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how dare you besmirch the Epstein drive

Let's say TikTok was the same exact company founded in another country, do you believe that the conversation about banning it would be the same? With some exceptions (maybe Russia, for example), I seriously doubt it.

Yeah, agreed with the other comment. Recruiters wouldn't be able to do 1.a of your suggestion, let alone 2, 3.

I'm not sure my response qualifies, but I see no other responses yet so:

I interned in high school at Brookhaven National Lab working on a team that analyzed STAR (Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) data from RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider). I didn't contribute all that much as a high school intern but the program director said at the end that he liked the high school program because he wanted to help funnel and bring people back to help build up the labs.

My experience was that everyone there was extremely smart, but all post-doc and top scientists in their field (the team I worked on was looking for Anti-Alpha particles from gold-gold particle collisions that also helped create Quark Gluon Plasma). So I'm not sure their relative need for regular software engineers.

In terms of bureaucracy, you're still working for the government. The scientists all complained about the layers of government bureaucracy but were mostly okay with it. High-tier science moves at a pretty slow pace; coming from a tech background you might not be used to the slow pace around the actual physical construction of some of these devices, let alone the fund-seeking, approvals, testing, runs, and data collection. and 33-50% is a hopeful estimate. Let's say one is a 500k a year senior/staff SWE at FAANG. at a similar level of experience, one's pay would be very lucky to break 150k.

So fascinating science, layers of bureaucracy, slow moving stuff, PhD's in their fields, and reduced pay. Again I was only a high school intern, but I spoke with the scientists about their experiences so take my recollection with massive salt. I walked away from the summer fascinated by the work and I had a love of physics at the time; but I also left (this was 2010 IIRC?) watching the world of tech explode at a massive pace and thought that I didn't like physics enough ( I had spent my junior/senior year of high school doing a capstone project on theoretical physics and having taken a lot of physics classes). When I went to college the next year, I tried a few engineering courses, and switched to CS. I'm glad I made the switch.

seems to be careless not to burn current residence to the ground as well

Would I be reading into the timing too much, if I noted the timing of this post and how recently Ancient Apocalypse aired (and subsequent Rogan appearance)?

My devil's advocate take is that this is downstream of corporate consolidation. Corporate consolidation IMO has become easier with greater economies of scale achievable with far better communication, shipping networks, and generally global connectivity.

If CEO's of today on average leading companies that are orders of magnitude larger than in the 70's (CEO has 100-1000 people in the company in 70's vs 1,000-100,000 today), then the jump in pay isn't surprising. If the CEO is driving the direction of a company and those decisions affect orders of magnitude more workers and orders of magnitude more revenue, then it follows that they can get a higher salary. They might not be any better, but the stakes of their decisions are bigger.

I see a lot of revolution and socialism vs capitalism comments here, but isn't this a not surprising finding given corporate consolidation and increase in CEO:total worker ratio?

Sure, there's debate about pro's and con's of corporate consolidation and market failures surrounding monopolies and oligopolies. But, with the increase in connectivity between regions via telecom, internet, mobile, etc; wouldn't there be an expectation of increased economies of scale from more frictionless communication?

If we note increased economies from scale for companies, it would naturally follow a CEO's wage would rise given the weight CEO's decisions when compared to results of company and number of workers affected. The CEO of walmart vs the CEO of 5 general stores would obviously change.

All I'm noting is that perhaps this is downstream of consolidation and that's the pertinent discussion, not deciding on socialism/revolution.

Who left the fridge open.

One of your examples I believe hurts your point: "Whether they win $500 million or $1 million, about 70 percent of lotto winners lose or spend all that money in five years or less."

https://www.rd.com/list/13-things-lottery-winners/#:~:text=W....

I think the bar for upvote receiving humor is just high on HN

I LOVE quordle. found it on an HN post. I enjoy it because it's much more (in my opinion) about reducing unknown information about all the letters than it is about guessing for each possible word.

I hope you are wrong about <50%, but you may be right. I'd be curious as to a reasonable lower bound of human knowledge about human biology; do we know at least 25% of the fundamentals?

I'd bet the insider trading pales greatly in comparison to hiring ex-congresspeople for their access and contact sheet

Cancer progress in the last 40 years hasn’t been that great (I’m not discounting the hard work and incredible breakthroughs there have been, etc). I’d predict we’re closer to a cancer cure and other not so soon medical advances than a fully functional artificial womb. (10-15 years would be F-ing amazing but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 100-150 years and aging was cured first).

