If you are curious to compare with a foreign single payer system, England's NHS tariff is published at
https://www.england.nhs.uk/pay-syst/national-tariff/national...
Readit Newsthrowaway8689 commented on Open source hospital price database dolthub.com/repositories/... · Posted by u/alecst
Is dental health not beneficial?
Assuming you are not being disingenuous: there is a trade off with a lot of uncertainty - other things are also implicated in stomach cancer, and at the same time untreated dental disease causes other health problems too.
But I prefer to rely on brushing my own teeth and avoiding certain foods to maintain my own health, rather than have a medication added to my water supply because the guy next door does not take care of his health.
Here you go: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/003335491012500507
We've been putting fluoride in water for a long time, and there are multiple studies that have looking in to it, I don't know why you think there aren't?
This study looked solely at impact on dental health. Other studies tell us it is associated with stomach cancer and infertility.
throwaway8689 commented on Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians techdirt.com/2023/05/08/e... · Posted by u/latexr
> There’s only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music.
At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, I find very sad the fact that pop songs have become nothing more than 4 chords just repeating over and over, with a thin veneer of inconsequential melody over them, serving a never ending stream of banal lyrics. Is this really the best of what award-winning musicians like Sheeran et al can do? I mean, they don't even bother changing the harmony for the chorus, and where has the bridge gone?
Axis of Awesome took those lemons and made lemonade
throwaway8689 commented on Amazon Tried Not to Pay a Woman After Driver Totaled Her Car jalopnik.com/amazon-wreck... · Posted by u/t23
It scares me more to think that the auto insurer is being like this and not Amazon.
Is everything a high anxiety uphill battle when it comes to insurance in the states? They don’t just profit by volume and are, ultimately, a very boring industry?
I've had longer delays in the UK. My car was damaged by another driver. I sent my dash cam recording to my insurer and then both insurers dithered for months until I threatened to get the government ombudsman involved.
throwaway8689 commented on Show HN: I built a database GUI with ChatGPT integration dbpilot.io/... · Posted by u/Dennizz
There have been a few products like this announced recently and they all have intro level examples on the home page. Can yours deal with things like entity-attribute-value model tables?
What happens when there’s 100x the content, often indistinguishable from alike content, but demand remains the same?
For the listener I don't think much would change. There is already more music released than any one person has time to listen to.
Edit: or maybe I would be disappointed if I liked an 'artist' but it was an ai so live events would be weird.
I tried driving a car for the first time today. I just wanted to drive from my house to the end of the block. I crashed into a fire hydrant and almost killed three people. This should be a very simple and common task, going from your house to the end of the block, and yet the car failed miserably.
Sarcasm aside, at my company I've noticed a very disturbing split among my co-workers. One group of co-workers hold the above attitude, that they should be able to just use a tool on day one and it should be able to solve problems that even just a couple of months ago would have been unimaginable. That group of co-workers looks at ChatGPT and thinks it's basically underwhelming and a big nothingburger.
The other group of co-workers are learning how to use ChatGPT to solve their problems. They're learning clever ways of prompting ChatGPT, how to give it a proper system message, how to take large tasks and break it down into smaller tasks to offload a lot of the grunt work onto ChatGPT while they focus more on the overall architecture. That group of co-workers is seeing excellent gains in productivity.
The idea that you would just use a tool on day one, probably don't really know much about it or understand it that well, and expect it to magically solve your problems is about as foolish as driving a car for the first time, not really knowing anything about cars, and expecting nothing bad to happen.
ChatGPT is a tool, the people who take the time to learn that tool and understand how it works will become much more productive software developers, and those who don't will get left behind.
You have no information on how I approached using chat gpt, what prompts I used, how close its replies came to being correct/useful or not, but you decided to regale us with an irrelevant car metaphor anyway.
I tried chat gpt for the first time today. I asked it to write me a script to fetch some data from an API. It didn't succeed, and this kind of common task from a well-documented API should (I thought) be a slam dunk.
(But I concede that effort and productivity are not the same thing.)