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Fuck we cured sickle cell anemia and got a FDA approved treatment out like 2 years ago, and other branches of science keep trucking along.
The US's life expectancy was recently eclipsed by Cuba lol, medical science is absolutely not the field you want to try and champion as exemplary of American exceptionalism
any relation whatsoever to Blender? any relation whatsoever to generative pretrained transformers? at all??
I'm just really, really wary of new fintech products to save like .3% on fees
off by an order of magnitude, you're saving 0.03% on fees
+10 FICO credit score
Instead of plotting to kill the CEO of some healthcare company, he found a solution to his problem instead.
invoking "bootstraps" unironically in this exact, specific context is one of the dumbest fucking things I've ever, ever seen
it's a made up word for a bullshit concept we'll be free of very soon; many of us already live our lives free of such trifles
Impossible to estimate the amount of damage the runaway real estate market has done to competitiveness, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the interest of funnelling more free money to entitled landlords sitting on their asses cashing rent checks
you should grow some thicker skin :(
Heckin' wholesome news: Eglin Air Force Base revealed as the most HN addicted city!
People who live in a lot of African countries don't play much of a role in deciding what their governments do.
Holy fuck, are you saying this as someone who lives in the UNITED STATES? Incredible
little did we know that all it would take to cure cancer was $2000 in store credit to Google But Sometimes It Lies (Professional™ Edition)
If anything LLMs have delayed AGI by a decade by rerouting massive amounts of funding and attention away from promising areas and into stochastic parrots
for every tier that costs 10x more than the previous, they add a "very" to the "You are a very, very, very smart AI"
Did you read the post you're replying to? It's very short. He was paying for top-tier service, and now, despite paying the same amount, has become a second-class customer overnight.
federal minimum wage is $7.25 actually :(
apply your critical thinking skills before posting. $85M in 2014 dollars is $113M in 2024 dollars, and something tells me McKinsey didn't just leave the money sitting in a high yield savings account all this time
$85M in 2014 dollars is $113M in 2024 dollars, and something tells me McKinsey didn't just leave the money sitting in a high yield savings account all this time
you already knew this when you made your post, but the calculus changes a little bit when there is a positive financial incentive to letting people die
what is this post? are you under the impression that you get to choose your health insurance provider in the US? your job picks for you
Crafting of US legislation has absolutely no basis in efficacy or data, it's entirely driven by the news cycle. Something attention grabbing (like a Mandalay) happens, something extremely specific from the headlines but largely secondary to enabling the actual crime (like bump stocks) are banned, then the whole thing is forgotten about
there's so much nuance in an insurance company having billions left over every year after subtracting payouts from premiums! it's sooo complex and nuanced
Post more ahistorical propaganda!
Truly disgusting juxtaposition between the marketing douchebags copy pasting pictures of the Berlin Wall and other vacuous feel-good pablum into the design bible of their MySpace knockoff, and the reality that said knockoff would later be best known for facilitating genocide in Myanmar
Disgusting, infantilizing worldview. Fix the culture instead of chasing it. These imbecilic "behavioral economists" can't wait to live in a world where you get a Free* Grimace Shake with every root canal at participating McDonalds(R) McDentists™.
This comment is proof Israel needs to be de-Nazified.
Think about the premise: type in anything, and somehow it will read your mind, intuit who you are and what you really wanted, find the exact thing amid the morass of the whole web, and then give it to you?
I never once asked for anything remotely like this. Maybe you could just show me results for the fucking thing I typed? When I go to the library, the Dewey decimal system doesn't rearrange itself based on all the metadata the library has on me and people fitting my demographic criteria, it just shows me what I fucking searched for.
there are many, many people who are paid a lot of money to pretend to believe that the universities should actually be spending less and keeping more for their endowments because that strategy would enable the biggest impact at some indeterminate point in the future
Incredible. Every point of data shows the highest compensated members of a firm doing the least work / being the most harmful to productivity lmfao. Wonder what the takeaway here is
Personally I think tariffs against China are valuable for geopolitical reasons, and think that might be a higher priority at a time when the CCP is unstable.
What exactly do you mean by this?
If you're an American wondering why you're forced to buy shitty overpriced Teslas instead of those $15k BYD Dolphins, here's Janet Yellen screeching about how unfair it is that China uses its labor force to manufacture consumer goods instead of creating millions of bullshit make-work financialization jobs like good liberal democracies https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/yellen-intends-warn-...