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1mo ago
To the parent posters credit, he's very honest that he developed a personal complex against doctors when he was a poor student. He just sees it as a way to lash out at American doctors, the irony being that foreign medical graduates le
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1mo ago
CEOs are probably by and large less technically competent than the average technical line employee, but what companies are actually paying for is personal connections to power structures that can be leveraged for profit. Look at someone lik
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2mo ago
California water policy vs other western states in one image: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sandy+Valley,+NV+89019/@35... A town of 1700 people with a rapidly depleting aquifer (600 AF/yr recharge, e
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2mo ago
If you feed Fable or Opus primarily handoff documents from a previous context instead of human written prompts and are working on something sophisticated it rapidly reaches a level where it's hard to actually comprehend for a non exper
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3mo ago
Anyone seriously building out AI infrastructure I presume is paying nowhere near $.38/kWh which is extortionate. Utility scale solar is closer to $.02-.03/kWh, then maybe around ~$.10/kWh for natural gas peaker plants.
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3mo ago
I'll add some praise- thank you for taking a stand. I trust the employment will work itself out as it tends to for smart and principled people.
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5mo ago
I went from being a largely self taught software dev with a small 1-man software business to working as a nurse in the US, and a lot of the motivation to make that change was that I wanted to spend my time doing work that I felt genuinely m
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7mo ago
You won’t find much quality in lay discussion boards, but magazines like The Economist and Foreign Affairs are worth a subscription. I’ve cut back my internet time and incorporated these into my routine, would strongly recommend if you want
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1y ago
Not seeing the economics for this ever truly working out, CO2 PPM is very low despite our best efforts and the amount of energy required for separation is substantial.
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2y ago
In most of the country, California unions have largely negotiated for .5x pay while on call making it quite popular.
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2y ago
Sounds like hospitals, but at least healthcare pays.
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2y ago
Not just 4K- all resolutions and it's getting worse with plenty of comparisons available online for those who care to look. Streaming video quality has generally declined across all platforms in the last few years with the exception of
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2y ago
This- the barriers to solo founding and funding a brand new business working with physical assets are insane in much of the US. For the most part you’re required to deal with all the same laws that a multi billion dollar incumbent is, and o
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3y ago
You will almost certainly never see at home versions of these drugs, the risk profile is far too great. Roughly 13% of strokes are hemorrhagic and that's just the first and most obvious hazard.
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3y ago
Copying an old comment of mine regarding EU vs US nursing salaries: "...our incomes are comically higher for skilled persons than European salaries. I literally make 10 times what my French counterpart would in my profession and with a
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3y ago
It’s simply not true that everyone failed in Afghanistan- the Mongols were very successful and the Mughals after them created a roughly 600 year period of relative peace. They just understood the realities of that region and operated in way
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3y ago
The simple solution- have one cut the food in half, but the other gets to choose their half first from the two.
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3y ago
Traditional engineering in the US pays pretty poorly, not enough to live comfortably in T1 cities. My civil, chemical, and mechanical engineering friends all live and work in “fly over” states for major multinationals.
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3y ago
Vopono ( https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono ): "vopono is a tool to run applications through VPN tunnels via temporary network namespaces. This allows you to run only a handful of applications through different VPNs
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3y ago
Modern educated young people generally don't stay in their small rural towns devoid of opportunity, so the supply of willing healthcare workers dwindles and the population of these towns trends older and sicker. 30 years ago I suspect
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3y ago
Residency slots are limited by federal government funding, not the AMA.
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3y ago
Are you familiar with the medical pathway in the US? Software really isn't comparable for any but maybe the absolute most extreme developers. 1) Premed - 4 year degree + easily 1-2k+ hours spent volunteering, doing research, gaining me
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4y ago
I'll never understand people who expect Apple to try and fight the CCP and inevitably get themselves barred from the Chinese market. It's not principled, it's just dumb and will completely screw over all of their current cust
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4y ago
This point has been debated extensively in thousands of threads with strong arguments made on both sides so I won't dive into it again as it's somewhat off topic to the actual response I made. I'll instead ask- what has Spoti
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4y ago
Spotify is just doing the age-old cycle of getting out-competed despite first mover advantage and then appealing to government authorities to try and stifle competition. When your only idea for innovation is trying to monopolize podcasts wh
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4y ago
It's simpler and more space efficient to just transcode according to the desired quality setting and device profile of the viewer. Unless you're a large streaming service or have an extremely uniform profile of users it's not
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4y ago
Yes, but the most valuable are the freehold GCBs.
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4y ago
Title correction: From an M2 MacBook Air, which was impressively supported before it had even shipped. https://mobile.twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/155396839473481... https://mobile.twitter.com/A
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4y ago
Apple is a public corporation and votes on its corporate direction are freely available on the open market for anyone to purchase. Based on my share ownership Apple is much more subject to my whims than my actual elected politicians are on
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Full Text of Apple vs. Rivos Lawsuit Details IP Theft [pdf]
(fingfx.thomsonreuters.com)
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