this shit is so depressing, having a "secret sauce" and it being just mystical and unknowable, a magic incantation which you hopefully scribbled down to remember later
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> I would love to see more governments operate on a Git-first basis, so that each and every decision/contribution can be tracked online for transparency.
Alas, that sounds like a great idea in principle, but is probably a bad idea in practice.
Speeches in parliament (or on the senate floor, in the US) are already public. And that's a big reason those speeches are useless: they are just used as grandstanding to the general public.
The real work in finding compromises happens behind closed doors. That way you avoid producing sound bytes that can be used against you next election season. Especially from challengers in your own party, who could otherwise accuse you of being insufficiently pure.
yeah transparency is bad news, the real problem is voters demands for purity from their politicians
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I honestly couldn’t think of a positive thing for adtech.
Do share
It is doing the great and worthy work of connecting consumers with the products they desire.
But see, he knows Joi. And naturally, nobody he knows would be the type of person to do something as terrible as enable a notorious abuser of children for profit!
This is the deep rot at the heart of the American elite system: once you're in the club, it's effectively impossible for anything you do to get you kicked out of it. You become anointed as the Right Sort of Person, and everybody accepts that when the Right Sort of Person does something terrible, it's not because they're actually not the Right Sort of Person. It's just an oversight, an oopsie, an opportunity for Learning and Growth. You're operating among friends, and standards among friends are more forgiving than they are among the public at large.
(Even worse, not only are you anointed as the Right Sort of Person, but your children automatically are as well. And they have even less justification for being treated that way than you did.)
Which is why a lot of people are misunderstanding the root problem in the Epstein case. It's not that Epstein corrupted everything and everyone he touched, it's that an Epstein could only exist in an environment where everything was corrupt already. Epstein was the symptom, not the disease.
Exactly
Hmm depends on the country I guess.
But believe me there are bad doctors out there (your specific case) so you'll have to switch.
I've successfully avoided this kind of crap (never fell for the medication frenzy). Somebody close to me was able to find a psychiatrist who would assist them in getting off meds only when a third party intervened.
The problem is not with individual doctors, it is that the structure {legal, economic} surrounding mental health favors getting people on medication, but doesn't create good paths for them to get off (at least in the US).
That doesn't make any sense. So if a drug isn't providing any benefits (or too many side effects) your doc won't help you to quit it ??
Often the doctor that a person has when they realize that they need to get off a medication is not the original doctor that prescribed the medication.
And yes, most psychiatrists don't want the liability of weaning somebody off a medication.
You are right, it doesn't make any sense--it certainly is not good for patients.
Healthcare in the United States isn't a market, and that is why it is so terrible. For instance, there is no reasonable ability to compare prices of services. Prices are entirely hidden. Then there is the "with insurance" price vs cash prices.
Healthcare doesn't function as a market, to our detriment.