I stopped reading Gruber years ago to preserve my blood pressure, but this particular piece is not that bad. In particular the Netscape analogy rang true.
gerikson
joined 2 years ago
Tech really can't see begging for more money from VC's as nothing short of a revolution, rolls eyes.
The US healthcare system needs to be fixed, and probably others as well.
Synthesizing your own meds is not the fix.
It is, at best, a band-aid. Having transpersons and pregnant women reliant on international drug networks (becuse realistically those are the orgs that are gonna step into this void if needed) is not a good outcome.
Well there's only $150B to go for OpenAi then
also on my fav book torrent tracker - even has an audiobook version!
whoah that looks interesting, how can I access it (semi-)legally?
The FDA is a response to people just making shit up and selling cough cures full of opium. "Raw milk" pushers are cut from the same cloth.
I don't wanna pull national stereotypes here but aren't Germans really quite open about stuff like homeopathy? "be your own pharmacist" sounds like right up that alley
Governments have criminalized the practice of managing your own health. Despite the fact that for most of human history bodily autonomy, and self-managed health was the norm, it is now required that most aspects of your health must be mediated by an institution deputized by the state.
JFC
go back 200 years before the "gubmint" got involved in public health and tell me that average life expectancy was better than now
before the pandemic it was possible for people to believe that libertarianism was an answer to everything, turns out if it was a tiny minority would have hoarded all the PPE while the people they were gonna sell it to died of the plague. libertarians have not been able to square this circle since
It's a wrap!
One of the easier years imho. Better than last year in any case.
I get the feeling that this is Eric's way of saying goodbye, and that this might be the last year, but I might be wrong.
Puzzles by difficulty (leaderboard completion times)
- Day 21 - Keypad Conundrum: 01h01m23s
- Day 24 - Crossed Wires: 01h01m13s
- Day 17 - Chronospatial Computer: 44m39s
- Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
- Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
- Day 20 - Race Condition: 15m58s
- Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
- Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
- Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
- Day 22 - Monkey Market: 12m15s
- Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
- Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
- Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
- Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
- Day 18 - RAM Run: 05m55s
- Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
- Day 23 - LAN Party: 05m07s
- Day 25 - Code Chronicle: 04m43s
- Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
- Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
- Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
- Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
- Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
- Day 19 - Linen Layout: 03m16s
- Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
congrats! I still have 6 stars to go, but I still think this was easier than last year.
day 23
this is one of those days when it’s all about the right term to google right
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