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Ask HN: What career would you switch into if AI ate your profession?
27 points by rohanshah 4y ago|91 comments
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by rohanshah 6y ago
this is at best an incomplete assessment and at worst ahistorical others [1] would argue that it was american auto manufacturers' anti-union zealotry (and the decisions they made in the production process to combat the unions) that lea
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The Leisure Agenda(peoplespolicyproject.org)
9 points by rohanshah 7y ago|1 comments
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by rohanshah 7y ago
"Marxism has therefore given up trying to provide an explanation for the 20th century history... The reason for this failure lies in the fact that Marxism never made a meaningful distinction between standard Marxist schemes regarding t
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by rohanshah 8y ago
It's worth noting that a recent analysis of S.1804, the Medicare for All Act, "could reduce total health care spending in the U.S. by nearly 10 percent" [1]. Even conservative analysis [2] has the program project to save in t
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by rohanshah 8y ago
From my understanding of Bernie's "Medicare For All" bill (S. 1804) [1] payment to providers would be fixed at the, well, Medicare rate. Medicare rates are about 40% lower than private insurance (about 56% of national healthc
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by rohanshah 8y ago
Interestingly enough the house single-payer bill H.R. 676 [1] (and supposedly the Senate bill S. 1804, although I couldn't find any specific language on it) has provisions for "retraining, job placement and employment transition&q
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Why Don’t the 20 Cities on Amazon's HQ2 Shortlist Collectively Bargain?(theintercept.com)
179 points by rohanshah 9y ago|278 comments
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Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse(mirror.co.uk)
116 points by rohanshah 9y ago|133 comments
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The Federal Reserve and a Cascade of Failures(lawandpublicaffairs.org)
2 points by rohanshah 9y ago|0 comments
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by rohanshah 9y ago
The article didn't really go into detail on how LO3 uses the blockchain as part of their technology, so this may be unrelated, but this podcast [1] better articulates some insight into on how the blockchain could be used to affect the
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by rohanshah 10y ago
There's two main reasons I can see: performance is impacted by the implementation language and because officially supported SDKs/client libraries are usually written, and get updates, in the implementation's language first e.
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by rohanshah 11y ago
This is a great series. I also highly recommend Benjamin Pierce's book "Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists" if you are interested in this http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/basic-category-theory-com
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by rohanshah 11y ago
I just attended a talk but Sumit Gulwani where he demo'd FlashFill, FlashExtract and walked through their underlying architecture. His talk had much cooler demos than any I could find online but from what I can tell it seems like they
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Cirkits: a sewable electronics kit for kids(kickstarter.com)
1 points by rohanshah 12y ago|0 comments