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Thiez commented on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-... · Posted by u/saubeidl

dmurray · 21 days ago

Presumably there's some level at which this can be solved in a purely monetary way.

If the average Dodge Ram causes X millimorts of deaths per year (per km? per km on suburban roads?) and every dollar spent on public healthcare (drug interventions? road safety? Fire departments?) saves Y lives, you can increase the tax by X/Y, trust the government to spend the extra revenue in the most effective way, and everyone comes out better off.

Thiez · 19 days ago

A skilled surgeon can generate millions of negative micromorts per year. Should they get a pass if once a year they push a child off the roof of the hospital? What of the classic example of killing a healthy patient and saving several lives with their organs?

It sounds so enlightened to shuffle micromorts around. What good is it to the parents of a child killed by an unsafe vehicle that increased taxes going to healthcare will ensure that 320 elderly people can live 3 months longer?

Thiez commented on Study finds memory decline surge in young people onepercentrule.substack.c... · Posted by u/drcwpl

hulitu · a month ago

> Study finds memory decline surge in young people

Who would have thought that bread (fast food) and circus (smartphone) would dumb them down. /s

Thiez · a month ago

So fast food was invented around the same time as the smartphone?

Thiez commented on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in bbc.com/news/articles/cgk... · Posted by u/vinni2

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t · 2 months ago

Why do you think free to use VPNs exist when both servers and bandwidth costs money?

Thiez · 2 months ago

Fact is that they do exist. Whether that meshes with your personal beliefs about economics seems beside the point.

Thiez commented on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in bbc.com/news/articles/cgk... · Posted by u/vinni2

amai · 2 months ago

Doe that imply 77% of the visitors were underage?

Thiez · 2 months ago

It implies that 77% of UK visitors were not prepared to upload an id to watch porn. They either stopped watching, used a VPN, or moved to smaller and less regulated sites without age verification. The remaining 23% will also include teens that uploaded a fake id.

Thiez commented on Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites nednex.com/en/the-interne... · Posted by u/SweetSoftPillow

icedchai · 2 months ago

You should ask if true privacy is really possible. Cookies are just the tip of the iceberg. Between IP addresses, browser fingerprinting, unique URLs, and the existence of third parties that correlate information across web sites (mainly ad networks) I'm confident it isn't.

Thiez · 2 months ago

True privacy is not possible if websites truly want to track you. The point of the GDPR is ensuring that legitimate companies operating in the EU will refrain from doing so without consent, because it's against the law and the punishments can be pretty severe. Sadly enforcement has room for improvement.

Thiez commented on Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites nednex.com/en/the-interne... · Posted by u/SweetSoftPillow

ajsnigrutin · 2 months ago

In my opinion, it would be best to regulate the browsers themselves... preinstalled browser on a device sold in EU? Cookies are silently stored to a temporary jar, deleted on tab/window close. One jar per domain. Then add a button by the address bar to enable the "I want this site to remember me", and it'll make the cookies from that domain 'permanent' (with an additonal 'advanced' setting if you want to allow 3rd party cookies too or not).

But hey, when the regulators are lawyers who have no idea what cookies and browser are, we get consent forms on every domain visit.

Thiez · 2 months ago

That is a terrible proposal. The GDPR is not about cookies, it's about tracking. Websites can track you through cookies, through browser fingerprinting, through your IP adres, through your login, through your local storage, and various other ways. They could probably find ways to track you by your mouse movements or how you type, if all other methods were somehow made unavailable.

That websites track you and then sell that data has nothing to do with how long your browser stores cookies. Cookies are just one of many, many ways that websites do tracking.

Thiez commented on Why is everything so scalable? stavros.io/posts/why-is-e... · Posted by u/kunley

jeffrallen · 2 months ago

I work at a place with 8 k8s clusters. We needed to evolve from generation 2 to generation 3 because of "manageability" or something. Gen 3 needed two clusters instead of one. Now we have 8 * (1 + 2) = 24 clusters.

Happy days.

Thiez · 2 months ago

Are they aware that namespaces exist? Surely you're getting more out of your clusters by having few clusters running many pods instead of many clusters running few pods?

At my job we also have some redundant clusters but that's because we're in the middle of a transition (really two transitions, the first of which was never completed), of the 10 clusters that fall under my responsibility 6 will hopefully be gone by the end of this year.

Thiez commented on Why is everything so scalable? stavros.io/posts/why-is-e... · Posted by u/kunley

gampleman · 2 months ago

Hilariously written but also too true.

One start up I worked at we had 2 Kubernetes clusters and a rat's nest of microservices for an internal tool that, had we been actually successful at delivering sufficient value would have been used by at most a 100 employees (and those would unlikely be concurrent). And this was an extremely highly valued company at the time.

Another place I worked at we were paying for 2 dev ops engineers (and those guys don't come cheap) to maintain our deployment cluster for 3 apps which each had a single customer (with a handful of users). This whole operation had like 20 people and an engineering team of 8.

Thiez · 2 months ago

What were these dev ops engineers doing all day? Surely you can only polish a cluster so much before it's done and there is nothing left to do?

Thiez commented on John Searle has died nytimes.com/2025/10/12/bo... · Posted by u/sgustard

lo_zamoyski · 2 months ago

> we'd first need to establish that biological systems are reducible to strictly physical systems.

Or even more fundamentally, that physics captures all physical phenomena, which it doesn't. The methods of physics intentionally ignore certain aspects of reality and focus on quantifiable and structural aspects while also drawing on layers of abstractions where it is easy to mistakenly attribute features of these abstractions to reality.

Thiez · 2 months ago

Not all of physics is relevant to a brain simulation. For example, humans appear equally conscious in free fall or in an accelerating vehicle, so a simulation can probably safely ignore the effects of gravity without affecting the outcome. We also know that at body temperature (so about 310K) there is a lot of noise, so we can rule out subtle quantum effects. There is also noise from head movement, pressure changes due to blood flow, slight changes in the chemicals present (homeostasis is not perfect). We won't be simulating at the level of individual molecules or lower.

To me it seems highly likely that our knowledge of physics is more than sufficient for simulating the brain, what is lacking is knowledge of biology and the computational power.

Thiez commented on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps metalhearf.fr/posts/chatc... · Posted by u/Metalhearf

mapontosevenths · 3 months ago

> Laws don't stop men with guns. Men with guns stop men with guns.

Prove it. Every statistic I've ever seen shows the exact opposite of this to be true.

Thiez · 3 months ago

Perhaps they meant the police as the men with guns doing the stopping, and the states monopoly on violence. I for one wholeheartedly support the police enforcing gun control laws and dealing with armed criminals.