Are the tickets for the whole event or just the concert? Are such still available for those of us who weren’t planning quite so far ahead?
I will coincidentally be passing through that weekend, and would love to meet more east coast folks.
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I think the idea that you are deciding for sufficiently similar minds as well as your own here may help in some way. If you and everyone who thinks like you is trading not-saved humans now for slight increased chance of saved everyone in the future, what would you decide?
(Note, if there are 400 people who think like you, and you’re using multiplicative increases you’ve just increased the chance of success by four orders of magnitude. If you’re using additive increases, you’ve gone over unity. Stick to odds for things like this maybe!)
Well, a generic FAI would accomplish SG (by assumption—we may need to work a bit on this part).
Yes… I am skeptical that that particular sub-goal would be accomplished by a FAI, but it sounds like an acceptable use for (even non-rigorous!) encodings of human values.
Start an insurance company with a focus on risk mitigation.
(Amass resources, collect information, you get the idea.)
I started getting programming gigs.
I’ve been writing programs and bug fixing for my other work and personal environment for twelve years, always loved programming more than the other work, but...
No.
Aside from the don’t do things to other people without other their consent angle (which is hard with a child), my two year old is ascribing motives to my actions, and when privacy comes into being I doubt I’ll be able to use any information that I do acquire without them noticing.
I’ve only been looking at online freelance sites and have had the most success at oDesk. In the past I’ve picked up a gig or two on Craigslist, but there was more legwork required to get gigs and I stopped.
The amount time spent reviewing and applying to jobs is such that I don’t intend to keep at it for a long time—but it is definitely a means to keep an eye on what (mostly) small businesses and hackerless startups out there want enough to pay someone for.
A friend of mine was raised with the knowledge of Santa Claus being a part of what goes along with Christmas for lots of people, but not actually real. Apparently they met one of the dressed up Santa’s around town as a three year old and...
Santa: (stereotypical santa greeting)
Friend: I was a rabbit for Holloween.
Santa: Tough customer, eh?
Might much of happiness comes from positional goods rather than absolute goods?
Um. I think those are non-central poly relationships for this community. Usually it seems like both men and women (and others) have or are interested in having multiple partners. Women appear to have more partners on average, but those that have exactly one are more likely not to be looking for more. Unfortunately the sample size is kinda small, so that’s probably not very meaningful. (data from the 2013 survey)
Update from the 2014 data—with the introduction of “and possibly open to more relationships partners” the number of poly people (except of nontraditional genders) with one partner who are currently not looking for more relationship partners dropped significantly. Women 6:4→2:12:5, Men 27:37→11:39:21, Other 1:5→4:5:2.
I am poly with a toddler. Polyness doesn’t seem to come into my parenting much beyond that there are more people who care more strongly about my child’s well being. (My co-parent and I provide all the care.)
May is in the data, a copy-paste error is much less astounding than nobody being born in May.
119 respondents, nothing surprising here.
Oh no! I forgot to leave my evidence.
How different would this be with age as the x axis?
You cannot date independently. Dating requires at least one other person. One of the amazing things about programming is that I can sit down anywhere at any time and create. Computers are handy, but even pencil and paper will do in a pinch.
In electronics, one designs a system from smaller components to fulfill a particular function. How is this not programming?
My objection to electronics is rather that it has a slower feedback cycle and a higher barrier to entry—to do anything complicated you need all the things you need for programming plus actual parts.
The subset that you can get birth years off the first page of a google search of their name (n=9), has a pretty clear correlation with younger people believing in harder takeoff. (I’ll update if I get time to dig out other’s birth years.)
Birth Year vs Foom:
A bit less striking than the famous enough to have Google pop up their birth year subset (green).
Consider it to be public domain.
If you pull the image from it’s current location and message me when you add more folks I might even update it. Or I can send you my data if you want to go for a more consistency.
Not (very) applicable if you have a strong gender identity: I’d always been fairly confused as to whether I was a woman or a man, neither one really fit quite right. Five years ago I met my first person who identified as genderqueer, but generalizing from that (one) example I thought it a mere label—I didn’t see how their behavior diverged substantially from their sex given gender. Last year or so, The Third Alternative, Keeping Your Identity Small, and applying being a linguistic descriptivist to my broader life came together. I’m a person, more or less human, and that’s it. One can choose null (but of course, the vast majority of acquaintances won’t notice...).