Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
21hr ago
Going on ill-fated Antarctic expeditions is exactly the kind of long-lost British passtime that could reutite civic pride.
What drives me insane is how many of these multi-thousand-dollar fuck-ups are the result of someone not on the hook for the bill (sometimes the doctor, sometimes the patient) choosing the vastly more expensive option just because it’s slightly more convenient. This guy gets told to take his infant to the emergency room for a UTI because hey, why not? Insurance will pay for it.
You can see why insurance companies turn into money-grubbing assholes.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
It doesn’t seem obviously retarded to me to have both a per-patient complexity-weighted administrative charge, and also a per procedure/per doctor-hour charge. Invoices for complex professional services are incredibly dense like this in many industries.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
OK, but then you charged us separately for the ultrasound and the doctor's time, so you are essentially double-counting.
What about the nurses’ time? What about the time spent in the facilities? What about liability risk? The time spent by the doctor is not the only institutional decision-makinng cost that the hospital incurred.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Reading the text of the chant (“The power of one. The power of two. The power of many.”) is doesn’t sound so bad, but when you watch the scene itself it sounds like a cross between “Gen-Z boss and a mini” and a cringe college protest chant. Just absolutely awful sound design.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
You’re overestimating the effect weight has on a woman’s desirability. The most unattractive aspects of the median secular modern woman are tattoos and piercings, which are things she had to actively do to herself.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
I was wondering how a Christian worldview would mesh with interplanetary science fiction, but this explains it.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Well sure from a deterministic perspective this is trivially true, but the sense we are using it is that a woman doesn't have to do anything in order to be wifed up and have a decent lower-middle-class family life except excercise judgement over which specific suitors she ought to choose. In this frame, far from being slop, Twilight is actually the core female struggle heightened by supernatural fantasy elements.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Maybe what you consider "basic storytelling rules" are actually male character archetype rules?
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
This is unironically why payment-for-order-flow is so lucrative.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
My tinfoil theory is that this is a false flag by the Louisiana seafood industry to scare people out of buying imported shrimp.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Every few years a radioisotope source from an abandoned hospital or lab in a third world country goes missing and ends up in a junkyard. There are hundreds of slightly radioactive buildings in Northern Mexico because one guy sold a dismantled cobalt-60 radiotherapy machine to a scrap metal company.
The nightmare scenario is that there is some town in Indonesia somewhere whose entire water supply has been contaminated because someone threw away some old medical equipment.
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
If Terrance Tao wants my support for his academic research, he can start by writing a substack comprehensible to a STEM undergrad explaining what the deal is with inter-universal Teichmüller theory. Until then, have fun in the private sector buddy. Meta is hiring.
Quantumfreakonomics
7d ago
Good god it’s a slow news cycle. We’re actually speculating on whether or not a nearby comet is aliens.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
Investors want to hear that the company is taking advantage of AI technology.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
Not that the Catholic Church cares much about doctrinal integrity these days, but there are at least two major heresies in this interpretation, the heresy of monothelitism and the heresy of adoptionism.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
If you are using bitcoin as a hedge against financial collapse, it's a bit risky to use custodial counterparties that would go under in the event of a financial collapse.
Quantumfreakonomics
12d ago
I feel like I need to see the actual encounters being solicited and/or prosecuted to have an opinion on this. Making it illegal to hit on women in public is left-coded (feminism run amok), but arresting flashers on public transportation is right-coded (tough on street crime). Which one of these is, “sting operation on catcalling hotspots,” closer to? I have no idea.
Quantumfreakonomics
14d ago
This shit turns people into the Joker.
Quantumfreakonomics
14d ago
I'm pretty sure the ejaculatory metaphor came first, and then the donut application became the SFW go-to because, uh... I think you can figure it out.
Quantumfreakonomics
14d ago
I initially thought the move was a mistake, but it was a sizable quality-of-life improvement to not have to worry about the sub being banned every time I saw a particularly spicy comment.
Quantumfreakonomics
15d ago
I had thought the internet collectively agreed that RLHF had resulted in glazing that was a huge issue. But it turns out a sizable amount of people actually loved it.
I thought it was widely understood that Glazemageddon was the result of naively running reinforcement learning on user feedback. The proles yearn for the slop. It’s only weirdos like us who actually want to be told when their ideas are provably wrong.
Quantumfreakonomics
16d ago
I saw a viral tweet this week of white guys doing roofing work, and I couldn't get the glaring OSHA violations out of my mind.
Of course, the dirty little secret is that basically no roofing company is compliant, but these guys aren't even trying.
Quantumfreakonomics
16d ago
The guy who drafts big names from five years ago way too early, and acts like he can't believe they're still on the board
Zach Ertz is still good goddammit. Can't believe I picked him up for free last year.
I don’t buy the dating app hate. It wasn’t smart phones that ruined the OkCupid model. Women were always going to gravitate to a system where all men are filtered by default and they get to opt-in to who gets the privilege of messaging them.
There was a temporary window wherein there was a structural advantage to being verbose and tech-savy. This was always going to be temporary.
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