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This measured response to the GP is better than other "You're wrong" comments below.

I've never been diagnosed with ADHD (I'm in Europe), but I'm absolutely certain I have it from all of the reading I've done on it in the past (and I recognise everything from the blog). I totally get what the GP is trying to say, and you captured it with:

> the current structure of society could be causing this distress to a personality type that previously wouldn't have done so

I have often felt like the standard world of work didn't work for me, or things that others do, like make a plan of things to-do just doesn't work for me. There are other issues that come from this also, which is working late into the evening to avoid distractions, which leads to poor time management in general, that again doesn't fit into the modern world.

I'm now a CTO of a successful software company - and interestingly what that's given me is the chance to create a way of working that works for me. I work sporadically, but when I do I blitz it (hyperfocus) and can get months of work done in days. I have surrounded myself with a collection of super smart people, but also a range of organised and disorganised. To allow the organisation to deliver, but also to allow for the benefits of the hyperfocus, which for us have lead to the big and major pieces of tech which sets us apart from our competitors.

This is obviously anecdotal, but it adds some credence to the GPs point.

I'm still sat in my house most evenings promising myself I'll do some cleaning at some point (amongst other things), and never do. I'm going to take the advice from the blog and try Todoist to see if that can motivate me to get stuff done.

I see comments here about how ADHD is related to Autism. Perhaps it is, but I wonder if it's more similar to bipolar light. It seems the hyperfocus is like mania and the endless distractions and the lack of motivation for menial tasks is like a sort of depression. I may be way off - and may be putting my foot in my mouth and offending sufferers of bipolar (which if so, I apologise), but that's how it sometimes feels to me.
It's you. This kind of lazy pessimism strikes me as a peculiar privilege of people who've grown up accustomed to living under a government that, while unavoidably imperfect, does in fact give consideration to the rights and desires of ordinary citizens. They don't take notice of all the ways their government chooses not to oppress them, because they wrongly imagine this is some natural state of things.

On the other hand, immigrants I've spoken to from countries with autocratic regimes, while not starry eyed about the nature of western governments, have no problem explaining why the situation in their countries of origin is much, much worse, and why the government of their new country is much fairer and functional.
co2 and air pollution are not the same thing (if global warming weren't real). While it is fairly viable economically to scrub mercury emissions out of a coal plant, or carbon monoxide out of a car,it is effectively impossible to scrub co2.

So people in the industry that depends on fossil fuels know this, they know the only answer to getting co2 out of the atmosphere is to not use fossil fuels at all, which is an extremely hard/expensive thing to do. Moonshot level project, globally. Some just worry about their own riches, others rightly worry it would cause global disaster (it could if we did it wrong!)
that would really help!
Having served in the infantry in Afganistan you are dead wrong, and APC ot a technical ( heavy machine gun mounted on a pickup, traditionally a Toyota helix) a Helfire would definatly be fired at one.
The US military does have qualms against it hence the article and constant strive for more precision. I ask you- what is the alternative? And don't give me the whole, "shouldn't be bombing in the first place" red herring.
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...as long as you completely ignore any risk of large catastrophes.
Which is why they were forced out of Europe in the first place.
Israeli, huh? (to all the inevitable downvotes and people calling me a bogeyman, never forget USS Liberty)
Considering they've had the better part of a decade to prepare, I'd hope they'd be prepared to most fast one the first domino fell.
I agree, I was trying (usuccessfully) not to take a position in the microG - Lineage OS controversy.
I don't understand it either, so I had to come up with an explanation for myself.

I think it is controversial because the cost of this transition is not priced into the modern human lifestyle. So either the lifestyle changes or it gets a lot more expensive. And it challenges the business model of fossil fuel companies and the global power balance of oil producing countries. It can't get much more disruptive than this transition.

You are thinking in terms of what is good for human society. But the world is run by capital, and now that mass disinformation is relatively cheap to accomplish, it is even easier do discredit science if you have a descent amount of money to spend.
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I encourage you to speak with someone who works at Primark, H&M or other shop of this sort and ask them how sale day looks like, how many of them are happening during the year and how many recurring, known-to-staff customers they have. You will be surprised. I don't even mention one-time-use clothes for special occasions like weddings (even as a guest), prom, Halloween etc.
> I don’t agree with her at all

Who is “her” in this case — the writer or the daughter?
That only works if you wear the clothes you buy until they're worn out. Most don't, most buy clothes and have them sit in a drawer until they make up their mind they really don't like them and send them to landfill or the charity shop. From the sound of things, you're not the problem!
I am old so I tend to repeat myself a lot :)

Honestly - I would be happy to use a graphical (or any other alternative to traditional) language.
I was reasonably enthusiastic when I started working with webMethods and some things I like a lot.
But honestly I cannot say it scales well beyond simple transformations / mapping tasks.
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They are by and large not Lutheran or Catholic Christians though, but belong to one sect or another.
I don't shout at my kids, pretty much ever.

