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The article doesn't mention one of the biggest draws: having a masters degree from an accredited U.S. institution improves your chances at getting an H-1B visa.
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I listened to an interesting podcast the other day by Andrew Huberman in which he talks about dopamine being a motivating chemical (motivates you to do whatever triggered it again) rather than a pleasure chemical, which it’s often thought to be.

It’s apparently very much a want over a like situation, which seems to explain the potential lack of enjoyment. I’m not a neuroscientist so I’ll butcher this if I say more, but in terms of want vs like I found it really fascinating.
At at top 10 school in the UK: masters and even doctorates are being essentially sold to foreign students. The standards are incredibly low (students getting degrees without functional use of English), but the revenue to the university is essential.

There is a business risk if schools try to maintain standards (students have paid for degrees, not learning), but the cumulative effect is that I completely ignore graduate degrees when hiring.
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Exactly. The standard deduction in the US recently doubled in size. That covers a lot of people. We could cover even more if the IRS sent you an email in January and said, "We expect your refund to be $X. If you think you have more than $12k in deductible expenses, click here to tell us about them."

People for whom that's not enough can still go through the whole ritual.
Yes because it fucks up your life, ruins your immune system...and it's an addictive drug. Duh.

P.s. My addict uncle got brain cancer from it and died.
I wonder if this scam also applies to executive MBA programs? For example, the Kellogg-HKSTU program cost US$220,000 for about 18 long weekends of on-site classroom time. This is exorbitant, but the Financial Times has ranked the program as the best EMBA program in the world 10 times, primarily due to the large increase in salary after graduation, up 67% to $528,057 in 2020. [1]. In fact, the reported salary increases on all of the top EMBA programs imply that these programs are legitimately worth their costs. They're priced like scams, but (if accurate) the salary increases suggest they aren't. I wonder if there are any master's programs that outperform the best EMBAs in terms of salary increase?

[0] https://emba.hkust.edu.hk
[1] https://rankings.ft.com/home/masters-in-business-administrat...
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Is there any more specific guidance on what normal citizens conducting normal business must do for AML compliance?

Somewhat related: https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/the-bona-fide-acquisitio...
> when Saturn came along and said "no haggling, just best price on every car" people didn't actually like that.

Uh-huh. The world is full of people willing to make things easy for a small fee. In my experience, many of them advertise as bargain options without actually offering a bargain. Is that what Saturn was doing? Does the market really have a perverse enjoyment for haggling or was Saturn full of shit and the market called them out on it?
> if I just got a bill from the IRS I'm just going to think "maybe I could've done better"

All proposed legislation I’ve see would allow you to fill out a 1040 and send it in, if the IRS prepared numbers don’t work for you.

So if they mark the standard deduction, but you think you can do better itemizing your deductions you would still be able to do that.

It would mean the people that want to optimize their filings can, but every person isn’t forced to do so.
Community can definitely play a role though I can't help but think that Phoenix and the proselytizing done by Jose and co are the main factors.

Sure, we have Luminus in the Clojureverse but its just not as easy and straightforward as the Rails-like experience of Phoenix. You don't have Hickey personally responding to comments on HN/Reddit etc.
As a mixed race person married to a Jew, I think it would be tremendously healthy for a well-informed person to write one of each —- but within a specific national and time-bounded context.
> That productivity boost in turn leads to more jobs created for more poor people.

So your take is that giving more money to the property owner will produce more jobs for poor people? As in trickle-down economics?
Check out some documentaries on the octopus or the crow. You might have to revisit some of these theories.
> The universe you experience is different than my own.

How would you know this if you've never experienced how I experience it?

> We use language and shared culture to consensually hallucinate a "shared" universe but no such thing truly exists for us.

You seem to suggest that culture is some shared fantasy superimposed on reality, but how could it be given your solipsism? How could anything be shared?

> We can perceive objects and describe them in similar ways

How would you know? Maybe I mean different things when I speak. Maybe my speech isn't speech at all and you're just construing it as such? Maybe there is no me?

> but the fact remains that we can't access the universe that the objects truly exist in (if that even exists)

How would you know without being able to "access" the universe to make that comparison? Are you a gnostic with secret knowledge (in which case, you do have access)? You've also already assumed a distinction between universe and mind, but how could you if all you have are these "representations", as you call them? The distinction would itself just be a mental "representation".

> since, for us, they have no independent existence outside of our mental representation.

If there is no reality to represent, then they aren't mental representations, are they.

> Or shortly, when you die the universe dies with you.

The universe you don't know actually exists? But if it exists, why should it die with you?

