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by irremediable 13y ago
Hopefully, diseases of the rich -- things like obesity, dementia and old age. I say "hopefully" because I'm not wholly convinced that many countries will continue to be rich. I really hope so.
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by irremediable 13y ago
It's complicated. Older people are likely to be in a higher position, and I think are less likely to look for a job through the company's careers page, because they're likely to have a more extensive network of contacts and p
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by irremediable 13y ago
Well said. This is the biggest change I've made to my resolutions this year. I'm implementing them on a fixed timeframe -- and deliberately adding deadlines to my calendar, to check my progress and reassess the resolutions.
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by irremediable 13y ago
Exactly this. Learning things word-by-word is pointless and unrewarding. Being familiar with them, however, is a great idea.
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by irremediable 13y ago
Kind of cool. What makes it cooler than e.g. a subreddit about failure experiences?
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by irremediable 13y ago
I'd be skeptical of what you claimed. There are similar diseases to FFI which involve dementia, hallucination and death -- but don't involve insomnia. The insomnia might just be another symptom. Besides which, if you deprived your
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by irremediable 13y ago
I'm much the same. I wonder if it's related to my screen use and artificial light. What kind of climate do you live in, out of interest?
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by irremediable 13y ago
It's unfair of you to pick the first quote and ignore his mentioning that he worked in finance.
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by irremediable 13y ago
Alright, I get that Satoshi might have spent those old coins before. But can he/she spend them now without everyone knowing about it?
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by irremediable 13y ago
> And, Satoshi wouldn't need Silk Road to be fantastically rich in Bitcoins. As far as we know, he's got a vast swath of the first mined Bitcoins, even if he gave away most of it. (Which is possibly how Satoshi's identity
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by irremediable 13y ago
It's not necessarily about how it looks; it's about default choices. If there aren't many people working there already, people are unlikely to join them.
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by irremediable 13y ago
I'm 21 and my oldest code is seven years old. It's stuff I wrote for an MMORPG I used to play.
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by irremediable 13y ago
Thanks for the insight! It's interesting to read a mathematician's more formal take on this -- I'm from an engineering background, and I've often seen the problem in control theory, where we approximate signals using obs
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by irremediable 13y ago
Yes, I would go that far. But, as I said, perhaps my area is unrepresentative. There are quite a lot of cyclists in Oxfordshire. If you cycle on the pavement, the cars don't expect you. If you cycle on the road, they usually do. I supp
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by irremediable 13y ago
I used to think as you do concerning the pavement. However, experience cycling[1] has taught me that the pavement is not a safer place to cycle. Cars expect slow-moving pedestrians on the pavement, not fast-moving bicycles. Consequently,
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by irremediable 13y ago
Eeesh. Knee-jerk reaction: drivers like that should have their cars impounded and their legs broken. More seriously, how do you think we can change driving culture from what you describe to something more like they have in Holland?
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by irremediable 13y ago
I'm really sad to hear about this. Dr Martin was an amazing man. His work helped change our world, but few people have heard of him. Most of all, I respect his philanthropy. He cared about cost-effective philanthropy. He focused on the
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by irremediable 13y ago
I've done this with friends a few times. I like it. It honestly does make people pay attention.
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by irremediable 13y ago
I've often noticed the same thing, but to the extent that if I excused myself from each such conversation, I'd have no more conversations. As regards my own behaviour: I keep a smartphone, but I have no notifications for email or
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by irremediable 13y ago
As I* understand it the only "traditional" engineering field with anything close to unit testing is electronic engineering. Lots of chip or circuit design packages let you automatically test small parts of your design. For mechani
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by irremediable 13y ago
The way I see it, the advantage of your approach is that you'll get a lot more interest on your money. The disadvantage is that you might take longer than you expect, and if you take too long you might be too old to fully enjoy your retirem
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by irremediable 13y ago
I wouldn't dismiss the advice so quickly! I've known several promising young computer scientists (one now at an illustrious and wealthy tech company, one hopefully entering a graduate program at a famous university, etc) who would hide in t
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by irremediable 13y ago
Thanks for writing that. I was dispirited by how blithely and blindly callous some of the comments are.
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by irremediable 14y ago
A very good comment that succinctly describes why so many of us unfairly dismiss feminism.
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by irremediable 14y ago
What is a "winter traveler"? On searching for the term, I only saw websites about travelling during the winter. Is it a sufferer of seasonal affective disorder?
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by irremediable 14y ago
I don't know the details of this. But I want to emphasise that a lot of disabled people may need to use wheelchairs for most movement, yet still be capable of standing. I hate that people automatically assumed he was a fraudster.
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by irremediable 14y ago
Oh, interesting. Somewhere higher in the comments, people think the pitch is chosen at random and only the volume is controlled by the data.
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by irremediable 14y ago
How do the sounds correspond to activity?