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The latest Star Trek Discovery is not a very happy place. It's almost dystopian. This creeping pessimism even got to the Star Trek writers!
Also an exciting peroxide.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
Author does a decent job of going through some things, but this statement did not sit well with me.

>I don’t think there are good data here, but my intuitions and personal experience is that “addiction” of the sort you get with heroin or tobacco is very rare, at least when responsible people without a personal or family history of addictive behavior take stimulants as prescribed. Most people agree the risk is lower for extended-release stimulants (eg Adderall XR), and very low for Vyvanse.

I think that statement is bonkers.

Of course they are going to be addicted to the substance if they use it everyday of their lives.

My definition of addiction is not being able to stop taking the drug for whatever reason, and feeling some sort of withdrawal. I think for most people that take something daily, it would be extremely hard for them to stop.

This is where things get messed up: being chemically addicted to something where the cost of the drug can be astronomical .Yes, I am talking about Shire's Vyvanse.

>Shire Plc is a Jersey-registered, Irish-headquartered global specialty biopharmaceutical company... its brands and products include Vyvanse, Lialda, and Adderall XR.

The best is that they offer a program the temporarily reduces the price of the drug for a period of time aka you get addicted to it over that time period and then are forced to pay it becuase their is nothing like it until 2023.

Yes, I am aware that each state has different insurance options, but starting a company called "Shire Cares" just to spread the belief that they care but really do not is silly.

From their website: "Pay no more than $30 for up to 12 prescriptions up to a maximum savings of $60 per prescription.† (https://www.shireregistration.com/vyvanse%20savings%20link)"

What they do not tell you is after that period ends, the price goes up drastically. With insurance, 30 pills costs "around $286.42 (https://www.goodrx.com/vyvanse)

The last thing I will say is: Where is the data on a drug that annually generates billions of dollars each year? They have 10 million users. You are telling me they could not monitor the habits of 1-2k people over a couple years? Sounds fishy to me.

For others who want to learn more about the crazy growth of add/adhd medication sales that very few want to talk about. (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/health/the-selling-of-atte...)
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"Defending from the Government" is a myth. As long as you don't have enough supporters you are going to lose. Remember American Civil War for example. Did the guns help South to defend their "rights"?
Millions fewer than died under centuries of global slavery and imperialism, which I'm sure you're not going to now claim is "not real capitalism".
I find that ikea designs their furniture for the build process as well. I dread putting together any non-ikea assembly — but ikea has actually put thought into the process - and it all just works.
There's indeed nothing special about a home-built PC, and while I don't particularly enjoy it (even though it's gotten much easier in the past 20 years), I still do it, since it's typically the only way to ensure:

* Properly sized cooling that keeps my PC silent under any kind of load. (I have to admit, Dell et al. have made decent progress there too, but that's mostly thanks to the great improvements in power management we've seen in the past decade).

* Optimal budget allocation.

* Exotic features (for instance, I built my current computer 2½ years ago, and there was only one mainboard on the market providing HDMI 2.0 with the Skylake iGPU).

If I weren't so cheap, I guess I would just order all the parts from a single store and pay for assembly.

Now, when it comes to recommending a computer to my family, I just tell them to buy a NUC/Brix.
No doubt, that's why stuff like this should be limited to internal tooling and private use only, not exposed to the Internet. When done that way, it's just infinitely more efficient to write trash code in PHP for one-off things, and there's literally nothing wrong with it when it has an audience of 1 - yourself.

Beyond that, yeah, you shouldn't do things like that. But there is no reason to stand up an entire test suite and development environment just to write some stuff to check power usage or internal sensors in your house.

(also that command would fail on the machines I run my crap code on, Win10 discardable VMs)
For starters, we could reinforce the Batson rule [1] and mandate that any jury selected must mirror the racial and sexual makeup of its community, +/- 10%.

Having to prove racial discrimination in jury selection is an absurdly high bar, and usually impossible.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batson_v._Kentucky
Well, the point about screen readers is far from cargo cult design.
> Their government and their society has a positive view of the future that they are implementing.

Their government certainly has a view. The population has to accept that view, because it's not a free country and the scope for dissent from that view is limited. If you're someone who actually prefers to live in a traditional building rather than the new apartment complex? Tough, the bulldozers are at the door. Unimpressed with the unbreathable air of Beijing? Tough, although that is gradually improving. Tibetan? Tough. Uighur? No, she went of her own accord.

> The west has little in the way of a positive view of the future.

