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I think a lot of people who want all drugs to be legalized haven’t spent time in a place where they functionally are. It’s not a pretty sight.

Try parts of the Midwest and Appalachia. Industrial jobs went abroad and never came back, leaving large swaths of the population in poverty and without any real career outlook beyond low end retail. Enter fentanyl. It only made most of these problems worse.

Decriminalization, not legalization, seems like a far better path to me for seriously addictive things like heroin. If it’s not combined with serious economic plans to help the unfortunate, you’ll just be further embedding an already disadvantaged underclass. Against billion dollar advertising campaigns (which will happen with full legalization), the average person doesn’t stand a chance.
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Yeah. They don't know that Marian has it.
Those are good films I agree but to me they do not have the same sense of excitement and discovery I get from the best of the 60s and 70s.
That’s almost exactly what happened on Southwest 1380[0] a few years ago.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380
>Who is still buying VHS tapes?

Patrick Bateman probably.

Jokes aside that was a really good read.

This article raises an important point about the fragmentation of content across different services (with many movie production houses starting their own streaming platforms, like Lionsgate for example).

This fragmented streaming landscape really is a far cry from the idealistic "all content under one roof" posturing that steaming services generally took when launching their platforms. Another victim of the 'walled garden' problem plaguing the tech world.
I forget where I read this but asphalt is perhaps the most recycled plastic out there. Asphalt can be ripped up and then remelted right back into place or moved somewhere else.
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NYT is the only news outlet I subscribe to - and I'm not American, not in the US, and have never lived there. Frankly, I love their business, finance, and international coverage.

Also at $3 per month it's well worth it - and least for me.
Was there a sequel to Wall-E? I'm showing Wall-E 2 is coming out in 2022.
The rest of the world can just use a forked BTC, then. (Or use one of the already established alternatives.)
Which countries do you not have a bearish outlook on?
In case anyone is compelled to watch ROSE.PAS to its finale, the caterpillar simply stops moving.
In my experience with working with many elderly patients, a lot of them are self-conscious of having "old person smell" so attempt to mask that with perfume/cologne. It's also harder for them to bathe and reach all the nooks and crannies so sometimes hygiene deteriorates.

One of the strongest smells in a nursing home isn't unchanged diapers it is that staph infection festering under a neglected old lady's underbreast area. Very infrequently checked due to modesty issues and caregivers trying not to offend and respect her decency but it does have to be monitored and checked routinely because that skin area stays moist and chafes against the folds and I've seen too many elderly women in severe pain from their bra straps chaffing the skin off here and getting infected.

Men of hackernews, check your elderly mothers underbreast area and make sure her caregivers are routinely keeping it clean and dry!!

This comment brought to you by a very sweet, very neglected old lady who we took out of a pretty bad situation in a care home and I will never forget that smell and the shame and plea for help in her eyes as I assessed what exactly was the source of her various ailments. And she was nonverbal so couldn't complain nobody was doing their damn jobs.
With respect to community spread, the US isn’t that far from the EU. Many actually have higher rates than US states which are not teaching in classroms

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...
It absolutely is reasonable.

Making a chemical legal doesn’t preclude disallowing it becoming a food additive. And food regulation is a very serious matter, that can, and is, being strongly enforced.

If that’s the only reason you’re against legalisation, I have good news for you! You needed worry about it, at all.
While you are not wrong, that doesn't feel entirely true. Every single time I watch some version of the 2 Falcons landing back on earth [1], I get chills and have a tear or two in my eyes. It feels right, it feels like progress and it is awe inspiring. Not that I don't have an immense amount of admiration and respect for everything that has come before and was achieved in the past. But it feels like time to move forward with newer designs, ideas and technology. Especially when SpaceX, BO and others are achieving success with these new ideas and showing that we can take that next step forward.

