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sounds like a meta-verse with a kind of "game context module" that creates /toggles constraints and features for each user / player.

ive been whiteboarding something similar to this. My scope is geared more towards round-based game loops rather than entire world building but I think the technical implementation would be very similar.

I think there's a lot of potential in connecting traditionally single-player activities, so the core game loops work well without depending on a lot of people being online like MMO's.. but it still benefits greatly from having more people on, so it has snowball potential.

Something I had in mind (which this thread has showed me wasnt original haha) was like an RTS and FPS 1+5 v 1+5 mix. There is a typical 1v1 RTS match against an opponent, and then in the middle of the war is a 5v5 FPS match. The FPS players and RTS players are not sharing any win conditions, but are on same teams. for example, fps players might be confined to a subsection of the RTS map

I kept getting hung up on creating meaningful interaction. It seems like a really cool feature to me, if it could be developed for free.. but i couldnt find a way to justify having a less polished version of either of the game types without the interaction becoming too dominant. In other words, if my gameplay isnt really impacted by the other game types then im just playing a worse version of some game. Alternatively, if it significantly impacted by the other game modes - i become dependent on things far outside my control.

this tension might actually relax a lot by moving out of the context of round-based games and into a persistent world-building context, but that scale / scope is also significantly larger too.

Isolate the things that grow nonstop, and remove necessary items from isolation when they can be organized appropriately. There will always be more available than you can consume, and I find that pulling the right things from the never ending streams to be more of a game than it is a fully executable chore

>and then give them UBI obviously

This has to happen first. Automation will put them out of work way faster than the UBI system will come online - and that is assuming the UBI system is not completely stonewalled to begin with.

As soon as we know the work is definitely automatable, we should start pushing for UBI. Once people who do not want to work leave the workforce, everything will get better.

I think people get so wrapped up in the concept of "free loaders" that they overlook how sandbagged our economy is by forcing those same people to engage with it.

We dont cull the weak anymore, which is fantastic, but they are still weak. We need to care for them and get them out of the way of people trying to accomplish things.

it is a responsibility of localities. some places do have rules against it, but it isnt universal

for example, NYC:

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2015/02/27/the-new-york-city-par...

https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/parking-regulati...

see "t-intersections"

yeah im pretty sure the cars will be driving themselves before we figure out how to enforce the road in ways that truly make sense

>many of these fatal accidents are because people are driving too fast

because is not a word i agree with in this sentence. If what you say is actual truth then we should reduce the speed limit to 30mph everywhere, including highways, to reduce head-on collision deaths. Because speed is the most important factor right?

It cant be how we hand out drivers licenses like candy and blame everything but the driver's decisions and awareness in critical moments.

Failure to reduce speed before taking dangerous actions is the issue. Not going fast in general. If you want to enforce top-speed as a means of indirectly controlling the risk of people failing to reduce speed appropriately.. then you need to set the top-speed to the safest speed for all driving activity.

It is barbaric that we keep pulling over people going fast on an empty road and pretend that is helping enforce people to stop making blind turns and lane merges at unsafe speeds

This is an enforcement issue. People need to get pulled over for blocking / hogging the passing lane.

I believe New Jersey actually enforces it a bit. I was often warned to avoid the left lane because police would use passing lane laws as an excuse to target my out-of-state plates. Could have also been complete hearsay though

I wish parking on busy corners would not be allowed at all

Not really, it is to preemptively stop scamming.

I think the issue is assuming people who get scammed are at fault for something, just because a more paranoid person would have avoided the scam.

Regulation will not stop me from selling a potato for $100. it will stop me from selling a regular potato for $100 while claiming it cures cancer.

Buying a potato for $100 would be dumb, and nothing stops me from doing it

Buying a cancer-curing potato for $100 is not dumb. Believing a potato can cure cancer because someone else is publicly selling it to me that way in full view of the entire world is not dumb. I would think "oh wow, something about this potato must be cancer-curing because surely this guy knows that if he scams me in front of the public then the public will hold him accountable."

So it is now time to hold people accountable

It is no more a destruction of history than to intentionally make it different than it was. It isnt ideal to need to repair it, but the more we can preserve the effect on our senses (sight) of the original the better.

If you fundamentally alter the way it looks, it is no longer a historical reference. It is something new, albeit with an interesting history / story.

