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Perfect. Instant buy for me if they can deliver on their promises. No other car in recent memory has spoken to my minimalist frugal engineering mind like this one. Hope my 2000 4runner lasts until the Slate gets delivered to my door!

Fuck. Reading the original post on Something Awful, then your experience in 2021 in the days leading up, and then this all these years later... it's just harrowing. I'm so sorry.

Wondering the same. I couldn't make it through the article. Fascinating discovery, but poorly written and difficult to navigate the author's thoughts. The interstitial quotes were particularly disorienting.

Incredible. Congrats, enjoy the fruits of your hard work!

I’m confused. You say that you “go to” an annual event, but then you describe it at a massive private festival that you’re self organizing. Which is it?

> Known limitations:

> - Lets an AI completely take over your computer

:)

Read the whole article (quite a fascinating story!) yet this key detail is still unclear to me: why is the state fighting the divers on this? What do they have to gain, or to lose, in the matter? If it is some historically insignificant ship, as the state claims, what's the risk in letting the divers salvage it?

This very much resonates with my recent experience. I've searched for a tiny, battery efficient music player for exercising and backpacking trips, and there's just nothing of reputable quality out there made today. All low quality Amazon junk. I miss my Sandisk clip from ~10 years ago!

> Total fraud in that case was $900 million, for a only 500 patients, or almost $2M per patient.

That seems so outside the bounds of reality that I'm questioning if it's what happened here. I can't imagine how that would pass any kind of sniff test by Medicare.

Quote from the article: "In less than two years, more than $900 million in bogus claims were submitted to Medicare for grafts that were used on fewer than 500 patients, prosecutors said."

The alternative interpretation of this is that the grafts were _applied_ to 500 patients, but potentially many many more were billed for grafts that they didn't need (and didn't receive). Maybe more feasible?

Horrible, disgusting, yet not at all surprising. I don't know what medical billing accountability looks like in this dizzyingly complex system, but as a US citizen and patient of the US healthcare system, it looks barely existent. My family has fought our fair share of bogus healthcare charges. One instance: after my daughter was born at a birthing center (independent of a hospital), my wife experienced postpartum complications and was transferred to a nearby hospital for care. As if that experience wasn't stressful and traumatic enough, many months later we were hit with a surprise charge from the hospital for treatment and care of our newborn baby - the baby that was delivered hours earlier, in a separate location, that never left my arms in the hospital!

All that to say - it's alarmingly easy for a charge to get processed in a batch of other charges, and either insurance pays it without question, or the patient pays it unknowingly. During our experience, we learned that this kind of thing is exceedingly common. The power dynamic between patients and healthcare administration severely misaligned, the information imbalance is huge, and the patient is always in a compromised position.

The article doesn't include details on how they tracked down these criminals (I'm curious to know!), but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if this is just the tip of the iceberg.

This may surprise you, but it's possible to be completely obsessed with your work (while you're working!), while also maintaining a work-life balance.

Pork? Huh? Feed them to pigs?

I may be naive, but I'm not sure where the hate is coming from in this thread. It's no secret that Google search result quality has rapidly and consistently diminished over the past few years, a common topic of discussion here on HN. Many folks, myself included, have developed a habit of appending "reddit" in Google searches by default. And reddit's native search, on the other hand, is just abysmal. If this partnership results in finding quality and timely content in reddit faster, then I'm all for it. Net positive IMO.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I just finished the book, Losing the Signal. Totally captivating story with so many powerful takeaways. I'd highly recommend it, even if you're already familiar with the BlackBerry story.

Nice! I'm diving into the world of charcuterie too. The most frustrating piece has been sourcing an pH meter that is both affordable and accurate, all the while hearing accounts of many folks who forgo ph testing altogether. Curious what you decided on here!

Content aside (which is both thought provoking and incredibly alarming) I’m fascinated by the author’s commitment to deeply understanding a system and the factors at play within that system. There’s something inspiring about relentless truth seeking, to the point of obsession, with some extraordinary level of meticulousness. Particularly when it challenges conventional wisdom. This is a slippery slope as it can quickly nosedive into junk science and contrarianism, despite best intentions, but when it’s done well, it’s really something.

Probably a faux pas here these days, but reminds me of Elon Musk’s First Principles.

Haven’t heard it, but I like it

I was entranced by this project from the very first episode 5 years ago! I followed along for maybe a year or so, and haven’t caught any updates since.

Happy to see the project (and channel) is still going strong. Such an incredible endeavor!

I'm clearly naive and haven't worked closely enough to filtering stage of of the hiring process, but nevertheless.. I'm shocked to hear that there was a deliberate and explicit filtering by a list of "top schools. An implicit look at the school and some dose of bias, okay sure, I could see it, but an explicit filter? Wow.

> The business model of Arrived is frankly disgusting.

Interested in learning more about this. Tagged the book for a future read, but in the meantime, can you enlighten us on the business model of Arrived?

Are we sure about that?

Yeah… Flour has got to be some of the lesser processed of all the possible processed foods out there.

My strongest Grand Isle memories are running along the beach at night with a spotlight, chasing countless tiny crabs. I wonder how many of us here have fond memories from a Grand Isle fishing camp. Maybe just the two of us!

> I simply don't see twitter.com still running within the next few months, possibly within the next few weeks

Aside from the staffing changes, what unique insight do you have, that Elon Musk does't have, that makes you so confident that the platform is doomed? And so quick at that.

> I guess the math for such a business is: - User deposits crypto worth X dollars. - User can take out up to X * Y dollars as a loan. - If the value of the crypto falls below X * Y * Z, it gets liquidated

My understanding is (deliberately) limited here but I have friends who participated in this or some other scheme like it, and the point is just purely speculative gambling. Take some slightly legitimate crypto token, take out a loan against it to buy shitcoin, rinse and repeat while hoping that everything goes up forever and/or you cash out right before everything comes crashing down.

Marc Cohodes has been sounding the alarm about FTX for a while. Here's a snippet (from last month, before the FTX crash) where he calls out the shady background of said compliance officer:

https://youtu.be/VbDiWXFxqr8?t=2348

The whole conversation is fascinating.

Launched April 2021, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26957215

Fascinating! You are prolific, thanks for sharing.

Not paid to donate blood, as far as I know, but plasma. I did this a handful of times in college for extra cash.

I received an email inquiring about my note-taking system, so I'll copy-paste my response here:

Nothing revolutionary about my system. The short answer is that I use Notion, because it checks a lot of boxes right out of the gate: it's cross-platform, easily searchable, shareable, and strikes that perfect balance between unstructured and structured data.

The longer answer is: I have top-level documents for each facet of my life, and each of those documents is organized with a particular structure to optimize for a particular use case. Much of it ends up as some combination of nested documents, databases, and kanban-style boards. The databases and kanban boards make use of templates to normalize data whenever possible.

For example, I have a top-level "Automotive" document. Within that document are sub-documents for each of my vehicles. Each vehicle document primarily serves as a quick reference with vehicle metadata like VIN number, license plate number, etc, and maybe some general notes. The vehicle document contains a "Maintenance Log", which is a kanban board to track upcoming maintenance, completed maintenance, repairs, and everything in between. The maintenance items are templatized to streamline entry and reduce cognitive overhead.

I've found that the combination of templatized kanban boards and free form documents can be applied to basically anything, from programming projects, to house renovations, managing job interviews, cooking / menu planning, etc, with slight variations to adapt to a given use case.

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I'm really pleased with how well this system has worked for me, and have considered writing about it in more detail. How meta. Perhaps I should blog about it :)