We used to, but I think the the moon landings were the high point. Then we started to realise the downsides.

> just doom. Global warming doom. Hyper-capitalism doom. Race war doom. Overpopulation doom. Evil AI overlord doom.

First three of those were staples of my childhood. You left out nuclear war doom, the hole in the ozone layer, acid rain, terrorism, and Y2K; but those have actually been mitigated by lengthy efforts. Sometimes doom-mongering actually gets things fixed.

But really we're back to Gibson's "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed". The key question for any kind of left is whether and how the future gets distributed. Otherwise you get a tiny aristocracy with eternal life and pet AIs to run their security system that keeps the 99% out.
The only thing Dutch lawmakers got right is the requirements/specs for smart meters include a serial port ("P1") that can be read with a $10 USB cable.
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The Open AI guys made a very impressive Dota 2 AI that trained itself through self play (and against pros), there is a pretty interesting write-up about it:

https://blog.openai.com/dota-2/
"I thought Jacob was a friend and engaged in consensual sexual relations with him during those three days. It took me five months to process and understand that Jacob had violated my trust and my body. It is common for victims of rape to take months, if not years, to come to terms with this, particularly if the abuser is one in a position of trust to them."

What the actual fuck? This is insanity. I don't care for a throwaway account, I'm happy to put my name to this comment.
The word "bias" doesn't need to have a negative meaning in a scientific context.
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I see.. interesting. I read this from the author:

"While not providing end-to-end security, it protects the local network, which is often the weakest point of the chain, against man-in-the-middle attacks."
https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/READM...

So my guess is that for example your dns requests could be intercepted/re-routed to say another dns server of an attacker and Dnscrypt would not notice/protect you against this.

However, indeed your ISP would not be able to see your requests :)
>> but all of it is explicit if you look at the impl blocks for Vec<T>.

> Well, all of Ruby's monkey-patching is explicit in the sense that you can find it if you know where to look.

There's a big difference. All impls in the first case can be found in a specific module and are listed in the generated documentation. If you want that information, there's one place to look.

In case of any monkey patching, that's not the case. It can happen literally anywhere, it can happen conditionally, and the code doesn't even have to mention the patched class since it can receive it as a parameter, which makes it impossible to even grep for.
On the part where the author went on finding his own meter, couldn't one put a enclosing metal mesh cage around the meter and put an antenna inside this cage?
Perhaps quite ironically, trading CFDs is completely tax free for Belgian tax residents to the best of my knowledge.
So is there only one in existence? I take it his family will not allow anyone to dismantle the contraption.
Correct me if I'm wrong but open (read: unencrypted) radio signals across public airways are not subject to any sort of protection under the law. Point being, the police could do this legally.
This article confusingly talks about atomoxetine in several places, but atomoxetine is very different than Adderall, in particular, because it's not a stimulant.
Fair point. Should have said last century star trek.
No, the meter is sealed, which is the benefit of this type of arrangement. The meter just sits attached to the meter on the outside, so it's obvious that nothing is tampered with. Many power companies even sell their own (branded) kits that does this.

It's also very rare to have someone come read the meter. Like all other parts of society anything that can be automated at almost any cost has been already. I have had no one read water or power meters for many years.
Some people stand to profit from saying the climate is responding to anthropogenic warming to a worrying (adjust the adjective) degree and others will profit from discounting (same adjustment applies) such concerns. It's therefore (knowing human nature) likely that some members of both groups will present 'very selective facts'.

It seems you have an agenda so you side with the former group. Alternatively you have good reasons to argue for a high climate sensitivity value rather than a low one. Do you? Discussion totally dissociated from CS consideration is mere rhetoric.

Here's a recent summary:

http://notrickszone.com/2017/10/16/recent-co2-climate-sensit...
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Once upon a time the Kindle was great for magazine subscriptions. This is still how I read magazines, but these days I think texture is cheaper.
Why am i even surprised...
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Ahh, sigh. I was writing with ADHD in mind actually.

Up to 10% children really do have ADHD which is a delay in the development of the frontal lobe. Such a delay seems "somewhat common" amongst humans.

More than half catch up, leaving upto 5% of adults with some form of ADHD.

ADHD is serious. It is a severe impairment to planning, self-management, emotional regulation, etc. You are likely to be impoverished without substantial resources to rely on (family, etc.).

> are a bit worrying
> it's not provided as a package of bio-psycho-social treatment.

ADHD researchers (serious neuroscientists & clinical psychiatrists) have for DECADES tried "biosocial blah blah". It has failed. ADHD is not a failure of child training (ie., parents "Raising Their Child Right!!!").

