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Yep, you can still people working on it here https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/super-mario-maker
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Corporations have record profits right now. When a handful raised prices, every other company raised prices in response, well above what they needed to pay for increased costs. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/greedflatio
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> MRIs should cost 1/10th as much as we increase the throughput of machines with AI (as several people are working on) and reduce the need for expensive human labor. I work in the emergency department of a busy hospital. MRIs are pr
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Ya but people end up recording a lot more than just their property.
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> I have 100% faith in the ability of the minority to save the majority from themselves. Then why has the minority spent so much money preventing the US from addressing climate change when it would have been much easier to do so?
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I wish I'd fixed my sleep earlier, it became ten times easier to accomplish everything after I addressed my chronic insomnia. I also wish I'd left the tech industry sooner. Now that I'm in a field that's a better fit for
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Easy to say that behind a computer screen, but we're in this mess because from a game theory perspective there is no gain to be had and a huge risk to your career and/or finances by publicly naming someone. This also happened seve
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Game dev is pretty different though. There's huge internal shifts in need for headcount since everything is often tied to development of a specific game. It's pretty common to lay off employees after a game gets shipped.
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A layoff gives managers the opportunity to fire people who they've wanted to fire for a while. The firings within WotC were likely opportunistic and not about trying to change the direction or strength of the company. Doing it as part
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> Yet they managed to crank out code much faster, and with far fewer bugs Way way way less lines of code, and they were coding something to run on a single type of machine. They also made heavy use of manual testing before release, becau
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VR Chat is the ultimate VR app. Infinite number of cool things to do and people to meet, lots of nerdy hobbyists who make VR stuff out of passion.
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Pretty USA-centric. What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricoh_2A03 ?
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Nuclear power is vastly better in terms of emissions, so I'd argue that blowing up a plant or two is worth stopping global warming. But why target plants when a dirty bomb attack would be way easier and more effective? Additionally, mo
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Feel like I'm hallucinating seeing this on Hacker News at the end of a long study session. Studying for the MCAT this cycle and the theories of emotion (James-Lange, Schacter-Singer, Cannon-Bard) are frequently tested. IIRC James-Lange
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This article reads like so much clickbait. Only someone who isn't actually a SWE would think that it's "common" for tech workers to juggle multiple FT jobs, based of one or two confirmed cases.
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There are plenty of politically active sex workers, it's just that it's such a marginalized group that most politicians don't want to risk having a conversation with them.
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Google is absolutely awful at marketing. Strada was really impressive tech that let me play AAA games almost seamlessly on my old Thinkpad, and none of my friends knew what Strada was because of how it was marketed.
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> What's going to happen to your career when you were one of the 200 who held out initially? Not to mention Roko's basilisk /s
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Nah, she probably has some genetic damage already that lead up to that cancer. CT scans are 70x more radiation than X-Rays and contribute to lifetime cancer risk.
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We have made huge progress in a relatively short amount of time. Cancer has been difficult to cure for three reasons: - Cancerous cells are very similar to non-cancerous cells, and hard to target without harming the rest of the body - If on
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> The importance of cross pollinating you postdoc and grad degree is to prove the worth of your degree Regardless of the intent, it's a fairly arbitrary way to weed out candidates without actually evaluating their strength, and the
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> CT scans aren't done frivolously As someone who works in the ED, we pretty much give CTs out like candy to avoid a lawsuit if we miss something.
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Or, one corrupt party ignores illegal activity because they personally benefit from it, and the other chooses to enforce laws when they're in power.
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As someone who used to research neurogenesis in rats - there isn't great evidence that adult mammalian neurogenesis occurs in humans, so don't assume that this will translate to humans.
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> It was sparked by reference to a concept called the honne-tatemae divide, which are Japanese concepts related to the true feelings of an individual and the front they present in public Another related concept is in sociology, back stag
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> How did someone commit that and sleep at night? # TODO: stub for now until we have an actual insurance fund
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Fwiw I don't think an IRB would ever sign off on Zimbardo in 2023. Extremely poorly designed study; it's a travesty that we still see his mug while he narrates videos in Psych 101.
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What uptick? Doesn't look any worse than 2010 or 2013. It's likely within a standard deviation for the last decade or two.
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As someone who has seen elite athletes in hospitals: really solid, their heart rate is so low it'd be bradycardic in a normal person.
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There's a clear call to action - if someone is balding, offer to direct them to an educational page that explains current treatments and their advantages / disadvantages, using affiliate links. Could also partner with one of those

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