Are you saying the government is an efficient allocator of resources?

Per the study we are discussing -- as well as the results from every single other developed country I believe? -- more efficient when it comes to healthcare, yes.

If the government is so efficient, why don't we just have them run all our industries?

Because both studies and real-world results from every other developed country show gov is more efficient at healthcare, is your argument that means gov is more efficient in every field?

The government does not have the peverse incentive of putting private profit above all other concerns.

The perverse incentive of the politician / general / bureaucrat to favor their personal interest over the public interest is identical to the perverse incentive of the CEO to favor his personal interest over the same.

I would argue the government case is actually much worse because at least the CEO has the feedback mechanism of revenue because the company <> customer relationship is entirely voluntary on both sides. The public vote is supposed to restrain the government in the same way, but in practice it seems to be much less effective in restraining politicians than the customer is at restraining companies.

The government is just corrupt politicians and lobbyists. You're fighting to give them more money and power.

The government is more directly accountable to me. The only way I have to influence what insurance companies do is through the government.

You can switch insurance companies, no?

I can if I want to switch jobs too. Probably not a good idea given the current economic conditions. I'd be all for forcing a decoupling of these things, but I don't see that anywhere on the table, and it would probably run afoul of politics anyways.

No, you can’t.

In many cases, no.

Sounds like a Ron Swanson quote

If that wasn't the case, DOGE would have found any waste worth looking at.

It was not for a lack of motivation or a lack of cut-throat pursuit, consequences be damned.

it's that it's 1 Trillion less in incentivized middlemen. A la Graeber.

I made a demo showing it work: https://hw-e4592d7e.web.hallway.com/

It doesn't seem to do anything when you click Run Live, besides updating the status to "Connecting to DERP relay, exchanging endpoint info..."

You can get it to run by hitting "Edit" at the top - needs a real dev container to run, not a web worker.

So iroh.network is something that they maintain like tor or vpn ?

I made it live and editable here: https://hallway.com/workspaces/f7cfb27c-0a0b-4ca3-9b28-cc7eb...

I asked mythos to make a "The Way Things Work"-inspired version.

Published: https://banagale.com/the-way-the-motor-works/

Source: https://github.com/banagale/the-way-the-motor-works

It lacks cave people but has the woolys.

Very neat. Thank you for sharing! I assume this was one shot as well -what sort of prompt did you use?

I’m sure folks would be interested even in a blog post comparing just this process with different Anthropic models if that’s something you do and need a content idea. :)

Here's the prompt I used:

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Can you make a version of this that is more in the style of "the way things work" the cool inventions book from the 90s with cavepeople and wooly mamoths and that illustration asthetic?

https://github.com/mohsen1/axial-flux-motor-explainer

If able, expand on the abilities of the page as requested in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475428

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So ya, that was a one shot to build.

Just as impressive was its ability to publish the source and get the version up on my personal site. That was also a one shot but aided by context and skills I have available for these purposes.

Wow, crazy man, crazy!

fig 4 timing looks wrong --- electromagnetic field from the windings is supposed to be 90 degrees ahead, on average, of the permanent magnet field.

I put a version on Hallway: https://hallway.com/workspaces/4ddaa042-13b1-4fa5-bcf4-3d646...

Easy to edit and share.

This is over a hundred year old rule and common in "the new world". You can guess why it is common if you think about the phrase I put in quotes. All these countries are composed of immigrants...

Here's a short and incomplete list: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.

The logic is that the culture is what makes you part of the country, not the blood in your veins.

The other side of that logic is that you're not guaranteed citizenship to the country of your parents. It certainly isn't automatic.

It’s clearly split old world vs new world.

But new world is getting pretty old now too.

  > But new world is getting pretty old now too.

200-300 years isn't that old. There are plenty of buildings older than that all across Europe. There are businesses older than that. There are businesses and buildings that were older than that before the US even became a country. The *FALL* of the Roman empire was in ~500AD. It was a true empire even before 0AD, spanning across coastal Europe and northern Africa. It's height being ~100AD.

I'm sorry, the new world still has a few hundred years to go before we can even consider it old. It's not even a pre-teen by the standards. I mean we only discussed Europe. But the pyramids were older to the Romans than the Romans are to us.

The old world is... old

It's not astonishingly rare. The comment you're replying to contains examples, here are some more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

About 20% of all the countries have it. That isn't "astonishingly rare" in my book.

  > is an astonishingly rare policy

Let me repeat for you part of the *FIRST SENTENCE* in my comment

  >> common in "the new world"

So

  > Nonexistent in Europe

Last I checked, Europe was not "the new world".

  > the developed world

Considering that the US and Canada are developed countries, you'll need to rephrase. If you want to make jokes about the US not being a developed world then we'll be forced to make jokes about your lack of literacy and inability to use Google.

Please, for the love of god, just read the comments you're replying to. It's like the absolute bare minimum requirement.

Why do you think they are arguing with you instead of adding to your comment?

I cannot find an interpretation that is an addendum. They are telling me I'm wrong

Children integrate into the country so much more easily.

I mean, they'd also fix fire detection as well.

1. Start more fires

2. Find more fires

3. Profit

Like any good startup.

Would a PWA suffice? We are building that @ https://hallway.com

Without looking further into hallway, I'm inclined to say no because it doesn't instantly prompt me to describe the app I want to build.

I want to build an app. Not to enter an email in a textbox.

We're using a similar approach at https://hallway.com ... launching soon!

That's what we're doing at Hallway (https://hallway.com).

UIs should be fully remix-able and not set by the datasource/SaaS. So we built out a system to allow users to use the standard UI or remix apps as they want. Like Val.town, but with a flexible UX/workspace layer. Come check us out!

So tired of the argument.

Not everything is measured in "economic output", not to mention that metric itself doesn't make any sense when comparing countries of vastly different size, population etc.

Yeah, it’s like forgetting that the point of money in life is living, rather than the money itself.

Life is not about checking off boxes on how much free stuff you can hypothetically get from the government either. That has tons of costs and risks just like everything else in life. It’s all relative.