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The so-called drug war is a great tragedy. It is unwinnable because we can't wage war against inanimate objects and expect to win. War-as-a-metaphor [1] is usually a bait-and-switch campaign: war on poverty, war on cancer, etc. Real wars are always between people. The so-called "drug war" is really a war on ourselves.

Johann Hari wrote a book about the futility of this particular societal auto-immune disease [1]. He points out that Portugal has decriminalized drug possession, and uses the resources that were formerly used to subjugate their struggling people to help them instead.

Switzerland has made heroin legally available to their hopeless addicts. Over the last 20+ years, they haven't had many (any?) overdose deaths of the people in their legal heroin program.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_as_metaphor
[1] http://chasingthescream.com/

If the donkey party wanted to win in their ideological struggle against the elephant party, they'd make the case that the government should put the cartels out of business by taking care of our own addicts, and that it's a better use of funds to put people in treatment programs than in prison.
I wish Reddit could be run as a non-profit. Its benefit to society is immense.
Those people are going to be working anyways, there is a labour shortage. NYC got played.
I remember they hosted Desktop Tower Defense - that was an addictive game.
I am surprised no one mentioned Digg here. It was the original Reddit. Arguably its demise is attributed by inflow of VCs capital following by pivoting direction. Which resulted in community leaving for Reddit.

P.S. found this old article https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/07/13/reddit-didn...
I'm not sure in what world you can call this negotiation. It's literally the definition of blackmail/extortion in New York.

https://statelaws.findlaw.com/new-york-law/new-york-extortio...
We can only speculate at this point. Maybe consciousness is a gestalt experience whose full description would require a map that is nearly the territory. Or maybe there's something simpler to it that we just don't know about yet.

Imagine if man had access to nuclear bombs from earliest history. For an extremely long time, nuclear bombs would have seemed just utterly incomprehensible, basically magical. Until we figured out the science behind them, after which point, suddenly they become predictable applications of science.
Apparently not. The security twonks of the world would prefer we all get locked in cages and just consume the content we're fed (slowly as it passes through a hundred layers of abstraction each doing their own bounds checks and the likes). Specter and Meltdown are a great example of this, the community went ape over the whole thing introducing all sorts of slow-your-shit-down mitigations with a lot of people even suggesting that maybe we should ditch speculative execution entirely, for what? Because now there's a relatively high-effort way someone could exfiltrate data from my desktop via a browser? The only people who should have cared about Specter and Meltdown are hosting companies and people working in intelligence, and I would hope the latter have more reliable security practices that already take into account the possibility of things like Specter and Meltdown before they're even known about.
The Sony/BMG rootkits only worked on Windows. I never had any trouble playing them on Linux. I stopped buying all Sony products when I found out what they were trying to do. And that's after half a lifetime of recommending Sony. Idiots.
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And how many people are going to look through all the raw data you used and try to reproduce your results from it? And it's not even possible from that data to verify that the experimental setup that was producing the data in the first place was valid and and well-executed.

There are famous examples of widely-used open-source software having bad bugs (for example, OpenSSL) which no-one found, because although it was so widely used, no-one was performing careful enough analysis of the codebase. And programmers are actually paid to look at code all day. No-one working in a research institution is paid or recognised for trying to verify someone else's data or check that their research makes sense - this was the job of peer review. (Even peer review is unpaid and unrecognised at many institutions.)
I deleted my accounts a while back and don't regret it at all. https://archive.fo/qIDX7
him again? come on dude. move on.
I think this is the important piece. I don't think Bezos cares what form his justice takes. I'm sure he'd be happy to burn a billion to cost them 0.5 billion, if AMI's pockets are even that deep.
I stopped working with PHP about 4 years ago and I can't say I miss it. I moved to Python and never looked back.
The million dollar question is how to get good rankings for good keywords without having to spend too much money. This article does a good job describing how to keep a successful site optimized but actually getting the rankings is not covered much.

Never, ever, let marketers send newsletters and promotional e-mails from the same IPs that the websites are hosted on. A rogue employee who violates the CAN-SPAM act may result in the entire website being blacklisted.

But the problem is all someone needs to do is just get the IP for the website from the email link and blacklist that too, so a different IP will not help much. The best solution for blacklisting is cloud hosting which has many IPs , so the odds of all being blacklisted are slim. Amazon s3 servers have like 100+ ips
Just get into the habit of typing < foo bar which is then easier to edit to < foo baz | grep hamspam.
To try and give you a partial answer, you may want to consider the fact that money is essentially equivalent to freedom.

Giving governments absolute oversight of the flow of money and of a detailed accounting of who owns what is therefore equivalent to implementing a planet-scale fine-grained surveillance state. Yay.

