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Comment I thought everyone knew this was the tradeoff (Score 1) 184

A bunch of people I know who work for places like Google, Meta, etc. decided to leave the Bay Area and work remotely when they were a bit older and wanted a cheaper place to raise their family. They all told me that they were happy with where they were in their career and knew that they didn't want to climb the corporate ladder any longer. Those who are so desperate to become a corporate overlord are more than happy to go into the office.

Comment Re:Won't improve (Score 1) 289

I disagree. No amount of healthcare will solve for 30% of people in Alabama being considered obese. Lifestyle contributes way more to health outcomes than access to healthcare. Having said that, we should all have access to healthcare for the times when we get the sort of illness that the healthcare system can deal with.

Comment We don't have meritocracy (Score 1) 342

Given the amount of resources that wealthy people have to provide their children, we are no where near a true meritocracy. What we have is better than the old aristocratic social order, but it's not even close to a level playing field. I was at my wife's Yale reunion recently and nearly every one of her classmates children were going to an Ivy League school. Nature? Nuture? Probably a combination, but most will not have as good of a nurture. I recommend the Meritocracy Trap as a good read, but this article is for those who find books too long: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fma...

Comment Re:Slashdot wants us to pity 8chan (Score 0) 627

Lighten up snowflake. And I'll use bullet points just like you to show how "rational" my argument it. 1. The First Amendment not only guarantees freedom of speech but freedom of association and a company, being a collection of people, has to right to associate or not associate with people based on their ideology as much as a individual citizen. 2. These companies have the weakest monopolies of all because, in the example of Twitter, you can simply start your own platform. But you're not capable of doing that so you sit an whine that "someone has do to something" like you're some SJW petitioning the college administrators over Title IX violations. See it only took me two bullet points so I must be extra rational.

Submission + - Scientists are making human-monkey hybrids in China (technologyreview.com) 1

glowend writes: FTA: "According to the newspaper, the Spanish-born biologist Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, who operates a lab at the Salk Institute in California, has been working working with monkey researchers in China to perform the disturbing research. Their objective is to create “human-animal chimeras,” in this case monkey embryos to which human cells are added. The idea behind the research is to fashion animals that possess organs, like a kidney or liver, made up entirely of human cells. Such animals could be used as sources of organs for transplantation."

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