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New comment by realitygrill in "I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach"

realitygrill — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 19:13:15 +0000

Would you email me? I'm really interested in learning about this. I have similar intuitions about places to avoid.

New comment by realitygrill in "Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources"

realitygrill — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 18:01:04 +0000

Would you mind reaching out to me? I'm trying to learn more about how to do OSINT (with that particular slant!).

New comment by realitygrill in "Topology, a Categorical Approach (2020)"

realitygrill — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:33:58 +0000

If one was a young or returning adult with interest but little background in mathematics, would you suggest learning category theory first (assuming the adult is interested)? How would you suggest going about doing this as a path?

New comment by realitygrill in "Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles"

realitygrill — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:06:22 +0000

I appreciate the civil perspectives of you both, and would be interested in seeing you two discuss this in written format. I'd admit to having a relatively poor view of Gould, but this is not an impression formed from particularly close reading.

New comment by realitygrill in "Robert Sapolsky on Depression (2009)"

realitygrill — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 21:44:47 +0000

You might also want to look into ME/CFS. I'm very sorry to hear about this, because I had an analogous experience for years and know how hopeless it feels to try to figure out what the issue is (while your cognitive abilities / stamina are limited by brain fog), fail over and over, and in the meanwhile others cannot understand and don't believe you.

Feel free to email me if you want to chat.

New comment by realitygrill in "Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft from stores"

realitygrill — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 21:16:20 +0000

I would love to hear more about this, particularly the Medicaid fraud angle.

New comment by realitygrill in "I Learned French in 12 Months"

realitygrill — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 03:43:51 +0000

Have you tried the Guoyu Ribao, or Mandarin Daily News? Seems like you need extensive reading practice, and that might be a good way to start.

I've also heard excellent things about Outlier Linguistics' resources for Chinese characters, assuming you're still spending a lot of effort learning characters.

New comment by realitygrill in "Employer health plans are getting pricier and skimpier"

realitygrill — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:08:51 +0000

It's practically 100%. Once you're in, they'll do everything in their power to graduate you (legitly). Every incentive they have points at a perfect graduation rate.

EDIT: In the US, anyway. Things are different in, say, Caribbean medical schools.

New comment by realitygrill in "Hong Kong protesters occupy legislative chamber"

realitygrill — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 17:34:48 +0000

That seems to be a common opinion on the ground, apparently.

Hong Kong protesters occupy legislative chamber

realitygrill — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 16:46:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/07/01/breaking-hong-kong-protesters-storm-legislature-breaking-glass-doors-prying-gates-open/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20327182

Points: 172

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New comment by realitygrill in "Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search"

realitygrill — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 17:23:28 +0000

Taiwan is the awkward counterexample. It never experienced the cultural severing of the Cultural Revolution, yet is arguably the most thriving democracy in Asia.

New comment by realitygrill in "Flight to China turned back after airline forgets to remove Taiwan reference"

realitygrill — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:08:59 +0000

Formal deviation from that posture would immediately provoke war from China.

Otherwise, it looks like pretty clear picture. The population identifies as (Taiwanese && not Chinese) at ~70-95%. The Sunflower movement, the election of the DPP and formation of the New Power Party, the Tsai administration's unprecedented defiance towards China.. all point the same direction, not to mention recent calls for independence-oriented referendums.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jnylander/2015/02/14/strong-sup... https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/616083178/born-independent-ta... https://international.thenewslens.com/article/113537

New comment by realitygrill in "Email security on Democratic campaigns is as bad as 2016"

realitygrill — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 23:24:07 +0000

Would you be willing to chat about approved vendors? I can't find your email, but here's mine: derrick@amass.ai

My team did some work for the KS04 special election last year, and now we've developed a service for political campaigns. But traction.. maybe we're getting screwed by this approved vendors thing.

New comment by realitygrill in "Mea culpa: there is a crisis in the humanities"

realitygrill — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 00:41:39 +0000

Harvard didn't have an engineering department until a few years ago (might be year 5 or 6 now).

New comment by realitygrill in "The Best Textbooks on Every Subject"

realitygrill — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 04:05:14 +0000

As someone who wanted to redo my mathematical foundations and go onto higher maths, I tried (and failed) many different approaches. Eventually I found that New Math books worked for me. I'm about 70% through the www.elementsofmathematics.com course, which is derived from New Math, and loving it. Warning: it's about 3 years worth of work at a normal pace, and covers 6th-12th grade (through precalc, though you get some abstract algebra and number theory too).

New comment by realitygrill in "People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard"

realitygrill — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:57:48 +0000

but economists invented the term "externalities" and the analysis of such..

New comment by realitygrill in "Age of Enlightenment: The Promise of Circadian Lighting"

realitygrill — Mon, 21 May 2018 23:04:44 +0000

Where can I buy such systems?

New comment by realitygrill in "Doctors in China Lead Race to Treat Cancer by Editing Genes"

realitygrill — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 20:34:35 +0000

As for the motivations of researchers:

If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.

--Albert Szent-Györgyi

My [indefensible] impression is that altruistic culture is a strong part of the reason why the quality of biomedical researchers is so poor, and cancer research funding is so often near-fraudulent.

New comment by realitygrill in "Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea"

realitygrill — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:06:36 +0000

My impression (as a heritage speaker) is that cha's usage has simply broadened a bit, in the same way that American English has herbal teas and fruit teas. These also don't contain any tea, and have a different term, tisane. But both cha and tea still primarily refer to, well, tea leaves.

New comment by realitygrill in "The ‘untranslatable’ Japanese phrase that predicts love"

realitygrill — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 20:02:19 +0000

Do you think these factors commonly affect both men and women? Or that these are more valued in Japan? This list is appealing to me, but it does seem to be describing something like the best possible characteristics in introverts.

I would be interested to hear what the other factors are.