han-tyumi

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by han-tyumi 23d ago
Yes, yes, the good ol' "liberal, non-violent, and honorable" CIA of the 50s and 60s. So different from the one we have now. Is this the CIA that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran after he nationalize
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by han-tyumi 1mo ago
I would not make such a harsh judgment just because electric shocks are involved. During my master’s I took a class at the Media Lab called Human 2.0 on prostheses, orthoses, exoskeletons, and human augmentation. Unsurprisingly, all student
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by han-tyumi 2mo ago
Playbook: anti-regulation entities capture government, strip down regulators, and when disaster ensues, point to regulators' inability to prevent or address issues as an argument to further scale down the watchdog's power.
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by han-tyumi 3y ago
Reddit is a little different as their intention was to populate the platform with content in the early days [1], not to mislead investors with fake metrics. Mind you that Huffman and Ohanian did this manually, while founders today can use L
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by han-tyumi 3y ago
To give you some context, my home country is Brazil. Last time I used my private health insurance was in July 2021 and the wait time to see a top specialist was one week. However, I have been there again (without health insurance) and was a
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by han-tyumi 3y ago
Right now I live in Cambridge, MA. The wait time to see a dermatologist was 3 months when I needed one. My health plan is also Blue Cross, hired through MIT Medical.
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by han-tyumi 3y ago
Is it really? I come from a country with universal healthcare, and while public healthcare suffers from the same wait times we see in the US, private healthcare is on an entirely different league. For instance, with a good private health in