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I think in a state with a single boomtown(Seattle) this goes doubly true. Productive and competent people with agency opt for tech or tech adjacent vs local/county/state government. Seems it will continue provided the cost/benefit ratio of policies in Olympia don't begin to diminish the perceived return on big tech work in Seattle.
For such a tech and adv. manufacturing dependent state, WA certainly has pushed some conspicuous and myopic regulations since 2016. With the coming income tax creep, seems we’re marching towards the bloat of California sans any of the benefits(consumer data laws, digital/real ID, etc).
Comments like these, aside from the brilliant technical answers and dives, really highlight the value of HN. What a lovely Sunday read I shall have—I’ve been getting distracted by the phone and world news. Reading Baudillard and Debord should help reestablish what’s noise and what isn’t.
Thank you.
I'm not arguing the point you're making. I'm saying that these discussions on these sorts of things on chat boards populated by privileged western nerds and conspicuous progressives have little merit and are merely a reflection of biases/ego of the privileged western nerd when put up against the lived experiences of people in Venezuela and neighboring states.
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this was probably a combination of 3/75 Ranger Regiment and/or RRC, Delta/CAG, 24th STS, and probably 1 or more SEAL teams based on the sub movement.
If you're going to flaunt nerd speak then just say JSOC.
Here's a trick I've learnt to get an authentic view of events like these, a nice way to parse through the keyboard warrior and ivory tower voices and noise is to hear what Venezuelans, the millions of Venezuelan migrants, and the citizens of neighboring countries who've had to reckon with the legacy of Chavez think about this. You can extend this to anything really with good results.
No valuable insight will be gleaned from chat boards and reddit in the immediate aftermath of these sorts of events.
Dr. Levin’s work is so fascinating. Glad to see his work referenced. If anyone wishes to learn more while idle or commuting, check out Lex Friedman’s podcast episode with him linked above
I hope someone much smarter than I answers this. I’ve been noticing an uptick platonic and neo-platonic discourse in the zeitgeist and am wondering if we’re converging on something profound.
I’m really curious about the amount of screen time and news/social media consumption of these groups. I assume it’s a couple standard deviations above what’s healthy.
It’s absolutely insightful for adults as well. Especially when paired with the other horsemen of the attention apocalypse “Dopamine Nation”, “Irresistible”, and “The Shallows”.
Returned my treatment of the internet from “the thing” to just another tool.
It can be both. The further away I get from social media and its singular narratives where it’s always “this ONE thing” form of causeality, the more I realize the mechanisms and causes can be multimodal and compound upon on another.
I(1992) keep it because my younger family members(Gen Z>) refuse to use anything else to communicate.
If anyone wishes to use this study as a catalyst to shift one’s attitude, then I highly recommend dropping the dopaminergic doomloop apps like Reddit/Bluesky/X/tiktok/IG.
Your life will be better for it. Snapchat can stay…for reasons.
Vitamin D, red light therapy, insulin attenuating response of a walk, immunological benefit of allergen exposure, cognitive noise reduction and rest response of walks in forests.
Man keeps trying to bring the outdoors inside.
Oh yeah, it’s both funny and understandable how we’ve swung from the mania of huel-esque techbro belief of nutrition to the current holistic eating “beef tallow” and no-seed oils movement. I think we realized guzzling slop alone is spiritually empty.
This adds nothing to the conversation but seeing the lively discussion here on hn about lifting, exercise, and studies is quite rewarding. Good to see technical folks passionate about their health and fitness.
I bought the 256gb version with the intent on using it as a new and novel medium to rebuild my app building skills from conception to end after half a decade in the enterprise space. I have to say it met my expectations and for whatever gaps in UX and the featureset exist, they seem solvable and that is very exciting. Needless to say, I’m keeping mine. Influencers be damned.
As an elder millennial, it really doesn’t seem like a last gasp. These academic attempts are perfect for conspicuous signalling at no cost and such signals usually get repeated by my generation and zoomers. What I’m trying to say is that based on the past few years it seems these busybodies are winning.
