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> Maybe the answer isn't to make heroin available OTC at Walgreens

Actually, in UK you can get actual opioids (as co-codamol) behind the counter, without a prescription. Funny how they don't seem to have a disastrous and deadly opioid epidemic like the US has.

I'd so much rather live where people can get cheap pharmaceutical grade heroin at the pharmacy than where people who need opioids end up smashing windows to steal my laptop to buy some dangerous and overpriced fentanyl contaminated "heroin" that ends up making them overdose in the street (transnational criminal organisations tend to lack purity standards commensurate with those of prescription drug manufacturers, weirdly enough).

Crackdowns on "pill mills" and "doctors who overprescribe" is what denies people a safe and legal source of pharmaceutical-grade opioids and forces them onto the black market of illegal, extremely overpriced, dose-uncertain, and fentanyl-contaminated opioids -- all of which make drug use a lot more problematic and dangerous (for both the user and the community) and pushes people from "drug dependence" (needing a regular, constant dose of a medication to function) to "drug addiction" (problematic, damage-causing drug use).

Dose uncertainty especially contributes to the harm of drug use -- if the doses aren't uncertain (and are precisely metered like those of other, pharmaceutical-grade medications), it's a lot easier for the user to find the right dose that extinguishes the withdrawal symptoms and the pain while not ending up anywhere near an overdose. Also the ability to access pure opioids with precise doses means it's a lot easier to take the drugs as a periodic, regular dose and not have one's life disrupted by extreme highs and extreme lows and drug-craving. This allows users to maintain a normal, productive, non-criminal life with other things in their life (family, hobbies, career) than just the pursuit of opioids.

In US, the "epidemic" of OD deaths only began when crackdowns intensified on legal, pharmaceutical, sources and prescribers of opioids. The DEA cracking skulls over opioids and investigating doctors is literally the only reason illicit fentanyl (and its even nastier analogues) are common illicit products now. I am so very doubtful that skull-cracking and door-kicking will miraculously work after decades of it not working. Prohibition has given us carfentanil in illicit heroin. If you don't know what that is, it's a fentanyl analogue so potent that it's been successfully used as a chemical weapon. This is not an anomaly -- it's just the "iron law of prohibition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition) at work.

> It's not like anything else is working.

Prohibition isn't working, and has caused tremendous devastation to society, and the opioid epidemic is just another instance of this. Prohibition has to get wound down, from the top (end the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the statutes that give it effect) to the bottom (make it so local police can't arrest or search people for any drugs offences (possession, manufacture, use, transport, sale, purchase) regardless of the drug or quantity).
That's just what they want you to think. Wheels within wheels, man.
How does one bootstrap/find companies in this domain?
Some of them don't move at all for me... except while scrolling the page.
The benefit is that you might receive dividends later on, after a period of revenue growth.

Granted, it'll be years if not decades before SNAP pays a dividend, if it succeeds at all. But on the flip side, SNAP's future dividends could turn out to be worth much more than the current price, even after discounting for risk and the opportunity cost of your capital.
I actually do CRUD apps and utilities made with Sheets and Apps Script as a (very small) evening business. Fun to hack away on little projects that provide real useful value for businesses.

And you can actually get pretty complex systems going with a lot of planning and lateral thinking. Really makes me respect real software architects and designers.

I'm a writer by trade so it's a fun change of pace for me.
On a less sarcastic note, the fact that Western governments have such a difficult time gathering credible intelligence in North Korea is evidence that the North Koreans have a robust intelligence apparatus.

What the whole Abdul Khan episode brought to light some years back was how Western agencies underestimated the technological and political skill and motivation of many so-called "third world" countries. Arguably that blind spot was caused by the deep-seated racism and cultural elitism of Western countries. There were plenty of opportunities to discover the illicit trade; we just weren't convinced they were capable of it, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Our leaders never took it seriously because their expectations were that these countries were still too backwards.

Yet another example of why we really need to face prejudice head on. We simply can't accurately assess the state of things if we're blinded by so many poor assumptions, particularly the ones girded by racist attitudes.

If American culture continues casting Asians as uncreative copycats; Muslims as radical fundamentalists; Africans as irredeemably corrupt; and South Americans as hopelessly socialist; then we're in for decades of more wild and very much unwelcome surprise.
We don't know what other possible defenses are in place, this may just be the method preferred at this stage in missile development or perhaps the NY Times just hasn't identified others yet. We may also have other vectors on the weapon itself. Perhaps another software bug like this or Stuxnet and/or more conventional missile defense technologies.

