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by smt88 1y ago
This seems like the best explanation to me. Chinese CEOs can lead companies in the US, China, or even Taiwan. Indian CEOs are choosing between climbing the ladder in India or the US, and all tech opportunities are much more plentiful and lu
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by smt88 1y ago
Many Chinese Americans have been here for generations, since the 1800s. Few Indians lived here before 1950. Ease of assimilation doesn't explain it.
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by smt88 1y ago
There are far more Chinese people in the world and the US than Indians, so it's not because of numbers
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> I assure you it's more than "many conditions downstream of [...]", unless you want to concede that mental health like depression and dementia are related to gut bacteria, then we can be friends. You have no way to assu
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by smt88 1y ago
"GLP-1s are beneficial for many conditions downstream of liver dysfunction and metabolic disease" is a much milder claim than "cure-all".
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by smt88 1y ago
There are lots of miraculous, life-saving drugs that have minimal side effects and aren't snake oil. Metformin, insulin, many vaccines, some statins, and some antibiotics are clearly on that list.
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No
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Few Americans pay enough attention to politics to expect this, and less than a third of the country voted for this regime anyway.
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by smt88 1y ago
Like what? Give us a specific example.
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by smt88 1y ago
Everything you mentioned is pretty mainstream and unremarkable on HN, reddit, Twitter, and BlueSky.
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by smt88 1y ago
I agree it doesn't benefit most games, but it's still genuinely amazing to see sometimes. I suspect part of the challenge with making a hit game with last-gen graphics (like Breath of the Wild) is that you need actual artists to m
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by smt88 1y ago
Talk to a lawyer.
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by smt88 1y ago
This is Hacker News. People know how to get around paywalls. And why are you morally opposed to a paywall? Journalism is expensive and not a huge source of ad revenue, so we have to pay for it somehow.
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by smt88 1y ago
Drug use is a risk factor for Parkinson's. A lot of drugs affect dopamine production or reuptake, and that seems to be able to cause a reduction in dopamine production later in life.
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by smt88 1y ago
I think an adversarial nation would reduce military activity far more than the current regime has. That might be the only difference, though.
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by smt88 1y ago
I think it's a common misconception that management consultants are hired to provide advice or add value. If you look at who actually does the work (sleepy, recent college grads with zero work experience and no understanding of the tar
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by smt88 1y ago
I didn't say they're the cause. They are a risk, and they've always been a risk. Historically, the risk outweighed the reward (or women just weren't free enough to make a decision either way). That's not the case an
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by smt88 1y ago
Why does it matter if they've always been present? Children were historically used as slaves and retirement plans. As economies become more advanced, families need less of both of those things. So a major economic benefit of having kid
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by smt88 1y ago
None of this content-free, rambling thread addresses major risks of motherhood. These include: - death (giving birth is more dangerous than birth control or abortion) - financial insecurity (can you get a job if you lose your co-parent?) -
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by smt88 1y ago
There's nothing close to the iPhone Mini anymore though
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by smt88 1y ago
The creator of The Boys has also said he needs to beat people over the head so he doesn't have a similar situation to Mad Men or Breaking Bad, where people think the main character is a hero to emulate
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by smt88 1y ago
I use Claude to write short, isolated scripts, like something to sort photos based on EXIF data, but I never just trust anything it does. I read and debug every line. I'd never let a junior dev use one of these models, but I've be
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by smt88 1y ago
As far as I can tell so far, its functionality isn't much beyond a a short script that Claude could generate for me in 30 seconds or I could write myself in 20 minutes.
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by smt88 1y ago
How does it detect duplicates? Hashing or something else?
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by smt88 1y ago
> Tell me you don’t really know how insurance works without telling me :) This will be interesting news to the insurance company I co-founded :) :) :) > You’re not “buying it and then not using it”. This boils down to semantics, b
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by smt88 1y ago
It absolutely makes sense to buy things you may (emphasis on may ) never use, especially if it never "expires". Insurance is a great example. People are buying these games knowing they're adding to their backlog and likely w
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by smt88 1y ago
I love reading about cooking but I'd hate to become a cook
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by smt88 1y ago
No. PHP has been dead for years. Most of its continued usage (by a wide margin) is WordPress. If you like PHP, you will likely easily learn and enjoy C# or Kotlin. With help from Claude or similar, you can get a project setup and be product
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by smt88 1y ago
> exactly how the Democratic party has moved away from him For a Very Online person like Altman (or me, for that matter), it's easy to assume everyone knows. He's referring to the (very modest) Democratic turn against Silicon
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by smt88 1y ago
I blamed India, China, and the US. Any one of those countries could switch to renewables and solve the problem.

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