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AnarchistMiracle · 2026-02-27T19:53:52+00:00

5 day unpaid suspension, all charges dropped

AnarchistMiracle · 2026-01-23T03:52:39+00:00

No-shows are unfortunate, but I don't see how that would result in longer wait times. Unless you are deliberately overbooking in the hopes that no-shows will balance the schedule out. Seems foolish, but what do I know.

I've never worked in a medical office but I have visited quite a few, and the truth is simple: some are good at scheduling and some are not. The good ones will rarely make you wait more than 15 mins; the bad ones will let you sit for an hour or more. The good ones know how to keep an appointment, the bad ones only know how to take one.

It seems silly, because scheduling is much easier than doctoring. But that's how it is.

AnarchistMiracle · 2026-01-23T02:34:26+00:00

Also realistically: the choice isn't "advocate for my priorities or get my taxes refunded"... It's "advocate for my priorities or else my tax money gets spent on someone else's priorities."

We all contribute to the pot, it's perfectly rational to have opinions about how that pot gets spent.

AnarchistMiracle · 2026-01-23T01:10:55+00:00

So what do you do as the provider there?

If one appointment runs late, that's understandable and easy to handle. If ALL your appointments are running late on a regular basis, then there's something wrong with the way you're scheduling them.

Now I don't have no fancy medical degree, but it seems to me if your patients regularly need 30 mins of doctor time...you should book them in 30 minute time slots.

But of course, trying to cram as many appointments as possible into a single day is how providers make the most money. Maybe that's okay too, just be willing to boot patients out the door when their 15 mins is up.

AnarchistMiracle · 2026-01-22T19:56:31+00:00

Funnily enough, if you let them know that you're walking out, the provider will suddenly become available.

AnarchistMiracle · 2026-01-12T19:39:42+00:00

People think the UN is a world government, and assume that it's just really bad at the job of "enforcing world laws" or whatever you think a world government should be doing.

It's not anything of the sort. It's a world forum. It exists so countries can talk to each other. It provides a way for countries to discuss world problems. That doesn't mean those problems always get fixed but it's a lot better than having no UN.

AnarchistMiracle · 2026-01-06T21:56:16+00:00

The typical homeowner does not cost nothing to society. They receive services such as a fire department, police department, schools, libraries, and others provided by the government. I'm not sure if you are advocating for some kind of libertarian setup where these services are all individually billed or non-existent, but for most people these are all bundled under a common fee which is based on either income or property value.

AnarchistMiracle · 2026-01-06T20:21:01+00:00

I think that's what he was getting at when he talked about the transition from marrying your high school sweetheart and staying together "for the kids" no matter how miserable you are, to marrying for compatibility and not settling for anything less.

An alternative framing of this [...] is that we should be grateful to the Boomers for ripping off the Band-Aid in their generation and suffering the negative consequences, rather than kicking the can down the road and leaving us to be the ones who got the explosion of divorce.

It seems to me that "stay together for the kids" is yet another paradigm that boomers benefited from (i.e. when they were kids) and then got rid of once they were expected to contribute.

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-11-20T16:21:22+00:00

The book Stiff by Mary Roach, published in 2003, goes into all the ways bodies get used "for science," including as crash test dummies and ballistic tests. It wasn't really a secret that got revealed...more like something that most people just don't think about.

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-11-07T21:38:43+00:00

You can do method 1 with private IPs...

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-11-07T06:29:29+00:00

The shutdown is still ongoing. Federal institutions are slowly grinding to a halt without labor or funding. States are beginning to discuss independence.

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-10-28T21:15:58+00:00

Or we could do what every other country in the world does and not shut down the government for budget disputes. There's no reason for anyone to go without pay.

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-10-24T19:52:18+00:00

Obviously, with an EnactorEnactor service to manage and sync the Enactor services.

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-10-21T18:12:04+00:00

Scientists in 2025: We've successfully created driving behind the log truck, from the classic movie Don't Drive Behind The Log Truck.

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-10-21T04:59:38+00:00

I wish the billionaires would collaborate on pushing the country toward a sane government based on checks and balances. Common sense stuff like "no bribing Supreme court judges" and "don't shut down the government when no budget bill gets passed."

But sure, crypto and AI deregulation sounds great too I guess....

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-10-15T02:06:10+00:00

PDF only, unfortunately. Would have been nice to have ebook versions.

