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> Drugs desensitise people to life's "regular highs" which makes them seek out stronger, more stimulating experiences in their lives, which makes them want more money (since these experiences tend to be expensive), which makes people more competitive in the workplace/marketplace (and more likely to be dishonest and prioritise short term gains)... This makes it harder for non-drug-users to compete in the workplace/marketplace.

Perhaps not everyone's goal is to compete in the workplace/marketplace?

> Legalising drugs would essentially force everyone to use drugs.

Just like legalizing alcohol means everyone is forced to drink alcohol? In the US prohibition brought us a surge of organized crime. Our current demand for illegal drugs creates a very, very successful business model for drug cartels in Mezo- and South America. I don't see how that's better.

> That's the same reason why drugs are banned in professional sport.

How's that going? The rules are regularly broken anyways, and all the doping happens in secret. Tons of professional and amateur athletes are doping in spite of the bans.
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Everybody is catching up. I just found out that my ISP actually subscribed me to an AntiVirus service for 6EUR/month, checked by default on the n-th page of the contract I signed. Even the monthly invoice didn't reveal that, I had to find out from a friend working for the company.
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Take the size and complexity and federation into account... In Switzerland we have map.geo.admin.ch with a highly accurate representation of the levels and buildings. I love it
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Some people have offered donating me an iPhone so I can build a proper iOS quassel client.

Once the Quasseldroid beta is released, I'll start working on that.
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> It's natural to assume people like me are just dumb, but reality is not that easy.

How do you know yourself that you're not dumb?
> If I have someone's bank details I can transfer for free, instantly.

> There is no mechanism to obtain a refund for a mistake

Neither of these is true for SEPA.
have you try any ?
> They are certainly better than humans, she said, as the dogs can cover a range of 30 kilometres in a day, whereas a person could only do three kilometres.

What ? Then why not put the seeds on the dog's tail ? (I am a bit suspicious of that number seeing how the masters seem to always be nearby the dogs on the photos).

Couldn't a low altitude drone be even more efficient ?
Heliocentrism along with 'roundness' of the earth was first hypothesized ~300bc by Aristarchus [1], and the circumference of the earth was first estimated some time later by Eratosthenes [2]. The scientific inquiry and its attack on religion unsurprisingly seems to align itself with the intellectual strides of humanity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
Interesting, I was eyeing the reamrkable as well, but for drawing. It's hackable, it runs Linux right? So it might be possible to hack into a portable Zettelkasten with good UX! :)
Cryptocurrencies "solve" the issue by not supporting chargeback. It's not like chargeback is intrinsically tied to Visa and friends, they just realized that overall it was beneficial if the buyer felt more comfortable buying things because they have the peace of mind of being able to chargeback later if they feel they've been scammed.

I often hear lack of chargeback being touted as a feature for cryptocurrencies but it's more like the lack of a feature. It's obviously beneficial if you're in the shoes of the seller but if it's so great then why does chargeback exist in the first place?

Put yourselves in the shoes of a porn buyer, would you really put your billing info on bigtitties.ru if you knew that if they steal your money you have no recourse whatsoever? Also there's now a transaction on an immutable public ledger that might trivially show anybody who cares to look for it that you're buying incest porn online?
Until one day you don’t need to.
I do agree with this, but think there's enough societal pressure these days that it's very hard for a for-profit company to do.
Slay the spire is fantastic and the devs are still layering on content and features. if you've ever played and enjoyed a deck-builder (e.g. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion ) and also like roguelikes you'll probably really get a kick out of it.
Well that depends a lot on your definition of bullshit.

Linux evolved the way it did for various reasons, but how many are still relevant today?

Would you write a kernel in C these days? I wouldn't. There are production quality kernels written in at least C++ which benefit from its features, and it's been demonstrated that you can write entire operating systems in managed languages like Java as well. Why should we suffer an endless parade of exploitable memory bugs in kernel space? It's not technical requirements driving that.

Would you write a GPLd kernel these days? I wouldn't. Not much new software is being GPLd these days, it's all Apache or similar licenses. The policy of trying to maintain every driver in-tree has caused vast amounts of time to be spent on workarounds like installers that compile things client-side, enforcement is poor, lots of time is lost due to needless recompiles, API churn, poor usability of desktop software and so on. Has Linux benefited from correspondingly amazing hardware support? No. Desktop Linux is a morass of bugs that often still can't suspend properly, and in the server realm it's now more often than not talking to virtualised hardware anyway.

I could go on. There's a LOT of simplification and "bullshit work" that could be optimised out, even in the realm of a very concrete thing without much room for innovation like an OS kernel - partly because times changed but Linux didn't.
Newer apartments these days come with a kitchen, especially in areas where people move frequently.

