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> George Carlins "soft language" specifically spells out an example; shell-shock, battle fatigue -> Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I’ve always thought that this was a bad example of the euphemism treadmill, because each step is clearly an attempt to be more general than the last. The name makes it clear that this isn’t just a disorder you’ll find in soldiers at constant fear of being shelled at any moment (shell shock); nor even of soldiers who’ve seen the horrors of battle generally (battle fatigue); but rather that anyone who has been through any kind of chronic, fearful stress under the constant expectation that some traumatizing event might happen at any moment, is liable to end up experiencing these symptoms.

Or, to put it more viscerally: doctors would be wary of diagnosing a victim of domestic abuse with “shell shock.” But “PTSD” — not just as a symptom profile, but also as a name for that symptom profile, and a set of social connotations around that name — clearly fits.

> CSAM

This is actually an example of a completely different effect: it’s a cultural shibboleth. Police want to use automatic word filters to discover and surface conversations between pedophiles, while not triggering those filters with their own conversations about the pedophiles’ activities. So they have invented a word that is equivalent to the generic term in meaning, but part of “policing language.” (And, as a special trick, it’s a term with no potential for a treadmill effect, as pedophiles would be loath to use a term that frames them as perpetrators of abuse.)
It's probably easier if you're a former Microsoft employee who worked on Windows.
That, or they refuse to see it at all.
A priori, the Planck length is a a length like any other. It's perfectly fine to talk about that scale in classical physics, without involving QM.

> Pure classical physics doesn't have a smallest length scale.

Quantum mechanics doesn't have a smallest length scale, either, as far as we know.
Looks like they are shifting away from local development: https://www.uber.com/en-CL/blog/devpod-improving-developer-p...
My apologies because I was trying to recall trends from memory, and my timescales were off. Physician wages started to decline against inflation in the 1990s. They have been outpacing inflation for the past 10 years or so, but have still not made up for the previous decline.

According to one historical physician earnings survey [1]:

> During 1987-1990, median earnings for physicians were $143,963 (interquartile range, 96,718-175,850) compared with $157,751 (IQR, 101,279-203,281) during 2006-2010 ($13,788 increase or growth of 9.6%; P < .001).

If we take the most conservative time interval (1990 to 2006) and plug it into the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Inflation Calculator [2] we see that the median 1990 physician wage would be equal to 224,080 in 2006 dollars.

Median physician wages as of now are $229,300 (2022) according to the BLS [3] or $255,200 (2020) according to the US Center for Economic Studies [4]. Plug that into the CPI Inflation Calculator, and the 1990s median amounts to 291,509 in 2020 dollars. So yes, physicians have seen a sizable decline in real wages over the last 35 years. Americans overall saw a significant uptick in real wages in the same time period. Per capita healthcare expenditure has also gone up significantly in the same time period.

Also, when discussing physician compensation, it's important to remember that there is a very heavy rightward skew. Mean wages are not representative of the typical physician. According to the CES report [2], the mean physician wage is $343,600, while the median is $255,200. This is why you will see dramatically different "average" numbers on physician wages in different outlets -- you should always check if it is a mean or a median.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1456053

[2] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=143%2C963.00&y...

[3] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/physicians-and-surgeons.h...

[4] https://www2.census.gov/ces/wp/2020/CES-WP-20-23.pdf

[5] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=143%2C963.00&y...
Chesterton's Fence problems?
Premium does not have ads. I know because I don’t see them.

Sponsorships do not count because they’re placed by the creators themselves.
Windows XP still likely meets that standard as long as it's air-gapped and placed in a facility that has at least the equivalent level of access control, and never removed.
Same! Was happy to see this get posted since Ogre was on my mind after that!
> Maybe I'm reading this wrong.

No, you're reading this correctly. GP is misinterpreting the results.
To me, Len Sassaman is the best Satoshi Nakamoto that we know of.
> Controlling the language. It's a big thing.

And that's underselling how big it is. Language is the API to our brains.

That's at least half the point Orwell's 1984 makes.
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Connect it to GitHub then you have commits for every change
Most actually. As a country, we've had about a 10-year run of wage growth beating inflation. This only flipped in 2021. But the compounded wage growth from ~2013 to 2021 still beats the downward trend from 2021 to now.

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2023/feb/nominal-w...
There is an ECU flash at the dealership that supposedly fixes the parasitic battery drain. I've replaced my battery a couple of times, but haven't had an issue since the ECU flash.
Great essay on dying in the modern medical system by a psychiatrist:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...
Surprised not to see a recommendation for the Rigol DS1054 series, which is another good beginner scope and generally slightly cheaper than the Sigilent.
This is great, and really helps tie together the pre-Colombian history I've read about to the here-and-now.

