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by gtop3 3y ago
My familiarity with SK is minimal, but I am interested by part of your comment and would like to study more. What is the name of the cult you are referring to?
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by gtop3 3y ago
Productivity is an end for some organizations/people. Personal stability is an end for some people. My main goals at work are being engaged, working with smart people, tackling problems with impacts I care about, and developing deep ex
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by gtop3 3y ago
My taxes have been getting more complex every year, and after this year I no longer trust TurboTax. There was a situation where Turbotax did not recommend a tax form to me, despite me answering questions in such a way that it was clear the
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by gtop3 3y ago
It costs ~£1000 for a one hour assessment from non-MD assessors at private clinics. What do you suppose the market rate for a 3 hour assessment from an MD that leads an ADHD specialist service for NIH? It doesn't feel like a fair compa
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by gtop3 3y ago
Automation has a tendency to do both increase profits and lower costs. This is because as the price decreases the market increases. There's 500,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer a year in the world. How many of them do you think wi
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by gtop3 3y ago
If you use your phone an average of 5 hours a day for two years and then throw it in a junk drawer the hardware would cost less than 50cents per hour of use. I use my $800 iPhone about 30 minutes a day, keep it for 4 years, and spend about
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by gtop3 3y ago
This is largely the same argument for why performance enhancing drugs are banned in sports.
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by gtop3 3y ago
Even though I never had any intention of taking illegal drugs while employed, I've always turned down job offers that come with a condition of drug screening. It always seemed invasive and controlling, which is an awful way to start a
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by gtop3 3y ago
I'd look into some kind of technician work. Maybe specializing in solar panels. Something where I drive a van full of tools places and fix things.
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by gtop3 3y ago
I'm not sure if the variety is greater than what an Australian might experience, but the variety is greater than what many people outside the US think it is. * The US has 63 national parks. Some of these have cultural and historical si
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by gtop3 3y ago
In software engineering you can find jobs with 3-6 weeks of vacation a year. Even 4 weeks is long enough to spend 2 weeks abroad and have a enough time left over for a few long weekends and extra time off during the holidays.
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by gtop3 3y ago
I'm sure other western countries have costs increase during peak travel seasons and their children have limited time off school. The reason people in the US are less traveled is because you essentially have to cross an ocean to go anyw
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by gtop3 3y ago
> These are good points, but political solutions (by which I mean political changes within the system) are almost certainly never going to happen. I don't think political solutions are impossible, but if they are then our government
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by gtop3 3y ago
If you look at https://district.farm/ as was citied in the root comment, you'll see they aren't using lights or heaters. California doesn't require those. The energy usage and output of greenhouses varies sig
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by gtop3 3y ago
A University education is not the only valid signal, but it is one of the best signals that is widely accessible. Going through public K-12 and then a State University is a very paved path. There's a lot of ways to begin lowering the
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by gtop3 3y ago
Do you think U.S. Representative Staffers are not interacting with lumbering bureaucratic organizations? Being able to navigate and succeed in these organizations is a skill every organization with employees needs.
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by gtop3 3y ago
I think a college education is a great screening tool for determining levels of conscientiousness, ability to communicate, and ability to follow directions. All great things. My worst interactions with police officers all involved individ
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by gtop3 3y ago
I'm not a part of this startup, but here's a few potential moats. * Prompt Engineering. Give someone a blank textbox and have them type in a simple query (Brown vs Board of Education || Motion to Dismiss), and detect the correct
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by gtop3 3y ago
If I was looking for a manufacturing job with great benefits and fair treatment from management I'd look for someplace with a labor union.
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by gtop3 3y ago
> But that's still 30 years ago so Lego has been fancy pieces and custom kits for a couple generations of kids now. You can get a 790 piece big box of Lego brand plastic building blocks on Amazon for $35. These types of collections
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by gtop3 3y ago
Questions: * Does the cheaper energy come into play with such a large onsite solar system? * (From the point of view of a manufacturing company opening operations in the us) Does the US currently have a surplus of well trained manufacturing
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by gtop3 3y ago
The debt ceiling functions primarily to give negotiation leverage to the minority party. The problem is, if the threat of not raising the ceiling is executed on then it hurts both parties. Even the possibility that the debt ceiling will n
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by gtop3 3y ago
I've reduced, not eliminated. Custom keyboard, titanium case and wooden keycaps. Plastic still in switches, wires, and pcb. Normal mouse, I've tried alternatives but nothing fits my expectation.
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by gtop3 3y ago
I am really excited by the broadband consumer label the FCC is working on [0]. I think we need to see more government enforced highly-standardized labeling of products and packaging. I'd ideally like to see such labeling be expanded t
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by gtop3 3y ago
You should be skeptical of all ideas, not just ones that comes from groups you are skeptical about. EA's point that charities that provide malaria medication and vitamin A supplementation for pour children are very cost effective ways
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by gtop3 3y ago
We're on the path for stratospheric sulfide injection to be the utilitarian choice, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Effective Altruism groups discussing it as a very cost effective way to save lives in 30 years. The primary eff
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by gtop3 3y ago
Don't buy Apple Stock instead of keeping some cash in a bank account. * If you need cash in an emergency it's possible that Apple stock will be negatively effected by the same emergency. * Anything that causes FDIC to fail will ne
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by gtop3 3y ago
> I think in future people might start to take internet way less serious when you can literally make things up. Neal Stephenson goes into this topic with some depth in his 2019 novel "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell". Through his narra
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by gtop3 3y ago
> We believe there are specific actions that the RESTRICT Act can mandate that will diminish the risks posed by Chinese apps without compromising the future of the free and open internet. > Prevent US advertisers from doing business
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by gtop3 3y ago
I think reducing the number of computers/people connected to the internet is fundamentally counterproductive to the nature of the internet -- the global computer network. Disconnecting >1b people makes the internet less internet-lik

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