Like anything else in cyber security it is important to understand what is possible to defend oneself against it. Do you think the Russians and Chinese would sit idly by if we did not participate in cyber warfare?
With regard to MAD any nuclear strategy has to be based on the expectation of other parties interfering with the proper operation of our arsenal. This is why the nuclear triad exists. Is this a new vector? Maybe. Is it so different from designing missiles that are fire-and forget or using launch codes in the first place?
The clerks don't care. Why would they?
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> Are we not inviting other major powers to play around in our nuclear systems?

Not really. We're just acknowledging the fact that they can and will.

I don't believe the US has the most advanced "cyberwarfare" military apparatus at this time... but that's another topic.
The internet (and social justice warriors in particular) are a huge example of group think/mobs today. It's impossible to predict what the hot button topic will be in six months, but I guarantee everyone will act like it's always been an obviously major issue. Even though nobody thinks so now.
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not even close to MF cameras cost 9000 usd currently. Large sensors are prohibitive. If you do landscape photography Film is still the king.
Yeah, much the same can be said for GOOG. It's like a weird variable rate (currently 0) bond of infinite duration, not a stock.
It looks like

/usr/bin/time foo |bar

would actually give the output of foo as input to bar, since the time statistics go to stderr.
I'm from those plains and my guess is folks there refuse such drugs, even when they may need them (like after surgery), because:

1. They're tough people. A little pain means you're still alive!

2. They don't want to get hooked - too many people/animals rely on them.

3. Social stigma associated with such drugs.

I had foot surgery a couple of years ago and the Dr. tried to prescribe me opioids but I refused. I've seen the damage getting hooked on those can cause (in Dallas) and don't want that junk anywhere near my life.
> Heck, I even think price gouging out-of-state applicants could work.

From the article I gathered that's exactly what they're doing right now, and it's working great. But the optics are bad for politics so they have to ruin it.

UC spokeswoman Dianne Klein said the proposed policy balanced the needs of California students with the benefits those outside students bring — diverse perspectives as well as millions in additional tuition revenue, which added up to nearly $550 million in 2016-17. Those dollars have helped UC increase its enrollment of California students to historical highs this year, Klein said, even as state support per UC student has fallen to less than half of what it was two decades ago.

Klein said the extra dollars from nonresidents — who pay about $27,000 more in annual tuition than Californians — have helped campuses recruit and retain faculty, add courses to lower overall class sizes, and purchase library materials, instructional equipment and technology. The nonresident revenue also has boosted financial aid for Californians by an average $700 per student, she said.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said the nonresident dollars provided a lifeline for the campus after state support for undergraduate education dropped significantly after the 2008 recession. Thanks to the extra money, UCLA was able to add courses, which has helped students shorten the time needed to graduate to less than four years.
That's a lot of assumptions. You could say that the lack of another 9/11 type attack in recent history and the high failure rate of these missiles shows that the US Intelligence community has already overcome this prejudice.
So you think;

1. Everyone at Uber is amazingly qualified and sought after (but you won't hire them of course)
2. Everyone at Uber works in San Fran (my local Uber office must be a scam then!)
3. No one at Uber has any financial issues (company sponsored financial advice maybe?)

Tell me, if an Uber driver spends $97k on a car, and then goes bankrupt, is that his fault or Uber's?
Extrapolating from personal anecdotes and media reports, the vast majority of Snaps may be non-nude messages. If true, Snap presents a very compelling medium for advertisers to reach teens and young adults. Moreover, the ads could get inserted into public Stories, which are less likely to include nudes, than private messagss. In this way, Snap would be similar to how TV networks monetize.
UI regression testing – automate or stick to old ways?
.eh_frame is DWARF with a couple tiny tweaks
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OK dude, I will concede you the 1st place in Monty Python Argument Clinic 2017. Because at this point I simply don't care. Have an excellent day.
There's a GNU time as well, but it appears not to always be installed by default.
None of the "deep-seated racism and cultural elitism" you cite is at all unique to Western countries.
Not to mention list price usually acts as a good floor (unless the IPO was overpriced to begin with).
The `time` syntax in combination with for loops or just shell functions is pretty useful as well.
Hm, that's a bit much. In particular as various apps have a different setup (we're a microservice shop and have tons of them, although a minority needs external dependencies for tests like these). Splitting it up like that also generates a dependency, which adds a burden on an already complicated workflow. Drone just solves that so much better by keeping everything in a single, simple build file.
Thanks for the tip, from the link:

"There is, however, a loophole that keeps data brokers from accessing your updated address. When you fill out the online form to change an address, you can indicate a temporary change that provides six months of forwarding that can then be extended for another six months. That information, unlike the changes marked as permanent, is not included in the master list sold to data brokers."

