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by nscalf 7y ago
The real issue is that nutrition science is bad and everyone has a book. Maybe 1 in 20 studies don't have obvious confounding factors that cause us to have no real base facts, but we can find a lot of correlation. Unfortunately, this
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Wow, I'm surprised I hadn't found this before. I was looking for something exactly like this at some point in the past 6 months and didn't find much, so thanks for sharing this!
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From what I can tell, this is largely because the testing is not in place in most parts of the world where this virus is likely spreading. Also, we largely do not have the capacity to test people, even if we had the infrastructure in place
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by nscalf 7y ago
The biggest impact Robinhood has had is pushing other brokers to go to zero commission models. I joined before that happened, but I will be moving my trading portfolio elsewhere.
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by nscalf 7y ago
One of the biggest lessons here is not to use tech-forward brokers. I see a lot of people talking about how swapping from robinhood to webull is ridiculous, and I honestly agree. I'm personally thinking of going TD or thinkorswim.
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by nscalf 7y ago
I'm on the tail end of backpacking around Europe. This isn't just Finland, it's the entirety of Europe + UK. I was the only one with a chip, explaining to everyone that the US largely doesn't have touch to pay cards.
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by nscalf 7y ago
He's massively decreased the up front cost to doing anything-space by spending billions in R&D.
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Because there are positive externalities to a company choosing to do that in your city. If a big corporation chooses to place a HQ in your city, you get an influx of people into the housing market, of consumers into your service industry,
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What's the format of this going to look like? If it's closer to open sourced, I'm sure some people would spend a weekend getting it up and running in their area if the infrastructure is built.
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You should try out the brave browser. Using it on my laptop, I actually thought this was a fine site until I saw the comments, that's how effective it is at blocking some of these anti-consumer patterns.
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by nscalf 7y ago
If you're unhappy with your superiors, time to jump ship. It doesn't matter if that's because of your team lead or your manager, they have the leverage over you. Nothing you can do about it.
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by nscalf 7y ago
For me, it’s not knowing how far off the beginning is from an actionable amount of knowledge. Robotics is interesting, drones seem cool, neurology is fascinating, I’d love to get into biotech, etc. but do I have 3 years of self study before
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by nscalf 7y ago
If we work hard to get more than 2 candidates from that 10%, aren't we being very biased against the 90% though? I think I'm missing some step in this logic where we should be acting in a highly biased way to get equality. If 90
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by nscalf 7y ago
> Without recognizing that, railing about "equal outcomes" is no more than a dogwhistle. This is entirely untrue. There is a push to make sure everyone is hired at the same rates in the same fields, regardless of the ratio of
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by nscalf 7y ago
No one reasonably hires without deciding what traits are important for a role. Building a whole new division? You probably want someone with experience in the field, preferably building divisions. Working on maintaining legacy code in a
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by nscalf 7y ago
First off, there is this stupid narrative going around where people of certain groups cannot have opinions on topics involved people of other groups. This is utter nonsense. Everyone is entitled to any opinion they have, and they can talk
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by nscalf 7y ago
You could measure that. As far as I can tell, this whole movement of gender and sexual diversity being a key indicator of success in a workplace is entirely devoid of evidence. When did we stop caring about who was good at their job? It
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by nscalf 7y ago
Ahh that's really interesting, thanks for sharing!
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I'm not sure what you're referring to by "easy pool of candidates". If you post a job listing online and people apply, is that an easy pool? In that situation, is it the responsibility of the company to find more peopl
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Has there been any studies to determine that a diverse board is actually valuable? I'm genuinely asking, because I subscribe to the "get the best people for the job" theory of doing things. I find it to be racist/sexis
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by nscalf 7y ago
It sounds like you fall into the tail of medical diagnosis. Doctors are incredible good at traumatic response, that's where they're at their best. They're not so great at chronic illness. They're terrible at preventio
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by nscalf 7y ago
From my experience with adwords/fb ads, this is not normal. The reason the cost is so high is because they're targeting ads to things like "bass" instead of "learn bass from scratch" in Sacramento, CA. The mo
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by nscalf 7y ago
> Most of the high-value problems have been dealt with. I could not disagree with this more. Most of the underlying problems have been solved, now we don't have to worry about buying and setting up machines to run our servers, or m
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by nscalf 7y ago
I guess that's fair. Generally when a company acts, you can identify an upside for them. If you can't find any upside, then it may be a less obvious upside, PR being the most general category. To point to a company as a collecti
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My concern with promoting that situation is the game theory of it. You hold people who are not aligned with what you're actually supporting in esteem as though they were. Being aligned on one issue due to convenience is different tha
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by nscalf 7y ago
Should I be satisfied if you're doing the right thing for the wrong reasons? I'm always unsure about this. If a politician is making all the right noises, but clearly doesn't care about the topic, should I be satisfied? I
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by nscalf 7y ago
It is beyond me how Disney is allow to buy up a monopoly of content creation, then allowed to pull content from other platforms to compete with them. It’s been a long time since I reviewed anti-trust laws and cases, but I think they control
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by nscalf 7y ago
I was fascinated with this when I first read about it, but I found this trick has a big downside to it: I couldn't get OUT of work mode. Sure, it let's you pick up immediately, but I found the reason was that I never put it down
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by nscalf 7y ago
While I tend to agree, I'm the type to have ~3 projects going at a time. I'm pretty young, but I can see myself spinning up a few projects a year. Each project needs a sql database, hosted by google for a few bucks a year, a ser
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by nscalf 7y ago
Yeah, he was awful. I also thought it was interesting he left in the bit about not knowing the persons pronouns. It was entirely unrelated to the conversation or topic, and I assume he did it to paint the scientist in a certain light to cer

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