There's also no punishment, no time out, no naughty corner.

They rarely get in trouble with me either.

No punishment, just understanding and explanations.

If they do something that really bothers me I ask myself if I've have ever properly explained to them why that behavior isn't OK.

I once got very angry and shouted at one of my kids and shook my finger at him but it was all an act. He crossed the road without looking and I wanted after a lifetime of me not getting angry, to badly shock him, to really frighten him, to slam home the importance of looking when crossing the road.
Ready meals will play a big part, I agree.

In the past they had problems with quality/taste and healthiness.

But new home technology(instant pot,combi-ovens, new microwave tech) combined with better frozen food, or different logistics that would enable chilled meals - could offer healthy, restaurant quality meals.

And there's also a chance that the cost difference between ready meals and cooking at home will become very low.
Could well be a simple symmetry measure.
> This is provably false.

Then I guess I just saved the planet, everyone thank me. I'll leave the proof to you.
>As long as there are no mass storage facilities,

And there aren't.

>gas is needed as the gap filler for the times when neither wind and solar can power the grid.

This is the entire point!! Wind and solar can't replace fossil fuels. So what Germany did was replace non-CO2 emitting nuclear power with CO2 emitting power generation (natural gas and coal). I guess fighting global warning is less important than satisfying irrational German paranoia against nuclear.

>As the production capacity grows, these gaps are going to get increasingly smaller.

The sun will start shining at night?
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> Mining is very inefficient

Compared to what?
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It’s about money. The oil industry learned a lot from the tobacco industry
To me, air travel is one of those things that's artificially cheap. It's zero rated for tax and largely encouraged for economic growth reasons. It's direct impacts are perhaps not as bad, but indirectly someone going from the UK to New York for a hen weekend is the kind of thing that should be unacceptably and prohibitively expensive.
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Export via email is a possible solution, if you care for the messages, but not where they are displayed.
As of now, nope, it's not. You can try it for free for 7 days, and then you have to buy it. Hope that helps!
Searching should work as long as you're happy to kiboze with:

grep -E '(5|s)((c|k)r?(i|1)(p)(t|7))?( ?)(k)(1|i)(d*)(y?)(i|1)?(e)?'

...or similar.
I don't know why you would think that. Nothing has changed recently, has it?

Sweden has been in the US' pockets for a long time, just like the other main European countries such as the UK and Germany.
A ridiculous idea.

The article doesn't go into technical details, but it appears this boils down to a compact proton accelerator. Those protons could be smashed into heavy metal atoms, which will release high energy neutrons. Those neutrons could in turn be used to irradiate nuclear waste, transmuting it.

The first problem with that idea is that stable atoms would be transmuted, too. So unless the waste is separated chemically (aka reprocessed), irradiating it with neutrons tends to make matters worse. In some cases, notable cesium, isotopic separation seems necessary. But if you assume reprocessing, you might as well stuff the components to be irradiated into a reactor, where the actinides act as fuel and some waste products will transmute away.

The second problem is the ridiculously low efficiency of such an accelerator system. Carlo Rubbia has been talking about the concept (ADS, Accelerator Driven System, also called Energy Amplifier) for something like 20 years, and even he only envisions supplying comparatively few neutrons to a subcritical reactor. But a barely subcritical reactor isn't all that different from a critical reactor, except you can turn it off by turning off the accelerator instead of by moving a control rod.

In short, this is another guy with a solution (the accelerator) looking for a suitable problem.

(For the record, continuous recycling of actinides is a good idea that turns "the waste problem" from an unsolvable million-year problem into a manageable 500 year problem. Transmutation of iodine and technetium may be a good idea, too, because these are the only long term radionuclides that would leach into water.)

