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I interpret the article to say the "myth" is exactly true. It may also be true that Semmelweis could have done a better job communicating his findings and persuading others. But th…

Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

"We should be more like Columbo" is a great general rule for life.

I agree with you 100%. The average person now lives better than the richest kings a few hundred years ago. But I think it's funny that you use Nick Cage as an example. Not to be me…

Take about 20% off there, bud.

I meant "still use math" as a proxy for "still use formal languages to communicate". Maybe in 100 years AI will be so powerful that we'll just ask our question in natural language …

If we still use math 100 years from now, we'll still use SQL. It's a fine way to query relational data, and relational data is a fine way to model reality. I'd like to hear from pe…

Could this be a protected concerted activity? In the US, there are some basic protections when two or more employees work together to improve the conditions of their employment. I …

I had the "oof" but I got rid of it by lifting weights, starting at age 51. I don't lift much anymore, because I kept hurting myself doing powerlifting. But it got rid of the "oof.…

My initial thought was that I didn't like that prescription. But I'd like to know _why_ the author thinks "joke less, laugh less" would help with divisiveness.

Well, the two owners referenced in the articles both died - one from cancer and one from general old age (>90 years).

The article says that his Parkinson's tremor makes using the ATM difficult. As a guy with tremor, I can tell you that it sucks. There are some things I can't physically do now, eve…

I think "my wife is a hospice worker who has provided care to over 5000 patients and hasn't heard these regrets" is a pretty decent argument. I'm not saying Hanson is right, but I …

Contact your favorite lawyer first.

This was the argument made by Larry Lessig in Eldred vs Ashcroft - the extreme length of the US copyright term is well beyond what's necessary "to promote the progress of science a…

There's a lot to unwrap in your questions, so I won't answer them fully. But I work in a job/industry that I consider to be meaningful and have done so for about 36 years. I work i…

Isn't that the muppet version? That is a great one.

Since trying to find out how to say "omicron", I've fallen down a rabbit hole of pronunciation differences. I think I pronounce all these leading "a" sounds differently. 1. all, al…

This is an interesting way to think about why utilitarianism doesn't alway comport with our moral intuitions. But I was really hoping this article would be about a user interface f…

He says he's a subscriber to YouTube music. So he is paying.