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foolswisdom

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A major US court case could help fix the ills of Citizens United

theguardian.com
7 points·by foolswisdom·il y a 3 mois·0 comments

Hospitals That Sue You for Getting Sick

healthcareuncovered.substack.com
12 points·by foolswisdom·il y a 3 mois·0 comments

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foolswisdom
·avant-hier·discuss
Is this not about a separate class action lawsuit?
foolswisdom
·il y a 9 jours·discuss
Maybe so, but the DOJ is not releasing lots of the evidence. I wonder if there's a solid enough case without that.
foolswisdom
·il y a 9 jours·discuss
I recently read Economic Policy and Law in America (by William Letwin) and he discusses a bit (in the context of the early slow enforcement of the Sherman act) the fact that ultimately a prosecutor has limited resources, and any allocation comes at the expense of something else, so priorities absolutely do matter. And the prosecutor's office will coordinate with other law enforcement of course...
foolswisdom
·le mois dernier·discuss
This reminds of this article which contends that this mistake has carried across time, in every era people described the workings of the brain similar to the machines they knew how to build, which is why we have "ridiculous" descriptions that changed over time.

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
foolswisdom
·le mois dernier·discuss
There's a partial corresponding quote at https://www.commbank.com.au/articles/newsroom/2026/05/sam-al....
foolswisdom
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
People with lots of power and clout contribute to making predictions reality by all making predictions that make similar assumptions. The predictions become more likely because people already behave as if they're likely.
foolswisdom
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Not just instinct, I'd need to be able to justify the choice against any potential downside of not choosing the default option.
foolswisdom
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Marketing people like the features they're getting, and Google and Meta are dominant, so big that they're the default, in the same way that we talk about github being the default option, and "no one ever got fired for choosing IBM / (big tech company of your choosing)". I wouldn't dream of saying they should choose something else, without researching and guaranteeing that nothing they'd ever want from GA (and they may not know everything they'll want in the future right now) is missing in the alternative. In a role (marketing) that's completely out of my wheelhouse. So I don't even bother.
foolswisdom
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Depends on exactly how the project is managed. Older python tooling (`pip` module) doesn't have a native mechanism to differentiate between the spec (direct dependencies) and freeze (all dependencies, including transitive).
foolswisdom
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Given it was older code, were you not able to use an older version of pysimplegui that was freely available?
foolswisdom
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
In other words, the set of github core services has expanded because you don't use third party tooling for some of those services anymore.
foolswisdom
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
The important part was the following paragraph(s) that explained why this coupling is a compelling problem. It's not the same as just having a platform API.
foolswisdom
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
This reminds of the conversation the other day about the deleted production database at railway. "this person obviously didn't follow best practice of being hyper distrusting of LLM agents", and the response "yeah but every company is marketing it as safe. someone is gonna fall for it".
foolswisdom
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Or not, because telling the agent is misbehaving may predispose it to misbehaving behavior, even though you point told it so to tell it to not behave that way.

I remember this discussed when a similar issue went viral with someone building a product using replit's AI and it deleted his prod database.
foolswisdom
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Because including it in a plan results in un-metered usage?
foolswisdom
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Personally, as a developer, I interact with figma to use designs made by designers. So a portion of that userbase probably isn't going anywhere?
foolswisdom
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
There have been stories about people with heavy internet traffic (generally media streaming I think) being more or less shut down unless they upgrade their cloudflare plan (to enterprise I guess). Some were posted on HN in the past.
foolswisdom
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
The jury in this case is required to rule by preponderance of evidence (= more likely than not given the evidence). One of the economic experts calculated this number as being overcharged based on internal ticketmaster documentation.

Cases aren't always about the actual problem, they're about what you can prove in court.
foolswisdom
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I think cynicism is deserved just from observing Dario's remarks.
foolswisdom
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I would really appreciate if rust analyzer was faster, actually. It feels even worse with the fact that you need to save the file before it updates the type checking (though I assume it's because it's too slow to feel smooth if you do it while typing?).