tsoukase

8 ms·

121.
by tsoukase 4mo ago
Forget about reasonable arguments about wealth distribution. Human greed is infinite and the belly is insatiable, so they will stop at no amount of money. The ultimate goal of a totally capitalist society, like the US, is to create a single
122.
by tsoukase 4mo ago
Esp in mental health there is a large overlap of symptoms between diagnoses. So doctor's experience is needed to get the right diagnosis. No database and, hell, no AI assistance yet. It all boils down on how deep a doctor goes diagnost
123.
by tsoukase 4mo ago
Oh, the good old reflex that is activated in panic situations but never realised. Then the revolution was from capitalists against kings. Now the former are already in power with their servants (CEOs) and there is no alternative. So no cha
124.
by tsoukase 4mo ago
Very rare disease, expected to be misdiagnosed as psychiatric. I admit I would (neurologist here) But you were luckily treated by an excellent neurologic center. The lesson learned is that there are rare diseases (<1/10.000-100.000)
125.
by tsoukase 4mo ago
Health care in the US is the field that functions with the ultimate values of the country: totally free market (read capitalist jungle), without any state/public support, where only the fittest literally survive. But everyone can (read
126.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
In order to reach density living you need three things: space, water and food. The first was possible through the Roman cement, the second through the monumental Roman aqueducts and third due to the large share of slaves in relation to free
127.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
There is and will always be a 1-3% minority in every aspect: rich, deeply educated, talents, tall, etc etc. It's the right tail of the Bell curve. In OSes, this is Linux.
128.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
As a citizen of a developed semi-corrupt country I know exactly how it feels. It's a cognitive dissonant state: the people elected those that end up stealing them. There are many vulnerabilities in the whole system: electing method, me
129.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
The huge energy consumption of the past decades was pushing temperatures up, especially the fastest rise of the mightiest power in history, China (not to blame them though, cudos to them). We have not reached peak everything yet (CO2, energ
130.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
Many people predicted this coming sooner or later. I predict that end user Windows OS will some day die in favour of Linux. At first they will swap the kernel and next the userspace. Tell me crazy but so we told those back then.
131.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
The old genius of Ford, I think, said that "I raise the salaries of my workers so that they can buy my cars". That's forward thinking. The ultimate goal of these "tech elites" is to concentrate all wealth to one per
132.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
Human progress is to blame for low fertility through a multitude of mechanisms but the most important is the status of the female: it seems her advanced role outside of the home depresses her maternal instinct. Instincts are vulnerable to e
133.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
Europe has a very long way to real digital sovereignty. It's not only the 3-4 cloud companies that have to be replaced. It's the whole stack, from CDNs down to the two US based mobile OSs, that will haunt European citizens for a l
134.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
Funny thing, as a Greek I preferred Latin letters for math symbols, which I knew fluently, as this helped me focus easier on them among the Greek text. I believe this is one of the reasons Greek letters are used in Latin languages. All 24 G
135.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
Same in Greece, that came last in banning smoking in closed spaces since the last 5-6 years! Funny thing, now our clothes in taverns don't smell smoke anymore, but meat and garlic.
136.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
The authors reaffirm an expected result, they didn't find anything disruptive (pun intended). With age imagination leaves and experience arrives. The former advances science, the latter doesn't.
137.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
The decades long observation seems to hold gain: Reps were always near the oil-military complex and their main policy after elections always aims to offer them huge profits. An almost theatrical war with a puppet oil producing country achie
138.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
I never thought something would drag me out of HN before sleep. A nice break. Congrats and thank you.
139.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
Alternative names for Linux Foundation is Open Source foundation, User Space foundation or something totally unrelated like Future of Software foundation.
140.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
[flagged]
141.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
Globally and across modern times two factors reduce female fertility rate: more education and less religious commitment.
142.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
AI, in the form of LLMs, should be used as an augmenting tool and not as a substituting one. The human must conceive the idea, design the solution and fill most of the gaps. The AI will only refine, improve and suggest options upon an alrea
143.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
Dementia, at least of Alzheimer's type, starts at least 20 years before symptom onset and is multifactorial, so much that no single factor plays a role ("explains the variability") more than 5%. Employment, as almost all othe
144.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
This reminds me GPT-4 era studies where the LLM was better in a Law school exam than a student. We are not in 2023 anymore, or in the case of medicine, are we? If yes, this is bad news for health related applications as the low hanging frui
145.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
I rarely remember my dreams in the morning, only a handful times in my life. At one I was a Chinese citizen and experienced a dense feeling of being a little ant in the greatest Empire the universe and time had ever seen (China). A nothing
146.
by tsoukase 5mo ago
If we want decarbonation, nuclear power is inevitable until today. We can't rely on renewables for stable power for the masses. Other possible solutions for the future: hydrogen with it's problems and eFuels that need x4 energy to
147.
by tsoukase 6mo ago
It's a good article and, as a father, I experience and certify what it says. It presents the causes of the main observed fact (more time for kids) which happens anywhere in the Western world at least. But it can't go further and e
148.
by tsoukase 6mo ago
Cmon. Let's not always be so pendantic. If we may, a 2yo doesn't fully walk, like eg a 5yo. And a 5yo doesn't walk like a 12yo.
149.
by tsoukase 6mo ago
Vote with everything you have/can. Money, attitude, consumption, political connections. Make these greedy (beep) regret it. Users and developers stop using Play store.
150.
by tsoukase 6mo ago
Their whole investment castle is built on sand (pun intended) and when oil even remotely starts to fade out as a commodity, it will crumble instantly. Panic will ensue and corruption will be rampant in order to continue the lavish consumer

More ›