Is that a world you'd want to live in?

Or more interestingly, if you're a government official that also happens to be a half decent human being (I'm told they do exist), wouldn't you carefully consider how much control you'd like a government to have over so-called "dirty money" vs having every single penny a citizen spends/owns recorded in a database?

Or if you even want to be milder about it, where do you draw the line between total government control of money flows and privacy?

This whole conversation around "dirty money" is the exact same old "won't you think of the children" bogeyman that's being bandied about every time the government wants to restrict freedoms and uses basic citizen's cowardice to entice them to make the trade of less freedom for more security.

[edit]: by the way, you are very correct when you say that citizens aren't paying attention. With increased fine-grained control of money, one of their absolute basic freedoms is being not just eroded, but plain old erased.

And no one is talking about it or debating it. Find me one mainstream politician in the anglo sphere that even has this problem on his radar.
Well the point is that you do not need to; it would just be an optimization opportunity.
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Use an accountant. At ten employees, the costs of a mistake can be enough to kill a company without a lot of money in the bank (and if the company has a lot of money in the bank then using accountants isn't a big deal). At ten employees, a company should probably have an ongoing relationships with an attorney and insurance agent.

The goal is to have systems where the right thing for the usual cases happens by default. Then the business can focus on business rather than administration. The "dumb tax" on tax issues can kill a business.
More information: The CEO edited post(s) from r/theDonald which was a horrible subreddit. They ended up creating a new feature (r/popular) to get rid of that sub.

I think I'm OK with that.
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I think it has already happened - a user doxxed someone and that info was edited out. A note was left about the edit.

Maybe I'm wrong though, and it didn't happen here but somewhere else.
If the article is correct, then humans suffer from a common profound, disabling and dangerous mental illness. The correct approach is not pandering to this illness but attempting to cure it.

We shall destroy our planet in a very few years if we continue to tear out its heart for fashion. We must instead build for quality, function, and to last.

If your motivation in buying a $1000+ phone is to create envy, you are not fit to live here. Can we change this through mass marketing? Do we need new laws to make this happen? Should we jail or perhaps sterilize those with this trait? How extreme are the measures we need to take when our survival as a species is at stake?

It is pointless to debate the relatively weak data behind climate change when we have strong evidence of a mass extinction event that will likely end our species within a few decades. This may be the last moment that change is possible.
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That ARM11 core is actually partially out of order (i.e. it issues in order, but permits out of order completion of independent insns) and has branch prediction.
As a counterpoint, I wrote a game engine, and proceeded to release 18 games over 9 years using it exclusively (http://www.mysterystudio.com)

I wrote a SDL based software renderer for the first game, then extracted some reusable code for the second game, and just keep using it and adding stuff.

It started as a Linux/Windows SDL thing. Later became OpenGL/DirectX. Then came Mac support. Near the end I added iOS and Android backends.

It was good fun. I'd probably not do it again today.
Or like US is helping authoritarian governments(i.e Saudi Arabia) or like US companies (i.e Cisco?) are helping China gov to censorship its people. It's all about the money. US is no different. Spreading freedom and democracy is secondary for the US just like spreading communism is for China.
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It is in-house, GDS is part of the cabinet office, a govt department - https://gds.blog.gov.uk/about/

I do get your underlying point, but gov.uk has been near-universally lauded as “doing it right” - I think it’s important to take it as an example of “this is actually possible”, rather than brushing it off.
I'm told that given enough data and fine-grained recording of money flows, AI will "save the day".
I would care. Deleting a post is one thing and that's fine because it's clear what was done and why, but editing a post surreptitiously is a deliberate attempt to deceive and that's not acceptable.
And in any other place. A negotiation is for the good of both parties. Blackmail is just to stop one harming the other (and likely from a powerful standpoint).
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Another example is that Google News ended service in Spain after a link tax was passed[0].

[0] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/enrique-dans/google-news-leav...
How would you know? It allows reading privileged data without actually taking over privileged processes, and wouldn’t leave behind any signs of what happened.
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> One of the most fascinating findings in Good to Go is that soreness or injury from exercise can be exacerbated by psychological stress. “The psychological component of recovery is underappreciated among athletes,” Aschwanden said, pointing to studies of college football players who had a higher risk of injury during stressful periods of the academic calendar.
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In my case it was more than a rash, it was head-to-toe full-body blistering. I still suspect it was due to the mono, which is why I'd like a real allergy test for it. It isn't something I'd willingly subject myself to a full dose of without supervision, though.

