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I won't advocate the abuse of any particular drug, but I will say it's not as simple as trading quality for focus. There is a margin of overhead that comes with poor focus, so sharpening can lead to improved productivity without loss of quality. To a point, after which your comment applies.

I'm saying this not to say "Actually..." but so that no one discounts your valid point just because they have some anecdote where it didn't apply. There is a point where you pay (or at least stop winning), and our understanding of where that point is and how stable it is is very lacking. Likewise, our judgement under the influence of something should not be considered 100% reliable. Neither should our judgement NOT under the influence, but people tend to become zealots when defensive, and fewer people are defensive of being "normal".

I had a friend that I was discussing nootropics with - It's a topic I'm very interested in, but I'm not interested in any notable experimentation because, well, I've only got one brain and our understanding of it is pathetic. His answer was that by experimentation you'd discover what worked. We were definitely coming at it from opposite ends despite similar interests.
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I think the best thing is to do another urine test. I'm also wary about antibiotics, but it doesn't hurt to keep the patient around for another hour or two to get a fresh sample and test it. But, the doctor assured me it was just a mechanical issue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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> Have you observed this as well?

Many, many times :)
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While I rarely use my Home, Android Auto is incredible. (Although it's still infuriating 5% of the time, it seems to like to make best guesses more than asking for clarification which is super annoying)
It’s a standard technique in C...

Also, it produces tons of false warnings when you try to enforce exhaustive switch-cases on enum values.
I relate to both of you. Go is a tremendously easy language to learn in my experience, but my peers are so jaded by other languages' grandiose promises and subsequent failures that they refuse to even take the tour. This is especially true for my friends coming from Python and JS who associate "static typing" with C++, Java, Rust, or Haskell.

So it is both easy to learn and intimidating.
It seems like you're viewing this as an optimization problem, which strikes me as just a way of kicking the proverbial can down the road - just like the subsidies are doing.

There simply need to be less people.
Roaring 20s were pretty liberal in USSR too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_Russia#LGBT_Hi...
This was an enjoyable read. Slightly off-topic: are there any books that approach Probability in a fun way? (i.e. that I can read on the train)
there are plenty of reasonably good definitions of quality and value-based frameworks out there. medicare defines and enforces several of these, and the amazon JV could potentially play a similar role in the commercial payer world
You never had full blown ADHD so you literally were getting high off stims and pulling through insane hours. Amps make the ADHD brain feel baseline normal to that of neurotypical brains.

Congrats on kicking the pills.
Whoa, surprise running across this! I’m just finishing up a contract with the Shared Services team, supporting Skylight. :)
The two expressions are equivalent. V8 cannot compile that logic into optimized bytecode due to a violation in its code engine that conflicts with other optimization logic. So instead of fast compiled code the code in the local scope of that expression is slow string interpreted code.

https://github.com/vhf/v8-bailout-reasons
In the case of real-estate or other location dependent properties, there's often an assessment process of some sort.

As a simple means the government could also act as the 'auction house' for properties and entertain prospective bids on a property. The median of those bids could be used to set the asking price if it's higher than the last public valuation of the property (this is mostly to discourage front companies down-bidding to cheat taxes).

For more fungible items the current market valuation seems much more obvious.
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Most evolutionists merely think undirected evolution will work. Yet when asked for the specific chemical pathways in a general environment cannot provide these nor are they willing to accept the current challenge to discuss this.

As an aside, I used to believe in all of the fanciful notions like "black holes" and "neutron stars". But after some specific questions and subsequent investigation into what was being proposed, I doubt the existence of these entities. I have very specific reasons for doubting these entities and after attempting to discuss these reasons with those more "knowledgeable" in the subject, I am left with the same impression that this is also a matter of dogma.

But hey, each to his own.
A related statistical "mystery" is the miner cooperation without communication property of Proof-of-Work I describe here: https://grisha.org/blog/2018/01/23/explaining-proof-of-work/ It too is rooted in that the mining problem is progress-free.

