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by sago 12y ago
This is anecdotal evidence from a small (2) sample. But not all doctors die without treatment at home. Some (many?) are aware of the drugs they need to hasten their demise in a way that minimises their suffering. One doctor I discussed this
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by sago 12y ago
Very nice. A pair of red cherries if you can make pac-man chomp though!
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by sago 12y ago
Over my quota, so can't read the NW article, but your point matches my experience strongly. I think of it as a delayed gratification problem. There's a bunch of gratification that comes from building something cool, and having peo
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by sago 12y ago
I don't understand why the GIL gets so much derision from the cool kids, where node.js remains trendy.
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by sago 12y ago
Does it matter if we're 8 years late? Yes, yes it does. When you're relying on your mission crew to be at a particular life stage when you are ready to go. When they're suddenly 8 years later with families and commitments,
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by sago 12y ago
Why put the last phrase in parentheses when removing it would totally alter the meaning? The only purpose of surgeons is to hack into peoples bodies and mess about with their internal organs (when the person's health would be worse if
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by sago 12y ago
Unions suffer from the same problem as communist states: they are theoretically superb, but practically cumbersome and prone to abuse. A successful union should be able to - Guarantee minimum wages and conditions for all employees. - Hold m
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by sago 12y ago
Excellent. Years ago (15-20?) I wrote a program with the bug he mentions at the end. Way before Stack Overflow was a Google away. I could not work out why it crashed. I ended up rewriting it and it worked, but never understood what the bug
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by sago 12y ago
I agree. There are at least six intractable problems, I can see. * Defining the thing you're looking for (in your example you say 'what at the time would be thought "dead"' - that opens up the whole problem of exclu
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by sago 12y ago
The problem in these cases tends to be that there is no evidence. So you take as complex a form or BT as possible, then put in numbers that 'sound reasonable', end up with a conclusion that supports your prior beliefs and claim it
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by sago 12y ago
Did you get that from my comment? Wow. I've no idea how.
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by sago 12y ago
Very much the same thing happens with Bayesian probabilities, with their notorious problems of reference class and prior. Witness the theologians who claim Bayes's Theory proves the resurrection, or the competing group who claim that B
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by sago 12y ago
His point was exactly the opposite. More menial and jobs are being created by technology that concentrates money in the hands of a few people. The interesting and fulfilling middle-class jobs are the ones being squeezed. Whether he's r
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by sago 12y ago
Right, but he's specific about two types of technology-fueled role: minimum wage warehousing jobs and sharing-economy jobs. I think it is undeniable that the latter is directly caused by Silicon Valley-style startups. As evidenced by t
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by sago 12y ago
Do you not think the fact that a large proportion of jobs will be made obsolete by technology in favour of lower-paid or casual work is worth a rant, then?
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by sago 12y ago
How about storing the structures in linked lists, and printing them recursively?
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by sago 12y ago
I hope this isn't the way it goes. For purely selfish reasons. As a wheelchair user, VR has the potential to provide sets of experiences that are difficult for me to find elsewhere, like running, jumping, exploring spaces with vertical
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by sago 12y ago
Thanks for the response. Sorry to hear that's been your experience. I've been into quite a few companies in the same industry as the one I mention, that are roughly the same size (a few hundred people) and most aren't as toxi
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by sago 12y ago
> If you can't dazzle them with data, baffle them with bullsh*t, am I right? Given that your reply contained no data, you tell me. > Life was better when I at least HAD a crummy job, grumble! That very much depends on what they d
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by sago 12y ago
I've only got experience of one flat structured company. There, the 'flat' structure is almost entirely fantasy. The company is very hierarchical, but hierarchical on the basis of the way individuals command (and collect) inf
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by sago 12y ago
The idea that someone can claim they deserve their success because they worked so hard, when 'work hard' just means 'spend long-hours doing something they were intellectually and emotionally engaged by' seems so transpar
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by sago 12y ago
I've been fortunate to anti-work all my life. I've started companies, built technology, made sales, written books, and generally got paid well to do what I love. I've anti-worked very hard. Often 15 hour days for months on a
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by sago 12y ago
Work will set you free! First define success in a way that isn't just "happy" (because then you're defining anti-work, as the OP was). Then take the set of all successful people, based on that criteria, and the set of al
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by sago 12y ago
> The things you described are features, right? Right, they provide additional structure that can in turn help someone express themselves. But you're right, the complexity can obscure some underlying simplicity. I suspect that the s
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by sago 12y ago
Thanks for the response. > I was pointing out Lisp dialects are proof you can basically code with just three signs of punctuations: newlines [I think you meant whitespace generally], left parenthesis and right parenthesis. I agree. In fa
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by sago 12y ago
Indeed. It isn't always so simple. I'd prefer to always drive 100% perfectly with 100% awareness of speed, speed limits, road conditions, and so on. Unfortunately I err from time to time. Hence the 'if' in my statement.
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by sago 12y ago
How is that different from abusing the system by parking in it with no permit? Except that you are not as likely to be fined? The question is, so what? Does the degree of abuse mean we should let more people park in disabled spots? Or shoul
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by sago 12y ago
I guess so. I've only had 3 points and it didn't make a difference to my premiums. I guess if you get more it might though. I'd probably take the first 3 if I got caught speeding again. Four hours taking the course would be a
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by sago 12y ago
Go Daniele, such a great guy and a passionate organizer.
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by sago 12y ago
Except that you have to pay for the course. And the cost is the same as the ticket. The only difference is you don't get the endorsements on your license.

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