rmah

74 ms·

661.
by rmah 7y ago
China did crumble. It was conquered by the tribes the Great Wall was (possibly) meant to keep out. Then it overthrew them. Multiple times.
662.
by rmah 7y ago
And replaced it first with a authoritarian state that strived to be communist (i.e. collectivization, banning private businesses, etc.) but is now simply authoritarian. Optimal? Of course not. Are Tibetans discriminated against in their
663.
by rmah 7y ago
Well, the did CCP dismantle the Tibetan theocratic state. A state that practiced serfdom and slavery. Possibly not out of the kindness of their hearts, but results do matter.
664.
by rmah 7y ago
There are many different sorts of financial services licenses both at the organizational and individual levels: banking licenses, broker-dealer licenses, investment advisory licenses, money-transfer licenses etc. From different federal age
665.
by rmah 7y ago
It's made of titanium (though almost certainly some alloy) so they probably used a DMLS (direct metal laser sintering), SLM (selective laser melting) or DMLM (direct metal laser melting) process. All will result in fairly strong mater
666.
by rmah 7y ago
Almost half of doctors in the USA are not on salary, they are partners in their own practice.
667.
by rmah 7y ago
She should start an urgent care clinic in an underserved, but not totally economically depressed region. She will almost certainly earn multiples more than she made on salary.
668.
by rmah 7y ago
Total compensation for medical doctors can vary hugely. I suspect that the article was done using physician salaries -- that is, those employed by hospitals, clinics and private practices (i.e. the non-partners). The way physicians make
669.
by rmah 7y ago
Nothing that agentofoblivion wrote hinted at him not supporting "doing right by our children". And nothing you wrote touches on what you think should be done after the damage has been done. Prevention is all to the good and shoul
670.
by rmah 7y ago
Apple did this with MPW back in the day. I think the feature was called "commando". You would type the command name, then "..." and up pops a dialog box with all the options and popup help for what different things me
671.
by rmah 7y ago
My guess is that they got their MBA from lower tier university. One of the dirty secrets of MBA programs is that only MBA's from top tier schools (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, etc.) have significant positive value. The ones from the 2
672.
by rmah 7y ago
First off, I agree with your general message that getting an AGI is very very very hard and that we are no where close. That said, however, we do already know quite a bit about how neural nets work, both biological and artificial. One of t
673.
by rmah 7y ago
A large international bank like DeutscheBank operates in many different business areas. Basically, they can be broken down into six main areas: 1. Retail banking 2. Commercial banking 3. Investment banking 4. Investment/mone
674.
by rmah 7y ago
Funny aside, a friend of mine lives in a neighborhood with a HOA. One of the people in it kept making so much trouble (annoying others to do this or that) that they voted to kick him out of the HOA. The guy actually threatened to sue the
675.
by rmah 7y ago
Now they [those who kept competing] are occupying space more deserving people could have been. Um, how are people who give up earlier more deserving? My read (could be wrong) of what you wrote is that you may value potential/innate t
676.
by rmah 7y ago
This sort of system simply encourages the formation of feuding power blocs. And woe be to those who refuse to join one of those cliques. Finally, if you can be "voted off the island", are you really an owner? IMO, you are not.
677.
by rmah 7y ago
Prison is, by definition, non-voluntary.
678.
by rmah 7y ago
It doesn't always appear that way -- it's really a glass half full/half empty thing. If I may be so bold, you are see what you want to see. Generally speaking, public companies do not prioritize the next quarter above all e
679.
by rmah 7y ago
Hey yeah, I worked for a SaaS company (about 100 people) about 15 years ago that was paying salesforce around $500k/yr. That said, it was probably worth it.
680.
by rmah 7y ago
Wait what? Thinking meat? That's crazy talk!
681.
by rmah 7y ago
Having spent my early youth in a "developing nation", this is laughable.
682.
by rmah 7y ago
The NYC public school system is a bit special for the US. It splits its schools into three main groups... The first group are the various local public schools (i.e. PS 153), the only requirement to attend is that you live in the neighborho
683.
by rmah 7y ago
Many people would argue that the financial industry is not regulated enough. People were able to hack together exchanges for crypto-coins. The only thing that stands in the way of doing this for private stock/tiny companies is excessi
684.
by rmah 7y ago
Um... hedge funds are part of "wall street". Silly clickbait headline... sigh
685.
by rmah 7y ago
The NP did not try to do the right thing. Given the facts outlined in the article, a qualified medical professional would have sent the patient to a hospital (emergency room) regardless of the opinion of the consulting MD's who did no
686.
by rmah 7y ago
Let's run the numbers... a typical container cargo ship might be say 20,000 TEU and use apx 300 tons of fuel per day. With trans-pacific voyage of 12,000km at 20 o 24 knots (apx 40kph), we're looking at voyage times of 12.5 days
687.
by rmah 7y ago
American manufacturing jobs have been decimated. American manufacturing is at or near historical highs in terms of actual output and value. America simply doesn't do much low-margin, low-end stuff anymore. To use steel as an exampl
688.
by rmah 7y ago
To clarify, China doesn't "hate muslims" in the way some westerners do. Their current policy towards the Uyghurs in Xinjiang is a variation of a long-standing policy of sino-fication (also known as the "one china"
689.
by rmah 7y ago
Could you fix it by moving time zones? If not, why not?
690.
by rmah 7y ago
I don't see how there is any ethical difference at all in using recreational drug X vs recreational drug Y. Sure some drugs may be more harmful or addictive than another. But does a drug being more addictive or unhealthy make it less

More ›