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by jmcgough 4y ago
These aircrafts are going to be flying for 30 years, continuing to add to emissions. We have a lot of passenger planes from the 1980s. Producing as many as we possibly can right now is a step in the wrong direction.
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coded email targeting for people with financial problems / poor credit and offered them sketchy credit repair deals or cash advance loans with rates that were essentially usury
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Probably assumed it was somatoform
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Everyone takes the same premed courses though, and you need to be able to teach yourself any MCAT content that wasn't covered by coursework. Sure people will game it, but it's your science GPA that counts, and having people from a
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by jmcgough 4y ago
It depends a lot on the specialty. Obgyn is particularly hellish. But yeah, there's a good reason why suicide rates are so high for doctors...
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by jmcgough 4y ago
It's easy to take a philosophical stance on this, but this represents many peoples' life savings. There are countless lives that have been irreparably harmed by crypto scams, which has a net negative effect on our society.
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by jmcgough 4y ago
> As I grow older, I am more convinced that psychiatry is more of an art than a science. There's a bit of an educated guessing component to it, but mental health professionals are starting to use genetic testing to take some of the
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by jmcgough 4y ago
They did find some victims - they told a cisgender woman that she had prostate cancer, despite not having a prostate. Think there were some other pregnancy and miscarriage scares. But I have to wonder how often Quest screws up there tests,
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AI-based playthrough of Final Fantasy X(github.com)
2 points by jmcgough 4y ago|1 comments
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by jmcgough 4y ago
This is being run at RPG Limit Break right now (as of 4:35PM PST) and is fascinating to watch while the devs discuss what it's doing. https://www.twitch.tv/rpglimitbreak
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by jmcgough 4y ago
FDA approvals aren't based on absolute safety, they're based on a risk/reward analysis.
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by jmcgough 4y ago
I picked up dvorak over summer vacation in high school because I was having bad wrist pain. My high school wouldn't let me use dvorak, so I painfully had to re-rewire my brain for qwerty in our high school labs. I quickly realized that
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by jmcgough 4y ago
A lot of these laws are being pushed by religious-affiliated anti-porn groups that rebranded as anti-sex trafficking because it's more effective for them to make that argument.
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by jmcgough 4y ago
Reading DDIA right now and I second this - the best technical book I've read, still holds up well after five years.
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My company has a lot of people based out of Philadelphia, so this immediately came to mind.
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This is like asking people if they've properly guarded against a malicious AI before making hobbyist computers. > Will the output of your product prevent the cells from procreating/multiplying? Why would this matter? We have im
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by jmcgough 4y ago
I'm learning Vue for work and getting bad flashbacks to Angular 1. Just hoping it doesn't come with some of the terrible flaws in that framework.
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by jmcgough 4y ago
Friend of a friend knew them IRL, and was extremely upset with me for thinking they might be faking their own death. Near is likely dead as much as we don't want to believe it.
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by jmcgough 4y ago
No - with Twitter there's some accountability; they respond to police requests and frequently ban abusive users. There was nothing people could do about the vile harassment campaigns on KF (a site that grew organically from harassing a
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by jmcgough 4y ago
Nobody is arguing that any one group should have blanket free speech protections. There are definitely trans people who turn to harassment and threats to try to protect their community, which isn't okay. But at least three trans/g
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by jmcgough 4y ago
Why does this read like it was written by an incel?
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by jmcgough 4y ago
Alternatively, give more money to the NSF. It's a tiny sliver of our federal budget and is a much more effective use of money than a lot of other short-term solutions we fund.
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by jmcgough 4y ago
Someone I know hired an experienced programmer from Indian who interviewed well. When his first day started, he seemed extremely junior - needed basic things explained to him like command line usage. One of the people who interviewed him sa
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by jmcgough 4y ago
it's nothing but chromium all the way down ;)
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It's become so hard to do in modern life - I just keep data turned off and turn it on for brief moments when I need it (lyft, maps, latch).
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Losing sleep in adolescence makes mice less outgoing as adults(scopeblog.stanford.edu)
24 points by jmcgough 4y ago|1 comments
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Canada has a 90-day assessment/waiting period for those whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. They won't euthanize you unless you seem capable of making the decision and have thought through it for an extended length of tim
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by jmcgough 4y ago
I used to work somewhere with three standups every day. I'd lose and hour and a half every morning for updates that often didn't involve me or could have been async.
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Same - it's not really functional as much as that it keeps the end from being annoying. The alternative is doing a yosemite finish, which a number of my friends prefer.
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I think it's a sign of maturity as an engineer to realize that your favorite language might not be appropriate for a particular business problem.

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