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> The choice is not between "completely useless" and "100% effective". That is false dichotomy. Things like masks can be 70% effective which is already making situation better, although not perfect.

Sure. Masks have a plausible mechanism of action. Now show me using good evidence that masks i) don't increase risk and ii) decrease risk.

At the moment the mechanism for increased risk is as plausible as the mechanism for decreased risk. Masks are uncomfortable and people need to adjust them during the day -- this is an increase in face touching, and masks are by definition contaminated.

> the washing hands and keeping distance is stuff you are supposed to whether you wear mask or not

The only point of wearing masks is when you cannot socially distance yourself from other people. That's why masks are being pushed so hard now -- to end the lockdowns and get people back into work.
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"[0002] Several cryptocurrencies exist. Among these, the most well known is a blockchain-based cryptocurrency. Most blockchain-based cryptocurrency is decentralized in the sense that it has no central point of control. However, blockchain-based cryptocurrency can also be implemented in a centralized system having a central point of control over the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is one of the examples of blockchain-based cryptocurrency. It is described in a 2008 article by Satoshi Nakamoto, named“Bitcoin: A peer-to-Peer"

I'm speechless.
There seem to be a specific cluster of personality traits found frequently in hallucinogen users. Whether a selection of who takes the drugs, who talks about it after, or a common effect of the drugs and how they're taken. Someone presently under the influence would probably say something stranger.

What seems likely is that they're very potent tools to change how the mind works, possibly for the better if used in the right way.
Seems like any Database could be used for this. If there is a central authority its almost certain no blockchain tech is needed at all. A central authority does not disabled swarm intelligence or something. It does not have to use its power against all others. Centrality ruled systems work very very fine as long as the central authority has the same goal as the other parties. If there is a central operator for anti spam call database and they do their job correctly there is no reason to not trust them and replace them with complex distributed agreement mechanisms. especially not if they in the end are in control of "the blockchain" anyway.
It's actually sad that DAB+ is now set in stone using AAC, while in the meantime Opus has been developed which is more or less optimal regarding aural information per bandwidth (see the spectrum diagrams).
... roughly equivalent to people who can use words like 'hypergrowth' with a straight face.
I used to have Twitter (my main source of distraction) on my phone and iPad, now I don't have it on any device and it's helped tremendously.

On my computer, I block all distracting sites with the extension I built until noon, then I have 20 minutes for mostly Twitter, then all blocked until 4PM, another 20 min break, and then blocked until 8PM. 8PM-midnight, I do whatever I want. I've found this a fair agreement with myself that I have no reason to break. It created a rhythm for me.

So perhaps if a complete block is too big a stretch, you can give yourself a couple well-defined "fun breaks".
> It's an experience which we have no reason to think is representative.

That's the very nature of "experiences" and some might argue precisely the point of describing those.

> How is this highly artificial process any better than making a pill?

Never said that. Do you even know what you mean by "pill" in this context?

> I can tell you one way it's worse: What else is in the mushrooms? How do you know what else is in the mushrooms?

Maybe you should read the article first?

"Psilocybin mushrooms have been found to have minimal harmful effects and could potentially benefit those with depression."

They want to reproduce a mushroom trip - not a trip based on individual psychoactive substances.
Great technology. Can't wait to become a bot for a centralised server with a nice carrying admin!
> On my iPhone I move every single application into a folder named “.”. I then move that onto the second screen. My phone dock has four apps: Phone, Headspace, Things and SMS:

Yawn. When I read these minimalism tips I always wonder if people giving this advice ever had a real job or if their job is actually giving people minimalism advice. Good luck trying to justify being the only one without Skype/Slack/Gmail
At first I was skeptical, but this is great stuff. For example https://baymard.com/blog/autocomplete-design gives 13 subtle ways to make autocomplete better, and I agree with all of them.
Yes, DAB uses less bandwidth than FM, this is more or less its only advantage.

It also uses a bit less power at the transmitter, but the receivers are more complex and need more power than FM receivers (afaik), which is a bad tradeoff.
Procrastination is a very delicate problem.

I mostly embraced it. As long as I'm procrastinating good things by doing other good things, it works pretty well.

It also helps to do things you like.

I'm still on my smartphone 90% of the day and sleeping until 12 every day, btw.
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"Effective" in the context of the text I quoted refers to efficacy against depression, but you need to also take the side effects into account when deciding between drugs. Since those vary on a case by case basis and can be significant, there are many cases where St. John's wort is overall the better deal.
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ACK.

I switched from google reader to feedly to newsboat. One cloud service less.

