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by bagacrap 3y ago
No, that's not clear. I'm sure the state (and other) universities would say that tuition already funds "actual operations". What guidelines do bureaucrats inflict on universities to ensure there are no fake operations su
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I agree it should cost less, but I don't understand why everyone seems to think the government (taxpayers) should be paying these tuitions. The problem is that tuition is ridiculous.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
> regular people would be jealous of how kids who were wards of the state lived In this utopia you describe, I'd think all kids lived like kings.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I bought a Nissan leaf in 2020 with 225 miles range for approx 20,000 USD...
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by bagacrap 3y ago
As if the only possible reward is money?
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by bagacrap 3y ago
As seductive as that story is, the data doesn't bear it out. Hourly workers have made huge gains in the last three years at the expense of salaried workers, and flyover states are turning the tables on coastal states. Look at: real hou
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I wouldn't have ever detected this supposed recession if I hadn't been constantly warned of it by the media
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Then why not compare to big oil, big pharma, etc? The point is that both Big Tobacco and Meta sell dopamine addictions.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I have used it for different languages, and native speakers could not tell that it was written by a non-native or an AI. --- Pretty sure I would recognize this sentence as fishy because no one would use non-native like that. But this probab
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I'm pretty sure employees will not be cut off from the external web altogether. They can use it at home, they can use it on their phone while at work, they're not living like digital hermits. So how happiness plays into this decis
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Interesting. How do you use chatgpt for this? Do you give it some text and ask it to correct grammar?
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. I don't buy that all science coming from 1/6th of the world (by population) will somehow surpass all the science coming from the other 5/6ths. The only way for Mandarin to rival English would
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Why do you think this? There are vastly more English speakers than Mandarin worldwide [1] and China is now only the second most populous country, overtaken by India. English is an official language of India and while not pervasively spoken
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I'm surprised it's not already taught in school. Even in US public schools, foreign languages are taught (poorly), most often Spanish.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
The article gives some blanket stats regarding the extra effort to be a non native English speaker, but they use a definition of native that excludes most of India. Even if it is not their first language, Indians have a clear advantage ov
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I don't think they're doing this to save money on Comcast bills
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Do you realize the amount of work that Google has put in over the years to provide Linux support for Google Chrome? Why would they suddenly about face on that? Wouldn't it be great if you never had to deal with another captcha?
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by bagacrap 3y ago
In a sense, the claimants are becoming shareholders of this company. That is, like shareholders, they have a claim to a certain portion of future cash flows. Like shareholders, they should be hoping that the business continues to thrive so
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I don't know the full history of each of these companies, but it wasn't my impression that Google or Apple really started with a lot of VC funding. Sure there had to be some kind of private investment to kick start them, but they
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by bagacrap 3y ago
"J&J is facing more than 38,000 lawsuits alleging that the company's talc products, including its Baby Powder, were contaminated by asbestos and caused cancers"
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by bagacrap 3y ago
How is the business getting off easy in this scenario. It's dissolving. What else can we do to it?
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by bagacrap 3y ago
It's about swapping an old, ineffective management team for a new one. PE is just a loan and a new executive team in one bundle.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I wish I too could invent a market, mandate that most of the world be my customer, and ban anyone else from profiting from it.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I don't think most doctors want to be business owners, worrying about employees or bills.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Helps to build what exactly? Airbnb, which makes housing less affordable? When has VC created something that approximates a public good, such as a hospital?
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by bagacrap 3y ago
By this argument why does anything cost money? I need shelter if I am to contribute to society. It should be free! My own healthcare is extremely valuable to me and I should be allowed to spend money on that. Someone else may decide they&#x
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by bagacrap 3y ago
A running coach is not going to turn you into Tyreek, it's just going to be a waste of money. All the people you claim just didn't want it bad enough were realistic enough to realize that. Obviously, if this were a career path ava
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by bagacrap 3y ago
You make it sound as if all you need to do is study, try hard, and roll a 50-sided die. Obviously that is not sufficient. And anyone who's playing in the NFL today was far better than "ok" at all previous levels of competitio
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Openai hasn't really proven itself to be a profitable business so the economic research is at best incomplete. I'm sure AI has real value, but what percent of that comes from LLMs and what contribution OpenAI will wind up making t
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by bagacrap 3y ago
First, many homes do have poor insulation. We're talking about the average across the country (or developed world) here. Second, no amount of insulation is going to make air conditioning cheap or efficient in Texas or Florida. If you a

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