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New comment by leereeves in "California Uber, Lyft drivers win union recognition"

leereeves — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:26:51 +0000

> and, well, they’re frankly not spending enough time with each patient per appointment.

Many doctors would agree with you. They're under enormous pressure to work faster from both non-medical administrators and non-medical reimbursement decision makers.

New comment by leereeves in "The Tradeoffs Facing Japan's Economy"

leereeves — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:34:08 +0000

In what way did you mean it?

Economically was the most logical interpretation in this discussion of "how to preserve economic growth despite a shrinking population and declining productivity".

New comment by leereeves in "The Tradeoffs Facing Japan's Economy"

leereeves — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:59:42 +0000

Poland faltering? Three days ago HN had:

Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235323

"Poland's rise is primarily the result of years of economic growth, industrial development, expanding exports and rising consumption and investment."

New comment by leereeves in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

leereeves — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:44:35 +0000

I would be confused if someone called Wales a country. I thought Wales (unlike Scotland) was a region of England and had little autonomy. TIL.

New comment by leereeves in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

leereeves — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:32:14 +0000

The two worst Roman emperors ruled hundreds of years before the fall: Caligula from 37 to 41 CE, Nero from 54 to 68 CE.

Not many people could name, or recognize the name of, any emperor from the last hundred years of the Western Roman Empire.

So I don't think Rome is a good analogue for the suggestion that the Trump era is going to kill the USA.

New comment by leereeves in "We Got Better at Keeping You Alive. Not at Keeping You Healthy"

leereeves — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:06:09 +0000

What age were they when they died?

New comment by leereeves in "US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat"

leereeves — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:55:55 +0000

Oh, if you mean campaign strategy, Democrats and the media spent most of 2016 (and all the years since) mocking Trump. How well did that work out?

New comment by leereeves in "US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat"

leereeves — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:39:47 +0000

> It doesn't matter what the reality is, but what it can be made to look like.

I disagree, I think it matters what the reality is, but do what feels right for you.

New comment by leereeves in "US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat"

leereeves — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:35:34 +0000

It was, in fact the article also refers to it as a catering truck.

New comment by leereeves in "US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat"

leereeves — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:32:44 +0000

That article was published July 16, 2024, before the election. Biden was in charge of US intelligence agencies when they claimed Iran was trying to assassinate Trump.

New comment by leereeves in "US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat"

leereeves — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:31:23 +0000

> Crawling around in catering trucks or carts to avoid Iran's threats is at best demeaning to the entire nation.

The article actually says "secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane via an airport catering truck". The picture shows the size of the truck. No crawling was involved; The Guardian just crafted the headline to make Trump look "weak and like a doofus" and you bought into it.

New comment by leereeves in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

leereeves — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:46:25 +0000

> I don't think most folks I know in the US are willing to touch the historical wrongs (genocide and slavery) with a 3.048M pole.

I hear those discussed quite often in the US. Someone is obviously willing. And more importantly, it's legal.

New comment by leereeves in "Qwen 3.8"

leereeves — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:10:02 +0000

> The US does not exactly have an entirely pristine history either. Shall we discuss the post-9-11 related infrastructure of Guantanamo Bay ? Or the "Detention and Interrogation Program" that included a network of clandestine extrajudicial detention centres, officially known as "black sites"[1]?

Linking a US website discussing the topic doesn't exactly support your point.

New comment by leereeves in "How the Elite See Rome"

leereeves — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:41:55 +0000

> and they are not forced to do so

That would be my concern. I bet in at least some cases they're told something like be here at 2 AM or don't be here tomorrow.

New comment by leereeves in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

leereeves — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:28:09 +0000

> CCP as it's now was created after reforms by Deng.

Their policies changed, so they're no longer responsible for their own history?

New comment by leereeves in "No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes"

leereeves — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:15:38 +0000

It's a shame this became a high-profile political issue, because there is a real unanswered medical question there, as even that study acknowledges ("associations observed in other models", including that study itself outside of the sibling control analysis).

Also: "However, a 2021 consensus statement by an international group of scientists and clinicians recommended that pregnant individuals “forego [acetaminophen] unless its use is medically indicated,” among other precautionary actions, due to potential risk of developmental disorders such as autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)."

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41574-021-00553-7

New comment by leereeves in "An Elite NYC Public School Admitted 777 Students. Only 3 Were Black"

leereeves — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:37:11 +0000

> [Asians] received 57 percent of the offers for the specialized schools for the fall

Does that imply that whites received less than 44% of the offers, and does that make whites underrepresented?

New comment by leereeves in "The Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data into a Video Game"

leereeves — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:30:44 +0000

For Hickisch himself, yes, but that part was about data from "Hickisch’s home country of Austria".

New comment by leereeves in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

leereeves — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:33:15 +0000

Yeah, magnesium citrate is used medically as a laxative. Because it is poorly absorbed, it draws water into the stool osmotically, making it softer. (But that also draws water out of the body and can be dehydrating.)

New comment by leereeves in "A graph that should be front-page news"

leereeves — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:16:34 +0000

> The appearance of two 3.5-sigma events suggests that the data is no longer being randomly generated around that mean, but is instead drifting away from that mean.

Not if the two 3.5-sigma events are in opposite directions, as in this case.