dgs_sgd
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Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Like, I imagine if I moved to a country and couldn’t do the B1 things in their language, I would have daily obstacles doing basic life things.
Comment · 3 months ago
I appreciate your perspective, but I was curious what B1 proficiency actually entails and this is what I found [1]:
- understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar topics such as work, school, or leisure - manage most situations that occur while traveling in German-speaking areas - produce simple, connected text on familiar subjects - describe experiences, events, dreams, hopes, and ambitions, and briefly explain your opinions or plans
That seems like a reasonable standard of native language proficiency to ask of people who want to make the county with said language their permanent home.
[1] https://www.sprachenatelier-berlin.de/en/topic/3736.german-p...
Comment · 1 year ago
Why is downsizing and an employee’s role no longer being cost effective for the business not considered “cause” for firing?
Comment · 1 year ago
It’s funny that you used traffic signals as an example of overcomplicating a problem with AI because there turns out to be a YC funded startup making AI powered traffic lights: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roundabout-technologie...
Comment · 1 year ago
If the supply of doctors wasn’t artificially suppressed as mentioned by comments above, it’s likely that wages would go down. Whether that would make things overall more or less costly isn’t easy to answer.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’m just a layman, but why can’t they increase the orbital radius to solve this problem? Like, if the current “layer” is too full, have the new satellites orbit further out?
Comment · 1 year ago
With the direction of OpenAI, hyper personalized ads inserted directly into chat and their app experiences could be a path. Not saying it will work, but they’re definitely exploring it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not all AI investment is private. You could argue that public companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft have had their stock appreciate at least partly because of the AI frenzy.
Comment · 1 year ago
Until recently I had only ever been to one baseball game.. saw the Jays when I was 10. I remember falling asleep at the game because it was so slow and boring, and never really watched baseball after that.
But in the last couple years I’ve seen the Mets and Phillies multiple times, and it’s now one of my favourite sports to watch thanks to the pitch clock increasing the pace of the game. I’d be really curious to see data on how many new fans the league got after the change.
Why would Philosophy still be a better major than say, English or Physics? In that world, you should still pursue whatever interests you most because critical thinking is fostered regardless of major.