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by bennyelv 4y ago
It may be the case that you are in a demographic that has very low risk for serious infection, it may be that you’ve been quite lucky, but you haven’t indicated any information on that. Regardless, anecdotes like this are about as useful as
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by bennyelv 4y ago
I’m doing ok on ocrelizumab ( 3rd year just done) and had a good innings with natalizumab before that. In the UK I’m not eligible for HSCT unless I relapse on ocrelizumab. That may change of course. I’m not sure whether HSCT is right for
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by bennyelv 4y ago
I’m a programmer with MS. Like you, diagnosed about 15 years ago, but still doing pretty well. I feel like I’m starting to notice the gradual decline more and more, despite not having had a serious clinical relapse for about 10 years (som
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by bennyelv 4y ago
I think you’ve assumed that I agree with tagging people for protesting, which isn’t stated or implied in my comment. I was commenting on whether or not their protest was justified or useful.
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by bennyelv 4y ago
In order for their actions to be justifiable, you have to be able to derive a chain of cause and effect from their action to the saving of the planet from climate change. I’m not sure that gluing yourself to a road for a few hours establish
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by bennyelv 4y ago
That is exactly what I do. A month in the Canary Islands in January breaks up the winter and makes it a tiny bit more bearable. I do it for 3 if I wasn’t having to double my accommodation costs (mortgage + Airbnb) for the duration.
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by bennyelv 4y ago
I’ve had employment contracts (financial services) that forbade any other employment at all. I wasn’t surprised by this. If your contract is one for a professional, knowledge worker type role and you’re paid according to your results or ou
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by bennyelv 4y ago
The individual athletes don't directly care about that, but in the UK the funding for the whole sport's Olympic programme is dictated by how many medals are won. It creates some interesting problems which vary between the differen
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by bennyelv 4y ago
I'm a snowflake customer and I've felt/am feeling all of the pain that this article talks about. There might be some handwaving over technical complexity that you don't like given your detailed understanding of how the
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by bennyelv 4y ago
Generally no - these things are designed for navigation at sea where you can generally go in straight lines between things. I’m not aware of any plotters that let you put in the depth you require and plot a route for you. You’d rely on a
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by bennyelv 4y ago
The new set of dangers that are introduced by electronic navigation should be well understood, so nothing in this article should be news to anyone who’s learnt how to navigate. That said, navigation is now so “easy” that you can get complac
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by bennyelv 4y ago
Define decent size? I’m CTO a a ~450 person company, but the the tech team is more like ~60. My job is to set the technical tone about how we’re building software for the engineering teams, to determine our technology strategy from the bus
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by bennyelv 4y ago
Same for CTOs. Reason, I am one and this comment thread is a very depressing read. Surely someone must have examples of when a C-level leader actually made things better?
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by bennyelv 4y ago
I would then argue that that's not cheating. Cheating involves deception, the deception is telling your partner that they're your exclusive romantic interest when they're not. If everybody knows and everyone is fine with it,
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by bennyelv 4y ago
This is a point of view that I don't really understand (I don't work there). They have a high bar for hiring, they have interesting technology problems, engineers who work there are probably high quality. The fact that the compan
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by bennyelv 4y ago
I’ve found that doing a “commute” works really well. When I used to be office based I would have a 45 min bike ride to get home, and after a stressful day I would find myself therapeutically going over the happenings of the day, cataloguing
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by bennyelv 4y ago
To me that seems like an incomplete explanation that ignores the hard part of the problem it’s trying to satisfy. It’s easy to explain the suffering that can happen during one’s life as part of a wider experience which ultimately ends up be
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by bennyelv 4y ago
That’s true if you keep exercising at the same absolute output, but that’s not what you’ll naturally do. Your speedometer is how hard it feels. What getting fitter enables you to do is increase the output without it feeling harder, either
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by bennyelv 4y ago
Anecdata warning - you actually can! The problem with trying to outrun a cheeseburger is that you probably need to be quite fit to do it. It works like this: If you're unfit, your capacity for output during exercise is less. If you&#
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by bennyelv 4y ago
Absolutely right, there isn't the usual balance of supply and demand setting the price with housing. There's massively constrained supply, with ever growing demand, for a basic need that isn't optional (shelter). This means
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by bennyelv 4y ago
The company rarely issues all its shares at IPO and can trade them on the stock market like any other participant. It can sell them if it wants to raise more money, or buy them back if it has spare cash.
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by bennyelv 4y ago
Nocode misses the point in my opinion. The hard part of problem solving with software is not writing the code, it's understanding and solving the problem. You have to do that whether you use nocode or code. It just so happens that the
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by bennyelv 4y ago
You must have had some very unlucky experiences to have this kind of cynical take on things. In my whole career (17 years at this point) I've encountered only one manager who was in it for the power and control... and he got fired. I s
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by bennyelv 5y ago
I have a non-terminal, but life limiting illness. I've got an expensive and silly car, and it brings me great joy whenever I drive it (like when I drove to the office this morning!). I haven't sacrificed other things that would
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by bennyelv 5y ago
You have either misunderstood or misrepresented this. My grok of what has been said here is quite different. The tweet author has pointed out some quite legitimate examples of when women have been excluded for reasons that can't be ju
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by bennyelv 5y ago
> Gates is buying up all the arable farmland, and taking advantage of poor African countries. Can you expand on that? I'm sure there are easier ways for him to make money if that's what the purpose is.
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by bennyelv 5y ago
Take it from a sailor, there are 4 knots you need to know: Bowline (most important knot), Reef Knot, Clove Hitch, Figure of Eight. That's it. Everything else is needless complexity. You could even cut out those bottom 2 and never fin
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by bennyelv 5y ago
Then when you're on your death bed you realise that ultimately it was all futile, because no matter what you did or how successful you could have been at it: every life ends up at the same point you are at now. The point is, I don&#x27
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by bennyelv 5y ago
I'll give that a try. I thought about just posting on LinkedIn and hoping that it spreads, but I've seen other posts on there that have degenerated into typical social media flame war type stuff that I'm not keen to get invo
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Ask HN: How to reach displaced Ukrainian developers
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