absolutelastone

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by absolutelastone 1y ago
It has always seemed to me that level of strategic direction doesn't come from the CEO's brain, but from the big investors. The CEO's job is to execute what they want.
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
Their timeline sounds right to me. The dot com bubble was about big dreams but ended up with far less reality when stock options crashed to nothing. There was a finance bubble after the internet bubble and you could make a lot more money as
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
I agree the legal restrictions (and liability) should be looser. But other countries are pretty bad about this too in my experience. It's more of a medical establishment monopoly thing it seems. Also you can already buy home ECG device
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
I suspect it's probably worse than that in reality. From a quick search on state of the art ECG results (the full system of leads attached all over your torso) it looks like around 90 percent specificity (True negative rate) and under
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
If you trace back through the executive orders (on then off then on again...) regarding DEI, it starts with Obama. Biden did have several and it seems like things started really getting mandated and serious then, perhaps due to BLM. We seem
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
The first rule is still to stop digging. Of course you can't spend four years pushing an extremely unpopular position on an issue and expect it to not matter the next day.
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
Well the obvious answer is training. Medicine requires 4 years undergrad plus 4 years grad plus 3+ years residency. You might argue medicine can be replaced by AI similarly, but the issue is risk. That 11 years is to reach the point you can
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
Doesn't the CPI produce an average estimate of what everyone is already paying for housing as opposed to the full sticker price for a new entrant? Meaning if most people are living in houses they bought in the past at much lower prices
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
There was a massive tech boom in that time with technologies like cars, electricity, and communications.
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
So your argument is that nothing is communism? The fact that it's a single large organization allocating resources is rather key to the whole point. That the same organizational structure doing it is interesting to me anyway. I suspect
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
South Korea has the lowest birth rate. Japan has an older population and higher death rate, so a faster shirking population currently.
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
Seeing all the recent tariff fights and actually finding out what the story is behind some of the different industries, I am becoming much more of the opinion that other countries take over industries as the result of specific agendas targe
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
Government funding of research. We were talking about the NSF after all, not free markets versus central planning. On that though, I read somewhere that the hierarchical committee-led operation of the funding agencies is the same way commun
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
That difference in difficulties is kind of the point. Imagine, as an extreme, a company makes a machine with certain functions performed based on which button combinations you press. A second company gets a patent for using the first compan
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
You seem to be arguing that the second government touches anything then everything it does gets credited to the government funding column. Seems simplistic to me, but you can believe what you like. Go back far enough and there was only priv
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
I think their point is the billions in private investment which preceded those millions. I think this is a common issue in computer science, where credit is given to sexy "software applications" like AI when the real advances were
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
It wasn't just that by itself. There was a list of several undisclosed data tweaks and manipulations. None were particularly fraudulent or anything, but once you have them all included in the paper, as the former author was complaining
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
one point is a collection of size 1. It is always data.
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
If you don't know the value of what you are buying you are most likely to get even less than what you payed for. In the story they basically got scammed by overseas shops who probably pocketed most of the money and farmed out the effor
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
They probably just combined all phoning home information into one. Usage monitoring includes version used, which leads to automatic update when needed (or when bugged...).
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
I think the person you are responding to is criticizing the original "mantra" quote not the author's criticism of it(?)
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
As I read that, "more than a screwdriver" was to make a point about how hard it is to even fulfill the requirements for "assembled in the USA". "Made in the USA" is even stricter. And they were going beyond tha
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
I do kind of recall the last US airport I went through internationally that there was weirdly no customs lanes or anything after baggage claim, just big one-way doors. Not that you can reach that point without stating your declarations on t
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
You always need to be careful when it comes to customs really. Some minor things like certain foods and OTC medicines can have big ramifications in many countries, including losing your visa. If you're a business person counting on usi
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
You can go online and do everything before your flight or get a paper form at some point at the airport.
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
But not exactly the same people which is the point of motivating behavior. There is at least some degree of flexibility in what you can buy. Insane rates will of course have insane effects. Which is a separate issue.
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
Depends how you look at it, but fatal things should have a clear explanation for why they kill you. We can survive longer without food and that one is easy to explain.
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
A bigger pupil would work better for dim light vision. Light through the iris would sacrifice daylight vision. The light skin on the other hand does have an obvious benefit in that climate for Vitamin D.
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
I think it's three at this point? With the first one coming online this year.
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by absolutelastone 1y ago
Maybe it's suspicious in Silicon Valley, but I know plenty of people who make minimal use of their phone. In Japan, flip phones are supposed to still be fairly popular.

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