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ryaniscool

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About ryaniscool

ryanackley at gmail dot com

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    Comment #49368129

    There are no "overall" outcomes listed in CONCORD-3 or any other paper. Everything is measured by cancer type. You're argument that uninsured are included is just as axiomatic. Zer…

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    Comment #49359521

    I literally posted a link to the CONCORD-3 paper and made arguments using it and you rebutted it with "start with CONCORD-3". I'll restate my argument so it's clear: CONCORD-3 does…

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    Comment #49355552

    Again, you cite zero sources. Survival rates for lung cancer in the USA, the most common cancer in the world, are much lower than Japan and South Korea. South Korea is single payer…

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    Comment #49349626

    I'm sure there are qualifiers and rationalizations when comparing cancer survival statistics as well. As someone already pointed out, uninsured Americans aren't necessarily include…

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    Comment #49334782

    This is a cherry picked statistic. We still have lower life expectancy, high infant mortality rates, and one of the highest rate of preventable and treatable deaths among developed…

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    Comment #49266449

    Looks cool. Price is pretty steep. Lucid chart is like $16/month.

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    Comment #49175005

    I understand you're trying to draw a parallel (no pun intended) between what you did with Rust and the work the author performs as a professional game developer who optimizes game …

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    Comment #49168800

    LLMs work perfectly fine for me but I’m building web app equivalents of binder keepers, like most people. Essentially store data, display data. The novelty is in what/how we’re dis…

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    Comment #49168526

    His experience is completely plausible. He’s in a niche that requires highly performant code and most complex, highly performant games do nit have source available for models to tr…

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    Comment #49160932

    Luckily, accountability does exist in most professional settings so someone accepting moral responsibility is not required. It doesn't always land on the right person but it's usua…

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    Comment #49124990

    What I like is that this is a measurable productivity increase that can be directly linked to AI and they go over their methodology. AI-positive posts skew heavily anecdotal and hy…

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    Comment #48994089

    This is a company selling picks and shovels for the AI bubble. Of course they're going to drip feed "AI is so awesome guys!" stories on their blog. If you strip away the hyperbolic…

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    Comment #48968398

    Don't agree with the hyperbole in the article but I think the broad strokes are there. I'm the same as you, AI has excelled at small tasks and daily chores. Like writing a complex …

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    Comment #48919223

    The classic arc of internal tooling is generally: * Person gets angry/frustrated/passionate about some third party tool they could build themselves. * Person builds that tool. It's…

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    Comment #48919171

    I think it could go either way because what I consider calcification of choices because of AI. We've all seen people outsourcing their thinking to AI. "Hey Claude, I need bug track…

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    Comment #48890741

    This isn't accurate since the main reason I'm using Claude Code instead of these other interesting sounding harnesses is the subscription service with highly discounted token usage…

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    Comment #48853973

    Counter-anecdote. Wife had a herniated disc. It took six months to get back surgery. This happened in America in 2022. She was in bed the entire time. It was literally months of go…

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    Comment #48851850

    Yep. Costs for healthcare in other countries have a basis in reality. Here it’s about charging as much as they can get away with. No competition or transparency.

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    Comment #48851618

    Are you Canadian? I ask because I’ve never met someone from a Western country with free healthcare who wishes they had our healthcare system. I lived in Australia for five years an…

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    Comment #48816502

    Preventing crime is good but there are tradeoffs that most people find unacceptable. We could track people’s movements without AI. We could implement curfews and have 24x7 police c…

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    Comment #48524222

    In your new sci fi economy, where technocrats have a closed economy that excludes everyone else, citizens united would be dead. You can’t prevent people and governments from trying…

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    Comment #48521447

    I was being sarcastic about business class and expensive handbags. You act like we all should be entitled to these completely unnecessary things. What you’re suggesting is a return…

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    Comment #48515410

    I think the relevant question isn’t what can be built but the amount of effort in comparison to doing this the old fashioned way. What do you think the productivity gain was from u…

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    Comment #48514128

    >I think this is an extremely critical misconception, and it's sending the world into an increasingly bad place. They really don't, and the assumptions that underpin this statement…