其中一个使“他是否已经去世了”这个问题自己得到解决的方法是，开辟一个地方让人们回馈消息。
One way to automate the ‘Is he dead’ problem is to have a place where people can report it.
假如我们在大街上看到一个陌生人从身边经过，看到他非常悲痛的表情，我们马上就知道了他刚刚得到父亲去世的消息。
A stranger passes by us in the street with all the marks of the deepest affliction; and we are immediately told that he has just received the news of the death of his father.
比方说，我认识的一位杂志编辑在一个周三的中午得到约稿作者的消息说他正在写的实时性很强的文章将会在她吃完午饭回去前发到邮箱。
A magazine editor I know, for instance, once had a writer tell her at noon on a Wednesday that the time-sensitive piece he was working on would be in her in-box by the time she got back from lunch.
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