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by smt88 1y ago
The problem is that my tax dollars and insurance dollars pay for people who make mistakes with their own health, so you don't and can never live in a bubble unless you opt out of modern medicine entirely
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> For everyday people increased screening of all types has risks, but overall the benefits massively outweigh the risks. This is just not how math works, and it's why we still need doctors to order tests -- to protect people from
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Do you feel that we shouldn't have gatekeepers for prescription drugs either?
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It's possible (if not likely) that paying for this test made you more likely to die. There are two mechanisms for this: 1) You could develop cancer tomorrow, notice the symptoms, and assume it's not worth getting screened again be
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There are Silicon Valley startups increasingly selling these directly to consumers, so I wouldn't assume tests like this are always intermediated by a medical professional. Edit: There is in fact another comment on this thread of someo
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> I might decide to spend $1000 on an additional diagnostic, even knowing that I'm still very likely to be negative. The problem is that diagnostics aren't necessarily risk-free. For example, there's a non-zero risk of d
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by smt88 1y ago
The duopoly is Chrome and Safari. Firefox barely registers, especially because all browsers on iOS are Safari. Also, what's your issue with Firefox?
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You can use the Java ecosystem with a number of other languages that are completely different paradigms, like Scala or Clojure, or you can use Kotlin as a "better Java"
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I've been building things from scratch for decades and am still building things for production myself (full stack). I can't really get anything usable out of vibe coding. And when I can even get vibe-coded stuff to run, the securi
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It's childish to say that we should stop putting money into one of the most important drugs of all time, which... - cures (not treats, but cures for a lot of people) obesity and diabetes - lowers rates of heart disease - reduces the
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Should we stop researching melanoma treatments because melanoma is "solved"? Just don't go out in the sun! What about HIV? That's solved too: just never have sex! Medicine and public health are so easy. As soon as we kno
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Yeah except I do that with Claude Code, and my output is still shit most of the time. It might save me a little time or typing, but it definitely needs hand-editing. The people who say Claude is a junior dev (at best) are right. That's
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I sometimes meet devs who are "using it wrong" with under-baked prompts. But mostly my experience is that people who regularly get good output from AI coding tools fall into these buckets: A) Very limited scope (e.g. single, sim
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Rolling Stone has not been a serious publication for quite some time
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Hiring new grads is dead because companies are cutting their spending while they wait to see how Trump's erratic behavior shakes out and for interest rates to drop. AI is making almost no difference in hiring at all.
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Everyone I know who has tried The League says it's the same people as the other apps, just fewer of them and no one seems to have logged in recently.
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> If you say it was a super hot summer because of climate change Real scientists don't say that. They always say something like, "This [hurricane/heat wave/whatever] is an example of what climate models predict will
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I think you’re dramatically overstating the number of true misanthropes in the world
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The first statement doesn’t sound like anything a professional investor would ever say
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The books and previous movies/shows have been out for 60 years, 40 years, and 20 years. I don't think it's fair to complain about spoilers. Should we also refrain from mentioning that Darth Vader's surname is Skywalker?
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What if we did that for planes? Should we make changes to those without testing them? Freedom isn't just individual freedom. It's also protection from idiots who beta-test SDCs on roads that me and my kids are on. How do I know th
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It's terrifying to me that Tesla and you can beta-test this potentially fatal software on the rest of us. It should be illegal by default until the OEM proves it's safe with paid safety drivers. Legal by default is an insane state
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> But why? For Palantir? Russia? To hold for attacking party enemies later? The simplest explanation is that they stole it for xAI. Given DOGE employees' ties to Russia and Musk's ties (mostly through debt) to both Russia and
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Incredibly shady of you to rewrite your whole comment (or have your bot change the tone) because it was obviously AI-written before
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Wait, but isn't that "conspiracy" literally true? People faked data and everything... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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This reads like AI and almost none of it makes sense. Why would a Windows desktop fleet be more heterogeneous than a Linux one? Why would Linux be an easier on-boarding experience? Orgs use Windows because non-technical users expect it and
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Grids don't need "batteries" as consumers think about them. They can store energy using gravity, for example pumping water up into a reservoir (to store) and letting it drain through a turbine using gravity (to convert back i
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We saw under Biden that wages for most people outpaced price inflation, but "most" isn't "all," and it was disproportionately working out well for people who were wealthier. Regardless, people loathe inflation eve
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As a consumer of HN, I don't agree. Relevant comments are helpful to me regardless of context, and this doesn't even seem like a competitor.
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EB is buggy garbage. We switched to FlightControl to get a similar experience without the bugs and headache.

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