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New comment by davidfekke in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

davidfekke — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:06:55 +0000

"You can have state of art Healthcare, or you can have Universal healthcare, you can't have both." -- Malcolm Gladwell

The way that universal health coverage saves money is by rationing care. You do not save lives when you ration care.

New comment by davidfekke in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

davidfekke — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:48:35 +0000

This probably explains why I saw the Ghost from Pacman trying to eat my plane when I was making that ILS approach for runway 32 Right.

New comment by davidfekke in "FFmpeg 9.0"

davidfekke — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:42:33 +0000

Yeah but the twitter account has been version 11 for some time now.

New comment by davidfekke in "I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64"

davidfekke — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:48:46 +0000

Any Vic 20 users?

New comment by davidfekke in "Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them"

davidfekke — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:58:18 +0000

None of the best minds in AI Research are from the United States. We would not be were we are without the work of foreign scientists. There are more STEM students in China than we have students in the United States, and those universities don't give out automatic As like we do here in the United States.

New comment by davidfekke in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

davidfekke — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:24:28 +0000

I hate to burst the New Scientist's bubble, but this is nothing new. We have had systems for decades that operated under "Fire and Forget". We have missles that either go to a pre-designated point or chase a heat or radar signature once they are fired.

Human soldiers kill civilians and other soldiers on the same side. It is called "friendly fire". It is horrible, and should be avoided, but humans are more likely to make this kind of mistake more than a computer or AI model.

New comment by davidfekke in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

davidfekke — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:12:18 +0000

Here are some facts about Cuba and oil. The Cuban government was getting free oil from Venezuella. That ended on Jan. 3rd. Cuba was taking that oil, and reselling most of it on the open oil market. Cuba also has their own oil wells, so they can produce oil if they need it. Cuba was also having power outages prior to Jan 3rd.

Cuba also used to have the best economony in the Caribbean prior to 1959 when the Castro's took over. They switched from a free market ecomony to a state run socialist economy.

New comment by davidfekke in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

davidfekke — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:27:20 +0000

Hmm, Wired Magazine. Isn't this the same publication that said that Firewalls were bad?

New comment by davidfekke in "Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle"

davidfekke — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:09:06 +0000

Ah, Choo Choo trains

New comment by davidfekke in "Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules"

davidfekke — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:28:40 +0000

Wow, it sounds like they are becomming a bunch of commies.

New comment by davidfekke in "Rising Air-Conditioning Use Intensifies Global Warming"

davidfekke — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:25:25 +0000

The new slogan for the global elite flying into Davos next year will be "Sweat, eat bugs, own nothing and enjoy it."

New comment by davidfekke in "How to defer US taxes"

davidfekke — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:42:25 +0000

Is this advice from Wesley Snipes?

New comment by davidfekke in "GitHub is down again"

davidfekke — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:51:36 +0000

I guess Bill Gates has a virus.

New comment by davidfekke in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

davidfekke — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:46:28 +0000

I guess they got a 404

New comment by davidfekke in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

davidfekke — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:03:14 +0000

The countries of the EU need to ask themselves why these software unicorns are not starting in their countries. Why do so many European entrepeneurs come to the United States to start their businesses?

The EU has a tendency to regulate business before they ever get started. They might want to look at their regulatory structure so companies like Zoom start in the EU, and not in United States.

New comment by davidfekke in "Who owns Rudolph's nose?"

davidfekke — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:12:07 +0000

It is not Rudolf?

New comment by davidfekke in "Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton says Google is 'beginning to overtake' OpenAI"

davidfekke — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:23:47 +0000

No shit Sherlock!

New comment by davidfekke in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

davidfekke — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:35:10 +0000

The two hardest things to do in computer science is knowing when to invalidate cache and how to name things.

New comment by davidfekke in "AI adoption in US adds ~900k tons of CO₂ annually, study finds"

davidfekke — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:45:59 +0000

Hey, whatever happened to those Killer Bees?

New comment by davidfekke in "The Tech Hiring Process Is Broken"

davidfekke — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 20:32:18 +0000

I write about my recent experience trying to find a new job as a software engineer