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fjjrxcbdhx
10y ago
Why not more female sanitation workers or more male elementary school teachers? What makes the gender demographics of building websites so much more important than all these other imbalanced fields?
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10y ago
You be smug as much as you like, but there's a reason why they say medical school is mostly memorization.
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fjjrxcbdhx
10y ago
It's a very different kind of knowledge retrieval, i.e. knowledge about something as opposed how to do something. Your example doesn't really fit.
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10y ago
Well that sure is substantive.
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10y ago
The reality about breakeven with loans doesn't change their expectation of money and social status. Also the current generation of doctors received their education when costs were much lower and becoming doctor had better financial in
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10y ago
I don't even work in software, but it just makes sense considering most of what they do is looking up factoids in a textbook. They frequently misdiagnose or let things slip by because there's just no way for humans to memorize th
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10y ago
Coming from a family of medical doctors, medicine stands to gain a lot in terms of quality of service by increasingly automating doctors out of the loop. These people (my family members and relatives included) typically go into the profess
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10y ago
If even politicians at the highest levels of government are doing it, let alone hate groups inside Israel, it doesn't help the case of Israeli objectivity.
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10y ago
Citation needed. Over the last couple decades processed foodstuffs have been constant in price, but the portions have decreased to cut costs. You can play Russian dolls with old cereal boxes, fitting the newer ones inside the old ones.
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10y ago
Because they have far greater leverage over labor markets than they do over the market for their product. You don't have to raise prices in a fickle consumer market when you can just make your profits off the much less elastic labor m
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10y ago
An unbalanced young-old demographic ratio is indicative of worsening economic conditions for average people. Looking at Japan, they have a population crisis because there's no time to start a family when you have lots of mandatory unp
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10y ago
Regardless, that's not going to help an economy whose primary problem is a consumer base who can no longer afford to purchase goods in sufficient numbers.
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10y ago
This assumption that everything will be cheaper seems a bit disingenuous, because why would these companies want to automate themselves so badly if they weren't going to keep most of the savings as profit? Even if prices were lowered b
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10y ago
It's an empty statement because as long as anyone is employed, there will still be "enough jobs for people who work hard." It doesn't matter if there's 99.999% unemployment, since working hard by your definition is
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10y ago
>There's jobs for people who work hard. So let's think this tautology through. It's difficult to get a job -> person is not able to get employment -> person becomes unemployed -> only lazy people are unemployed -