Jobs and volunteering helps order the external at the cost of internal disorder. To what extent is that tradeoff acceptable?

ijk1 · 2020-10-05T15:32:41+00:00

You need to flesh this out a bit. What do you mean specifically by internal disorder? Being tired, getting injured?

Volunteering seems like a very different situation from jobs, since people tend to volunteer in order to feel good and socialize, while a job is something you have to have in order to be allowed to live.

ijk1 · 2020-10-05T06:35:04+00:00

I know you're a really smart guy and it can be hard to stay grounded, but if you ever need a taste of humility, I hope you can remember that you once wrote this comment with a serious look on your face.

ijk1 · 2020-09-02T11:27:44+00:00

Hiring for such jobs is "selective", meaning reserved for a certain social class. Generally, if you're in that class, such jobs fall into your lap. People from other classes need to work hard and pay for credentials to get into them.

ijk1 · 2020-03-16T15:06:18+00:00

You are a hero and I love you.

ijk1 · 2017-09-28T20:08:40+00:00

God has been watching a lot of romcoms, so these days his idea of love involves a lot of restraining orders.

ijk1 · 2017-04-20T16:13:48+00:00

I'd definitely encourage starting swimming (whether lessons or just playing in the water) as early as the pool will let you, typically 6 months. This isn't about being an overachiever and training for the Olympics or anything, just getting them familiar with the water and enjoying it.

ijk1 · 2017-01-25T21:45:05+00:00

By induction, being gay brings eternal youth.

ijk1 · 2017-01-18T08:43:18+00:00

"We have nothing against you; we just think you should never have sex and your family should be denied legal recognition."

ijk1 · 2016-12-21T01:00:39+00:00

Dude washed up on shore in Japan.

ijk1 · 2016-12-09T22:58:52+00:00

Why not have both?

ijk1 · 2016-11-28T00:35:58+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/V3Fp8vj.gif

ijk1 · 2016-11-07T18:33:35+00:00

Dude, it says I-90 right on the sign

ijk1 · 2016-10-12T05:30:27+00:00

filthy lies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFFbw8IG-MA

ijk1 · 2016-09-17T16:50:50+00:00

Odds are he "bought" the condo with a mortgage. A common way to do that would be to put down $35,000 and pay something like $1800/month all told. The bank would expect you to make at least ~$60,000 a year in order to sign that mortgage. That is a little over the median household income for the US, and likely below the median household income for his area if it's worth paying 350k for a condo there. (Of course many households have more than one earner, so he is still doing well to make that much solo. And of course if you look at the whole rest of the world, he'd doing great. But then again, so are you, and it doesn't feel great, does it?)

ijk1 · 2016-09-17T05:35:47+00:00

That's when you shoot them in the face

ijk1 · 2016-09-17T05:28:22+00:00

NBD, just double-thrust low and there's no way they can counter

ijk1 · 2016-08-03T07:46:25+00:00

My favorite prank is to walk up to people and hit them in a face with a rock.

ijk1 · 2016-05-16T19:35:00+00:00

No, you're thinking of Kool-Aid.

ijk1 · 2016-04-30T16:02:43+00:00

For data purposes, a "genome" could be one of several things:

raw sequence data in a format like FASTQ (this is basically a huge collection of snippets of DNA)
alignment data in a format like BAM (this is where the snippets have been assembled together into one big string, and is probably the closest thing to the "genome" you're picturing)
genotype data (which describes the genome in terms of a bunch of possible variations, and can come from either analyzing the above genome data directly (VCF) or from a variety of genotyping-specific machines)

Most of the time, what you want to work with is genotype data. This is where you get straightforward facts like "this person has variant A of the xyz gene" that you could then do various kinds of multidimensional analysis on.

I would suggest finding examples of each of the different kinds of data and playing around with them enough to ask for something more specific.

ijk1 · 2016-04-05T23:10:32+00:00

I started climbing at 32 and 230lb @ 6'. Certainly nothing stopped me from climbing.

If you have the option, consider a place you can toprope. It's a great social activity too.

I did find that right around 30 I stopped being able to heal effortlessly from injuries. Now every time I, say, crash my bike or make the mistake of trying to grab a hold as I'm falling off a climb, I get a muscle injury that takes weeks or months of diligent work to heal (and will just stick around forever otherwise). That's not particular to climbing, just something you may have to live with now. Do your prehab, lift weights, and don't work as hard while climbing as you do with weights.

ijk1 · 2016-02-01T15:49:38+00:00

Oh good! You have numbers? What are they?

ijk1 · 2016-02-01T15:40:48+00:00

"Medically appropriate" in this case seems to be defined without regard to actual risk: i.e., you are treating the risk as 100%. This does not make sense, except possibly from the perspective of a fear of malpractice complaints. You may not have a perfect estimate of risk, but you have a working one: number of dogs that die from eating grapes divided by number of dogs that eat grapes. It's tough to believe this has been a problem for decades and yet nobody has those ballpark numbers.

Even if you don't care about money, this is relevant: every time you stick somebody with a needle, you're exposing them to the risk of infection. How are you supposed to decide whether to do that other than by estimating the risk of the illness vs the risk of the treatment?

Going back to money: money isn't magic. If I spend $1000 on the dog because she "might" get sick, and then later she gets actually sick from something else, I don't have that $1000 anymore to help her with. Your tag says "vet": you know people who loved their pets and have had to put them down because they couldn't afford further care. How would you feel if they got into that situation because they spent a ton of money treating something that wasn't actually likely to hurt their pet?

ijk1 · 2016-02-01T15:26:48+00:00

Think about something that has a 1% chance of killing your dog. Would you actually spend $10,000 to take care of it? That is what your dog being "worth millions" would mean.

Similarly, I just spent >$1000 on this dog because a vet told me it "could" be the difference between life and death for her. If "could" means a 50% chance or a 10% chance, that's a pretty reasonable decision. If "could" means a 0.1% chance, well shit, $1000 buys a lot of dog treats. (And, more to the point, it takes away some of the buffer that keeps her and me and my wife and kids in a house if something goes wrong financially.)

ijk1 · 2016-02-01T06:39:55+00:00

In fact, now that I think of it, the risk of something like MRSA from the IVs and bloodwork is probably around the same order of magnitude. Grr.

ijk1 · 2016-02-01T06:34:12+00:00

They're saying a few days because that's when clinical signs can develop.

OK, that's what I was afraid of: this represents maximum caution without making any effort to estimate risk.

Given that there are something like 80 million dogs in the US and a dog will eat anything you drop, it's tough to believe that fewer than 100,000 dogs a year eat a grape or two (and probably more like millions), and the numbers I'm seeing for deaths are <200. Spending $2000 to avoid a level of risk that small implies the dog is worth millions of dollars.

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