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userinanother··on C diff spores resist bleach and remain viable on surgical scrubs, fabrics
Hospitals in the USA are not super concerned about patient outcomes at the administrative level. Everyone just wants to be middle of the road “good enough” to not get sued for negligence. There isn’t really any incentive for doing better than that and it costs a lot to be better
userinanother··on 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, Report says
Would splitting into regions make things better or worse? It feels like the US it’s going the same way but we’re a couple decades behind you
userinanother··on 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, Report says
If air Jordan’s are luxury products then yeah easy to see how that is
userinanother··on Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI's Chief Executive
Gross
userinanother··on Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
Dollars and cents
userinanother··on Sony facing $7.9B mass lawsuit over Playstation Store prices
Ps5 games are Usally more expensive than Xbox. If you only play multi platform games buy the Xbox
userinanother··on Hacking a Washing Machine?
I’ve tried tweeting the fill settings and while it works the rest of the components are undersized for that load and sometimes the motor overheats and the whole thing shuts down. The side load also tends to leak at too high a water pressure.

You can make diy detergent by adding a teaspoon of TSP to the wash. It helps a lot.

userinanother··on Ask HN: Black Friday Discounts/Specials
Nothing good this year unfortunately
userinanother··on Skunk Works is all about getting to the prototype stage (2018)
It’s easy to build an airplane. It’s hard to build one that lasts 30-50 years and to prove that it has an acceptably low failure rate.
userinanother··on 'AI' Is Supercharging Our Broken Healthcare System's Worst Tendencies
“ Expect AI to continue spreading into more legal gray areas as companies take advantage of the lack of clarity on legal responsibility to raid and pillage our economy and societies.”

This is exactly what’s happening, it doesn’t even need ai just an algorithm that allows companies to have an excuse for denying care. If there is no human in the loop nobody is responsible. You can’t send an AI to jail so they can just abuse the system.

Judges need to force companies to stop using algorithms and allow approve all expenses when an algorithm is found to be illegal or potentially illegal and that will end the practice quickly. The burden of proof should be on the algorithm writer to show its legal

userinanother··on What's the Best City for Techies in 2024?
Also homeless camping everywhere and complete city government dysfunction
userinanother··on After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data
Rumor has it airbus used to have a secure cabinet of Boeing analysis data that people would go reference once in a while in the 90s but I doubt that happens anymore
userinanother··on Ask HN: Childhood dream vs. your actual job
Wait your work isn’t filled with that group? We don’t have a lot of ballerinas but the rest…

Cowboys run the show, clowns work for them as middle mangers. Most of us low folks are firefighters.

userinanother··on Apple's head of security speaks out against iPhone app sideloading in interview
You can already kind of side load via test flight. I don’t really see any additional risk. It will add a lot of additional complications for apps that relied on side loading not being allowed as part of their security plan
userinanother··on Elon Musk to file 'thermonuclear lawsuit' as advertisers desert X
What did he actually do though?
userinanother··on Defence against scientific fraud: a proposal for a new MSc course
Anyone dismissing fraud hasn’t tried to replicate academic results to build products. Those people know exactly how bad the fraud truly is
userinanother··on Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)
Hence why they have so few
userinanother··on Ousted OpenAI CEO Altman planning new AI venture, sources say
And probably a shit ton of copyrighted works that were stolen and misused as training data
userinanother··on Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time
So more booms by Christmas?
userinanother··on Apple pulls its ads from X after Musk's antisemitic posts
Bipolar disease?
userinanother··on Tesla Investors Call for Elon Musk to Be Suspended
I think it would restore some of my confidence in Tesla
userinanother··on Who Is Mira Murati, OpenAI's New CEO?
Why does everyone have to have a phd to be considered right for the job?

That being said 6 years experience is a bit sort for CTO especially if your college schooling wasn’t in the subject matter.

I guess it’s more like 11 years work experience. That’s more reasonable especially for a high achieving person

userinanother··on Carvana Stock, CarMax Sink as Amazon Enters Online Car Sales
Some states let you reverse the transaction in the first 24 hrs.
userinanother··on The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of
There is an old saying that quantity is a quality on its own.

Having more targets than the enemy has missiles is Usually a recipe for success

userinanother··on The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of
Yes but if both countries didn’t have nukes it may have escalated significantly beyond its current borders
userinanother··on California regulator allows PG&E 13% rate hike for wildfire mitigation
Executive bonuses will be good this year.
userinanother··on America's Top Selling Car Will Soon Go Hybrid Only
For some reason they are more valuable and have higher metal content
userinanother··on Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
By the time I message became big it was a non issue. SMS is a garbage standard in comparison. I send full pictures and movies via I message if there is a Android phone on the chat they all turn to garbage tiny images
userinanother··on KEXP Has Winning Bid for Dark San Francisco FM Station
It’s an interesting move for an amazing indie station.
userinanother··on Amazon announces online car sales for the first time, starting with Hyundai
Hyundai is a top tier automaker. In the last decade they leapfrogged America manufacturers in build quality and are basically on par with Japanese manufacturers for quality. They caught a bad rap recently for the cheapness of their low end models and missing anti theft features but they were offering much more bang for your buck at the low end which is why they were popular
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