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  • What's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?

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  • No purpose, no goal. My entire life has been driven by: goto college, meet someone, get married, buy a house, have a kid, pay for college, save for retirement. Ok, done?

  • Most Empires in History Fell by Age 250. The US Is at a Weighty Crossroads.

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  • Plus even if it was, it’s an average not a pattern

  • Tesla driver charged with manslaughter after car in FSD mode crashes into Texas home

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  • Even if it were actually full self driving, when you override it’s still on you

  • Tesla driver charged with manslaughter after car in FSD mode crashes into Texas home

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  • You may want to familiarize yourself with marketing, before you indict half the economy.

    But the name is “Fill Self Driving (Supervised)”. See, no fraud, just a balance of marketing and legaleze, lying and technicalities

  • 4Chan trolls UK government with another AI hamster as fines hit $800k

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  • I believe the key is data aggregators. The first roun of sales is to an aggregator. They Hoover up everything to create a connected dossier on everyone, also including public sources of information, to “add value”. Then the entire internet buys it

    But maybe not directly. A lot of the time the entire internet is buying a list that meets demographic criteria. “Give me a list of validated email addresses that have used Lemmy, posted about tpb , and use a vpn based in another country”

  • Besides gas and housing, what else makes you do a double take at how much it costs now?

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  • Best option for coverage. Best option for “not as sleazy as other phone services”.

    Very much not best for price

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    But i can’t decide if this is good behavior or bad behavior …

    • recently i had a $100 call to London because my plan doesn’t include international. Yikes!
    • but I could retroactively sign up for international service for like $10, and my $100 call became like $5. Yay!
    • but that service is auto-renewal and you have to cancel it by specific day. Dammit!

  • Besides gas and housing, what else makes you do a double take at how much it costs now?

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  • College. It was so much easier paying for my college education as a broke kid, then it is trying to pay for my kids college education at what’s supposed to be my prime earning years

  • MAGA Rep. Slammed After Tearfully Blaming Democrats For Having Trouble Accessing Abortion She Helped Ban In Florida

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  • Cammack blamed those delays not on the law itself but on what she described as …..

    So she didn’t learn anything either

  • Millions drop Obamacare health coverage after subsidies expire and costs rise

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  • It’s at every level of the current administration…. While a healthy skepticism is always good, we’re never going to be able to trust anything from our government, are we

  • FCC may kill $2B program that connects schools and libraries to Internet | FCC Chairman Brendan Carr cites screen time concerns, is accused of trying to be “the nation’s parent.”

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  • E-Rate and other Universal Service Fund (USF) programs are paid for by fees imposed on phone companies, which usually pass the cost on to consumers on their monthly bills.

    Let me guess, they want to save government money …… errrr let large companies keep more of the money from their ratepayers?

  • Organizers remove Confederate flag image from N.C. booth at fair on the Mall

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  • It does reek in multiple ways but I’d give them this one. I read it as hyperbole over the scope as beyond the “county fair” were all used to.

  • Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You

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  • Continuous or short term reporting is a privacy issue. It can go a long way toward monitoring where someone is going all the time. Definitely something to be avoided.

    While the trickle charging idea might sound good, there is no requirement to use a charger and many people do not. This seems like the biggest gap of any option. And even with public chargers, the infrastructure act charger funding included provisions that you can pay with cash, no account required. Those chargers would intentionally not have a way to track.

    Reporting at annual inspection

    • uses a mechanism that already exists (in most states)
    • is not a privacy concern (an annual total gives no info about where you’ve been)
    • already has incentives against cheating
    • even if you cut your taxes with fraudulent reporting, it just makes next years even bigger, or will come out when you try to sell

  • Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You

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  • There’s already the risk of fraudulent inspections, possibly more of an incentive. A failed inspection could result in very expensive repairs, giving a customer lots of incentive to offer a bribe.

    In addition to enforcement efforts, supposedly a loss of income is a significant incentive for a garage to stay legit. Each inspection may not cost much but it’s a regular stream of guaranteed income that shops do not want to lose

  • How do men make friends?

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  • Usually they want my name to try to sell me something. Usually solar panels. Sometimes cell phone service

  • How do men make friends?

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  • Unfortunately still requires the social bit. I’ve been doing a lot of cooking, especially outside. I’ve made meals fit for a dozen or more ….. but I don’t know how to find someone to eat it

  • Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code

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  • I was just planning to do some sort of write up on this topic, although it will be internal only.

    Of the three projects I’m currently on

    • existing code base where AI sometimes has good ideas but almost never able to implement them successfully. This is legacy code, all human generated, and is probably too tightly coupled. Test framework is tightly coupled to the environment so ai cannot run it
    • new tool implementation to give cheaper and faster context across all repos (Spotify Backstage)
    • new code base almost entirely ai generated. Much more loosely coupled. There is no test /mock framework available, so it’s all scripts, which the ai is able to run at will to refine its guesses

    There’s definitely distinct conditions where ai can be the right tool and can succeed vs when it can’t. In managements blind rush to vibe code everything, they need to better understand where it works and where it doesn’t

    In particular, functionality I’m working on this week

    • existing code base ”modify function x to cover scenario y” at best gives a useful strategy
    • new code base “implement function x similar to existing code base, but that also covers scenario y” seems to work

  • What would realistically happen if universal healthcare went into effect in the US and healthcare was no longer tied to jobs?

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  • We all saw the Regressives cut Medicaid without caring that it meant millions of citizens losing their health insurance. With universal coverage we’d see similar but on a bigger scale. Regressives will always play up spite and self-righteousness , will always find a scapegoat who is “cheating”, will always play up high taxes being “bad for business”, plus of course we’d all like to pay less in taxes. We would still need the “face eating leopard” meme. Even then, it would be better for the rest of us, but it would still be the same fight

  • What would realistically happen if universal healthcare went into effect in the US and healthcare was no longer tied to jobs?

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  • I disagree with HSA being a retirement plan, but yes, they give the person more control, something for the long term. There are some tax advantages to building it as retirement savings that streamers like to focus on, but that really should be a second priority to covering a lifetime of healthcare

    Last time looked closely, the tradeoff in my company was that for an identical cost for me, I could choose

    1. Traditional ppo with low copays and deductibles
    2. High deductible health plan (HDHP) plus HSA to fully cover the annual deductible

    That made it very compelling: the coverage should almost always be equal for equal cost. But unusually we don’t need that much medical care so I’d have something left over to help pay for next year. If we were able to start with just a couple healthy years, it would really make a difference in health costs. If you started young, it’s true that you build up a lot of savings for retirement, but it would only take a few healthy years at any age to cover, say a major operation (always in conjunction with HDHP). Or I don’t know if you could use it for COBRA if between jobs, but if you had enough you could cover even uninsured healthcare. The trick of course is how do you keep making an optional contribution when money is tight?

  • Scalpers are already selling the Steam Machine for over $3000 on eBay despite Valve's efforts

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  • I would also argue the Vision Pro was never expected to sell in volume or make a profit. It was always a test. If it established a market of content, it was a prototype and they win. If it was just a curiosity, the loss was budgeted and they never spent the money to scale up