smt88

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I hope not, because Trump has been bankrupt three times, run multiple companies into the ground, and failed to beat Vanguard index funds when you look at the growth of his wealth. He's objectively terrible at running businesses. Musk i
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The purpose of statistical coverage of elections is to tell campaigns what their strengths and weaknesses are and to entertain the rest of us. Since we don't run campaigns, the only value is entertainment. But that's not a negligi
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The problem with a machine isn't that it's sometimes incompetent, it's that it can't be reasoned with in the face of a deteriorating situation
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Something like 70% of the US is overweight, so there actually aren't as many people who aren't experiencing negative health effects from being overweight or obese as you think
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Investors are the worst people to hear about these topics from. In general, Silicon Valley VCs are the most arrogant and clueless category of people I've come across in the business world. They're usually people who attribute thei
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He's raising taxes on most people. He didn't talk much about taxes. He campaigned on immigration and trans issues, mostly.
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One assumes it's a combination of his daily drug abuse and performative workaholism
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GP was talking about input sanitization, not output
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Government's ability to publicly fund research is directly related to how much it can collect in taxes. With wealth being hoarded by individuals at unprecedented rates and taxes lower than they've been at almost any time in the co
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> And this is seen as a crime by employers? No. It's seen as a gap in the resume (you were doing a job that isn't what they're hiring for) and an indication that you won't be happy doing the job they're hiring
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People will give you different answers, but I think the answer is yes. Employers don't like to see any "gap" in a resume in general, but founding a company also tells them your real dream is to be an entrepreneur and you&#x27
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I would imagine many of his crimes are federal, and Trump will give him a blanket pardon for all federal crimes past and present.
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The only thing stopping minimum wage from rising is the Republican Party. The minimum already isn't market-driven, and it isn't pegged to inflation, either. Adjusting for inflation, it's not surprising to see the lowest earne
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Budgets are set by Congress. The money is allocated and is supposed to be spent regardless of payroll. It's very likely most of these reduced payroll costs will just be spent on outside contractors who cost much more per hour of work.
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1. Firing != reducing spending 2. Many of the employment and B2B contracts they're cancelling are breaching the contracts, so much of the firing is likely illegal 3. This judge didn't rule on the legality, meaning his ruling has n
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> Most of the federal budget the president cannot just cut. He legally can't cut any of it . Not even $1. Congress controls spending. Illegally (which is how he has always operated and is operating now), he can seemingly do whate
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> How can I both endorse a politicians approach to the world and disagree with every particular action? It is because you have deeply misunderstand his approach to the world. He has never demonstrated any desire to bring prosperity to
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I'm not downvoting you because of dissent. I'm downvoting because you're either being sarcastic (and adding nothing substantial to the discussion) or you're genuinely disagreeing (and not explaining why).
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> There is really no place where updating dependencies is dramatically better This is absolutely untrue. There's a huge gap in how easy it is to upgrade some stacks vs. others. Updating dependencies in a language with strong, stat
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The problem is the president, not that Google is afraid of him. Private corporations should be afraid of democratically-elected regulators, especially the regulator-in-chief.
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One of the authors is a founder of a radiology AI company and isn't credible on this topic due to his massive conflict of interest. This is an ad.
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Whole-genome sequencing leads to unnecessary treatment, like mastectomies. It’s not risk-free.
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> Doctors should not be gatekeepers for diagnostics. Doctors mostly aren't gatekeepers for risk-free diagnostics, like a blood test for a vitamin deficiency. Insurance companies are. But for risky tests, doctors have a duty to &qu
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> if additional tests are invasive those tests can be weighed on the balance of risk just the same So let's say you have an extremely safe test. Let's use the "mail your poop to a lab" test for colon cancer as an ex
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> Let the patient weigh the odds. Patients are uninformed and emotional. Part of a doctor's job is to make the best decision for the patient using the information they have. For example, if you tell people that daily aspirin reduc
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> But if blood tests (or in the case of bowel cancer, fecal tests like cologuard) are effective, we can replace more invasive screening options with them. That is not what I'm arguing against. People in this thread are talking abo
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> The issue is that doctors often over-react to adverse results due to the risk of being sued if it did turn out to be a true positive. Do you think a patient is going to receive a false positive and accept a response from a doctor of,
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No, the worst case is death. Overdiagnosis of cancer leads to overtreatment, which has a risk of harm.
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This is incredibly wrong. This whole thread is. Cancer testing is not benign. False-positive cancer diagnosis has a >0 mortality rate, because further testing and treatment is potentially fatal. Just a colonoscopy can be fatal, as can a
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“Can” but how often will it? And how costly are the mistakes it makes, especially if they’re not detected by an experienced (expensive) dev?

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