P.S. Less weed, more rigor.
“We spent 5 billion dollars on a giant glass donut, and you are damn well going to use it.”
Pose Estimation from a 2D source is one of the default examples provided by TensorFlow: https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/examples/pose_estimation/ove...

Not only are we already there, it's now a trivial exercise used to instruct new users on the technology.
Can we be clear that Google hasn't publicly stated why they chose to remove him. They have absolutely not said they fired him for his old views.
I don't think either of those examples is in the same category as consciousness, or actually lets stick to "modeling of human and animal behavior", because I don't know what you mean by consciousness since we all have a feeling for what it is but there is no good precise definition, or framework in which you could give one.

In both examples you made we do in fact have good mathematical descriptions that allow us to describe the system and the way it works, and moreover we can infer/predict non obvious things about it. Do you know of anything similar that can be applied to human/animal behavior?
We're all just the universe wondering about how it can perceive itself.
I agree. Sociopaths that know they are sociopaths, and flagrantly proud of it.
This certainly depends on local rules. For example, in the UK I believe dental businesses can only be opened by a qualified dentist. I was surprised when I learnt this earlier this year.

This source [0] says “non-dentists cannot set up or buy dental practices as an individual or partnership but they are permitted to be shareholders of a limited company which owns the practice” and “the majority of directors of that limited company cannot be non-dentists”.

[0]: https://www.plutopartners.co.uk/post/who-can-own-a-dental-bu...
Love it, I've had the same thought.
I don't think they mock the idea of triggers.

They leverage and weaponize the concept, which is arguably worse.
There are various degrees of consciousness, awareness and abstraction capabilities between humans as well.

The smarter the human, the more conscious and aware they are about the surroundings, the higher their ability to create and understand abstract concepts etc.

Is this just the product of more numerous neurons? Better connected neurons? Higher density neurons in some areas of the brain? Is number of neurons correlated with IQ and in turn correlated to degree of consciousness and abstraction?

We don't know yet, but it seems better advised to start looking at the base biological components first vs "spooky stuff"
Yes, because tons of people have the capital to open business and hire employees.

Reality is most people wanting to retrain are going to do it as a single person business as a plumber, hair dresser or similar.
Hilarious that so many look to "blame" an idiotic idea, rather than act or send aid. Circle jerk.
There are certainly countries in Europe that can match, and maybe even beat, US unemployment numbers on historical data while having much higher labour costs.
Are you saying an octopus or a crow is not conscious? I am not saying that. To me it is clear that higher animals have a sense of self. Whether they can pass the paint dot test is another matter.
Could you explain why only some of our neurons are part of our consciousness? If it's emergent then why does only part of our nervous system get to experience the world, or is the other part also concious but we are not aware?

There's a lot of tricky questions here that no one can really explain. I don't think the answer need be any "spookier" than any phenomenon that's unexplained - except maybe it's just surprising we've made so little progress at all.
I love the map analogy, humans have been making those for a long time too. I've always enjoyed maps and mazes and also why I took to mathematics at a young age because it does seem like once you learn basic algorithms you can feel around a problem with numbers and then just get a sense because you know the "map" like the back of your hand. Teaches the next generation, universal way to communicate with other humans at the same level of abstraction, etc.
https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

Is probably the article you are thinking of.
Then the space it requires is just sitting on the road. the "empty space" is now just rolling instead of being
stationary. How annoying is being stuck in traffic, now think how annoying it will be when the cars around you are empty. (granted, you wont know if an empty car next to you in traffic is "on its way home", "on its way to a pick up" or just looping for the sake of it.)

IMO keeping an empty car moving just so you avoid parking fee's is fucking nuts. Not only are you tying up road space, you are wasting energy keeping the cars looping.

Even airports don't keep bags looping on the conveyor belts during a layover, they stow them somewhere. For example Heathrow has something called "the early bag store" where they store bags https://youtu.be/WXF0uYdILGc?t=461
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Taxes are not hard for people with one job and one SSN and no schedule Ks filing in one place. Last year I had four TIN/EIN/SSNs, filing in up to three states, depending on the TIN/EIN/SSN, along with a federal return. That meant a dozen different filings. Hiring an accountant was worth it for me.
On the other hand, when I was young, I did my own taxes by hand on paper, and it was easy: they are easy if you just have a W2 and maybe some 1099s. But I was not an adult then, nor did I have adult finances.
Not sure you want to call rape (or crime in general) by the local population "politically correct".
it waste allowed to be discussed publicly. it was labeled a racist fringe debunked conspiracy theory, and that sent all the signals you needed to chill scientists from using their platforms and expertise to gain attention to this idea. for example, when the head of the CDC mentioned it during a hearing he was ridiculed. based on largely opinions published in the cause social media companies to limit and censor information, which Twitter and Facebook did, for example the whistleblower that appeared on tucker Carlson's show.