Edit: bc I forgot, we can't even replicate human breast milk fully well!

Mutilate your thirst

Wow, pardon my ignorance. There's a whole wikipedia article on India Russia relations [1]. (I then checked how many bilateral relation articles there are, turns out a lot but clearly not exhaustive). there's a lot to the India Russia relationship dating back to the cold war and it's a close tie.

Pardon my silly US lack of knowledge

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Russia_relations

So the article presents the motivations of India around this consideration, but could anyone possibly elaborate on what the thinking might be? The article states that the Indian defense department cannot suffer the energy costs because of "simmering territorial disputes with China". India also has longstanding border disputes with Pakistan. I always thought (potentially ignorantly) that India would largely align itself with "the West". Moreover, the countries that would potentially aid India in any escalation of border disputes would be the US, Europe, etc.

How does this purchase not ending hurting them in the sense that, if they buy Russian oil in this crisis in defiance of the West's objections; wouldn't that come back to bite them potentially if China aggressed on India in a potentially parallel border dispute?

filibuster

What enshrines bonuses from being free from these disclosures and regulations? Any law about pay could be extended to bonuses and bonus disparity becomes pay disparity (unless I'm missing some enshrined, unchangeable, legal exemption/difference between bonuses and pay).

agreed, all incredible stuff, I replied to another comment with a fuller reply, but despite these incredible recent achievements I think the years since apollo have been overshadowed by failures in rocket development and innovation (except spacex) and nasa under funding. I linked a story about SLS delays and funding levels and Nasa budget in my other reply

All undeniably incredible achievements. I look at Nasa's budget [1] and see the government achieve something incredible in the apollo project and take their foot off the gas on the most exciting (and potentially unifying) frontier. I also look at the corruption and stagnation in US rocket systems like SLS and the sinkhole of hours and dollars it has been [2].

I am very excited about space and the future, I just think that in the years since Apollo the story has been emblematic of wastefulness, contractor level benign corruption (cost plus contracting) more than it has been inspiring with the stories you mentioned. just my opinion.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

2 https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/11/nasas-sls-moon-rocket-is-2...

Well, considering the progress in space in reaching the moon and the arguably stagnant (except recent developments like reusable boosters) developments since then, I think it's very reasonable to be disappointed in the past years of space development.

its L2 point takes about a month to reach, much different orbit than Hubble which is why the flawless launch is so important and the unpacking.

Laws (in my opinion) are a lot harder to get right than they are to get wrong. Laws are also (IMO) quite sticky in that once they are passed, they are difficult to modify and or adjust. It takes a strong political will to pass any federal law and once that political capital is spent, adjustments can be unpopular.

People may disagree, but I think that the distinction and separation of state/local/federal law is great. one size often does not fit all and having different methods of laws experimented with and seen "in production" is useful despite downsides and the inherent difficulty in having 50 states have a different policy on something.

hah I have not but I'd like to have a sauna in my future home regardless. Currently I'm in an apt and going to a sauna in nyc is not super appealing to me (cost, friction in working it into my day with having to go somewhere, etc), but when I move to the suburbs I definitely want to get one.

Not meant to be a negative comment, a lot of stuff helps to some degree. No cures though. to anyone wondering what worked and didnt, just work with your doctor and experiment with your doctor's permission, and be skeptical but hopeful.

Ankylosing Spondylitis sufferer here. I wish you the best of health and may HLA-B27 eff right off (assuming you are HLA-B27 positive). I empathize with another comment you made about "Have you tried...?"

Yes. We have. (Advil, Indocin, Sulfasalazine, Meloxicam, Diclofenac Sodium, Remicade, Humira, Enbrel, Curcumin, Vitamin D and also A-Z, Gluten Free, Vegan, Paleo, Whole30, Mediterranean, Yoga, Pilates, Acupuncture, Stem cell injections, Steroid injections, Physical Therapy, Glucosamine, Glutamine, BCAA's, Probiotics, Probiotic foods, electro stim therapy, heat, cold, stretching, Meditation, CBD, CBT, starch free, and probably other stuff I'm forgetting)

Pirates reduce Global Warming. Fact[1]

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/03/23/true-f...

There's people who engage in Helminth therapy (purposefully getting parasitic infections like a hookworm) for purposes of inflammatory disorders. I don't know much about it but enough people take it seriously