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fineIllregister··on I'm betting on ATProto
> Didn't the original facebook only show you posts of friends?

The feed was added a few years later. Originally, if you wanted to see someone's posts, you had to go to their page and look on their wall (a term I haven't heard in some time).

fineIllregister··on Open models by OpenAI
Sorry to edit snipe you; I realized I hadn't checked in a while so I did a search and updated my comment. It appears OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic also offer BAAs for certain LLM services.
fineIllregister··on Open models by OpenAI
In the US, HIPAA requires that health care providers complete a Business Associate Agreement with any other orgs that receive PHI in the course of doing business [1]. It basically says they understand HIPAA privacy protections and will work to fulfill the contracting provider's obligations regarding notification of breaches and deletion. Obviously any EMR service will include this by default.

Most orgs charge a huge premium for this. OpenAI offers it directly [2]. Some EMR providers are offering it as an add-on [3], but last I heard, it's wicked expensive.

1: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...

2: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8660679-how-can-i-get-a-...

3: https://www.ntst.com/carefabric/careguidance-solutions/ai-do...

fineIllregister··on Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel
> With remote, everything has to be highly intentional.

As work should be. I want to have spontaneous moments with my family, friends, and neighbors, which are more common when working from home.

fineIllregister··on ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes
> Significant portions of those disapproving are people who want to intensify the war in Gaza, so I doubt an ICC warrant would make them more opposed to Netanyahu.

Israel has a multi-party legislature. Netanyahu can be outflanked on the right.

fineIllregister··on The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
One can work hard and still not cancel holidays for work. Plenty of people work through holidays and don't "achieve much in life". I've known many people in higher positions who use all of their time off.
fineIllregister··on Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]
It's awful for most. If a person lives long enough, they will likely lose the ability to drive. A lack of walkable infrastructure basically means social death at that point. How many people struggle with the decision to try to take the keys away from their parents?

Also, cars create mobility issues by injuring people.

fineIllregister··on Georgia's Vogtle plant, a $35B nuclear project
> While the plants themselves are expensive, producing wind and solar power at large scale and offsetting intermittency incurs costs in the form of increased transmission capacity and storage requirements.

My understanding is that solar and wind are cheaper than nuclear even when accounting for storage.

That's before you get to the externalized costs, such as waste disposal and decomissioning.

fineIllregister··on Georgia's Vogtle plant, a $35B nuclear project
>I'd love to see other answers.

Workplace democracy is the only answer. Any other system is just some form of private ownership, with all the same problems. If we have a different system for choosing owners, it's either not private ownership or we arrive right back where we started.

fineIllregister··on NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9
It wasn't insightful (and nowhere did I say that Dondald Rumsfeld was incapable of saying something insightful). We knew then what he was trying to claim we didn't know. Even Dick Cheney said on the record (during the first Iraq War) that a full invasion would be a Vietnam style quagmire.

Rumsfeld said a smart-sounding thing he got from somewhere else, but it was just a lie. He knew the WMD claim was made up because he helped manufacture it. Iraq's non-involvement in 9/11 and our inability to accomplish regime change were "known knowns" prior to the invasion.

fineIllregister··on NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9
Pay up.

> "[T]wo-thirds of Iraqis as a whole believe that what happened in 2003 was bad for them."

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-iraq...

fineIllregister··on NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9
Donald Rumsfeld is responsible for the deaths of one million innocent Iraqi civilians at the cost of 3 trillion American dollars for nothing except the enrichment of a few. I agree that every person is complicated, but any possible nuance here is completely overwhelmed by the amount of destruction. Donald Rumsfeld is absolutely evil.

You might think you are smart for hedging, but if you think killing one million innocent lives just makes a person "complicated", you've lost the plot.

fineIllregister··on Stop Eating Sugar (2020)
> It's still true that complex carbs, usually having more micro nutrients and being slower to metabolize are better for us.

So your friends are correct, even if their reasoning is wrong.

> If the cookie is made with oats, butter, and nuts, it may actually be much slower than the apple in provoking an insulin response.

This claim requires evidence. My understanding is that the slower digestion preventing the insulin spike is due to the apple's sugar being embedded in the fiber.

Also, even if this claim is correct, then your friends are "only" right about practically all cookies.

> Toast with butter and brown sugar and cinnamon produces is better than just toast.

