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by samscully 12y ago
I give to the top charities on GiveWell [1] instead. As an individual you can't help everyone, at least with GiveWell you can be fairly sure your money is making someone's life better. [1] http://www.givewell.org/
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My Friend the Murder Statistic(independent.co.uk)
1 points by samscully 12y ago|0 comments
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by samscully 12y ago
> The most salient finding from this analysis is that women whose intimate premarital relationships are limited to their husbands—either premarital sex alone or premarital cohabitation—do not experience an increased risk of divorce. It i
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How Mistakes Can Save Lives(newstatesman.com)
9 points by samscully 12y ago|0 comments
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Boring Systems Build Badass Businesses(devopsu.com)
191 points by samscully 12y ago|108 comments
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Felix Language(felix-lang.org)
1 points by samscully 13y ago|0 comments
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Location Value Covenants(medium.com)
1 points by samscully 13y ago|0 comments
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The rumors of Bundler's death have been greatly exaggerated(andre.arko.net)
2 points by samscully 13y ago|0 comments
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Why we removed bosses at Treehouse(ryancarson.com)
123 points by samscully 13y ago|112 comments
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by samscully 13y ago
I suppose part of the difficulty is that no matter how good your process, you still need an 'objective function', and that will always be defined by ideology. I agree that having the measurement of results at least partially base
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Rebuttals of Arguments Against Land Value Tax(kaalvtn.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by samscully 13y ago|0 comments
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by samscully 13y ago
I applied for a large quant hedge fund out of university (Man Group AHL) with a masters in civil engineering and got to the final round. The other 5 candidates all had MFE degrees and seemed to struggle with the technical interviews a lot
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by samscully 13y ago
They are called scrambles, there are a few in the UK but they are much more common in Japan. As you surmised they only really make sense when there are a large number of pedestrians and vehicular traffic has a low priority. When I took tra
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by samscully 13y ago
> Often even if I say I did not understood, I'll get the same sentence repeated the same at speed of light. I'm a native English speaker and I don't understand why people do this. If you are trying to have a conversation
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The moral case for giving doesn’t rely on questionable quantitative estimates(blog.givewell.org)
1 points by samscully 13y ago|0 comments
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by samscully 13y ago
IANAL, but as far as I understand a company director only has a 'duty to promote the success of the company' in the UK [1]. I think it is similar in the US. 'Success of the company' doesn't strictly have to mean m
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by samscully 13y ago
If someone has changing the world as their primary goal, and they decide that a startup is the best path toward that goal, I don't really understand why they shouldn't do that? To me a startup is an amoral vehicle for achieving i
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by samscully 13y ago
I apologise, my comment was far too cold towards people who have been presented with that very distressing choice, I should have thought more carefully about it before posting.
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by samscully 13y ago
Abortion of a foetus with an identifiable disability is considered acceptable today by many people, which is similar in spirit if not in practice to eugenics.
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by samscully 13y ago
I worked in a tunnel crew in the summer holidays during my degree. It was interesting to see the cultural similarities and differences when I moved into programming. It is probably one of the few industries (at least in the UK) where the