While i like the idea to be able to read my feeds from multiple computers, i don't actually need it. In fact, readig them on only one device gives me back (a little bit of) focus.
We seem to live in an age where comprehensively refuted ideas readily gain adherents (not that I have an Age of Reason in mind to be particularly nostalgic about). There can be a fine line between useful refutation and promotion. A hard one to draw, I would accept.
> UBI takes from those willing to work and gives to those that are unwilling.

When I read stuff like this I think of the couple of thousand a year I pay in taxes that gets handed over to defense contractors in return for nothing of value.
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I would encourage everyone who struggles with procrastination to try CBT techniques as described in "Feeling Good" by Dr. Burns. These address the psychological reasons for procrastination directly.
I don't understand what makes this a "cryptocurrency" instead of just any kind of currency token. I know that it's mostly a buzzword these days but at the very least I'd expect cryptocurrencies to involve some kind of cryptographic proof for transactions.

Here as far as I can tell it's just some centralized system monitoring user/guinea pig activity and issuing some token currency based on an unspecified algorithm. I mean isn't that effectively equivalent to store cards that reward you with store credit when you purchase certain products? Or videogame editors who give coupons to elected Steam users based on their previous purchases? Or credit card rewards?

> [...]verifying, by a cryptocurrency system communicatively coupled to the device of the user, if the body activity data satisfies one or more conditions set by the cryptocurrency system; and awarding, by the cryptocurrency system, cryptocurrency to the user whose body activity data is verified.

I can't continue this comment because the sound of the bullshit alarm blaring in the background is starting to get deafening. Excuse me, I meant cryptobullshit cryptoalarm cryptoblaring.

There have been many attempts at making a useful proof of work for cryptocurrency systems, the problem is that it's not enough for the proof to require work, it also needs to be trivially and "objectively" verifiable by any user of the system and it needs to reference the transaction data somehow to avoid reusing old proofs. If you get rid of these constraints I don't understand how you can claim that it's a cryptocurrency system or even that there is any novel aspect to it.
Why are you speechless? Your comment invites no conversation and provokes no deliberation. Please expand on it.
I like his writing style.

One of the biggest tools that I employ, is a fairly rigid schedule.

I work @home, these days (like everyone, but I've been at it longer).

I get up at 5AM, even though I don't need to.

I do my morning exercise, even though I don't need to.

I start my workday at around 6:30AM, and try to wrap it up by 5 (seven days a week -my GitHub page is solid green).

I plan to do unpleasant, boring things when I set up my projects; for example, configuration management, refactoring, testing, release coordination, and...yuck...documentation.

And then...I do it!

Shipping (as opposed to writing) software has a lot of boring, repetitive, pedantic stuff.

I have to be careful not to fall into the automation trap, where I see automation (especially release automation) as a "silver bullet" cure for boredom.

But that's just me. YMMV.
It seemed like a conspiracy theory but in all fairness- a mistake that came out of a lab is certainly a possibility.
Not OP but this felt like a simple test - https://twitter.com/backus/status/1091203973246111744

There's the Vividness of Visual Imagery Quiz but that's self-administered and is a questionnaire.
I'm pretty sure Black Mirror covered this...
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That's true but the machine we currently use doesn't produce 98% war.
No idea on how to prepare, but one of my colleagues is blind and is one of the most detail-oriented backend engineers we have. One thing I've learned from him is that Apple products are MUCH less accessible than PC.
> Nobody is lazy at playing video games or eating a favorite food

Have you met me ?
I've come to a different conclusion. I used to think it was a "fuel" problem until I realised that if I moved onto some other non work related task that I was interested in, which could include programming, all of a sudden fuel wasn't an issue. For me it came down to motivation and interest with "mental fuel" rarely being the deciding factor. I manage to conjure up fuel when I'm sufficiently motivated by a problem. Obviously this might not be the case for everyone and I have hunch it is related to ADD behaviour I exhibit (self diagnosed).

Tricking my brain into investing into the outcome of work I am not interested in takes up most of my time now trying to get over procrastination. And of course I have a deadline today and I'm writing this message on HN... but like any good developer that needs some pressure to work I've got the plates all spinning for now.
So, is it too early to think about how to block this technology?
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Patent number is: 060606

Thats a funny coincidence.
Other than saltiness, what's the rationale behind making a statement like that?
Nice! Like the idea of tracking TILs with git. I've also made self-rewriting READMEs. I did something similar but using plain git hooks (post-commit) and sed. I had to run 'git --amend' in the hook though (to avoid generating double-commits) which is probably a bad idea.
> My visual representation is definitely 3 dimensional and I am not sure what you mean by abandoning it? I mean, code is statement blocks and controll flow elements. It is data and connections between them at execution. I can imagine, not being visual gives you much more focus and fewer distractions on the mental map, but is it really different?

