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This works really well because most of us are very privileged. I'm white, I have a good job. Yes I live in a republican hellhole state with just about the worst policies on anythin…

The kicker is that it's provably not worse in quality. Sure, maybe in the absolute, meaning if you have infinite money. But on average, health outcomes are better.

I just don't see this with our current safety nets, particularly SSI disability. SSI disability will pay you not to work if you have a disability. A lot of people think that surely…

I mean historically this is exactly how it worked. When infant mortality was 25-50%, people often had 10 children or so. Maybe 5 would make it to be adults, but people back then di…

Gas is also incredibly cheap in Texas. Way, way cheaper than you would think. In some parts, it's negative price - you will be paid to use it. We have entirely too much gas, which …

These people never say "great replacement theory", because they know if they do then that firmly puts them in the "flat earther" aisle. So, we need to call it out when we see it. T…

America was the bad place, now it's the worse place. I appreciate the sentiment but 99% of the time people say this, I've noticed they do it to try to dismiss any current concerns …

> If you give a toddler a butcher's knife to play with and they get hurt, you'll likely get in trouble for child endangerment. Right but granny is not a child, she is kind of the o…

I think the bigger question is whether this is even worth solving. If people really want to give someone root access and do it willingly, maybe we just say this is out of our purvi…

The problem is largely structural. Debian has huge repos and swaths of maintainers, and it works out because they read and audit source code to a degree. The end-result is that the…

One of the worst side-effects of corruption and cronyism isn't even the corruption part, it's the insane administrative cost it inevitably breeds in process in order to try to fix.…

Sure, but many schools teach only this. It is the dominant culture by construction, meaning we intentionally made it this way. I only got an abstinence only sex education as a youn…

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There will never be a perfect healthcare system, sure, but the US healthcare system is just bad, and can be improved. We pay more for worse outcomes on average compared to most dev…

Rent control is really about curbing opportunist pricing and gauging, which people do because of course they do. Realistically, a, say, capped 10% rent growth is MORE than enough t…

Realistically mortgages are also forever - very, very few people actually outright own their homes. Because when you sell, which you might be forced to do due to a new job, divorce…

Not sure, but they likely won't know. Too many people ask permission for things. You'd have better luck doing what big corporations have done for decades. You just do the thing, co…

To be fair, if any of those were proposed today, Republicans would absolutely lose their minds and it would never pass. Basically everything somewhat "good" about the US comes from…

My understanding is that the water argument is the weakest one - the water is given back to the city, it's not like it's used up. And using water for cooling is one of the "cleanes…

Maybe but don't we want, overall, more seniority in most places? Most software shops struggle because their executives are extremely short-term focused, so they cycle employees at …

Most other engineers are also not union, and they don't experience our high salaries or supreme career mobility. I think it was always a factor of demand and the domain. Software m…

Yes but have we considered employing, like, a really big block of ice? Like old-timey surgeries? What if we put a big block of ice on the 2.5 cubic meter CPU what happens then?

I'm pro technology too, but being pro surveillance is orthogonal to being pro technology. Surveillance is an application of technology, not technology itself. It's the difference b…

I think it’s because, right now, THE use case for LLMs is computer programming. Everything else has been deranked. And openAI and Anthropic make good models for specifically comput…

I think everyone agrees. Where the disagreement lies is if this is how the technology is actually used, and the answer seems to be: no. Regardless, even if the technology was used …