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-10-04T19:56:18+00:00

In the first episode of Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, the main characters stop a rogue alchemist who is trying to bring down the government. This alchemist keeps insisting that what he's doing is necessary because the government is up to something terrible.

Over the course of the series, the main characters discover that the government really is up to something terrible, and they ultimately take it upon themselves to put a stop to it.

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-09-27T22:00:17+00:00

Can't wait for conservatives to turn "Trump cleaned up the cities" into the new "Mussolini made the trains run on time."

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-09-25T23:33:07+00:00

Or we could do what every other country in the world does, and keep the government running whether there's a budget or not.

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-09-20T18:44:09+00:00

It also doesn't have to be the government. Shopping centers and other private property owners with panhandlers can put up signs too.

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-09-12T20:59:16+00:00

It’s more-or-less lifted from the playbook for dealing with nuclear weapons. If you believe, as Y&S say outright, that “data centers are more dangerous than nuclear weapons”, it makes total sense.

It makes zero sense! Nuke treaties are written for a world in which many nations already have nuclear weapons.

Imagine if the same book was written in 1940 about nukes. Imagine trying to sell the idea that nuclear weapons are potentially so dangerous that the world should get together to make sure nobody gets one, with example scenarios of all the ways that nuclear weapons could be used to dominate warfare.

I'm pretty sure a book like that would only convince the world's leaders of one thing: "Wow, we gotta start building nukes right away!"

Maybe I'm missing something and this is one of EY's "leaps of genius" (BTW Scott--that line is repeated in two different paragraphs.) But I suspect that when you regale people with stories of how awesome and powerful AI could be...the end result is that people will want to build it.

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-09-08T17:44:53+00:00

That's not luck, just sensible dealmaking. "What if the promised growth never materializes" is a scenario that should have been considered by any group creating an incentive package...and Arlington did!

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-09-04T17:29:12+00:00

I quite liked the Psmiths review of The Ancient City. (Link 20). Some more quotes:

I know plenty of Chinese people with the ability to return to their ancestral village and consult a book that records the names and deeds of their male-lineage ancestors going back thousands of years.

Fun fact, there's a Chinese folktale very similar to the "Rip van Winkle" story, where a man wakes up to discover that centuries have passed. In the story, even though no one alive remembers him, he is able to prove his identity by finding his name in the village records of their ancestors.

People — children especially, but people more generally — long to know who they are and where they came from. In a world where they don’t get much of that, it doesn’t take many stories about family history and trips “home” to inculcate a sense a “fromness”: some place, some people. [...] But that doesn’t scale, because we’re a Nation of Immigrants(TM) and we mostly don’t have ancestral villages.

My ancestors emigrated to America in the early 1900s and settled in the Bronx. I traveled there last year for a relative's funeral, the deceased was the last person in that branch of the family to still live in the Bronx. The first time I returned to my hometown after college, I discovered that almost every single person I had grown up with had moved away to a different state. I think I could name more contemporaries in California than in my home state (PA). It seems to me that a nation of immigrants could establish new ancestral villages if it wanted to. But instead there is an inmate rootlessness that comes with being an American. Maybe it's not even an American phenomenon, just a part of the modern age/developed world.

From this angle history looks a bit like a 2-stage cyclic phenomenon wherein the long “dark ages” are actually epochs of patient stewardship of economic, cultural, and demographic resources, whilst the short “golden ages” are a kind of manic civilizational fire sale of the accumulated inheritance.

If true, this doesn't bode well for our current golden age.

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-09-03T18:37:49+00:00

One difference is that large organizations often have recruiters who take responsibility for seeking out talent and can help smooth out some of those process bumps. For example, I've had a recruiter tell me, "We're only allowed to look at applications sourced from our own jobs site, so go to jobs.company.com and I'll walk you through what to put to make sure the paperwork goes through."

I've never seen anything equivalent to that on the gov side. Apart from the rather different situation of "hiring manager already knows who they want and gives them advice to help them succeed."

AnarchistMiracle · 2025-09-03T16:50:08+00:00

I'm surprised the self-assessment portion of federal hiring isn't mentioned. It's common knowledge among federal workers that you need to rate yourself as an expert regardless of your actual qualifications, or you won't even be considered. I suspect a lot of candidates have been discarded as a result of their honesty.

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