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My impression is that the article is based on the false premises: it starts with the number 5.25 years

"According to Bunker, the average person gains about 5.25 years due to medicine"

and then calculates "year of life the doctor saved" based on that. That's wrong.

The counterexample: the kid breaks the leg. The leg will "heal" even without the operation, but the form will be altered: the kid will never be able to walk normally, do the sport normally, anything you imagine (a). A few operations are performed on the kid's leg, afterwards he walks normally, lives the rest of his life normally (b). Now if the person having the problems in (a) lives the same number of years as the fully healthy (b) the statistics the whole article calculation is based don't show any contribution of the given operations, whereas these operations really did "save life" in the sense of giving somebody a healthy life that he otherwise wouldn't have.

There are immense number of equivalent examples and all are ignored in the article. Much more lives are effectively "saved" by the modern medicine than the author can see. We can also consider the lives of the family of the patient also effectively "destroyed" without the medicine.

(In short, the article appeared as (stereotypically said, more as the strong figure of speech not actually addressed at the specific author) written by 20-something male who hasn't first-hand experienced medical problems even in his family. I wasn't able to find more about "Gregory Lewis" who wrote it, but the whole "80,000 Hours" project site, on which this 2012 article was published was the result of the 2011 initiative of two Oxford students, and maybe that gives some idea about the setting.)
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Las Vegas Sands also operates two and their page has better photos of the stubby body and huge tail of the SP:

http://www.planespotters.net/Production_List/Boeing/747/2164...

http://www.planespotters.net/Production_List/Boeing/747/2196...
Check out the "Comparison with other unikernels" section in the post.
Because last week I made the mistake of asking her for a marinara - which is a simple tomato and garlic pizza - with the addition of mozzarella.

No, unless this paraphrasing misrepresents the original wording, that's not the issue.

Far more likely is the "Black coffee with milk" suggestion at the end of the article.
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Just buying other companies is nice - but how about we start with APIs that don't 500-error every other request?

I <3 all their APIs for Watson but it feels like AWS 3.5 years ago. Reliability counts.
This article tells a great story about overcoming certain hangups about one's ability, but never touches on talent not being matched to an audience. In some industries it's not what you know, but who you know, and the context. Take for example that famous experiment with Joshua Bell playing the violin in DC Metro Station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM21gPmkDpI Nobody even noticed, and having known it was Joshua Bell, they certainly would have. Practicing all alone with a musical instrument in my bedroom is no more exaltation than it is a mismatch of talent and audience. If anything my neighbor will be filing a noise complaint...
> And are still BS with today's monitors (including laptop monitors).

My 15" laptop monitor can only (readably to me) fit two 100-wide buffers in a visually barebone editor (emacs), move to an editor or IDE where the UI takes more horizontal space because of sidebars (Atom, IntelliJ) and the buffers are close to 80-wide, so 80-wide is a perfectly fine limit as far as I'm concerned.

Until I have to perform a 3-way merge, then 80-wide doesn't fit anymore.

And age will eventually catch up to me and make things worse.
70s called. Expert systems are out of fashion.

Anyway, if you ever used Watson on their Blue-thing you know how horrible the experience can be. Just pay someone to make some documentation or something and an API..
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I did successfully rollback to Win7home. The process worked perfectly and was surprisingly fast.
Not sure if this proves or disproves anything, but there are rumours she's a vintage radio enthusiast

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/the-truth-is-out-there
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Any advice/tutorials on how to set this up? Ideally I'd like just that ssh session to change the text to red for prod boxes but then go back to my normal iTerm theme after exit...
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> It depends on how you interpret the XKCD comic

Unless either of us can find Randall explaining his intent somewhere (and even then; death of the author probably applies - how sytse used the comic is equally important) all we can do is go by it's working. The comic doesn't say "The First Amendment", it says "Freedom of Speech".

I won't say that the average netizen shouting freedom of speech is educated on the philosophy of liberty or has read JS Mill (I haven't, I need too). But when they say freedom of speech about forums. Freedom of Speech is still a human right, not a clause in the USA constitution. I still think it's a strawman to respond by pointing the limits of the First Amendment.

> Of course, Mill assumed that most people are capable of rational thought, and would generally move towards a more correct view of the world when exposed to a marketplace of ideas. The internet doesn't always work like that. However, the alternative to "free speech" is echo chambers, which is probably worse.

