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Comment · 1 day ago

I got one covered by Cigna a few months ago. I said I had a mild chest pain and they did it plus some bloodwork. Nothing turned up but I didn’t have to pay anything extra.

Comment · 10 days ago

they could have gone with NoTrump which would have had the correct connotation (at least for Bridge Enthusiasts)

Comment · 12 days ago

I don’t understand the value of these things.

Why not just tell Claude to figure it out and build what it needs? Why do I need a plugin or a factory or whatever.

I just ask “can you go faster?” And claude suggests some stuff and mostly just works autonomously.

Comment · 13 days ago

Cloudflare is pretty affordable and it seems unlikely to be bought by PE

Comment · 20 days ago

He didn’t make that blog post though

Comment · 24 days ago

Did he actually die? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949438

His Wikipedia page has not changed and there are no news articles about it.

Comment · 1 month ago

I don't think that's very fair take on Piranesi. I enjoyed the second half even though it was not what i expected. If the second half was just a continuation of the first half, I would have felt robbed.

Comment · 1 month ago

Essays like these remind me of the story “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Melville.

productive people who feel alienated by AI and want to just opt out.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11231

Comment · 1 month ago

Opus 5.5 writing is much more concise than 5.0

Comment · 1 month ago

What do you use instead?

Comment · 1 month ago

Here is an article on this topic, which comes to a mixed conclusion.

"The article suggests that more musicians rather than fewer might now be able to earn money from recorded music than in preceding recorded-music systems. But it also proposes that the current system retains the striking inequalities and generally poor working conditions that characterised its predecessors, and that better debate requires greater transparency about usage and payment on the part of streaming services and music businesses."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444820953541

Here's an article about Germany, which claims streaming is not worse

"However, the current streaming-dominated music market does not fundamentally perform worse compared to the former CD market: in 2023, more than twice as many music creators earned revenues above the basic tax-free allowance compared to 2002."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5474735

Comment · 1 month ago

Most of the current discourse around AI seems to be informed by “The Terminator” lore.

Is skynet really the most plausible or only outcome?

What if things just got better and the AI’s realized that it would be better to have a mutually beneficial or at least tolerant relationship rather than one where they murder all of us?

Comment · 1 month ago

This would be a fun website - you should have an AI build it!

Comment · 1 month ago

Yes money helps you achieve the goals on Brad’s list.

It is a luxury to not have to worry about having enough of it.