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New comment by surement in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

surement — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:08:13 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/bernie-sande...

https://americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/h-1b-workers-...

New comment by surement in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

surement — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:47:30 +0000

They agree on immigration, both illegal (border security) and skilled (H1B). They agree on trade policy and tariffs. They agree on public stakes in AI and semiconductor companies. They used to agree on foreign intervention, though Trump 47 less so.

Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017)

surement — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 21:31:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/24/mathematical-secrets-of-ancient-tablet-unlocked-after-nearly-a-century-of-study

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45007992

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New comment by surement in "We’re secretly winning the war on cancer"

surement — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:32:04 +0000

Universal in what country? In the US I've had two MRIs in the last few years for non urgent things and both were scheduled within less than a week.

New comment by surement in "My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth"

surement — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:33:54 +0000

Your evidence is the most absurd "antitrust" lawsuit in history. What law did they break? Macs come with Safari and Android devices come with Chrome, where's the lawsuits?

New comment by surement in "My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth"

surement — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:16:00 +0000

> by any means necessary

This implies that they got rich by pillaging instead of countless people voluntarily giving them money in exchange for what they offered.

New comment by surement in "Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists"

surement — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:35:30 +0000

It definitely always works. If your skills become obsolete then it's time to find new ones or stop working.

New comment by surement in "Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists"

surement — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:40:18 +0000

> Have any of these economists ever tried to scrape by as an entry-level graphic designer/illustrator?

"Equip yourself with skills that other people are willing to pay for." –Thomas Sowell

New comment by surement in "Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors"

surement — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:06:35 +0000

you don't need to bring up trump in a camera thread

New comment by surement in "Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data in AI, including DNA"

surement — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:41:19 +0000

the people with the highest compensation packages are by definition the least replaceable

New comment by surement in "A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)"

surement — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:32:49 +0000

neither does education, what's your point?

New comment by surement in "A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)"

surement — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:35:38 +0000

> Definitely under appreciated and under paid, but I learned a ton about working for a living.

a lot of the discussion about wages ignores the value of experience; students pay to spend their days learning but it's somehow unfair for someone to get paid to learn job skills that transfer to other jobs

New comment by surement in "Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation"

surement — Tue, 07 May 2024 18:48:48 +0000

> extreme form of coffee hipsterism

I know a lot of coffee nerds and cold brew is disdained for not extracting enough flavors. This is just someone who never adapted to the world hoping the world will adapt to them.

New comment by surement in "Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers"

surement — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:58:17 +0000

> Papers don't establish ground truths in science > it doesn't shake the foundations of science

the comment doesn't say any of that, just that resources are wasted participating to these "conversations"

New comment by surement in "Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions"

surement — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:43:58 +0000

> if MIT rejected applicants with better profiles because of the URM checkbox, in some sense they didn't deserve to get in

"better" is subjective and imo anyone who goes on to succeed at the school is as good as the next person; there are lots of other equally arbitrary decisions that go into college admissions

New comment by surement in "Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions"

surement — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:51:24 +0000

> I went to MIT, and to this day I wonder how much checking "Hispanic" helped me there and if I "deserved" to go.

the problem with aa is not about people getting in that didn't "deserve" it, it's people getting in who don't have the means to succeed; elite colleges brag about their diverse admissions but don't talk about people who go on to fail when they could've succeeded at less prestigious schools

if you succeeded then you deserved to get in.

New comment by surement in "Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation"

surement — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:38:23 +0000

then you know it's not a great article.

New comment by surement in "Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation"

surement — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:31:57 +0000

> My personal, uneducated, unverified hypothesis was that companies overcompensate price increases for three main reasons:

profit-maximizing sellers can only increase prices if demand rises, otherwise they will sell fewer units at the higher price (and if they could've made more money selling fewer units at a higher price then we can assume that they were already doing that because they are profit maximizing)

the only way that demand can rise (allowing prices to rise) in unison is if there is more money going around, which is what happens when the money printer goes brr, which it did https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

New comment by surement in "Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation"

surement — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:22:45 +0000

> To have record-breaking profits means that are markets are record-breakingly inefficient

or more innovative companies captured the market share of less innovative ones, e.g. lockdowns bankrupting brick and mortars in favor of online giants

New comment by surement in "Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research"

surement — Thu, 11 May 2023 15:48:58 +0000

you can flag it