If you redesign it, you should also rename it.

When something is repaired to the best of our ability, the future can look back on it and understand the context that we were trying to make it as it was - and all the hallmarks of this era will be identifiable as the minimum amount.

If we redesign it, we make it more about us and our current time. the future will likely be able to redesign it better, so it's just going to look like an ugly patch that is way too extra.

If we prefer to make the building about us and our current time, we should just destroy the entire thing and rebuild it from scratch as a full redesign.

i will emphasize again the importance of being able to build any state on your site quickly from scratch

how is being unbothered by a lack of features others claim they need a form of stockholm syndrome?

Regulation has almost nothing to do with it. Regulation is a means to make accountability scalable. you could write a never ending list of possible regulations, but the ones we settle on are the ones we need due to the ways people end up abusing a lack of regulation. It does not absolve the abusers of accountability.

The more a community holds itself accountable without regulation, the less regulation the community needs. If people always avoided unregulated assets because of your logic - we wouldnt have any regulated markets today.

Non-scams are the norm where I come from and with the people I interact with. Maybe it is cultural. Some cultures held people accountable for their bullshit and some didnt... and now the expectations for responsibility are different. "you should expect to get scammed" vs "if you find a scammer we will deal with them"

>If I write "i owe you a billion dollars for your 64 diamonds" on a minecraft sign you shouldn't be surprised if I don't hold up my end of that.

If you take my 64 diamonds, deny me a billion dollars, and then refuse to give the 64 diamonds back.. that is theft. In minecraft, I would then proceed to remove your health bar, take what I want from you, pour lava buckets on your house, etc. And you should not be surprised by that.

Abusing a lack of regulation causes chaos, and hinders the ability of communities to grow stronger. Weak communities enable unnecessary suffering. There is an ethical responsibility to make an example out of people who manipulate communication to scam others. It is one of the few things nature allowed us to have to enable building communities in the first place.

If scamming is currently the norm, then it is currently hunting season.

this is about as logical as saying "just because we signed a contract doesnt mean I need to uphold my end of the contract. you should have known I wasnt going to be able to fulfill my end of our agreement"

I agree with personal responsibility but not at the expense of communication.

Imagine if every single person who moved a package was required to open the package and confirm the contents. It may be the only way to accept personal responsibility for its contents, but it's dumb. I am telling you what the contents are and if I am lying to you then I need to be held accountable. Especially if the contents are dangerous and I told you they are safe.

I dont think sharing URLs with state is that relevant anymore. If I want to share something I am looking at that has state dependencies, I take a screenshot. I dont, or ever, expected the ability of a URL to take someone anywhere but the home page or top level sub-directory

If I refresh the page and my state is lost, that is expected behavior to me.

If I do not like the state of the page, I can refresh the page and start over.

It is frustrating when I refresh the page and literally nothing happens, and now I need to go into the URL and delete a bunch of shit in order to refresh my state.

It is WAY more important to me to be able to quickly build any state from scratch. I do not ever want to be 10 minutes into building some specific state on your website. I do not care how well you handle it because I dont trust it to persist anyway. I do not want to trust it to persist.

Focus your energy on improving the navigation of your site or build state into the site itself. Let me save search criteria terms into a named list associated with my account if it's important. I want to be dependent on the URL for as little as possible, even indirectly.

okay but why not just take down the entire thing and make something even cooler

I want to emphasize an important distinction between Actual sales, and the sales department. Actual sales fix problems, the sales department may or may not be relevant to what causes that to happen.. although they will surely fight for the credit either way.

AFAIK Engineers have an axe to grind with the sales department, not actual sales. Giving credit for a sale is a very subjective matter, and more often than not every sales person who so much as sent an email to the opp want credit - effectively taking advantage of the subjective nature as much as they can get away with. Even if in reality the customer had to pretty much talk around everyone on the sales team and speak with an engineer to gain confidence in the product. Then the engineer has to go play catch-up from the 1 hour meeting while the sales member gets % of the sale.

A lot of people dismissing your concerns as "bad eggs everywhere". I appreciate you speaking out against this.

Apologizing on behalf of others is a valid signal towards properly judging individual motives vs cultural influence. I do not want to be too quick to blame someone for acting distrustful if they grew up in a very distrustful environment / culture.

