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by screye 5y ago
In 2062, US healthcare costs continue to rise. Congress gets together to discuss a bill to fix it. Increasing healthcare funding would put them 5% in deficit. They could reduce the military budget which takes up 50% of the total. Afterall,
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by screye 5y ago
I will be following this very closely. I have been asking for this for about 10 years now. Signed up, will be using it for a few weeks to evaluate.
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by screye 5y ago
You have to blind to be surprised by this outcome. The lower representation of women in STEM, has to do with fewer women wanting to join STEM or Tech programs in the first place. These preferences are especially visible among domestic candi
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by screye 5y ago
It doesn't surprise me anymore. Aren't we well into the mainstreaming of woke opinions by now ? The elect are as allergic to sociological statistics as the right to vaccines. All numbers point towards the counter productivity of p
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by screye 5y ago
Chomsky was an exemplary linguist, but his political writings are one dimensional. Manufacturing consent correct points out malicious sounding actions by the US, but it never delves into how literally major or minor power in history has don
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by screye 5y ago
Yeah, my family in india is able to get at home testing for everything from covid to blood tests. On the other hand, I have to wait for days to get tested with my American healthcare.
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by screye 5y ago
Yep, that sounds about right. On balance, every math genius I knew cracked IIT top 1000 (necessary to get CS). But most people who I knew got in, were much more likely to be hard workers rather than geniuses. Not a symmetrical relationship.
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by screye 5y ago
The answer to it is quite easy if you know anything about India. Most Tech CEOs immigrated to the US in the 80-90s to study a not so cool academic area of science. Most backwards classes never had the wealth to sit on a plane, let alone stu
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by screye 5y ago
Assuming you are American, Somerville MA and Cambridge MA are pretty good for biking and public transport.
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by screye 5y ago
I am spending Christmas 'alone' , but together with a bunch of solo travellers on a backpacking trip. My loneliness was a result of US visa regulations cancelling my plans to meet my loved ones, but I do wonder about all of my oth
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by screye 5y ago
I genuinely don't get the point of 2 remote jobs. The tech wage scaling is absolutely bonkers right now and the value proposition of this system is not clear to me. Assuming you only work 20 of your 40 hrs/week in each job, you ar
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by screye 5y ago
The IBM Watson group have been at the forefront of AI research and generally operate separately from the IBM umbrella. I know a few people in the group, and they are a brilliant bunch.
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I think this is a genuinely good idea. (which should obviously be accompanied by actual rehabilitative options and de-stigmatization of mental health) I went to similar institute in India (NIT, the proverbial first losers), and 3 students h
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by screye 5y ago
> oldest in the neighborhood, from 1889, and the neighbors claim it is of both architectural and local-historical significance The building is architecturally mundane and inefficiently built (SFH) . It is around 150 years old, which is q
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by screye 5y ago
I grew up in country that spent 40 years ravaged by socialism, so capitalism certainly feels like an upgrade. We as a society, have yet to figure out how to work around human greed and a need for status. Capitalism offers transparent and re
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by screye 5y ago
If anything, crypto is about explicitly enabling and exploiting the best of what capitalism has to offer. Open access and competition at every step is when capitalism is at its best. It tries to structurally avoid the emergent problem of in
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by screye 5y ago
Libertarians often stand by the 'small govt' ideal, where the ideal size of a govt. is a set of the minimum and necessary regulations needed for basic functioning. Crypto started off with zero govt, and is speed running towards th
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by screye 5y ago
> I still have some doubts that people actually do visualize things I can't imagine not visualizing things. My undergrad was in mechanical engg, so it was kinda central to our field. Imagining a 2d machine drawing as a 3d figure, im
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by screye 5y ago
The US police have killed 20 [1] unarmed people in the US in 2021 overall. Given that about 50% [2] tend to be black and Hispanic, I would put it at 10. That is a statistically tiny number. Making the squares of the 10 shootings safer for p
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by screye 5y ago
My dad spent his entire life as a Bureaucrat. The OP is right. The laziness is endemic seeps through every aspect of Govt. work. He hates the laziness and corruption in the system so much, that explicitly banned both his children from ever
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by screye 5y ago
I added all the links, and then HN failed to update the comments. SMH. So as a next least-worst thing, I am linking to a right wing article, so don't call me out on that. But, do look at the links in there. The points themselves stand
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by screye 5y ago
> That's either ignorance or a plain lie Ooh, boy. I had an incredibly long post with all the links to support my claim. Sadly, I am struggling to find it. In the meantime, here is another comment I found, that makes the same points
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by screye 5y ago
That is an incredibly biased reading. The farm laws were among the most progressive changes the farms had seen in the last century. It was politically hijacked despite having been previously supported by the same opposition who was currentl
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Octopi is certainly questionable, but Octopedes isn't as obviously correct as we'd think. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/270/what-is-the-... https://www.bilibili.com/video&#x
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by screye 5y ago
I would recommend Mazda vehicles. Their entire lineup offers a small set of effective and minimally intrusive digital/smart features. But, outside of that, they keep it simple. The no-touchscreen is a much safer way to interact with th
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by screye 5y ago
> as partners in development Any country that has ever taken on debt from China would like to have a talk with you.
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Yes. Afaik, they are looking at measurable traits that we think are associated with intelligence. Intelligence itself is a much much harder problem to unravel.
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Unfortunately again, IQ is highly predictive. It obviously clashes with the massive emphasis on merit, grit & educational attainment placed by western liberal ideology. It fundamentally shakes the very foundation of outcome based evalua
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The unfortunate reality is that group level differences in characteristics associated with intelligence are measurable. It is pretty much an open secret in genomics. Additionally, given how regression to the mean works, a small enough endog
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by screye 5y ago
I have followed them for the last couple of weeks, and there is a good reason for that. The prosecution has beyond ridiculous arguments time and again over the last 2 weeks. The lawyers all started out really civil, and some of the violatio

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