Contemplating adding the "20 minute paradox" as a section since I already explain the foundational principles in the write-up.
I'm a very happy spectacle user myself, and find it more than sufficient for me, I am wondering what are the use cases for more than 2x2 grid. I can see aligning 80x25 terminals edge to edge a very neat layout, but that's stacking AFAIK, not grid. When using grid, it would just resize them to grid and desirable 80x25 sizes would break.
And apart of seeing a lot of terminals at once in alignment what are other useful work layouts for you?
I enjoy Statistics Done Wrong https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com
Eh. State machines have their place, and I find them especially helpful for simultaneous code of all kinds, but for run of the mill business logic I find they just get in the way of the code. My rough rule of thumb is this:

1. Can simultaneous actions hurt here?

2. Would a database transactions work instead?

Iff the answer is "yes" to the first and "no" to the second then consider state machines. Make sure the answer to #1 is really "yes" though. For example, things like animations consider libraries like Ember Concurrency which give you fine grain control over queuing and restarting things without the muck of a bunch of states and transitions.
Show us all what leverage is worth, perhaps? For my own small biz, $2500/month for one employee+family bought parity for solely health. I was far behind for dental/vision/etc. As a now employee of a large company, $500/month gets better returns than $2500/month as a nobody did.
So why are we trying to tell them this? Isn't it in our best interest for them to remain stupid about it, so we can bust them when wrongdoing happens?
Yikes, are the effects still lingering? Have you returned to baseline energy/focus?
I think the argument that ‘Scala is over complex’ is not a compelling argument against the premise that ‘go is too simple’.

Frankly, I’ve seen as many golang error handling bugs in the wild as I ever did with java or c# style exceptions. Don’t get me started on the golang generics & concurrency problems.

I continue to use golang in spite of their language decisions around these items, not because of them.
Only if you 'reset' it every year. Eventually particular companies become big enough that they hard to compete against (e.g. they can artificially depress prices until their competition goes out of business) and bribe governments etc etc
The people moving in are getting their moves handled by their employer. The people moving out need to move themselves.
Everyone in this debate could use a crash course in critical thinking, not the least people who claim to be certain about things not even the scientist who debate it actually are.

Pointing to a bunch of links prove nothing which any debate between respected scientist will show you.

Here is an excellent debate from 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-28qNd6ass addressing all your points.
Nobody thinks that. It's just a smug implication from the title of a blog post.

To quote user gscott from another thread,

Even though Manafort was associated with foreign government
figures it took being associated with the U.S President to
be investigated. It didn't matter before... having a paper
trail was ok, no one cared.[1]

You can't commit a crime without leaving behind evidence. Ultimately it's a matter of managing risk and reward.

Heck, even if you've never committed a crime nor even intend to a commit a crime, you have to manage the risk of being wrongly accused and even convicted. Any man in the U.S., and especially any non-white man, should understand that.

Schneier certainly understands that, as he's long championed the application of economic analysis to IT security. In fairness, I don't think Scheier was being smug, and he closes his post with an argument regarding disingenuous FBI claims. Now the bored Twitter lawyer cited by the Slate article Schneier cited....

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16450378
FAO: http://www.fao.org/fishery/en

Criticism of FAO's 2016 State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X1...

Quote from there:

> Also, concerns are raised as to why FAO chose to ignore the well-documented data 'reconstruction' process, which fills the gaps that exist in data reported by countries to FAO. It is being ignored despite its importance for governance and resource conservation being well known. This process and its findings could be used by FAO to encourage countries to improve their data reporting, including retroactive corrections. This is important in view of successive analyses of the status of fisheries resources undertaken by FAO (published in current and past SOFIAs) and also in modified form by the Sea Around Us. This suggests a degradation of marine fisheries, and, if trends continue, a crisis by mid-century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

Indeed, that is the basis of the One True Tax.
I ran the emails of a few of my family through the pwned API so that I could tell them to change their passwords. I was surprised that almost everyone I reached out to was surprised by their information being out there. My interpretation was the general public is almost entirely unaware of the scope of these breaches and what they need to do as a result.

It'd be cool if there was some way of gently sharing with your friends and family whether or not they've been pwned -- maybe some kind of social network plugin or web app that generates emails for you to send to them. A key challenge would be being sensitive to their privacy, i.e., not coming off as creepy.
That must have been hard, it's good she's on regular antibiotics now. Mine seem to be occurring once a year, almost to the day.

I had issues with bedwetting as a child and into my late teens. I went to sleep specialists, urologists, and psychologists but nobody could say anything about it. I think it's somehow related to what I've been experiencing lately but I don't know what to do about it. I was always getting infections as a kid too (ears, eyes, bladder, kidney) but not really flu or colds (despite not being vaccinated). Has your wife experienced any of these things in her youth?
IME, in academic biology, the answer is generally no. Personally, I do use, but it isn't a result of competition, but rather a desire to achieve the most I can for a goal I care about. I don't feel pressured in any way to make this decision; if anything, the pressure is slightly in the other direction.