[1] - https://youtu.be/sX1Y2JMK6g8?t=189
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It does seem that Black-Scholes cannot apply here. I think the main issue is timing the strike: for a normal option, if it is ever in the money, it will get exercised. For a "portfolio insurance" argument, it seems like we don't really care if the portfolio is down 99.9% for only a single day in the 20 year timespan. But neglecting that possibility would be ruinous to someone underwriting a normal option.
OTOH, if so many hadn't been lost/destroyed over the years they wouldn't be as valuable.
I think for lower-paying jobs, then they are paying you to sweat, and there also is a tighter correlation there with productivity. But higher-paying jobs are all salaried rather than hourly, which seems to indicate that society has already decided pretty low on the scale that more valuable jobs and work has less and less of a correlation with your hours worked. And at the top end, we pay people exponentially higher salaries, with CEOs making hundreds of millions, which in no way means that they're working thousands of times more hours than everyone else.

The easiest way to get promoted isn't to work more hours, it's to manage other people. So leverage and scale of impact seems to be what society has decided is most valuable.
heroin's not part of the bill. did you even read the article?
> But, it is way, way, less stressful living here, just in general. Americans have no idea. The taxes are worth the peace of mind along with the stability it gives society.

I don’t know what it is about Europeans on American websites telling us how great it is to have 1/3 less PPP and higher taxes, but I sure as hell don’t want my taxes any higher.

A grand total of none of my international friends have anywhere near the wealth, nor earning potential I do, and they never will. It’s an exceedingly large, compounding edge.

American policy makers can’t even use our existing tax revenues in fiscally responsible ways as it is. Why would I vote for more taxation?

Everyone knows our healthcare system is asinine. It doesn’t require more money to fix.
The comments here are discussing drug legalization in general, as is normal for virtually every HN topic (ancillary issues to the actual link.)
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The European Union member states subscribe to multiple fundamental ideas, one of which is the principle of solidarity.

This means that there is a strong social safety net, and we take care of the vulnerable. I do not have to worry about the cost of my medical care or other social needs. I pay my taxes, do my part as a citizen, and I know I will be taken care of.

Essentially, because of this I do not have to live in fear.

I basically chose my field of work due to the need for health insurance, as an American. When I was at university, some semesters I was basically going to university just to keep and maintain health insurance, when I was sick beyond belief. It was unbelievably stressful. I never would have needed to do this if I was a Croatian citizen at that time.

I also do not have to accumulate huge amounts of wealth to ensure I am cared for, like I would in America. I do not have to be on a hamster wheel that never stops spinning, due to the principle of solidarity.

I simply get to be free. I do not have to work a job just for benefits or for pay. I do not have to work long grueling hours.

Anyways, the best country to get EU citizenship in, usually for people on here is Republic of Ireland, which permits dual citizenship. You can get citizenship there in 5 years. Besides getting Freedom of Movement rights to live/work/retire in the EU/EFTA (minus Lichtenstein), you also get rights to live/work/retire in the UK, due to treaties and historical ties.

Also, most people here are skilled workers in tech. In Ireland, for many people here on this site, you can get a job visa to Ireland relatively easily, without a skilled worker test (which means that the Irish employer has to demonstrate that they are not taking a job from an EU citizen by hiring you--the documentation required can be harsh for the employer), as there is an exemption: https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/What-We-Do/Workplace-and-Skills...
What about sponsoring BSD OEMs to achieve the same level of hardware quality?

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/index.php
This is really right on the mark. Real accounting involving trusts, tax shelters involving various corporate structures, the intricate tax code knowledge required to understand and take advantage of loopholes is quite technical.

Having been exposed to what it takes to do this level of accounting via direct conversations with someone who does this, they can't wait to move on from it. It's not a good fit for their personality. It really is a back office type of work that can get quite lonely.
No it doesn’t. Although, the oath does place limits on the exercise of any foreign citizenship. For instance a Brit who is a naturalized US Citizenship can’t run for Parliament because it would require them to give an oath of loyalty to the Queen.
you're still attacking a straw man
Having been under lockdown (or more broadly hard restrictions) for at least 9 months of the last year I've come to the opposite conclusion, I would like to be a dual national of the USA just to take advantage of the idea that I can vote with my feet when it comes to state governance issues. If I don't like lockdown policy, I can move somewhere that has a lighter touch (like from NYC to Miami which I know a lot of people have done).

