specialist

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   by specialist 3y ago

   Is it fair that others capture all of the rewards of something she helped create? What's wrong with a little bit of profit sharing? Right now, writers in Hollywood are striking because the streaming medias treat them as mere day labore
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   by specialist 3y ago

   Naw. Projects like these are useful reninders that 25 years of mitigation easily save a few weeks of initial design.
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   by specialist 3y ago

   > the specifics insults there are indicative of a certain worldview If it walks like a duck... A partial defense is the reactionaries are quite good at mainstreaming their blather. For example, a few of us fell for Haidt's moral f
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   by specialist 3y ago

   Another option is descretion. Why say anything at all? Especially knowing that it'll just keep the slap fight going?
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   by specialist 3y ago

   True. Scrolling windows triggers my nausea.
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   by specialist 3y ago

   Perhaps someone will invent a way to virtually move around within a virtual space. Seems far fetched, I know. But we can still dream.
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   by specialist 3y ago

   > Every year, or so, I'll design a programming language on paper ... Where do I subscribe? > Each time the design is different, with different priorities etc. Classic trilemmas. Nice. Scott McCloud's triangle for style o
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   by specialist 3y ago

   This otherwise very fine article misses one simple explanation, esp wrt France vs UK: The majority of the UK is owned by very few people. Cite: "Who Owns Britain" by Brian Cahill. This ownership has not been transparent. Nor do th
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   by specialist 3y ago

   We've been wrestling with democracy for 1000s of years, and you demand perfect solutions. Right now. Otherwise it's all monkey motion. Good grief. Authorities which span and overlap other jurisdictions are common enough. In the sm
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Between direct and representative is participatory democracy. AKA citizen assemblies, citizen juries. A diliberative body (council, legislature) selects a bunch of people (sortition), gives them a charter (scope of work), empower sthem to i
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Glacier has no agency? They proceeded to fill the trucks despite the threat of a strike. As noted elsethread, Glacier could keeping refilling the trucks, postponing the strike indefinitely. Further, per the NLRB, the law permits this kind o
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    by specialist 3y ago

    It's unsurprising the Thomas Court ignored precedent, ignored the explicit legal protections covering strikes. Also entirely expected that the Thomas Court rejected our Constition's separation of powers and continues to subsume Ex
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Interviewing practices are little better than folklore. Has anyone figured out how to do this? Like reproducible experiments, formalisms, checklists...? Last time I got good, actionable advice was from Journey of the Software Professional b
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Yes and: CRUD (and ETL) is just data processing. Find something, copy some strings, munge, paste some strings. ADTs, IDLs, validation goo, logging, tests, etc can help. But also can get in the way. Sometimes, if we're really lucky, we
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    by specialist 3y ago

    You're certainly correct; price of gasoline (petrol) tracks with crude oil. I meant to read up on govt's allegations of price gouging (profiteering), to maybe understand what's going on, but got distracted. So many outrages,
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Your thesis is that the USA isn't sufficiently punitive towards the poor and working class? What are some (policy) ideas for making them more desperate, more miserable?
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    by specialist 3y ago

    What percentage of the unhoused are on Skid Row?
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Which happens first? Do the unhoused become addicts? The addicts become homeless? A mix?
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Best I can figure, Big Oil pricing is based on what the market will bear. Versus in response to supply, demand, cost of production, and so forth. Primary evidence is their profitability. Every couple of years, some politician gets some pres
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Two recent Munro Live episodes: Nobody Has Anything Like This: Amprius Factory Tour [2023/05/08] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Hd4HfH1ss Amprius Creates a 500Wh/kg Battery [2023/03/03] https:&#
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    by specialist 3y ago

    A friend was temp CFO for an assisted living corporation for 2 years. He also teaches finance for an MBA program. He takes these short-term roles to inform his teaching. Afterwards, I asked him what he had learned. "I learned to never
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Based on my family's experience with eldercare, I'd lump in the local and state governments of Sun City AZ too. Given the history of that place, I'd've assumed they'd be far more proactive at protecting elders. And
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Our uncle was similarly scammed. We tried to act. The local sheriff wouldn't proceed unless our uncle said he was robbed. Of course, uncle thought he'd invested that money (and still expected a huge payout). So sad, because uncle
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Thanks again. I'll consult my primary about restarting statins. I forgot to mention a huge reason I support regular baselines of some sort: eldercare. In the case of our mom, now 85yo, it would have been really useful to have done cogn
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Number Needed to Treat (NNT) seems like a great idea. Will learn more. Thanks. The risk of cherry picking examples is they'd distract from my thesis. So I used two from my own life. I am fail. (Also, I have mo medical training and cann
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Overuse of MRIs are due to accounting and financing, not standards of care.
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    by specialist 3y ago

    I bring all my home gear in with me, to compare the measurements. FWIW, my cheap OMRON blood pressure thing has agreed with the pro results, thus far.
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    by specialist 3y ago

    > seeing your doctor regularly, being able to communicate effectively In other words, building a relationship. Continuity of care improves health outcomes.
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    by specialist 3y ago

    What's your position on wearable health monitors? For stats like blood glucose, heart rate, blood pressure, etc.
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    by specialist 3y ago

    Periodic baseline tests are The Correct Answer™. To establish individual patient normals. Can't manage what we don't measure. Attention should focus on what's changed . Instead of playing 20 Questions for each new problem. [