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by hello_1234 6y ago
I totally agree. But shouldn't we trust the data more than one person's anecdote? The original article clearly did not find any discrimination against white male. Rather than discussing that result, we are here commenting about on
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by hello_1234 6y ago
That your post is on the top shows the "white male" bias in hackernews audience. People are up-voting your personal anecdote and your "I am a white male victim" post more than the discussions about the actual results on
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by hello_1234 6y ago
Just go see the latest papers in CS - https://arxiv.org/list/cs/recent A lot of authors have Asian names (Chinese and Indian)
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by hello_1234 6y ago
Perhaps in Aug 19, 2120.
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by hello_1234 6y ago
Why are people like this guy casually dismissing research done by other experts? Why do people think they are experts in matters they have absolutely no clue about? Just because you know how to write code to build a webapp doesn't make
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by hello_1234 6y ago
This is cruel and wicked. Hopefully the courts stop this madness.
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by hello_1234 6y ago
That's not true. Almost all state universities charge a much higher tuition fee to foreign and out-of-state students (sometimes two to three times higher). That higher fee is used to subsidize the fee of in-state students. Sorry to be
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by hello_1234 6y ago
Here's a great npr podcast - https://www.npr.org/2020/06/05/871298161/police-unions-and-p...
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by hello_1234 6y ago
Most people who contract the virus are asymptomatic, and they spread the virus without even realizing that they have it. It seems quite obvious that if we encourage everyone to wear masks (including the asymptomatic carriers), we can greatl
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by hello_1234 6y ago
Do people in Brazil and Australia use Air Conditioners? Air Conditioners reduce both temperature and humidity and make a more favorable environment for COVID-19 transmission. The use of Air Conditioners in very low in India because only the
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by hello_1234 6y ago
I think we should encourage people to turn off their Air Conditioners, especially in indoor places like malls and bars where people gather. ACs reduce both temperature and humidity and make a more favorable environment for the virus.
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by hello_1234 6y ago
Nytimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/health/warm-weather-coron... Some research papers from the past about SARS-CoronaVirus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/223123
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Will Coronavirus Pandemic Diminish by Summer?(papers.ssrn.com)
30 points by hello_1234 6y ago|35 comments
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by hello_1234 7y ago
You are completely discounting the power of compounding. Saving every penny won't make you rich in a year or even in 10 years. But think about 20 years in the future. Think about retirement. Every extra dollar that you put into your 40
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by hello_1234 7y ago
The audio is so realistic. I could have been fooled easily.
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by hello_1234 7y ago
Venmo, owned by paypal, is very popular in the US. People use to split expenses among friends.
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by hello_1234 7y ago
Honey sponsors a lot of youtube personalities. I remember Mr Beast talking about them. Seems like it paid off.
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by hello_1234 7y ago
Why are you so hung up on aligning solar noon with with 12:00 PM? People care more about when the sun rises and when the sun sets. Nobody, besides you, cares about when the sun is at the highest position in the sky.
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Who Owns HIV-Prevention Drugs? The Taxpayers, U.S. Says(nytimes.com)
11 points by hello_1234 7y ago|0 comments
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by hello_1234 7y ago
If he can set 25% tariff on everything imported from China, what's stopping him from setting 2500% tariff on everything? Wouldn't that effectively and immediately stop all trade with China?
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by hello_1234 7y ago
May be you can make a video and post it on youtube. People would definitely watch it. It's extremely difficult to do a hundred pushups in one go - even for athletic non-obese people.
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by hello_1234 7y ago
How much of that sales jump is from increase in cost of steel? All US companies are now forced to buy more expensive US-produced steel. This is exactly what economists predicted. US steel companies make more money at the expense of everybo
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by hello_1234 7y ago
The mainframe batch-processing computers might be efficient. I have no idea. I am taking about the "ACH system". It's supposedly automated but it shuts down during the weekends. There is no way to tell how long it will take f
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by hello_1234 7y ago
Here's a great podcast on NPR's planet money if you want to learn more - https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/01/10/576879734/epis... You cannot just give me two anecdotes to defen
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by hello_1234 7y ago
I really wish they succeed. It takes 3 to 5 business days to transfer money using ACH in the US if you don't want to shell out 25$ for wire transfer. Transferring money is just about transferring a few bytes of data. Why does it take 3
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by hello_1234 7y ago
No, the jobs in engineering field has not dried up. I wish people did some research before spewing up lies. "But every engineering occupation has added jobs, the most coming among mechanical engineers." - https://www.fo
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by hello_1234 7y ago
Is there anything that US gains from cutting off Huawei?
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by hello_1234 7y ago
It will only be available to everyone after it's patented and sold to a big pharma. All made possible by the great Bayh–Dole Act - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act
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Teva and Other Generic Drugmakers Inflated Prices Up to Thousand Percent(nytimes.com)
2 points by hello_1234 7y ago|0 comments
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by hello_1234 8y ago
This planet money episode seems relevant : https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/09/29/554603161/epis... Yeah, no private insurance company will knowingly insure houses in those flood prone a

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