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by fwungy 3y ago
The average woman would prefer to be a professor making $100k over a SWE making twice as much. Women value social prestige more highly than men, which is well understood in psychology.
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by fwungy 3y ago
The problem of DEI is that it creates an environment of what psychologists refer to as 'Secondary Gain' Secondary Gain In psychoanalytic theory, the advantage derived from a neurosis in addition to the primary gain of relief from
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by fwungy 3y ago
Here's the problem: you can't change the hiring rules for more equity unless it applies to everyone equally. Otherwise you're just trading one arbitrary class for another. You need to basically destroy seniority and job prote
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by fwungy 3y ago
Aztek: when the disaster you can't look away from is the thing itself.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Invest in next gen nuclear -> cheap electricity -> improves the economics of electric power -> market forces drive electric transitions instead of policy dictates.
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by fwungy 3y ago
It's not that I don't believe but rather I don't see how the proposed solutions address serious economic and international relations problems that need to be solved. The first is how to compensate oil producers for lost wealt
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by fwungy 3y ago
The code I get from LLMs is only as good as StackOverflow and will often send you in the wrong direction if you don't know what it's doing. The part of programming LLMs solve is the easiest part.
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by fwungy 3y ago
They need to incorporate a large, heavy battery that needs to sit at the bottom of the vehicle for stability. That means a large footprint to keep a low roofline, or a high roofline for a smaller footprint. All EVs must work battery and ran
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by fwungy 3y ago
If you're a person of color, better yet a woman, you can hire yourself out to front a company. That puts the company at the front of the line for government contracts, as well as contracts funded by government money indirectly. You get
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by fwungy 3y ago
I don't know if you've written a dissertation, but I have. The Crimson examples are flagrant. If she was a nobody humanities prof at a little liberal arts college nobody would care, but she's at the top role of banner institu
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by fwungy 3y ago
The cites are up and available. No surprise that the Harvard paper is defending her.
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by fwungy 3y ago
I'm close enough to this to know it's true, but O'Keefe has certainly hyped it. As an Asian I'm really bothered that Krishna does not recognize us as a discriminated against group.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Flagrant plagiarism on her dissertation too. How could she have gotten so far in her career with that dissertation openly available?
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by fwungy 3y ago
As if OpenAI employees would have any problem landing a new gig... Going from an agile startup environment to an F50 is a huge leap culturally. It's like going from Summer science camp to the army.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Unfortunately what we learned in the pandemic is that "science" is a thing that happens behind closed doors and is then forced down the public's throat without allowance for public discussion or dissent. Good science can stan
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by fwungy 3y ago
It's almost like something I've vaguely heard about.
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by fwungy 3y ago
PIP is part of the game. Everybody knows that it's a bad indicator of capabilities on its own. A PIP can happen for any number of reasons that have nothing to do with the employee's performance, and often does. A PIP or two won&#x
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by fwungy 3y ago
They could use steam powered catapults like on carriers.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Fuel weight for liquid fuel at start of flight: 10x Fuel weight for liquid fuel at end of flight: 3x Fuel weight for battery at start of flight: 100x Fuel weight for battery at end of flight: 100x Batteries are not a great idea for a planes
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by fwungy 3y ago
Historians of the future will have been trained in the postmodernist university system of today. The core tenet of postmodernism is that there is no objective truth, everything we see in the world is a societal/human construct. It&#x27
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by fwungy 3y ago
Battery tech has deep and extensive research behind it. It is unlikely that a revolutionary breakthrough will happen at this point. Batteries have to balance so many factors: energy density, safety, cost, reliability, recharge characteristi
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by fwungy 3y ago
It's a series of simple tasks interrupted by two week diversions.
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by fwungy 3y ago
German energy policy has made domestic heavy manufacturing uneconomic.
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EV Burns Underwater [video](youtube.com)
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by fwungy 3y ago
"It's got electrolytes"
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by fwungy 3y ago
Toyotas have a well earned reputation for running forever if you take care of them. That's why there's a premium for them, even though they often run a generation or two behind on features.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Here's some good critique of VAERS. Please note he rebuts common arguments against his analysis in the text. https://researchrebel.substack.com/p/cdc-finally-released-it...
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by fwungy 3y ago
NPR is just nice and comfortable people telling themselves comforting stories. Truth isn't the point, it's about feeling ok, like the world is in order, no matter what.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Yeah, it's the big banks competitor. For parties who are wary of dealing with the Western big banking cartel, i.e. BRICS, they're not going to like XRP.
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by fwungy 3y ago
SQL seems like a perfect candidate for AI support. > Join the tables foo and bar on bar_id and bar and baz on baz_id and select quip that begins with 'it' or ends with 'qu' but does not have numbers, for oracle, using

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