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Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by ww520 » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:19 PM UTC

Eliezer wrote: post #106

Death annoys me. People who can afford $300/year for a cheap cryonics membership and life insurance, and who don't sign up, annoy me. A lot of them are probably being held off by the trivial inconvenience of signing a few papers without a paid salesman to hold their hand. It therefore annoys me that cryonics is poorly marketed and that there are no paid salespeople - that no one gets a commission when you sign up for…

Does cryonics work?

When one with a cryonics membership dies, is his life insurance benefit still paid out? Assuming he can be revived via the cryonics process. Cryonics and life insurance seem incompatible.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by grandalf » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:20 PM UTC

Eliezer wrote: post #106

Death annoys me. People who can afford $300/year for a cheap cryonics membership and life insurance, and who don't sign up, annoy me. A lot of them are probably being held off by the trivial inconvenience of signing a few papers without a paid salesman to hold their hand. It therefore annoys me that cryonics is poorly marketed and that there are no paid salespeople - that no one gets a commission when you sign up for…

Links to good/cheap cryo? I will sign up today.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by dabent » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:20 PM UTC

agentultra wrote: post #144

1. Seeing a traffic jam where every car has exactly one person in it. This is just a tragedy. 2. Job interviews that require quizzes and an "intensive" multi-stage interview process. As a candidate, I've just sent you a bunch of links to open repositories where you can review my code and offered to give you other code examples from my private repositories on request. I give you links to my previous work and letters o…

> Seeing a traffic jam where every car has exactly one person in it.

Welcome to Atlanta. Or maybe many other cities. I've often thought that there must be some remote working solutions out there that just need to overcome inertia to be accepted. The benefits would be huge.

> As a candidate, I've just sent you a bunch of links to open repositories where you can review my code...

You're hired - just for having code out there. I'm not sure many hiring managers fully understand what open source is. That's part of the problem.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by ww520 » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:22 PM UTC

Mc_Big_G wrote: post #13

People in the left lane driving with a speed <= or 1mph faster than the people in the right lane.

Ah the left lane squatters who squat but won't shit.

More infuriating are people who change into the left lane and slow down.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by joshfraser » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:29 PM UTC

laundry. i think it's absurd that we can put a man on the moon and send a message around the world instantly (from a touch screen computer in my pocket no less!) and i'm still stuck moving laundry from one machine to another machine 2 feet away.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by MikeCapone » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:29 PM UTC

brettnak wrote: post #156

MikeCapone wrote: post #82

The fact that most people seem to think that it's okay to get sick from the diseases of aging, get frail, suffer, and die, and that we shouldn't try to do something to fix that problem (really fix it, not just prolong suffering a bit). I think it's probably partly rationalization because they think it's inevitable (but it is not inevitable, and I'd like that to become a more mainstream view so we can hurry up and wor…

I might be the only one who thinks this around here, but I think the concept of mortality is kind of beautiful. However, ask me about that when I'm facing my own and the answer might be different.

I think it's a really powerful concept, and like religion and superstition, I think it's fine in fiction (books and movies would be boring without that imagery). But in the real-world, it's just plain bad and we need to do something about it.

Nobody is in favor of malaria or smallpox, but most people turn a blind eye to the diseases of aging even though they kill a lot more people.

The real question is: If dying of old age didn't exist (if everybody stayed physically as fit as 25 years olds indefinitely, until they get hit by a truck or whatever), would we miss frailty and decrepitude? Would we invent death by slow diseases that make our bodies and minds fall apart? I kinda doubt it.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by dzlobin » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:31 PM UTC

ww520 wrote: post #171

Eliezer wrote: post #106

Death annoys me. People who can afford $300/year for a cheap cryonics membership and life insurance, and who don't sign up, annoy me. A lot of them are probably being held off by the trivial inconvenience of signing a few papers without a paid salesman to hold their hand. It therefore annoys me that cryonics is poorly marketed and that there are no paid salespeople - that no one gets a commission when you sign up for…

Does cryonics work? When one with a cryonics membership dies, is his life insurance benefit still paid out? Assuming he can be revived via the cryonics process. Cryonics and life insurance seem incompatible.

Great question, I'd hate to be revived and then stuck with a 2 million dollar bill for previously paid out life insurance.

My guess is that insurance companies haven't bothered to write that fine print yet, but who knows.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by joshfraser » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:31 PM UTC

going to the grocery store. why doesn't food just show up at my house automatically by now?

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by Timmy_C » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:35 PM UTC

ExtremePopcorn wrote: post #28

Psychological pricing - don't tell me that your product is $9.95; say $10.

I know that most prices at Nordstrom end in .95 whereas Nordstrom Rack prices typically end in .97.

They have a very liberal return policy so it's a simple way to encode where the product was bought so customers can't pass off outlet store items as if they were bought from Nordstrom proper.

That's one beneficial use to psychological pricey but I too would rather pay nice round numbers. It makes it easier to calculate sales tax too.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by char » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:35 PM UTC

BAD PARKERS annoy me so much.

a) People who can't center their vehicle within the lines. b) People who park SUVs in compact car spots. c) People who parallel park in the middle of two driveway openings (as opposed to an edge, which would open another parking space!)

I have seriously considered creating stickers with various versions of "YOU PARK LIKE AN ASSHOLE" printed on them, so I can distribute them at will.