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If by some miracle/disaster AI automated away a non-trivial percent of your profession over the next decade or so, what career would you switch into to take you through retirement?…

this is at best an incomplete assessment and at worst ahistorical others [1] would argue that it was american auto manufacturers' anti-union zealotry (and the decisions they made i…

"Marxism has therefore given up trying to provide an explanation for the 20th century history... The reason for this failure lies in the fact that Marxism never made a meaningful d…

It's worth noting that a recent analysis of S.1804, the Medicare for All Act, "could reduce total health care spending in the U.S. by nearly 10 percent" [1]. Even conservative anal…

From my understanding of Bernie's "Medicare For All" bill (S. 1804) [1] payment to providers would be fixed at the, well, Medicare rate. Medicare rates are about 40% lower than pri…

Interestingly enough the house single-payer bill H.R. 676 [1] (and supposedly the Senate bill S. 1804, although I couldn't find any specific language on it) has provisions for "ret…

The article didn't really go into detail on how LO3 uses the blockchain as part of their technology, so this may be unrelated, but this podcast [1] better articulates some insight …

There's two main reasons I can see: performance is impacted by the implementation language and because officially supported SDKs/client libraries are usually written, and get updat…

This is a great series. I also highly recommend Benjamin Pierce's book "Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists" if you are interested in this http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/b…

I just attended a talk but Sumit Gulwani where he demo'd FlashFill, FlashExtract and walked through their underlying architecture. His talk had much cooler demos than any I could f…