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Funny enough I have had this conversation during the ACA “Obama Care” national (US) debate in the early 2000s. I have had one of my colleagues say if we give healthcare to everybody then it will affect his care negatively. He would rather limit it to people who deserve it (through merit) so he can have his pick of quality doctors. These people absolutely do exist.

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hace 4 díasdiscuss

I think we are all villains here. Good healthcare coverage is just another status symbol to be attained. If the poor have it then it becomes less of a value. To some degree we are all wired this way and we all suffer because of it.

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Exactly. Nothing is going to get better until consumers realize they have the power (at least for now).

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Good! Did you really need more Stargate? Just watch the classic movie, and 200+ episodes of SG-1 and then 100+ episodes of Atlantis. Let these franchises rest.

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This is just my subjective opinion, but it looks like the car has a Pixar aesthetic. I am not in to it, but I am glad Ferrari is willing to take some design risks. I am not sure who this is for.

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Here is a fun one, my mobile phone company has an account lock along with a pin and OTP over SMS system. In order for me to activate a new device (like an phone upgrade) with eSIM over the phone, I need to unlock my account with account lock, give them the pin over the phone, and read the SMS OTP to the mobile phone rep online. I get doing the account unlock and verbal pin, but I don't get why they ask for the OTP especially when they train us to never share the OTP over the phone. I even asked the rep about it, but he mentioned that you should never share the OTP if you did not initiate the service request. From a security posture point of view I think that stinks. I am not exactly sure how they expect SMS OTP to work in the case where my phone is not functional.

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

Memory optimization is incredibly low hanging fruit. We have been so spoiled with the abundance of memory.

There is just so much code out there that does not manage object life cycles well (over allocation, leaks, etc.), encodes data in text rather than binary representation.

The move to static binaries over dynamic libraries, applications that run web engines underneath rather than cleaner UIs.

I hope the memory shortage will encourage us to focus on efficiency again.

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

The semiconductor fab process changes dynamically to manage yield. It is not a static environment, automating with robotics is fine when things are static like a automotive assembly line, but high end semiconductor fabs are a different beast (The analogy I heard was repairing a plane while in flight). Robots are not purely clean as well they shed contaminates as well, which must be managed too. Entropy is the reason why we still need humans in the loop.

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hace 3 mesesdiscuss

Buddhism was never intended to be the way you organized societies. It was a monastic tradition where you practiced outside of society with the support of people who had to live in the real world and do the dirty work of progress and civilization.

The goal of Buddhism is not happiness anyway it is the total cessation of suffering. If Buddhists are scoring high on happiness surveys they are doing it wrong.

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hace 3 mesesdiscuss

If the richest people in the world are chronically unhappy then that indicates that excess wealth does not bring happiness.

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Motorola chip was called 68000.

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hace 3 mesesdiscuss

Performative expression is critical. You need to actually do the thing you believe and if it is of political significance say it and do it visibly. Otherwise there is no impact.

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hace 3 mesesdiscuss

LLMs are definitely a game changing technology, but there is just so much fake money in the market right now (circular deals, paper valuations, etc.) that I cannot take this seriously. At some point the musical chairs will stop and we will all be saying how could we let this happen? Where are the regulators (rhetorical question)?

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hace 4 mesesdiscuss

Aside from the AI writing the blog itself seems to have a false timeline. It says there are posts from April 2017, but the domain has only been up for a year. There is all of this promotion about books, podcasts, volunteering to support the author.

What is this about?

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hace 4 mesesdiscuss

The school does not take responsibility. Schools will tell you what you kid does at home is the parent's responsibility even if it is done on the school device. Parents do not have the ability to configure the content controls on the device itself, so technically sophisticated parents resort to tweaking router settings.

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hace 4 mesesdiscuss

> The guy is unhinged, hellbent on denial, just to appease his base, who are going bankrupt because of his policies.

In the middle of a war he started over war. No less. If his base wanted cheap gas, they are not going to get it.

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hace 4 mesesdiscuss

What makes rich people special is that they have things normal people do not have. They have material wealth with which they can derive power. They don't want to share it now and they won't in the future. Do you really think that these people who have spent so much time and effort hoarding their wealth want to share it with everyone? Absolutely not.

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hace 4 mesesdiscuss

> Why justify a sustaining an inefficient human in that modern world?

I should not need to justify my existence, that is the problem with being led by psychopaths.

Twenty years to train humans for what? A tech job? That is not why we get an education. It is not my purpose to be a cog in the wheel for some psychotic billionaire.

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hace 4 mesesdiscuss

Like the drug dealers where I grew up they are making the neighborhood a really terrible place to live. They might have a nice house right now, but the homes around them are burning.

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hace 4 mesesdiscuss

> The other is a movie that just based on its major theme would attract less then half the country and even in those remaining is a very polarizing movie. It's up for best picture because to preach, not because it's actually good.

I am not sure why you see "One Battle After Another" as preachy. It was ultimately a chase movie, perhaps you did not like the intent of the revolutionaries who kicked off the chase, but there was no lecturing as far as I could tell. All of the characters were flawed and broken. Moments where characters could do the "right thing" many ended up doing things out of self interest. The movie was deeply cynical and piercing critique on radicalism left and right.

The movie also has a metacritic score of 95, so you are objectively wrong.

Did you even see the movie?

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