Overwhelmingly the effective treatment for ADHD is pharmocological. At this point comments like yours, along with the media hysteria, are doing real harm to children actually getting treatment.

The problem we have with ADHD is significant under treatment and under diagnosis.

It turns out all those "useless" people joked about in human history have not just been failures of character: in need of "social" intervention. They have had a physical impairment, a delay in their brain's development. Not Fixable by a good beating, or whatever the touchy-feely equivalent is.

The suggestion that a child with a broken leg not receive crutches would be absolutely outrageous. Or a person with cancer not receive a daily pill treatment. The very same outrage should be felt here in the suggestion that people with ADHD not receive medication vital to their ability to even pay attention to their lessons (goals, etc.). Vital to their ability to socailize (ie., control their frustation in ways that doesnt alientate other children). And therefore vital to their future success.

Yes there does need to be a fundamental reorganization to western education systems to, from the ground up, be aware of how wide-spread developmental issues are -- and to build in fundamental support structures.

However this isnt a "treatment" for ADHD. There is no cure. This is just bracing the crutches. Overwelmingly the research over the last 30 years has shown the only significant impact on ADHD is pharmocological.
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Maybe everyone will score better, although I don't believe so because the tests are trivial for people without ADHD.

In any case they certainly won't have anything like the kind of improvements people with ADHD has, improving from spectacularly bad to (usually) only slightly below normal.

It's a common mistake made by both professionals and laypeople that ADHD is a condition with only slight deficiencies in focus, when in reality they are often staggering.

Anecdotally, everyone with ADHD I've met understand the concept of things being so boring it becomes physically painful to do them. Everyone else think they heard me wrong.

For me the computerised test was almost impossible at the end, because my bored brain refused to even see the images on the screen. All I saw unless I blinked and tilted my head was a white, blank screen, only that it wasn't blank.

With methyl phenidate it was hard to understand it could have ever been hard, and that even though I still have significantly below average concentration even with medication.
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Care to elaborate? I think the talk was on topic and a suitable kick-off for the rest of the congress. I found Stross' perspective on predicting the future and AI novel and interesting.
You're mistaken. All three of my US banks allow you to send money out via bill pay, ACH to accounts at other US banks, and wire transfers overseas. It's Online Banking, not Online Statement Viewing.
I tried Brave on desktop but UI is a bit rough for me and lacking configurability. But it does improve every time I check
An interesting comment from an employee from the company that gives the revenue estimate in the title. Apparently the number is somewhat accurate according to him.(https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7mzib4/how_to_scam_2...)

> We round the numbers for our free users -- the estimate in this case is closer to $150,000 than 200,000 in Nov. Indeed, if Sensor Tower was estimating revenue based on ratings, the seemingly fake reviews and bot users would influence it.

> However, the estimates are based on things like Category Rankings in the top charts, and other signal data. You can't get on top of the revenue charts with fake bot reviews -- real users have to spend real money. We work a lot on our models and data science to improve estimates accuracy, and a lot of developers and publishers share their data with us, so we feel pretty confident about the revenue estimates. So while we might be off by a few %, we feel very confident about the data! In comparison, top dating apps like Tinder make >20 million a month on iOS alone.

> As you can see, the app has stayed on top of the grossing charts with a lot of consistency, and hasn't been removed from the app store. I know Apple works hard to remove apps that break their terms of service, but they might have not caught it (or are investigating) over the holidays. I know that Apple takes reports like this from the community seriously, and though it might look like they act slowly, they are likely investigate apps like this in detail.
I'm from California, where they can justify a raid based on your power usage. "You're using twice as much power as your neighbors, you must be growing cannabis indoors!".

I can definitely say you are justified in your skepticism regarding the utility-provided equipment.
About the related cake mix story: I recently found that the reason why the Betty Crocker cake mix increased in sales is dubious, if not false.

Apparently, sales went up because adding fresh eggs to the mix simply produced superior cakes — http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/cakemix.asp
Supposedly this one was made by David Jones in 1999 in a Vienna museum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dpmP_H1LBM
> I have had no one read water or power meters for many years.

Ah, that makes more sense now :)

Over here we still have people that come to read the meters every 3 months.
Star Trek Discovery

Not real Star Trek... none of the Jar Jar-verse is...
Greeks in fact work the longest hours of any EU state.
source: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS
> The thing is, communism didn't really exist to fall in the first place

Not a true Scotsman, eh? The same argument can be applied to the current capitalist system, too. Some libertarians in fact do so when saying that the problems we see with capitalism don't actually arise from free markets but from precisely the state intervention in those markets that's supposedly meant to alleviate these problems.

