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Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Post by 999900000999 »

pc86 wrote: post #275
999900000999 wrote: post #252

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Maternal death rate in Mississippi, 36 per 100k https://mississippitoday.org/2023/01/26/maternal-mortality-r... In Greece , 8 per 100k https://genderdata.worldbank.org/en/economies/greece That's just a random health stat, but it's clear the Greek have a far healthier population. But Mississippi has more millionaires so I guess it's fine.

I have to imagine you cherry-picked maternal death rate (which is anomalously high in the US for reasons that even experts in maternal death cannot explain) in bad faith because the all-cause mortality rate in the US is 1,044 per 100k compared to 1,412 per 100k in Greece - 35% higher[0]. I guess it's not so clear. [0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/death-rat...

Life expectancy in Mississippi is 10 years shorter than in Greece

>Mississippi ranked dead last in a CDC ranking of all 50 states and the District of Columbia when looking at 2021 data. The magnolia state had a 70.9-year life expectancy rate, slightly lower than West Virginia's 71.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2024/12/29/cdc-data...

>The current life expectancy for Greece in 2025 is 83.10 years, a 0.18% increase from 2024. The life expectancy for Greece in 2024 was 82.95 years, a 0.18% increase from 2023. The life expectancy for Greece in 2023 was 82.80 years, a 0.2% increase from 2022. The life expectancy for Greece in 2022 was 82.64 years, a 0.2% increase from 2021.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/grc/gre...

Greece has a older population. Plus we're talking about Mississippi not the entire US.

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Post by neogodless »

prmoustache wrote: post #188
aneutron wrote: post #172

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Making an urgent phone call to your spouse while rushing to your kids in the ER without taking your hands off the steering while is a fucking godsend. No matter how broken they are currently, they do have their place, and they work at least a bare minimum.

You should just drive and call later. You are putting yourself, your kids and the people around you at risk by calling someone else while driving, even when keeping your hands no the steering wheel.

I'm not a parent, but I suspect that if you're driving your kid(s) to the ER, there's a risk of having hours or minutes left with your kid(s) before they perish. So while it is riskier to call on the way, the risk of your spouse missing out on the last few moments of your child's time on Earth is actually greater.

That being said, one would hope that is a seriously unusual edge case for requiring voice commands.

(I personally find it awkward to use them, and still don't trust them to get it right, so I try not to use it ever unless I have no other choice.)

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Post by _Algernon_ »

eadmund wrote: post #194
tanepiper wrote: post #107

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Laughs in European Consumer Protection How's that "break regulation to innovate" working out for US?

Well, the per-capita GDP of the poorest U.S. state — Mississippi — is greater than that of the U.K., France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Poland and many others, and within 10% of Finland, Germany, Belgium and Austria. 34 of the 47 European states have lower per-capita GDPs than Mississippi. The median per-capita U.S. state GDP is $78,649; the median per-capita European state GDP is $28,713. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.or…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Post by flawn »

robertlagrant wrote: post #211
disattention wrote: post #202

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This is a kind of stoic virtue signal that may make people feel more mature for agreeing, but fails to fix issues while mocking people who try to make a difference. It's ok for people to feel things, and it's ok for people to want laws addressing anti-consumer behavior.

> This is a kind of stoic virtue signal that may make people feel more mature for agreeing, but fails to fix issues while mocking people who try to make a difference. None of these comments are fixing issues or trying to make a difference. Sending the product back is a really good idea, especially if this change in terms means you can get a refund even if you've had it a long time.

Still not an argument against people being allowed to be mad regarding this. You just can't give a fuck about data privacy and expect people to not oppose this and speak up.

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Post by Hikikomori »

eadmund wrote: post #194
tanepiper wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Laughs in European Consumer Protection How's that "break regulation to innovate" working out for US?

