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Comment · 2 months ago
ketone monitoring is pretty unusual
Comment · 5 months ago
it's a specific claim, they want to set up the process to be so onerous that immigrants self-deport
Comment · 1 year ago
on the one hand, yes ecology and math bio is cool. On the other, the demographic transition does not fall out of these models whatsoever. Humans decided to do something very weird for whatever reason.
Comment · 1 year ago
aca di. implement a market, it's just that most people buy through their job, because if that's legal you obviously want to be part of a larger bargaining pool for buying.
Comment · 1 year ago
Kids are extremely expensive when you have to raise them to 18 with no return. We should have social security, but for the young.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
One example of market power abuse they engage in is requiring the price listed on their website to be the lowest offer that a merchant can list. You can't list a product on their page and then have a discount for that product on your own page.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hard to take calls for endorsing the free market seriously from someone so clearly trying to form a monopoly on online shopping.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> Perhaps the rigor that Medtronic and similar device companies are subjected to would apply, but I'm not sure those regulations cover information security and privacy.

As someone on an insulin pump they do. Iirc they have reps showing up at hacker conferences looking for red teams.

Definitely agree with your worries generally though.

Comment · 1 year ago
Good thing the US doesn't have an administration that will happily criminalize any opposition
Comment · 1 year ago
I've seen a pretty massive uptick in usage among my non-techie friends in the past couple of months.
Comment · 1 year ago
Kind of orthogonal to the point. It isn't a planned city in the same way that Paris is a planned city.

Also, most of the worst parts of American development have happened since 1945.

Comment · 1 year ago
Tokyo is an example of incrementalism making a beautiful resilient city, while still maintaining safety standards.
Comment · 1 year ago
USAid has been abolished

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