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Comment #17250819
Yes I'm sure that's what they taught you at Vassar kiddo. Do you need a safe space now?
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Comment #17248810
"Infant mortality rates for full-term babies vary across the U.S., but all states are worse than many European countries, a new study suggests." From your own source, literally doe…
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Comment #17248782
The downvote brigade is out in force today. Truly disgusting how the vast majority of those SV are either left wing SJW types or "da free market cures all ills" nuts. Diversity of …
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Comment #17247388
>The US has higher cancer survival rates than Europe First of all that source is from a pseudo-intellectual religious journal and carries little to no weight in my opinion, even if…
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Comment #17247159
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.MORT?view=map&ye... . Infant mortality is nearly 2x higher in the US. I know where I'd want to be.
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Comment #17247139
In response to paul's bs about drug prices. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-drug-price-sofosbu... Costs $1000 in the US and $4 in India.
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Comment #17247112
Americans have the worst Health outcomes while spending the most by far out of all developed nations. Your libertarian shtick can't get you out of that one.
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Comment #17229058
Yeah the guy in a 1982 Volvo spewing black smoke and rusting to pieces is obviously more financially savvy and responsible than someone driving a BMW.
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Comment #17224196
If she worked at a Bay Area tech company and cant find a decent tech job in Austin she was probably a shit engineer.
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Comment #17224126
The equivalent would be saying that I met some racists in a trailer park in upstate New York so therefore New York City is obviously a backwards racist podunk town...
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Comment #17224118
This is total nonsense. If you live in a trailer park that may be an issue but it would also be an issue at trailer parks in California.
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Comment #17224106
100K is near entry level for tech salaries in Austin so there is absolutely no chance you would clear 400K at a similar job in the valley. You are living in a dream.
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Comment #17224090
The point is that those few thousand represent outliers. How many engineers work in the Valley or in the US? 400K puts you in the vaunted top 1% for the entire country.
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Comment #17224080
Exactly, at FAANG level companies. Only a tiny fraction of engineers in the valley work at those companies so those salaries are in fact outliers.
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Comment #17208898
Boy you've bought into the Silicon Valley delusion fully haven't you. Lol, so many people on HN are shockingly ignorant of anything outside of their Uber-Liberal SWE bubble.
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Comment #17208882
Sounds like your issue is with the current political system not with drones. Direct your anger to the appropriate places.
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Comment #17208848
You should change your reference point, assuming drone warfare is coming and is not banned in some way who would you rather be the world leader in that space? Alibaba and China or …
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Comment #17208828
I can 100% guarantee that no one will be able to work on Maven without getting a TS/SCI clearance. The process of getting one entails a high level of scrutiny.
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Comment #17206403
It seems to work in much of Europe, inb4 "But this is Murrrrica!"
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Comment #17206292
I think you have a very poor understanding of education culture and attitudes towards science in the US.
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Comment #17198320
1. Are you really assuming that researchers at MSFT screwed up the training and validation sets?? 4. In what way is GBT more interpretable than an ANN??
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Comment #17197683
They are using this to routinely pull wanted criminals out of crowds using facial recognition. Seems valuable especially to somewhere like China that likes to grab particular peopl…
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Comment #17197578
How are parents better than bureaucrats in this case? There are countless towns in the US that if left to their own devices would soon resemble Sunday Schools and would utterly fai…
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Comment #17197555
Indeed but they perform much better relative to the difference between poor and rich students in the US.