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  • To be honest, attending that “event” in a KKK robe would do great to show Trump voters who they caucus with lol.

  • Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA?
  • Doctors are not individual practitioners and cannot normally decide to go off on their own doing a procedure that they were not specifically trained to do (doctors are trained in procedures during their residency and in CTE). Unless they are offered a course in this new method, the hospital would not authorize them to perform that new procedure. The best way to get this care would be to travel or to lobby the hospital to train staff on this new methodology.

  • Teacher pay needs to nearly double to afford a typical house
  • I taught research methodology in oncology for 15.81$ in Arizona; work as a cowboy for 20/hour. It’s really bad here in AZ.

  • Windows 11 is getting a new start menu. EDIT: this replaces the "all apps" page by default, not the home screem
  • Nvidia cards are supported with the proprietary drivers; the game I play (Stepmania, OutFox) historically was without artifacts on nvidia systems. Nowadays, Wayland is moving forward, and nvidia is just behind on supporting it compared to AMD. According to this thread below you should be fine as long as you use nvidia drivers from version 560+.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1d5kwpu/wayland_on_nvidia_do_they_play_well_together/

  • How much do Americans actually pay for healthcare?
  • Yeah, I’ve only worked in the US.

  • How much do Americans actually pay for healthcare?
  • That’s what my employer offered I guess 🤷🏽‍♂️ when I was a university teacher I paid zero for deductibles but they took out like 100$ pre tax every month IIRC. Right before I quit they started charging for copays and I was pretty pissed.

  • How much do Americans actually pay for healthcare?
  • I pay 9.79$/month for medical only, pre-tax, myself only on the plan, working for a mental healthcare nonprofit. My medical copays have been free lately for routine office visits. I have to get labs done 4 times a year for the meds I take and those have all been free so far. Because they’re classed as “preventative” to make sure nothing goes wrong with the meds, it’s free 🤷🏽‍♂️. Non preventative things have a 2000$ deductible, so I have to pay that much before medical care for the calendar year becomes free to me. That means that if I get sick in December, I have to pay 2000$to cover for December and again in January to cover for the next year.

    Dental coverage is free. I pay 40$/visit as a copay for cleanings and all else (if I’m not in perfect health) I pay 30% of that bill. Recently I had periodontitis and my bill after treatment was 600$.

  • Samsung going all in on Google Messages in US, stops pre-installing Samsung Messages on Galaxy phones
  • Small point here too: SMS used to be a paid plan option in the US. I never paid for an SMS plan because iMessage was free over data (I just wouldn’t receive texts from Android users). There was a good amount of time when iMessage was legitimately a great option.

  • Biker gang
  • Turkey?

  • Tesla loses EV market dominance, falls below 50% in US [unit sales in 2024Q2]
  • The lack of CarPlay/Android Auto makes Tesla a non-starter

  • Place to ask experts/experienced about cGPT?
  • This application of deep learning would apply to music suitable for playing DDR/ITG/Stepmania/Stepmaniax/PIU etc.; essentially music gaming:

    Most music that would be reasonably fun to play falls within 110-240BPM and runs between 2.5 and 7 minutes long. At 110BPM, a song with a coded 110BPM, but a true BPM of 110.001 will drift by roughly 2ms. Music games are predicated on timing precision down to 15ms as a minimum. I, myself, hit notes within a rough range of 6ms at my best (and I'm barely top 100 in the world).

    scorecard for reference

  • Place to ask experts/experienced about cGPT?
  • is there an open way to go about using deep learning? Is it something as accessible as cGPT?

  • Place to ask experts/experienced about cGPT?
  • DJ software is extremely inaccurate. It's good for a rough estimate, but it can be wildly wrong at times.

  • greetings from southern AZ!
  • Same here 🤠

  • Place to ask experts/experienced about cGPT?

    I’m wondering how I can use cGPT in a particular usecase and if so how can I go about feeding training data to it?

    Whati am trying to accomplish: I want to be able to supply cGPT with a music file (.ogg or .mp3) and get an accuracy of .001 BPM as to what the BPM of a song is. Huge bonus points if it can also print out at which second (down to .001 sec) where a BPM would change in a song.

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    ELI5: Israel - Palestine Conflict
  • It has nothing to do with Palestine’s role in the conflict. It has to do with postwar Britain’s unbelievable power to redraw boarders at a whim. While I don’t agree with the way they were drawn, I don’t think it’s morally correct to cherrypick which borders to redraw. Whether it’s fair or not, postwar Britain made choices that we all live with today. Unfortunately for Palestine, that meant that they were subject to the whim of a global superpower, which is why they lost their land and why Israel exists today.

  • ELI5: Israel - Palestine Conflict
  • My personal opinion is that both sides are in the wrong here. Israel is overstepping its borders, but Palestine is not controlling Gaza and isn’t exactly cracking down on the extremism or defending their borders. Israel is taking advantage of the weak, poorly organized, poorly administered Palestinian (and Syrian!) land by annexing small plots slowly over time.

    If you talk to Palestinians, they want to return Palestine and its lands to a Muslim country. They have an overall nationalistic view that I don’t find conducive to peace or overall benefit to everyday people.

    As a general idea, I’m all for self determination, but I’m also for the rule of plurality. Because of that, and Israel’s general secular liberal principals (not in the modern American definition of the term), I side with Israel.

    My genuine gut feeling is to benefit the most amount of people possible, and thus support the side that more closely adheres to the declaration of human rights.

  • ELI5: Israel - Palestine Conflict
  • “If a whole nation would be moved into my homeland, and from now on it wouldn’t be my homeland”

    Yes, this is your ELI5. Majorities come and go. Governments come and go. I’ll give you two examples right next door to Israel:

    1. Egypt was a dynastic system, then Geek, then Roman, then Christian nation then an Arab nation beginning in the 7th century. During each of the periods, a particular ethnicity did exactly the above: they moved in and became the majority. There was a point where it was overwhelmingly correct to call Egypt any one of the above after dynastic rule concluded. Today, Egypt is a Muslim majority country, but if for some reason christians poured in (the British kindof started to do this in the early 19th-20th century in the protectorate period) it would, at some point, become christian.

    2. Constantinople was a Christian capitol city for centuries until the Ottoman conquest in 1453. The city was renamed Instanbul in 1928, but wasn’t recognized as such until a year later in 1929.

    The takeaway from all this is that land changes hands in various ways. It’s the point at which the definition of a land changes that is sometimes controversial until a kind of revolution takes place.

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