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The title doesn't overstate the claim, its simply false. The statement "most surgeries to relieve pain are ineffective" and "most surgeries are ineffective" are completely different largely unrelated statements.

This makes no sense. China constructed the largest fence in the world to achieve what you say they achieve, then you say constructing a fence is showing weakness. This is utter nonsense.

"The US needs to recognize they're behind the game and behave like adults" okay so who is the adults? China? Then this IS behaving like adults as I outlined.

As someone who had issues with this before, can second this is the best advice. As well as running it by someone else to see if they're picking up on the narrative you're trying to convey.

There's a racial difference between jurors in my mind because there's a racial difference between jurors in reality lol. Pretending otherwise is foolish, lawyers literally pick their juries based on this obvious fact.

"Why should black people be judged by black people only?" Is a racist strawman argument. I am saying black people should not be judged by white people exclusively, as can happy if every jury is majority white.

Yeah its a trade off, as the article mentions, against alienating a minority voting bloc in juries. In the US most relevantly black vs white jurors.

Juries will generally be majority white meaning the opinion of the black jurors would be discounted often.

Neither solution is ideal, and this topic interests me greatly, it seems very similar to the questions of fairness and bias in statistics / ML.

I am not a vegetarian but I grew up with two sisters who were, meaning i was served fake meat a lot.

I agree it can be quite good! Spicy fake Italian sausages were a favorite I remember. That being said, to the earlier point they're best when they're not trying to exactly replicate meat flavor but just taste good. Spicy italian sausage was good because it didn't try to taste too much like sausage and was just spicy and italian haha.

Had the same reaction. Its forced overtime so maybe they'll complain? But with the virus hitting, if correct safety precautions are taken the extra cash seems like a good thing? We'd need to actually talk to Amazon workers for their opinions. Also important how Amazon responds if a worker doesn't want the overtime.

While I fully agree with the article, what exactly is it trying to tell me that everyone didn't know? Is it just saying that your phone is a distraction, and that distractions make it harder to focus? I'm just unsure what part of the article anyone would disagree with.

I think the difference is that there are other safety nets in place to prevent people from taking too much. Those are most likely still in effect with the postcards, the only difference is people now know when they can escalate their issues with not getting rice from a local official and succeed. The local official never wants this since the official knows what the citizen is actually due and escalating the issue will confirm this. If someone is demanding too much from the local official, they will have no worries about the complaint running up the chain because they are doing their job correctly.

I disagree completely. While hitting it as big as Jeff Bezos did relies on luck, there's generally themes and qualities that lend themselves to being "lucky" as you call it. And even if you dont hit it as big as Bezos, those qualities can improve your life and other's opinion of you. For example, Jeff Bezos always gets the job done. Nearly every tech success story has some variation of that skill, the ability to complete the task, sometimes in a roundabout way, even if it seemed impossible.

This is not to say acquiring that trait gives you a billion dollar company. But it certainly doesn't hurt to have.