runamok
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Comment · 23 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
There is still anecdata that Google "knows" you are the same person and will ban all accounts associated with you if you do something they don't like. And of course they never need to explain themselves or listen to your appeal.
Comment · 1 month ago
Seriously. That's such a fuzzy number. Why not just say X yen? None of us have a crystal ball to tell us if our investments will make the traditional 8% interest or not.
Comment · 1 month ago
You keep quoting prices that make no sense in 2026 such as cars under 20k. See https://www.theautopian.com/americas-cheapest-new-car-now-co...
Please link to some prices for motorcycles that can go 75 miles per hour (necessary on the highway) that cost < $1k. 5 seconds of googling says they start at around $5k. I have a moto so I agree with the premise broadly that more should consider them. They are not as useful in all weather and of course there is risk of injury which most poor people will have no ability to pay for in our US health care situation...
Comment · 2 months ago
I don't agree with much of the above but I do agree that we should endeavor to minimize error notifications and the like because people don't read them. We (as programmers) should endeavor to make things "self-heal" or work in such a way that most people don't have these kinds of notifications interrupt them. E.g. if "error X" happens a lot find a way to make the action that causes "error X" work without an error. Easier said than done though.
Comment · 2 months ago
As an aside I really like video games that have a running log of everything characters have said. Persona 5 does this. It's a rare feature from my experience!
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, I did want to understand the source for those kinds of numbers. I'd assume we would see dead birds all over the place if this was the case.
Comment · 2 months ago
Where exactly are they planning to build this? See https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/louisianas-shrinki.... Ah, Vermilion Parish which is ~160 miles east of New Orleans...
Comment · 2 months ago
100%. Ann Trason often was first overall in ultras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Trason. I think it may be that over extremely long endurance events, having more muscle mass goes from being an advantage to a disadvantage. Some more information: https://ultrarunninghistory.com/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-an....
Comment · 2 months ago
These sorts of seat mounted mud guards would work: https://ass-savers.com/ (yes, the URL is funny and seems a risky click)
Comment · 2 months ago
100%. A few relevant articles: https://www.openhealthpolicy.com/p/medical-residency-slots-c... and https://www.openhealthpolicy.com/p/best-of-open-health-congr...
A snippet:
> CMS residency funding was capped beginning in 1997 at 1996 levels, and has only been raised once since then in Section 126 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. From 1987 to 1997 the number of residents grew by 20.6%, while from 1997 to 2007 the growth in residencies was only 8%. The 2021 law attempts to address several issues by slowly increasing residencies in specific underserved situations such as rural areas. This officially just began with 200 new residencies nationwide this year, climbing to 1,000 additional residencies per year in five years. It is only a drop in the bucket compared to the 140,000 resident doctors in the US in 2020, the majority of whom were federally funded. Using a rough estimate from Census population data for 2000 and 2020, there are at least 50 million, or 18%, more people in the nation today than when the law was passed, making the current change a rather small effort.
> This growth in population without a corresponding growth in the doctors we train each year leads to higher salaries for doctors and higher costs for patients. More people are demanding the time of a similar number of doctors, driving up the price of doctor’s time, even before accounting for the US’ aging population.
Comment · 2 months ago
Which makes me cynically believe that all this capital being burned that has made memory, storage and GPUs in some cases 5x is a feature, not a bug. "Can't use open weight models if you can't find or afford the hardware to run them on!"
Comment · 4 months ago
Most Americans conveniently forget the whole "nation of immigrants" thing once they are a few generations removed from the situation. Ladder kickers the lot of them.
Comment · 4 months ago
I like how the fact that most likely this theoretical company is not a company of 1. What about the employees frankly doing most of the work? Are the customers getting a good product at a fair price? Are their vendors getting paid a fair and sustainable amount? Are the regions they exist in getting paid the correct taxes to repay them for the services and infra they provide? Contrast how Steve Jobs treated most Apple employees when Apple went public vs. how Steve Wozniak did. I do agree a founder that creates something valuable (in both financial and societal ways) is mostly a good thing. But when you look closely enough at how gig workers are treated you start wondering if the billionaires minted at Uber, Amazon, etc. can ever fantasize that they have clean hands.
Comment · 5 months ago
The issue at hand is the incredibly wealthy can pay close to nothing in income tax because they often borrow on their collateral vs. sell their holdings. Hence that 1% that PG equates to 20% tax is quite fair. Look at what Buffet says the percentage he pays is: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-view-taxes-vs-.... Furthermore afaict the state proposals usually have a floor on how much of your wealth is taxed. I'm personally against the one time wealth tax by California for several reason but it only impacts those with a net worth of >= 1 billion.
* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elon-musk/id1651876897... * https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/elon-musk-part-2/id165...