The original diagnosis, either coincident or simply incorrect, was strep throat, hence the antibiotic.
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Step 1: define "good"

Step 2: compare to alternatives, factoring in geography, culture, scale of operations, political environment

It's a hugely complex issue. I wouldn't define Toronto's public transit as bad, but it's not world class.
I think there's a difference between "creating your own game engine and then building a game in it" and "creating your own game without a game engine."

The former is much less focused and you're much more likely to build things that are not exactly what you need, more general than you need, or just because it's some feature a game engine usually has.
He’a not a sympathetic character, but in this case I’m sympathetic to his actions.
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Some good journalism here
Thank you for this. These articles are exceptionally clear and it looks like you’re the author. Fantastic work.
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> There’s never been a case of a runner dying of dehydration on a marathon course

I don't think this is true, unless the claim is 'on a marathon course' so they can discount dying later in the hospital. Still, it's not common.

https://www.haaretz.com/1.5150497
Assuming you're not being sarcastic: Hear Hear.
In a country that has experienced tribal clashes, is one of the most corrupt in the world (law enforcement got to be the most corrupt in the world) and on the brink of debt slavery to China it marks the end of democracy, freedom and human rights. If they carry on, I foresee increase in extrajudicial killings, over taxation and eventually a Rwanda style genocide one day.
Man, this brings back memories of telling my mother's Runescape family of her passing...
It was not an attempt to deceive, it was a way of visibly trolling back people who were dumb enough to libel the Reddit CEO on his own website, in extremely offensive ways. And he owned up to it very quickly after it happened.
How would the absence of regulation solve this problem?
I think the other problems matter vastly more.

They are happening to all of us all the time, and are deeply corrosive to society.

Blackmail is comparatively rare, and may not actually be as harmful even to the individual who is the target.

Just because they are pervasive and so we learn to live with them, we should not underestimate how severely damaging they are.
Just write a function “mydiv10” which returns if x < 99 { x /10 and 0 otherwise and try again.
Because one is a website about cats, and one is an authoritarian nation...

I’m relatively certain that the reddit admins are not going to jail me as a pawn in a political game, or as a punishment for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nor will they ban me from traveling by plane as a punishment for having low karma.
Gdpr deals with intangible damages. What is the loss of privacy of 100 millions users worth? It's not really comparable.
There was an interesting comment on a recent In The Pipeline post about the relationship between academia and industry in drug developmemnt [1]:

Academics do some good work in target discovery and validation, but not anywhere near as much as they think they do. Discovery in big pharma has to repeat everything, because about 80% of the time, the published result doesn’t hold up. I suspect this is the result of no job security among grad students and post docs, because we can almost always reproduce data from Japan, where asst profs generate the data. (And we can always reproduce published data from other big pharmas, always.)

[1] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/02/01/rep...
But types have more uses than just optimization.
I prefer mobx to redux bc it's simpler.
It wasn't always dead. It was caught, killed, and its brain was removed. And then its corpse was made to flail about wildly in a bowl. I find it, if even only the last part, creepy.
Editing one post is bad, but also consider that they've become a massive safe harbor for the alt-right. Reddit admins routinely dismiss threats, quick to hide accounts from people like Elliott Rodgers, etc. They edited a the_donald post all while allowing bigotry and hate speech flourish on Reddit.
I'd upvote you for mentioning blockchain, but downvote you for how you'd like to use them for giving more control to central authorities, so I won't do anything.

However, thank god, second gen. blockchain tech has ZKP which should keep us out of the clutches of governments for a tiny little while longer.
Because it was OS X for like 15 years and only just changed to "macOS".
All of those things and worse. Remember these nations have vast armies, trillions of dollars of power, bombs, tanks and nuclear weapons, and can seize assets and restrict internet access easily.
What's the reasoning for fining someone for leaving stuff available? Should self-hosting a site be made illegal? If not, how do you distinguish the two?
Redux is the best!
No, it was a dancing squid corpse video, but ..... Thanks? :(
active warmup, static cool down, focused stretching on risk areas (tendons) maybe a foam roller on the old IT band, and a trip to the sauna if i have time.

seems to work fine.

cupping seems like obvious woo, for sure.
If you enjoy reading code and want to know a bit more about lisp, maybe this is interesting:

"Scheme 9 from empty space" -- https://t3x.org/s9fes/

It's a scheme built in c using literate programming. You can even buy a printed version.

