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by willbw 9y ago
An accident will happen yes. There are about 3,287 road deaths per day globally[1] already however so hopefully people will view this in context. [1] http://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safet...
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by willbw 9y ago
And France has...?
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by willbw 9y ago
At a cost of $20,000 per CSR that is $40 billion a year, which is more than the revenue of Facebook.
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by willbw 9y ago
Wow, thanks for the link. His stuff is very cool.
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by willbw 9y ago
Beautifully said.
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by willbw 9y ago
In Australia IT is also a broader term encompassing development of software.
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by willbw 9y ago
Great read. I really enjoy hearing people's career stories, it is interesting where you can end up after 35 years of work.
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by willbw 9y ago
I agree, there are solutions out there like the aforementioned that are easier than seeking out individual mp3s from the websites. Overcast on iOS and Pocketcasts I have both used and are good.
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by willbw 9y ago
Also curious.
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by willbw 9y ago
Interestingly it also says: > His children recall him working long hours, leaving home not long after dawn and returning home at 11 p.m., spending his days working two or three jobs at a time. Getting home at 11pm doesn't leave a lo
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by willbw 9y ago
"it would be absurd to suggest X" doesn't amount to a denial of support for X? Why not?
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by willbw 9y ago
You're not the only one.
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by willbw 9y ago
A practical democracy must be an abstraction of a pure, idealistic democracy. You cannot have millions of people deciding on every issue. Democratically elected representatives are one way we can do this. There may be better ways of doing t
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by willbw 9y ago
Are you one of the people who like Blinkist and think everything has to be distilled into dot points?
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by willbw 9y ago
Why do you think you have that right? Honestly curious.
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by willbw 10y ago
I agree with you, I started the book and I thought, "Why do people hate this? This is a joy." But, then it decayed into drivel, as you said. A shame. I think they could cut 100 pages and it would be a bit better.
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by willbw 10y ago
Just listened, a great podcast and very useful for piecing apart why "statistically significant" isn't the gold standard of reliability for scientific studies.
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by willbw 10y ago
I'm not having that problem on Safari.
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by willbw 10y ago
Appreciate the short list and not hundreds of links to resources.
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by willbw 10y ago
My takeaway from the article is that the author completely missed the point, which is that centralised bureaucracy and decision making can be very harmful. Why are we reliant on an economist to pick up on this irrigation issue? You at least
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by willbw 10y ago
Could you point me in the direction of where Taleb has written on this topic?
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by willbw 10y ago
As a backstabber she beget more backstabbing. I think you need to assign a little more blame for the political instability in Australia to her.
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by willbw 10y ago
Despite Spotify's vastly superior user interface and a much quicker Android app, I've found myself switching to Apple music for the singular reason that their curated playlists are much, much better than Spotify's. I don&#x27