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From the article: >While it is commonplace for allies and adversaries across the globe to spy on each other, the current and former U.S. officials said Israel’s recent efforts have…

"The truth is, it’s actually difficult for any microwave oven to melt ice. That’s because solids tend to transmit, rather than absorb microwaves, and because the hydrogen bonds in …

If it's the only way to achieve interoperability with a communication protocol, then yes. Core infrastructure like this should be treated and regulated more like a utility.

Because there’s always additional context that the junior and higher ups need that they aren’t aware of, the most obvious being time/capacity. I used to manage an engineer who was …

Qualified immunity doesn't apply when the officer clearly violates a constitutional right. Unfortunately the article says: Judge Jessica Clarke, who ordered the injunction last wee…

No, the US system is far far far worse. Look at the changes in life expectancy the last few years in the two countries. Consider the number of nursing strikes recently and it's cle…

And that's the irony. Covid's death toll in the US was a hundred times worse than 9/11 yet we still don't have federally mandated sick days. State provided insurance coverage was e…

I have a company that sells to hospitals, they absolutely care about keeping the wrong people out of the emergency room. “ Hospital networks require you to either pay outstanding b…

Yes and I have a company that sells to health systems.

It’s terrible for a hospital’s business to have their ER clogged by people who don’t have emergencies and can’t pay. It means they see a much lower volume of people who can pay. So…

The obvious consequence would be that people go to the emergency room for any kind of healthcare. That’s a much worse outcome for hospitals so I doubt they would deny people primar…

It’s impossible to falsify patient reports of pain, yet the medical field takes them quite seriously.

Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see how it's possible for a COPY statement alone to remove existing data.

One nice thing about CSV files being zipped and served via the web is they can be streamed directly into the database incredibly fast without having to persist them anywhere (aside…

> I mean that intuitively I couldn't imagine replacing 1 experienced professional with 1, 2, 10, 100 or even 1000 intelligent high school graduates This analogy doesn't make sense,…

I'm guessing you have to pay for it and that you can't freely redistribute it, in which case it's not open source.

Costco doesn’t prevent the things you mention, you should come to my area in NYC. Within 3 blocks I have 3 supermarkets and maybe 12 smaller markets and corner stores. Within a mil…

Really? I've been using it to recruit and if I didn't have access that would be detrimental to my career.

My account was locked on Friday for security reasons and I haven't been able to get in since. I started an appeal and sent them pictures of my government ID but haven't heard anyth…

Saying they “need some kind of target date” is not polite, it sounds a lot like a demand.

Commercialization of someone else’s likeness sounds like the type of thing that should be heavily regulated, and skewed in favor of the person whose likeness is being exploited.

That reminds me of how the CIA was able to track Pablo Escobar. He had a mobile phone that he only turned on to make calls, however the CIA was able to remotely activate and track …

Average medical school costs are ~230K. Residency is not college, residents are practicing physicians that are providing considerable value to society and in many cases they are pa…

It's not even that complicated, you just need to prompt it properly and it won't respond with those disclaimers.

GPT-4 is capable of fairly complex reasoning and it's possible to mitigate the obvious giveaways by prompting it to write in the style of a particular author. Students who pay the …