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Spiegel is not really credible, they’ve published a large number of completely fabricated stories. If they can’t see through the deception of one of their reporters there is no way they can make sense of misinformation by more competent adversaries.
And yet training/training manuals exist for running for those who need it(for ultramarathons/sprints etc)
Ah yes, because as we all know, Android phones have absolutely no control over notifications at all.. yep..

Have you done _any_ research? You can disable notifications for any app you like in pretty much any semi-recent version of Android.
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> Yeah right, how much does it cost to ship 1kg in space again ?

a moon base would cost upwards of 20 billion USD.

the increase in the US military budget for FY2018 is 58 billion USD, bringing it to a total of 639 billion USD. that's just for FY2018. there is currently no world war.

> Do we even have the raw resources on earth / the tech to move everyone to a new planet and terraform it before we're all toast ?

no one mentioned anything about terraforming or moving people in this thread. i made a comment regarding finite resources, which aren't finite if you just look at the sky instead of the ground.
It is probably just trained on labeled data.
> swamped by endless impulses and their echoes

Thank you.
In Henry's Sneeze in one of the early books there was a line about soot covered boys running away as black as n*s [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_the_Green_Engine#Racism_...
Consider the US's famed "Double Tap" strikes, where they bomb a wedding ceremony, then come back around to bomb the paramedics that show up a few minutes later. Are those folks being used as human shields by the dastardly terrorists, or are we really just putting up a smoke-screen to defend the heinous actions of the US?
They don't take notice of all the ways their government chooses not to oppress them, because they wrongly imagine this is some natural state of things.

If you're looking for a way to describe how good your government is and you come up with "Think how much worse it could be!" then I think the government has failed in its duty.

There's a spectrum of government effectiveness that goes from "actively oppressing the people" to "genuinely helping the people". Too many governments are at the wrong end, and very few are at the right end. Most seem to be somewhere in the middle. That, in my opinion, isn't good enough.
I think we should be really careful in telling apart real cases of civilians used as human shields from simple propaganda used against the enemies. Accusing the enemy of using human shields is very handy for at least two purposes: de-humanising them and justifying a high number of civilian casualties.

Also remember that in highly asymmetric warfare, clearly separating yourself from civilians effectively means hanging a target sign from your neck and asking to be killed. Those who have the most advanced technologies and weaponry at their disposal cannot be serious in asking that a poorly armed enemy fight on the same terms: a bit too cavalier when they have Kalashnikovs and you have semi-autonomous drones piloted from half the world away.
I suspect some of these mods are used to create fan versions of Thomas videos. My son watches them on YouTube and while I suppose they aren’t considered commercial usage, they can generate millions of views, which could be resulting in substantial YT partner income.
What about all the people living in coastal areas or close to major rivers? That’s like 50% of the population, in addition to much of our shared history (buildings). It will all be under water and cause large migrations, unsettling much of society. Is that not worth fighting for?
No, just stop flying private jets. Try to do online meetings and if you really need to be somewhere use commercial aircraft for travel to lower your footprint. It's easy. This hypothetical businessman can lower his footprint to level of South American villager with some effort and planning. As for the children of wealthy people I would rather have a millionaire with 10 kids which can receive proper health care and education (and with a bit of luck share their wealth with less fortunate people) than 10 kids living in poverty.
ADHD is not part of normal variation and it's not based in personality. It's a condition chiefly caused by distinct biological differences in dopamine transporter function. ADHD's effects are in executive function: memory, attention, inhibition. Granted there are some personality traits associated with it, but those are secondary. That said, personality and presence of other conditions likely has some effect on who is diagnosed / misdiagnosed.

As for whether ADHD is disordered, there is evidence that it was a positive adaption in more primordial settings. Greater distractability may have equated to faster response to predators or more success in hunting. However, to be a disorder, a condition simply needs to be presently maladaptive. In modern society, ADHD typically is.
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Perhaps more to the point than the diagnostic criteria, is Dr. Barkley's observation that ADHD is a general impairment of executive function. Inability to direct attention is over emphasized being just one of the symptoms of that impairment.
Your argumentation is full of fallacies.
First of all, we didn't "replace" nuclear with coal - as I wrote before, we didn't build new coal power plants. Most of all, the renweables are replacing nuclear. And they are replacing coal. If we get rid of 90% of fossil fuels in electricty production, how are we not replacing fossil fuels with reneweables?

The sun will start shining at night?