An earlier commenter described it like a directed graph. I think that's a pretty good way to describe it. As for whether it is different, I don't know how others think. But one thing I do know is that this is how my mind worked for non-analytical thought before I went blind and still does. I'm just more aware of it now that I don't visualize as much. I only really visualize things these days as a way to communicate ideas with sighted engineers.
Unfortunately, respectable publications have been pushing that paper recently as proof we knew about asymptomatic transmission back in January for stupid, partisan, political reasons.
A key insight that helped me beat procrastination is to recognise when your brain is trying to procrastinate. We all experience lulls in productivity and instinctively open that social or news website link - when you do this you need to actively tell yourself that your brain is getting distracted.

This comes from a study (which I can't find, but I think it was featured on the BBC not too long ago) - procrastination impulses come and go in waves - when you know how to effectively tackle the wave, you can return to the calm seas of productivity.
One of the only good things to come out of this pandemic is the increased emphasis on S-Curves. Models tend to use the predictive power of exponential curves to estimate the steep part of the S-Curve but these predictions are short term and are best applied to planning scenarios.

What is missing from this article is the relationship between S-Curves and Bell Curves. We can use the Rules of Thumb associated with the Normal Distribution to think about peak growth rate and standard deviations.

The health data.org curve fitting is a decent Fermi Estimate based on observed data. Models are always wrong but sometimes they are useful and I hope we start to discuss the underlying key assumptions used in each case rather than focusing on their imperfect predictive power.
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pomodoro also works for me, I've had weeks of doing almost nothing, after I started simple 25 min bits with pauses, for some reason it can go on forever.
This was a quick write up of what I've discovered over the past week. It actually came out of research for an economic theory I was writing for the World Economic Forum. It is not a definitive argument of any kind. You can read it through this free link https://medium.com/@sarahnadav/covid-19-hiv-follow-me-down-t...
I'm not arguing for manipulation, just the truth. But we have to realize that children are not small versions of adults. They have different cognitive abilities and processes than adults.
IMHO this shows how important cultural differences are. In Asia, it is kind of normal to wear a mask in public. At least Europe, not so much. So there is this barrier to overcome.

And then there is messaging. There are still not nearly enough PPE going around for medical professionals, back in february it was even worse. Calling for people to wear masks would have made this situation even worse. Now, this kind comes around to bite officials, it was still the right thing to do, if you ask me.

And then, back in February, Europe had a lot less cases.
Sounds similar to the fictional tech used in a black mirror episode.

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> stop judging so much

IMO this is the best advice here. The root issue seems to be anxiety, self-love, and judgment.

if your experience of love as a child was conditioned on performance metrics, then any time you go to solve a problem you have to deal with a whole ocean of emotion and trauma that others don't have to deal with.

It will take some work to understand and get past it, and my advice would be not to go it alone. Perhaps find a professional therapist who can help to get started.
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I think blockchain is mismatched with how society operates. With blockchains math is king. If your keys are compromised your screwed. There is no appeal court. You’ve lost your money, domain name or reputation or whatever you had secured on it. That’s not great for a lot of applications. Also it’s just slower and more resource intensive that other data stores. Ever tried to sync the Ethereum blockchain? I couldn’t get it to happen. So there is no clear advantage to using a blockchain.

That said there might be a lot of fun geeky “uses” like creating smart contracts that you share about and use. But the practical problem is the transaction and conversion costs and currency fluctuations make it hard to take that from fun to useful for business.
Thanks for listing the technical fallacies in the original comment.

Now let us humans get on with the actual conversation.
I also posted it to Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-hiv-follow-me-down-r...

I believe this will and should make it into the mainstream press
I have adhd and I would suggest you get that checked out because it sounds similar to how I experience it. Also search for hyperfocus online, it is what happens if people with ADHD get interested in something! As I said in another post, I get immensely interested in a new hobby like e.g. playing DND or learning how to play the guitar for one, two, maybe three weeks and after that - nada. Except "high dopamine" stuff like video games.
That is wrong as well. Just because huge amounts of money is spent somewhere else, it suddenly doesn't make it okay to give money away to those that are unwilling to work. In short: two wrongs don't make a right.
How does TT-RSS compare to FreshRSS? https://freshrss.org/

I’m still using a commercial reader/aggregator at the moment but might consider switching to self-hosted at some point.
That would kill me in a short amount of time. Is this a permanent state of affairs?
Haven't tried pure psilocybin but I occasionally have gut discomfort which I think comes from the fibers, rather than the psilocybin.
Didn't that have an impact on the amount of listeners? Sounds like commercial stations must have taken a big hit.
It’s neither. It might be a bubble though.
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Thank you, clearly a more competent way to say what i meant.
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Not the person you replied to but my guess is because if your priority is to maintain your authority, instead of doing something useful for society, then maybe you’re unfit for having the authority to begin with?
Build logs are less frequent now but I'm glad he wrote about this!

