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9cb14c1ec0 commented on From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year   npr.org/sections/shots-he... · Posted by u/laurex
lazide · 3 days ago
It depends on what problem you’re referring too. Many socialized healthcare systems have huge backlogs right now.

Ration on price. Or availability. Or quality.

Eventually, every system ends up with one of the three. Sometimes 2.

9cb14c1ec0 · 3 days ago
My Canadian father-in-law had to wait over a year before being able to see a neurologist about his suspected Parkinsons symptoms. Fortunately, he's well off enough that he was able to afford medical treatment in another country, but many people trapped in such systems are not.
9cb14c1ec0 commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org   giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
andrewmcwatters · 3 days ago
I'd really like to just run my own Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassin stack, but it seems totally discouraged these days just on the basis of email sender reputation.
9cb14c1ec0 · 3 days ago
It's not as bad as some make it out to be. Check out Stalwart, as it is much easier for a newcomer to mail hosting to manage.
9cb14c1ec0 commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
matthewdgreen · 4 days ago
Lots of people in the US are religious. This generally doesn’t seem to dramatically lower crime on a statistical basis (with all kinds of caveats.)
9cb14c1ec0 · 4 days ago
Far less than in previous generations. And just because people vaguely claim to be religious in some general sense today doesn't mean that their vague generalities provide them with communities that bring about social responsibility.
9cb14c1ec0 commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
closewith · 4 days ago
All examples of high trust societies show that those consequences must be social, because _by definition_, in a high-trust society, you must trust other people to do the right thing.

A punitive dictatorship or police state is not a high-trust society, even though laws may be strictly enforced. Likewise, in a high-trust society, behaviour is expected to be good and moral, even where not mandated by law.

9cb14c1ec0 · 4 days ago
And there-in lies the problem of modern society. There are no social consequences. The decline of religion and family with no suitable replacement has left most people without a peer group to exert these social consequences.
9cb14c1ec0 commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
closewith · 4 days ago
> Put the criminals in prison. Do it often enough, and shoplifting ceases to be a problem of plague-like proportions. Big fan of accountability and immediate personal consequences and enforcing the law.

This just doesn't work. A high-trust society cannot be built by force.

> I am fatigued of the suicidal and deleterious empathy of those in charge who refuse to take second-order effects into account.

The irony here is palpable. An increasingly desperate poverty class with no hope of social mobility has many second-order effects, and none of them can be policed out of existence.

9cb14c1ec0 · 4 days ago
High trust societies can only exist when there are consequences for things like theft.
9cb14c1ec0 commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
ruszki · 4 days ago
AFAIK improving on poverty is a more effective approach.
9cb14c1ec0 · 4 days ago
People from every socioeconomic level steal, and the motivations vary far more widely than simple need. It has much more to do with personal ethics than the amount of money you can afford to spend.
9cb14c1ec0 commented on When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun   wisewolfmedia.substack.co... · Posted by u/douchecoded
oinfoalgo · 10 days ago
This is a huge problem IMO.

You have to assume the CIA are the absolute masters of layered deception.

I just listened to Anna Paulina Luna on Joe Rogan drone on about the CIA and remote viewing. I just assume that is all some kind of booby trap nonsense to fall into. I actually think the whole interview was Anna telling the bullshit the CIA showed her to keep her from finding anything that matters.

Same way with classifying the JFK assassination docs for decades even though there is absolute nothing in them.

It is brilliant. Something far beyond gas lighting.

Objectively, I have no idea what to believe with the CIA and that obviously is the strategy.

9cb14c1ec0 · 10 days ago
My basic assumption is that were a top-level CIA officer or several involved in the JFK assassination, they probably wouldn't leave behind mountains of documents in a clear paper trail.
9cb14c1ec0 commented on Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect   github.com/dani-garcia/va... · Posted by u/speckx
ronnier · 10 days ago
Yeah if an attacker was able to insert javascript then it's possible.
9cb14c1ec0 · 10 days ago
Which is only possible if logging into the web client and not when using the bitwarden desktop app or browser extensions.
9cb14c1ec0 commented on Why LLMs can't really build software   zed.dev/blog/why-llms-can... · Posted by u/srid
9cb14c1ec0 · 11 days ago
> what they cannot do is maintain clear mental models

The more I use claude code, the more frustrated I get with this aspect. I'm not sure that a generic text-based LLM can properly solve this.

9cb14c1ec0 commented on Farmers want California to change its autonomous tractor ban [video]   nbcnews.com/video/farmers... · Posted by u/ccozan
Loughla · 12 days ago
I'm not sure about that. A field is sort of a best case scenario for autonomous vehicles. There are only well established obstacles, no pedestrians, and straight lines for large distances.

Source: autosteer on JD tractors let me get really good at switch games.

9cb14c1ec0 · 12 days ago
Not only that, but if a tractor encounters an obstacle in the field that it doesn't know what to do about, it can simply stop right where it is and wait for human intervention, unlike cars where you don't want them stopping dead in the middle of the road. Also tractor speeds in fields are far lower than cars on roads, so automatically a huge safety advantage there.

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