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As a fellow Aspy, I started reading this thinking, I bet he's a bit of a difficult person. Maybe an Aspy.

> Where my personality was called into question perhaps my working-class background, my northern accent, and my Aspergers could be a reasonable explanation.

Ah! Yes, I can guess which one of those three is the reason people found you difficult.

So what do you think happened BEFORE limited liability companies existed? And what do you think happens in countries that don't have limited liability companies? And what about all the people who create businesses without creating a limited liability company?

Sorry, should have made this clearer. I mean private healthcare leads to more diagnoses. In socialised healthcare the doctors have no financial incentive. Hence the original comment saying that diagnoses are less common in Europe.

Private vs socialised healthcare could have a big effect on diagnoses. When patients can just keep going to doctors until they get the diagnosis they want, doctors that more readily make a diagnosis will make more money.

I have previously concluded the same about him having Aspergers. From what I've read of him, he sounds quite strongly Aspy.

Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller.

It's written by someone who lives violence on an everyday basis, and his insights are amazing. Particularly for people who rarely experience violence, but when they do it will be catastrophic.

That's exactly what he's used, but with angle brackets around it. What do you think he should have done instead.

But he could achieve exactly the same thing by using descriptive variable names without the angle brackets. Admittedly he can't use `list` as it's a built-in but `a_list` or `list_` would be much better than `<list>`.

I came here to say exactly the opposite. The angle brackets mean that every single example is a syntax error.

If you are going to write a cheatsheet with samples of Python code, why not write it in valid Python?

This is clearly aimed at beginners as the samples are or very basic things, yet this is going to be confusing to them as they will think that `<list>` is syntax.

Have a look at the Python docs for much better ways of doing this

You should definitely read The Divided Mind by Dr John Sarno. The book has a very high success rate at solving long term back injuries.

Sarno's Theory could actually be a plausible explanation for the placebo effect. If some percentage of people suffering a condition have psychosomatic symptoms, when you give them a pill and tell them it will cure them, their brain could switch to creating a different psychosomatic effect (such as headaches instead of backache). This would give the effect of a placebo cure, and side-effects for the placebo cure (which is also something that is observed).

He's also a really good poet.

I fully agree. I still have my Kindle with hardware buttons and look after it very carefully because I'm praying I don't have to switch at somepoint.

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I'm not involved in the recruiting myself, but I'm happy to answer any questions.

Apart from it being a bunch of Markdown files, what tools do you use with it?

I keep trying org-mode but keep getting annoyed that it isn't Markdown. I'd love to find a Markdown equivalent.

> if a single tweak could significantly enhance mental abilities, evolution would have probably given it to us already

Only if the tweak were beneficial to humanity as a whole would we all have it. We have developed many traits (such as selflessness) that are not in our best interest, but are in the best interest of our society.

It is quite plausible that evolution has found that tweak, but has only given it to a small minority of people, much as it has only given autism to a small minority of people.

> if you’ve found a way to function in society I’m not sure this will be very attractive

I think this is the key point. Some of us are high-functioning and have found ways to operate in normal society, but many people are effectively crippled by their autism.

High-functioning autism has many beneficial side effects, and I would be loath to give them up. (For example, even just the fact that you see things differently to the people around can be really useful).

Northern English

This website took my processor to 60% in Firefox.

Yes, a majority of the fast trains running from London towards Wales have this style of door.

Indeed. I've had non-technical content writers feeling comfortable adding files directly to GitHub and writing Markdown in the them. Basically using it as a CMS.

Pull Requests and Branching remained confusing issues for them though.

Thanks. That seems a lot more understandable.

Yeah, it was. So it's like how the order in which we learn philosophical ideas roughly mirrors the order in which they were discovered?

> Piaget’s theory formulates a peculiarly inverted version of Ernst Haeckel’s biogenetic law that unites historical phylogeny and mental ontogeny in a recursive Möbius-band-like figure.

I've Googled quite a few words from that sentence and still can't wrap my head round it. Can anyone ELI6?

I haven't seen a Marquee/Ticker on a website for quite a few years.

The "Background to Open Banking" page made the fans start running on my (fairly good) laptop.

If this is a sign of the technology behind it, it's not a good sign.

> Technical literacy in the broader population can be approximated with the Thanksgiving test: what sort of questions do you get at Thanksgiving? That's the ambient level of literacy.

I didn't understand this one (perhaps due to not being American). Can someone explain it please?

It's like someone has looked at Python and thought "Python is too easy to read. Let's add LOTS more syntax to it".

> The key is organizing collectively.

The key is collectively agreeing on something. After that, everything else is an implementation detail.

I think we are starting to see that free-speech has a tendancy to destroy itself, in the same way that free-markets do.

True free speech will end up in a system being exploited by those who can make the most noise the most often. True free markets tend to end up as a series of oligopolies.

Small amounts of regulation can help both systems do better, but we need to find a way to reliably regulate regulation (as regulation also has a tendancy to destroy itself).

> But I really can`t explain to myself why it seems to be so hard for many.

You should always remember that this says nothing about those people and says a lot about you. Your failure to understand them is your failure not theirs.

If you do actually want to understand why it is so hard for so many people, stop thinking of people as logical, rational agents, and instead think of them as complex biological systems.