But even with a kitchen, apartments are very bare indeed, no built-in cabinets or wardrobes, no curtain roads, ...
I love this. Won't some distro'ers please just make a boot'n-play variant that puts all this together into a single image, let the rPi crowd have it (i.e. mass syndication at personal, inexpensive scale), and we can be done with the The Problem™ forever...
I don't agree with the argument that measurement is the soul of engineering. Even if I did, the argument that we can "only" measure 3 things is itself silly: there is a boundless sea of measurements one can take about everything and anything.

Engineering is the selection of technological solutions to social and business problems, made after some analytical process rooted in mathematical and physical laws, from a set of defensible alternatives, under economic and ethical constraints.

Regardless of what our gatekeeping cousins might wish to believe, software engineering fits this definition.

That many people working on software do not behave like engineers does not change the fact that it exists. That there is rarely any legally-enforced guild structure to regulate the membership of the profession does not change the fact that it exists. Civil engineering existed thousands of years before the word engineering was even invented.
Like with anything else, you just need to use a provider that doesn't suck.
The maps are an electronic version of the one we used in the military. They look gorgeous, retro and with a clever amount of details.
Adult content usually sees large volumes of chargebacks. This is because when people are aroused, their inhibitions markedly decline. Because modern people do not see themselves as fundamentally sexual beings, when the arousal has passed they feel regret, shame, or that the person who made the charge "wasn't them" or similar, so they feel no moral reluctance to refuse to pay for the content they enjoyed. It's not really something that can be fixed, the human element of it anyway. What can and should be fixed are payment processors. They are very lightly regulated taxing bodies whose policies are not decided by elected representatives, yet control the majority of our economy. If payment processors wanted to actively override the decisions of the Federal Reserve and set national monetary policy they could do it tomorrow.

It's really pretty absurd how a handful of companies who do nothing but shuffle numbers from one place to another not only charge steep fees for the service, but also manage to charge a percentage of the transaction - as if transferring a bigger number down a wire cost more! In the past there was some sense in that there were liabilities involved, but most all of that has been eliminated and only the fees remain.
Some institutions still haven't been weened off of MATLAB. In this case, introducing notebooks feels like one way of moving to something that "sucks less".
Relevant: http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html

> What use is it to read [hundreds of books in my life] if I remember so little from them? [...]

> Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists.
> Are you trying you imply chicken lives are as valuable as human lives? You are failing at doing so, if that is the case. What you are actually doing is saying human lives are as valuable as chicken lives, i.e., not very valuable.

Your argument doesn't prove your point.

FTR, I eat meat and I yet think that chicken lives are as valuable as human. I choose to eat them nonetheless.
And yet it was print newspapers that had the rule that important stuff must come in he first column inch.
I am a bit suspicious of that number seeing how the masters seem to always be nearby the dogs on the photos

I suspect a strong correlation between being able to take a photo of the dog and being near the dog.
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What I've seen is that most audits are incomplete, because the audit is time-boxed. The auditors only have a few weeks to examine the books, either because that's all the budget by the client will allow, or because the audit firm hits the profitable/not-profitable limit around the extra services they sold to the firm.

So the firm has an incentive to draw out the process and gamble that the auditors won't find anything actionable before the clock runs out.
I think the perception that compliance officer is a bullshit job comes from a political belief that the laws being complied with are bullshit.

For instance, compliance people spend lots of time on trying to enforce sanctions by e.g. blocking IP addresses. Have trade sanctions actually ever achieved much? Iran hasn't changed. North Korea is pretty much the same as it always was - if there's going to be any change there it'll come from Trump doing Trumpian things, not trade sanctions which have been in place for decades. And does anyone really think a nation state can't evade an IP address block? Really?! When you take a step back and ask "what is the actual goal here? is it going to achieve that goal?" it's at least very debatable whether the work is useful or merely bullshit.
No no, this is not some romanticizing fantasy image that I dreamt up after a couple of glasses of wine one night :)

I'm a hard-core geek, programmer, tinkerer since I got my first computer in 1985 or so. I'm working as a data engineer and cloud architect currently. My IQ is fine and I dont believe in fairies :)

All I did was research the history of our societies. Who controls what, who benefits from what, stuff like that. And there is actually a big conspiracy going on when it comes to our world view and our place in this world. There are sites purely set up for propaganda, like flat earth society, who explains gravity with "yeah so the world is currently traveling upwards at a constant rate, and that is gravity"... Lol :) Nobody actually believes that. It's just to turn people off from the idea, and it's working. It's been the Google number one hit since like forever, and it's designed that way :)

All this makes sense if you understand what the purpose is, but people usually spend like 10 minutes, go to the wrong sites, and laugh it off :)

Go to Eric dubays videos on YouTube, go through the ones where he goes through how things are working according to flat earth theories. Its highly interesting. There see more than one way to explain what we see.
In a CRT, when the electrons hit the screen they go and complete the circuit, so the negative charge doesn't accumulate.

