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I can’t think of any British or Australian or French personal ID number like this?

That’s a nice thought, but who are the users who plan to write their own air traffic control tool?

I have not just worked with but had code rejected by these people. “Don’t fix that bug, we are going to write an entire new structure that will make it irrelevant”, “don’t upgrade that library, we are going to rewrite our code to not use it”, “don’t improve exception handling, fix all the bugs that throw bad exceptions”. Not at all surprisingly, all of those planned upgrades took at least two years after my attempted improvement was rejected (the library I didn’t upgrade stuck around for six years).

I live near the proposed event. That’s my entire connection.

Is this a joke about how Americans sue over everything?

Someone tried to organize a street fair near me, did public outreach for months, and a week before the date a business owner a block away from the street fair contacted the city with a fake list of all the local businesses who said they hadn’t even known about this and it would destroy them, and the city didn’t issue the final permit. No event. (The list was known to be faked because some of the business owners listed were publicly supporting and advertising the event). So that’s the other problem with “just do something” - other people hate you and if you don’t already know the right people and how to be believed over the wrong people, you won’t get something done.

And your second attempt would get closed as a duplicate of your first attempt.

So the answer to your question "why do you think altruism is common" is still what are you talking about?

This isn’t obvious at all. Editors can evaluate and improve the work of writers even without being bestselling novelists themselves. Richard Williams coached his girls to world championships without winning one himself. Roger Ebert never even made a movie.

School districts per se isn’t the problem so long as you have enrolment catchments. Australia doesn’t have school districts for their public schools but there are definitely more and less attractive state schools and people definitely pay more to live in the catchment zones of good schools. https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/12bgjnt/victoria... https://web.archive.org/web/20260202110638/https://www.theag...

What about a title marker similar to [1997]? It’s content that people may or may not be interested in but will react differently if they know this about it’s origin.

And they are asking why it is so hard to get rational collective results, aka in your wording why is it so hard to get people to act altruistically. So the answer to your question “why do you think altruism is common* is still “what are you talking about”.

How did you get the idea they think anyone is being altruistic? Usually the complaint that people won’t vote in rational self interest is suggesting that people are voting based on irrational evaluations of their self interest: for the benefit of their unlikely future selves.

That would be neat to include

Presumably it’s a known amount approximately matching what they do.

The comment was saying it should not be legal to cause “an explosion rattle your windows”, not just endangering the structure.

Ohh delaying the other exams. I somehow read it as delaying the other students.

Obviously how you use the thing is important.

Is there a way to use large fireworks in a residential neighborhood that isn’t “light them on fire to cause an explosion”?

As a European living in the US, would you have been able to immigrate without a degree? I know I needed one for immigration.

basically had to teach myself Python for an exam, delaying the others, (we had 4 exams per semester, and couldn't keep it up).

How did this work? They actually waited for you before holding an exam?

I once had a group project during a masters course where one guy disappeared halfway through the semester. Didn’t respond to phone, email, anything. The rest of us were discussing how to let the professor know after he had been over a month MIA (we didn’t need him but didn’t want him to get the group grade) when the professor emailed us to say he had heard from the guy, who had been literally hit by a truck and was still in hospital; medical withdrawal.

Unmaintainable is a bug. You just decided that you think code review is only meant to find one type of bug. Cool?

You're questioning whether there are any interesting problems in the P v NP space? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem

But if you want to keep it in the realm of the everyday: you're asking if it is easier to write an email than to read it and check it covers what you wanted to say? Is it easier to search for something or to look at what's been found and say that it's what you were looking for?

But that’s trivially false. There is an entire category of work where it is hard to come up with an answer and easy to verify the answer, which means that if you verified everything there would still be a large time savings.

The bottleneck is physical work, as I understand it. And primarily delicate physical work that does not destroy the already disintegrating materials that are piled up in boxes for miles.

https://www.aaa.si.edu/documentation/digitizing-entire-colle...

Similarly, it has certain deficits that a password manager does not.

You had a guy fill his lungs with ethanol and then drive away as a chauffeur.

You don't just assume they have more fragile health? People I know who mask have had cancer, long covid, lung issues, new babies in the house, ...

The laws slightly pre-date todays offices.

The point is that if you don't install pipes, there's no water going into the house, and so pipes were created even before water was being treated, and it made an easy single point of control. Air is arriving everywhere from everywhere - there is no existing system that can be monitored and set to improve it without every house updating.