On Liberty was written in 1859. It's an indisputable fact that in all forms of social justice - sexual equality, racial equality, LGBT rights, and far far more - things have been improved enormously during the last 66 years. If Mills ideas have either influenced or reflected the political philosophies of the those 66 years then clearly he's onto something.

Even the internet doesn't change much, human nature is still human nature. Besides, to pick a date, the internet has only been influential since September 1993. Social justice has mostly gotten better since 1993 even if online discourse has gotten worse. It's premature to say we the world is too different to go by On Liberty.

After 66 years of liberty bringing progress we should only attempt to replace liberal ideas with the utmost care, thought and deliberation. And when I see people arguing to limit freedom of speech, I do not see that care and deliberation; if I did a comic saying that Freedom of Speech was merely a clause in one country's legal code would never have gotten popular.

> But I don't see why GitLab has any real responsibility to allow stuff that's not code (or is just joke code) - it's not a really a marketplace of ideas, it's a place to share code.

If they had a clearly written rule saying only code is aloud, or only code and documentation relating to code is aloud then that would be fine.

However once GitLab starts judging repositories based on the ideas they contain and deleting legal repositories they dislike then they have crossed the line.
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The topic is your removal of a community organizing resource. You made false accusations about the group, so you should have expected disapprobation from them.

You still have not apologized.
David Simon was a former reporter. His lectures -- look for "the audacity of despair" -- are excellent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRt46W3k-qw

(Long, poor audio, and lot of verbal ticks, but simply amazing.)
By the way, if you're aware of any peer-reviewed papers out there that explain how PoS works, I'd be interested in reading them. Academia has been quite shy on the subject.
Did they not let you check out at the register? I would have walked out on the sale if someone did that to me.
Is take-away Pizza considered 'fast food' in Italy?
There are various resources available through Dublin Core.

http://dublincore.org/resources/

Including translations, if you need them:

http://dublincore.org/resources/translations/index.shtml

There's also the Archive.org metadata repository.

https://blog.archive.org/developers/

I _think_ the common crawl folks have a metadata repository as well.
Check this reddit thread : https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ptuf3/brain_walle...
I'm the opposite. Got all my social out the way early and am eager to be anti-social and increase my earnings potential. Greener grass theory.
Doesn't the author also add in the average additional years lived without disability (5 years, according to his source, which is adjusted to 2.5 years in terms of lifespan)?

Sure, we all live a lot better lived with access to medicine, but the larger part of the improvement comes from improved access to nutrition and sanitation.

Besides, even if you disagree with the methodology (which they already admit is a back of the envelope calculation that is likely to be only accurate to an order of magnitude, I don't think the idea in itself, to identify the best way an individual can contribute to humanity as a whole is a bad idea.
It's not that bad. The smart attackers don't do Bitcoin mining, they do altcoin mining, and they pick altcoins that don't have ASICs out. Then they are competing with other GPUs.

I'm not sure what the profit is, but I'd guess it's between 30% and 70% of the bill incurred.
I think the comment about using temporary credentials is an interesting one.

Where I work, we have a federated access system that generates temporary credentials so you can access the Console without having to sign in, and it uses our work authentication mechanism to do the initial handshake.

The thing is this process is useless if you want to use it with the AWS command line client, or any other tools that rely on the use of credentials. It would be nice if AWS adopted a plugin system or something where you could plug in a "credentials provider" of some sort, and the command line client queries that for credentials each time you make a request, instead of having to stash keys in ~/.aws/credentials
Is that the guy from Top Gear?
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Philosophers call stories "thought experiments" but they're the same thing.
Paul Grahm: [Do What you love] (2006)
Whenever I have to choose between two paths. I read this. Many hackernews readers may already know it. But for the newcomers it may be useful to bookmark.
Wow. I haven't seen this much creepy, leering male-entitlement since I stopped reading Maxim in the late 90s. The whole thing is just gross, through and through. "Betrayed"? Seriously?

If a woman doesn't want her naked body exposed on camera, that's her right, just as it's mine to make the same decision. There's no story here, just basic human courtesy and respect.
According to Wikipedia, Uber was founded almost 3 years before Sidecar (March 2009 versus January 2012)... so Sidecar may have suffered a "timid-mover disadvantage", but not really a "first-mover disadvantage".
We encountered this issue because we use MongoDB as our primary database and there was no driver available. I wrote a really nice (if I say so myself) wrapper [1] around the C driver, which really wasn't that much work. I think in general anything you can think of can be used by integrating with a C library.

