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Yeah, some of the explanation of benefits I've received are insane. Insurance is apparently able to negotiate ~50% bill reductions for multi 10K bills.

I think pregnancy and labor is what's going to finally break the camel's back. Having children is a pretty basic part of being human. And the costs are such that even millionaires …

I was wondering the same thing. I feel my time playing various role playing games has helped the issues that I've had with social anxiety.

I really like it when people become concerned about cognitive complexity. I think it's one of the significantly ignored concepts in our industry and if we ever find a way to addres…

I remember trying to sleep in between classes. Like, I would close my eyes and touch the wall in the hallway so that I could "sleep" while I was walking to my next class.

Well, I don't know about that. For example, back when I was at university, my graphics professor mentioned that there were hundreds of algorithms for mapping a texture to a sphere …

Not utilitarian calculus. It's closer to spider-man's Great power comes great responsibility. For example, if I figured out the secret to creating strong AI with respect to writing…

Bad things can work out for your own personal good. Or even the good of the whole of society. However, that doesn't make them not bad. I'm glad that your situation worked out for y…

They should be free to live their life. If it turns out that the company doesn't actually have enough money to hire enough people to perform all of the duties that it needs to cont…

If the interview makes sure that potential employees are okay with being on call, then there are no problems. However, my employer has moral agency above me only insofar as I'm not…

You are right. It isn't cool. But I assert that the not cool party is the employer who sprung an on call job requirement without any warning. Additionally, if this job duty was act…

Division of labor is a thing. I'm good at transforming customer interactions into requirements and then transforming requirements into working code. I'm not good with dealing with …

Hear hear. Give me actual autonomy and I'll happily be responsible for my code. Make me implement a crappy design and then deploy before it's functional and I'll happily send out r…

Like, I can appreciate that things can always be worse. But the other perspective is that what you're describing is objectively bad. And less of a bad thing is still bad. If I have…

This isn't quite what I was going to say, but it's close enough. I think parts of an OS can and should be written in something rust like, however the whole thing should probably no…

The GURPS role playing system uses the term indefatigable as part of its game mechanics. Additionally, the Film Reroll Podcast uses GURPS as their game system. My guess is that OP …

There is a series of talks by Yuri Gurevich on Channel 9 where he talks about algorithms. While I haven't watched this particular video (yet), I did watch the other series a few ti…

We as an industry? Look friend. If I lose my job, you aren't going to do anything to augment my lack of income. You're not going to do anything to provide health insurance. And you…

I wonder which is worse. If they were arguing that way for no reason OR if they were arguing that way because their livelihoods were dependent on it.

My plan is that you settle and then pay their licensing fee. At which point you've got the right to show the tattoos so you use that right. Create a new basketball player called Le…

Wait, so the conservatives want less censorship and the liberals want more censorship? Is this one of those mirror universe things?

With respect to the call stack, a dynamically scoped variable is like the dual of an exception. That is to say, an exception is a way for a method to communicate with methods that …

Is there a prose explanation or justification for Algorithm Information Theory. I think I first heard of it when I saw your IOCCC entry, but I was never able to get my mind wrapped…

Is this what your meant to write? I've worked on diabetes medical devices for about 8 years, did some research on diabetes to augment my ability to work on said diabetes medical de…

Additionally, if you don't train Steve and instead just quit, that's not going to stop the Employer from asking Steve to do the unethical thing without training. Now the unethical …