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by jghn 1y ago
First thing to do is get used to a much lower salary. Mostly kidding but channeling how often I see sentiments online of people saying they want to leave tech and then balk at the salaries normal people have.
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I understand the larger point you're making but it was literally created in Rome.
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> it's terrorists coming across the border Then why are they spending so much effort deporting everyday people? This talking point is tired, it's the equivalent of "for the children!". Something that everyone can get
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Why is ICE slated to have a higher budget than the USMC if they're only removing ~40k people per month?
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It's not hard to get above 400k TC in big pharma
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I interpreted the comment as saying someone sufficiently smart would really that maximizing income isn't the optimal path in life, and instead would apply their brains towards higher pursuits. But perhaps I'm wrong.
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I mean, we could have not torn up the JPCOA for starters
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Depends on when and what you're actually getting. SNP, WES, WGS are all very different costs.
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The "U" in "UBI" is "Universal"
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I believe they bin vehicles by available seating and not by things like luggage.
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> 1) Your salary demands exceed the budgeted amount for the position I've thought about this a lot lately. This is true for the obvious reasons, but it's more true than it seems. As an older, experienced dev I sometimes flirt w
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Yes. People don't take into account the growth in the number of developers over time. When the ageism discussion started, there was a huge growth in the developer market, which meant that a disproportionate number of devs were on the y
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> It seems to be a universal truth that getting a CT/MRI comes with a long wait time It 100% depends on your situation. I've had two clinical MRIs done in my life. One was same day. One was scheduled out a few days.
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That is overly reductive. Treatments are measured by metrics such as 5 year survival, 10 year survival, progression-free survival, overall survival, etc. Further, when evaluating a new treatment it will be compared against the current stand
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The thing to look at is the shift of life expectancy at an older age, e.g. 65, and how that shifts over time. For instance: the UN has a dataset [1] demonstrating an improvement from roughly 12 years to roughly 16 years (i.e. total age 77 t
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While earlier detection has been beneficial, there's such a thing as too much. Really, there's balance to be struck. For instance the detection procedures themselves (even things like non-invasive imaging) aren't risk free th
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Yes and no. The largest advances in life expectancy were in solving child mortality issues. In other words, when you hear things like "2000 years ago, the life expectancy was 25 years old", those averages are highly skewed by the
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Actual learned people did? Or regular Joe politicians? I can open a newspaper any day and see a medical headline that's wildly inaccurate for the reason that by the time such information waters down to the average joe, the messaging ha
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by jghn 1y ago
No vaccine is ever advertised as being 100% effective. Because no vaccine is. That's not how they work.
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Out of those incidents, what %age was due to not wearing a mask vs the person in question acting out of control when asked to follow whatever rules were in place?
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Safety and efficacy are not tested in the same manner
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The problem is that the average person bot agrees that only the worst of the worst should go, but also believes that there are far, far, far more of such people out there than actually exist. This is why we see poll metrics saying things li
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by jghn 1y ago
This just demonstrates how far the Overton window has shifted in US discourse if one views HN a hive of "vocal majority of liberals and progressives"
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They did say HN is center-right.
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For the original on my PC, I remember finding the sword fighting minigame hard to control. Unless I used a cutlass: the issue I had was in the fine grained control. So I built my sword fighting style around the coarser, heavier damage of th
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> maybe maybe chefs staging [1] is very much a thing for kitchen staff [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staging_(cooking)
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To be clear, your claim is that COVID vaccines did not reduce likelihood of infection? It's not clear exactly what point you're trying to make here. Were they completely ineffective? Not effective enough for your tastes? If the la
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Vaccines are designed to reduce likelihood of contracting disease and/or reduce the effects of disease if contracted. The COVID vaccines did both of these things Vaccines are never perfect barriers. It's better to think in terms o
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> First they were supposed to prevent COVID This was never the case. That's not how vaccines work. > There were tons of surprise side effects especially relating to women’s periods getting screwed up. citation from an actual heal
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by jghn 1y ago
How exactly were they "sloppy"?

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