> and the most advanced countries (Sweden, Norway, etc.) are all putting in place a mixed socialist/capitalist system.

It's called social democracy or social market economy. It's still largely a free market capitalist system because the means of production for the most part are privately owned.

> Not to mention the fact that much of communist writing with regards to capitalist failure is extremely "on point", even today.

Like many people being lifted out of poverty in the last decades? Like the average person having a much easier life than the average person just a hundred years ago?

That's not to say there are no problems in a free market system at all but it's not all doom and gloom. Quite to the contrary, free markets overall have been tremendously beneficial to the development of mankind.
well, that's fantastic news. I do wish that they'd mark them down as spares or something.
Aren't there laws to protect consumers against that kind of scam?

At that point, what would Apple respond? It seems it's not in Apple's interest to refund customers, and I wonder if they would sue the app maker and investigate fraudulent ratings.

Funnily, that would also bring attention to fraudulent comments on net neutrality, and how nothing has been proven yet.
The most reasonable thing to think about any mental health disorder is whatever the consensus in clinical psychiatry is.

That is the point. It is so overwhelmingly well-researched, that even if its conclusions are wrong, no lay person is going to be in a position to have "an argument" that hasn't already been considered and researched and folded into the consensus.

This isnt the case with social sciences, and it isnt the case with macroeconomic policy. Both of these are about groups of humans, not individual humans, and are fundamentally about behaviour in the face of cultural/economic/social changes. That kind of analysis is purely speculative and historically accidental in the way that giving people adderall and measuring their cognitive performance isn't.

A man on the street may well have good reasons to speculate differently about the evolution of his society that those speculations produced in some university in a foreign country.

A man on the street can have no good reason to act against the consensus of research-based medicine. To do so is to fly blindly into an area of profound research depth and consideration.

We have a problem today of these domains being equivocated. About people believing they are experts because the "Experts" they see are really political speculators and commentators of macro-cultural changes. And so everyone thinks everything is speculation.

This is profoundly not the case for, let's say, what the best treatment plan for bipolar disorder, adhd, autism, clincial depression, psychosis, etc. etc. etc. is.

...which has folded in lifetimes of research on the way the brain works, the way that drugs work, CBT, social therapies, counselling, etc. etc. etc. ...

An opinion on what "should be done" about a family member with bipolar disorder may as well be an opinion about what should be done about their thyroid problem, carpal fracture, lymphoma, etc.
Original: https://venasnews.co.ke/2016/06/13/best-business-jobless-you...
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I do not have experience with it, but open source as a marketing instrument seems to be an interesting instrument. Not only for the company but also for the employees working on it. That is way I think employees are extra motivated when working on Open Source projects.
Apparently its known to be fake by David Jones. He did reveal how it was made but the recipient is still keeping it secret.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4762778/How-r...
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I'm German and I've seen maybe two paper cheques in my entire life.
Well, no.

Or, maybe yes. She seems to be saying that she is not capable of giving consent, meaning that she is the legal equivalent of a child. Odd, but that is apparently where modern day so-called feminism is going. Seems more like anti-feminism to me, quite frankly. Odd.
>Otherwise you get a tiny aristocracy with eternal life and pet AIs to run their security system that keeps the 99% out.

This seems to be the new formulation of dialectical materialism, which is similar to the old one, except the capitalist exploiters win in the end.
yah, if you want to learn how difficult it is to properly shield RF.
Your example comparing to C++ is something where I think the point of this article is coming out: we can become more explicit about what we're talking about when we bring nuance into our language to describe things like 'local' vs 'statically determined' which in language design discussions are both being labelled 'explicit' despite being distinct concepts. Explicit has been overused to the point of being a bad word
However, I do value things I've actually made more than they are really worth. It's the sense of "this is a one of a kind item made by hand; nothing exactly like it". (Even though it could be mass produced in very good quality, perhaps even better, at lower cost).

That's kind of the "IKEA effect", but I don't see how you can get it from putting together a few mass produced IKEA parts. There is just about zero room to put any "you" into it.
Someone should write a screen reader which actually worked and didn’t rely on people doing the right thing.

Screenshot the webpage -> Neural Network to segment the page and decide what is the navigation -> text extraction from image, with corrections from (rendered) HTML source.

All the parts are there and work better than existing screen readers.