dragonsky67

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by dragonsky67 9y ago
I've only done a very small amount of climbing many years ago, however I have done a fair bit of overnight hiking. I would suggest that the difference between protected and free climbing would be the same as the difference between hiki
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by dragonsky67 9y ago
It will be interesting to see if there is an uptake by employers of (cheaper?) employees who have gained knowledge/education via free/cheap online courses. In my experience of a couple of CompSci online courses they appear to be a
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by dragonsky67 9y ago
bariereefwozere's point still stands. A small group of people could get as good, if not better education by privately employing the lecturers. I'd say the lecturers would get a better deal as well. The only thing you would miss
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by dragonsky67 9y ago
As you say there is risk of dramatic negative impact with people losing a sense of purpose and drive. If I were an author I could think of a number of scenarios that would result; Religious fanaticism, drug dependence and general apathy.
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by dragonsky67 9y ago
I find it interesting that he is asking about the ethics of not working for a living, as if paid work has some moral value, or eating without having to work for it is somehow immoral. By that measure we should all be working like dogs for
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by dragonsky67 9y ago
>>People by nature I think are very externally motivated (society, wealth, materialism)and if you didn't make people go to work, would they? If they did, would they still put up with the crappy parts of it? Is this not just a fun
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by dragonsky67 10y ago
I may resemble that remark ;-)
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by dragonsky67 10y ago
Interestingly enough, the bands that I go to see are not the best musicians, they are the ones that entertain me. I'm not sure that AI will be able to do that for quite some time.
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by dragonsky67 10y ago
The extra cost of modern construction projects can easily be attributed to the increased compliance costs. Any building work that impacts the flow of traffic now requires full time traffic control (manual); Safety inspectors are now full t
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by dragonsky67 10y ago
I think you may be on to something here. I have always wanted to be a programmer, but for a long time may attempts to learn a number of different programming languages came to nothing. This all changed when my wife finally got sick of me b
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by dragonsky67 10y ago
I've got a reasonable number of relatives who would not be able to install windows or MacOS on a new computer, they just purchase new computers. In my experience installing a friendly linux like Ubuntu is a lot more simple than install
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by dragonsky67 11y ago
I'm not sure that this is necessarily a valid claim. The people who have to use the device are not normally the people who purchased it. I'm sure that most of us have been in a position where we have been forced to use a product t
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by dragonsky67 12y ago
Please do not misunderstand me, but I wonder how this procedure would change the costs of medical treatment following traumatic injury. At present we have a situation where patients who would be subjected to this treatment would die in 90%