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by clavalle 13y ago
Merely thinking about the absolute lack of trust for everybody and everything in a Libertarian world, and what that would mean for day-to-day life, exhausts me.
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by clavalle 13y ago
At what age did these pre-agricultural people die? Age might have a lot to do with cavities.
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by clavalle 13y ago
I think callmevlad was contrasting ESR's style of 'disciplining' (I'm not sure if that is the right word) less experienced colleagues with Linus's.
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by clavalle 13y ago
>Would he turn it down merely and strictly due to the number of zeroes tacked after the first six digits? Of course not. And I don't blame my father in law for taking the money either. Why wouldn't he? I understand your confu
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by clavalle 13y ago
>Can a price be really put on a human life? This is the crux of the problem. You can't really. The interesting thing is that his brother is a physician with very similar training in the UK (they both went to Trinity in Dublin). Do
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by clavalle 13y ago
It's a good thing for them and the people selling them things but it is not so great for everyone else struggling to pay for decent insurance. I am sure those people would be happy to spend that money and keep it flowing as well.
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by clavalle 13y ago
My father in law is a neonatologist and was given an ownership stake of the NICU he started in a midwestern hospital. He makes around $4 mil/year. Granted, he does sometimes stay at the hospital for two weeks at a time with only very b
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by clavalle 13y ago
While the upvoted comment is a bit histrionic, I think it reflects the fact that Tim Armstrong could bring up specific medical cases as being contributing factors is a little frightening to most people. We don't like to think about t
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by clavalle 13y ago
'Culture' is too flexible a word to be useful. It carries with it connotations that muddy issues. It should be retired as a useful way to describe any group of people smaller than a few dozen thousand. 'Culture fit' me
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by clavalle 13y ago
I'm in Austin (though I have friends in and visit SF often). When I graduated UT quite a few years ago, friends were getting offers of between 75 and 85K. Granted, they were really, really good and were already consulting on the side.
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by clavalle 13y ago
I have an office with a door. What I really need is a time lock on the refrigerator and pantry.
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by clavalle 13y ago
God yes. The cold interview process is easily as unpleasant as getting a root canal or doing my own taxes. I literally started a company so I wouldn't have to go through that rigmarole anymore.
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by clavalle 13y ago
80k for the Bay area is underpaid for graduates these days if they are any good. That might work out somewhere like Texas.
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by clavalle 13y ago
I actually prefer to work on site when possible. It creates a nice 'event boundry' so I can switch gears. The office also has fewer distractions while at the same time allowing me to just chat with people about what is going on b
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by clavalle 13y ago
He seemed to be pretty far along and it was a drug for a very common disease. It seemed to me from the discussion that he was beyond the exploratory phase and had a very specific drug that needed to go to the next stage.
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by clavalle 13y ago
That sounds much more reasonable to me. But he insisted that it would take much more.
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by clavalle 13y ago
There is a reason we speak and write words to communicate complex ideas rather than hold up pictures. Words are powerful and flexible. They are not going away.
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by clavalle 13y ago
I once spoke to a doctor that was trying to raise funding for a lab to develop a drug that he'd been working on and take it to the next stage. I asked "How much are you trying to raise?" "Oh, about $300 million." I
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by clavalle 13y ago
I believe that was the number of unexplained signals from SETI which may be from an intelligent alien civilization.
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by clavalle 13y ago
>people would leave that ISP for another one that didn't throttle Netflix That assumes people have a choice for their ISP. If I want high speed internet I have two choices. Both of them are huge national companies. If they decide t
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by clavalle 13y ago
What is this about having fewer kids contributes to cancer?
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by clavalle 13y ago
I wish there was a 'JavaScript Under the Microscope' like 'Ruby Under the Microscope' by Pat Shaughnessy. I think I would have a much better understanding of JavaScript if I knew how a good javascript engine works.
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by clavalle 13y ago
Not usually. Private sales of firearms are cash and carry most of the time. Thus the debate over gun show sales.
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by clavalle 13y ago
I thought Uber required drivers to have commercial level insurance. Is that not the case?
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by clavalle 13y ago
Ok. I am a big, intimidating looking guy (or so I've been told). Next time I see you, how about I just go ahead and put my hand on your waist, lead you to a chair, sit you down next to me than put my hand on your leg while saying shi
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by clavalle 13y ago
I don't buy it. I think 'culture' was, at one point, a convenient label, a shorthand, for very complex phenomena. A label that only had significant meaning at a macro level where individual variables are smoothed out and eve
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by clavalle 13y ago
In that case, your comment is misplaced. I don't think this guy represents any group of people either. I was commenting on why the woman might be justified in worrying about a physical attack if she embarrassed the creep because he obv
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by clavalle 13y ago
No. Let's keep words meaning what they mean. But we can say this guy violated her space and insulted her dignity and acted in a way that would make most people cringe if not shun the guy. I wouldn't trust him after seeing him dis
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by clavalle 13y ago
When did we all start agreeing that some amorphous force called 'culture' is out there compelling individuals to act badly? It seems like an extremely convenient gremlin. It can mean almost anything in any context and can act as
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by clavalle 13y ago
Then again, what kind of person gropes a stranger, in public, in front of a bunch of people who are sure to see and know who you are? You really can't put anything past someone who has absolutely no restraint or regard for people.

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