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This was beautifully written, and very, very much captures my sentiments (and experiences) with psychedelics as well.

Actually, reading your post was moving. Maybe the most impactful HN post I can remember reading (perhaps with some amount of recency bias in it's favor. Still...)

Thank you!
True; CP is a bad analogy and I'm retracting it.

The US bar is very high to curtailing speech as a government action, and it's worth noting that the story we're commenting on is about an Australian telco taking private action. I actually don't know the law in the US around what would happen if, for example, Verizon decided to IP-blackhole 4chan of its own initiative (in general, Americans would probably rake it over the coals for diminishing consumer choice at the very least). It'd be a hell of a show if they tried, and I don't see it coming.

The example you brought up is also from the US and, I hate to say it, was probably treated differently because the US is just desensitized to the amount of violence in its culture these days. The baseball shooting was tragic, but none of the injuries were even as permanent as the ones Gabby Giffords suffered. But the New Zealand shooting was in a country far less tolerant of such intra-civil violence, and Australia already has speech constraints relative to the US (contrast their attitude on videogames to that of the US).

(... but to turn the conversation around: do you think there should have been a conversation about online radicalization after the 2017 shooting? Maybe there should have been. What do you think should have been done differently?)
The EU actively despises American tech companies. Go back and watch Zuckerberg at the EU Parliament. I can totally see them bringing down the hammer for minor infarctions when it's popular to hate a certain company.
I have greatly enjoyed my Nokia 3310 3g. I have had intermittent sergice outages, but for the most part it works well. I live in a major metropolitan area though... so if you are more rural you may not have the same experience. I only use it for the following: calls, alarm clock, and the occasional text (but I hate it when people text me and usually just call them back - yes, I know it is frowned upon). While an LTE version of the 3310 exists in europe, I do not believe it opperates on American bands. Which is a bummer and I really wish they would release it here. Having buttons again is so much better than the touch screen plague that has grabbed everyone.

If the WiPhone (http://a.wiphone.io/) manages to see market, I may move in that direction as I am almost never outside of wifi (plus the promise of writing apps in either MicroPython or Wiring or the like sounds great).
No idea, but I'm all for countries which consider democracy, free speech, fighting corruption and decent labour conditions, to consider all other such countries to be preferred trading partners, and not countries that don't meet these criteria.

I think that would go a long way towards spreading these values to more countries.
One of Rust's advantages is that you can drop into unsafe to do this sort of thing.
iPhone users pay higher prices at German carsharing Sixt
If you take "humanity" to mean "computer users" you'll find that the trend so far has been the exact opposite of what you suggest.
This is precisely the thing, some things are valuable precisely because they are free and ubiquitous.

It's a form of value that can't be measured directly in $. If you can measure it in $ at all, you can only do it indirectly, in the form of charges for services and ancillary products.

There are no guarantees that's always feasible though. There's a threshold beyond which the cost of harvesting the value is higher than the value itself.
Years ago open source was about companies collaborating on commoditizing an obvious solution AWAY from the market. The economic case for open source isn’t about value added product companies, but a kind of commercial pooling of resources to create cost reduction and easier software maintenance on stuff nobody wants to buy or maintain...

Of course orgs have lost site of this. The sad reality is 99.999% of orgs are OSS freeloaders or way too conservative and hence want to in house everything. Or happy with modestly priced cloud hosted everything that ends up taking away some of OSSs maintenance savings upside.
More pollution isn’t necessarily worse. The polluting activity can produce benefits that outweigh the harm of the pollution.

Pollution is directly analogous to the standard Tragedy of the Commons scenario of a shared pasture, where the pasture equates to the environment, the cows are industry, and grazing the cows in the common pasture equates to industry producing pollution.
I think this is accurate. My background is also in the backend realm and so I'm not a frontend person and my Javascript knowledge is marginal. I recently had to take on a more frontend project and I went with Nuxt/Vue over React.

That being said, I do share some of the other comments about how it can be confusing with bound elements and iterating over objects, or areas you aren't allowed to use string concatenation. A lot of this magic happens behind the scenes so it's a bit of trial and error, and feels foreign if you're used to being able to do those sorts of things in the past.

I also think that React (with JSX) is a bit more "out in the open" about how things work and what is expected, without reading tons of documentation, and less under-the-hood magic. So it's easier to get up to speed, and your JS knowledge will improve over time (especially if you already know other languages).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusko#The_elephant_on_LSD
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Right, that's basically what they do now by building multiple detector facilities. I was talking about multiple arms in a single location.
> Lisp has nothing equivalent

prog, let, defun all indicate block structures.

