> emergency department visits in which a gambling disorder was recorded as either the main or a contributing reason for the visit.

from the study

> An ED visit for a gambling disorder was defined on the basis of the clinical judgement of the treating team and was identified when ICD-10 codes F63.0 (pathological gambling) or Z726 (gambling or betting problems) were coded as the main or contributing reason for the visit.

> In 29.3% of these ED visits, a gambling disorder was listed as the primary cause of the visit,

Contributing reason, sure, but main reason makes no sense.

Maybe. On the other hand it's common for genuine medical problems to 'make no sense' to a layperson. That tradition goes back thousands of years.

apparently there's an ICD code for it

i guess if someone gets a meltdown (mental breakdown) after losing a lot of money

That definitely still seems like contributing.

Also, the ICD ontology specifically exists for billing purposes and isn't the same as patient diagnostic classification, though there is overlap and people do mistakenly use it as such sometimes. But there's a difference between "emergency visit for X" (treat X) and "emergency visit because of X" (treat Y proximal to X). (I also edited my original comment to include this last part, since it seems likely to create confusion)

there's a difference in semantics between clinical reason and billing, agreed, though it seems that the news article did not sensationalize the study, and the study uses at least one valid code that can be a primary reason for a visit, and while I'm absolutely just a random dog on the internet, for me the overlap in meaning seems significant to warrant the use of this term.

https://icdlist.com/icd-10/F63.0

https://icdlist.com/icd-10/Z72.6 "The code is not accepted as a principal diagnosis "

> emergency department visits in which a gambling disorder was recorded as either the main or a contributing reason for the visit.

> express our own agency

ironically a local model and Playwright/OpenClaw is pretty close

thats not ironic. thats dystopian

they don't seem mutually exclusive

they connect ideas all day. xenophobia is that, making fast and loose connections.

unfortunately we are deep into the TikTok times, and simple, but catchy ideas dominate. it's flat Earth, QAnon, anti-vax, anti-economics but now in 4K.

yes, but also there's a real obvious unserved/underserved voting bloc

https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-boring-theory-of-the-populist...

without convincing the people (winning their hearts and minds, and so on) it'll continue to be a profitable political strategy, unfortunately

yes, just as age verification can be fooled by an older friend who gets the check mark.

Reminds me of

   If you think cryptography can solve your problem, you don’t understand your problem and you don’t understand cryptography.

(Bruce Schneier dug into origins of this here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/laurie-anders...)

it's entirely possible that that specific communication from that Amazon exec/rep (?) was just one of many "messages of concern" (and the one that eventually the WH picked)

> Is this actually measuring "underemployment"

Sort of. It's "all of the above". So basically low demand for labor.

* Looking for a job.

* People who don't work full time but want to.

* Poverty wages. (below $26,000 (in 2025 dollars) annually before taxes)

warm cache case is only imperceptibly slower, no?

True, haven't read the source and only went by what the other commenter said. But one could argue 500MB more free space is similarly imperceptible.

There are still many environments with <=250GB, below that I wouldn't call it negligible. And let's not forget that the price per GB has appreciated a LOT!

They're likely the same environments that can't keep warm cache in memory, so the performance penalties are higher too.