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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN? by dek0de on Friday June 09, 2017 @03:57PM (#14524011)
I know you used surgery/medicine as a parable, but I would argue that competency is probably a little easier to objectively gauge in those fields than in Computer Science, for instance.
Re:Ask HN: Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN? by i336_ on Saturday June 10, 2017 @11:58PM (#14530539)
Objectively, yes, but in practice, doctors sometimes work 12 to 30 hour shifts, all while the medical establishment actively tries to educate that tired driving is worse than drink driving...