GalenErso

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by GalenErso 3y ago
Why? Why can't scientists from outside the US and Western Europe seek international co-authors, like everyone else?
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by GalenErso 3y ago
> Get the experience you want ASAP, invest as much of your salary as you can, and then job hop. This works in tech but not necessarily in other white collar fields like finance. In finance, there is an unwritten rule that you are suppose
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by GalenErso 3y ago
What causes El Niño to happen every few years? What mechanism drives the phenomenon? I was thinking maybe sun spots, but sun spots have 11 year cycles on average, so I don't think it's the cause. Why doesn't El Niño happen ev
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by GalenErso 3y ago
More expensive cars are better for the environment if people start driving less or stop driving. But it's worse for the environment if people hold on to older cars, because they are less fuel efficient than newer models and release mor
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New cars are just for rich people now(jalopnik.com)
64 points by GalenErso 3y ago|124 comments
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Wonder Why Your Rent Is High? Because Everyone Decided They Want to Live Alone(businessinsider.com)
11 points by GalenErso 3y ago|10 comments
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by GalenErso 3y ago
Hair and eye color are simple epigenetical traits, and very easily measurable. As for size, I don't know if you've traveled to East Asia recently, but the young generations are just as tall as we Westerners. I follow a number of A
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by GalenErso 3y ago
Can't their success be more attributed to a culture that favors learning and education, as well as the relative financial prosperity of Ashkenazi Jews compared to other groups? That the children of successful artists, scientists, or fi
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by GalenErso 3y ago
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings come to mind.
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by GalenErso 3y ago
I'll cut straight to the chase: White people are _not_ more intelligent than black people. And it is both factually incorrect and racist to believe so. - "I never said white people were mo--" Sure, but that is nevertheless th
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Yellen Says Debt Default Would Hurt US International Leadership(bloomberg.com)
1 points by GalenErso 3y ago|0 comments
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by GalenErso 3y ago
> (UK) Internet traffic took a significant nosedive, dropping by as much as 18%. The Sunday trends didn't stop there. As night fell and Prince William took to the stage to deliver a speech during the Coronation Concert, there was a
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by GalenErso 3y ago
Reposting a comment from Reddit[1]: Microsoft has been bleeding talent for the last 5-6 years due to low compensation. It's why the SLT authorized a "correction" in pay last year that saw many people get a significant pay bum
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by GalenErso 3y ago
> I'll give the country 10 years to implode I'll take predictions that won't happen for 100, Alex.
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by GalenErso 3y ago
Unfortunately for Taiwan, it doesn't have the ability to prevent the U.S. from destroying TSMC's factories with: long range cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, PGMs, or special forces. But that wouldn't be necessary to deny
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Mercedes wants EV buyers to get used to paywalled features(techspot.com)
1 points by GalenErso 3y ago|0 comments
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Lone Antique T-34 Was Only Tank in Moscow’s Victory Day Parade(thedrive.com)
5 points by GalenErso 3y ago|0 comments
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by GalenErso 3y ago
Doesn't Adobe want people to become familiar with their tools, regardless of legality, so they continue to use them later in the workplace?
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by GalenErso 3y ago
I didn't get my first real phone until after high school, while everyone else had one. I graduated salutatorian. I was able to focus on my homework after school for hours without distractions. I had a computer at home, but it was prett
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New cars, once part of the American Dream, now out of reach for many(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by GalenErso 3y ago|0 comments
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by GalenErso 3y ago
Continents can rise and fall without changes in the quantity of liquid water on the surface. One must also consider the fact that the world was much warmer then, so things like Greenland, the Antarctic ice sheet, and glaciers did not exist.
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Yellen: Not raising debt ceiling may trigger constitutional crisis(breakingthenews.net)
2 points by GalenErso 3y ago|0 comments
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by GalenErso 3y ago
- Confusing naming conventions. Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X. Compare to Sony's Playstations 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Names matter enormously. There's a reason why FAANG and FAANG-tier tech firms all have very simple names. W
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by GalenErso 3y ago
The fact that the minimum wage has remained unchanged for so long has an interesting economic consequence: it has effectively abolished the concept of a minimum wage. Nordic countries like Germany don't have a minimum wage. Rather, lab
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by GalenErso 3y ago
Apple could just squash the unhappy shareholders with its private army. Kill two birds with one stone. My plan is foolproof. Fear will keep the shareholders in line.
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by GalenErso 3y ago
Apple's quarterly revenue is higher than Russia's annual defense expenditure. Let that sink in. Now imagine if Apple wanted to use 1/3 of its net income to create a private military at the edge of technology.
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by GalenErso 3y ago
Until you forget the combination.
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by GalenErso 3y ago
So, should we expect the AI equivalent of Hiroshima in a couple months? An awe inspiring demonstration of raw power to silence any detractors? What would that look like?
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by GalenErso 3y ago
That person will naturally impose himself or herself through the strength of their achievements and sheer willpower in such a way that there will be not a shred of doubt in the mind of the public that this individual is worthy of deference
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by GalenErso 3y ago
There are countless programmers, from self taught amateurs to professional SWEs, white hats, grey hats and black hats, who would immediately jump at the opportunity to create stronger VPNs, mirror sites, Tor nodes, and other tools to allow

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