Also, when the electrons are extracted from the cathode it gets a small positive charge, but this charge also circulate and is not accumulate. Moreover, it's the charge that eventually neutralize the charge of the electrons.

I think there are no special wires to make this happen, the current I very small and the charge is redistributed by the supporting parts.

A good comparison would be to use a CRT where the screen is split in two perfectly isolated parts. After a while the half you are sending the electrons two become too charged and it deflects the electrons.
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This is really only one possible interpretation of the absurd. The collective absurdist philosophers all tended to agree that when confronted with the apparent meaninglessness of life there were 3 general responses possible.

1. Suicide (not widely advocated for in philosophy circles)

2. A leap of faith (essentially to impart your own meaning to life)

3. Embrace of the meaninglessness

It seems to me like you may be advocating for the 3rd option? Logically speaking, it’s equally as valid as the other two, but it does have one major shortcoming in that it doesn’t naturally lead to any conclusions. Personally I see more value in the 2nd option, but it does come with the added baggage of settling on or coming up with your own values system.
Technology will solve the problem - immigration just kicks the can down the road.

If you import a large amount of immigrants they will have less hereditary wealth than the same amount of native Germans.

This increases state dependence when these immigrants become old themselves and enhances the viscous cyle
> Back in Australia, fridges and washer/dryers are often things you need to bring along on your own.

Note though that a lot of apartments come with dryers. Apartment buildings' bylaws often preventing hanging washing on balconies, so I suspect they're legally required to offer an alternative.
Why aren't debit card transactions handled separately and differently from credit card transactions? Since they come from a guaranteed fund source, I would think they would make possible a special "no chargebacks permitted" transaction type? I see no way to get people to stop doing chargebacks after they've come down off their sexual arousal inhibition lowering short of widespread social education of a sort nearly guaranteed not to happen, so it'll have to be some solution that simply makes it so people CAN'T unspend the money.
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Range is indeed a bit ambiguous. 'Total distance covered' might be more accurate.

Border Collies can be easily taught to make broad sweeps left/right and circle back, so it's really the area around the trajectory of their master that gets covered.
How is bigtitties.ru going to steal your money if you only send them payment as you consume the content? Chargebacks are very useful for the shipment of physical goods, but not relevant here.
It's not finance specific. Any company that's highly profitable will experience this. It's just that finance is full of highly profitable companies.

The classical solution is more competition. Unfortunately finance is also full of factors that make it an uncompetitive market (e.g. the old joke that if you want to get into banking you start by buying a bank).
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If they're anything like the border collies I know, the handlers can hike through the area at a leisurely pace while the dogs tirelessly run around, covering the area around the handlers. Maybe they trained them to be somewhat systematic.

Small drones have a pathetic battery runtime compared to a dog. Big drones aka planes are very expensive to run.
Why the tail?

> (I am a bit suspicious of that number seeing how the masters seem to always be nearby the dogs on the photos).

If they were far, it'd be hard to take their photo in a dense forest, no?

> Couldn't a low altitude drone be even more efficient ?

You'd need a dozen batteries to fly for a few hours, plus open areas to start/finish each flight, someone who knows how to operate one safely, etc.
I had classes with the same structure. The homework was one of those online setups, and our professor had a policy that we should be ready with questions. If the questions stopped during class, the homework grade would be replaced by the grade on a quiz. The quizzes were fair game every day,were limited in scope,and only happened if the professor decided there was too little engagement.
I would disagree, I think we do not understand quantum mechanics at all. We have the equations and get the correct results, but we still don't know what's really behind measurements, how entanglement can be non-local, we are not even agreeing on whether time evolution is unitary or not.
> we have laptops with 32Gb memory, servers with 1/2 Tb and scores of Ghz cores - the need to write in C has disappeared for almost everyone.

