Eumenes

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by Eumenes 2y ago
I'm all for making travel more expensive. Mostly to remove the trashy and rude people from the equation. I don't care about C02 but I do enjoy seeing megalomaniacs like John Kerry and Taylor Swift lecture us plebs on climate/
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by Eumenes 2y ago
Vast majority of H1bs are from India, and China. Only a few hundred per year from EU countries.
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World-leading Chinese cancer scientist Sun Shao-Cong has left US for Beijing(scmp.com)
2 points by Eumenes 2y ago|2 comments
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Research Reveals How Fructose in Diet Enhances Tumor Growth(siteman.wustl.edu)
2 points by Eumenes 2y ago|1 comments
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by Eumenes 2y ago
Its protected wetlands - no invading Russia!
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by Eumenes 2y ago
Article fails to mention how almost all of big tech backed Harris (and spent over a billion) and Trump only gets the Thiel and his acolytes. They play both sides and will continue to.
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by Eumenes 2y ago
The US military can track and engage ICBMs moving at 15k MPH but can't identity drones above residential neighborhoods in the continental US? They really do believe we're stupid.
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by Eumenes 2y ago
yes, if you're reading this and your EM job consists of: taking notes during sprints, 1:1s, meeting with other "leaders", discussing "culture" issues, and interviewing ... go practice some leet code, cause your mark
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by Eumenes 2y ago
> Adults with highly educated parents have better literacy skill levels than those with less educated parents Lol, not sure about this. I have two young children in private school and most of the kids come from wealth, like white collar&
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by Eumenes 2y ago
How about Seymour Hersh? https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n24/seymour-m.-hersh/who...
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by Eumenes 2y ago
this is exactly the type of policy you'd expect from a governing body that is completely out of touch with the working class. I can imagine the cambridge, UCL, and oxford graduates patting eachother on the back after the meeting, congr
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by Eumenes 2y ago
What trusted sources do you have on middle eastern conflicts? The Council on Foreign Relations, The Atlantic Council? Foreign Affairs magazine? These institutions are stocked with neocon stooges whose advice have only invaded half the middl
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by Eumenes 2y ago
> Assad was so bad for using chemical weapons on citizens Thats fake/contested https://x.com/scotthortonshow/status/1863289718890193160
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by Eumenes 2y ago
The cold war communist boogie man hasn't gone away. Russia is apparently all power and has infinite reach into global elections, but at the same time, getting destroyed on the battlefield and about to lose the Ukraine conflict any mome
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by Eumenes 2y ago
Russians paid tiktokers, let’s nullify the election - Democracy ROCKS
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by Eumenes 2y ago
Yeah its tough. One that doesn't get though about as much is libraries/frameworks or generic technology that can be plugged into these projects. If one of these firms had to reinvent a message broker or event streaming framework o
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by Eumenes 2y ago
I agree, but that assessment is open to interpretation. Build software for self driving cars that displaces a workforce? Automate a segment of the economy that makes a workforce obsolete? Build actuary software that helps analysts decline c
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by Eumenes 2y ago
I am very much the 'average person' compared to the HN demographic ... average people aren't picking/choosing what murders to celebrate based on the title/industry the person is in. Like I said in another comment, I
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by Eumenes 2y ago
I wont' shed any tears for this guy, mostly because 1) I don't care and 2) I don't know him, but we could apply the “you make your bed, you sleep in it” reasoning to many, many industries (including ours).
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by Eumenes 2y ago
So where do we have vaccine mandates today? I understand some employers mandate it, esp in government or healthcare settings, but I've never worked at a place that has. I didn't get the covid vaccine and nothing changed with my li
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by Eumenes 2y ago
> 99.99% of gun purchases in the US happen through an FFL with a background check and everything Alot of states have classified pages where you can buy/sell firearms. Many states don't require background checks for private sale
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by Eumenes 2y ago
> you may contact Richard Stallman and ask him for advice the guy who eats his toenails? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ&rco=1
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by Eumenes 2y ago
They need to do some A/B testing with What's New Pussycat?, Banana Phone, and Crazy Frog. They should also hire some computer vision experts to cross reference the irritation. Then open source the project to all cities.
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by Eumenes 2y ago
There's NPR (not my thing) and some AM stations with interesting local talk shows. I still listen to baseball games on AM radio.
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by Eumenes 2y ago
Canada, UK, NZ, and Australia had absolutely draconian polices related to COVID.
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by Eumenes 2y ago
The US State Department is having a busy Q4!!
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Bill Gates calls India 'a laboratory to try things'(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
5 points by Eumenes 2y ago|2 comments
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by Eumenes 2y ago
Politicians love giving mega industries blank checks.
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by Eumenes 2y ago
So it stops 80% of kids from creating accounts? Great!
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by Eumenes 2y ago
Hmm - one rich person getting richer or slashing hundreds of thousands of useless government workers and many redundant agencies. That sounds like a trade worth making.

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