This doesn't quite work. The official reason for firing me had nothing to do with my narcolepsy, for example. It would normally be a minor infraction. But when someone wants to get rid of you for showing up late, they…
I see a lot of latent anger in this thread against lazy software programmers who don't show up on time. In case it's helpful, here's my story from two years ago about living with undiagnosed narcolepsy:…
"When the cost of [a car] repair was increased to $3,000, the cognitive performance of those at the upper end of the income distribution was unaffected by the increase. But those at the lower end suffered a 40% decline!…
It seems that the term "sociopath" isn't clearly defined: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Sociopathy There are various contemporary usages of the term. Robert Hare claimed in a 1999 popular science book that…
Please define "good parent" and "good partner." Assume we have some sort of sociopath detector which works from birth. Assume further that we have a treatment for sociopathy. It sounds like you'd be in favor of using…
This presupposes there's something wrong with sociopathy. Note that most sociopaths are living in society without causing harm to others, so who are we to say their state of being is inherently wrong or that we should…
If you put in 5 years at Google, Apple, etc. you will find it to be much easier to start (or to get hired at) a start-up than if you had joined a start-up right away. Like Zuck? Drew Houston? It's easy to rattle off a…
I'd love to use Signal, but are you required to grant it permission to access your contacts? I loaded it up and declined to let it access my contacts, but unfortunately it seems like it won't let me attempt to send any…
Does anyone have any info about what kind of allergic reaction could have caused this? I'm fearful of hospital procedures for reasons like these. How'd the doctors let it slip by? But it's a dumb fear and I'm trying to…
I played a lot of World of Warcraft when it came out, had the classic relationship challenges (wife didn't play but the kids did) and finally stopped playing seriously when I realized I had wasted a weekend working on…
First, thank you for providing a thought experiment that challenged my own beliefs on the topic. Something like that is rare. Given the social climate surrounding the issue, it seemed appropriate to switch to a…
Thank you for pointing out that there's a dead comment worth reading. I turned showdead on, and it absolutely was. I just want to restate what jen_h said: Everyone should turn on showdead and read that comment. In…
It's probably appropriate to use a throwaway when discussing this topic, not as a way of sniping via anonymity, but because the social climate surrounding this particular topic has gotten so extreme. Those not…
This doesn't quite work. The official reason for firing me had nothing to do with my narcolepsy, for example. It would normally be a minor infraction. But when someone wants to get rid of you for showing up late, they…
I see a lot of latent anger in this thread against lazy software programmers who don't show up on time. In case it's helpful, here's my story from two years ago about living with undiagnosed narcolepsy:…
"When the cost of [a car] repair was increased to $3,000, the cognitive performance of those at the upper end of the income distribution was unaffected by the increase. But those at the lower end suffered a 40% decline!…
It seems that the term "sociopath" isn't clearly defined: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Sociopathy There are various contemporary usages of the term. Robert Hare claimed in a 1999 popular science book that…
Please define "good parent" and "good partner." Assume we have some sort of sociopath detector which works from birth. Assume further that we have a treatment for sociopathy. It sounds like you'd be in favor of using…
This presupposes there's something wrong with sociopathy. Note that most sociopaths are living in society without causing harm to others, so who are we to say their state of being is inherently wrong or that we should…
If you put in 5 years at Google, Apple, etc. you will find it to be much easier to start (or to get hired at) a start-up than if you had joined a start-up right away. Like Zuck? Drew Houston? It's easy to rattle off a…
I'd love to use Signal, but are you required to grant it permission to access your contacts? I loaded it up and declined to let it access my contacts, but unfortunately it seems like it won't let me attempt to send any…
Does anyone have any info about what kind of allergic reaction could have caused this? I'm fearful of hospital procedures for reasons like these. How'd the doctors let it slip by? But it's a dumb fear and I'm trying to…
I played a lot of World of Warcraft when it came out, had the classic relationship challenges (wife didn't play but the kids did) and finally stopped playing seriously when I realized I had wasted a weekend working on…
First, thank you for providing a thought experiment that challenged my own beliefs on the topic. Something like that is rare. Given the social climate surrounding the issue, it seemed appropriate to switch to a…
Thank you for pointing out that there's a dead comment worth reading. I turned showdead on, and it absolutely was. I just want to restate what jen_h said: Everyone should turn on showdead and read that comment. In…
It's probably appropriate to use a throwaway when discussing this topic, not as a way of sniping via anonymity, but because the social climate surrounding this particular topic has gotten so extreme. Those not…