That sentence did a huge disservice to your post. Of course the sun doesn't shine at night. But no one wants to replace all energy production by solar alone. Wind is the companion of solar, both are roughly the same size in Germany. Wind is what delivers the power at night (where electricity consumption is lowest) and solar adds the power for the additional requirements during daytime.
I don’t, no. Solitary confinement for life is cruel and unusual punishment. Plus some public ridicule, too.
Yes but they lifted out the most people from poverty in the last 20 years. The largest middle class of any society is the Chinese one.
I think I've seen cute infographics on what a tiny, tiny fraction of earth history is "human history".
The question is what happens if the programmer doesn't do that. If you are implementing a compiler, what do you do in that case? Are you using whatever is the first or last byte in memory (depending on the machine endianess)? Are you wrapping the value around to keep it consistent between implementations? Are you generating code that aborts the program?

Similar question is also about pointers, what happens if you try to use p^ when p is nil? Do you try to access whatever address nil represents? Do you abort?

C has the notion of undefined behavior and it is explicitly mentioned, but Oberon-07 doesn't mention this at all meaning that implementations need to make those decisions.
"Law is also formal languages using logics"
In theory yes, but contracts are not math and even though the consequences of disputes are costly, there is enough subjectivity within legal language that arbitration and interpretation by third parities is often required. i.e., two parties can have differing opinions on the meaning of the language and there can be enough uncertainty that costly proceedings are justified. (I'm talking specifically about civil rather than criminal law, and excluding cases where an interpretation of evidence is required)
Pick up some data sheets for IC parts that might be useful in a system you'd like to design. These are published by the manufacturer, and they contain a lot of design requirements about how to layout properly a PCB and some about the theory of operation of the parts. You can piece together a lot of practical information this way.
Perhaps they are prosecuting him because he is accused of committing a crime?
I bet it was related to Sinofsky and the whole WinDev vs DevTools political issues that also torpedoed the Longhorn and Midori efforts.
Ah, true. I re-read the article. You’d need the horrible polyfill anyway.

So, my other point still stands: instead of any long-term planning and robust design, TC39 keeps introducing features that are badly specified are underspecified, and that require patches and workarounds in the language itself (yup, .meta, globalThis and some others are nothing but poorly thought-out patches) and conplex workarounds for the various JS environments that may or may not support these features.
That's another thing where I believe "those currently engaged in the cultural revolution" often get confused. Not all stuff bundled together under "problems with environment" is created equal.

Container ships are a problem because they usually run on ridiculously dirty fuel, which ends up polluting the ocean. But they're also extremely energy-efficient on a mass/distance basis. A saner world would have them use cleaner fuel[0].

Cars are a problem because at the scale they're used, they're both significant contributor to global warming and inefficient, energy-wise. Electrifying land transportation would fix the inefficiency and significantly reduce the carbon footprint. Powering the new electric fleet with green energy[1] would finally kill the emission issues.

Plastic straws, plastic packaging and other consumer disposables are a problem[2] because the plastic ends up in oceans, where it gets broken by UV into microplastics which then end up back in the food chain. Beyond that, it's mostly a sad thing to see. Energy and emissions-wise, plastic disposables are much smaller problem than other uses of fossil fuels, and sometimes they're likely better than the reusable alternatives proposed. But it's still so fucking sad to see so much garbage existing only as vehicle for marketing.

IMO people need to stop bundling these problems together. Even though they're all related, energy security != global warming != poisons in food chain != ethical considerations about animals. Those are all separate problems, with separate sets of solutions, and quite honestly, different prioritization.

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[0] - My utopia would have nuclear-powered cargo ships as permanent global infrastructure, essentially treated as virtual conveyor belts.

[1] - Renewables or nuclear.

[2] - And we aren't even sure yet how big a problem this is. AFAIK this topic is covered mostly out of quite reasonable abundance of caution - we've noticed plastics showing up where they aren't supposed to. Even though there isn't any clear danger identified yet, history teaches us that human-released chemicals showing up in unexpected places generally don't lead to happy outcomes.
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Is that why they are now trying to block his extradition to the US, then.
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You can download it - the index of human knowledge isn't that big that it wouldn't fit on a stick.

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> Air travel is not at the top of the list

Almost nothing is at the top of the list. As I mentioned there are not low hanging fruits. Everything is important. Also, not flying might be exactly something doing on individual level, while "drop all fossil fuels energy at home" requires infrastructure change. Also not-flying is a more publicly visible action which might inspire others to follow.
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And yeah. No amount of belief can make bitcoin into a viable currency.