I recently rebuilt my rid (ncase M1) with a Ryzen chip and now want an excuse to use all that power. I think one of the biggest case size constraints are how massive high end GPUs are and whoever cracked 2080Ti type performance in a small single-fan chip will do wonders for the SFF community and portable computing in general
On to gait recognition and non-stop location tracking it is, then. :-(
I have always questioned this claim. I feel like this is a manipulative behavior modification aspect of an abusive relationship. Give us some of your money or else will forcefully take it from you.

But let's study it from a historical point of view, what reasons do we have to believe that a strategy like that would work? Alexander II, Czar of Russia, the grandfather of Tsar Nicolas, instigated a lot of drastic land reforms, he eliminated serfdom from Russia, but the revolution happened nonetheless. In fact he himself was killed by the revolutionaries.

It would have been far far cheaper an easier for Tsars to have invested in an escape route.
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Yep. AWS commands take the --profile argument to choose one of the items from the credentials file.
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Fake thanks are not appreciated, nor are suggestions that it is inhuman to want to have discussions based on sound reasoning instead of irrelevant nonsense. Raise the bar of discussion.
There are various ways to ingest mushrooms. Having said that - let me assure you, the problem is not just from the fibers it's very well the substance itself. One reason is the activation of serotonin receptors of which there are huge numbers in your gut.
Got into PC building about 2 years ago, when I realized Apple's only real plan for the pro desktop market was the iMac Pro [0] and were never going to make up with Nvidia.

Got a shockingly powerful machine for the price it cost me, still less than if I'd got an iMac Pro and dual GPUs for Octane Render and 2TB SSD.

What I'm really itching for is a high quality case, there seems to be a ton of premium options for SFF builds but close to zero in ATX or mATX my preferred factor[1]. I'm currently running in a Fractal Define Mini-C which does look ok but still a bit plasticy if I'm going to have a large box in my house I'd honestly by happy paying upwards of $500+ for a premium case if I liked the look of it and it was all quality and looked sophisticated.

Probably sounds crazy saying that to most PC builders but at the sort of size a PC is at it's almost a piece of furniture so I'd like it to look good.

[0]: It was clear the Mac Pro was dead at that point and todays Mac Pro was only a response to the markets response to the iMac Pro.
[1]: Only one I can name is the Cerberus https://www.sliger.com/products/cases/cerberus_x/ which looks great but has niche build requirements.
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You could also see unwillingness to work as a disease, like some countries do with drug abuse. Assign a coach, see what's wrong. Sure, being jobless doesn't have to be a pony camp but to have a miserable, debt building life without a paid job is certainly unnecessary at our current level of civilization (but perhaps not in our current economy/political system).
Blockchain creates privacy issues though. You now have metadata on who has traded with who and if “they” get an exchange to reveal its clients you can then really see the whole picture. So it’s about as private as a regular bank account, maybe less so.
I haven't seen taking ones a ton, outside of hotels and fairly new conference centers and the like.
And this is why the Mexican standoff between the elites and the common people exists. You think that you have a right to dictate when someone can own something or not, so people who own something invest in ensuring that they maintained the right to own something.
"Death rates change based on how well the healthcare system can keep up."

Not really, actually. At least I haven't seen a number of "people who died because they couldn't receive care" - do you have one? It seems possible that once health care systems are overwhelmed, more people die. But how often, if ever in this pandemic, has that point been reached? I don't think that often - there is no good treatment anyway.

"only a sample size of 500"

It's science. 500 can be a lot, or few. It was a sound and thorough study by acknowledged scientists.
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I am also a procrastinator! Keeping distractions away, especially the phone, is the most important to me as well, although I don't go to the extremes the author does!

I found that the bigger and more open ended the task is, the quicker I fizzle out and get distracted. The key for me is to get to some quicker reward point. For example I am currently working on an electronic toy project, and my current goal is to only test the music generation. Anything bigger gets hard to focus!