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midldei
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
> i’m a fitness conscious 30 something white male

Right. So able bodied, and the gender and race least associated with violence from the state.

> being discriminated against for insurance if you have a drug habit

"drug habit", Why choose an example that is often admonished as a personal failing? How about we say the same, but have something wholly, inarguably, outside of your control, like race, be the discriminating factor?

You medical records may be your DNA.

The US once had a racist legal principle called the "one drop rule": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule

Now imagine an, lets say 'sympathetic to the Nazi agenda', administration takes control of the US gov's health and state sanctioned violence services. They decide to use those tools to address all of the, what they consider, 'undesirables'.

Your DNA says you have "one drop" of the undesirable's blood, some ancient ancestor you were unaware of, and this admin tells you they are going to discriminate against your insurance because of it based on some racist psuedoscience.

You say, "but I thought i was a 30 something WHITE male!!" and they tell you "welp, you were wrong, we have your medical records to prove it", you get irate that somehow your medical records left the datacenter of that llm company you liked to have make funny cat pictures for you and got in their hands, and they claim your behavior caused them to fear for their lives and now you are in a detention center or a shallow grave.

"That's an absurd exaggeration." You may say, but the current admin is already removing funding, or entire agencies, based on policy(DEI etc) and race(singling out Haitian and Somali immigrants), how is it much different from Jim Crow era policies like redlining?

If you find yourself thinking, "I'm a fitness conscious 30 something white male, why should I care?", it can help to develop some empathy, and stop to think "what if I was anything but a fitness conscious 30 something white male?"
midldei
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
It's a novelty. Something more tuned for a scene in a movie than providing security for an individual.

But, the way I see it, you have the traditionally "solved" state cube on your desk(all faces complete), and when you want to use it as a key you "solve" the cube to the state that represents your key.

With a rubiks cube this means you only need to remember the steps of the algorithm that leads you to your key state.
midldei
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
Why leave the paper out of the git repo?

If you are the author could you link to a copy of the paper?
midldei
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
But this is a 'cart before the horse' situation.

What evidence do you have that providing your health information to this company will help you or anyone (other than those with financial interest in the company)?

There is a very real, near definite, chance that giving your, and others', health data to this company will hurt you and others.

Will you still hold this, "I personally don’t care who has access to my health data", position?
midldei
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
I read your comment as a joke, but in case if was a defense, or is taken as a defense by others, let me help you punch up your writing for you:

"[Person who is financially incentivized to make unverifiable claims about the utility of the tool they helped build] said [tool] [did an unverified and unverifiable thing] last month"
midldei
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
> protein does fill you up faster

You are being pretty fast and loose with your language here so I will alight what I think you are trying to say.

"Fill you up" I must assume means that you are implying the state of feeling "full" or satiated.

There is really only one study in the field of broad food source satiety: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7498104/

Potatoes are the most satiating food at 323% that of white bread.

The second is Ling fish which is a source of protein, but another one of my assumptions is that when you say 'protein' I am doubtful you mean 'ling fish'. So assuming you mean a 2026 American definition of 'protein' you're probably referring to cow flesh (beef) which is only 176% of white bread, almost half of potatoes.

So, in the future I would suggest spreading the word and correcting your comment by saying "I mean potatoes do fill you up faster"