jleyank

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by jleyank 1y ago
Yup. If you think treating everybody the same way is “political” then I think I know how you roll politically. Or at least ethically.
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by jleyank 1y ago
They’re consumption taxes that increase the cost of goods. Perhaps training consumers to consume less isn’t the optimum strategy in a consumer economy. And along with the current difficulty shipping to the us, they’re training foreign comp
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by jleyank 1y ago
To extend. Treat everybody fairly and equally. Don’t be an asshole.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Probably try to separate self-worth from work in general. Work is what you do, not what you are. If you don't learn this before you age or leave the marketplace, you'll have no "self" to hold on to. And there's a
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by jleyank 1y ago
If you want new disease treatments and cures, you need to fund applied science (using the aforementioned definitions). Follow-on compounds can almost be engineered, but finding novel targets and coming up with candidates is a research prob
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by jleyank 1y ago
If you're 13 or so, develop some idea as to how programs are put together, and what might be involved in debugging them. These skills will be applicable to anything you end up doing. If you have a secondary, non-programming interest,
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by jleyank 1y ago
All levers of the government, as I understand it, are controlled by the President's party. This would seem to suggest that the normal mechanism of passing laws and budgets would be straightforward, eliminating the need to rule by decr
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by jleyank 1y ago
Free countries are not ruled by decree.
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by jleyank 1y ago
sigh The US government, at the moment, seems powerless and is being dismembered. It's been replaced by an imperial system that echoes what got the whole thing started.
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by jleyank 1y ago
"money doesn't talk, it swears" - B Dylan. The goals and desires of money != the goals and desires of workers. Yeah, there's overlap but on the whole there's little to no agreement. Although money accepts all of t
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by jleyank 1y ago
Like the early hackers, he made things . In Flower's case, he made things than enabled hackers (eventually). While theory is important and interesting, actually making sh*t that works moves things forward. Yeah, he also helped short
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by jleyank 1y ago
Both, I think, can be true. People don't want a closet. Housing anywhere the job nexus is seems to be expensive. (Stupid) regulations seem to be a thing. What is desired might not be possible in the desired areas. I worry it'
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by jleyank 1y ago
That’s my point. People want affordable. The market tends to deliver (blindingly) expensive. It might not be possible to build something affordable in popular areas - there is a minimum cost of construction. This is somewhat constant me
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by jleyank 1y ago
Given the unmet need for anything to treat dementia, anything that really has a positive effect is basically like printing money. It would not be hidden, it would be out there until the patents ran out. And the amyloid situation is a word
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by jleyank 1y ago
I grew up in a 1200 sq ft house with 3 br, one bath and a 1-car garage. Built in 1940. Typical small home for a middle class ish family (us). Now, they’d want a 2200+ sq ft home with 3+ baths, a 2-car garage and parking pad. And people are
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by jleyank 1y ago
Single people without significant real-world constraints are capable of quite amazing acts of pique, or idealism, or altruism. And in today's connected world, criticism and support can be gained almost instantly. To some (significant
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by jleyank 1y ago
From where I've lived over the decades, a "real chemist" is somebody who gets their hands wet: natural product, synthetic, process or medicinal chemist trying to make white powders vs. brown oils. A computational chemist is
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by jleyank 1y ago
This is a problem that will face any large-ish country. It's not so impossible to imagine Denmark doing ok without letter delivery. Not so much Canada or the US or Australia. Same as internet - the last (few) miles into the nowhere
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by jleyank 1y ago
Sauce goose gander.
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by jleyank 1y ago
One could argue that it wasn’t the internet that was the ultimate catalyst, it was the cpu performance. There were various networks in place before the internet (really the World Wide Web) appeared. But the iron was too slow to do what’s d
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by jleyank 1y ago
That ceo is saying his product will become irrelevant? Odd behaviour for a profit making activity. And the ai’s won’t buy anything which will kill the consumer economy without something like ubi.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Billionaires ain’t your buddy and they don’t have your interests at heart. But they’ll take your vote and do what they want.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Not surprising as hearing aids are (usually?) considered medical devices and billed accordingly. Hard to get widespread acceptance if they’re several times more expensive than glasses, and seen as somewhat optional for public insurance. I
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by jleyank 1y ago
Most of the last 20 years in the uk have been “her descendants” and the anti-Europe crowd. You have to spread the money around if you want to have a consumer economy.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Spotting the hallucinations, writing the scripts, making the referrals, etc. Judging from the ai at the top of Google search, ai don’t know what it’s talking about a lot. Lots of does/doesn’t flips.
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by jleyank 1y ago
They can just print the money independent of tariff income. It’s what they do with tax breaks after all. Things are peachy-keen until people and countries stop buying their debt.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Unfortunately for the wealthy, they basically have all the money. So if governments want or need more, there’s few alternatives. It’s not that it’s fair or not, but taxing people without money accomplishes little I guess governments can t
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by jleyank 1y ago
It better happen after the current administration, otherwise the west coast states will have to start gofundme pages to rebuild…
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by jleyank 1y ago
The food is French, the animal is Anglo Saxon. At least English lacks compound words or whatever German calls those 30-character constructions.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Which, of course, does not help things like polish polish (made in Warsaw) and to produce produce (pull apples out of a bag). However you look at it, when they set up English words and spelling there was large quantities of alcohol involve

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