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About that last sentence: "former U.S. Ambassador [...] said in April that López Obrador views the fight against drug cartels as a distraction ... So he has basically adopted an agenda of a pretty laissez-faire attitude towards them, which is pretty troubling to our government, obviously.”

Not from Mexico, but from Colombia, where we also have a very hard time with drugs. The real problem with drugs has never been here. It is always because the US which always pushed us to fight drugs from this side, while they don't seem to do much from their side, this way they push the war to this side. while they get to enjoy the benefits of unregulated markets.

The true solution to the problem is regulated drug market, where the country people can make a profit out of it, and every link of the chain pays its due taxes. But cocaine is so big of a business that mafias aren't letting that happen.

US doesn't even care about cocaine, otherwise they would be doing a far better job at eliminating the trafficking. It is just that if they're not the ones making a profit, then no one should make a profit.

Typical case of a northern country exploiting a southern country.
It's irrational not to buy properties for less than the mortgage price M (half the sticker price). You can buy a property at auction for Y <= M and immediately mortgage it to profit M - Y.
I like to use SSH and GNU screen(1) to do follow-the-leader sharing of a screen session. There's probably a tmux equivalent.

https://www.endpoint.com/blog/2009/09/24/gnu-screen-follow-l...
Except that’s not what he’s doing, Amazon prime acts like a giant hidden fee.

Don’t pay it and Amazon still charges separately for shipping and handing.
So given the buyer's agent fees come out of the sale price (which already reflects that commission), you're not really saving anything are you?

For the sellers, maybe, but I don't think I'd be at all comfortable selling a home without a (good) agent.

I'll 100% agree with you that most realtors are bad. The good ones are gold though.
Not the murderers? Seems like your opinion is biased by hatred.
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Does a 1 cent coin have the same value as a $100 note?
Multiple Mexican Presidents in the last few decades have been shown to be CIA assets, so
I spoke to someone in intelligence and apparently for a while, France spied quite a bit on the US. Spying on allies is not as uncommon or taboo as most others would think it is.
The reason cartels need to murder people at all is because the business is illegal and there is no justice system to mediate disputes. F500 CEOs aren't doing drive-bys on each other over patent infringements because they can just sue.
I mean, sure, I guess it's not Sweden and "failed" is subjective.

But Mexico is very, very far from being Syria or run by warlords.
Outstanding performances? Perhaps you should check out the podcast.
they're features of the OS controllable in the group policy editor

rather than downloading some third party app that attempts to break the functionality without (hopefully) breaking other features

(also hoping some new update doesn't re-enable what you thought you disabled)
> You already are giving Apple your CPU time, battery life, and internet bandwidth by using their software in the first place.

No, why do you think so? I have bought my hardware from them to fulfil some purpose of mine. That doesn't give them the right to abuse my hardware for their profit.

> Headphone jacks were never removed.

Yes, they were removed.
Yes, and my point is that they could change their mind if there's no legal constraint.

Switching the lineup to electric cars could provide a nice excuse - out with the old, in with the new, we don't want to encourage anyone to use their old polluting vehicle too long.

Built up brand equity/consumer goodwill eventually will be exploited, just like spare cash.

Was there ever any definitive solution to the Focus transmission problems?
Would you take a life if one was taken from you?
Thanks. The back/history feedback has been (hopefully) addressed.

I've been thinking about doing authors. The constraint is performance; the site loads the whole index, so adding author info would bloat the initial page load out (right now the index is about 2.2M, and GitHub Pages gzips it down to ~380k). The solution is probably to put author search, etc. on a separate page.
Cartels only exist because of its illegality. Same reason alcohol smuggling gangsters existed during the US prohibition era.
Merchants can appeal. And if they do, you can be out of luck - they can lie that they did provide you with a service, and you won’t have access to any of their statements to respond to them. It’s many months long process but possible.

Source - happened to me. Ended up relationship with both the merchant and credit card company. And have $2k less in my wallet.
Why would the cartels want to legalize drugs?
I think drug users should be called out for supporting this violent industry similar to how drunk drivers, sexual harassers, and racists are social pariahs
An equivalent question is: why does human evil exist?

Your answer will depend on your worldview -- your beliefs on matters like origin, meaning, morality, and destiny.

If you're not sure, I'd suggest evaluating candidate worldviews with an eye toward comparing the extent to which their propositions correspond to reality and are internally consistent.
The recent wave of psychedelics being used to treat mental illnesses has been really interesting. I'm somewhat skeptical of the effects so I'm keen to see what long term research has to say, but I've read a few experiences like this about various psychedelics and it gives me enormous amounts of hope that there might be some answer to what seems like a problem we've been banging our heads against for the last few decades without any good answer.