My anecdotal experience suggests this seems to be a Cali phenomenon. In Seattle, even with our insane number homeless, addicts, and the uptick in crime this year, we’ve had only a handful of attacks against our Asian citizens. All of which were dealt with swiftly and harshly.
It’s really frustrating how simple and true this is yet difficult to brand and market correctly.
I’m curious whether there’s data showing the age breakdown of the perpetrators and victims in these cases and whether the rise of Hindu nationalism contributed to an increase.
This headline does a disservice to his statement. He addressed the need to tax wealth, including generational wealth, as well as incomes. The nature of the latter will be contentious in WA given the fact that the area has a high COLA, is tech heavy, and that many of the workers here are 1st generation immigrants whose only source of stability and wealth is their income.
An EKG is done via a 12-point lead at specific areas of the body. At the moment, there is only one ECG sensor on the watch. When I told my SO who is currently in medical residency, the look on her face was of pure horror. I think to physicians and medical professionals, all this feature will do is to create more false positives and needlessly clog up already stressed clinics with wasteful checkups and add to the number of hypochondriacs.
Maybe through ML Apple could enhance the accuracy and precision of the measurements but given Apple's history with iterating on intelligent features(Siri), it won't happen for a while. If Apple wants to have a meaningful impact on the health of their users, then maybe they ought to use the ECG sharing feature as a means of getting their foot in the door of the medical records industry where their product approach and design rigour is much needed. Moreover, Apple could leverage the ECG feature as part of the product experience to motivate people to engage in activities that get them moving which, at the end of the day, is where most users derive the most value from.
"What is the difference between a psychological and psychiatric problem? I've never seen these terms used in the same context you used them anywhere in medicine"
You really ought to stop pushing your uneducated opinions and do more research.
We do. In fact we make them redo their 3-4 residencies and following that, dangle the promise of a Green Card after seven years and send them to the god forsaken underpaid rural shitholes American trained doctors have fled because of the inadequacy of the cash salaries(taxed at reg brackets unlike our execs and bankers) relative to student debt and medical practice overhead. How do I know this? Because this is how I came to America.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/health-expenditures.htm
The US spent 3.2 trillion on health care in 2015. 100 billion is 3.12%. It doesn't seem like that big of a problem. This article is just capital scapegoating labour as the source of the inefficiency and insane costs that is particular to the American Healthcare system. If you want an honest discussion, look to the heart of the issue, which is the fundamental incompatibility with effective healthcare and America's fetishism of libertarian market dynamics. I mean even in the Swiss healthcare system which maintains private insurance participation, family doctors on average earn CHF 198,000/USD 201,732.
This is just a hit piece by big Pharma trying to squeeze dollars out of labour and we in tech who went through 4 years of schooling to collect comfy salaries for a few hours a day of productive work, we in tech who love to bash H1B's and foreign grads for increasing our competition, and we in tech who seldom reckon with real human suffering, fear, and death in our line of work, are absolutely eating it up. I absolutely look forward to the time when the squeeze comes and companies pivot to blaming us as the reason for the high costs of goods or as the limiting factor stopping execs from achieving the revenue gains they promised investors.
Seattle needs to aggressively address the ridiculous single-family zoning issues before we end up like the Bay Area. The city's only real advantage over San Fran/Palo Alto is it's relative affordability for tech workers and the talent pool that AMZN pulls. Beyond that, Seattle has neither the VC money or the number of start-ups and aggressively growing companies to compete with the Bay Area. If we lose that comparative affordability then the talent and businesses will start moving to lower-cost of living cities like Denver/Boulder, Salt Lake City, and Atlanta. It's going to very interesting to see what happens when AMZN selects it's second HQ. Word is it's now between Atlanta and Denver.
*luxury high-rise and mid-rise condo buildings
And those developments have been concentrated in a few areas barely zoned for such. The vast majority of the city is zoned for single family buildings not townhouses/low-rises/mid-rises nevermind NYC-style high-rise apt buildings the city and the young so desperately need.
Seattleite here, If the city would build for density and take some steps to address the speculation and foreign asset arbitrage going on in the housing market, then this debate would be moot and we'd be back to brooding and awkwardly avoiding human contact as we so desperately want to.