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Don't think op is in US. Nobody would say "phone engineer" in the states.

I'm genuinely surprised at the excess deaths number? Can you square your "no excess deaths" vs this data from CDC? https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

Actually remember a presentation from one of the logbook startups from a few years ago. The key feature that skyrocketted adoption was the ability to fudge (...er, "correct") the l…

Nazi prison guards of our algorithm world war.

Agree. In US, 500 kids have died. That's in over a year, and in a time period which didn't include vaccine. Every year 800 kids die from drowning. About 200 kids die from the flue.…

F'n A. Reading the comments on this thread makes me love humanity. So much ingenuity, raw engineering horsepower, creativity. Goddamn, you are great people and you should be proud …

I would welcome you to move to VT, which has had fully state based funding since 1996 or so. The outcome has been decidedly mixed. One clear thing that has happened is every studen…

Agree. I've voted in 4 states (NC, NY, VT, NH) and it has all been like above. And I've also served as election volunteer, checking absentee ballots against the voting rolls.

Double yes. I am praying Palm phone upgrades. Exactly what I want but needs more battery life.

I can COMPLETELY believe it was a lazy analyst at an insurance company. Boss: where's the data that Bob wanted? er... Here! (Source: been inside many insurance companies.) Hanlon's…

Depends on definition of "senior". If you are still an individual contributor and need to demonstrate technical expertise, fine. But if you are a manager, you need to demonstrate t…

Sorry, whats the difference here? -avg streamer makes $x. Total = $x * # streamers -streamers make an average of $y. Total = $y * # streamers Average is always sum/n?

I am starting to believe "purpose" as related to work is mostly a giant con. Sometimes we run it on ourselves. But we are all dust in the end. Does the project or business that we …

I owned a dam. Worst deal of my life, as it was regulated by the town, state, and feds. Touching anything on it required permits from multiple agencies at each of the above. Be car…

I'm in a similar boat. Not outrageously rich, but rich enough that I won't spend it all before I die. Work in a highly lucrative industry, which bores the hell out of me. I took a …

If you had $500K - $1M to invest in capital equipment that would power a new startup (e.g., hard assets like a CNC or special tool), what would you buy? Ideally the outcome would b…

Each fact in the document may be true, but the document is so overbroad as to be useless. Who is it intended for? I mean, it is almosth philosophical in starting from how senses ac…

Absolutely stunning example of work by some folks in DoD who clearly have "bullshit jobs." This includes diagrams and descriptions of how eyeballs work, quotes from Hemingway, and …

Their solution in the TFA is to focus on straight-through billing through standardization of payment mechanisms, arguing that each physician is paying $100K / year. Of course, this…

It's time for the "Ron Brown* Vacation" story from dotcom boom 1.0. I was a tech project lead at a semi-famous internet portal startup, so worked across departments picking up staf…

I'm sorry, but unless you are in the US the estate is over $10m, you owe no federal taxes. https://smartasset.com/taxes/all-about-the-estate-tax#:~:tex... . I don't know what your …

EXACTLY my question. How much would it have cost to make some bets against the various types of vaccines that could come out. Make a "generic" manufacturing facility that could the…

..and you've just described what management consultants do at scale.

Interesting that a big chunk of her money on each vehicle is from a few videos and 1 medium article (I think $18k from 1 medium article, the rest earned around $300). Definitely a …

This is a very literal approach. I assume that when you watch network TV you assume everything is coming at you with the same purpose and intent (news, talking head show, some docu…