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by raincom 1y ago
If you treat humans as biological machines, signaling system (hormones, endocrine system) is very important. When signaling system is messed up, your CI/CO model with self-control doesn't work at all. Signals need to be fixed.
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by raincom 1y ago
If you bracket away Trump, political dissent in US is co-opted by one of the two parties(tea-parties, for instances), or muted(Occupy Wall Street) or criminalized. In other words, political dissent doesn't lead to the emergence of new
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by raincom 1y ago
How do glp-1 drugs such as semaglutide, terzepatid and retatrutide impact apoptose? "Tirzepatide promotes M1-type macrophage apoptosis and reduces inflammatory factor secretion by inhibiting ERK phosphorylation" [1] [1] https:&#x
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by raincom 1y ago
Fry's brothers made a biggest mistake of not taking the company public during the dot com bubble era. Had they taken these stores public, they would have diversified their investments.
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by raincom 1y ago
Insurers have another weapon: Insurer's preferred telehealth provider is the only one who can process PA(prior authorization). If your PCP prescribes an expensive prescription, PBM(say, optum Rx, owned by UHC) will tell ur pharmacy to
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by raincom 1y ago
A lot of these jobs require clearance. Who can get such clearances? People with less history. So, young college graduates, young army folks, etc. There are tons of people who just have security clearances without competence. There is a huge
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by raincom 1y ago
Deloitte, Accenture, etc, have such bad reputations as any Indian offshore company TCS, Wipro, etc. Just add more billable hours, milk and milk.
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by raincom 1y ago
Most of the demand (in terms of dollars/euros) is confined to the developed world. What happens when both US and EU want to bring back operations back to the home countries? Then these companies are left with serving less of the global
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by raincom 1y ago
Just as Pindrop's CEO says "Ivan X" is a scammer, the whole incident can be a cooked up situation to drump up Pindrop, or a set up Pindrop created just to sell their product.
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by raincom 1y ago
I worked in the retail; it is the shittiest job I ever had. I was given an abnormal schedule: two days closing, one day opening, one mid shift (and I should work either Saturday or Sunday). The churn is really high: people leave even if the
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by raincom 1y ago
Pretty simple: ask these remote hires to come to the office for the first two weeks for onboarding. That will solve a lot of problems.
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by raincom 1y ago
A combination of all three.
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by raincom 1y ago
At the company I work for, we are forbidden to ask questions based on resume, as it introduces biases. Reduction of bias means "ask same questions of every candidate".
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by raincom 1y ago
How many years it took for both Chinese and the American capitalists to come to the state, a state "[T]hat within a three block radius you can find people with deep knowledge and skillset in all areas of production."?
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by raincom 1y ago
If the USD ceases being the reserve currency, inflation goes up. Fed's neutral rate of interest 2% = the floor of inflation rate. For the third world countries, the natural interest rate = Fed's interest rate (or American inflatio
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by raincom 2y ago
If a check point is in a remote area, it is usually a checkpoint manned by forest officials: illegal logging and other stuff.
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by raincom 2y ago
This continuum hides one thing: overbidding in terms of project cost and underdelivery in terms of quality. At least in US, quality is maintained, while costing 300% more (look at any subway, rail projects). In the third world, projects are
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by raincom 2y ago
In the third world, corruption is very open from the clerk in a local revenue office to the top ministers/secretaries. There is a price for every service. In the West, it is hard to see low-level corruption (bribes for services) in off
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by raincom 2y ago
https://archive.is/JKLgw
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by raincom 2y ago
In the case of phantom pains, one can point out "where on my body, what type (hot? cold? chemical?), and how intense is the noxious stimulus?". That's the sensory-discriminative component. It is just that limb is missing. One
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by raincom 2y ago
Is it possible to have just 2 without 1? Do clinically depressed folks fall under this category of "the affective-emotional component without the sensory-discriminatory component"?
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by raincom 2y ago
Look at the major components that push up the guaranteed minimum income every year: rent/mortgage; health insurance; auto insurance; lack of public transportation; ripping off by utilities like PGE in California. The more one gets paid
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by raincom 2y ago
At least the Western countries, and some selective Asian nations, are allowed to enter US with ESTA. For the majority of the population in the world (whole continent of Africa, the continent of Asia except Japan, S. Korea, Singapore) needs
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by raincom 2y ago
How many OpenVMS systems are out there in production?
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by raincom 2y ago
Figuring out "bad management" is really a hard problem. The same problem exists in the government bureaucracies too.
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by raincom 2y ago
Yes, it is the better for the country C, if A wins the contract. However, the people who makes the decision for the country C cares about their bribes; that's what third world politicians, bureaucrats do--get fat bribes for their retir
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by raincom 2y ago
what is the population of these 46% of U.S. counties? 15% of the total US population?
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by raincom 2y ago
CBP detained Prof. Rasha Alawieh upon her return from Lebanon to the Boston Logan airport, and deported her after 36 hours of detention. Usually, CBP has broader powers at the border. So many people were deported from the US airports, despi
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by raincom 2y ago
https://archive.ph/fEWrc
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by raincom 2y ago
How can one mix these peptides with bacteriostatic water in one's garage? Any special instruments, instructions?

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