> Your eyes may vary; everyone's head works differently

No, it's just training. You are just unfamiliar with Lisp code. After a few days training, you should have little problem reading Lisp code. It's like bicycle riding: people can't believe that it is possible to balance it, but after a few lessons it's no problem.

That's an old saying:

'Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.' (Marvin Minsky)
Treated at home vs. serious is woefully undertaught.

I had never been to the ER before a few months ago. I had an accident with a falling glass jar and sliced my finger open. I spent so many cycles doubting if this needed a hospital visit or if I just needed a bandage.

I later asked the ER doctor and he said that I definitely needed to be here, but maybe a quarter of the people out there in the waiting area don't.
I haven't found an english source yet, sorry.

Welt magazin reports that Sixt has an adaptive AI controlled pricing that results in iOS users and customers in expensive stores seeing higher prices than other users.
You mean when it goes from .001% of the population to .002% of the population? I don't think there will be any time that a large fraction of the world's population knows how to program. I've even tried to get my own kids interested in learning how to program to no avail. Some of my kids don't have the aptitude for it, but those who do have the aptitude just aren't interested.
His explanation sounds more like Changa than 5-meo-dmt... i never had it last as long as he describes or seen others and Ive Been assistent with hundreds of trips . Only changa would last 45min to a little over an hour. Pure DMT and 5-meo-dmt perhaps 25 min if lucky.
You're just pulling a No True Scotsman. I'm surprised someone replied to you in good faith.
I'm using a Quectel EC25-E 4G/LTE.
I wonder what would happen if someone started an open source software "vendor" run along the lines of public radio / podcasts. Open source licensed (using a regular GPL or other license, nothing new or tricky), but a prominent encouragement to donate it you find it useful.

Those donations could then be used to hire full-time developers, and work on the kinds of software that is currently not well served by open-source (TurboTax replacements, games, office software).

Just as with public radio or podcasts, the price signal of donations would encourage certain kinds of products to be produced according to demand instead of enjoyment or itch scratching, but the end product would still have the benefits of open source, no license keys or DRM to worry about.

I expect 99% of people would freeload as they do with public radio, but that's ok, even a small participation rate could result in new kinds of open source software being produced, and a sustainable career path for creators.
Yeah, it seems like he's forgotten the about enterprise segment altogether.

A lot of companies have OSS but make money charging for support and/or additional features (granted, some of those additional features may not be OSS).

Examples: Liquibase, Pentaho, Flyway, etc.
I'm from that part of the world and laws here are more like "recommendations". It rarely gets enforced until there's a complaint. And the authorities are more likely to be focusing on factories dumping cyanide in a river or bauxite strip mining, rather than plastic nets.

The other side of it is that people are extremely poor. Possibly negative net value, lots of debts and no other way to pay next months bills. These people are going to use whatever it takes to live, and authorities who try to enforce it will look like villains.
That is a great analogy thanks.
If you can choose still, study something that is related to laboratory work rather than programming, because anyone can buy a laptop and learn to program, but almost no one can access a lab.

If you can only program, first choose an application that you are passionate about, that is new, hard and important, and then learn whatever you need to achieve that goal. Application first, method later.

After that, if you still want to learn low level programming... :-) use emulators + minimal examples like in my tutorials, read / step debug the source of major projects and document that somewhere, and then try to modify those major projects with useful extensions.
(Rust is updated every six weeks, and we have a consensus based process, it’s at nobody’s whim.)
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That's a very bigoted way of interpreting my comment
Are many colleges buying computers at all? My university CS and engineering schools both just required that students supply their own computer that was sufficient for the coursework.
It doesn’t remove restrictions, it adds unchecked constructs. Very different!
That's not a given, seeing how the software people have access to is often specifically made to prevent people from wanting, or even realizing, that it could be changed. I'm thinking of iPhones, but also about what motivated me to start programming: games. Nowadays, consoles are the epitome of DRM, and many PC games are following on that path.

Unless open source catches on soon, I am afraid only smaller and smaller proportion of humanity will be programmers, even without the compounding effect of the general population constantly increasing and diluting the existing programmer pool.
you need more than laws, you need enforcement of those laws.
I'm not implying causality at all; in fact, my entire point has been to show the exact opposite, that rights (or objects, like guns, the acquisition of which stems from a right) don't cause behaviors. I have the right to eat dirt and drink toilet water, but I don't do either, because neither would be quite right.

