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by boelboel 6mo ago
People buying stethoscopes tend to be reasonably affluent. Some of the pricier ones just look better and people usually buy them when you get into med school (at least this was the case for me), it's somewhat symbolic so why not splurg
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by boelboel 6mo ago
It's like the 'enhance' bs they do in crime shows. All of a sudden the computer can make up a sharp image out of nowhere
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by boelboel 6mo ago
There's lots of people who are willing to spend a lot of money on 'real things' while not spending anything on bytes. It's the tech companies which have created this expectation of free services. Many non-tech people I k
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by boelboel 6mo ago
Isn't this akin to saying Big Pharma companies could easily make money if they just stopped doing expensive research? The massive R&D spend is the core of the business plan; it's the only reason they can demand high prices in
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by boelboel 6mo ago
I'm guessing it'll be marginally better than their opus 4.7 or 4.6 high at 10x the cost, too costly for them to subsidize/for companies to justify.
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by boelboel 6mo ago
I swear there's been like 7 (mostly positive) stories about Mythos on the FT. They add basically nothing.
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by boelboel 6mo ago
One of the latest papers by Hanushek, the person who tends to be cited by those against public school spending "U.S. SCHOOL FINANCE: RESOURCES AND OUTCOMES" gives a more mixed overview. Basically saying it matters somewhat dependi
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by boelboel 6mo ago
I might've been exaggerating a bit, there's only one right now who's 90+, Paul Biya. Peter Mutharika will be 90+ when he steps down. Beji Esseni was 92 a few years ago. Many are 80+ and will not step down before dying
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by boelboel 6mo ago
Funnily enough a lot of these 'boomer' haters love to pretend the silent generation or the greatest generation were so much better. I believe a lot of this cynicism and individualism is caused by political decisions by these gener
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by boelboel 6mo ago
50% of highly educated women in certain countries are expected to live to 100+ years old according to some demographers, although others believe there's genuine biological limits making this unlikely (they still believe a substantial a
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by boelboel 6mo ago
Looking at heads of states in non-western countries I'm not sure why you think it's a western thing. African countries got multiple 90+ year olds as head of state for example.
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by boelboel 6mo ago
This analysis is rather weak, just a linear regression with 2 variables it seems. I'm not saying there's a direct link of school spending and academic performance but this is barely trying. Your average undergrad could've mad
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by boelboel 6mo ago
Not even that long ago, nobility died at higher rates than normal people in ww1 and ww2. Many lines were killed during them. I still know of nobles in my own country in the army. Generals died in WW2 at a decent rate as well. Nobility lost
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by boelboel 6mo ago
Seen similar things with Openai and Palantir.
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by boelboel 7mo ago
Radio did plenty of harm as well (especially post 1987). Rush Limbaugh had a peak audience of 20-30 million listeners a week in the 90s. The current state of politics might've been unpreventable, at least in the US.
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by boelboel 7mo ago
Maybe being unable to write us another symptom
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by boelboel 7mo ago
In London cameras are everywhere, mostly private and they have been for years. Don't think I've seen anything like it in any European city I've visited.
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by boelboel 7mo ago
Most software related jobs on their own aren't seen as a 'high class' professions. It's a job which got extremely lucrative recently. It's similar to someone who made lots of money from the gold rush. The fact you w
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by boelboel 7mo ago
Apple tv is quite a bit better than the other streaming services. If people truly cared they would either watch blu-rays or Apple tv. But few actually care.
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by boelboel 7mo ago
A 29 style crash would be accompanied by a 29 crash in other countries. Besides most countries (besides Argentine) suffered, some more some less. The US market wouldn't necessarily be a bigger bargain than others.
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by boelboel 7mo ago
Even the 4K you get can hardly be considered 4K, awful bitrate. Too bad most people are okay with this so it's never gonna change.
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by boelboel 7mo ago
Very ahistorical view
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by boelboel 7mo ago
They earn billions from pushing gambling as well, substantial portion of their ads.
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by boelboel 7mo ago
It can't be fixed because America is not a nation state.
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by boelboel 7mo ago
Many addicts know doing drugs is bad. I'm sure a good portion of them are against drugs being freely available everywhere but they're still addicts.
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by boelboel 7mo ago
Many people just think certain things in history were outlawed because of 'stupid religious people'. Most of the time there's genuine reasons for banning things even if they weren't perfect or brought other harms with th
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by boelboel 7mo ago
Are they the most egoistic generation ever? The ones who decided to go on this path weren't the boomers but the generation before (as with some other things boomers are blamed for). A capital backed social insurance system is a "p
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by boelboel 7mo ago
I've replaced wires of my main headphone 2 times over 10+ years. 40 dollars for something I use 8 hours a day, not too bad.
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by boelboel 7mo ago
I've known people working in federal government where firing them would be a serious problem, as in they're the only person who knows something quite important well enough. Many of these people could get paid more in private indus
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by boelboel 7mo ago
Thousands of employees isn't even that much for USDA. There's also good reason to have headquarters of organisations close to headquarters of other organisations. It just lowers efficiency (which they might be after)

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