d ago
warm cache case is only imperceptibly slower, no?
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by pas 28d ago
there are members with veto power (for things that require unanimity) https://michalovadek.github.io/eu-veto-tracker/
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by pas 29d ago
They are already de facto inside. Hence the argument to have a vote at least. They are already paying the price for not being de jure members. (Currency exchange costs, rate hedging is also costly, and they don't benefit from EU unifie
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by pas 1mo ago
people whose life is amazing don't go through the process of getting stimulants (or even SSRIs) prescribed to them. psychiatrists know about this. the plan is usually to cycle the meds. is this great and works every time? no. is this b
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by pas 1mo ago
for anyone who's curious about the sexual side-effects, this subreddit has stories from the unlucky few https://reddit.com/r/PSSD/top/
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by pas 1mo ago
it's completely ridiculous that some comments are demonizing OP (who actually cares about the outcome that management told them) when anybody who ever sat in a lame corporate meeting knows exactly what bullshit OP does not want to put
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by pas 1mo ago
just FYI for anyone who doesn't know about this amazing tool yet: https://github.com/semgrep/semgrep
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by pas 1mo ago
there's no need to "optimize" it already has the basic loop. stochastic reward (interesting news, interesting comments/replies), gamification (points go up!), and no real social interaction. (no connection, some performa
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by pas 1mo ago
Still, even current AI/LLMs can do debugging. For example after an hour of process of elimination it finds the bug, reproduces it, then it recommends a ~1 line fix. Then that's where one should spend their attention budget, and th
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by pas 1mo ago
HN is also social media :) but let's say friends sending links to group chats (or through direct messages) and you open it, and uh you see you got messages from other people on Instagram, or on Facebook you see that someone had a baby&
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by pas 1mo ago
designers, team leads, tech leads, architects, senior devs are all doing this kind of formal or informal management work just because someone doesn't have the "manager" in their job title they might still do a lot of supervis
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by pas 1mo ago
GitHub commits, PRs and issues are public. even their recent buildkite CI logs are public. apparently there's some kind of automated differential fuzzer to discover Node.js incompatibilities, but probably that's behind the curtain
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by pas 1mo ago
that's not how regulatory capture works. they get some exemption, cross-licencing, or pay a fine, and nothing changes for the better
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by pas 1mo ago
though this is exactly the thing that can be handled during RL deep learning the problem is that introduction of any new technology usually happens with so much emotional baggage, that when there's an error (human or otherwise) some hu
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by pas 1mo ago
what does the license say? provide source when asked or publish source? OSI is not clear on this either. ("Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source

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