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nhooyr commented on TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)   vox.com/science-and-healt... · Posted by u/paulpauper
barry-cotter · 3 years ago
Private medical care is in most circumstances illegal in Canada and they have large enough wait lists that people are dying in large numbers waiting for medical care. Medical tourism to Canada is a non-starter for Yanks.

> “Canada is the only country in the world where it is illegal to obtain private health insurance when there are long wait-lists. That surely says something,” said Dr. Brian Day, medical director of Cambie Surgery Centre in Vancouver and past president of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA).

> He launched a legal challenge to the B.C. Medicare Protection Act, saying wait times in the public health system are too long and stopping patients from paying for those services outside the public system violates their rights.

> In July, the B.C. Court of Appeal dismissed the Vancouver surgeon’s challenge.

> However, in their ruling, the judges accepted that the act’s provisions “deprived some patients’ right to security of the person by preventing them from accessing private care when the public system had failed to provide timely medical treatment.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/9099696/canada-private-health-car...

nhooyr · 3 years ago
> Private medical care is in most circumstances illegal in Canada and they have large enough wait lists that people are dying in large numbers waiting for medical care. Medical tourism to Canada is a non-starter for Yanks.

Can you cite a source for people dying in "large" numbers waiting for medical care in Canada?

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nhooyr commented on To build truly intelligent machines, teach them cause and effect   quantamagazine.org/to-bui... · Posted by u/sonabinu
pyrolistical · 3 years ago
Even us so called intelligent beings only have correlation.

The closest thing we have to “causation” is the scientific method and even that is only one counter example from disproving entire theories.

So why we need AI to understand causation when even we don’t have it.

It’s correlation all the way down. We should strive for truth but know that we will never achieve any

nhooyr · 3 years ago
> It’s correlation all the way down. We should strive for truth but know that we will never achieve any.

No, so far that too is just a correlation.

We don't know what's all the way down, absolutely no clue.

nhooyr commented on North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year   economist.com/asia/2023/0... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
danielvf · 3 years ago
As a blockchain security guy, it's really easy to spot the occasional North Korean heists on Ethereum. The big tells are:

1. They hack computers not code. Their normal plan is to steal keys by compromising users and computers. This is in contrast to the normal "hack" that works by finding and exploiting bugs in code.

2. They immediately exfiltrate the stolen money back to the real world via bazillions of mule accounts that are already standing by. In contrast to the "normal" hacker who attempts to obfuscate and hide funds on-chain, and slip away with some at a far future date.

Here's a writeup from a company after the big 600 million dollar NK hack.

https://roninblockchain.substack.com/p/back-to-building-roni...

nhooyr · 3 years ago
> Their normal plan is to steal keys by compromising users and computers. This is in contrast to the normal "hack" that works by finding and exploiting bugs in code.

That's the primary way hacks are conducted by most hackers. Hackers are primarily social engineers, not technical. Technical hackers are extremely rare regardless of nationality.

nhooyr commented on IRS builds task force to explore running its own free e-file system   federalnewsnetwork.com/it... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
deafpolygon · 3 years ago
Literally every other first-word country has implemented this by now. Why the US is such a holdout is beyond me (I know why, lobbying.. but still).
nhooyr · 3 years ago
Nope, Canada is also a holdout :(
nhooyr commented on New Hampshire on the cusp of enshrining software freedom into law   libreboot.org/news/usa-li... · Posted by u/leahlibre
micromacrofoot · 3 years ago
Calling this “libre software” instead of “free software” seems very self-serving

> You can’t become a competent programmer by using Windows or MacOS. Linux or BSD are your only real choice, because that’s where all the interesting development happens.

uh excuse me?

nhooyr · 3 years ago
He's not wrong. Certainly when it comes to the full scope of being a programmer, Linux and BSD are your only real options. You can't easily add a new filesystem or screw with the kernel on macOS/windows without having to buy hundreds of dollars worth of their books and attend conferences.

There isn't really any good detailed up to date documentation online about either. The docs for linux/bsd aren't perfect either but at least there you can always fall back on the source. That makes a massive difference.

For example, one of the reasons I switched from Java to Go back in the day is that I could actually read the source code of the APIs I was using. So I could fully understand the standard library whereas in Java it was all obfuscated bytecode. I'm not sure if the situation has changed with OpenJDK but my point stands, an open core system is far superior platform for learning.

nhooyr commented on Purego – A library for calling C functions from Go without Cgo   github.com/ebitengine/pur... · Posted by u/weitzj
nhooyr · 3 years ago
An explanation of how this works and what makes it novel would be nice. I'm not familiar enough to understand how this is better than Cgo.
nhooyr commented on Chromium's impact on root DNS traffic (2020)   blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21... · Posted by u/jesprenj
Thaxll · 3 years ago
60B queries a day is nothing, we're talking about root servers that serve as fundation for the internet as a whole.

The other thing that people would be very suprised about is how old the software is on those root server, forget modern libraries with Rust/c++ and the like, it's pretty old tech that is very inefficient.

Edit: when talking about old tech I'm talking about the architecture of the DNS server used, IO libraries and models, caching, data structure and the like, for example a lot of stuff has been done arround web servers to serve things very efficiently, the same could be done on DNS servers.

nhooyr · 3 years ago
> it's pretty old tech that is very inefficient.

There is nothing about Rust or C++ that make them faster than C.

In what way are the root servers inefficient?

nhooyr commented on The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry   efinancialcareers.com/new... · Posted by u/mustache_kimono
jerf · 3 years ago
I personally consider C or C++ written with the best-of-breed static analysis deployed on it, preferably from day one, to essentially be a different language. Most of the criticisms of C or C++ are eliminated under this setup. You get different ones; the resulting language is even more complex than the base languages, and requires an even deeper understanding of what's going on, but at least you have the requisite support to learn it, so in the end it's probably a net positive even in terms of the ability to learn it.

This is, obviously, a very opinionated opinion.

If I was going to be forced to do it, this is how I'd want to do it.

nhooyr · 3 years ago
What static analysis tools are you referring to for C?
nhooyr commented on I want to lose every debate   sive.rs/led... · Posted by u/Tomte
mihaic · 3 years ago
The first time I saw US-style collegiate debate, it seemed like a great mind-game. Over time I've come to consider it though as the sign of a bullshitting culture, where the truth is irrelevant, and winning the argument is all that matters.

Professional debating and the article both feel wrong since they're missing the key element to me: synthesis of opposing ideas into something more than each individual side. It might happen that at times this synthesis means that one side is completely discarded, but the goal of any debate to me should be to achieve the sum of all truths that are held by all parties.

Most places from from schools to success stories seem to fail in describing the purpose of debating to me because of that.

nhooyr · 3 years ago
What do you mean US-style? As far as I'm aware, such debate clubs exist all throughout the world. The most famous of which are probably the Cambridge Union and the Oxford Union both in the UK.

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