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Why is everyone that disagrees with you being flagged?

We don't accept dissent or discussion here?

so signals. If you're talented enough you don't need signals, you just provide value.

So for many people, acquiring signals is a complete waste of time and money.

I've not only always shared an apartment since college, I've shared rooms.

Millennial, two STEM degrees, live in a 2nd-tier city, and likely a decade more before I can afford a down payment.

So uhhhh....checkmate?

the inequity would be if free parking was provided to workers who drove to work but no similar subsidy was provided to those who took public transit.

Really? Does it work the other way too? My employer will reimburse a small amount of public transit costs, but the people that drive get no similar benefit.

we have to do something about the interest rates though, there are tons of programs to help cap your payment...but you're just kicking the can down the road as your balance goes up.

Would you be ok with instituting a law that mortgage and medical debts can no longer be discharged through bankruptcy?

I bet people get really irresponsible when they realize they don't have to pay these debts, they just have to take a massive hit to their credit score....or maybe, most people don't become irresponsible, the people that really need the help get it, and a couple take advantage of the system.

I mean, is this surprising? Despite the original purpose of college, today the majority of people only go to college because they want a decent job.

If your best shot of getting a decent job requires you to first get a 40k piece of paper, many people will do this and they will put in the minimum amount of work to get what they want. I mean, it's efficient after all isn't it? Why work more for the same result?

I managed to get about 70% of my entire undergrad (tuition, books, and living expenses) covered by academic scholarships.

Even with working every summer, every Christmas break, and through 3 of the 4 years while at school, I still had to miss many classes to pick up extra shifts at work (thankfully only a handful of courses are strict about attendance, so my GPA only suffered by about ~0.3). And I still came out with the "average student loan debt" of about 22k.

Unfortunately, despite how "smart" I am. I was too retarded to see what a mistake the life sciences were and I'm still working on that debt.

College is a scam if you're at least decently intelligent. It's an 80k stamp.

you can't be compassionate if your compassion only extends to the point that it starts to have any negative effect on your life.

Then you're just a dick that wants to pretend you are a better person than you are.

The author is as compassionate as many of the Republicans in Congress. They care! They really do, just not enough to vote in anyway that would make a difference to the things they proclaim to care about.

I really appreciate the author sharing something so personal, but his entire family is less than human.

Most medical operations have an army of people supporting physicians.

I used to work at a medical lab and there were transcriptionists, billing dept, a dept. for quality assurance of every report a doctor wrote, customer service, etc. Hospitals have all of that plus nurses (RNs, CNAs, etc.), physician assistants, and probably many others.

Part of the problem is how much paperwork/procedures/diagnostic reporting is legally mandated to be done by doctors. The other part is...money. Businesses want to/need to squeeze as much money out of the doctors and that requires seeing as many patients as possible.

Companies don't want to deal with being debt collectors is what this comes down to.

My last job paid for a good portion of my masters, every time I was reimbursed for tutition there was a set amount of time I had to still be with the company or I had to repay a certain amount.

Ended up leaving before finishing my degree due to really hating the company, I was prepared to hand back 15k, but they never even bothered asking for it. Same thing happened to a coworker of mine, though it was substantially less money in that case.

A lot of physicians either push to restrict the supply of docs or look at this "issue" and do nothing about it. They do not want their wages to decrease by opening up the market (have had physician friends say this to me in words that make it sound less terrible).

Cuba decided they wanted more physicians, so they invested in them to the point that they could use them as an export. If we have a shortage of doctors (which I think we do), the people with the power to change that either don't believe we have a shortage or have a vested interest in keeping a shortage.

If docs didn't slot 15 minutes per patient, then they would need to charge each patient much, much more or make much, much less. There is no other way around that.

Any insight for someone that already works as a bioinformatics scientist that wants to move into deep learning?

I've got the programming, math, some stats, and am currently involved in research, but I only know a little about deep learning. I'm currently working my way through the course.fast.ai deep learning courses and am going to do Part 2 when it is released.

Any other resources that would be useful for getting a job in this area? Best to just work on my own projects?

No, doctors do not have "too much information to consume" especially in relation to new drugs on the market.

