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Why should it be done that way?

If a country has media or broadcast standards laws, and you distribute or broadcast content in that country that violates those laws, that’s on you. The country can just fine you if you chose not to comply. Just the same as they would if you were doing it while living in that country. You’re not obliged to care about the fine if you don’t live there and never intend to travel there. But if you do then you’re going to be subject to their laws at that point, for violating those laws when you distributed that content in that country.

The founders mistake was creating a presidential system.

You have to couple that with their use of STV voting and lack of a presidential system.

Hearing your heart beat like this can be a sign of an arteriovenous fistula in the brain.

At this stage tech companies should be pushing for very strong legislation that makes the US a bastion of data privacy to restore trust. But they are still pushing in the other direction.

The people in this regime and their supporters really seem surprised to discover that actually other countries do have agency and national pride. Serious empathy gap in these people.

The US owned the world’s tech stack and countries let it because it was convenient and despite its problems people mostly trusted the US was on their side. In one year we’ve utterly destroyed that and made ourselves enemies of the democratic world. That Silicon Valley did not see this would threaten its global business says something.

The adult engineers and adult managers responsible for such things should get the same treatment as any adult having such conversations directly. You can’t just say “wasn’t me, it’s the AI layer I built to do the abuse for me”. You’re actively choosing to abuse and groom children. Sick stuff.

Depending on your situation, if non emergency and you were able to ask the cash price beforehand you might be surprised that you can get the same CT scan for less than what insurance ultimately paid. At least that’s my experience ($450 vs $1200). You may have to ask at a diagnostic imaging place, not the hospital since the hospitals can never tell you what anything costs they aren’t set up for it. (Of course I went through insurance since I didn’t want to pay out of pocket, but it was an interesting lesson in one of the reasons why healthcare is unnecessarily expensive in the US.)

We used to have Google search and Google maps which solved this problem of finding information about symptoms and finding medical centers near you. LLM doesn’t make anything better it just confidently asserts things about medicine that may be wrong and always need to be verified with the real sources anyway.

The US isn’t pouring money into Ukraine. Under the PURL agreement this year it has switched to selling weapons at a mark up that is being paid for by NATO allies. So this plan is not only screwing our own defense industry in the short term, it is doing so in the long term by showing any agreement with the US can’t be trusted and if you agree to buy weapons from the US you may find your supply cut off randomly as you need them.

Can’t you just limit scope for section 230 by revenue or users?

E.g. it only applies to companies with revenue <$10m. Or services with <10,000 active users. This allows blogs and small forums to continue as is, but once you’re making meaningful money or have a meaningful user base you become responsible for what you’re publishing.

Yet residual or enlarged thymus is seen as a potential cause for autoimmune conditions like Myasthenia Gravis. And it’s often removed in these cases. So is it really good to have a thymus after 30 or not?

It is so hard to believe there was a time where bundling a browser with an operating system was a huge scandal requiring a huge government antitrust case to correct.

Maybe it’s just that I’m old and crotchety but we need regulation to debundle everything, including phones. Yes iCloud, so forth no longer is bundled with a phone you have to choose the providers you want and those providers have to compete and no the Apple company isn’t allowed to make its phone work better for its own products. Just like Microsoft once upon a time wasn’t allowed to make its OS work better for its own browser (how quaint).

You’re seriously cherry picking the best authoritarian comparison here. Singapore is definitely an outsider. Let’s also include Russia, Belarus, Venezuela, Iran, China, North Korea, Afghanistan, Angola, Congo, etc.

The Netherlands is 18m people. Germany is 83m with its MMP system. There are ways to adjust and scale these other systems.

> Treasury’s efforts to shore up Argentina’s currency are part of a broader effort by Secretary Scott Bessent to stabilize the South American economy before President Javier Milei’s party faces midterm elections Sunday

Things like this used to be the job of the IMF, stepping in when there were genuine crisis, in theory with experts advising or demanding policy changes to prevent further crisis.

But it seems the crisis here is all self inflicted and the bail out is politically motivated. Is the expectation that after Sunday this won’t be needed and things will stabilized or is this structural and we’ll be on the hook holding the Peso’s peg forever?

> And then there's little bugs everywhere that just grind away at you on a daily basis:

When I create a new folder or file in a directory in explorer it hangs for a bit and doesn’t show up unless I click refresh. Ditto if I save a file to a directory that is open in explorer.

Thinking about trying to get a copy of Win 10 IoT LTSC instead at this point.

Brings to mind this change the UK made. Simply reducing the size of paracetamol packets reduced suicides.

https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f403

Taxing the land and removing zoning limits on it is the big hurdle.

From real world experience as a patient that has had a lot go wrong over the last decade. The problem isn’t lack of automation, it’s structural issues affecting cost.

Just as one example a chest CT would’ve cost $450 if done cash. It costed an insurer over $1200 done via insurance. And that was after multiple appeals and reviews involving time from people at the insurance company and the providers office including the doctor himself. The low hanging fruit in American healthcare costs is the stuff like that.

> They’re finally acknowledging that they allowed Biden to censor Americans by calling their viewpoints “misinformation”.

No they aren’t. Your own quotes say they terminated for their own policies. Not because of pressure by the government. They say if anything they resisted pressure.

Like with Facebooks post Trump 2.0 turnabout. It would be interesting to see the actual emails or letters from the officials showing what this pressure supposedly was and about what cases. This is just another big tech company giving Jim Jordan another letter he wanted.

It’s definitely very sprawling from Olympia to Mt Vernon. We only just managed to pedestrianize Pike Place Market. I struggle to think of a pedestrian neighborhood. Just cuz you can walk doesn’t rise to that level. Ballard no. It’s all cars and car parks. Fremont no. U district no. Cap Hill no. Queen Anne no. West Seattle no. They’re all car dominated neighborhoods without much pedestrian space and poor accommodation for cycling too.

And yet Seattle has very few pedestrianized spaces for the size of the city. It’s as car dominated and sprawling as any major North American city.

Value is in fingerprinting and tracking people and the websites they visit.

SSA doesn’t just have social security numbers. It has a lot of information about earnings, health, and disability of people.

Who verifies this data and how is it kept secure. Too easy for a regime to burn the records on the way out. Don’t work in law enforcement if you don’t want to be seen doing the job.

Given these projects will be overseas we shouldn’t use the extreme outlier of Vogtle in the US as the benchmark.

There was a deconstruction of his tweets timeline somewhere. He said he was questioned for two hours but the timeline shows the time his plane arrived and then an hour later his tweet that he was out. It leaves more like 20-30 minutes for questioning. There is speculation he actually was pulled aside for a routine Global Entry application on arrival interview since he had said he had applied for it in some prior episode.

There must at this point be lots and lots of actual walkthroughs of people coding using Claude Code, or whatever, and producing real world apps or libraries with them right? Would be neat to have a list because this is what I want to read (or watch), rather than people just continuously telling me all this is amazing but not showing me it’s amazing.