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by crpatino 10y ago
If you really want to ge there... ... I'd point out that barbarian scientist doctors did not wash their hands 200 years ago, but 2,000 years ago it was really old news for pious Jews, because their God had told them all about sanitaz
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by crpatino 10y ago
To be honest, I'd be surprised if most of the crowd in HN knows who Kirk Douglas is. Maybe the smarter ones will figure out he's Gordon Gecko's dad.
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by crpatino 10y ago
Mostly agreed, though I would hedge this to include the fact that it is a non trivial effort to move from basic science to applied science, and from there to professional best practices. Even if we crack the aging problem within 15-20 years
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by crpatino 10y ago
I wont rule out that posibility, but it is much more complex than that. There is a qualitative difference between causes of death before and after ~75 yo. People in their 60s and 70s have a tendency to die from specific organ failure, - hea
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by crpatino 10y ago
I think that position is simplistic at best. Sure, it would explain an relative increase in human-intensive services compared to machine-empowered ones. What if fails to explain, though, is: 1. A sustained, inflation-adjusted increase in hu
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by crpatino 10y ago
The fact that it is your preferred way tells me that the only internal frameworks you have encountered in your career were tidy, tiny, and self contained. Having struggled with very large tools that were anything-but, I beg to differ... but
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by crpatino 10y ago
Imagine this scenario. You work on product A. Your VP of very important things declares that every product should use library L. Library L has been designed to incestously interact with product D and makes a bunch of assumptions about what
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by crpatino 10y ago
Well, that means that AirBNB should be charging more that an equivalent hotel room, doesn't it? At least to the market segment that values the same things that you do. I am wondering how many segments there are in the "accomodatio
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by crpatino 10y ago
Seriously? Do you think Kalanick has no expectation to turn a profit? The only reason Uber operaters below costs right now is because they still have millions upon millions of VC money to burn, AND because those millions can be turned into
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by crpatino 10y ago
Maybe if you published your sources, instead of voicing unsustained claims, you'd be less downvoted.
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by crpatino 10y ago
As a corollary of 2nd Celine Law: Freedom of association is only possible between equals. What I am talking about is that it is good an proper to have employee friendly Labor Laws, because under ordinary circumpstances the asymetry of power
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by crpatino 10y ago
By the same logic, medical schools are counterproductive because by making getting a degree harder make giving healthcare advice harder. Ditto for law schools. If you are going to throw your lot with an employer, you want to be very sure th
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by crpatino 10y ago
I have seen the responses to this, and all seem very reasonable. We have our fair share of problems down of the border. However, economy triumps everything. Down here, you can hire talented, English-speaking recent graduates for USD$15k or
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by crpatino 10y ago
> Many other industries rely on foreign talent, and many cannot pay 130k, but 100k would be fine IMHO. They can hire local talent then. All the American brogrammers that are about to face real competition now will be most likely willin
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by crpatino 10y ago
It is more complex than that. Even if it isn't (and cannot) be literally true, I think Eliezer Yudkowski was on to something when he invented the "Merlin Interdict" in his fantasy work: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationa
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by crpatino 10y ago
Yes it is! It replaced hundreds of billios of meaningful social connections with trillions of shallow connections that most people would be better off keeping at arms length. Not that there's anything wrong with staying in touch with y
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by crpatino 10y ago
Why would you care to extract fingerprints form a selfie when you can extract the finger from the self???
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by crpatino 10y ago
This is meaningless. If the majority of that 15% comes from big planed purchases, but 99% of the stores that sell food do not take cards, you will eventually see bread riots on the street as the implementations of the cashless economy proce
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by crpatino 10y ago
I find it interesting that Bloomberg gets all hyped out about the consequences of Outer Space events that may eventually happen and we do not have any way to prevent, but cheerfully ignores the consequences, - and the very tangible costs, -
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by crpatino 10y ago
When you go around doing reprehensible things, you deserve humiliation and embarrasment. More over, if some of those reprehensible things you did, you happen to have done to your own allies, it means they are entitled to have second thought
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by crpatino 10y ago
No, because humans were not meant to be cut off from their community and dropped in the wild. Human children, in particular, are less prepared to cope with the dangers of being isolated early in life, compared with the way other mammal spec
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by crpatino 10y ago
You are not listening. It is not absurd. Elephants are wild animals. They probably are smart enough to qualify as minors, - so they can and do adapt to a wide variety of conditions, - but it does not change the fact that to express the full
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by crpatino 10y ago
But then you'd never know if the cat is already inside of the box or not...
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by crpatino 10y ago
I think you are confusing "rights" with "entitlement". Everyone have as much rights to a non-asshole boss as they want, but in order to materialize that right they need the courage to stand up to their current bosses&#x2
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by crpatino 10y ago
What do you mean by "capacity of the earth"? People per square metter of land? Consumption of oxigen? Consumption of fresh water? Per capita arable land and average agricultural output? You could argue that we are already past the
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by crpatino 10y ago
I, too, thought it was related. It is not. Limits to Growth, whether you agree with their conclusions or not, is an actual model. The google docs above is one guy fiting a curve to a bunch of demographic statistics. There is no real causali
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by crpatino 10y ago
What I coincidence; Painter, as in fences, was the first thought I had by just looking at the title. Probably not a trade I'd take on for the long term, but if I'd be leaving my programming career for good today, I'd definiti
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by crpatino 10y ago
> And supposing that we are playing more and more video games why is that sad? No more or less sad that some upperclass Victorian types reading more and more novels. Or even before that, some medieval upper clerics overindulging in rich
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by crpatino 10y ago
We need both, to reduce the total number of people AND to reduce the per capita consumption. I have seen more than enough people that claim to have no children for the sake of the Environment, only to go and buy pets and treat those like ch
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by crpatino 10y ago
Sure. Do you want a divorce with that?

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