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by leto_ii 6y ago
> everything you wrote is wrong/false. Well now, this is a bit too harsh. I presented my anecdote as such, not as some universal conclusion that applies to everybody and every life situation. > Going to the doctor, doesn't 1
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> You did have a metal disorder. You were just lucky to find the cause. The cause was job stress. You could phrase it that way, but the fact remains that for me, I feel, there was an objective external cause to my unhappiness. It wasn&#x
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Here's a personal anecdote of the moment when I realized that perhaps mental disorders are not disorders at all: A few years ago I had a job that made me deeply unhappy. The unhappiness came about gradually, but in my last year there i
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Congress could, if the American people wanted - which they do not - abolish these agencies entirely. Unfortunately that's not now power works, not even in a relatively free society such as the US. How often does the public actuall
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Fortunately, the science here me to indicate the opposite: the less code you have, the fewer defects per LoC you'll have I judged things conditional on the fact that a bug exists. If you apply the technique of counting bugs/l
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I think you make a valuable point. If somebody writes concise, clear code with little duplication, but still has a bug, their stats might look worse simply because their code is shorter. It's also not clear that bug rates should be the
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I'm not sure the first part of the article is based on a sound methodology. For example, we don't have the number of classes for each bucket in the plots [1] and [2]; perhaps there are only a few classes of one liners - probably n
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Just wild speculation, but could it also be a stock-market play? It seems the stock went down by quite a bit in after-hours trading [0]. Shorting the stock I guess would have earned you quite a bit more than the few BTC made directly. [0]
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> However, you can't infer S(2) is true from assuming S(1) is true in the same way, ie. a group of 2, could be represented as two groups of S(1) and S(1). Yup, I think this nails it. The more I think about this problem the more it s
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> You could say "if it cost $1b to save this life, we should do it". This a common, yet unrealistic, hypothetical. In reality, of course, death is inevitable regardless of the economic costs. Past a certain point everybody, so
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by leto_ii 6y ago
You are referring, I think, to years with pandemics that were not caused by what can be called the 'regular' flu. It's especially comical that you have included the 1918 flu pandemic among your counter-examples.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I feel that in this thread people are quite stubborn about interpreting things literally, or misinterpreting them all together. I will give it my best shot at clarifying: Preventable refers to what a given society can be expected to manage
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> I think it's a bad idea to have people with little understanding of economics, but a high sense of moral superiority, fix the problems they create through their incompetence. Not sure who you're referring to here. > Freeze
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I did not misspeak. I will try to clarify this once more: from an high level/abstract point of view, all deaths (I am now specifically referring to the coronavirus, but this works for deaths in general) should be avoided. This is obvio
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by leto_ii 6y ago
While not explicitly specified, my comment was referring to deaths caused by the coronavirus. If you read past the first sentence you will also notice that I explicitly said that this is an unattainable standard and I have provided a number
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by leto_ii 6y ago
All preventable deaths should be prevented - this is the gold standard. In reality, of course, things don't work out that way. The analogy with a flu season is deeply misleading. The coronavirus has, in half a year, killed more people
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by leto_ii 6y ago
There are many ways of mitigating the harmful effects of the lock down. State aid targeted directly towards individuals (and not corporations) is a good idea, I think. The same goes for a freeze on mortgage payments, rents, evictions etc. T
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Any death is unacceptable. This is, of course, unattainable in practice, so I would suggest looking at Eastern European or East Asian societies for a rule of thumb (e.g. Czechia, Slovakia, Greece, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam etc.).
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> In an average year, 13/1000 Swedes die anyway. Yes, people die. That's true of all countries and all times. What we might call civilized societies have however strived to reduce those numbers as much as possible. This was don
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by leto_ii 6y ago
This is an important observation. In the Netherlands, where I live, I've had a number of people look at me with great surprise and mistrust when I mentioned that the Dutch have done a terrible job with this epidemic. The Guardian plots
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> The chart referenced in this article was by the same author. Didn't realize. This guy is an embarrassment. > Discovering a vertical regression line sounds like a beautiful prompt for a hard sci-fi short story. :)) the tale of t
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Taleb was recently steaming on Twitter about a similar thing done to supposedly show a correlation between physician salary and covid mortality: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1279954325087891464 He follows it
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> how do you get everyone, every single person on earth, all 7bn to agree not to be dicks Unfortunately, as you can imagine, I don't have an answer. I'm actually quite afraid that there's no answer and that we as a species
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> But here is thing: you don't get to decide. You're whole society doesn't get to decide. This is why we have established what is sometimes called a 'rule-based international order', so that we can have a world w
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> I think there's a big cultural challenge with adopting duplication. It goes against most people's career growth objectives. My experience is the complete opposite :D. What I've noticed is that the people who 'delive
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As I gain more and more experience (I would now call myself more or less a mid-level developer), I find that the distinction that matters is not abstraction vs duplication, but the one between developer mindsets. I have many times met/
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Build a team to do scrum, don’t expect scrum to build your team. This is a very important takeaway I think. A development methodology can work to organize the processes of an already (relatively) well working group. Expecting process s
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by leto_ii 6y ago
This reminds me of the anecdote about Harry Markowitz, the originator of what is called modern portfolio theory (which supposedly tells you how to allocate your money efficiently). When asked if he applied his theory IRL he said something a
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> You seem to be incorrectly applying this article as advice on self development and then making an argument against that. From the article: > In our personal lives, it would help to focus on being that person in the community who cou
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> The article to me seems to be saying that if you pour your heart and soul into a skill, let's say playing guitar, and after several years despite your best efforts you are still not very good, you probably should not depend on it

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