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by firejake308 3y ago
You see, if Americans had the same value for "not being a nuisance" as the Japanese, then you could pack us like sardines in a can, and we'd all get along fine. "Changing the character of the neighborhood" is an act
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by firejake308 3y ago
Skimming the article quickly, I couldn't understand where the "ground truth" comes from in their algorithm. You have 10-15 phones within 10 km of each other, and each one pings the GPS satellite to get it's approximate p
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by firejake308 3y ago
The problem is that if the economy is structured in a way that maximizes efficiency (as most economists/politicians generally argue it should be), then everyone should be forced to use specialist childcare, even if they don't wa
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by firejake308 3y ago
The problem is that the incentive doesn't work. Low-income folks have more children than high-income folks, even though they're the ones who are more adversely affected by childcare costs (larger percentage of budget). If disincen
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by firejake308 3y ago
Someone remind me, what's that joke about the economist who pays his friend to consume excrement and claims the GDP has increased?
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by firejake308 3y ago
I normally frown when people suggest that tech will fix medicine, but I actually believe it for the singular use case of triaging whether or not a problem needs medical attention. The biggest barrier is that the false negative is a very dan
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by firejake308 3y ago
It's easy enough to justify if you are in the group of people that can get it faster.
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by firejake308 3y ago
I agree with removing undergrad but not residency. The things I learned in undergrad are largely useless. However, residency is important because it allows freshly minted doctors to practice under some degree of supervision for the first 3-
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by firejake308 3y ago
> surgeons... are doing work that is extremely challenging and realistically only a tiny amount of people are able to do As a medical student, I'd like to dispel this myth. The surgeons tell us all the time that they could teach a m
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by firejake308 3y ago
Yeah, but it makes a lot more sense to just incorporate that into the medical school curriculum than to make students sit through 4 years of Chemistry classes and hope that the dance class they took to fulfill the university core curriculum
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by firejake308 3y ago
Yeah, even for my simplest projects, like single-file scripts directly modifying HTML, I'll use `tsc` to compile .ts into .js, just so that I can get better IntelliSense while I'm working
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by firejake308 3y ago
Is this a joke? Or...
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by firejake308 3y ago
I think this is a poor analogy. The better comparison would be if people were buying my apples and extracting the seeds to plant their own trees, then selling their own apples at a lower price than me and putting me out of business. For exa
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by firejake308 3y ago
> without some kind of editorial oversight imposed from above nothing coherent nor useful will be produced. True, but academic publishers charge an absurd amount of money in return for very little value. The publisher provides a platform
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by firejake308 3y ago
Actually, the Google result is not incorrect. In radiology, an X-ray of a patient with ankylosing spondylitis is said to display the "bamboo sign", a real medical term describing the appearance of the backbones. Google is showing