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by tivert 2y ago
> I have a 5yo daughter, and I appreciate that What Do People Do All Day? have female characters in homemaker roles, which is still common in most of the world. Many of her other books have female protagonists doing everything else. Is
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> If Boeing were to fire all engineering and manufacturing personnel and completely re-staff, how many years would it set them back? With a team of elite MBA-trained managers? Zero years of course! Those guys can do anything.
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> That had originated as OpenBoot in Sun Microsystems’ SPARC-based computers, and is based on the language Forth. Macs with Open Firmware can be booted into an interactive interface that makes it relatively straightforward to support and
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> A lot of critical coverages against Wikipedia have indeed appeared lately. Which is good, because irrespective of any particular political controversy, Wikipedia has way more goodwill than it deserves. People should look at it way, wa
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> In the meantime, the only government-like structure left in Gaza is Hamas, and so if you say the Gaza Health Ministry, anyone who knows what's going on, understands that Gaza is run by Hamas, which makes the reporting super dubiou
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(2023)
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> Seperately, it brings potential as a source of funding to spend elsewhere specifically because some of the national questions aren't really open. If you are confident in the ROI, you can run ads there to drive fundraising -- espec
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You misunderstand my position. I am not arguing for the status quo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41947148 . What I'm arguing against is a reactionary over-correction.
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> Based on my experience with doctors medicine is not one of those fields. Residency is the final gauntlet that matters and that’s the part that’s artificially restricted. You're getting the basic facts wrong. As least in the US, th
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> Except you have no idea a priori who will succeed and who won’t. Sort of. In many areas it's possible to do a good-enough job of sorting out the people who will almost certainly succeed. It won't be perfect, but nothing is
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> I’m intimately familiar with the reality. Neither of them regret their education or the effort they put in. The people I know in similar situations regret their choices, or are at least are a little bitter. > There’s no good accompl
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You need to meet some lawyers who were never able to practice because of oversupply, or hopeful PhDs that found themselves trapped in the adjunct precariat. There's no good accomplished by letting people waste their time, money, and ta
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> The free market philosophy dictates that we absolutely should do it, and it's a good philosophy to follow. Sorry, it's never a good idea to base real life policy on ideological dogma. The "free market philosophy" h
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> Does anyone know which and how many foreign medical schools qualify? This is about residency programs, not medical schools. IIRC, graduates of pretty much any foreign MD program can already practice in the US, they just need to complet
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> It's easy to lower costs by cutting corners on quality, but that is not a pro patient move. They're doing that, too. See the proliferation of physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
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> We do it all the time with lawyers and PhD scientists of all stripes. Why should doctors receive special treatment? We shouldn't do that with lawyers and PhDs either. Why must everything be a race to the bottom?
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Some level of supply restriction is probably warranted, though less than what we have now. It would be bad policy to have talented people train intensely for 8+ years, only to have them emerge on the other side with a "sorry, oversuppl
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You should get a couple of old-work low voltage brackets and brush wall plates ( https://www.homedepot.com/p/Carlon-1-Gang-Non-Metallic-Low-V... , https://www.homedepot.com/p/Commercial-Electric-1-Ga
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> 1-Wire, unique 48-bit ID. I don't remember the year it was introduced, or cost. IIRC, their 1-wire temp sensors also have that (at least they did about 10 years ago when I was messing around with hobbyist electronics): https:&#x2
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> Ah! Finally the spies have been freed from Putin influence by being relocated to a safer country, no matter that if someone is truly as brainwashed as you say changing countries is pointless. Fucking hypocrisy WTF, man? I actually work
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> Treating employees like slaves, and boasting that you “help” their stupid asses is so charming. Oh my dear cork hat! Oh my dear plantation! Are you, like, completely ignorant of what's going on in the world? The day after the inva
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> Individual Russian programmers are not responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, so I would be reluctant to punish them for Putin's crime and to deprive Linux of their contributions. True, but individual Russian programmers are not
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> The kernel has a gray hair problem. > No one in the West wants to do volunteer work any more because it pays a lot more to work at Evil Corp and wave some flags around during the appropriate month. I thought most of the kernel &quot
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> That's terrifying. Imagine a rogue supermassive black hole floating in intergalactic space. Why terrifying? It's literally doing nothing, far away from anything. Seems like the safest place for it to be.
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I just did some Googling, and apparently they've moved their headquarters several times : 2001: Seattle to Chicago: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/on-this-day-boeing-moves-co... 2022: Chicago to Washington
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> Why? Because of the typeface and the numbered list? Yes, the typeface. And the numbered list looks suspicious too, now that you mention it. Also the kerning (look at the renderings of fi and fr in the document). It wouldn't be the
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The test images look like they were written in Microsoft Word. Is this example fake?
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> It is so bizarre that reducing pollution was not a sufficient driver to build more nuclear power, but training AI models is. It makes more sense when you understand "training AI models" as "greedily pumping up a bubble.&
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> Who knows what ideas will spring forth when there are all these AI-capable data-centers sitting out there on the cheap. You still have to pay for power to run them. A lot of power. It won't be that cheap .
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> Same with lunch, its a win win for the company and the employee. I don't think it's that simple. Sure, on some level it's a win for you (free food) and a win for them (more time spent working), but on another level you m

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