of course there were a few brave scientists that spoke the truth of the viability and likelihood of the lab leak hypothesis, but that only proves how severe the suppression of discussion was.

people let your political opinions dictate what discourse is acceptable and which is not. if one imagines that your political opponents "wished it to be true" and seem to think of even labelling the virus from china as some sort of wrong think then one can be happy to pick and choose whichever truth you want to accept. scientists both hear and abroad where able to dismiss that lab leak is not plausible, based on lack of evidence. but the same thing could be said for the wilderness human contact. fauci said based on history lab leak is unlikely, in spite of the fact that lab leaks had occurred in the past.

I personally have no doubt that China s messaging was to suppress support for the lab leak, and they have succeeding in avoid any pressure to come forward with the truth about the actives of that lab in Wuhan . I also think that there is an entire field on scientific study that needs much more regulation and discipline, and they have also avoided any significant scrutiny.

I will await the discussion from mainstream virologists on tv and in medical and scientific journals demanding transparency and reform. but I will not hold my breath.
And let's not forget housing. (Our government) making large loans more available and cheaper drives up demand for the intended goods/services. That, naturally, drives up price.

It's difficult to understand why so many people advocate for even more government "intervention" (i.e., do more to increase the availability and cost of loans).
Quite a few crazies we now let loose in society as "normals". Policies changed, that's all.
Being separated by pseudoscientific categories of race is very backwards.

It's much more scientific to be separated into 33,000 psychometric bubbles that can fold instantly into narrative-compliant political frames based on whoever can pay journos to write headlines that game SEO and HFTs instead.
Nope. Here in Sweden, your employer reports your pay to the tax authorities, and deducts your tax from every paycheck. Banks report your capital gains and losses.

In March or April, everyone gets sent their pre-filled tax form for the previous year. You can change it as needed, for example adding income from a side hustle, or making deductions -- though those are fewer and less complicated than the US from what I understand. Many common deductions (e.g. for mortgage interest) will be pre-filled too.

Most people will not need to change anything, and so can approve the pre-filled form through text message or digital signature (or phone robot for old people iirc). If you do need to make changes, it can be (but doesn't have to be) done online without too much trouble. Don't get me wrong, it's not always trivial, but it seems significantly more pleasant than what I hear about the US system. And, again, the vast majority of people just have to send a text message some time in March or April.
>It's insane, and it's amazing to me how many of you have your heads so far up your ass that you can't see what is obvious and how are you so dumb bla bla bla

Clearly, since this is the most upvoted comment in the entire thread, you're not the only freethinker in an ocean of sheep.

I don't know, this lecturing tone is quite aggravating.
Most people don't hire lawyers to fight protracted legal battles with the IRS, so it's a bit ridiculous to suggest that we optimize the system for that path. Besides, nobody is suggesting we take that option away from you, or from anyone else who finds it worthwhile.
> learning the basic principles of elementary particles, electric charge, electric fields, and electromagnetic force, without diving into the mathematics behind them

I cannot emphasize this enough for those who have a "water in a pipe" mental model of DC electric circuits but struggle to intuitively grasp AC and RF concepts like filters, fields, transformers, antennas, or even buck/boost converters. Once you're able to mentally reduce some of these circuits to an understanding of the forces upon a single electron at any point in the circuit at any point in time, you being to be able to create your own designs rather than relying on the examples of others.
The essay is good tho. I fall on the camp that feels there’s some surprises yet but it’s definitely not panpsychics
Those are examples of a morally conservative society, in which a Judeo-Christian value system was in place, and when there was a stronger emphasis on conformity. I guess the sensitivity was in breaking those rules. In those times too, however, children were taught "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me".

Now, everyone is comfortable with talk of sex and biological realities...but a book critical of transgenderism is literally called "violence": https://www.rt.com/usa/529308-american-booksellers-associati....

I guess critics of such topics are today's Juvenile Delinquents. /s
Isn't it a matter of taste? I don't worry that you like fruit roll ups, you shouldn't worry that I don't.
You believe a person cannot find satisfaction in a job well done (and a solid paycheck), they have to "change a world" to feel accomplished?

I found the documentary "Jiro dreams of sushi" illustrative (in the opposite extreme). I believe most of us would fall somewhere in between (... aaaand, we get to Maslow again :)
Master's Degree in Social Work is required for licensing in the US (LCSW). To teach at a community college it's generally required to have a Master's degree as well.

