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by sowbug 2y ago
It's a collective-action problem. Nobody likes the current healthcare system, but what can we do? Ask the ambulance to shop around while we're bleeding out in the back? But as the single payer, the government would have the incent
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by sowbug 2y ago
Take a look at the legal doctrine of collateral estoppel. Once a party gets its day in court on a specific issue of fact, it can't keep relitigating that issue in later legal actions. It's possible that Cloudflare was the first to
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by sowbug 2y ago
Many exploited systems have effectively done this. A random number generator is seeded with something like "PID + timestamp + milliseconds since system startup." But all these numbers cluster in a small range, so it's practic
574.
by sowbug 2y ago
Still better than depositing $400K of cash in a US bank.
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by sowbug 2y ago
It's not crazy to believe that capitalizing* human-level intelligence would reap unimaginably large financial rewards. *Capitalizing as in turning into an owned capital asset that throws off income.
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by sowbug 2y ago
By Jay Zimmerman and Jim Nitchals. The choppiness was key: it played the note uninterrupted (literally!) for just long enough to let the listener ascertain the pitch, but not so long that it interfered with the rest of the game loop. I neve
577.
by sowbug 2y ago
What about passkeys? I think it's possible to sign into a passkey-supporting site with just the physical credential and its PIN.
578.
by sowbug 2y ago
Wizardry was prototyped in Applesoft BASIC using low-res graphics mode. In 1982 or 1983 I briefly had a copy on a 140KB floppy disk, but I foolishly erased it because I needed the space. I've found a couple other people who remember se
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by sowbug 2y ago
It could also be survivorship bias. It's easy for a successful founder to say he or she felt it but couldn't describe it, but maybe it was just luck. I don't know -- I've never worked at a strongly founder-driven company
580.
by sowbug 2y ago
Is it possible this essay about founder mode is itself written in founder mode? Whatever the "it" is that constitutes a startup's purpose often can't be fully articulated in mission statements, OKRs, core values, etc. Ei
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by sowbug 2y ago
I think you're drawing the right distinction. It's likely state action if a city or county literally delegated beat-cop duties to citizens with smartphones. I'm more afraid of the slippery slope. I'm less confident court
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by sowbug 2y ago
Go right ahead. Thanks!
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by sowbug 2y ago
Contracting out patrolling to private citizens would be a brilliant way to get around that pesky Bill of Rights.
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by sowbug 2y ago
Similar (but also for a narrower use case with fewer features): https://github.com/sowbug/quaid It wraps a JS implementation of only the decryption side of GPG symmetric encryption, so there's less opportunity for
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by sowbug 2y ago
Thanks. That's the closest to an on-point response that I've ever gotten to this question.
586.
by sowbug 2y ago
Google sells attention, not data. If this statement is incorrect, please give me a pointer where I can buy user data from Google, and I'll correct my statement.
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by sowbug 2y ago
In the US, the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution says the government cannot take private property for public use without providing just compensation. I don't know whether any similar right exists in the UK.
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by sowbug 2y ago
As a person who recently discovered that aphantasia is a thing, and that I have it, I am troubled that most of you have the ability to create disturbing imagery in your minds. I will be requesting the addition of safeguards for everyone&#x2
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by sowbug 2y ago
https://archive.is/FONlb Dataset: https://h01-release.storage.googleapis.com/gallery.html Related blog post from May 2024 (I don't know why Wired is now writing about it anew): https://blog.
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The Most Detailed Map of Brain Connections Ever Made(wired.com)
3 points by sowbug 2y ago|1 comments
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by sowbug 2y ago
I would expect public votes -- Congress, Supreme Court, etc. -- to frequently cluster around 50%-plus-one. The internal lobbying and horse trading can stop after the winning viewpoint has its majority of votes, so the minority viewpoint vot
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by sowbug 2y ago
Bassinets don't need maintainers.
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by sowbug 2y ago
Startup idea: we audit your financial accounts for you. Do a Plaid-style link, and we take it from there. Charge whatever antivirus subscriptions cost. Of course the startup also charges banks to find errors in the customers' favor.
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by sowbug 2y ago
The high R&D costs justify the high profits, the high exec salaries, and the high prices. And every company can point at the others and say "see, this is what it costs to hire the best in this industry. Sorry!" It's almos
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by sowbug 2y ago
I hadn't thought of that. Fortunately, they're growing in a fabric pot, so I can take them in when the weather turns.
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by sowbug 2y ago
Perhaps the unfortunate choice of micro USB is to discourage real consumer products from being built with the dev board.
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by sowbug 2y ago
Page 13: "GPIOs are 5 V-tolerant (powered), and 3.3 V-failsafe (unpowered)"
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by sowbug 2y ago
Last year I tried making a Sriracha recipe, but had to use green jalapeños because I couldn't find red ones. I hear that a red jalapeño is simply a green one that was allowed to ripen, so I can see why farmers might not have the time t
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by sowbug 2y ago
Or just publicly burn the cash. This retains the punitive element of seizure from actual criminals, eliminates the perverse incentives from LE treating seized funds as a revenue source, and causes actual pain to LE if/when a court dete
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by sowbug 2y ago
This is true, but the converse isn't: you don't need wealth to have money. Just use your credit card instead. A borrowed dollar spends just as well as a saved or earned one, which is why many confuse spending with wealth.

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