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by cncrnd 8y ago
Wow, you are so confident saying this when you are wrong. More people want to go to medical school than there are spots open. If you create more spots, you get more doctors. Cost is not a barrier to medical school, loans for this profession
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by cncrnd 8y ago
I mean 1-2 years after residency. Most people taking on debt for medical school don't really see it as a huge risk, it's basically a guaranteed investment. The big downside of medicine is the time in my opinion. 7 years of prime t
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Banking and tech aren't guaranteed the way medicine is. Other fields are result based, and it's often easy to get fired and be replaced. A risk averse person would rather stick to what they know (student life, exams) for a guarant
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Is anyone not going to med school because of debt? Not sure what problems this solves. For the long commitment that doctors make and the debt they take on, they receive basically guaranteed highly paying employment for as long as they wish.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Perhaps I was too dismissive, I wish them the best of luck. Maybe it's actually that delicious. I'm just surprised to see another food company pop up, it's kind of like the latex mattress boom (Casper, leesa, etc) but those m
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Has YC become a meme? Yet another company doing the same thing, and claiming subjective advantages over the competition. Almost like companies are selected for being part of a story ('poor college student craves mums food') rather
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Think of it not as a shake up, but as a wealth transfer from investors to the proletariat. It's like how Uber has been giving me $3 rides while it posts losses 1/3 of revenue. I should send VCs a thank you card, those loveable dum
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Hmm I don't think it's that much of a headache to have some PIN code provided to pilots as an additional measure. These planes aren't cheap, even a small personal jet is in the low millions. A Boeing 747 or similar is in the
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Well games are a trendy area and more fun and challenging to work on than most other software...as long as there is more demand for game development jobs than there are open positions, it will be this way. Unlike screenwriters, whose altern
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by cncrnd 8y ago
WeWork is just a gamble on real estate. There are probably instruments with very similar upside and risk as WeWork. VCs, probably not familiar with the world of real estate, aren't able to see this. They think they're investing in
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Actually, you don't have to be a citizen to commit treason. There is a notion of 'temporary allegiance' which allows non citizens to be prosecuted for treason.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Soil rights are not a basic human right... In many countries it is nearly impossible to get citizenship without having citizen parents. I'm not sure why you would want to give the children of those committing treason citizenship, it co
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Usually I just throw some meat on the grill and put it in a quesadilla or sandwich with various toppings. I occasionally make a salad, but very very occasionally. I feel pretty full and rarely take in more than 2k calories a day - I'm
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by cncrnd 8y ago
The easiest thing to do to reduce your caloric intake is to start cooking...it's very hard to get to high calorie numbers if you are making your own food instead of eating out. Oh, and when you're hungry eat a meal first then snac
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Director of Full-Stack sounds very awkward, you should think of a better title like Engineering Director or Director of Full-Stack Development.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
This applies to all prominent people at any time in history.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
I mean that you should say things more simply in less words. I don't mean to be rude, just an honest critique, but you give the impression of trying too hard.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Bookmarks bar folder on chrome. Don't see the need for a specialized app, which I would enthusiastically install and then never touch again.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
That's a hell of a way to say it wasn't as common back then.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
I haven't done it because of privacy concerns, but I am considering WGS through a lab then promethease instead. I don't think understanding risk would affect my decisions much either, but I'd probably get familiar with the sy
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Here is my 2 cents. On HN people are always complaining that google services are unreliable because google shuts down a lot of stuff. Well I think that's because they try a lot of things too. It's really amazing how they have mana
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by cncrnd 8y ago
You are right about there not being opportunities for work in some of these fields, but I just don't think the humanities foster creativity or critical thinking more than CS and I didn't see much interest from the students at a sa
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by cncrnd 8y ago
I agree that most engineering students don't care much either, but they generally have to put more work in and leave with some practical skills as well as a nice signing bonus + job at the end of the program. Humanities majors can just
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by cncrnd 8y ago
It depends on the venue, loud people tend to aggregate in loud coffee shops etc because that's the environment they like. You can sometimes cross the street and the environment in a cafe is the complete opposite. I noticed this and tho
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Honestly, the majority of humanities students I've interacted with have been uninspired and unmotivated. I took a good deal of humanities classes and more often than not comments were uninformed and presentations poor quality. And what
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by cncrnd 8y ago
The median engineer is not able to coherently think and write? Is the median humanities grad better able to do this? I don't see much of a difference. The majority of engineers I've interacted with have actually been well adjusted
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by cncrnd 8y ago
Alcohol does not provide the massive utility that comes with modern smartphones. There are ways to reduce cell phone usage without going to a flip phone. But, if this is what works for the author then I support it. Removing certain apps and
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by cncrnd 8y ago
I don't see why you can't just control your cell phone habits. Swearing technology off is like cutting off the nose to spite the face. The optimal setup for me is the basic apps installed (mail, messenger, uber/lyft, finances
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by cncrnd 8y ago
What'd you use to analyze your genome, promethease? I think that increased risks of x,y,z would be good to be aware of.
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by cncrnd 8y ago
I would like to know this as well. Does genome sequencing through providers like Dante Labs guarantee that the data is not stores and/or shared? Are some providers better about this than others, and if so which ones? Also, once you hav

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