And the online link for online change of address with the loophole:

https://moversguide.usps.com/icoa/home/icoa-main-flow.do?exe...
What is the advantage of using a block chain for storing the information rather than just having a database? Is there some intrinsic benefit or is it just marketing hype?
>Declining admit rates of in-state students is a problem, but out-of-state students are part of the solution. I really, really hope this proposal doesn't get passed.

The same thing was happening at my state school when I was there. Out of state students seem like a bad solution. Are we going to end up in a system where everyone has to go "out of state" because their in state school is under funded? It is like a perverse instantiation of musical chairs, and it seems broken.
My friend worked in Kolkata center of TalkTalk. He was asked once by another common friend of ours to leak customer data to him. And get about 1 Lakh in payment. He quickly refused and never talked to him again.
I think technocrats do a better job of overcoming it, if only because it's harder to ignore what's staring you in the face, and they're the ones with their noses to the ground.

But priorities are set by the elites. We rarely encounter "slam dunks" that force leaders' hands. And so our strategic direction relies heavily on the higher-ups making decisions that are still highly susceptible to bias. Heck, we elect leaders precisely because of their bias--Obama because we thought he had an inside-line on the Muslim thing, Trump because we hate Muslims. I exaggerate but it's not far from the truth.

That's why popular culture can be so critical to foreign policy. Two decades into peak globalization, there's no way to hide these things. This isn't the Cold War. Leaders can't do the smart thing while paying lip service to the electorates' prejudices. Even if we could stop all the leaks in the U.S. government, you can't hide the consequences of policy.
> So then the NY Times is in bed with the CIA?

Or perhaps CIA totally fooled NY times?
This is a very good TED talk about addiction. I think it is a must watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cYcSak6nE
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13801376
Do you actually think that, just by nature of working there, everyone condones sexual harassment? That's a pretty far-reaching assumption about individual agency. The reality is that it's unserious, and frankly immature, to declare that all those who work at Uber after some arbitrary date are undesirables lacking in basic morality. I won't do that, but you're free to engage in those kinds of preconceptions.

Cheers.
Too bad there are not many questions about the technology. But it's interesting how he ran a successful business all these years by keeping it pretty low key. No mobile, no api, etc... That's very counter to the mobile-first, API-first attitude of SV.
This is the killer feature.
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A workaround is to convert ISOs to NSOs after 90 days. Quora adopted that policy a while ago and a lot of companies followed suit (Square and Pintrest to name a few). Sam A now recommends that approach - http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity
You should check out a little book call 'Conspicuous Compassion' by Patrick West - he elaborates on your second point there quite eloquently. Also it's just straight up hilarious in parts, to this day I still ask people if they've ever worn a 'Brown Ribbon'.
In my early 20s I embraced Objectivism through this and Atlas Shrugged (bad writing aside), and in my 30s I abandoned it.

Particularly, the process of abandoning it forced me into a clearer view of my personal value system. That in turn has made me a better person: it is hard to have integrity if one doesn't understand what they believe.
The techniques in the conclusions and appendix starting about page 200 are useful in any language
What makes me crazy about having your mail forwarded is that they often don't even forward it to your new address. I know because I once lived with a crazy person and had to move out and they just kept delivering all my mail there despite duly submitting my forwarding address and stressing the importance of it.

I still get mail for the last folks who lived here and they moved out 13 years ago.

But anybody willing to pay the post office for the data can find out your new address.

And then there's how we pay higher rates for first class mail so that junk mail can be cheaper.

It's almost like the government doesn't work for the people.
I often thought this would be handy when I was using vagrant, it would be nice to sync VMs without doing a whole rebuild.
Comparing the claims that have been made to be equivalent to 'Silicon Valley company has problem with female employees' is like saying that the maiden voyage of the Titanic did not go as planned, or Michael Jordan was a pretty good basketball player.

Talking about one particular conversation is one thing, alleging a pattern of sexual abuse and systemic harassment that completely crosses all lines for everybody is something entirely else.
Yes, but will they fail to forward the mail as reliably as they fail to forward permanently forwarded mail?
Haha, the smirk I'm going to have on my face when all this falls and collapses.
It's already dropped below issue price.
Lets send Washington students to UC system and California students to UW. This is how the public school system was designed to serve their local communities /s
his blog has an ssl issue on firefox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird and its successors. Yes. You may find Noam Chomsky's views on the subject enlightening.

Will go into more detail after Kim Fatty III gets his.
In practice doesn't this direct everyone to UC Merced?
Hey Graeme! Good to hear from you. Send me an email. I'd love to hear specifics on how the book and course sales are doing now!
It's likely the locality / ephemerality / repudiability of those identifiers made them less of a big deal in an era when people couldn't instantly look these details up or build a detailed profile of everybody given the right data sources.
This reminds me of https://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/Marketing%20FAQs#176
Have you looked at the Quill delta format?

https://quilljs.com/guides/designing-the-delta-format/
> You're assuming that all cases where the vDSO call is made gets paired with a real syscall; that's simply not the case.