>I can’t imagine there’s a lot of well-trained RNs looking to be hired

I think this is an assumption we have to accept. The implication is that there are not enough nurses. Which means we need to protect the ones we have, and incentivize people to join. And we need to be creative / strategic / tactical about it because it is not a problem we can just throw money at (and as you mentioned, the money doesnt exist anyway).

Step 1: protecting the nurses we still have.

a) Increase denial of care. Nursing seems to be in need of triage. Or rather, "the system" needs to bear responsibility for triage instead of putting the weight on nurses and simply forgiving them for reasonable mistakes as a result of being overloaded

b) Reduced workload for nurses. Formalize the maximum acceptable workload for a nurse. Maybe provide compromised solutions that patients can agree to for any work beyond the maximum (less documentation, less liability, etc - an acceptance akin to treating a soldier on the battlefield. ie "do whatever you can, i'd rather something than nothing")

c) Increase usage of care workers (cheaper workers that RN's can delegate some responsibilities to)

d) Make a public awareness of how loaded a healthcare locations workforce is (so patients can self-manage in the moment; ie. my urgent care is very busy right now, let me go a couple towns over)

Step 2: Incentivize new nurses

a) Measure how many RN's exist that are not working as nurses. Do a case study to see what would bring them back

b) promote the profession to the youth like we did for STEM in the 2000's

c) reduce training needs. break apart the responsibilities of an RN and group them by categories that non-RN's / care workers can become certified in. allow RN's to delegate more work to "nursing category specialists" like IV management, medical history relevance, cleaning up shit, covid testing, etc. (whatever categories make sense)

Step 1 will support step 2, as it will be easier to recruit new nurses if nurses are better protected.

the important thing to remember is that we cannot control the demand on the healthcare system. We need to protect that system from collapsing if demand becomes too high. We must also provide a means for providing some treatment instead of no treatment in situations where full treatment is not possible due to excessive demand.

Personally, I think we coddle patients way too much. I understand wanting to protect people from their own stupidity, but we really need to stop trying to make the healthcare system a pleasant customer service experience. Let them be busy level-4 service technicians who do not have time for our bullshit.

Hire a much cheaper dedicated friendly person to provide friendly interaction. have them relay anything medically relevant if it pops up. Let them be the first person to show up to the room and decide if a nurse is really necessary, etc.

Basically, i think we need to evolve / progress RN's to be more like Doctors and prop up a less qualified class of healthcare worker underneath the RN's

ironically my situation was the opposite. My vitamin D was a bit lower than the acceptable range so I kept getting brushed off until I fixed that. It was kind of hard to fix when I was dragging through life by a hazy thread though

I can be a PCP check it out - What is the most easily observable "defect" that's tangentially related to your symptoms? What is the most common treatment for that defect? Next patient.

Exactly this. The nursing profession has been accumulating empathetic debt for probably decades. By empathetic debt I mean nurses taking on more work and responsibility beyond personal rational choice because if they fall short then patients suffer.

the truly tragic part of all of this is that as much as we would like to imagine these nurses confidently walking away from a bad situation like some sort of power move.. a lot of them are not. A lot are finally leaving because they are broken and feel broken enough that they dont feel capable of being responsible for patients anymore.

To reiterate- many (most?) nurses that quit still want to help people, but no longer feel capable of helping. That is a level of trauma that can be passed down to the next generation. It might take effort to let the gravity of this reality sink in.

Anecdotally, my mom is a nurse and she has come home and cried due to sheer helplessness to her work problems on more than one occasion. Shes near retirement age and switched careers into this late in life to help people so this is pretty much it for her. If the system does not show mercy and continues to grind her out then she leaves the workforce feeling helpless and broken.

It goes beyond payment. better pay will go a LONG way, and is absolutely necessary.. but it is not enough. There needs to be more redundancy, because 100% utilization of that kind of resource in that kind of system is something that would get you a failing grade in system design.

if people care more about the imagined world than the real world to the degree described in the comment i replied to, then there is no need for our real bodies to actually do anything other than exist. We only need imagine what we'd like to identify with, and the system will handle the rest. We could each be the supreme leader of our own world as far as we can observe

A bunch of bodies existing in reality with minimal real-world activity would be a form of peace.