[1] https://github.com/thijsc/mongo-rust-driver
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I don't know. If you specifically ask for a "pizza rossa with mozzarella", that's a contradiction. But to ask for an item that just happens to by itself be a type of pizza rossa, and then ask for mozzarella on top, I don't see the problem. You're not asking for a contradiction, you just want two items put together.

If I go to a burger joint that offers an option with no burger patty, and I order "cheese sandwich with a burger patty added", I've gone a bit roundabout but I haven't asked for anything contradictory or 'nonexistent'.
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A few reasons for me:
1. Google keep messing around with button placement in their UI and it gets irritating after a while.
2. I would never compose a long (important) email in a web browser in case I lost the page.
3. Gmail is one of many accounts that I have and I like a unified inbox.
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Beacause with Thunderbird I have all my e-mail accounts in one place. I got my calendar there, too. Also I still prefer desktop applications.
Politics also needs consideration. If other countries protect their industries and US does not what will happen?
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Especially as nobody seems to feel "betrayed" by all the non-nudity either non-CGI or CGI effects which also result in scenes that were never filmed as such.
Well said.

"Not every movie actress is going to want to do a nude scene. Maybe something’s wrong with her body at the time, or maybe some other actress had a better butt, so they use a body double."

As if those are the only two possible reasons for not wanting to do a nude scene. This Jim McBride sounds like quite the a--hole.
Reasons why rent is so high not named:

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Never happened to me. However, it seems to mess up ncurses rendering (eg, tig is broken on my work laptop).
I can't quite imagine anyone (Italian pizzaiolo or otherwise) getting so worked up over a pizza order. I think the situation described in the piece was either much friendlier than the author makes it out to be, or a fantasy that nicely plugs in the eat-pray-love-style "Italians are all about food and simple life and being passionate about everything while gesticulating" memes.
Ah yes, let's not do something we can do now, because 40 years ago it sucked due to technical limitations.
the black coffee with milk is the right example, as you don't order a veggie burger with meat.
The obvious question a newcomer would have to that particular code is "Can't a color be bright and light at the same time? Why?".

Those things are better explained in a comment, I'd think.

Comments are needed, but should not explain what the code does (as in "add 1 to n") and instead exaplin why it does it (as in "fn expects indices to start from 1").
Mostly. On top of that, you actually have two variants: traditional, round pizza (which comes in common take-away square boxes, and may or may not be pre-cut into slices for convenience), and smaller, square-shaped sliced pizza ("pizza al taglio"). The latter is always considered fast food.
May as well be talking about Erlang. Except that Erlang has the concept developed 10 steps further.
46k hours and 8k cycles is not that old for a 747 - there are ones with 100k+ hours still flying.
Trying to estimate the impact one can make is OK thing to do, but I comment here just the article and how I see it. So I've now moved to the part 3 of the article, let's see the conclusion:

"I think my 17-year-old self would find that pretty galling. He’d signed up to medicine to save loads of lives, and he’d find it a bit of a downer to see this his entire medical career would likely do as much good as a £10 000 donation to the right charity. But that would be the wrong way of looking at things: instead, he should see that saving 17 lives is a vast amount of good, and being able to do 30 times more good on top of that is awesome."

Well... sounds a bit better. But the whole series still looks more like an excuse for somebody to forgo his medical career (also from the Part 3):

"If I become willing to work as a doctor, then I increase the supply of doctors. If more people are willing to be doctors, then the NHS can slightly decrease the wages for doctors (1). If the wages are slightly lower, the budget can be used to hire slightly more doctors.

How this all balances out is studied by economists. If the labour market for doctors is in equilibrium, then increasing the supply of doctors by one doctor, will probably increase the number of doctors by about 0.6 (2)."

I'd like to know if the article author really grew up to be a doctor or if he's now some activist in some charity instead.

Take a look at what the site suggests as the "right careers" for impact after I've filled the "career guide":

1) Management consulting (for skill-building & earning to give)

2) Foundation grantmaker

3) Think tank research

4) Economics PhD

Well if the guys who end up on this position only know to count megadeaths and QALYs before, I really doubt they will even understand what they decide about. But they'll surely have some impact, if it's a good impact it's fully another question.
When I watched that game of thrones episode I was impressed by how she was able to act and parade down the street nude for what seemed an eternity. I was thinking she will get some acting award for that.
This is a hard attack to defend against - because the person sending the money can also two-factor authentication them.

