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> You have the right to a degree in XYZ... No, you don't.

> Except that three saturated-fat-laden strips of bacon for breakfast prevents the need for lunch Said no overweight American ever.

It's a distinct signal of pure ignorance that you conflate the highest levels of publicly elected executive leadership with "government employees".

Data is on pragmatic lockout after 3 months, not 12. For years, enterprises have been conditioned to lean into OneDrive and forget about it. Indeed, that dark pattern is a festerin…

> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Ge…

During undergrad years, IFC fraternity pledges had to memorize the Greek alphabet for obvious reasons. This is how the capital letters were taught amongst bros. A BRA EZ HO I KAM N…

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> This is what we had to build in the 60s... >> drift less than 1.5×10−5 °/h Wow...just wow. Not a GNC engineer, but that drift spec strikes me as exceptionally good today, let alo…

That's all motherhood and apple pie, but I'm sorry: the reality that we live in and incentives at play are such that if a capability can be exploited, then it will be exploited to …

In my mind, the prose of the sequels were so unlike Clarke when I read them as a teen that it created a long stint of aversion towards spending time on anything with co-authors. I …

The median US hospital is also a nonprofit; indeed, more than half are. I fail to see how focusing on this opaque median measure tells us anything meaningful. Care to speculate on …

Ahh, grokked. Thanks for helping me better empathize with such a nuanced situation.

Appreciate the perspective. > A not small number of the rural docs are foreign born and trained and they essentially work this crappy jobs until they have permanent residency and t…

Hmm...sniff test sampling: - HCA[1]: FY25 profit margin = 9.0% - UHS[2]: FY25 profit margin = 8.6% - THC[3]: FY25 profit margin = 6.6% Yeah, a bit of disaggregation is likely neede…

> There were 147 unfilled slots for pediatricians, 805 for family medicine, and 357 for internal medicine. They don't have the applicants; it's not the slots. You lost me...from yo…

> The dirty little not-so-secret is that we pay doctors too much in the US. Doubt. > That's partly because we have a doctor shortage here (medical schools collude to limit the numb…

I assumed it was a wink to the Nov 1972 Playboy model[1] whose centerfold face became a de facto baseline test image for DSP algorithms without consent. [1] https://en.wikipedia.or…

Who said anything about beating GPS or other functionally equivalent GNSS?

What makes you think cell tower triangulation is the only data point being exploited to minimize position error?

I don't think he ever got the first half of the advance...cherry-picking from the TFA: > They offered a $5000 advance with the first half paid out when they approve of the first th…