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by crusso 10y ago
You misunderstand the "No True Scotsman" fallacy to apply it to this situation. There's a metric for success (graduating), and no one claimed that the only possible way that someone didn't make it is "work harder&q
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I'm perfectly willing to accept some scientific data on the subject in lieu of my anecdotal data if you have any. In the absence of a lot of data, I make due with what I have and in general find the notion credible that working on bein
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The NTS fallacy is based upon goalpost moving with no clear metric for success. Graduating medical school is definably not goalpost moving.
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The 40 hour business success is the rarity and often it's predicated upon other previous sacrifices made so that 40 hours is later sufficient. As with the xkcd comic, it seems silly to base your success model on the lottery type system
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I don't disagree that the AMA's stranglehold on MD distribution is a problem. But I have several members of my family who are/were doctors. Residency is hard, pure and simple. It's hard for everyone and takes tremendou
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Not true at all on the health side. These days, most of those people have plenty of money for gym equipment at home, personal trainers, etc. and they have the motivation to actually do exercise. Relationships are hit and miss, in my experi
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It varies. My uncle had a band and toured the small venue scene in South Louisiana back in the day. My mom was a chorus singer in the New Orleans opera company. Both made varying levels of careers out of their talents and hard work. Both
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The irony here is that for those who are reading too much into the comic, logically they must believe that xkcd's success is just luck.
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by crusso 10y ago
That's the same point I tried to make in another comment. Of course luck plays a role to some degree. But this obsession over luck as the key to the success of others seems unhealthy to me. Just from my position as a person approach
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Yes, working hard is not an absolute determiner of success. It may not even be a majority determiner, depending upon your personal experiences or philosophy as well as the domain in which you're trying to achieve success. Winning the
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But if some make it to med school but then don't succeed, how many of those failure cases ended up not working hard enough? Once you have a class of medical students, it's not a lottery system on who succeeds. Short of those who,
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Taylor Swift telling you to put everything into your dreams of becoming a pop star is like a lotto winner telling you to spend your life savings on lotto tickets Except for the fact that you could spend millions of dollars on lotto ticket
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by crusso 10y ago
Maybe, like in the mice studies, we could just graft baby goats to our backs after we hit 50. Sure, it will look odd, but that will just be the price to pay to stay young. The real trick will be to keep the goats from chewing on your shirt
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Mind-bending in a good way, like the way that Haskell lets you express constructs that you may never really have used in other languages.
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I haven't been to Bangkok in a few years, but when I was there I marveled at the number of people who seemed to eat at the street food vendors. It seemed that street vending was a vital part of how food was distributed in the city. Mo
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Elm blows me away. It's everything I saw that React was trying to do, but bound up in an actual language that has strong Haskell-ish types, is fully functional, and mind-bendingly fun to learn. Elm really could be the future of bullet
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In a pro-union pro-local Democrat administration, that Executive Order would be hailed by Schumer as the most fantastic thing since sliced bread. Not that I agree with Trump, but Schumer is a complete hack.
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> We seem to know very different people It's all relative. > Look at the military for a good example of a non-market structure that has a tight feedback loop and, generally, does very well outside of the market system. The milita
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Individuals have very personal views of finances. When people are asked how they should spend their own money, they're very careful with it and analyze expenditures and benefits carefully. On an individual basis, money is spent effic
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Right. You have to learn to spot the trouble customers and let them know that "it's not you, it's me" as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the difficult customers are always the ones offering the most money and general u
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What happened to the idea of building great stuff that people are happy to pay for? What happened to the idea of treating employees as people and not legal entities to extort? Having owned and run my own service-oriented business that emp
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Maybe if you're coding the algorithm for when to deploy airbags or something similarly life-protecting - but many of us are just coding todo list web sites and the next social media app. As much of a rule-follower as I am... I think th
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Although I wonder how much self-censorship that encourages. Whether or not to put a TODO in your code is a judgement call. If you tell some developers that admitting to a TODO means that they can't submit, they might not admit to the
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It's not necessarily whataboutism. It could also be a reflection of the fact that there are other circumstances necessitating the border treatment that are felt beyond the USA. Other countries are going through the same changes and t
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This had me stuck for a few minutes too. I had exactly the answer you have above and didn't realize the context that I needed 5 columns. Maybe showing more context in how the grid containers are defined?
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I live in an Atlanta suburb. My commute back from the airport (definitely a route impacted by this road collapse) this past Friday morning was almost twice as long as it normally is at that time of day. Before the news of the collapse, I w
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Are you saying to get rid of the federal government backing of the loan? Let the banks making the loans sink or swim based upon the success of the students and their ability to pay it back?
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People shouldn't have to make choices to get educations that will provide marketable value? What should drive such an important choice? Pleasure? Fashion? Government quotas?
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Did what people were telling me to do and it got me nowhere There will always be people who give you bad advice. I know it's cliche to beat up on the "everyone gets a trophy" mentality that has grown in dominance, but maybe
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That episode is no longer available, but I remember it when it was first released. I wasn't at all impressed with the depth of the research they did before starting their experiment, their ability to stick to their diets, and their gen

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