Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪

Midwestern software engineer interested in AI, housing, city planning, and more

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@cremieuxrecueil We just need the actuaries to get us to follow the top curve. Why is this so hard?

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@Empty_America I stand corrected. Ireland does have Lyme disease.

The west has rattlesnakes and rats with Hantavirus / bubonic plague though

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@Empty_America I am scared of the tick diseases every time I go hiking in Arkansas, but sitting by a pond with feathery bright green grass and trees this morning in central Illinois feels pretty amazing.

Ireland has tons of green and no ticks. We don’t have an Ireland here though

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@CkLorentzen @ArthurB @SamuelAlbanie What’s interesting about consciousness is that it seems to have a property of connecting cooperating matter.

“You” feel what you are based on the boundaries of your body. It doesn’t seem as likely every cell is individually conscious in your body. Which cell is the controller?

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@Noahpinion Is an urban form ideal, or are we talking about ideal human living conditions? I think the latter is a much more useful topic to ponder.

What mix is best for humans generally which avoids congestion and enables cooperation?

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@huskyjayhawk @texasrunnerDFW What if the editing is purely time of year/day or weather related?

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@Burgererer @realPaulMJ @gnuman1979 Does this account for sales tax though?

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@Jam3sRyanTaylor @yacineMTB @IterIntellectus We try, but it’s not perfect, haha. Takes a lot of discipline to only have healthy snacks in a house and we to a bit of bribery with special treats occasionally to convince the 4yo to try new things and eat more healthy food

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@txgermanbre @actsmaniac Most of the issue is actually that our healthcare system is extremely inefficient. If we spent as much as a percentage of GDP on healthcare as those European countries, then we could more easily afford universal healthcare even.

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@Jam3sRyanTaylor @yacineMTB @IterIntellectus Eat them. If she gets French fries, then she’s not eating the chicken or pizza or whatever else is fed to her. French fries and potato chips are a scourge! At least until kids can figure out how to eat healthy themselves…

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@Jam3sRyanTaylor @yacineMTB @IterIntellectus Man, the thing about getting their own snacks is I care about health and I really don’t want them eating nothing but goldfish every day.

Also, a vast majority of restaurants shovel French fries at you in the US and my 2yo will throw a huge fit if they are near her but she can’t

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@IterIntellectus Good news is everything is always changing and this too will be a phase.

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@IterIntellectus I have a 4yo, a 2yo, and a newborn. The newborn is the easiest of them. Not all are (if they are “colicky”, but he is easy).

The 2yo is tough right now. The 4yo is pretty easy too. The 2yo doesn’t understand conditional asks and throws fits screaming “No, no no!” When told no.

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@uniqueRDC @malewiczz @WazzCrypto The people who make EV will make sure they only last so long. Every industry learns how to ensure they don’t produce themselves out of customers eventually…

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@uniqueRDC @malewiczz @WazzCrypto There’s also body work, battery replacement, tire rotation, headlight replacements, and even motor replacements/fixing.

You can’t seriously believe Teslas never have to have any repairs or spend anything on fixes? I know people with Teslas and know for a fact they do.

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@DrDiGiorgio @DavidIAuerbach I also don’t trust my car mechanic for every fix or improvement they suggest, just like I don’t trust I need the extended warranty the dealer pushes. Should docs be thought of the same?

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@uniqueRDC @malewiczz @WazzCrypto EVs will still have brake pads, transmissions, sensors, and other various parts that can and will beak, but it would be less that combustion engines

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@cremieuxrecueil “If you have ideas, feel free to tell me, because I’m just not seeing them, nor am I seeing how they’ll make a big difference anyhow”. Any hospital that accepts Medicaid/Medicare payments must provide the same rates to everyone else and make them publicly available?

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@jesse_brodkin @JackScannell13 Possibly. I would imagine lots of the process needs physical verification which AI won’t help much with but I’m not involved with the field.

The real world (and especially biology) is much messier than many would want to believe

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@ETadpole @eden__space @AlecStapp I used to love biking to work through traffic in DC. I’m sure it was dangerous, but I felt invincible as a 20 something, and was cautious and courteous of the rules of the road. Not everyone is.

[Midwest Dev 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇧🇩🇪 @DCLocalDesign]

@ETadpole @eden__space @AlecStapp I live in a somewhat slow residential area of a city with metro popn of > 2M. I’ve lived in Washington DC in the past and it was much more congested than my mid-sized city today. I hate when people zoom down my street gunning engine at >40mph while my toddler is in the driveway