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by xyzzy4 10y ago
"Medical-school applicants basically need to have near-perfect GPA's and very high MCAT scores to get accepted to an accredited U.S. institution. Even among that much better qualified pool of applicants, only about 50 percent get
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The main issue is that they artificially limit the number of doctors.
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What about video calls, do those make the cut?
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I don't get why people would use functional programming for anything. It's both more difficult and slower.
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Perhaps you should move to Iran. The people there wanted sharia law and they got it.
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Richard Stallman on Free Software: Freedom Is Worth the Inconvenience(youtube.com)
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I used to work in problem management at a big company. The answer is no unless it was deliberate.
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Classic example of what happens when you don't diversify your investments. High volatility will sometimes drop your net worth to 0.
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No black bar?
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Nearly all people, rich and poor, make decisions for personal gain.
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I think all of their robots have legs, and it was probably their biggest innovation.
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Or maybe she was paid to write an article about the trial for Motherboard.
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Are you sure? Maybe her employers allowed it.
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It costs her money to post on Twitter?
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IM’s Business Cycle Index(imarketsignals.com)
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They are not connected to continents.
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You need to be very self-conscious about how much stress you're putting on various parts of your body. All your muscles should be as relaxed as possible throughout the day. Always seemed common sense to me.
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No, because you can still charge the original price to maximize profits.
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If you can't even 2x your income by moving somewhere, then there isn't much point. For example, moving from Africa to the US could be much more beneficial than moving from one part of the US to another.
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Interesting. Even before that, you could run IOS XR with a Linux-based emulator called EnXR. It's useful for testing because you don't need to load the image onto a real router.
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Cisco licensed QNX and turned it into a nice operating system called IOS XR.
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That's ironic because the Washington Post is censoring this article from me with their paywall.
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Requiring code reviews before the commit is a bureaucratic waste of time and resources. If they non-mandatory and after the commit, then they can be a good idea.
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I find the best way to fight it is I try to do at least one thing per day towards my work, no matter how small. This usually puts me into a mental state where I make lots of progress. I wish I had also taken this tactic in high school and c
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"He who rests while other people work with their heads, hands, and hearts is a capitalist".
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Well it's probably foolish to go even more into debt with a mortgage if you are at risk of having a negative net worth.
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Look for a software company that believes heavily in Agile/Scrum and eats up half your time in Agile meetings.
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It depends also if the money is going towards rent or a mortgage. If it's the latter you can always sell your house to get more cash.
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That's not true, because in a poor village in Africa you'd have family to look after you and keep you well. You also won't have police harassing you all the time. Lastly, it is easier to find a legal and free place to use the
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True, but being pressured by your parents isn't as bad as having a tarnished academic record from not doing homework.

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