Well, the per-capita GDP of the poorest U.S. state — Mississippi — is greater than that of the U.K., France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Poland and many others, and within 10% of Finland, Germany, Belgium and Austria. 34 of the 47 European states have lower per-capita GDPs than Mississippi. The median per-capita U.S. state GDP is $78,649; the median per-capita European state GDP is $28,713. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.or…

Thanks for being a great example of what this person wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43385268#43387809

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Post by latexr »

pc86 wrote: post #275
999900000999 wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maternal death rate in Mississippi, 36 per 100k https://mississippitoday.org/2023/01/26/maternal-mortality-r... In Greece , 8 per 100k https://genderdata.worldbank.org/en/economies/greece That's just a random health stat, but it's clear the Greek have a far healthier population. But Mississippi has more millionaires so I guess it's fine.

I have to imagine you cherry-picked maternal death rate (which is anomalously high in the US for reasons that even experts in maternal death cannot explain) in bad faith because the all-cause mortality rate in the US is 1,044 per 100k compared to 1,412 per 100k in Greece - 35% higher[0]. I guess it's not so clear. [0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/death-rat...

> which is anomalously high in the US for reasons that even experts in maternal death cannot explain

Doesn’t seem like a mystery that a country who is so “pro-life” they’d rather let women die than properly treat miscarriages has a high maternal death rate.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/27/texas-abortion-death...

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Post by pessimizer »

_heimdall wrote: post #216
whiplash451 wrote: post #189

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This kind of apathic statement is not very useful. By your logic, we should not care about climate change either. "People don't care about privacy" doesn't mean that regulators and the tech community should not lead a charge.

People should care about climate change, that's different from whether people do care about it. More importantly though, those that do care should do as much as they're willing to do to help avoid making it worse. For some that means choosing to only buy products made with natural materials, growing/raising their own food, drinking rain water, etc. For others that means not using plastic straws. There's no perfect an…

Blaming consumers for climate change is a con. Giving regular people a bunch of useless busywork when they are already busy instead of regulating at the manufacturer where the effort would be minimal is a choice.

It will always work. The opportunity to blame your neighbor for climate change for not being as conscientious as you is the archetype of a liberal wedge issue. You can yell at them on social media. But regulate my company? Akshualy you're killing jobs?

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

grafmax wrote: post #242
eadmund wrote: post #194

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Well, the per-capita GDP of the poorest U.S. state — Mississippi — is greater than that of the U.K., France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Poland and many others, and within 10% of Finland, Germany, Belgium and Austria. 34 of the 47 European states have lower per-capita GDPs than Mississippi. The median per-capita U.S. state GDP is $78,649; the median per-capita European state GDP is $28,713. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.or…

Mississippi has much higher rates of infant mortality, poverty, preventable deaths, and lower overall education levels than most of the EU. Economic output fails to capture the degree to which the economy serves its people. While average GDP sounds like it’s something that everyone participates in, in reality, under capitalism wealth and income follow a Pareto distribution. As a result, GDP per capita tells us more a…

> under capitalism wealth and income follow a Pareto distribution.

And under the other forms of government thus far tried?

Anyway, Capitalism doesn't explain wealth inequality. The ability to accumulate capital and apply it to industry with limited liability doesn't inherently cause wealth inequality. That's the fault of Greedism, Over-inflated-sense-of-selfism, and Giving Money to Politicians is like giving Whiskey and Car Keys to Teenage Boys-ism.

We're over taxed and over regulated, that's nothing to do with Capitalism.

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Post by _Algernon_ »

throwaway73750 wrote: post #276
chillingeffect wrote: post #214

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Mississippi is the chronic showcase of american wealth inequality. Mississippi has the lowest life expectancy in the U.S. (about 73 years), significantly lower than the national average (77). Mississippi has the lowest median household income in the U.S. (about $52,000 in 2022), compared to a U.S. median of around $75,000. Mississippi has high rates of obesity, diabetes, and preventable diseases, partly due to poor h…

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>> France and Italy have top-tier universal healthcare

>According to what parameters? For what it's worth both seem to rank lower than the US according to the OECD.[2]

That would be surprising, since the US doesn't have universal health care.

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