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by lsc 9y ago
>It's not clear to me why sugar from an apple is better than sugar from soda. Can you explain or link to a source? The obvious difference is that I can only eat so many apples; I've gotta eat three apples to get as much sugar
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by lsc 9y ago
You used 'vitamin D3 levels' and 'just use common sense' in the same post. You have no way of knowing if vitamin D3 makes any difference at all without delving into scientific literature and statistics.
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by lsc 9y ago
There may be some accountability when it comes to what you say about yourself, but there doesn't seem to be much accountability when it comes to untrue things said about your opponent anymore, though I think it's still traditional
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by lsc 9y ago
>By some accounts the Russian fb spend was under $100k If true, that would indicate that these ads are dramatically under priced. If it was simply a matter of spending money on facebook, things will balance next election, as the price
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by lsc 9y ago
>Making it cheaper = better access = better health outcomes. How do we know? Every other industrialized nation does it better than we do for cheaper. My understanding was that the nations that have better outcomes for the poor tax people
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by lsc 9y ago
One explanation of the difference in outcomes, especially your "Number of deaths per 100,000 from preventable diseases or complications had adequate healthcare been available, in 2013" statistic has mostly to do with accessibilit
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by lsc 9y ago
The thing I keep wanting to bring up: >Higher prices aren’t all bad for consumers. They probably lead to some increased innovation, which confers benefits to patients globally. Though it’s reasonable to push back on high health care pric
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by lsc 9y ago
the idea being that if you are accepted, you can get a loan to go to school. A loan that you can't discharge in bankruptcy. A loan that can cause problems later on, if you can't get a job in a high paying field. Or, at least, I
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by lsc 9y ago
Sure, having a degree from a prestigious US school is a big advantage both here and in China. OPs point, I think, was that when it comes time to cash in that advantage, you will probably get more dollar-equivelents for it here than you wo
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by lsc 9y ago
It is possible that what we are seeing is just what you suggest, that people are fighting back and trying to fix (as they see it) society. Perhaps this is what participatory democracy looks like when the publishing tools are all very acces
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by lsc 9y ago
> To add to your point, a fair amount of homeless people have mental illness, so no amount of job will help them if we don't care to their mental health. Mental illness isn't always a 100% sort of thing. Most people I know have
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by lsc 9y ago
Eh, if jobs are going away, we need more jobs more than we need matchmaking for existing jobs. I can tell you from personal experience that there is a huge difference between working when there are more jobs than qualified workers and wor
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by lsc 9y ago
>But the culture of increasing hardware requirements beyond the reasonable point of not-that-old phones coupled with the opacity surrounding what is done to support them is systemic (and not Apple-specific of course). My recollection is
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by lsc 9y ago
Historically, sure. But today? I can usually get from mountain view to san jose for the price of a drink; I think we have Softbank's continued investment to thank for that. Our transit is (probably temporarily) quite cheap, while
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by lsc 9y ago
compare this to your average retail job, where not only do you get zero paid vacation, and you get your schedule, if you are lucky, a week ahead. As far as I can tell, this holds in the middle, too; I do okay, but I don't get paid lik
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by lsc 9y ago
>Maybe it's like a tech company with a known datacenter footprint and standard load pattern, so normal operations can be done in-house cheaper then in the cloud, but twice a year they have to do 200% traffic and just bite the bullet
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by lsc 9y ago
"Hire easily, fire easily" is another strategy, it's true! but not one used by most places I've worked. It is a slower strategy when sorting through a pool of mostly not good enough candidates, and often makes emplo
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by lsc 9y ago
My impression is that it's the other way around; working in the computer industry carries a higher pay premium (vs. working in some other field) in Silicon Valley than it does anywhere else. So while a chef might be better off in L
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by lsc 9y ago
Yes, time spent working is exactly what I meant.
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by lsc 9y ago
so, there's what, 11 standard paid holidays, so 30 days off would be 'four weeks of vacation' - The set of people who make more than a million dollars a year who can't negotiate four weeks of vacation... I think is
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by lsc 9y ago
I think I said that it's turning down a bunch of people who are unwilling to practice. And yes, turning down people who are unwilling to spend a week practicing is a cost... it could be a very big cost if someone else has a intake filt
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by lsc 9y ago
>You'd expect someone with low income to have trouble finding housing... that's a problem, but the situation makes sense. When someone struggles to find housing while making multiples of middle income, something is deeply fucke
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by lsc 9y ago
>Not really. Beware you can be easily replaced in your new company without any compensation. Risk is often not accounted for. My perception is that the sort of people who stick around too long have a much harder time getting their next g
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by lsc 9y ago
People complain about the coding tests at interviews. I don't think it's as big of a deal as people say. Treat it like a social skill or any of the myriad other unrelated things you are evaluated for at an interview and spend s
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by lsc 9y ago
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/407 "Neither the deposit requirements of this subsection nor the acquisition provisions of subsection (e) are conditions of copyright protection." Which is
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by lsc 9y ago
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/text/steps/ Note, this is just to register your copyright. My understanding is that you still own the copyright if you don't register, but it's w
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by lsc 9y ago
You will have to do a lot of talking to convince me that the people with real grievances voted for deep tax cuts for the rich and deep cuts to social programs for the poor. My theory is that the average Trump voter made more than the averag
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by lsc 9y ago
>Trump talked about things people cared about in a straightforward, albeit bombastic, way. My impression was that the man rarely said the same thing twice. My theory was that he campaigned in the style that was popular before national me
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by lsc 9y ago
I suppose the proof of the pudding is in the eating... but my personal hope is that the current election was a fluke caused by things like facebook advertising being so new; The theory, of course, being that we build up immunities to certai
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by lsc 9y ago
Of course, the goal is to reduce risk of bad outcomes as much as possible.[1] I'm just saying, with the same level of effort, you could save a lot more lives by solving transportation problems than by preventing the more rare kinds of

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