Also, there's "Lisp in small pieces" if you want to go deeper -- https://books.google.de/books/about/Lisp_in_Small_Pieces.htm...
Political beliefs and the propensity to feel physical revulsion
Having built in pre/post conditions is pretty nice.
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Can you elaborate on your statement here? The Great Leap Forward was China aiming to create a socialist state, which is inherently totalitarian. And indeed it directly lead to massive famine, deaths, and repression as these efforts generally do. China has certainly changed for the positive from this era, which is what I believe the poster you were responding to was referencing. Much of the change has been driven by completely reshaping their economic system into an [internally] free market.
it's a private company, there's no freedom of speech involved. You want a baker to create a cake that says an offensive message, the baker doesn't' have to comply.
Very touching story.

I'm remembering one of the first touching stories of an influential MMORPG gamer disappearing because of her dead: A story known as "A Story About a Tree":

https://www.raphkoster.com/games/essays/a-story-about-a-tree...
Two important factors not mentioned in the section "So what actually works...?", but potentially in the book (I didn't read it), are getting adequate sleep and alternating vigorous activity with rest (or slow exercise like walking). Many elite athletes sleep at least 9 hours per night.

As a former crossfitter, I never understood how people could show up for a 5:30 or 6:30 AM session 5 or 6 days a week. My hsCRP levels were quite elevated at the time even with my rule to sleep twice between workouts. For example, I could do a Tuesday night session and a Thursday morning session, but nothing on Wednesday.

Perhaps those daily crossfitters had such a low-stress lifestyle outside of the gym? Based on their personalities and stories of only sleeping 4-6 hours, I think not. I think they just had a "power through it" attitude, but that doesn't seem like a good solution for the long run.
Moreover, between racial stereotyping and criticisms of certain policies of the current government of a nation state.

To choose the maximally flamebaity example, i might not like the current Israeli administration's policy towards Palestinians, but that doesn't make me an antisemite, or even anti-Israeli.
hmm, also my best work was obviously provoked by situations where I didn't need to follow a traditional western counting scheme.
I bet an endpoint disclosure. Not tech.
The NSF, which I think is the second-largest funder of research (or at least basic research) in the US, also requires public access to all publications (after a 12-month embargo, like NIH).

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18041/nsf18041.jsp#q3

It is notable that these requirements from NSF and NIH have not eliminated many of the complaints about the influence of closed-access journals. Presumably this is because the real issue are the incentives researchers face to publish in such journals regardless of whether they are also publicly available. (Indeed, the vast majority of researchers already have institutional access to closed access journals, and the degree to which non-researchers read research is negligible.)

For some scale: The NIH funds $39B in medical research

https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/budget

The NSF does $7B

https://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2018/

Total funding in the US for basic research (which I think includes about $5B from NSF and $15B from NIH) is $86B

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/data-check-us-governm...
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2017/nsf17316/
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How many conservative states have legalized cannabis?

I find pragmatism rare in politics.
I’m really curious about this too, as I have very similar requirements, and also host on Netlify (where ‘server logs’ don’t exist). The possibilities I’ve come up with so far are:

- Hosting Fathom using Docker someplace affordably. I’ve tried this with Joyent, where I’ve been running a custom Docker container for ~1.5 months with no problems. It should be about $2.50/month, but they offered $250 in free credits for signing up (not sure if this expires at some point), so it hasn’t cost me anything yet.

- Using a very limited custom script with Keen.io to log only the timestamp, site visited, and referrer. It seems that Keen.io has a pretty good privacy policy, and my site’s traffic and my views of my dashboard seem to only cost about $0.01 to $0.02 per month so far, and I haven’t actually been charged that.

Happy to share more detail on the above, and curious to hear if anyone has other ideas.
Yep. We (the US) could / should start by legalizing and taxing marijuana, and use that money to provide healthcare for addicts (or just everyone).

We should also take a more “whole health” approach to mental health. The stigma of drug addiction keeps so many people from getting help. Ironically this deadly stigma is probably a direct result of the many years of drug war propaganda.

And finally, we need to get to the bottom of how and why so many pharmaceuticals are available on the black market. It’s totally impossible for me to believe the pharmcos didn’t know they were profiting off of such tragedy.
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Germany also uses diamorphine for opiate maintenance programs
Great. A database that might be able to tag your ethnicity in a region with recurring ethnic violence.
What have been your problems with RIOT and Zephyr?

I'm currently evaluating what to use for the next project, any insight would be good.
What do you mean by flexible ?

As for the wristband, have a look at hexiwear, and the hexiwear battery pack(which may be wearable). it has BLE and it does support "Firmware Over the Air update", i think.
I view the current situation as a good time to invent 32+ core CPUs with less fancy features like all speculative execution or branch prediction (at least not to the extent which made Spectre/Meltdown possible anyway). And a good time for a next-gen kernel to emerge that can make use of several kernel-reserved cores and with better preemptive scheduling overall.

Not a hardware guy or a driver programmer but I believe this area stands to get some innovation.