tuna-piano

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by tuna-piano 6y ago
There's nothing inherently safe about injecting stuff into humans. There's nothing inherently crazy about questioning if injecting specific things into people is safe. Vaccines on the market today are only safe because they'v
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
You've focused on the employee and not the employer. Of course, the employer's wishes for the (hard to measure) productivity of the employees lead to->Employers profitability->Employee salaries+opportunities. I think in your
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Just going to guess that whichever location the team has the most people and wherever manager works from become the places where big decisions are made and promotions come from. I've worked remote when the rest of the team is in an off
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
I've wondered the same thing... I've got a few theories: -Amazon could identify those fake reviews, but doesn't want to play a cat+mouse game and would rather leave the fake reviews as-is, and easier to spot. If they start ta
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Epic's founder, Judy Faulkner, is the fourth richest self made woman in the US. She's the CEO of one of the largest companies in the health tech industry, and almost no one has heard of her. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
It's interesting that protests generally happen in dense parts of cities. Now imagine a city without a dense part - protesting becomes more difficult. Myanmar's non-democratic military government actually moved their capital from
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Am I the only one who hates both the term, the idea and frequent discussions of "Universal Basic Income"? -The term feels like just a rebranding of slightly-modified concepts that have been around forever -The term also says &quo
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
~70% of Indians are still farmers vs ~2% in the US. Would you recommend India adopt UBI before they discover the tractor and 68% of their country becomes unemployed? What about the seamstresses destroyed by the invention of the sewing machi
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
To those taking this comment as a joke - it is not a joke. Regardless of the morality/legality of a use, the fact that those are real use cases for the currency do give actual value to bitcoin as a currency. Now it's worth noting
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Is that statement just based on your general feeling or data? Because the data does not show that Western Europe is doing better in Covid deaths per capita than the US. Top 10 countries in covid deaths per capita (as of today)... US is #8 a
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
+1, I've heard so much about vitamin D in recent months (and even started taking supplementation myself)... this was super well written and informative. Can't wait for part 2 - please post to HN again!
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
I don't think this analysis is correct. While it's true many merchants pay 1-3% in processing fees, many of the costs involved are real. Building the network, fraud, rewards to consumers, etc. Visa's net income is roughly $11
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
First of all, people like to complain about Amazon owned brands. But this is just retailing 101, nothing new here. Walk around a Costco and try and find a non Costco branded product in a variety of categories. People seem to love Costco&#x2
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Look closely. Amazon claimed they don't access individual seller data, but they do access aggregated product data. However, in at least one case the aggregated data was only between two sellers: Amazon Warehouse (which only sold a few
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
It's so obvious what is needed to help these take off: an app/skill store with an easy development environment. Would assume the order goes something like this: $20k robot -> robot app/skill store -> Killer apps??? -&gt
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
For a brief period in 2013 the facility was looking for money and allowed public visitation. I visited during that time, and I loved the experience of seeing these animals face to face (through glass) in person. Sue was not there (supposedl
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
For $12 a month (40 cents a day) you can use YouTube ad free. Personally, I don't notice the missing $12 but I do notice the missing ads, so it's worth it to me. If you don't want ads, this seems like a more than fair offer f
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
At first glance, the skin-whitening creams themselves are seemingly no different than any other beauty product. After all, what is the difference between Indians wanting lighter skin and white Americans wanting more tanned skin? The problem
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Lol. To clarify, I'm not saying I know if Steve Hsu is right, wrong, genius, etc. I hardly even read anything he said. Only that ideas and science are good and forcing resignations for unpopular theories is bad.
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
The thing is, in private we have almost all said and done things which if shown on video to the world would get us fired (or arrested!). But yet the same people who know they have said+done bad things wish to ruin the lives of others for sl
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
We all look at history and view the Church as both stupid and evil for arresting Galileo when he published evidence that Earth revolved around the sun. Why do we look at history that way and how is Steve Hsu different from Galileo? Don&#x2
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Another quote from him: "My personal opinion about it is: A) I hope it's not true. I would much rather live in a world where there are not big group differences. Number 2) I understand why it's a sensitive issue. Because it w
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Relevant quote from him: "I've always said that I'm agnostic on whether... so there are observed test score differences between groups, I think that's clear, you can't deny that. The causality of that, whether it&#x
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
I think there's a certain part of the population (generally on the left from what I've seen) that is so deep in an ideological bubble that they cannot believe that reasonable and legitimate alternate perspectives exist. When coun
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Who is this "we" that you speak of? What institution anywhere in the US treats people of certain skin colors worse than others? I know of many (including those referenced in the linked article), but yet all of them discriminate ag
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
I think your nepotism example and "preponderance of talent and success is hard to quantify precisely" are nice arguments and give me something to think about, thanks. But when you say "I'm not sure if meritocracy makes s
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
For those who don't read the article, here's a quote: "Unless you're only selling to white people, if I was at a firm I would want every point of view represented in the investment process" Is this how people view t
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
What person from an underrepresented group wants to be chosen just because of their group status? Isn't that highly patronizing for someone who likely had worked hard to get to where they got? Do you want to be "pretty great for
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
However, as long as someone isn’t betting their life savings on this I don’t see or take any issue with it. ... Thai Gaon, a 23-year-old salesman in San Francisco, bought 35,000 Hertz shares on June 4 at $1.43, spending a little over $50,
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Yep, we were down during that time. I don't know what Heroku is doing with this certificate thing, but seems like a mess.

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