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From the students' perspective, it is better to not be allowed in than fail out midway through. One test is cheaper than years in college.

> Are banks that concerned about velocity? Yes

> medicine will always be the most secure and stable career, still has a shit life-work balance too. It only is because it effectively has a guild\cartel system preventing an overs…

> The research overwhelming says its a good practice. I disagree. From what I've read, the data is more mixed. More tracking optimizes for the top achievers. Less tracking optimize…

Having multiple parallel tracks for different types of students is controversial. Schooling tends to be cyclical with periods with more tracking is popular shifting to periods of l…

Why?

While prescription drug marketing to consumers is an issue in the US, I think the actual problem in this situation is people Googling their issue then coming to the doctor with the…

Typical commodity cycle...most commodities work like this

Yes. From what I've read, they can't stop enrichment unless they deploy soldiers for occupation and they are unwilling to do so.

Virginia recently became the 2nd state to allow it. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/virginia-to-becom...

> Near zero interest rates + COVID remote work + PPP loans = Booming economy One more factor to add to the equation...when everyone went remote during COVID, all brick-and-mortar b…

> Puff piece with 1000+ words that doesn't ever assert anything in particular that the author was wrong about His article mostly talks about other things but I think his title is s…

More money is flowing into commodities. Gold price going up feeds into more mining.

Personally, I think the Firefox browser right-click options are one of the more useful right-click menus. The one on the Apple OS is a better example of excessive and worthless.

> Maybe I'm just remembering badly, but I don't remember encountering this twenty years ago; back then the rules were clear that you either didn't accept credit payments, or you di…

> Can the source database for an LLM be one-way, in that it does not contain output from itself, or other LLMs? I think, for public internet data, we can only be reasonably confide…

From my understanding, it wasn't the bombing that motivated Japan to surrender even though this is commonly taught, it was the recent Soviet declaration of war and fear of invasion…

I think the logic goes something like...in a democracy, government policies should reflect the will of the people. The majority of the people are against exporting jobs overseas wh…

We would have to prepare for a deluge of accounts posting\commenting just for the sake of accumulating karma to be able to downvote.

The YouTube numbers surprised me the most. I agree with you. I was expecting a rise in viewership.

I wonder if the students are going into film but actually just want to work in social media in which case it all makes sense.

I actually think this is a deal only Buffett could have made. By bringing on Buffett as an investor, it sent a signal to the market that the bank was solvent and improved confidenc…