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by mhneu 10y ago
It's already mostly the other way around. If you have cancer and can afford it you come to the US for surgery and chemo consults because the best treatment is here. That's partially because of the money made in US by drug and devi
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The ranking member of US Senate intelligence committee said "1000 paid Russian trolls are spreading disinformation on US social media" And recently said >Be careful what you read on the internet because paid trolls are influenc
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Ok, now this is just being obtuse. Parent post said single payer encourages checkups. You said "but there are still people that don't get checkups in Denmark". Those two points are completely orthogonal. Single payer encoura
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Right. So you're saying the French single payer system works, with political modification as needed over time. The issue that might make single payer difficult in America is we don't trust our political system to manage good prog
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That article is from 2013 and predicts crisis in as little as 3 years. It's 2017. Be careful with articles about single payer healthcare systems in the US. Most similar countries to the US have functional single payer plans. It&#x27
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Python's data infrastructure has a huge problem: serialization and thus saving data results. A good serialization library should serialize: - classes/objects (best practice: objects for holding data) - pandas/numpy obje
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In terms of Palantir's activities and impact on society: Palantir is selling out to authoritarians. Not a company we should be very proud of. http://www.ibtimes.com/trump-adviser-peter-thiels-palantir-t... Trump Advis
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There was widespread voter suppression (the NC GOP bragged about it). Also the right wing media (radio, Fox News, Breitbart) lies blatantly. And the GOP donor class (the rich and corporations) have generously funded promoting their agenda
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Right. This disinformation campaign gathered steam in the 1970s. The Powell Memorandum is a decent marker of the beginning of this modern corporate political movement. Here's a place to start reading. https://www.theatlan
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I find the opposite effect - liberals have thought much more deeply about their views, and conservatives often just parrot shallow talking points. For example, a group of my progressive acquaintances has been debating in depth on the New Yo
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the no.1 reason why people seem to want to move to suburbs is children (IMO, anecdotal etc.) I don't think it's anecdotal. In nearly every city in the US the urban schools are bad and there are much better suburban schools. It&
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if a line of ten cars are stopped at a light at least three people are on their phones. As a cyclist, I often check who is on their phone when I pull up to a light. My guess would be even higher - 50-75% of drivers are on their phones wh
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Anecdotally, when I lived in an urban condo, half the building was empty-nesters -- couples who raised their kids in the suburbs then moved back to walkable smaller city apartments after the kids left the nest. The problem demographic is co
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Strong Towns has written extensively on this. Their conclusion is that our infrastructure is not affordable because too many roads are built to non-dense areas that do not have the tax base to support them. Federal highway dollars get drop
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No, this is not true. We now have data showing that the left tends to read both mainstream and left sources. While the right tends to live in their own little Fox-Breitbart bubble. This means that the right gets news from extremely biased
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There is now some data showing one way CNN is biased --Breitbart and Fox News seed the media environment with disinformation, and eventually mainstream outlets pick up that disinformation. (Torture is a good example - the right really want
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You are being misleading. Hillary has been investigated nonstop for twenty years, and their are entire nonprofits (Judiciary Watch) funded by the right to dig up dirt on her and her family. So instead I think the opposite is true- the fact
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It's easy. This administration and the current GOP are beholden to the very rich and to corporations. Energy companies have made a business decision to use marketing and PR to deny climate change. Denying climate change protects ener
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But close the loop - the reason US Americans don't believe in climate change is because energy companies have paid politicians and fringe scientists to deny climate change. Why do energy companies care? Because climate change mitigat
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The issue (in the US) is how many people read those Pulitzer winning stories vs. watched Fox News and other sources that are driven by the Murdoch/Ailes/Koch agenda. Sadly, a lot of people in the US watch Fox News and think it is
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Absolutely not. Chomsky talks about the agendas that motivate the media. That is a huge difference from demagoguery about "enemies of the people". The best way we can fight lies in the media is by educating Americans about how to
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One other key takeaway from the comments on Kevin's blog: "Hi John, I share some of your disappointment in the outcome [ed: Dropbox switching hot Python paths to Go], but at the end of the day I’m an engineer because I want to ma
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They can't support C extensions, which are basically required for any real world Python. Pyjion is a Microsoft CoreCLR JIT that can support C extensions. That's Python's next great hope for speedup via JIT.
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It's hard for me to believe that it's easier (and not only more comfortable for the engineers) to start pyston rather then rewrite their backend in go or whatever. You are correct, it is easier to rewrite in Go. That's wha
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"the [speed] difficulties come from Python's extremely rich object model, not from anything about its dynamic scopes or dynamic types. The problem is that every operation in Python will typically have multiple points at which the
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Key takeaway: "the [speed] difficulties come from Python's extremely rich object model, not from anything about its dynamic scopes or dynamic types. The problem is that every operation in Python will typically have multiple poin
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This brief is interesting because of the MIT president's personal engagement. Rafael Reif is a Venezuelan immigrant who has been moved to speak out against an immigration ban . Reif understands the immigration issues well as a Jew w
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No, that's not right. MIT takes few foreign undergrads, and the graduate students are almost all paid for by grants. It is actually harder for MIT to find funding for foreign than domestic grad students. The The principal issues are
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Having a college named after you is much more likely to cause people to assume you were a great person unless they perform more detailed research. This is the reason Charles Koch spent $10M to name George Mason's law school after a r
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Yes. K-selection vs. N-selection is what you're talking about in evolutionary biology. Few offspring, high resources invested vs many offspring, lower resources invested per child. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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