So, in Chicago and London, where the crime has been on the rise, a reasonable person cannot blame the increase in crime on guns (esp in London's case, where it would be easier to get your hands on the Ark of the Covenant than a gun).

So, if not guns, what about other policies (welfare, immigration, maybe even other, less controversial etc.)?

(re: rant) Leftists have good ideas (protect the environment, take care of helpless people, etc.), but most leftist ideas require a bigger government and more taxation, as a means to implement them. As a result, government grows, and, because government is itself not governed by the markets, it is by nature inefficient[1], which means it eventually becomes a bloated mess (which can also lead to rising crime, etc.). Acquisition of power eventually becomes the end (see Stalin's Soviet Union, Moa's China, Castro's Cuba).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
One thing is an attack that will result in some civilian deads, by an organization that has spent ungodly sums to make their bombs as accurate as possible, to develop the best technology and whoes EOD guys now have/had to dispose suicide bombers after ISIS figured out that you can attach them to children and force them to run at the US forces.

The other is an absolutely looser who spent time figuring out how to kill the most civilians, the most effectively while self-grandising online.

I have my reservation about the US military and its proper use, but there is no world where the two are comparable.
OP is using unsafe to store a mut pointer to a boxed value so that it can be mutated in two places. So the statement is just referring to data races.
> was (probably) intended to be Apple's only "pro" desktop

Apple specifically said in 2017 (before the release of the iMac Pro) that they messed up the 2013 Mac Pro, that they would make a new modular Mac Pro but it would take a long time to finish, and that the iMac Pro would be a stopgap.

It was a private press event, so the best source on this is probably Daring Fireball: https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
This is a state-level law. And real estate agent lobbying is extremely powerful. I don't see it changing any time soon.
Same here. My 3TB fusion drive died at some point but it lives on with just the 128GB ssd that came with that. Also, I connected an external 2 TB Samsung SSD to it which ended up being a nice performance upgrade as fusion drives are slow. Apple should just kill the fusion drive option; bad idea. You are better off with a proper ssd and external storage.

I maxed out the specs at the time, which in retrospect was a good choice since it has lasted me for five years. The screen is awesome and with a quad core i7 and 32GB there's not a lot it can't do comfortably even today.

Games are the exception as this is not a gaming machine. Yet, I regularly use x-plane on it as well and I get decent performance given that it is running on a laptop grade GPU that is five years old. It's actually more sensitive to CPU performance and the 4Ghz core i7 is still pretty nice. CPUs have gotten faster but not a lot in the last five years. Certainly they have not doubled in performance twice. Rip Moore's law, I guess.

I don't run x-plane at native resolution because I gain a few FPS by using a slightly lower resolution but it is actually usable at native resolution if you can live with lower graphic settings. If you are into this, I maxed out most graphics settings like maximum objects, texture resolution, etc. but have reduced reflections to the minimum (kills performance with not a lot of visual impact) and reduced anti-aliasing settings and shadows as well. Tuning x-plane is a bit of dark art but generally it can look great on even modest hardware. I also use a lot (several hundreds of GB) of high resolution Ortho4XP scenery and and other custom scenery. Typically seeing between 20/30 FPS. So, looking pretty good and it uses the 32 GB. The AMD m295x with 4GB has been pretty good.

It's a bit disappointing that five years later the state of the art Imac is essentially the same with a slightly newer CPU and GPU. Sure it will be faster but a 2x performance boost will only be true for software that maxes out all 8 cores. Still, nothing wrong with the vega and i9 combo. I'd take that provided there are no thermal issues. I had the same kind of disappointment when I replaced my 2012 MBP with a new one a bit over a year ago. My java build ended up roughly 30% faster only (maxing out all cores). I suspect my comparatively ancient iMac might be faster.
It was enlightening, but what I mean is that I simply lack the language skills to adaquately describe it. Can you describe a rainbow to a blind person? Sort of: you might try to explain it in terms of sounds being next to each other, but we lack the language to do it adequately.

My original post is sort of the best I can do I think. It’s not like “enlightening” like knowledge I learned. It was just enlightening in a kind of spiritual way, to feel that way. To know I’m capable of feeling that at peace and empathetic, I guess? Doesn’t give it justice but that’s an approximation.

