schmidtleonard

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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
Like I said, some combination of doctors and legislators. If doctors lobbied the laws (or budgetary line items) onto the books and they are still in effect, they still have culpability. Blaming congress too is fine, but let's be clear:
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
Triage, whether by overworked nurses or by auction or by private death panel or by public death panel, is not necessarily a problem created by administrators. It can be created by having too few surgeons, in which case whatever caused that
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
> voluntary business transactions The evil parts are hid in property rights which are not voluntary. > made to never grow too big, in order to avoid impacting very many people Consolidated property rights have more power against their
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
That's an insightful point! Making insightful points like that one is taxing on the brain, you should consider an electolyte drink like Brawndo™ (it's got what plants crave) to keep yourself sharp! Ugh I hate it so much, but you&#
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
ed is old, but osx bash is ancient
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Yep, the only way to convince companies to offer an API is to implement an agent that slowly but surely works around whatever trainwreck of a web experience they put in its way and then give them an option to make it smoother by offering an
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Yeah, it's the exact opposite: business school teaches you that you should avoid competing on price/quality at all costs and all the ways to avoid competition: network effects, platform effects, last-mile dynamics, predatory prici
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
If impartial non-partisan justice were your concern, you would spend your time focusing on the most egregious violations (Aileen Canon, the Supreme Court, etc) rather than grabbing the conversation by the horns and aggressively steering it
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Thanks for reminding me, he also broke campaign finance laws with the pornstar payoff. No, if Joe Biden had the same facts against him the entire right wing -- including you -- would be eagerly prosecuting them and singing of the high-minde
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Pretty much expected at this point. I'm much more worried about "Democrats are terrorists" and "terrorists don't have rights." Right now they're busy black-bagging immigrants, but I can see where this is h
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
That, and Mike Pence went on Fox News and said: > President Trump demanded that I use my authority as vice president presiding over the count of the Electoral College to essentially overturn the election by returning or literally rejecti
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Yes! And when the FBI started closing in he asked his bodyguard to pull some of the documents and his IT guy to wipe the video evidence! The details are sooo much worse than the high level description can do justice.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Laws should be enforceable, but at some point "it's a bad law if it can be bypassed with corruption" just completely surrenders any hope of holding powerful people / companies accountable to anything at all.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
What's crazy to me is seeing this happen at an individual level. In 2022, my conservative family members were reluctantly but firmly on board with the idea that Trump did the crimes: lied to the tax man, stole the classified documents,
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Who buys the IP?
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Well yeah that's the sales pitch :) It's a tradeoff. Analytics databases are often filled with periodic dumps of transactional databases and this feels so dirty that it's easy to accidentally forget that it isn't just a
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Exactly: the new process becomes the lowest bid, new NRE goes forward, and the old process finally gets to drift off into the sunset. It happens all the time and people (sometimes the same people) complain about that too.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Sure, decades of research by think-tanks hell-bent on pumping the assets of their sponsors at any cost to others. "Trade Wars are Class Wars" by Klein and Pettis is a good counterpoint.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Wars are won or lost in 5 years, not 15. I agree that it's possible to reverse the trend, but we have to decide that we want to independently of a physical conflict, before someone else teaches us that deindustrialization is not advanc
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Finance eats first and suffers last. That's true in NY but doubly true in TX.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Hey it worked. Thanks! (Killing the process, ofc)
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Haha fair enough, and now it's fixed on my machine but Windows Search is still asking if you'd like Bing with that.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Discord and VSCode work smoothly for me on an M4 MBP -- not sure if it's a compatibility difference or just performance hiding the problem, though. But Spotlight file search is completely broken, rebuilding the index doesn't help,
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
"Depression stops ant whorls" is my favorite quick and snappy summary.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
AWS Re:Invent is in December, so it's also a good time to show it off to potential evangelists (they've been teasing it for years).
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
...and we're so damn good at it that we can grind a complex shape to micron precision for the purposes of a shitpost -- which then gets automatically blasted to a million algorithmically selected interested parties for the amusement of
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
"E-gas cars vs electric cars" is settled, "e-gas planes vs electric planes" is very much not. You were careful to say "on land," but I wanted to highlight it for anyone who isn't familiar enough with the a
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
You say that, but is it true? The science keeps walking away from the Searchinger 2008 result (100g GHG/MJ iLUC for corn ethanol) and towards the biofuels industry claims that this was absurdly high, yet green rhetoric still behaves li
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
The unsubstantiated faith critique swings both ways: the amount of biofuel hate that came out of that one time agricultural land use adjustment is truly diabolical. Like, "ok, you win, but if I drop this gigantic adjustment onto your m
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
The people who own all the capital do and that's part of the problem. Nobody likes seeing red in their brokerage account.

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