In the highly specialized field of medicine, you do not need to know about every drug that comes out every year. You only need to know about the handful of drugs that are important to your specialty. Further physicians should be reading medical literature regarding the efficacy of these new drugs and should not be getting their education from a pharmacy rep with a bachelors in communication.

This idea that we wouldn't have any new drugs if American's didn't pay exorbitant fees for pharamaceuticals is completely false. It's a rationalization that we Americans have come up with to feel better about being taken to the cleaners by pharma companies.

I had the displeasure of working for a company that was bought out by a multi-national pharma. The crap they pulled disgusted me to the point that I quit without another job lined up. If you think contributing to a company that improves click rates is pointless, try contributing to a company that uses its leverage to eviscerate its customers on their deathbeds. It's infuriarating.

Used to think that, but after you contribute to a pharma company that's out to "improve patient's lives" by waiting until they're on their death beds and using that leverage to extract as much capital as possible...you start to change your mind, especially when you're not even decently compensated for fucking sick people over.

I'm on the west coast, not San Francisco, but average rent for a 1BR here is $1700. I make less than half of 150k.

It's whatever, I'm working to move industries. I just look at these numbers for INTERNS and realize I've almost spent a decade treading water with nothing to show for it...all because I picked the wrong major in college.

Extremely disheartening and shame inducing to realize I can't even compete with a college kid on renting an apartment.

The two times I've made major moves in my life I thought the new water tasted awful. In both cases I acclimated and the water was tasteless within a month or two.

Jesus Christ, I need to get out of life sciences. What a fucking mistake that was.

The cause of economic inequality is several generations of government disrespect...

And who makes up the government that writes and votes on these laws? And who uses their money to influence the people in these positions?

My guess is the upper class of FTE works in the top 1/5 of the population? Although, maybe it's more apt to say the 1% or 0.1% who are not workers?

Does the author include the business owners and elites in their top 1/5 of the population? Or are they a different subset as they are not workers?

How about a movement that says, "If you can't earn a decent wage working 40 hours a week, sit under a bridge until you die for your country."

Reducing the labor pool and showing the elites they can build their own roads, make their own coffee, and fly their own planes unless they allow all citizens to live with dignity after a 40 hour work week.

I believe their is much more virtue in doing this than going to war to make the elites richer. We should celebrate those that opt out of exploitation even more so than "war heroes."

I know this will never happen, but it's nice to day dream.

if entrepreneurship weren't seen as this holy grail mount Kilimanjaro thing.

So you want successful entrepreneurs to be poor? It's only seen as a holy grail because it allows for tremendous fiscal success.

This guy cannot honestly be as dumb as he presented himself in this article.

I guess if he thinks people will buy his explanation he very well might be.

I think we've been moving that way for a long time.

However, I can think of some useful AR applications that could be useful for surgery.

It shouldn't matter if his reasons are he wants to sit at home, get high, and eat doritos.

Businesses aren't families, employees shouldn't be discriminated against because another employee needs/wants help.

I think a better way to frame this is "Hard work barely matters when you work for someone else."

I've been in too many situations and witnessed too many friends and family members that shoot for the moon but are never able to leave Earth as all their extra efforts are usurped by their managers and business owners.

Sure hard work "matters", it can help you get places, but how much does it matter is the question? Does it make 1% difference? 5% difference? 50% difference? I'd bet the difference is <10% compared to someone who does just enough to get by.

I think kids would go furthest of all if we told them "treat yourself as an autonomous being, work hard when you are in a position to realize the benefits of your hard work, otherwise do just enough and save your energy for better days."

It definitely surprises me that with all the talk of "following your passion" and "changing the world", we see pretty much 0 innovation in HOW a company works/is owned/etc. Instead all innovation is focused at the product level.

I don't think there's anything wrong with caring about money, in fact I think it's a mistake not to care about money in a system that revolves around money. However, listening to people tell me how "passionate they are about 'X'" when in reality they are only passionate about making money is one my biggest pet peeves.

...but I thought most entrepreneurs wanted to "change the world" with "revolutionary" businesses?

If it's a loose tie, it's not a big deal that I don't know about their big life milestones. Sometimes I hear through the grape vine, but if not then the next time I see them we have a lot of catching up to do!

Would rather offer congrats in person than write a generic message on their social media wall.

Raise taxes and use that money to pay educators a wage that allows home ownership.