I already lost too many peoples that were important to me... I just kept moving, working, and hanging to positive peoples/colleague around me. All my thought to you!
Some terrible personal news
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
But that's not medically true? The proximate medical cause has to be valid and complete, otherwise what is the point in listing it? A death certificate provides full information as to why someone died for the relatives and for the state. This provides them with an explanation of how and why their relative died. It also gives them a permanent record of information about their family medical history, which may be impor…
The point here is that the proximate medical cause isn’t actually the complete cause. While medical records are useful, they don’t explain the circumstances that led to someone’s death, and are therefore heavily missing information in many cases. The person who died of pneumonia because they couldn’t afford to go to hospital - all that gets listed on their certificate is that they died of pneumonia, and so we’re lack…
That's all true, but are not the job of the death certificate or the responsibility of a doctor. It has to be as objective as possible, not a matter of interpretation, that would be an appropriate role for an inquest.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
But that's not medically true? The proximate medical cause has to be valid and complete, otherwise what is the point in listing it? A death certificate provides full information as to why someone died for the relatives and for the state. This provides them with an explanation of how and why their relative died. It also gives them a permanent record of information about their family medical history, which may be impor…
The point here is that the proximate medical cause isn’t actually the complete cause. While medical records are useful, they don’t explain the circumstances that led to someone’s death, and are therefore heavily missing information in many cases. The person who died of pneumonia because they couldn’t afford to go to hospital - all that gets listed on their certificate is that they died of pneumonia, and so we’re lack…
> The point here is that the proximate medical cause isn’t actually the complete cause.
I understand the spirit of this, but it's entirely subjective and way too open for interpretation.
I think by and large people do understand these things contribute to illness & death, they are just able to separate themselves from that reality on a day-to-day basis.
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Im curious how would they know all medical indication show they could have survived longer. I mean I see few movies with this underline story but do we really have some solid proof?
this is true. Take 10 million couples and maybe 1 in 10 million, this happens, and this is what we hear in the news. We never hear about the wife that lives 10 more years after their 85+ year old husband dies.
I’ve thought the same thing about stories of South Korean gamers dying from marathon gaming sessions.
If a millions people have marathon gaming sessions day in and day out, doesn’t it only make sense that one of them will die in their chair once in awhile? Was gaming really the cause?
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
The farther you get from the proximate medical cause, the more supposition and speculation is involved.
True, but his point about missing information that could lead to the root cause is very valid. In some cases addressing the root cause is the only way to really prevent death.
The root cause of death is life.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, because it's common knowledge to change companies every ~3 years to get a 20%+ salary increase instead of a miserly 0-10%.
In western Europe, you do this couple of times (not as external consultant of course, but as perm employee), and you get semi-permanently branded as unreliable and unstable. For good reasons. I can see reasoning for this and it makes sense to me (i did it couple of times myself when younger, wouldn't' do that now). In growing economies, or where there isn't enough experienced IT people this isn't valid though.
It's my understanding that in a lot of tech hub cities the average tenure at a company is only like two years.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
From my own experience: - If someone stays less than 2 years with a company something is wrong (the person, the company or the combination). - If someone stays longer than 4 years with a company in the same job, without promotion, that person is probably not the 'manager' type. Both situations just give you hints on whether someone matches the profile you are searching for, but switching companies after 3-4 years see…
3 to 4 years is a good amount of time to switch, but I think 5 to 6 is probably better, it you have a good fit with a company. 5 to 6 years is the normal amount of time to 100% vest company 401k contributions, and any stock options. Leaving early can be a lot of money on the table.
I've seen a pretty wide spread of vesting schedules.
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#148Dying doesn't scare worry me at all. I've died twice before. My deepest fear is something, anything, happening to my wife. She gets a cough and I worry; she has to go to the doctor and I get chills. I don't even like saying, "What if something .. . ".
Now I think its going to be a sucky day.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you make enough, making more money means less to you and you care much more about the workplace, the people, the mission. Either that, or find a company that does raises in line with what you’d get from moving. Netflix is famous for this (and has high retention), but there are other companies. The company I work for has a similar approach and I know I’m unlikely to make more at another company unless I move into…
> Netflix is famous for this (and has high retention) Netflix has high turnover, about 15-20% depending on source.
Everything I have heard has been anecdotal and contradicts this. Do you happen to _have_ the source for your information? I admit I don't for mine.
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#150So sorry for the loss. I'm having a busy life as everyone else and ignoring what matters most. I now need spend more time with loved ones.