whimsicalism

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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
extremely difficult for modern government to overcome the incentive problems when building in house
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
no, it’s actually the same delusion as that one
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
the person i'm replying to said they didn't have that experience as a non-EU citizen, whereas i did
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
You can be falsely linked to a crime without biometric evidence and excluded on the basis of biometric evidence
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
Maybe not at land crossings. I just exited from Portugal and got fingerprinted on exit and entry. Granted I was using my US passport, not my EU
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
> never any hint or talk that anything is amiss there never is
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
I suspect that false imprisonment/recognition cases are lessened with biometrics, not increased. I absolutely believe you can point me to individual cases though.
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
wrong
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
i just traveled to the EU last week and you're wrong, got fingerprinted on entrance and exit
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
not for US citizens at least, whereas I get fingerprinted entering and exiting as an EU citizen in the EU.
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
A national ID system (standard in effectively all European countries) is table stakes for state capacity. I find the RealID opposition baffling.
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
some of you all need to take a break from politics, it is clearly not doing you good and easy to get swept up into group mania imo.
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
you dropped your /s
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
Yes, Kaiser is a great model. We need to figure out a way to balance cost sharing with preventing over utilization, both on the supply side and managing demand and restricting interventions to those that are measurably changing outcomes (ge
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
> The patient load hadn't grown. The number of nurses has gone up, not down. Healthcare utilization, number of unique patients, amount of care per patient has all gone up. American has a massive overutilization problem driving cost
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
skimming your comment history, to me you seem very comfortable occupying the sociocultural critic position which is to some degree inherently cynical imo. i say that because i also recognize it in myself
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
cynicism and critique are comfortable positions imo. i appreciate the relatively newfound cultural shift back towards earnestness (although i can already feel the pendulum starting to swing back)
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
there is clear reason why this would be desirable for many, the others - sure.
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
i find LLMs generally play better with compiled languages actually, they do great with rust. you can think of it almost as analogous to a harness.
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
nice. i had thought the consensus had moved pretty firmly towards pi, so i was surprised to see Thinking Machines demoing their new model Inkling in OpenCode. wondering if they are previewing an acquisition
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
yeah how will we ever find a usecase for the machines that can run thinking software
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
why should i disprefer rails with lower fees and fewer employees?
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
nemotron
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
why pi over opencode? earnestly curious, trying to figure out what open solution people are consolidating on. (codex is also pseudo-open but contributions closed and nice)
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
In some ways, I would rather Stripe have the market power here to negotiate against Visa & Mastercard than Visa/Mastercard holding the reigns over a fragmented digital ecosystem.
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
The fundamental issue is that if we really get something like this, scarcity will still exist. There will still be scarce things people want. But the motivating justificatory structure for any inequality in allocation will have completely e
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
as a heavy user of computer use, i hope enterprises realize that people like me will switch to competitors that support native computer use & APIs
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
I mean i still see commits and afaict it just works for me. How much active development does a service like this need? As someone else mentioned a while ago, I think unison suffers from 'lisp curse'.. it just works. [0] [0]: http
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
What does this give me that unison doesn't?
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by whimsicalism 3mo ago
Sorry just organizing my thoughts on your comment publicly: This person is credulous and naive, and I should take care to remember that if I see comments from them in the future.

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