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Apreche commented on The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence aaronstannard.com/40k-bab... · Posted by u/Aaronontheweb

emmelaich · 13 days ago

Related: Car Seats as Contraception https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731812

> We estimate that these laws [mandating safety seats] prevented fatalities of 57 children in car crashes in 2017 but reduced total births by 8,000 that year and have decreased the total by 145,000 since 1980.

Apreche · 13 days ago

It’s not the car seats that are the contraception, it is the cars themselves.

Apreche commented on The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy aliveness.kunnas.com/arti... · Posted by u/ekns

Apreche · 14 days ago

I know this article is focusing on legal responsibility, but if you are going to consider moral culpability for inaction you must also factor in capability.

If a very weak person does not have the strength to perform CPR, they should not feel guilty for failing to perform it.

You also have to consider the costs involved. Somewhere out there is a homeless person who is going to die in the cold tonight. I’m not vastly wealthy, but I could afford to save them if I dropped everything I was doing, searched for them, and found them in time. It is in my power to save them, but at great personal expense. Therefore, I do not hold myself morally responsible for not doing so.

Now consider the billionaire. By merely uttering the command, the smallest effort, they could feed, house, provide medical care, and educate an enormous number of people in poverty. Remember what Uncle Ben said. With great power comes great responsibility. The blood is on their hands.

Apreche commented on Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? · Posted by u/dennis-tra

Apreche · 16 days ago

Regardless of which OS is running on the bare metal, I do my development inside of Linux devcontainers.

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leetrout · 16 days ago

The query languages that aren't SQL keep popping up and they're honestly nicer to read/write in application code in many contexts but none have the ecosystem/maturity or "every BI tool speaks it" advantage. Until there's a single non SQL language that runs efficiently everywhere from my laptop to the datacenter and every tool between SQL wins.

SQL forever? Maybe but please let me stop writing it as strings in my actual application code. Sqlc is a hope for me. It is almost like treating your DB as an RPC.

Apreche · 16 days ago

There is already a way to completely avoid writing SQL strings in your application code, and it’s not even an ORM.

In your SQL database create lots of views and functions. Don’t be shy. There is no limit to how many you can make. Every single time your application needs to do a parameterized query, have it call an SQL function instead.

This method probably increases how much SQL you have to write overall. But it allows you to completely separate the SQL from whatever other programming language you are using. All the SQL exists in one area with whatever framework you have for handling schema migrations. Your application code now interacts with the database via an API of functions you have designed and never actually builds a query.

Apreche commented on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-... · Posted by u/huijzer

Apreche · a month ago

Even my tiny little personal sites got hammered by bots. I was very reluctant, but I feel like I had no choice but to go to Cloudflare. It was the only free option, and for tiny little sites it’s not worth paying for a solution.

Apreche commented on Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy openai.com/index/fighting... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

Apreche · a month ago

Says the people who scraped as much private information as they could get their hands on to train their bots in the first place.

Apreche commented on Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100% wildingout.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/ripe

neonnoodle · a month ago

I STILL don’t get this obsession with “participation trophies.” I’ve never seen one, I’ve never met anyone who says they’ve awarded one to someone, and I’ve never met anyone who received one.

I’ve seen very minor “door prizes” that say, thanks for attending this event, etc. But this “participation trophy” canard has coasted for 30+ years now.

Apreche · a month ago

It’s a sports thing.

If you go to some youth sports league, it is common that every kid will get a medal or trophy regardless of which team in the league won or lost.

But it also exists for adults. Go to the NYC marathon? Everyone gets a medal. I’ve participated in a lot of organized bicycle rides. The rides aren’t even competitive like the marathon is. They are not races. But at the finish line everyone gets a medal regardless of what distance they rode, or how quickly.

The harsh truth about the participation trophies is that boomers complain about them the most, but they are the ones responsible for them! I’m a millennial. I remember being in a youth basketball league in middle school. Our team did not win. At the final day, every kid on every team got a tiny trophy. I was very confused by this at the time. I expected only the best team to get anything. But who was running that league and decided to hand out those trophies?! Our boomer parents!

Apreche commented on Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else? · Posted by u/urnicus

Apreche · a month ago

Reminds me of this story from 2021

https://hackaday.com/2021/10/06/atari-st-still-manages-campg...

I have also met some people who worked at large old insurance companies. They originally used old mainframes and TUI, and the companies still exist. They told me of various things that were done. Of course migrations happened. And interfaces were built so that modern systems could speak with the old, sometimes via terminal emulator. And of course, some old systems still in use far beyond their time.

Apreche commented on Gilded Rage – Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian paulkrugman.substack.com/... · Posted by u/adamors

techblueberry · a month ago

I have so many questions - but seasteading. Isn't the problem that to have true economic freedom you have to have free trade? I mean like 100 billionaires on an island like Greenland, if they get embargoed by all the other countries -- like how many people do they have to have on their island to have the economic base to keep being billionaires and having their "freedom"

Because - like I want to live on an off-grid homestead in the middle of nowhere - that's my idea of freedom, but I don't get the impression that's Peter Thiel's definition of freedom. So maybe this is why they're realizing they have to have authoritarianism over the largest economy of the world in order to have their "freedom".

But one thing I think that's notable about a sort of schism in political thinking; is that it's interesting that the far left would say that both parties are the same and that both are bought by billionaires, but it's amazing how much the billionares would seem to say the opposite; maybe the Democrats lost because they turned away from Silicon Valley and Musk pumped hundreds of millions into Trump's campaign?

Apreche · a month ago

> but it's amazing how much the billionares would seem to say the opposite;

The Democratic establishment are in favor of maintaining the status quo, which is very favorable to corporations and the wealthy.

The Republicans think even the status quo isn’t billionaire friendly enough. They want to go as far as possible as quickly as possible to eliminate even more of the middle class. Their real goal is to disenfranchise labor entirely, hence the push for “AI” and eliminating jobs.

Of course billionaires prefer one over the other. But from the perspective of the left, both are unacceptable. Neither of these options will actually pull in the other direction, tax the rich, restore the wealth of the middle class, etc.

Apreche commented on Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push? apnews.com/article/maha-s... · Posted by u/voxadam

Apreche · 2 months ago

Prior to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) it was mostly illegal to sell dietary supplements that weren’t legitimate. You couldn’t have homeopathy on the shelves at a drug store since it wouldn’t get through FDA approval. You couldn’t put so-called structure/function claims on the box such as ”for flu symptoms“ either. You couldn’t even do things like sell smoothies and claim that they boost the immune system.

Once the DSHEA passed, snake oil was back on the menu. It has now become a multi-billion dollar industry. If science and facts win out, a lot of people stand to lose a lot of money.