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by specialist 5y ago
> ...It's just that we all have different ideas about what that is. This in a nutshell is why all progress is always a god awful painful mess. No matter how modest. I used to be self-proclaimed advocate for change. Technological,
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by specialist 5y ago
How is fintech like healthcare?
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by specialist 5y ago
Not true. HIPAA was a non-issue for my team. Mid 2000s. Further, having any kind of regulations, rules, procedures whatsoever would have been a huge boon. Instead, we had to invent everything ourselves. I actually called up lawyers (and oth
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by specialist 5y ago
Same reason every other awful UI is awful: egos, opinions, hubris, turf, ignorance, neglect, incompetence, resource constraints, NIH, etc, etc. I designed and implemented the back half of a caregiver facing "portal", working hand
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by specialist 5y ago
So. Do you think Texas should winterize or not?
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by specialist 5y ago
I've recently been disabused of the quaint notion that our Supreme Court's job is to make findings of law. https://www.fivefourpod.com
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by specialist 5y ago
> ...but one for restricting additional work based on a conflict of interest. Since they are a public University... Public university serves the public, no? So then the argument is the anticipated testimony wrt voting rights would be d
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by specialist 5y ago
> It's certainly a good lesson in not copy/pasting random snippets from the internet... For someone with more gumption than me: Future copy & paste will default have intermediate screenshot and OCR steps. Voila: charset s
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by specialist 5y ago
Great essay. Am first time dog owner (as an adult). Right before the apocalypse. A handful of Yes And: Like the cockapoo's owners, most dog owners I've met are basket cases. (Me included.) Not as nutty as cat owners, or godforbid
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by specialist 5y ago
A lot of good advice and great insights in this convo. Adding my "Yes and" here, because your tip most closely matches my own. > Thinking negative thoughts ... is a habit you can break. ### How you talk changes how you think.
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by specialist 5y ago
> Consider cutting down on mainstream media and entertainment Agree. I've always been a new junkie. To my own detriment. I'm now even weening myself off of Hacker News. To stay semi-informed, I read about current events a mon
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by specialist 5y ago
> ...the deeper explanation, still taboo, is the perception that the Obama administration’s handling of the 2008 crash was both corrupt and profoundly disillusioning. Is this true? At least partially true? As in "also true".
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by specialist 5y ago
Yup. We live in an Age of Miracles. ~30 years ago I had a bone marrow transplant. I lived in an isolation bubble for a month. 95% mortality rate in the first year. A year of recovery. Today, treating my original disease is practically an ou
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by specialist 5y ago
The fiction of rational choice usually makes at least a performative nod towards informed consumers, actual choices, clear results, and consent. Which of those prerequistites does Facebook fulfill?
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by specialist 5y ago
Rulesets more complicated than tictactoe have edge cases, holes, exploits. That's why market design is important. Open markets require boring stuff like properly aligned incentives, contract law, property rights, transparency and audit
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by specialist 5y ago
Ditto. And then Paradox of Tolerance happened IRL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Banning speech and censorship are impractical. But something has to give. Now I'm pondering leveling up defamat
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by specialist 5y ago
Just because I've had the vax doesn't mean it worked. I've had other vaxs not take. Probably because I'm immune compromised (bone marrow transplant). Since I'm safely isolated, I haven't gotten any tests to con
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by specialist 5y ago
Is this related somehow to China refusing to take USA's recycling material? IIRC shipping recycled material was super cheap. So many empty containers. Might as well fill them with something. Why aren't empty containers shipped bac
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by specialist 5y ago
Agree on both. Thanks for help clarifying.
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by specialist 5y ago
> You wouldn't know that it would be possible to ask for more information, unless you knew they were collecting it. Totally. I've played this game with FOIA (public records requests). It's exhausting . Of course they ha
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by specialist 5y ago
> And if we're going to start singling out tech giants for lobbying Congress, my question is why them in particular? Because they're the criminals. By their own admission. The real question is why it took Congress so long.
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by specialist 5y ago
> First, kids use sites and apps when they're below the ToS age... How are you meant to know that as a service provider? You think major providers don't know who is a kid? Please. They have profiles for every person living an
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by specialist 5y ago
Yes and: Laws must be technically possible to implement. Sadly, the USA has gutted scientific and technical review. Which makes policy makers more dependent on industry funded think tanks and lobbyists. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by specialist 5y ago
Break these companies up, vertically. For social medias: cleave advertising from search. People would rightly scream if NYSE was owned and operated by a cabal, playing both sides of every transaction. One pillar of open markets is clear div
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by specialist 5y ago
Such confidence. You should cash in. https://www.predictit.org/
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by specialist 5y ago
Why is it hard? I have some experience with demographic databases. I take it as a given that Facebook, NSA, whomever, have uniquely identified every person, living and dead. I just don't understand how or why fake accounts are created.
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by specialist 5y ago
Heh. Examples or recommendations? I'm fine with bots if they're obviously bots. I think it was US Senator Mark Warner that proposed that reform.
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by specialist 5y ago
Totally agree. If UX of social media was like a RSS newsreader, I'd mosdef use it on the daily. Yes and: Nerfing could be as modest as dialing down virality. Like maybe a rate regulator. IIRC, the velocity of rage posting is way greate
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by specialist 5y ago
Who has a right to profit? Especially when profit comes from harm. I believe but cannot prove than most targeted advertising is fraudulant. When whistleblowers leak those metrics, this might be a self correcting problem. Meanwhile... There
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by specialist 5y ago
No, there is no silver bullet. Yes, banning anonymity is dumb idea. Also, opt-in authenticated identity is necessary. It's ridiculous that bots, trolls, and sockpuppets are given the same esteem and protections as real people. To curta

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