afarrell

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by afarrell 4y ago
If something is dangerous, that does not justify making it worse.
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by afarrell 4y ago
What questions would you ask to decide if someone is a trustworthy steward of that technology?
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by afarrell 4y ago
It is wise and responsible for people to exercise caution for the impact of their work. When someone is impatient with you acting responsibility, you need not join them in their folly.
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by afarrell 4y ago
One goal of this is maintaining social cohesion between groups of people who can be immediately distinguished in combat. The visible existence of middle-class and upper-class Black families presents a lower-middle-class black teenager (or a
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by afarrell 4y ago
I've long had an idea for an app that helped you be a better boyfriend/husband by helping you plan dates and find good ideas for dates in your city like museums, great restaurants, concerts, etc.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Yes, and governments prefer technology reduces the cost of legal compliance.
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by afarrell 4y ago
A new scientific truth triumphs via the death of the ego attachments to the less precise truth. Sometimes that requires bodily death.
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by afarrell 4y ago
The government would also want such a system to conform to anti-money-laundering and sanctions regulations.
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by afarrell 4y ago
What would you say to her about this if the most important thing was the long-term health of the relationship? Healthy relationships rely on mutual trust and mutual understanding. If you are on this site, I imagine that your ability to be f
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by afarrell 4y ago
It is worth having a system like this. It is also worth having a shared understanding of what constitutes an emergency.
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by afarrell 4y ago
As a GoCardless shareholder? Happy that will nudge people towards direct debit.
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by afarrell 4y ago
True. I’m being oversensitive to the risk of someone else taking things personally.
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Or be kind yet direct by admitting your own need. “Hey Bob, I need to trust that when I open a PR of yours to review, that the SQL is not going to need a high decree of scrutiny. I’ve seen some bad habits that I’m willing to explain specifi
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by afarrell 4y ago
You are right that we have a responsibility to be willing to risk another person’s feelings and our own social ostracism in order to speak the truth. I have failed in that responsibility before. I was motivated by seeking a guarantee that I
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by afarrell 4y ago
Because we do not have the energy not inclination to enforce a universal visual language on others.
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by afarrell 4y ago
What are the advantages of me being scared? I am so far removed from the situation that spending my attention on it would have no positive change for me or anyone else. I can draw out a 2x2 matrix: A1. Worry, then die of radiation burns nex
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by afarrell 4y ago
OP asked a direct question. It is not patronizing to answer that question from experience.
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by afarrell 4y ago
I stand corrected. It would be good to make things like this more widely known.
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by afarrell 4y ago
What are the means by which a team of 150 can make progress over two years towards that goal? Such a team can work on improving EC technology. It cannot meaningfully make progress on reconfiguring a city like Houston or Los Angeles or San F
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by afarrell 4y ago
Large problems need to be solved in pieces if they are to be solved at all. Anything else is boiling the ocean.
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by afarrell 4y ago
One cause of this is that we as a community have not properly shouldered the responsibility to teach good estimation skills to new engineers. It is a skill I likely now need to be able to teach —- though I still need to learn it myself.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Also: well-rounded citizens are able to contribute their labor to the social cohesion and physical infrastructure of their communities. Careers are part of civic participation.
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I have heard good things about David Graeber’s book “Debt: the first 5000 years.”
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by afarrell 4y ago
A Nigerian and a Florida Man walk into a bar. They order drinks and nachos and have a reasonable conversation that concludes in a legitimate business deal.
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by afarrell 4y ago
> Society looks down on people who take breaks, which seems crazy. If this is your perception, I would recommend changing the the things you let influence you. What you claim is the opinion of society is just that slice of society you&#x
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by afarrell 4y ago
If Ben Franklin decided that he didn't want to spend his ink publishing someone's newspaper column, who would have forced him to reverse his ban?
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by afarrell 4y ago
If I try to see the millennial generation as a single decision-maker, I’d say it looks an awful lot like someone with multiple personalities. Solving this problem requires solving coordination problems. Solving coordination problems require
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by afarrell 4y ago
Who will be willing to pay for it?
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by afarrell 4y ago
Not satire. If you think you should resist your tendency towards sycophancy, then you are free to let that guide your own life. Others will do otherwise.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Parliament.

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