In the UK (especially post-brexit), NZ and Australia it feels like being trapped. Travel is restricted both internally (sporadically) and externally and the regional governments have more or less the same policies, so I don't see anyway to vote with my feet here that doesn't come with a high cost.
> I always wonder how much more they could accomplish if they’d simply pick four hours each day to turn off their phones.

I think most of them sincerely wouldn’t know what to do in those 4 hours. Working on their laptops? I guess I wonder: How can people “accomplish things” nowadays without being on a device?
I am wondering can other states not step in here and help Texas by supplying electricity.
It's not nor has it ever been a free market. The free market mythology which is invoked whenever it's a powerless party or the public involved in order to justify them paying for acts of nature which invalidate contracts in contract law is not a sound policy. When someone signs up for wholesale rates they are not disclosed the downside properly and if they were there is no way it would stand up in court, and it's simple enough for the wholesaler to get insurance on this which again would fail in case of which extreme unforeseen events. If we can bail out banks, corporations, and billionaires, we can bail out individuals due to extreme unforseen events of natures, contract law allows for this, for the contract to be null and void due to unforseen acts of nature.
That's completely defeating the purpose of the price signal, which is to cause whoever is the most price sensitive to cut usage. By charging less to the people who are most price sensitive, the average price charged in order to deter usage would have to increase dramatically.

It also creates ridiculous perverse incentives where people with little money waste electricity in the midst of a shortage because they're not being charged the market price for it, forcing cuts in actually productive alternatives.
Well someone that doesn't know how to use a ham radio could easily transmit where they're not supposed to, quite possibly causing interference. Your cellphone won't do that.
I am semi retired (unemployed) living in Romania, but you'd likely want to be in Portugal for the cost of living, weather, and food. Also they have a ten year tax friendly program called Non Habitual Residency. I'm currently aiming for Portugal.

Yes, salaries are low all across the EU (Switzerland is not in the EU) and taxes are high, so ideally I recommend working remotely and bouncing between Portugal and Spain or finding a post retirement hobby (easier said than done).

(By the way I did consider Croatia too as it is similarly inexpensive, but Romanian is an easier language and I already knew people here from previous travels).
What is burning is probably leftover oil.
"Drugs without the hot air" [1] by David Nutt was a great intro to science/harm-based drug policies.

[1] https://www.uit.co.uk/drugs-without-the-hot-air
Then you come home to burst pipes and everything flooded... Not sure that plan wins out over the racking up the power bill.

What's crazy is that letting your house flood is not the clear loser!
I have used Dell computers for decades and they have always been superior to their competition in quality, repairability, price and useful longevity. Both laptops and desktops are excellent values.

If you are going to defame Dell, then you should have some mighty strong supporting evidence, and you have offered none. In other words, your post is simply libelous misrepresentation, and I don'tt understand why it is allowed here.
The worst thing is, the more streaming services you buy the more scrolling you do. The less watching is done. Recently my TV melted and it took 2 months to get a new one. I had no choice but to watch what was on cable (in Poland) with only a select few channels showing movies in EN. The lack of choice actually made me enjoy what was given to me and aside from the ads, I didn't get FOMO thinking this was the wrong movie.

So essentially, tech has broken up cable companies dominance by fragmenting the industry.

I'm going to call it here first - there's a startup coming that will combine all streaming services into one package for a low-low cost of $30/month.
I know these people too, and its a little odd since commercial/business licenses in the VHF/UHF part 90 bands are dirt cheap - a few hundred dollars for a ten year license, and no need to pass a test.
Aren’t the generators already selling into a spot market that saw a multi thousand percent price increase in this demand peak, and are thus so incentivized? Providers AIUI are not responsible for any physical infrastructure, they’re selling volatility reduction by buying power from generators at spot and and sending it down publicly managed lines to customers for fixed rates.

I buy your point up thread that more responsive retail pricing would’ve reduce demand faster[1], but I think generators just failed to foresee the failure points of their systems and the potential severity of winter events despite significant incentives to do so.

Since the spot price hit its statutory cap, you might argue that the limit on potential windfall profits rendered winterization ROÍ negative - which might be true but if the only way to keep the lights on is to let the generators plan on pillaging a state in crisis, the state might want to step in to provide support beforehand.

