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@medisimon @paulg I think FAA has (for the most part) the right model. You can get ATPL (2.5k flight hours) to repeatedly be responsible for 200-400 strangers. But, you can get PPL (~70hrs) to fly in the same airspace (+another 70ish for instrument rating) with non commercial friends and family.

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@Phantom2Phlyer @2024MulesLLC Genuine question - how does it apply at state/local level - how do we elect officials into our own states that are willing to go against the federal overreach? Flipping MA is a phantasy. Finding an DINO? Maybe worth it.

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@medisimon @paulg And venous draws are simultaneously gate-kept to professionals on one hand, and trainable over few weeks on another hand. Why not delegate and include patients and their support network? And why not educate rather than gate-keep and let them make the decisions? Skills, not gates.

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@medisimon @paulg We did test it in 2008. We let Lehman fail, and forced the system to shrink (creating the gaps).

Yes, which might be a signal to stock at different levels of support. To distribute. To provide non-systemic healthcare. To (still) prioritize “regular” needs (which were neglected)

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@medisimon @paulg What I expect would happen at the point of “crash” is a resurgence of unauthorized and grassroots medicine, just like blockchain filled in 2008’s gap. 99% of medicine isn’t complicated, it’s gatekept (why the ritual of a industrialized blood draw vs something you do at home).

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@medisimon @paulg Or just an industry cracking under its own weight. I was reasonably hopeful that Covid would turn out to be the 2008 financial crash equivalent - expose enough of the weaknesses of the medical sector for startups to fill the gaps. We instead bailed it out. Till next time.

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@Phantom2Phlyer The parties made themselves quite clear. It’s the candidates and their ability to differentiate themselves within parties (and influence the party policies, either by soft power or voting against the party) that I am finding debate lacking. Especially at the state/local level.

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@Phantom2Phlyer It’s my first US election in which I’m eligible to vote, so I’m deciding. Fan of strong states, and accountable local polities vs federalism in general, and laser focused on how states can protect its citizens from federal overreach. Likely R (in MA), want strong candidates.

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@Phantom2Phlyer @eericmyers Most. But it would take a while for the youngsters to have enough voting power to actually form and succeed as such a party. In the meantime, move to NH, it has successfully recently abolished car inspections and IMHO never had mandatory insurance requirements.

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@jonathan_wilke It hasn’t evolved. Tech usage has become inclusive of the cohorts that were not (computer?) literate enough for TUI; but the productivity of TUI has never been seriously surpassed and the best power-user GUIs are essentially visualizers for TUI. Common mistake with tech adoption

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@davepl1968 @garygastelu Unless… it’s hackable. That’s something that is hard to know a-priori and a lot of manufacturers shy away from liability and make it harder than it needs to be (Tesla, give us root!) - but low cost and garage-level materials go a long way for drilling/cutting/welding/wiring.

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@davepl1968 @lauriewired Unsurprisingly, it’s a relatively easy thing to test for. Grab a high-FPS „slowmo” camera and record pressing a clicky keyboard key.

Very often, in between compositor, whatever frame magic your LCD (TVs are worse) does, double-buffering, USB stacks, you’re looking at 100-200ms.

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You’ll love BuildRoot. Yup, that Mesa3d+musl+radv has built itself, 4.5MB rootfs. No X etc though. Ideologically, BuildRoot refuses to build a compiler for the target, and aggressively strips development files (it will build all python code to bytecode and delete sources by default).

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@NOTimothyLottes How far down the stack you want to go? I’ve built some bare-metal crypto mining boxes with BuildRoot for years.

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@NOTimothyLottes This seems to have at least configured itself. Building now… but BuildRoot tends to be quite good at highlighting gotchas.

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@davepl1968 You’re right, clanker is wrong.