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by zzalpha 9y ago
By that point Uber had already been operating for 2 years. I'm questioning whether they launched knowing full well they were shirking the law, or if they launched, realized they were in legal trouble, and then proceeded to not give a s
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by zzalpha 9y ago
So if we make jokes about outlandishly wild behavior it's now not OK? As a professional? No, it damn well isn't. Why is that difficult to understand? Hell, I would expect better of basically any grown adult over the age of 25. O
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by zzalpha 9y ago
The very foundation of the company that we are discussing is something that was illegal in virtually every jurisdiction that they entered. I think this is rewriting history just a bit. My recollection is that, when Uber first entered the
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I've been writing software for 20 years. You think I haven't experimented with REPLs from time to time? :)
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by zzalpha 9y ago
For you. I've programmed in numerous languages that offer a REPL. I've never found them useful. I'm sure you'll now tell me I was using the wrong languages, or just needed to do it differently and by God I'd see th
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by zzalpha 9y ago
This sounds very similar to a basic technique I find useful for making difficult decisions: the coin flip. If I can't seem to decide between A or B, I flip a coin. If, in doing so, the answer is A, one of three things happens: I fin
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by zzalpha 9y ago
What's weird about it? I am honestly not sure. I know the broad strokes of the story, and nothing so far sounded too outlandish, but I haven't researched it in depth.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Something like this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/sensatio...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
There's fundamental physiological difference. It's not clear there is. Consider this part of the article: Yet Honnold ended up scared, really scared, on Corrugation Corner. He clung to the big, friendly holds. “I overgripped t
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I don't think that's really the same. Public media attention != to a private film crew.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
To all those people attacking this guy, I think it's important to point out that free soloing is absolutely controversial in the climbing community, for exactly this reason. Heck, Clif dropped some climber sponsorships, including Honn
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by zzalpha 9y ago
The BBC buggered this up in an article when they covered it. Comparing it to the Dawn Wall climb completely misses the point and illustrates how misunderstood the sport is. Freeing a previously seemingly impossible-to-climb route is not th
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by zzalpha 9y ago
That's really hard to do with media, etc. on your tail, even IF your life is literally at stake. Except they weren't. Honnold and his team very deliberately kept this thing quiet. Other than the crew and close friends, no one k
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Link for those curious: http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-wor...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Or, this "third motivation" is the desire to succeed so the family can thrive as a consequence of that success. Sort of a half-full/half-empty kind of thing, really. I suspect the perspective you cleave to is a product of yo
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I'm confused as to who he's writing for as it seems very obvious that many people get "motivated" for work they don't enjoy because they have to support their family. Actually, what I find interesting about this i
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by zzalpha 9y ago
The issue is that diversity shouldn't be a goal. In your opinion. Feel free to run your own conference adhering to your own values, and feel free to skip this one. But the breathless, hysterical overreaction to this by some in the te
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I mean it is pretty odd that you would do a call for papers and pick out those you liked the most without knowing race or gender but then replace some just because it turns out they had the wrong gender/skin color/whatever. It&#
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Oh come on. Anyone seriously espousing the idealism of pure "meritocracy" needs to put aside their gradeschool naivete. Next you'll start quoting Anne Rand back to us. It's one of those ideas that sure sounds good... I
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by zzalpha 9y ago
See, these are exactly the kind of poisonous claims that make this an impossible debate. In short: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If you want to claim an altcoin conspiracy to destroy Bitcoin, prove it. Otherwise take
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Ah, thank you! So rather than try to rebut this myself, I'll let someone qualified do it: http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/wp-content/uploads/20... And also: https://thinkprogress.org&#x
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Reduction relative to current temperature, or relative to projections of global temperature 100 years from now if we do nothing?
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Solar, wind, EV and now even electrical storage are being jump started with tax credits. Were. At least if Trump gets his way: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I wish I could offer you more upvotes. Brilliant observation, perfectly said.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I'm not saying Purdue acted like an angel, but their actions are twisted into a sinister plot. Sinister plot? It's very simple economics: Our drug has one distinguishing factor from other drugs: 12 hour dosing. If our drug l
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I suggest you go do a little research about what Purdue did before commenting further. Other commenters have already provided links to the LA Times investigation. Read it. Purdue knew full well that 24 hour effectiveness was the factor tha
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by zzalpha 9y ago
BS. Purdue actively lobbied doctors to not alter their dosage schedules when prescribing the drug to their patients. That has nothing to do with labelling or regulations.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Ah, right, I'd forgotten that little nugget (and I read that article... Stupid long term memory).
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Well, let's take Oxy. That drug, at recommended doses, was supposed to provide 24 hours of pain relief but frequently did not do so in practice. This lead people to increase doses, and down that road lies addiction. Purdue knew this
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by zzalpha 9y ago
what is workaholism? In my mind any type of behaviour becomes a disorder when it has a negative effect on the ability of that person to function. As a result, the answer is "it depends". Personally, I'd say you have a pro

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