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by devalgo 6y ago
Ah yes a member of the "Sacrifice your grandparents for the stonks" class. I'm sorry but the idea of discarding potentially millions of live for the economy is inhuman.
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by devalgo 6y ago
Of course they never admit the truth, that the only way they got rich/famous was by writing self help books and have never done anything real outside that.
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by devalgo 6y ago
Uh Math? You have unconstrained exponential growth across the country in most major cities outside the Northeast. There is only 1 ending here unless there are massive changes.
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by devalgo 6y ago
And the curve is now going straight back up at exponential rates. The lockdown should have lasted until we had a vaccine. Period.
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by devalgo 6y ago
Flatten the curve was meant to spread the infections across time to decrease stress on the healthcare system. Our lockdown was ineffectual because of lax enforcement and the public's apathy. So it achieved none of its goals. Places lik
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by devalgo 6y ago
This along with antibiotic resistance, ocean acidification and others are silent civilization killers. Male fertility has been dropping for the past several decades and accumulation of microplastics has been suggested as a possible cause. W
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by devalgo 6y ago
Pretty sure this is demonstrably false. There are large spreadsheets out there documenting H1B wages at FAANG type companies and they are almost universally less than the equivalent US Citizen wages.
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by devalgo 6y ago
>some of whom arrive on a H1B Isn't this the key part, isn't that graph rather irrelevant to the H1B discussion if it doesn't specifically point out the H1B numbers? As an aside the H1B is an abusive system that depresses
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by devalgo 6y ago
H1B is a scam. It allows employers to shortchange their workers and abuse immigrants who are beholden to them for their right to live in the US.
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by devalgo 6y ago
It's probably a question of awareness. How many of these people are reading e.g arxiv preprints to see this kind of research in the first place? There's also a rebound/face saving effect: if the CDC, State Health Officials, e
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by devalgo 6y ago
I agree with that but we're talking about things that are really measurements of your mind right? What kind of articles do you read, what kind of posts do you like, products you like to buy etc. The Tech giants use rough simulacra of y
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by devalgo 6y ago
It gets hairy quickly. Do you own your DNA sequence? You could say it's essentially just data. Would you be opposed to a company patenting your DNA and profiting off it?
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by devalgo 6y ago
As klenwell said, deaths are very lagging. It could take weeks for a person admitted to a hospital to die so it shouldn't at all be reassuring that those numbers are going down. They are bound to rebound. How is this downvoted? If you
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by devalgo 6y ago
It's definitely concerning how people are acting but that being said I think the initial research is showing that outdoor spread during the day is very unlikely. UV light seems to be devastating to Covid and Vitamin D seems to be prote
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by devalgo 6y ago
Is anyone really going to weep for Zuck if he drops down to merely a millionaire instead of a billionaire? I certainly won't...
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by devalgo 6y ago
>Aren't companies already paying indirectly by providing free service? I think it's more about changing the frame. That Tech companies have been profiting off something you actually have always intrinsically owned, your persona
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by devalgo 6y ago
Let them stay in the Niche maybe? I'd rather have a really great safe browser than half a dozen half baked products from the same company.
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by devalgo 6y ago
Not sure this take feels right but it doesn't really feel sufficient to say "this time is different" either. It's pretty easy to come up with dozens of military based use cases but really difficult to find commercial one
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by devalgo 6y ago
Well they have $20,000+ addons for better Lidar range, on device compute etc. Doesn't seem all that cheap to do interesting things..
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by devalgo 6y ago
So outside of mounting a gun on it or doing basic industrial inspections it's really just a $74,500 toy right?
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by devalgo 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol... Feel free to try and explain it away but to say no one is calling for this would at this point be willful blindness. I have complete f
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by devalgo 6y ago
>Right so you’re saying they could randomly pick from their applicant pool because right now only perfect scores apply. This would actually be a reasonable way to go. Set a cut off ACT/SAT/GPA and just do a lottery for kids tha
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by devalgo 6y ago
>But I think the larger call is saying that ICE as it currently is conceived as a paramilitary-style organization is not the way control the border and manage immigration. This seems like what people on the right do with Trump. He'l
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by devalgo 6y ago
I don't understand the calls to abolish ICE. Open borders are simply not a realistic policy in the current world. We can barely keep things operating as it is in the US, what would happen when tens of millions of largely unskilled immi
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by devalgo 6y ago
Probably not wise to put words in my mouth. I have no love for the police but the kumbaya bs people are spouting about the CHAZ is ludicrous.
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by devalgo 6y ago
>They apparently also did it in Camden, NJ, and that turned out quite well. This is an appalling misunderstanding of what really happened in Camden. Take a trip there, know what you'll find? Police cars, policemen and police station
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by devalgo 6y ago
True but we also execute people in the US, our prisons have despicable living conditions and we routinely use solitary confinement which could be considered a form of torture by some.
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by devalgo 6y ago
I'd be wary of that. He needs to make some predictions that can be tested or it's just another string theory/brane theory/many worlds/etc. theory that makes a lot of claims but hasn't advanced the science at al
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by devalgo 6y ago
Yes that's what I said, the data you need for a unifying theory is unavailable because we don't have colliders that can reach the right energies. Giant Neural Networks don't fix that.
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by devalgo 6y ago
Short of saying that a hyper inflation event in the US would probably break civilization and so allocating capital is irrelevant at that point, isn't the obvious answer Bitcoin or other crypto assets?

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