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by nylonstrung 10y ago
This is research that directly pertains to the fusion in the sun.
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
I cannot see why a PhD developing one of the most ambitious and complex video games in history for $20K a year is objectionable to you.
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
At a company as large as Uber could someone working on database scalability be involved in calls about whether or not payment should be withheld from drivers before a ride ends? Would her manager be the decision maker for that? That detail
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
Watch it be something far less exciting than the vagueness would lead one to believe. Like when they promised "a discovery about extraterrestrial life" that turned out to be arsenic-based life in a pond which turned out to not act
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
Make sure you get an apnea test that is sensitive to UARS, a hard to detect form of minor apnea that is massively underdiagnosed.
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
Look at how the proceeds of the big tech exits get distributed and you see that even the people building the automation itself barely benefit, save for VCs and management
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
>We have comforts and luxuries that were hardly conceivable 60 years ago, and they're well distributed The avg amount of hours worked has also gone up considerably in that time, as has the level of education and human capital. If yo
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
Also lives where the majority of us are obligated to be stationless indoors in front of screens 9 hours per day. There's an unequivocal improvement in certain metrics. It doesn't mean there aren't other serious issues often
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
In addition to the aforementioned less lethal use case, paintball guns are also a training tool for police forces
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
There's no doubt that the school I went wins over students and their 70K/year with a reputation of being a 'party school'. And there's no doubt that it could not have this reputation with more lenient policing than
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
I'd downvote this if I could
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
It's going to be one of the last jobs to be automated because it has a massive amount of client facing/relationship work and despite your disdain for it, the fact is that it is more complex and demanding than the vast majority of
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
The comp is standard across the industry with extremely limited room for negotiation. It isn't a function of them being 'savvy'.
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
For one, they routinely work 80+ hours a week and are on call constantly. Almost every day of their job is managing extremely time sensitive transactions that are often the most important single event in the lifecycle of any given company.
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
Then explain why we've seen almost no automation of the workflow of investment bankers of the last 15 years even though it is a massive payroll expense in banks that are aggressively cutting headcount and automating back office functio
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
The 2 founders literally have no agricultural expertise. One's last job was at a no-name business school accelerator and another worked in an administrative role in the non-profit world. There is a conspicuous absence of any kind of ag
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
He actually wrote about his experiences with MAOIs in an early short story in a college journal. This was in the early 80s, well before Prozac and SSRIs made it to market. https://quomodocumque.files.wordpress.com/2008/
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
Do you think Silicon Valley had a shortage of Asians in 2000? The thought process behind what you said is correct but not in light of the fact that Asians have been one of the most educated groups in the country for over 20s years. There st
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
Likewise even in finance there is serious overrepresentation at the junior levels (and overwhelming overrepresentation in terms of applicants) yet the same near total absence of Asian leadership
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
>Did anyone go to Asian companies and see that all their executives are all feminine, un-charismatic, pushovers? Racist stereotypes don't have to be logical. >Are we to believe that they are all also all "feminine, un-charis
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
2 of those examples are Indians, and the same corpus of research has shown that they face differing sets of stereotypes. There's no way of denying that there is a pronounced dearth of East Asian leadership in tech relative to the subst
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
Antidepressants are a 15B market globally. That definitely seems like "making bank" to me, specifically considering it is a pretty consolidated space where that value is being shared by a relatively small number of players. They c
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
>Because how are pharmaceutical companies going to make billions from selling $0.10 of chemicals? How much do you think the raw inputs for Cialis are? Gross margins at the aggregate level are around 80% for this stuff. If they are practi
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
Plus I'm guessing they were banking almost all of the revenue from those 5 years as well
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
Coincidentally designed by the lead designer of Civ 4
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
It is becoming increasingly obvious that androgen deprivation has massive neurological effects. I seriously think there should be some inquiry into whether it is a driver for the epidemic of post-transition MTF trans suicides
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by nylonstrung 10y ago
I've experienced the same response from doctors regarding an abnormal reaction to the drug finasteride, and it is extremely difficult to manage emotionally. They have never seen the problems I had yet have seen many people they alleged