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fjjrxcbdhx··on Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech
Why not more female sanitation workers or more male elementary school teachers? What makes the gender demographics of building websites so much more important than all these other imbalanced fields?
fjjrxcbdhx··on Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don't See Past the Fat
You be smug as much as you like, but there's a reason why they say medical school is mostly memorization.
fjjrxcbdhx··on Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don't See Past the Fat
It's a very different kind of knowledge retrieval, i.e. knowledge about something as opposed how to do something. Your example doesn't really fit.
fjjrxcbdhx··on Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don't See Past the Fat
Well that sure is substantive.
fjjrxcbdhx··on Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don't See Past the Fat
The reality about breakeven with loans doesn't change their expectation of money and social status. Also the current generation of doctors received their education when costs were much lower and becoming doctor had better financial incentives.
fjjrxcbdhx··on Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don't See Past the Fat
I don't even work in software, but it just makes sense considering most of what they do is looking up factoids in a textbook. They frequently misdiagnose or let things slip by because there's just no way for humans to memorize that many books.
fjjrxcbdhx··on Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don't See Past the Fat
Coming from a family of medical doctors, medicine stands to gain a lot in terms of quality of service by increasingly automating doctors out of the loop. These people (my family members and relatives included) typically go into the profession for money and social status instead of helping patients, to the point where it borders on being exploitative.
fjjrxcbdhx··on Facebook 'blocks accounts' of Palestinian journalists
If even politicians at the highest levels of government are doing it, let alone hate groups inside Israel, it doesn't help the case of Israeli objectivity.
fjjrxcbdhx··on Self-driving trucks threaten one of America's top blue-collar jobs
Citation needed. Over the last couple decades processed foodstuffs have been constant in price, but the portions have decreased to cut costs. You can play Russian dolls with old cereal boxes, fitting the newer ones inside the old ones.
fjjrxcbdhx··on Self-driving trucks threaten one of America's top blue-collar jobs
Because they have far greater leverage over labor markets than they do over the market for their product. You don't have to raise prices in a fickle consumer market when you can just make your profits off the much less elastic labor market instead.

They only have to keep prices the same or negligibly lower in order to profit from this proposal.

fjjrxcbdhx··on Self-driving trucks threaten one of America's top blue-collar jobs
An unbalanced young-old demographic ratio is indicative of worsening economic conditions for average people. Looking at Japan, they have a population crisis because there's no time to start a family when you have lots of mandatory unpaid overtime. Thankfully we're not quite that far gone yet, but we're headed in that direction and are starting to face similar demographic problems.

Innovation is slowing down because companies are preoccupied with irrationally slashing labor expenses, and R&D tends to be quite expensive so it gets cut significantly. The result is less income for consumers, who in turn buy fewer goods, which ultimately leads to even more cuts for labor.

fjjrxcbdhx··on Self-driving trucks threaten one of America's top blue-collar jobs
Regardless, that's not going to help an economy whose primary problem is a consumer base who can no longer afford to purchase goods in sufficient numbers.
fjjrxcbdhx··on Self-driving trucks threaten one of America's top blue-collar jobs
This assumption that everything will be cheaper seems a bit disingenuous, because why would these companies want to automate themselves so badly if they weren't going to keep most of the savings as profit?

Even if prices were lowered by a few percent for some goods thanks to cheaper shipping, that's little help when you have no source of income. This will only exacerbate the demand-limited economic slump we're currently experiencing.

fjjrxcbdhx··on Study finds young men are playing video games instead of getting jobs
It's an empty statement because as long as anyone is employed, there will still be "enough jobs for people who work hard." It doesn't matter if there's 99.999% unemployment, since working hard by your definition is circularly referenced to already having a job. The word for that is a tautology.
fjjrxcbdhx··on Study finds young men are playing video games instead of getting jobs
>There's jobs for people who work hard.

So let's think this tautology through. It's difficult to get a job -> person is not able to get employment -> person becomes unemployed -> only lazy people are unemployed -> lazy people don't want jobs -> therefore everyone is employed