Are you sure you aren't "metabolically unhealthy"? Are you sure that if you happen to die, we won't find any "underlying health condition" during your autopsy? Are you fine with you death being dismissed as "got what he deserved"?
Is it not self evident that the vulnerable tend toward being that subset of the population that, on average, suffer the most.
This usually means the very young, the elderly / frail aged, and those with co-morbidities especially obesity and immunocompromising conditions. There’s also a socioeconomic aspect, where as wealth increases health also tends to increase.
How do we slice it in these cases? Was it the virus that resulted in the worst of the negative health impacts?
I got COVID 3 times, was sick for about a week with a bad flu and then it went away. All my friends had similiar experiences.
The only people I know that were struck the hardest were those that were obese and had other health issues.
Nobody deserves to die from the flu, but the flu doesn't give a damn about what you do or don't deserve, just about your body's ability to handle fighting off infections.
The flu doesn't care, yes; the question is more "do you?". Because, you know, the flu, or COVID, doesn't spontaneously appear. Every single person who died has been contaminated by someone else, who has some responsibility in it... Especially if they were flippant about it.
Global fact most died from a related underlying disease and COVID simply hastened on the process. Actually killed from just this is way below the 1M mark globally.
Also we've now reached vitD in kids cereals and butter so you know, we know how to avoid this...
I will include this security project as an addendum to my reply: <https://github.com/juli/taint>. Views on crypto can differ dramatically depending on the country you live in.
There are many cryptocurrencies that allow anyone to move money quickly, cheaply, and on the same day in less than a minute and requires zero bank accounts.
And which are trivial to convert back and forth between real money and cryptocurrency? And hold their value with sufficient stability that you can convert USD into the currency, make a transaction, wait a few weeks, make a transaction the other direction and then convert back into USD, with roughly no loss in value?
They essentially are to me, because I don't know how to differentiate them. Before the collapse, I would not have been able to look at the ones which collapsed and the ones which didn't and predict the outcome.
USDC operates as a fiat-backed stablecoin and is fundamentally different [0] to an algorithmic stablecoin such as UST which was the one that collapsed in 2022.
Forgive me but I don't find this very convincing. Crypto shills were saying the same things about UST before its collapse. The technical details differed, but the arrogant tone and firm insistence that nothing bad could possibly happen was the same.
> Forgive me but I don't find this very convincing.
I don't really need to convince you. I just look at how it's being tested and which companies are using it today.
But the main point I'm bringing is that stablecoins exist and the most trusted one USDC is used today by hundreds of companies after going under regulatory scrutiny for years and it can be used to send money.
You just said: "I don't know how to differentiate them." and I replied with a clear distinction with evidence comparing the two.
> Crypto shills were saying the same things about UST before its collapse...
Just like with all untested tech, there will always be alternatives out there with their fans, VCs and shills who have a vested interest and UST was one of them and when tested, some will fail which is expected.
So your answer is to paint all with a broad brush and to then dismissing them because one based on an untested technology failed doesn't make much sense.
It’s not a physical painting made by a well known artist.
It’s trying to hard to be a late Monet.
How much of our opinions are driven by context, rather than the actual subject? If Monet’s work is not so great without the context, is it still great? Or is context a critical piece of the art itself? Do we need to view a Monet piece within the scope of other Monet pieces, other artists, time periods, blindness, etc?
There is a similar experiment where a famous violinist plays in a subway station. Nobody really notices or appreciates him and his music.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw&ra=m
I just saw a screenshot of someone pasting I think the US bill of rights to one of those AI write detectors; the site concluded that the text was written by AI.
I’d say for art, a lot? There’s a ton of art that a halfway decent painter could do now, the art of it was being the one to do it originally. At least that’s how I, as an absolute philistine in that regard, understand it ;)
This feels like the example of (world-famous violinist) Joshua Bell playing violin in the DC subway and getting just a few bucks. It's totally different than paying money to see him in a concert hall, context matters so much...
Yeah I agree, in art a lot is driven by context: there's so many paintings or songs that are not outstanding in itself, but the full human context around it makes it significant.
That brings up the idea that art can be "outstanding in itself", aesthetic in a vacuum, disconnected from what people are caring about. That's dubious, but anyway the AI art doesn't attempt that. Instead it has access to a lot of freeze-dried human context which it rehydrates and presents like a fresh meal, so it partially succeeds at providing that significance.
You're right. Maybe I should have said 'painting or songs that do not SEEM outstanding in itself". My point is that an AI 'rehydrating' human context that you mentioned, is (usually) not enough to get the same significance as human-made art.
For an edge case: people will be impressed and interested if you tell them that a piece was painted by an elephant, and then suddenly unimpressed if you tell them you were lying about that. So one function of art is as a sort of experiment, like the art is experimental data, where authenticity matters, because the interest is in the demonstration of a perspective, the reactions of an artist in the situation. Consider noir: a movie is much more plausibly authentic noir if it was made before about 1963, that is, if it was made by actors and directors who actually wore those hats (and lived through other tropes). Later on, it's imitation, regardless of how accurate: the experimental data is invalidated, it doesn't (seem to) mean so much.
They aren't referring to the regulatory requirement, but the response, I think?
Like if people can put in this much time and effort in a remote desert environment to meet regulatory requirements, and document their efforts so thoroughly, why can't corpos?
"Black Rock City is only allowed to return to the playa each year if it passes a strict post-event inspection from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM): No more than one square foot of debris can remain per acre (0.23 m²/ha)."
The authorities are saying they don't want to see any trash at all, regardless of volume. Imagine 100 sheets of paper vs 100 AA batteries. The batteries have much more volume, but the sheets of paper cover a much larger area so there's much more visible trash.
Impressive idea and fun execution. Graphics are fun and interesting! I don’t play word games, besides when the wife needs crossword help so I’m not much help with actual gameplay feedback.
The UX is a bit wonky in the classic vibe coded way.
1. When clicking send there is no clear indication what’s happened. The trak should visually lock, the send button should animate, etc.
2. After sending a trak, I can select letters - but this is a seemingly pointless state. No trak is selected, so letters don’t go there. Clicking swap resets my tile selection and I need to reselect the letters.
3. Swap phase feels odd - why do I need to confirm my hand? Can’t I just either play, or swap and then play.
Otherwise - I’ve found some of my favorite games have a strong sense of satisfaction in small ways. Like number go up, but visual or audio. IE if I manage to fill a trak with all letters, play a nice animation. And for each longer trak, make that animation even more satisfying. (Or something similar - reward me when I get good at the game with something rare and dank that I will crave)
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