Certainly true you can come out and say some stupid, non-profound things when on drugs though :-)
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Why on earth would you want to install 32 bit Python 2.7 if you already have 64 bit Python 2.7?
Perhaps as informed an opinion as you're likely to come across: https://steveblank.com/2019/03/08/dont-get-abandoned-as-your...
"sought after by every company"

certainly not sought after by my company, and i hate to speak for others, but i can name at least a handful of others where having any of the FANGs will usually get your resume circular filed. :x
I took advantage of the situation when I last sold my house. I knew what the house would likely sell for, and told my agent that I’d pay him his 3% seller commission for that price, but for anything above that amount, I’d split the incremental amount with him (I believe I proposed 40/60). Ultimately I made an additional $10k.
i'm a bit dissapointed that the article didn't mention anything about range.
> Buddhists would call it going egoless. I just felt very at peace: we all live, we all die, and it’s all okay.

My Mom raised me to feel that this is putting yourself outside the picture as a passive observer. I was taught from a very young age to remove myself to this state whenever I felt I couldn't understand the world. The older I get, the more I observe the world and behaviour of people around me, the harder I find it to escape this state, silently watching, observing, trying to understand the chaos that is humanity.
What would you suggest to someone who doesn’t have a BS? Or a HS diploma?
That's a good idea. What is the market value of the online degree? Is it comparable to full time degree?
Once their nets break and no new plastic nets are being produced then yeah, I think they’ll care.
Has never crashed on update for me, at least that I can remember after ten years. I have seen the warning message, that arrived years ago however.

I'll add the caveat that I typically restart my browser at least once a day, perhaps avoids the problem.
I'm wondering if it's this: https://davidwalsh.name/javascript-proxy
Their steps backward in MacBook functionality (keyboard, ports, touchbar which is at best a wash) and the price hikes over the last ~4yrs have me thinking about going back to Linux. But I need a laptop, and don't want to feel like I have to have a mouse to use it and not be miserable. And good battery life, and power management so reliable I never have to think about it (close the lid, pick it up, walk off). They're so far ahead of everyone else it's hard to justify switching even when they keep screwing up and raising prices for years. It's more a testament to how bad every other hardware+software combo is, at this point, than how good they are.
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That helps. Thanks!
Quote: “It confers the same degree as the on-campus program at a small fraction of the cost.”
> What's different about the two situations that warrants completely different rhetoric?

They're not particularly different, except we now have many examples of Jewish people being attacked because they're Jewish, or people being attacked because they "look" like Muslims to their attackers, or black people being attacked because they're black, or gay people being attacked becuase they're gay.

We have churches and mosques and synagogues being shot up. We have crowds of people being driven into by cars. We have people being murdered for who they are.

How often does this happen for Republicans?

This point - is violence mostly from the left or right - is tedious, becuase it's unambiguously mostly from the right and it's disingenuous to suggest otherwise.

The more important point is that it is overwhelmingly committed by men. We need to look at why some men resort to violence.
This is known as BoZosort [1], which is said to be O(n!) on average.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort
Another fast-acting psychedelic is Salvia Divinorum. Salvinorin-A is a one-of-a-kind compound, different from all the other known psychedelic/entheogens both for its structure (which allowed it to stay legal for longer) as well as for its "dysphoric" effect. The experience can be as intense as something like this can be. Completely dissociative, and scary as well.

Despite all of this though, I can't overstate the beneficial effects that a dozen of experiences spread across a decade had on me. From a grumpy loner, to a compassionate human being who can't get angry anymore (and no, I'm not apathic), the absolutely REAL experience of losing all of this, made me pretty much fall in love with life, and at the same time made me more light-hearted with it. It's hard to explain, but once you experience something as real as the only real thing you thought there was (life), you start questioning it quite a lot and to take it a bit less seriously.

Maybe I simply grew up. But when I think of this change, these experiences are the first thing that comes to mind.

Please be responsible and careful with these experiences. You don't want to waste a good opportunity for growth.
Do you like being in that state?
That's because when American companies break the law in the US they get punished. When they break the law in the EU they get punished. When European companies break the law in the US, they get punished, but when they break the law in the EU they get a slap on the wrist. Just look at Volkswagen and diesel gate.

>It's supposed to help, not collect extra money.

It's supposed to give more leverage over foreign companies to EU countries, because we have somehow managed to create an environment that's very hostile to building tech companies.