Massive citation needed.

fineIllregister··on New Federal Rule Caps Credit Card Late Fees at $8
You absolutely can have a social contract across conflicting cultures. You just gave an example: commerce valuing gold is a social agreement. Another example is countries at war each other following the rules of war (not always, but even one instance makes your claim false).
fineIllregister··on New Federal Rule Caps Credit Card Late Fees at $8
Money has always been a social contract. Just because it's a "financial tradition" doesn't change that. Shiny metals are no more valuable to hungry people than numbers in a database. The myth of King Midas shows this is nothing new.
fineIllregister··on What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientists have an answer
Rumsfeld's embarrassment over that line was well earned. He was trying to sell a war based on Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. He was asked why we should go along when there was no evidence for that. He tried to sound smart saying, "Sometimes you don't know what you don't know", basically admitting that there was no evidence to justify his predetermined course of action.

They weren't "unknown unknowns". We knew. He knew too, but he was trying to muddy the waters. He got his way at the expense of one million dead Iraqi civilians, thousands of dead US soldiers, and 3 trillion dollars of US money.

fineIllregister··on Copyright Easter Eggs (2018)
One of my favorite examples: a fictional town that became real. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York
fineIllregister··on Omegle 2009-2023
> When Trump got elected, donations poured in to them amd they made a pretty clear turn to liberal causes. I think the days that they would defend the speech of deeply unpopular viewpoints on free speech grounds are over.

Hard to square this assessment with the last news item I caught about the ACLU: fighting a gag order against Donald Trump on free speech grounds.

fineIllregister··on After SBF, Investors Targeting Larry David, Tom Brady and Other FTX Endorsers
> I'm sure he got paid well over $1M to say "meh FTX" or whatever it was.

10 million dollars, according to Michael Lewis in his recent 60 Minutes interview.

fineIllregister··on A World Without Babies: Private choices and potent public consequences
It's just mentioned that their birth rate is below replacement rates. What about the impacts? Switzerland has been below replacement rates since 1970. Italy since 1976. There should be evidence of the "catastrophe" by now.
fineIllregister··on California mandates VC firms to release investments' diversity information
Because we have a lot of people who are oppressed based on their race. The real question is why is America so obsessed with oppressing people based on race?
fineIllregister··on California mandates VC firms to release investments' diversity information
https://xkcd.com/385/

You are describing many people I've met, not one of them would be counted in these diversity reports.

fineIllregister··on Where does my computer get the time from?
Circulating that many fake newspapers is not possible. If you printed up that many newspapers, who would you give them to? Anyone who wants to read the NYT likely has a source, or at least knows one; same for sellers. The NYT wishes that there were twice as many people who wanted to read their paper.
fineIllregister··on The presumption that computers are working correctly
> I cannot think of any good reason for that "functionality" from a user perspective?

Markdown ignores single return because people used it to manually wrap their plain text but HTML can wrap automatically on the fly.

Add two spaces before the return to make a line break `<br>`. Two returns in a row start a new paragraph `<p>`.

fineIllregister··on The United States of Bed Bath & Beyond
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_stakes
fineIllregister··on Unity's oldest community announces dissolution
The claim here is that none of that spending is generating revenue. They could stop spending that money, their income would remain the same, and then they would be profitable.
fineIllregister··on Why Socialism? (1949)
I would counter that you have a nonsensical understanding unemployment. You are imagining that everyone unemployed is so by convenient choice and voluntarily holding out for something that meets all their preferences. That is not true.

Socialism doesn't require forcing programmers to be hairdressers. That's a huge strawman.

fineIllregister··on A successful Git branching model (2010)
I think that's what they're saying. People think that when they switch to git they have to use prod and other, newer workflows. But you can keep doing the same thing you did in SVN, using trunk primarily in git, with easier merges.
fineIllregister··on Why Socialism? (1949)
People who are not actively looking for work are not included in employment numbers (at least in the US). People voluntarily taking time away from working are not the reserve army of labor that our policies create to suppress worker power.
fineIllregister··on Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel
"Universally" makes that statement useless. Vermont only allows sparklers. That is practically a ban on fireworks in the context of this discussion. Many other states have strong restrictions, partially for sake of reducing injuries (and noise and fire risk).

And there is constant advocacy for stronger restrictions/bans.

The point is, we do restrict people's actions on fireworks and guns in order to prevent larger costs. They are not a counter example for why the Coast Guard should have done nothing in this case.

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