How feasible would it be to build some sort of AR component? In particular, I'd love to be able to see your rendering for my current position, as I wander around Mexico City.
Inside Apple's Big Plan to Bring Generative AI to All Its Devices
Subaru has published a Technical Service Bulletin that appears to offer a free firmware update to switch the Starlink system to use VoLTE. Affected vehicles are:

2016-18MY Legacy/Outback
2016-18MY Impreza
2016-18MY Crosstrek
2016-18MY Forester
2017-18MY WRX

See https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2021/MC-10189606-0001.pdf for details. And, yes, Subaru is reimbursing dealers for this work.
ah yes the old trick of converting praise to blame once someone leaves.

every now and then I wonder how many things I'm being blamed for at my old jobs.
Gotta love me some cooked numbers & incentives for perverting.

An obvious incentive is that the insurance company wants a big number so they can sell the patient on just how amazing their insurance is!
When I was in elementary school it seemed like we took a field trip to a dairy farm two or three times a year every year. Not some traditional dairy farm for tourists, but a big factory-style dairy farm owned by a big company that had farms and distribution covering the entire state. They showed us the calves in veal crates.

I don't think it turned many people off milk and cheese. Actually the grossest field trip we ever went on was to a potato chip factory, the stink of rotten potatoes was overwhelming. They never took us to a pig or chicken farm though, I've been to a few at other times and those would have beat the chip factory easily. A lot of people who grow up around cows say they appreciate the small (I do, to an extent) but I've never heard anybody say that about pigs or chickens.
You might be interested in why this person didn’t want to use Dia: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/just-paying-figma-15-dollar...

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Fundamentally, lawyers. As America's ruling class needs multiple massive cash piles to drain. All types of insurance directly or indirectly providing them.

Next, the insurance companies.

Last, the medical system owners (various) to include Big Pharma but also the other niches.

The better but related question is why it is such a shit show. The answer has always been that insurance was introduced into it. If medical treatment had been kept tied to market forces, then what people could generally afford would have continued to set pricing. As well as kept pathological industry motivations (harm) in check.
Again, the "costs" are not the problem. The prices are. Please stop perpetuating the cost myth.
Because it's a euphemism for "killing innocent people".
How long can a single shrimp or chicken feed someone?
> Additionally, malpractice insurance is insanely expensive

It really isn't. But it's a trope that helps the AMA's argument about limiting supply of new doctors.

Anesthesiologist average salary: $410K/year, average malpractice insurance: $13K.

Family practice: $250K, $10K.

Obstetricians: $390K/year, $42K.

Not that these aren't negligible amounts, but these are well within affordability AND only going down as more and more states implement caps on malpractice lawsuit payouts.
Only if you disregard the 12 banks that makes up the Federal Reserve system each with their own Boards and the Federal Open Market Committee.
It's interesting the article doesn't directly describe or explore the actual reported profit margins of the various companies!

I work in the industry and in general you see high margin (50-75%+) in areas like outpatient surgery centers, senior primary care ACO groups (ie providers getting paid by CMS to fully manage Medicare Advantage patients), etc.

PBMs and health plans generally have lower margins (in the 5-15% range), dictated largely by state and federal MLR regulations.

Watch who the large medical insurers are buying and you will get a good feel where there is margin to be had. They can use this to generate cash flow for other activities, drive savings within their insurance book, offer more competitive group pricing to their clients(ie employers, state govts, etc),drive affordability directly to consumers or some combo based on what business goals they need to hit that quarter.
The term digital currency is merely a cover that is propagated for what I'm afraid will lead to some really bad things. For one, we already have digital currency. We can move money from anyone to anyone without actually moving paper. The technology is there, we don't need anything more.

What this is really about in fact, is centralised accounts. Authorities all over the world want accounts to be centralised in one place so they have control over every single transaction that can happen. This will be a major pivot point for civilisation. For eons, people have had the power to participate in an economy freely. With centralised accounts we not only surrender this power to our authorities, but we make it easy for them to abuse it.
No, at least half is easy. Any civilian who died or was held hostage is a victim. The military/paramilitary bear responsibility for their own actions, but ultimately, the one who lead the government as well as direct the Qatar (through Mossad agent) to fund Hamas because it kept the Fatah weak and palestinians divided bear a lot of responsibility.

And i'm a zionist btw. For multiple reasons, but i'm an independantist in my heart and i think autodetermination, even through violence, must be respected. What's grinding my gear are zionnists refusing that same autodetermination for Palestinians.
Fractional scaling works well, but only when all your monitors are the same size. If you're a laptop user connecting to a differently sized screen it can be a challenge.
I've never had solder come anywhere near my clothes when soldering electronics.
I watched maybe half a dozen shorts of The Next Generation and all of a sudden everything was gay (and other LGBTQ+) content. I wonder what the trigger is.
Which term would you use to distinguish between deliberate and accidental civilian casualties?
Not the case anymore, even on pre-M1 Macs.
Wasn't Glitch built on an IRC backend (which later became Slack)?
I saw your comment when I was scrolling through and I wholeheartedly agree.