Real world activity would be a disruption to that peace, and also unobservable to the imagined world since all content is mediated. So anytime a persons behavior does not fit into the imagined world system, they could be killed and no one would care or even know. Maybe everybody is just told that person had a heart attack or whatever.

it's akin to the dangers of not having a free press but with all of those dangers hyper-industrialized

>The only bad aspect of biomass fuel

Let's not forget the simple logistical difficulty of using biomass. It is not as energy dense, which makes moving its own weight around more expensive too.

"The net energy ratio between energy output and input was 10.41.. Energy used for hauling hog fuel represented the largest part (36.27%) of the total energy input. The net energy ratio decreased 0.11 with each additional transportation mile

the net energy ratios reported here were on the high end of this range as energy input for possible active drying, storage, and final delivery was not included. " [0]

"The energy content was taken at 137,000 BTUs per gallon for diesel, and 125,000 BTUs per gallon for gasoline (Adams 1983)...

output: the mean HHV ranged from 8,946 to 9,105 BTUs/pound " [0]

A gallon weighs about 6 pounds, so it seems like pound-for-pound (pine-tree) biomass is less than half as productive as gasoline.*

Honestly, I was expecting worse. But over doubling energy costs isn't negligible, especially for poorer countries.

*this is at a glance work, not an actual deep dive

[0] Net energy output from harvesting small-diameter trees using a mechanized system Fei Pan Han-Sup Han Leonard R. Johnson

FOREST PRODUCTS JOURNAL VOL. 58, NO. 1/2 William J. Elliot

and actual reality will have world peace*

*all disturbances automatically nullified** immediately

**nullification may include death

note out of pocket doesnt mean independently - definitely still have a professional approve the purchase decision in case something about the configuration needs to be tailored specifically for your friend

in my case, i needed to see an orthodontist every 2 weeks to have the mouth piece adjusted. I am not sure how CPAP works to say if it is safe to "plug and play out of the box" so-to-speak

> 90% seems way too high to be people who are actively wanting to leave

We are talking about the people who clean up the nastiest human waste that our bodies are capable of producing. I was already surprised that this number was ever less than 100% tbh

I second this. Absolutely pay out of pocket if insurance drags their feet. I spent $5k on a mouthpiece for my treatment and would do it again.

It is far from an ideal solution, but in the 3 months it takes insurance to get their shit together - your friend could have the energy to work a side job to pay off whatever it costs and just be generally happier overall

>I had a friend who I suspected of having sleep apnea. She called her doctor and asked for a sleep study

It doesnt sound like the situation has improved. Without a friend like you, would she have received treatment?

I think the community has gotten better at addressing the undiagnosed sleep apnea epidemic. When I needed help, there were some discussions about it on forums that I could find with the right search terms. Now, it's become much more common knowledge on the internet that people can spot it in others. which is fantastic.

The Doctors still seem to suck at it. For starters, fatigue is possibly the single most common symptom of disease - and is not something proactively asked about by doctors (in my experience). Every doctor at every check in should be asking "How tired have you been?". The fact that you can notice apnea in your friend before trained professionals even suspect to ask about it is the problem.

And the bigger problem is that even if we address this for apnea, how are we to know how many other issues are going around waiting for the patients to bring it up themselves? I certainly no longer trust that proactive diagnostic due diligence is being done on anything other than blood test result levels.

Doctors rely on patient complaints to govern their behavior. full stop. Check-ins and physicals are way more superficial than most patients understand, imo. Still very helpful, but not nearly enough

I only support this if I dont get charged for 2 visits

>I can’t count on doctors _at all_ to move the process forward.

This has been my experience as well dealing with fatigue. I was 25 when I finally got diagnosed with sleep apnea, after over a decade of symptoms. How something so common could go unnoticed by the adults and professional doctors in my life astonishes me still today.

Eventually, thanks to ego, I questioned the narrative that I was just normal and lazy. Without the internet, I might not have ever learned that sleep studies even exist.

I was more than half-asleep for all of my schooling, college, and early professional years. I've spent the last 5+ years trying to catch up.

are there multiple people interacting with the screen at the same time?

i found that the entire pattern changed rather quickly anytime i was enjoying it, which felt a bit too chaotic for me to spend more than a minute on it. cool page though