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If they eliminate the ACA — and I don’t see anything now that
keeps them from doing that, very quickly — I’m going to get
clobbered. Not only episodically for myself, but full-time for
others for whom I have responsibility. Not sure how long I can
provide an umbrella against the U.S. medical system, at my current
capacity.
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<div>It’s unfortunate. They will likely suffer. But fairy tales
seem to be the only places where sufferers learn anything.
Learning is a much more complicated project, which takes some
investment across the life-course. Works better in a stable
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<p>Like "spare the rod, spoil the child" is it the case that it is
the "punctuation marks" which deliver the lessons but it is during
the "equilibrium" before and after where the "learning" happens?
Differentiation and (re)Synthesis... Annealing Schedules... <br>
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<p>I am scrambling to understand which of a myriad of lessons this
little pass-through a diffraction barrier is offering me. In the
spirit of our previous/parallel discussion it is *at least* a
lesson in <i>which</i> lossy compression (through projection?) is
the fitness function I should be paying attention to, and what
that high dimensional Pareto frontier (manifold) might look like?
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<p>I'm much more a satisficer than an optimizer so it is easier for
me to let those collapse to a practical level, but still shocking
when the weighting gets scrambled.<br>
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<p>Along side Gibson's "Jackpot" sits Doctorow's
"enshittification"... which reminds me, I should check to see what
signal he is emitting today...</p>
<p>< firewood anecdote><br>
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<p>I just (minutes ago) gave my "firewood guy" an extra large
tip/bonus, knowing he and his are likely to be on somebody's
"hit list" (your performative cruelty idiom) in spite of their
very upright, diligent, serious contributors to the (local)
community and economy. I already pay them a small premium
(santa fe prices when I could probably scrounge for el-rito
prices) because I like their wood, their work ethic and have a
loyalty to them with an eye to them being around in the future.
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<p>I'm ahead by 1.5 winters in my firewood (partly due to a 1/2
cord giant limb from my huge Russian Olive giving up last
spring). I was ready to skip a year (my Solar carries my
heating load with about 1 cord per year for boost and cheer and
dark weeks) but as things were sliding toward the MAGA abyss I
felt it would be prudent to be 1% more self sufficient in these
times as well as supporting some folks who might be marginal in
context (I don't ask, they don't tell).<br>
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<p>It was mildly cold/snowy outside but of the three guys, two who
I've met before wore face-coverings... I can't help but wonder
if they are already worrying about being "identifiable". They
usually banter with me in my broken Spanglish but this time they
were careful not to engage in Spanish, the youngest having very
good English but even he pretended not to understand my broken
Spanish. I didn't want to push them, on the off chance it would
be undermining their passive immune systems. <br>
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