I don't believe I was. I was merely assuming that there a lot of cases (as in, potentially thousands of times a second) where code needs the system time they also want the localtime.

> There are plenty of calls in a server that won't need localtime (basically, anything that just needs the current time in UTC: best-practice code should not be looking at the machine's TZ setting¹)

As the article demonstrates, whatever we might believe about best practice, actual practice seems to include a lot of cases where it is called.

Given that a given epoch time value can map to different dates & times, depending on timezone... I'm not sure why you think formatting dates & times wouldn't require considering the desired timezone.

You're similarly mistaken that logging a message involves hitting disk. It's a very common configuration for high throughput logs to buffer writing to disk across multiple messages and/or forward to a remote server.

Similarly SQL queries don't necessarily involve hitting the network (some don't even involve crossing an IPC boundary). Even if you do hit the network, once again, it is very common for multiple network requests to be buffered in user space before making a syscall, and of course a single SQL statement could involve more than one localized timestamp value (though I'd like to think in that case the the local timezone would be cached).

> ¹one of my old teams had an informal rule that any invocation of datetime.datetime.now() was a bug.

Well, if you are writing in Python, then worrying about the syscall overhead of reading the local timezone would seem odd (and for that matter, Python does some odd things with timezones, so I'm not even sure this would reliably trigger the syscall).
I stand corrected. Must be a setting I changed at some point then, as I have it set to always ask.

It's a terrible setting, it should just be 'always ask'. Is there a legitimate use I'm missing? The only thing I can think of is for spammers to track if their spam went through, marketers of 'legit' mail to track the same thing, or a backdoor way to implement the atrocious 'read receipt' feature. None of those is at all beneficial to the user receiving the message.
Even without async/await, if you properly organize code in bite size functional blocks and use other asynchronous constructs then the indentation should be manageable.
That's true. What's odd to me is that I'm not actually sure why or how RSS is broken, but bloggers are finding again and again that the engagement happens on the email list. Even though objectively RSS should be a much better experience. It just hasn't connected with bloggers and readers in the same way that email does.
> I found a data broker who had my info.

What's the name of it?
Oddly enough, I got that when I followed your link, then searched again and got results.

The results, however, seem to be for the most popular Python pages of last decade, including mod_python, PIL, and several results about Plone.
Yep, it was a link to this article (http://nathanbarry.com/investment/) about "how ConvertKit raised $1.8m from a large group of angel investors".

Just read more than the title before commenting. ;)
> OpenBSD

I think there is a miscommunication. OpenBSD is as complex as the F-35? I think the OpenBSD team would be very disappointed if that were true! OTOH, it would make the ~10 minutes it took to install it on the laptop to my right very impressive.

EDIT: What I meant to ask in the GP was, do you see a way to distinguish between whether the F-35 is poorly executed, or whether we're seeing/saw the normal bugs for a project as described above (even admitting hyperbole about complexity, which I'm not sure of, it's still quite a project).

> where the profits of the contractors are assured through corruption

Not a major point, but these issues are too important to let pass these days, IMHO: How much of whose profits are assured through what corruption? I'm sure some of that goes on, as in all large institutions (including the large companies mentioned above), but I'm not ready to assign corruption to all or most defense industry profits with a broad brush.

Also, I rarely hear much attention given to reducing it. For example, the GOP in Congress was working to take procurement authority out of a central DoD office, where it was put to prevent corruption and to put real procurement experts in charge, and into the hands of generals and admirals, people without procurement expertise (commanding fleets and fighting wars is a much different skill set) and with a bad track record regarding corruption in recent history (look up the Fat Leonard scandal, as one example off the top of my head). What I struggle to remember at this moment is whether that change passed; it was a pet project of McCain's.
Timezones don't exclusively belong to users... Most syslogs (up until systemd) are configured to write out logs in machine localized time. Same goes for web servers. Really, there are a ton of cases where servers need to consider their timezone. I don't much like it, but it nevertheless is true.
> This is about unlawful behavior

You're assuming unlawful behavior already. Nice frame.

It's allegations of unlawful behavior, unsubstantiated by evidence and untried by court. You're ready to tar and feather an entire group of people based on no hard evidence? Quick look over there! There's somebody who read Das Kapital, him and all his friends must be communists.

This sort of virtue signaling has gone on for too long. You're competing with each other for who can ostracize people the most based on unsubstantiated claims.
Someone else mentioned this. Is there a link that is going to https that should be http?
To be fair, the Russians got their choice of president in the US. So it is already going both ways.

It's not nuclear systems, but it's quite an achievement.