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Cute point, but our standard of living is vastly improved by nearly every metric except that we work too hard and have fewer children. More cars, bigger houses, more eating out, more travel, and all the consumer products we want, many of which didn’t even exist in 1971.
Want to have your mind blown?
The median U.S. family income in 1971 was 252.2 oz of gold.
That would be $1,053,623/yr today.
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I could find a random CAD model of a drill on the Internet for free, and that’s essentially what this copied.
Still awesome but not a good way to demonstrate that it’s useful.
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2026 gaming
they can literally take away the product you paid for because they didn't like the name they let you choose
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Hardware. Robotics. 3D printer + arduino or raspberry pi or cyberbrick. Designing and making and coding things, with and without AI!
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Donald Trump waving his hands on TV, “Look, we made a bad investment. It happens. To me, it rarely happens. But it happens. When the US government bought 60% of the Anthropic IPO for $3.2 trillion, it was the biggest deal ever made. And the best one ever at the time, by far”
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If it’s electrical then you probably need to worry more about cold welding and thermal cycling than “vacuum”
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What industry are you in? I know a lot of industries have down time. Engineering is not like that at all. I’ve seen people slack off on their phone and we shoot the shit ofc but everyone has basically endless amounts of work. I absolutely work 8 hours full focus, often more.
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Strong opinion, but wrong
Obviously defense primes can buy the capability to mass manufacture drones. But they can’t make money selling $200 suicide drones. They need to make money selling $100m planes. It’s an existential threat to them
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Lmao I was ready to do a delta hate tweet after two flights today
“for wifi, enter your email or your random ass skymiles number”
>enters email
“cool, now enter your skymiles number”
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I told someone at LM about you guys a couple weeks ago. Doubt it was them unless this order is shipping pretty far…
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Sand is one of the six major building blocks of the modern world and there are literal sand mafias that mine it illegally.
But in this case it seems like stupid criminals stealing ordinary sand without realizing it
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This is extremely dark
🦔The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says insurers paid out nearly $1 billion more than usual from AI-assisted hospital documentation in 2024-2025. Hospitals use AI to scan records and find secondary diagnoses that human reviewers missed. More diagnoses means higher reimbursements. But treatment levels haven't gone up.
BCBSA's SVP of data science said AI is "identifying more billable conditions, not sicker patients." Insurers now deploy their own AI to deny those same claims. Patients pay for both through higher premiums.
My Take
This might be the most American healthcare story I've ever read. Hospitals bought AI to find more things to bill for. Insurers bought AI to deny those bills. The technology cost money on each end and the tab went straight to patients through higher premiums. A billion dollars moved and no one got any healthier. The only thing that changed was the size of the invoices.
Two sides of a trillion-dollar industry found a new tool to fight over the same pool of money and the person in the hospital bed pays for all of it. Premiums go up, denials go up, and the AI vendors collect from everyone. If you want to know who AI works for, stop reading the press releases and look at where the money goes. In healthcare it went straight into the billing department.
Hedgie🤗
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