Our system does put a price on "well you have to earn your keep and you have to sit here all day."

I'm not sure how or if it could be done, but there is definitely enough wiggle room and waste in our current system that we could have people start doing more useful things with their time.
https://countinganimals.com/how-many-animals-does-a-vegetari...

Here's a pretty good analysis based on USDA data. Prediction: "Seafood don't count! for handwavehandwave reasons!"
Reader mode is saving me on iOS
It's fun, and they share the two first letters but it's not a fact:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wissen#German

From Middle High German and Old High German wizzan, from Proto-West Germanic witan, from Proto-Germanic witaną, from Proto-Indo-European wóyde (“to see, to know”).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Witz#Etymology

From Middle High German witz, from Old High German wizzi, from Proto-West Germanic witi, from Proto-Germanic witją from Proto-Indo-European weyd- (“see, know”).

Cognate to English wit, archaic Dutch wit, akin to Old Saxon giwit.

So they share the same concepts ('to see, to know') but not the same roots! Very closely related though.
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> YouTube keeps a watch history of every user.

But why does youtube keep recommending me videos I already watched and worse, if I have autoplay enabled, plays videos I already watched?
“You can build it, but will hundreds of millions of users come instantaneously in desired markets and earn billions in high margin ways with minimal support costs and in a way that is preferred by the majority shareholder?”

Success exists outside the success criteria of Google and Meta.
Along these lines, my co-founder worked with Spielberg on an early virtual world for children with chronic diseases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbright_World. I'd be shocked if they didn't use some of these lessons from the Lucas ecosystem.
> You also seem to be making arguments for things that already exist and are universal, like performance-based comp, etc.

This appears to be a form of projection because that is not what I was arguing for. And things that "already exist" don't always exist. They especially don't exist in the form they are in FAANGs.

In fact, in my experience, the companies that copied FAANG style are the ones that suffered more than other companies that did not adopt those practices. Having worked at pre IPO companies that succeeded and that failed, FAANG-style heavy management is the single biggest reason for company failures because every IC matters in these companies, and poor management practices affect actual product outcomes a lot more in smaller companies.
I'm not a web developer. None of this is intuitive or easy to grasp for me. Even the inclusion of the demo and example directories weren't easy for me to find because they aren't standardized. The fsf also thinks that free documentation is important. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html . I view software like this as pretty exclusionary. We will have to agree to disagree, but I would say that the amount of people with requisite experience to understand software is lower than the amount of people who are (or in my particular case, were) interested in learning about it by looking through the source. This interaction is a prime example of why the free software movement stalls. Software written by insiders, for insiders is exclusionary from my point of view.
Thank fuck for that, to be honest.

Doctors who own DI practices on the side, or shares therein, tend to vastly over-refer their patients for DI.

I shudder thinking about this applied across a whole trauma center.
FWIW I'm actually not a vegan, or even a vegetarian. I eat and thoroughly enjoy meat.

But anyway yes, most of the specific individuals animals killed are chickens and water creatures of various types.
Your point is valid, but it’s an interesting note that the document in the linked page reads like a summary, which it probably is. It’s probably the case here, as with most summaries, that some detail has been omitted for brevity.

I wonder if those statistics are covered in more detail in the actual studies being referenced.
It is a risk, but not as bad as you suggest, because (1) in work you can get an incremental sense of what is worth specializing in, and (2) there's always some degree to which skills are transferrable and experience is impressive even to someone who doesn't need you to do what you did again.
We know what would happen because that’s how things were before the federal programs were created. It’s not like all the states had everything solved and then the feds came in on top with Medicaid etc for no reason.
The dystopian lake filled by the tech lust (2015)
Factory farms are pure nightmare fuel.

But showing people factory farms, I think, is less likely to make people become vegans than it is to make people agitate for more humane forms of slaughter.
Yet :-)
to me, reading these overviews is a very rewarding experience, as every article title in the category gives me a rewarding rush of memories and context all related to a common theme. and if I don't know about a topic, it's an effective way to find the gaps in my knowledge. maybe it's not a traditional form of art, but I can see how it's a unique way to interact with a large domain of content.
> It's a system (or whatever word you want to use) designed to benefit companies and corporations.