With that said - internally, there are usually lots, and lots and lots of controls over who/how one can send money, and it's pretty darn rare for someone to be able to "spoof" a request like this without throwing a lot of red flags.
you clearly never met passionate Italians, food is an important part of the tradition, even more about pizza which is ruined in so many ways around the world :-)
Thank you for this example. It's exactly the thing I had with CoffeeScript
I think I might have met a few, as I am Italian myself :-)

To be honest the story would be much more believable if the writer weren't a foreigner - that kind of reaction from the shop owner is usually reserved for much stronger violations of the "pizza code" (pineapple pizza being the go-to example!)
I think you're reading too much into his words. I don't see it as any different from a trainspotting enthusiasts lamenting the fact that the Harry Potter films used a CGI locomotive instead of a real 19th century steam train.

If they believe that something is lost from the use of CGI in the film, that's their prerogative. As with any works of performance art, shouldn't television and cinema come under the same level of critique?
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Uber was only black car back then. It is akin to a professional limo service. Sidecar was the first service that use regular cars. Lyft came afterwards.
I witnessed something similar a few years ago at a conference in Ottawa. We had gathered at a local pub, and a Parisian friend asked for a hamburger "cooked rare". The waitress responded "I don't think we can do that", which elicited the obvious reply "of course you can, just take it off the grill sooner".

At this point we stepped in to explain that it was a matter of food safety laws, and the beef used for hamburgers in Canada really wasn't safe unless it was well cooked... and that, contrary to stereotypes about North American cuisine, we all understood that good quality meat shouldn't be ruined by overcooking.

He agreed to have a legal hamburger, but only on the condition that it was overcooked as little as possible.
> a reply 2 or 3 or 4 levels in will be read by almost no one

Partly because there's no OOTB way to follow up on a thread, especially if it's not one you're participating in. I had to write a user script [1] to highlight new comments and collapse threads without new comments, to make it _possible_ to follow discussions beyond the initial read.

[1] https://github.com/insin/greasemonkey/blob/master/hncommentt...
Dublin Core: sure to be useful any day now.. Or not.

(Seriously, look at the Google Knowledge Vault paper, and pay attention to how much more accurate the data is that they get from non-metadata sources is).
A bit off-topic, https://www.freebase.com/ is read only now, when it closes down what other open db for meta data is there? Something I don't have to crawl and have a decent query language?

Wikidata, or self-hosted DBPedia on a triple store with a SPARQL interface.
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Since the one in the article has been removed, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTjtXswrKso
Well, trains aren't humans.
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Article: "Medical care can be credited with 5 to 5.5 years of the increase in life expectancy since 1900"

You: "[The article] starts with the number 5.25 years...and then calculates "year of life the doctor saved" based on that. That's wrong....The counterexample: the kid breaks the leg....There are immense number of equivalent examples and all are ignored in the article.

Are you claiming that the article only accounts for deaths averted and fails to account for improved health and well being? Because the article addresses disability-adjusted life years literally 2 sentences later.

> Medicine also improves wellbeing: the average person has five more years free of disability.

(Incidentally, deaths averted are comparable in total value to injuries averted, so the article would still fulfill it's claim of getting an order-of-magnitude estimate even if it had ignored the later.)

I would focus less on ad hominems about the author's youth.
I don't see how that's different. Take black coffee, add milk, that's what I want.
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food is an important part of the tradition, even more about pizza

Not for all Italians. My paternal grandmother is from northern Italy, but moved to the UK with her new husband shortly after the second world war. My father, growing up with an Italian housewife as mother, experienced a lot of Italian cuisine, but never saw pizza until he went away to university in the mid-60s.

Upon returning home one vacation, he said to his mother "I discovered a wonderful Italian dish at university called pizza... why did you never cook this?" -- only to be met by the scornful reply "Pizza? That's what poor people eat!"
I watched your talk and it was very interesting. I'm somewhat confused by the notation for scoped continuations though. Is there a reference you can point me to? In particular, if I have

^x {
...
cont c
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}

c() {
...
pause(^x = foo)
...
}

then when 'pause' is run control flow jumps back to the cont. How do I then resume execution of 'c'? It seems like I have to somehow encounter that 'cont c' line again either in a loop or by reinvocation of an enclosing function. But can there be two calls to 'cont c'?

^x {
...
cont c
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cont c
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}

And the second one returns control to the thread that 'paused' when called from the first? If so, how do I start an entirely new thread?

This was all a bit confusing, so if you can point me to a reference I would be grateful. Unfortunately "scoped continuations" has very few hits on Google. In fact by the time you read this, this comment is probably one of the top hits!