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by wpasc 4y ago
Let's say TikTok was the same exact company founded in another country, do you believe that the conversation about banning it would be the same? With some exceptions (maybe Russia, for example), I seriously doubt it.
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by wpasc 4y ago
Yeah, agreed with the other comment. Recruiters wouldn't be able to do 1.a of your suggestion, let alone 2, 3.
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by wpasc 4y ago
I'm not sure my response qualifies, but I see no other responses yet so: I interned in high school at Brookhaven National Lab working on a team that analyzed STAR (Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) data from RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Coll
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Sam Bankman-Fried Set to Testify to Congress About FTX Collapse(wsj.com)
6 points by wpasc 4y ago|2 comments
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by wpasc 4y ago
seems to be careless not to burn current residence to the ground as well
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by wpasc 4y ago
Would I be reading into the timing too much, if I noted the timing of this post and how recently Ancient Apocalypse aired (and subsequent Rogan appearance)?
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by wpasc 4y ago
My devil's advocate take is that this is downstream of corporate consolidation. Corporate consolidation IMO has become easier with greater economies of scale achievable with far better communication, shipping networks, and generally gl
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by wpasc 4y ago
I see a lot of revolution and socialism vs capitalism comments here, but isn't this a not surprising finding given corporate consolidation and increase in CEO:total worker ratio? Sure, there's debate about pro's and con'
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by wpasc 4y ago
Who left the fridge open.
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by wpasc 4y ago
One of your examples I believe hurts your point: "Whether they win $500 million or $1 million, about 70 percent of lotto winners lose or spend all that money in five years or less." https://www.rd.com/list/13-
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by wpasc 4y ago
I think the bar for upvote receiving humor is just high on HN
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by wpasc 4y ago
I LOVE quordle. found it on an HN post. I enjoy it because it's much more (in my opinion) about reducing unknown information about all the letters than it is about guessing for each possible word.
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by wpasc 4y ago
I hope you are wrong about <50%, but you may be right. I'd be curious as to a reasonable lower bound of human knowledge about human biology; do we know at least 25% of the fundamentals?
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by wpasc 5y ago
I'd bet the insider trading pales greatly in comparison to hiring ex-congresspeople for their access and contact sheet
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by wpasc 5y ago
Cancer progress in the last 40 years hasn’t been that great (I’m not discounting the hard work and incredible breakthroughs there have been, etc). I’d predict we’re closer to a cancer cure and other not so soon medical advances than a fully
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by wpasc 5y ago
Mutilate your thirst
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by wpasc 5y ago
Wow, pardon my ignorance. There's a whole wikipedia article on India Russia relations [1]. (I then checked how many bilateral relation articles there are, turns out a lot but clearly not exhaustive). there's a lot to the India Rus
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by wpasc 5y ago
So the article presents the motivations of India around this consideration, but could anyone possibly elaborate on what the thinking might be? The article states that the Indian defense department cannot suffer the energy costs because of &
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by wpasc 5y ago
filibuster
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by wpasc 5y ago
What enshrines bonuses from being free from these disclosures and regulations? Any law about pay could be extended to bonuses and bonus disparity becomes pay disparity (unless I'm missing some enshrined, unchangeable, legal exemption&#
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by wpasc 5y ago
agreed, all incredible stuff, I replied to another comment with a fuller reply, but despite these incredible recent achievements I think the years since apollo have been overshadowed by failures in rocket development and innovation (except
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by wpasc 5y ago
All undeniably incredible achievements. I look at Nasa's budget [1] and see the government achieve something incredible in the apollo project and take their foot off the gas on the most exciting (and potentially unifying) frontier. I a
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by wpasc 5y ago
Well, considering the progress in space in reaching the moon and the arguably stagnant (except recent developments like reusable boosters) developments since then, I think it's very reasonable to be disappointed in the past years of sp
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by wpasc 5y ago
its L2 point takes about a month to reach, much different orbit than Hubble which is why the flawless launch is so important and the unpacking.
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by wpasc 5y ago
Laws (in my opinion) are a lot harder to get right than they are to get wrong. Laws are also (IMO) quite sticky in that once they are passed, they are difficult to modify and or adjust. It takes a strong political will to pass any federal l
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by wpasc 5y ago
hah I have not but I'd like to have a sauna in my future home regardless. Currently I'm in an apt and going to a sauna in nyc is not super appealing to me (cost, friction in working it into my day with having to go somewhere, etc)
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by wpasc 5y ago
Not meant to be a negative comment, a lot of stuff helps to some degree. No cures though. to anyone wondering what worked and didnt, just work with your doctor and experiment with your doctor's permission, and be skeptical but hopeful.
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by wpasc 5y ago
Ankylosing Spondylitis sufferer here. I wish you the best of health and may HLA-B27 eff right off (assuming you are HLA-B27 positive). I empathize with another comment you made about "Have you tried...?" Yes. We have. (Advil, Indo
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by wpasc 5y ago
Pirates reduce Global Warming. Fact[1] [1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/03/23/true-f...
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by wpasc 5y ago
There's people who engage in Helminth therapy (purposefully getting parasitic infections like a hookworm) for purposes of inflammatory disorders. I don't know much about it but enough people take it seriously

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