You will note that this is literally the concrete political definition of "fascism". Typical definitions highlight more the cultural features of such a politics (i.e., deference to authoritarian rule, ethno-based identitarianism) but the literal organizational aspects of fascism are described well by the above quote (bundling the governmental, industrial, and cultural aspects of a nation into a singular mass directed centrally for the purpose of benefit of those at the top -- primarily high-ranking government officials and owners of massive critical industry leaders -- by support or extraction from the bottom).
Just in case other Americans are surprised and dubious about these figures: remember that the vast majority of students are not attending the flagship state institutions that you might be thinking of. Public four year institutions include places like Western Michigan University and Southern Utah University, far from expensive urban areas.
Gene Therapy Trial Medical Tourism in Honduras's Semi Autonomous Zone [video]
Lots of talk about soldering irons but none on lead. If you do use lead solder please treat the area as contaminated, don't touch your face, and wash your hands afterwards. Lead poisoning is a quiet and long term thing. A little bit of care upfront will prevent a sad end for your loved ones in decades.
Oh I'm bloody fantastically happy. I am merely cynical about the state of the industry as it stands.

I'm literally 18 months from packing up this shit and doing what I really want to do which involves nothing whatsoever to do with computers.
Giving people raises for automating things is minimizing expense.

Suppose Alice is making $40,000/year and comes up with a way to automate a third of her job. So you start paying her $50,000/year and give her some other work to do. Then Bob and Carol each find a way to automate a third of their own jobs, so now they all make $50,000 and have made Don redundant.

The company is now paying $150,000 in total salary instead of $160,000 and only has to pay insurance and provide office space for three employees instead of four. Meanwhile the workers who found ways to improve efficiency are making more money and have the incentive to do it again and get another raise.

Companies may not actually do this, but those companies are mismanaged and putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage.
I have an older friend who lives around England in his Model S after a business partnership turned sour. He's also grandfathered on free supercharging.

It's not like it's the life he chose, but he seems to be doing all right.
I think it'd do both, and either/both is an improvement. Which is, of course, why factory farms try so hard to disallow their operations from being shown.
> less-than-accommodating natives,

The Guna (a.k.a. Kuna) natives were actually helpful, providing food to the colonists, who formed an alliance with them against the Spanish, who were hostile to both Kuna and Scots.
I’ve fried my 3D printer board once because of using a cheap meter. My good meter was out of reach so I grabbed a closer dirt cheap one to measure the output of the 24V bed. Instantly shorted my board and welded the leads to the screw. Long story short, don’t cheap out on multimeters.
Dave somehow looks like he aged 5-10 years when compared to his first videos
flying is a horrible horrible experience. the seats are too small, the legroom too short, the speakers too loud, the reliability too low. and it gets worse every year. nobody in coach buys a ticket to fly thinking it might go okay anymore. they know it will be terrible. but there's no alternative. where i live there's one airline. even when there's choice, there's very little choice. i don't use any of this to be rageful towards anyone else. but it's a predictable outcome from this ever increasing pressure. and i didn't even get into how bad US airports are, how unhappy passengers are before they even get on the plane.
Our problems are different, you're right.

What you're describing is probably closer to what publicly funded schools in the US have become, in terms of deviation from base expectations. But no, there is almost no such thing as a doctor who doesn't get paid in the US, and definitely no such thing as a hospital or insurance executive that doesn't get paid.
I can definitely add this, it's by no means a definitive list, and I'm hoping to get more insight to add to it over the years
Agree - a problem without a solution is still a problem
Life isn’t fair sometimes. This thing even went though the courts and somehow the onus is still on the buyer to prove something was wrong, when it is clearly a design issue.

https://www.subarubatterysettlement.com/

I guess there is enough noise around the issue these days to get the dealer to properly fix it, but back in 2019/2020, no one believed you had a tiny power drain, and it would have been very costly to prove it (including time), and then who knows if you could litigate successfully.

Hell, if the power drain was only happening while not able to connect to 3G, the issue would be so location specific/sporadic enough, that good luck proving it even to yourself.
I have a friend who has two children who are now allegedly young adults. They smash about one phone each per six months and one laptop screen each per three years. Their iPads are somehow intact, but dented to fuck. I, myself, broke a laptop screen when I was 16 (1999) by kneeling on it while it was open and concealed under my bedclothes. In the intervening 24 years, I have broken zero (0) laptop, desktop, PDA, or phone screens except by activities that I knew might result in their destruction (i.e. disassembly without proper tools under an understanding of 'either I manage to fix this right now or I order a new one and it arrives tomorrow’).

All this to say: kids are just rough on shit. They're inexperienced with potential failure modes and thus fail to anticipate what precautions might need to be taken in trying to avoid them. But they mostly grow up (after killing a few pieces of hardware).
Facebook seems pretty incompetent. They've intermittently not managed to even deliver push notifications for messages for the past ~6 months or so, to the point of causing some awkward situations when I see a message multiple days too late.

Considering the ethics of fb as a company this is probably an intentional attempt at increasing "engagement". I wish everyone just switched to Signal or something.
When Star Citizen is released
Funny, Germany just now has the world's third largest economy (GDP), an achievement with slightly over 80 million people...

https://i.redd.it/uxeq0v67ketb1.jpg