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by ausbah 4y ago
>As I mentioned above, most undergrad paper authorship is peripheral where you just succeeded in establishing yourself in a lab long term and contributed to some research. and what do you do in a research lab as an undergrad? you contrib
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by ausbah 4y ago
inalienable rights shouldn't be subject to the whims of what most people want. sure that kicks the fan down the road by having to define what is an "inalienable right", but "mob rulel, "tyranny of the majority"
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by ausbah 4y ago
the US has been at war in some shape for form for 90% of its history, hard to call that "peaceful". a good chunk of American prosperity you can chalk up to the random luck of geography; abundant natural resources, two oceans separ
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by ausbah 4y ago
there are some things that no amount of a majority ever makes moral
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by ausbah 4y ago
>while a bunch of others did because they had paper authorship in their undergrad. But paper authorship in undergrad has NO correlation with your actual scientific skills! It just meant you were connected and or a hustler uh, the whole p
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by ausbah 4y ago
sad zoo tycoon never gets as much love :(
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by ausbah 4y ago
in a similar line of reasoning, cars by humans are a much larger problem that's already here
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by ausbah 4y ago
what are you saying? countries with the economic might of China and the US could pretty easily do both
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by ausbah 4y ago
if one FLOP is one parameter we do have the capacity with modern day supercomputers? bottleneck then probably becomes data unless overparameterization holds?
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by ausbah 4y ago
>this is more complicated than it sounds. "non violent offenders" is a myth because many offenders have their charges reduced during plea bargaining process. something like 80-90% of ALL cases at the federal level end in plea b
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by ausbah 4y ago
>You can either lift X or you can't. performance enhancing drugs, bad form that may not be visible (ex it going to chest on bench), and what "lifting X" even means when the amount can vary vastly depending on number of r
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by ausbah 4y ago
have you ever tried typed racket?
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by ausbah 4y ago
there's nothing of substance in this post? why is this upvoted?
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by ausbah 4y ago
I think if social media wasn't designed to be addictive it would be great. less feed curation, less infinite scrolling, etc.
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by ausbah 4y ago
even if you don't follow the conflict it's pretty easy to say whose the good guys and whose the bad guys
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by ausbah 4y ago
teaching is pretty chronically underpaid. there's more to medicine than just doctors, nurse don't come out that great after adjusting for hours worked iirc. not sure how 60k is comically overpaid in any sane sense, coming from thi
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by ausbah 4y ago
>Unions are popular in fields like construction, medicine, teaching, etc because of: 1. The field otherwise would be chronically underpaid what world are you living in where these are considered fairly compensated?
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by ausbah 4y ago
to be upfront, I don't buy that a company with such large resources couldn't recruit from a larger pool of school. I'm also not under any illusion about the caliber of student at upper vs lower ranked schools, I see it as a m
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by ausbah 4y ago
I highly doubt a multibillion company engaging in more widespread recruiting practices would be the difference between them succeeding and failing
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by ausbah 4y ago
I think this is more in regards to university recruiting, especially with internships? I have no doubt about your experience with post grad hiring, college name doesn't matter as much after you have experience under your belt
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by ausbah 4y ago
sorry my list should've included some public schools georgia tech or cal berkeley. my point they would be more preferential towards top tech schools
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by ausbah 4y ago
it's probably more like if your school isn't an ivy, stanford, mit, whatever you're resume goes right in the trash. also that logic is super self perpetuating and I imagine could be used to justify other worse forms of discri
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by ausbah 4y ago
you don't recognize there's any sort of historical pattern between religion, at least w the more extremist parts, and punitive punishments? conversion therapy, Indian boarding schools, child wilderness camps, Catholic sex abuse sc
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by ausbah 4y ago
sure it's not coercive or violent in most cases, but that's all you get in a religious household. a child may not like going to church, prayer, the thought of a higher power, etc. but that's all they'll be getting. maybe
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by ausbah 4y ago
>CDC's ever changing guidelines this was much more of a presentation problem then anything. of course the science will change in the middle of new viral outbreak, people's perception of science just isn't that. >liabili
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by ausbah 4y ago
I don't think most other countries are different. most countries have national training programs just for the olympics
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by ausbah 4y ago
seems like you're missing the main idea behind ubi? if automation gets good enough at enough things, there might not be jobs for everyone to do. if, when, where, and how the above might happen are up for debate - but your post just sou
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by ausbah 4y ago
dubious that consuming more content will ease concerns about not being able to consume more content people will find more personal engagement and happiness learning about what ever sparks their interest be it physics or fashion
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by ausbah 4y ago
like most here I don't particularly agree with the main premise of the piece (objectivity taking a sideline to how something might affect a population), but I am a little saddened if not scared at how vitriolic some of the comments a
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by ausbah 4y ago
really should be like 5, maybe 10 years

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