The big trouble with it is that a drug -- any drug -- will alter your perception of the world such that it is difficult to know with absolute confidence whether you are taking the drug for purely rational reasons to further your personal goals...or not.

Amphetamines at least, based on my experience and reading of the literature, improve your ability to do huge amounts of light/easy work at the expense of "deep" thinking. This means that they would be most effective for people who are knee-deep in work that is too easy for them and need to get more throughput. Undergrad is exactly this -- tons of relatively easy work. Professional life is not; quality is in the long term valued over shitty quantity.

I hope your article won't be a complete hatchet job on white-collar drug use -- the reality is very complex. Humans in general, and white-collar workers in particular, are living in environments and doing things extremely different from what humans evolved for. Thus, some of us use drugs to tweak our biology to adapt to the situation. Assuming that these do in fact improve performance -- a very disputable assumption -- this would be a success story for human intelligence and adaptability.
Just imagine realizing this for the very first time.
Not entirely. There was a flaw/feature in the difficulty algo for BTC Cash that allowed miners to generate a significant quantity of blocks very rapidly.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-cash-hard-fork-plans-update...
Peter Norvig is probably my favorite online teacher, from the AI class in 2011 to his Design of Computer Programs on Udacity. His attitude is inviting, and his exposition clear.

The kerning in the PDF looks weird on my Mac, but it's really cool that this is available.
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Indeed. From https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X1...

> Finally, comments are presented on the proposition that aquaculture will overtake wild capture fisheries in terms of food production, notably because current aquaculture requires huge quantities of wild-caught fish as feed. Indeed, this emphasis on aquaculture-as-substitute for fisheries raises issues of food security and malnutrition in developing countries, from which much of the fish used as feed originates.
Like I said, research is ongoing/needed. Personally, I think it's just a placebo effect, but I'm not in that area of research.
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True, but there are fish, like tilapia that feed on plants instead and are easy to farm.
Thanks for the explanation, really good imagery. I hope you took some acidic vitamin C when you overdosed to kill the metabolism of amps.
As an aside, I answered all of these questions in a way that the blog post describes as positive yet am very critical of go in reality.
This is great. I've come up with just about every one of his "what if we..." examples on my own trying to find the same sorts of solutions over the years.

Does anyone know a good code example (preferably C# but anything similar would do) of a rules system like what he describes in the final part?
The whole point is that you don't need to study a subject for 5+ years fulltime to become sufficiently qualified to read scientific papers and assess their results.

You just have to have enough interest to look at the data and see if it matches the conclusions reached based on the fundamentals of the theories involved.

If you reading and interest is extensive enough, you can pick up a lot of information that will help you do this.

I am not an organic chemist, but I have enough knowledge of the subject to understand if there is hand waving or actual evidence for the conclusions. This really only involves what I initially learned at school and university and what I have picked up in the intervening decades.
Well maybe. I'd assume it's more boys, I have something vague in memory about autism being linked to testosterone, but also because men are sort of nature's scratchpad and tend to show more extreme traits than women - which is true in much of the animal kingdom, btw. Women tend to be more average and less freakish and are also more cooperative so they can achieve a stable existence and have a family.

A statistically higher percentage of them, anyway, let's not count your crazy ex here.
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You must have gone to a University with better students than the one I went to, because the majority of the people I went to University with just wanted a piece of paper, and so "will this be on the test" was essential to their well-being and learning was at best secondary.
If null pointers are your problem, Java and JavaScript are not the answer. If overall type safety is your problem, JS is definitely not the answer. If you don't like boilerplate and can accommodate dynamic typing, you can just use interface{} for the generic bits and statically type the other 95% (which is still a 95% improvement over JS--even better since Go catches impossible type assertion errors and gives better messaging for runtime type errors).

Generics would be an improvement to Go for sure, but Go is still one of the best overall application development languages available today (greenfield or maintenance mode).
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Capitalism is a set of human invented rails for economic behavior that has no basis in natural law (outside humans being a facet of nature that invented it).

If it did we’d call it physics, and it would be studied by physicists, and vetted by rigorous experiments

What humans are doing is religion. Brainwashing the masses to abide by social norms. The control knobs being in the hands of storied families

Just like society worked before capitalism was a word

They repacked divine mandate as “of course in this time and place, since I have the means, my family calls the shots. To consider otherwise would be terrible.”