[1] leaving aside the point the ‘reducing demand’, in this instance, means poor people are cold or worse.
The article fails to mention the reasons I love VHS: it’s so resilient: the gentle degradation (instead of brittle digital media), doesn't require the internet, doesn’t have distracting notifications/social integrations built in. It’s easier to pick what to watch. It feels nice to physically hold an object.
What surprises me is the absurd number of counterfeit Pokemon cards I see. When my kids were still interested in them, we were in a bodega that was selling little boxes for like $1 for 5 cards - I didn't know anything about them. When I looked at them later, they seemed just slightly off... and then I researched how to tell the counterfeit cards. I'm astonished that there's profit to be made, even at 20¢.
Wait till you get to wifi, power management, suspend resume, etc. The fact that linux (I know this post is about OpenBSD) boots on some random piece of hardware is commendable, but not that surprising in 2021.
I found this article from 2 years a great read: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin...
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Fortunately, I live in a country where I think there is less chance of such things happening. However - is mandated smartphone ownership the future we want? It goes without saying that almost all government over-reach is done "for your own good".
Largely not because the TX power grid mostly isn't physically connected to the grid of the rest of the US.

https://www.king5.com/mobile/article/news/verify/texas-indep...

My understanding is that this was largely deliberate on the part of the state of TX to minimize the impact of federal energy regulations on the TX grid.

The idea being that the federal regulations devise their authority from the regulation of interstate commerce via the commerce clause, but if TX chooses not to participate in interstate commerce, the federal regulations don't have authority to apply to TX.
Aren't all of those used quite consistently and without issue in many places much colder than Texas?
We are all human. Just because I don't understand why someone would spend their whole life studying beetles doesn't mean I don't respect that they find it engaging and worthwhile.

You are making the classic mistake of projection. Accept that people are unique and will find different things engaging even within the most "mundane" areas of software.
There are advantages to filing even when it's not required. Oddly enough, the US government still paid me $1200 + $600 of COVID economic relief (auto-deposited to my US bank account) even though I haven't lived in the US for many years. I didn't think I'd be eligible, but apparently I am (just in case, I haven't spent the money yet). It's weird that they gave the money so freely.
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$10 Tent heater

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Flinging earth into space would qualify (it no longer orbits a star) and seems to be among the easiest options. Just get Jupiter to do it somehow. It would require less energy than most of the other options i guess.
If curious, past threads:

How to destroy the Earth (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11808723 - May 2016 (44 comments)

How to destroy the Earth (completely) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1446612 - June 2010 (73 comments)

How to destroy the earth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=998734 - Dec 2009 (35 comments)

Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121624 - Feb 2008 (3 comments)
Considering that the top comment is arguing for exactly that, no, it’s not a strawman.
>This statement is a bit presumptuous

It's not. Anyone who has followed the last 10 years of Apple devices knows what works and what doesn't.
I feel this is just violent agreement.

The problem is people depend on you because you provide X. You thought you provided Y. X was just a small side benefit. As a provider, how do you advanced Y without breaking X?
There is a quite wide range of reasonable options on this. I don't think it is unreasonable for drugs to be mostly legal in many cases, no, but I don't think that small fines for personal use is unreasonable either.

A good explanation is driving above the speed limit on roads. An unreasonable system would put people behind bars for years for any kind of speeding. That is roughly what you have today in USA with respect to drugs and I understand why you'd want to remove it. However removing speed limits is not reasonable either, even if you personally can handle it we can clearly see that deaths increase significantly with higher limits so in this case we care about their lives above your freedom.

If making a particular drugs more legal to use causes a lot of deaths then I don't think it should be legal to use, no matter how much you think that your liberty gets violated if you aren't free to use it. I value their lives above your freedom. Cannabis doesn't kill people so I don't care much about it, but harder drugs often do.

Edit: As an example we can see how making opium more available to people (prescribed via doctor) killed a hundred thousand people in USA the past 10 years. Making it easily accessible even without prescription would likely be worse. I don't think that properly regulating the substance and saving that many people is unreasonable.
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