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by Joof 11y ago
It just happens by means of taxes instead. Right now, banks get a pretty hefty profit off those that can't afford it upfront, it's a tax on the poor (and often middle class) more than the rich.
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by Joof 11y ago
All Microsoft research (or at least a huge chunk of it) is published in open journals. I can't say the same for acadamia.
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by Joof 11y ago
Microsoft research is nearly legendary in many academic circles. As prestigious as many top colleges. There are many brilliant people working there. Admittadely, the prestige probably has a lot to do with the previous circumstances (work on
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by Joof 11y ago
The author didn't seem to refute that placebo with some amount of deception could have moderately significant positive effects on subjective diseases such as pain / depression. Not that alternative medicine is ethical due to that,
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by Joof 11y ago
Anecdotally, a friend of mine had a chemistry education at a top 50 school and went straight to a PhD program at an ivy league where they have had no trouble keeping up.
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by Joof 11y ago
Not at all. But it seems like a good example of very separate cultures developing in the same nation.
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by Joof 11y ago
Most people I know either don't have much money or have a lot and don't care to spend it.
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by Joof 11y ago
I doubt its just at work; the silicon valley area itself may be a bad culture fit. From experience, when you don't have people that you relate to face-to-face at home; it gets very depressing. You personally are likely to find people y
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by Joof 11y ago
At least to Canadians we can point out 'French' Canada. The people are different, but still Canadian.
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by Joof 11y ago
I went to middle school in a majority black school. In all honesty, most of the white kids were in the honors courses and generally segregated from everyone else. In high school I chilled with more black people because the area was very cou
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by Joof 11y ago
I can't speak for chemistry, but this is a horrificly shitty thing. There are many factors influencing what schools a student chooses to attend. Finances being an important one.
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by Joof 11y ago
Have you ever seen how much Microsoft will pay you? Those sort of people often end up as very good programmers. Not that surprised that people in this camp end up working at Microsoft and then quit because they don't like working there
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by Joof 11y ago
My mom (55 yo) always tries to get me into her computer buying arguments with my dad. She recently called me and stated "Macs never break compared to windows, so I should get a mac." I use Linux almost exclusively these days, so I
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by Joof 11y ago
In a weird way it manages to fix many people's problems with advertising. Ads are sometimes horribly intrusive (to the point that ad-blockers are necessary to me) and it forces companies to adhere to some kind standards when none are t
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by Joof 11y ago
Neat and quite good to know.
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by Joof 11y ago
This is a fault in US law if I heard properly. Its also horribly misaligned with getting appropriate results both financially and socially.
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by Joof 11y ago
Poverty is a fun issue because (typically) solving poverty has resulted in greater population and thus trends towards poverty. Less true in modern nations, but its still generally true.
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by Joof 11y ago
I cook maybe 3 meals a week from stuff I find online. Maybe curry or stews or whatever sounds good that day. Otherwise it's pasta or sandwiches or something quick. My mom calls me a 'foodie' as if it's a pretty major dif
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by Joof 11y ago
Anecdote, yu-gi-oh; bey-blades; etc. People in general don't really realise the impact that advertising has on them even if they are aware of them.
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by Joof 11y ago
Makes sense, but I simply don't have the background to agree with you.
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by Joof 11y ago
Not to rain on your parade, but the mechanism of SSRI drugs in depression is unknown. They do affect serotonin and they appear to work (although how well they work is questionable), but it's far more likely to be something downstream t
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by Joof 11y ago
Out of curiosity, in what situations does knowing the squares benefit someone later in mathematics / life? Actually curious.
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by Joof 11y ago
We call it memoization when it's for computers. People need 0-9 for basic algorithm, 10 is useful for decimals / notation, 11 is easy to learn and 12 is debatable, but potentially handy for base 12 systems which are fairly common.
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by Joof 11y ago
Turns out you don't need many numbers to think about math.
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by Joof 11y ago
That doesn't necessarily mean mental math is something that will offset that. There isn't much variation in mental math tricks.
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by Joof 11y ago
I agree. Academia is really resistant to the idea (see MOOCs), but the quality of this style of education can be quite high for CS. Plus there are guys like me who are excellent at the CS / math, but were awful at everything else in un
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by Joof 11y ago
I'll be honest; I always assumed this was already standard practice in places where it made sense. Is this untrue?
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by Joof 11y ago
In this particular scenerio you may do better encrypting the content and having keys shared between you and your friend, but not Facebook.
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by Joof 11y ago
An odd, but very enjoyable and in depth commentary of the DOOM modding community and DOOM in general is done by Liz Ryerson in her "DOOM mixtape" series. I think the later tapes are more interesting, but feel free to skip around.
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by Joof 11y ago
Truck driving worldwide probably fits this criteria for the next few years.

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