When pre-capitalist James Madison is quoted as writing the government ought “to protect the opulent minority from the majority.” there’s no amount of mental gymnastics that will convince me otherwise.

That forced social trade of our time is upheld by so-called freedom loving people as fair... yeaaah.

I’ve read it all, from Kant, Freire, Rousseau, Foucault, Chomsky, etc etc...

Nothing in modern society strikes me as anything more than “build a pyramid for the ruler of this fiefdom.”

When the most reliable polls suggest we’d rather work on housing, feeding, and caring for each other, but we spend our time following Wall Street and SV, we’re not working for each other or ourselves
This is hard to do but, are any other women on the spectrum looking for a friend? I'm 34, a SAHM and I live in Mountain View.
Not as much as the "code golf is easy to read" myth that is popular among language communities that advertise their minimal line counts.
Do you have a source that cites the += example? I can't seem to find it on the page you linked.
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I wonder why they focus on Denmark when Hong Kong is top of the list.

https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
I care, and agree with your points. It seems at least part of the fetishization of p < 0.05 has arisen from its common use as the cutoff point in drug clinical trials, and thus represent a make or break point in a multi-billion dollar industry. There needs to be some predefined standard for such trials to prevent cherry-picking and other games, but as the blog describes, this could have just as easily been a different threshold. Similar observations can also be made about the values used to set study sample size (based on somewhat arbitrary alpha and beta).

The arbitrariness at the heart of the regulatory enterprise may seem disconcerting, but the alternative (no shared standards for evaluating drug efficacy) has also been tried historically, and the result was markets flooded with useless, often dangerous, products many of which nonetheless sold very well.
I really hope it's not Alexa.

My brother's Alexa will say stuff like "Sorry, I don't understand 'turn living room light off'" even though the "turn living room light on" command worked five minutes prior. Repeating back exactly what Alexa didn't understand works the second or third time. "Unpolished" doesn't do the platform justice.

My Google Home is accurate, even though open doors and with the TV on. The Pixel 2 seems to yield control to Home just fine (which was a problem with my Pixel 1). The voice itself sounds slightly more natural and friendly - I sometimes find myself holding back a "thank you."

Has anyone had any contradictory experiences to my own?
is Berkshire in the health insurance business at all? Property/casualty and auto is presumably pretty different.
Blockchain all the things!

Well, I guess we officially know what this years buzzword technology that will be added to everything whether it makes sense or not is.
That’s true of every empire that’s existed

It has nothing to do with the framework one uses to describe the current context and every thing to do with human behavior

I’m with number theory: everyone should have the same social authority

Fiefdoms and private ownership of capital should be in the waste bin

It was rich people that came up with capitalism

Shocking it protects the wealthy
> Public transport does not work, and this is just one more reason why.

For whom? Works surprisingly well for my family aside from the 23 going from Manhattan into Brooklyn on the weekends.
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You should try and break down programming concepts and ask lots of questions to see where their gaps in knowledge are.

Instead of doing all the coding yourself, leave it up to them by getting rid of some of what you build and hand it to them as isolated exercises. This will allow you to test their abilities incrementally and also give them a boost in motivation to see something working.

Teaching others how to code is another skill to build just like programming. You will learn through practice and get better at explaining abstract concepts with clarity after explaining things clumsily the first time. Just keep at it.
I upvoted your comment because we need more people like you who are able to disagree without turning the other person into a villain or idiot just because they disagree.

Personally, I have become more skeptical of not climate change or even whether humans have an effect but of whether it's catastrophic and I have shifted my thinking quite a lot to accept that humans will not only have an effect on earths climate, we will conquer it and control it.

That and not stopping the world, is the moral thing to do.
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"The test results from the new polymers suggest that extremely high energy density supercapacitors could be constructed in the very new future." Not "We have a demo model working". More on the actual chemistry, from 2017.[1] Seems they announced this before, in June 2017.

Even if this doesn't turn into a big energy storage thing, maybe they can replace ordinary electrolytic capacitors. Least reliable component in electronics.

[1] https://chemical-materials.elsevier.com/new-materials-applic...
I consume hacker news in what I believe to be a not so normal way. I load the rss feed into feedly and scroll through every single thing posted. This suits me as I don't care what's popular. I mostly like things that aren't too popular.

I notice what you have noticed often. There are waves of a certain theme that clearly show other people posting things after researching something that they first saw here.