I don't know in which weird world you live but most of the people I ship software to run 10 years old laptops or 10.6 / 10.7 macs. And even top of the line 2018 macbooks don't have options for more than 16G of RAM.
I imagine if I was dumb, I would have trouble learning new things and be more interested in having education tell me what the truth is. Then I could just relax, knowing I know the truth since they told me. :)

Would be an easy life!
> Whereas here (Australia) it’s not uncommon to move every year – don’t anyone dare argue with me there, I speak from bitter experience

Can confirm; you get pretty sick of moving every 6/12 months, but on the plus side, you do get a decent amount of variety. :)
Still, the difference in potential outcomes for humanity are substantial. For sure one will only ever achieve blowing up someone with better precision than before... how exiting!
That doesn't prove more harmful, that suggests harmful. There's no comparison being made.

I read your second source and its a whole lot of text about nothing until they start ranting about artificial sweeteners which are E-numbers deemed safe in the EU.

As for your first source, I've heard about those studies. There's no definitive proof on it though. There are some rat strains which are known to be more vulnerable to diseases than others [1] though I'm not sure which strains. I'd like to see it reproduced on a species closer to humans.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcb.24050122...
Particle physics is the most glamorous branch of physics, but I agree with the book author that little progress is being made. In what branches of theoretical physics could a brilliant young person have a good chance of making important contributions?
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I think the difference between an anthropologist like Graeber and an economist like Cowen is that they observe the system at different levels. Cowen judges the value of jobs from "inside the system" (with the system = contemporary capitalism), whereas Graeber takes a perspective outside the system and argues that the "zero/negative-sum game" (as Cowen said) is the problem.

To illustrate with a drastic example: Suppose you have two workers, one who digs holes and one who shovels the same dirt back into the hole to close it. Outside the system, it's obvious that they're not doing any meaningful work. Inside the system, there's probably some argument why these jobs are useful. (Maybe government regulations require that their company dig at least X holes per month. Or you could argue that it's good because it increases GDP or reduces unemployment.)
I've had and still have all of what you've described. Plus being afraid of being by myself; or alive even (the anxiety that just comes, and you start assigning deeper meaning to it; when in fact it's just anxiety that doesn't even have any roots at all).

Many times I have asked myself if I could just stop once and it would never happen to me again (which is a lie, since there's always a trigger outside marijuana consumption), but the actual experience of dealing with psychosis have always been incredibly attractive to me.

I have to admit that I did become better at managing my own state of mind where I can not directly control the circumstances. I don't think you can control the psychosis, no - but you can teach yourself to get familiar with what is happening to you and therefore know there's nothing to be afraid of.

But my question is still that of: what if I, for once - could not directly control myself and would end up damaging or even killing myself? I don't think it will happen to me anymore simply because I went through with it. But what if I wasn't lucky enough? That still frightens me, when I think about it.
Mainly solar thermal. Looks like the Dover house stored heat in tanks of melted salt. They leaked and after three years the salt and water stratified and refused to remix so it stopped working... Clever attempt though. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/419445/the-house-of-the-d... When you hear that 30% of Pasadena houses had solar water heaters by 1900 it often seems as if we are just recreating the same stuff repeatedly. Hobbyists today seem to be doing much the same as people in the 70's oil shock. Only big change seems to be vacuum tubes (and PV I guess).
A down vote without a comment / explanation doesn't help much, if at all. It's vague. It's lazy. It provides no context. As the definition of communication goes, it's pointless.
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> The importance of the infiniteness assumption can't be understated

No, but as you have shown it can be grossly overstated. The field outside a finite plate capacitor falls off as a power of distance >= 2 (details depend on the geometry), while the field inside it is constant. It can therefore safely be ignored for a first order estimate of the effect.

If you want to get fancy and claim that higher order corrections invalidate Zubrin's argument, you
need to actually prove it. Also, don't forget to include other effects like plasma shielding.
Using google voice and hangouts connected I have a libpurple connection for hangouts in Bitlbee. I can send SMS through that connected interface via voice/hangouts. Works well for me (especially when in China on business)
I also live in Japan and travel to EU about once a month. Keeping in touch with my family/friends in US via my one phone number I've had since google voice launched is quite useful...
It's not a strength if you need that old book that has no electronic version and can only be scanned. AFAIK EPUB 3 allows for SVG layouts that can be, I imagine, very sophisticated; still, it doesn't address the old book case.
> Would you write a GPLd kernel these days? I wouldn't. [...]

I think you're arguing a strawman here. The actual reason why drivers tend to live in-tree is that the kernel-driver API changes all the time, and Linus has consistently argued that being able to do backwards-incompatible changes to the kernel-driver API has been necessary to make the drivers as good as they are.
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This was excellent except for the last two chapters. I am pretty sure that Trump and elite oriented capitalism is much more in line with Neitzsche's views.

Or did I misunderstand?

EDIT: Crazy down voting in this comment thread.
Why even this comment is flagged? maybe downvoted by HN people who buried their children alive by tradition?