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by el_nahual 6y ago
I'd like to point out that TFA does not actually link to the memo itself. So any phrasing in the article like "scolds," "blunt," or "exhorts" must be taken with a grain of salt--and by extension, any com
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by el_nahual 6y ago
Reminds me of the joke: What do you tell a mouse that has cancer or diabetes? "You need a new agent!"
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by el_nahual 6y ago
Yes, I know surgeons actually change into sterile scrubs before going into surgery, but even "normal" parts of hospitals are biologically filthy. Even the possibility of bringing MRSA into the outside world should merit a change o
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by el_nahual 6y ago
Ideally they would get washed at the hospital. Hospitals wash massive amounts of linens anyway, I can't imagine the additional expense being material. Mesh bag + name tag costs what, $1? And if for some reason the clinic doesn't
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by el_nahual 6y ago
What "facilities"? We're talking about changing clothes . Shower curtain ought to be enough! And the point about going to work in scrubs is also bad: scrubs should be as much about keeping stuff out of the hospital as in
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by el_nahual 6y ago
> When Alex finally gets home, he takes his scrubs off outside our front door and stuffs them into a plastic bag that he ties off tightly. He takes his hospital clogs off and leaves them outside, along with his backpack and coat. Why d
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by el_nahual 6y ago
Contrarian viewpoint: Having a CEO make ~1,000x the median wage doesn't seem that practically wrong to me, seen from a lens of "At most of these places, if the CEO messes up many, many thousands of people will lose their jobs.&q
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by el_nahual 6y ago
I tried out highfidelity a couple weeks ago and didn't get any of the directional audio to work. There was a radial but not an angular effect if that makes sense.
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by el_nahual 6y ago
This is an excellent point and seems to torpedo my entire argument.
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by el_nahual 6y ago
All medications have two kinds of effects: therapeutic effects, and any number of side effects. The "problem" with compounds that can alter our state of mind is that, by definition , they can be fun/weird/recreational i
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A Hacker Wants $5M in Ransom From Pemex By End of November(bloomberg.com)
54 points by el_nahual 7y ago|16 comments
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by el_nahual 7y ago
s/resist/quit
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by el_nahual 7y ago
Because Google gives them money in exchange for said work.
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by el_nahual 8y ago
A bit of a nitpick here but I think "Light weight drugs in small doses are less bad: 90s vs now." has a [citation needed]. In my (anecdotal, personal) experience, a heavy weight, sporadically used drug is much more effective than
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by el_nahual 8y ago
I think the more important misalignment between VCs and founders is a temporal one--if a VC thinks a company isn't going anywhere, they can immediately write it off and get on with their lives, whereas if a founder thinks her company i
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by el_nahual 8y ago
Not exactly meaningful when talking about highly migratory species!
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by el_nahual 8y ago
This is false for Chicago, which had a million (!) more people in the 1950s than it has today. Vast swaths of the south side are vacant, and residents of homes in abandoned blocks can famously buy plots of land for a dollar (plus taxes).
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by el_nahual 8y ago
More like how the reason buildings in the USA don't have waterless urinals is because of the plumber's union.
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by el_nahual 8y ago
Replying to clarify my point for all the replies: Think of all the job descriptions that have become irrelevant, for most startups, in the last decade: "DBA", "sysadmin", "IT". Even in the past year or two, tha
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by el_nahual 8y ago
I'm...pretty sure unions would end up being heavily anti open source. "I'm sorry, the union is opposed to postgres. You can either roll your own DB or use Oracle. Oh, and you're not allowed to store more than half a mill
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by el_nahual 9y ago
A lot of comments make the argument that any extreme political correctness is exclusive to the bay area, not the US as a whole, or that Sam's experience is true in an "expat bubble" in China. To which I submit as evidence &qu