"useful" is in the eye of the beholder. I would expect a company hiring manager to put a candidate with a Master's degree higher on the pile than those with high school or Bachelor's degrees, too.
Typically, in my experience, companies are paying for these. In my experience from decades ago, these sort of programs were oriented towards e.g. people who had come up through the engineering ranks, didn't have an MBA, and were being groomed for more senior management.

Of course, that was from a time when MBAs were probably more of a requirement even in tech for senior exec roles than they are today. These programs obviously still exist but I'm not personally aware of anyone who has gone to one any time recently.
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IQ tests tend to have a mix of questions to measure:

"verbal comprehension, processing speed, perceptual organization, and working memory"
That is not a vaguely fair characterization of what filing taxes is like. Every year my accountant sends me a 50-page booklet of questions on things that might affect tax returns. Taxes are in fact quite hard.

But that's not my real issue with your comment. I agree adults have to tough things out sometimes. But toughing out a problem that doesn't need to exist is macho nonsense. You might as well insist that people get rid of their indoor plumbing, because we got got along fine without it for most of human history. You can go dig your own outhouse if you want, but don't suggest somebody else is inferior for not going out of the way to make their life harder unnecessarily.
>One restaurant-pour glass of wine with dinner every day adds up to 14 drinks a week but no reasonable person would call it "heavy drinking".

What's the difference between a glass of wine after dinner and 700ml of beer (which is what GP's calculations work out to)? They both have the same amount of alcohol.
It put "normal" into quotes because I specifically wanted to excluded anyone who is willing to tinker with the system risking to break things or simply lacks the knowledge how to do it or how to figure out.

I'm fully aware that there are countless ways to stop windows from updating.
MS never attempted to make it super hard just hard enough so most of the people who absolutely should not turn it off are also unable to do so.
Some people do get into programming for the money, but you can spot them a mile away.
Is it maybe a self powered thing where companies are reimbursing tuition for specific hand selected people they intend to promote?
Excellent! That's the piece of the puzzle I was missing. Thank you!
Love this story because this has been my experience as well when teaching youth. Children in a classroom scarcely need a teacher explaining things to them. Give them the materials and leave the room for an hour. I guarantee you they'll know what to do and how to to do it when you return. However, they won't have any particular depth of knowledge of the topic. And thats because they usually move onto their own ideas of how to use the new knowledge. They're not interested in how I use that knowledge. So different approaches for youth vs adults has always been something I needed to train either. One approach doesn't really work for the other.
You're correct. I should have been more clear that progressive and conservative labels are more apt for individual viewpoints and not as a defining characteristic of the person. I think that logic can still be applied, though. The point I was trying to make is that with any label (whether French/American or conservative/progressive) it's more productive to try and find clarity about the opposing viewpoint rather than just slapping on a rigid label lacking nuance.

While I wouldn't want to label 11thEarlOfMar personally, I think it can be helpful to look at each of those views in the context of a larger framework because it helps understand what value systems you operate with to either find inconsistencies or common ground.

Edit:
I think the fact that people are so quick to either label their personhood or assume someone else is doing the same is indicative of the problem. It's also a bit troubling that a post simply advocating for contextually understanding differences would get downvotes. I don't know if that's a problem with my inability to communicate that point effectively or something worse.
You could buy a billboard and stick a painting or picture you like on there
Saturn was quite popular – what killed them was internal GM politics. As the only American car approaching Japanese quality they sold quite well even during the early 90s recession, which was seen as cannibalizing other divisions within GM and their quality improvements prevented sharing components across other GM lines. I would not draw any lessons from that other than that the “startup within a large company” path is perilous.

For taxes, I think most people would be quite happy to have a “we think you get/owe $x” statement arrive since it’d require no action and would give ironclad audit protection. People with complex taxes, distrust, or intention to cheat would still do their own but I’d be quite surprised if 20 years later the U.S. didn’t resemble most other countries.
We donate more to humanitarian causes than the next 10 countries combined. We openly admit we're not perfect and work to make things better. We do more good than anyone else - by a MASSIVE margin. We openly admit we've made mistakes.

Where does this reflexive anti-American bullshit come from?
One of the admission requirements is that your company sponsors you as outstanding with potential within the organization. Another requirement is that you are already or will soon be an executive. This makes me assume the salary increase is due to the fact that they only accept people that are positioned to get big salary increases.

Also the fees page suggests that it costs at minimum, 550k, and if I'm reading it correctly, 1.5m.

https://emba.hkust.edu.hk/admissions/fees/
A university near me gave ed master’s credit for playing golf. Not even in a class, you just play golf and send in your score.
Surprised? BLM are Marxist racist nut jobs.