Even if a small percentage of people have experiences like the author, I think that easily makes it worth pursuing this avenue.
> What you’re missing here is that blockchains also include something to determine which branch is the correct one,

I'm pretty sure that if I posted a fork of Linux somewhere, approximately everyone would know that it's not the correct one.
So while some employers require X years of (specific tech), many, MANY don't. They expect X years of development. Broadly. Can program and are AWS certified? Start looking. And if there's nothing in your area, look remote. You can hit that salary and solid benefits (no pension) in most metro areas (I hit it with 5 years dev experience, and only a bachelor's, back in 2015 in Atlanta, for a non-tech company).

You are almost assuredly more desirable in this market than you think. Consider making finding a new job your new hobby.
Amazon needs to be broken-up or heavily regulated under US anti-trust laws.
I'm not on any side, but I would love to make an observation.

> she had a similar sleazy taxi driver years ago, who she complained about to the taxi company. He was fired immediately

This actually scares me more than Uber banning your wife. I'm not saying you or your wife lied, but it's sad how just a complaint by a woman can ruin any man's life. (I'm assuming your wife didn't have any evidence and the taxi company just fired the driver due to her complaint.)
Who's going to run that db? How much are they going to charge? Are they going to let anyone write apps on top of it? Do they have a plan for %99.999999999 uptime? Will people lose their data/businesses/livelihoods if this system stops being operated and what's the assurance for entrepreneurs?

There's a lot of details that go into running something like that and none of those questions are trivial.
I empathize with this because not much thought is put into it, but it is really humans being traded

I explain financial assets and derivatives pricing payout expectations to people using analogies of trading athletes versus trading merchandise. A franchise might make 30% on the athlete's value when they trade them out in the future, while a basketball signed by the athlete goes up 1000% in value. The basketball value being derived from the athlete's own value.

I do this for emphasis to provide introspection and inspiration, the lack of consideration of them as an asset can definitely be improved.
> Some customers, though, would not ask. They would go straight to chargeback.

I was always under the impression that if consumers did this sort of thing too often it would end up hurting them because the CC company would start to flag their account.

Sort of an algorithmic version of "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."
Different countries, different waves.
Self medicating drugs with high abuse potential is very risky. Having tightly controlled doses, intervals between doses, settings for administering the doses can offset much of the abuse and addiction potential.
It is not 2 jobs in 1.

Full-stack developer knows some frontend, some backend, some sql. They are paid good money because they are convenient, not for their knowledge. A dev who does only one thing knows way more about it that a team of full-stack devs.

Full-stack devs earn a lot and will probably earn only more in the future.

This is mostly a result of tech advancements like cloud infrastructure, tools etc that takes all the hardest things from you - like managing a DB, implementing security, managing infrastructure, deployments etc.

You don't need deep experts because of it, generalists are perfect for quickly shipping new features.
> But is that durability especially functional for your home or restaurant environment which isn't on a warship?

If I knew it would be handed down for generations of my descendants, then I absolutely want that durability. A tremendous amount of economic and environmental harm comes from unnecessary product acquisition churn over generations at the scales of populations we're currently dealing with. If I can equip my descendants (who are likely to at best propagate at barely replacement rate with current socioeconomic trends that seem resource and energy-bound and unlikely to change until fusion or similar energy breakthrough is made) with 50-80% of their material goods throughout the stages of their lives and eliminate their capex, that is a hell of an advantage of confer compared to previous generations' patterns.
Just calling people Joe Sixpack is a mark against being given the authority to practice coercion.
I too, on usps.com, on domain websites, on subscriptions, basically everywhere non-Google properties. On Google I use the card itself, because Chrome has all of my cards saved in.
> The Harvard Business Review article I linked above goes into some detail about how this happens.

It doesn't make the argument you have just elucidated, which is an interesting one. I'll think about it.

> Because you judge our lives useless, you engage in motivated reasoning to find excuses to sweep us away,

"Bitcoin not useful" != "your life is useless". I think you have invested rather too much of your identity into Bitcoin.

Regarding "Roca", please check my HN bio. My real name is "Robert O'Callahan" and 'roca' is a handle I've used online since 1990. I have never heard of your "Roca" before.
Drug addicted individuals are not garbage. They are human beings. I see them as worthy of compassion and a sincere helping hand, however it can be given.
Agreed. Cartels run the country. The government is mostly corrupt and completely ineffective.
> I'm somewhat skeptical of the effects

Can you elaborate?
Open source = "our code isn't worth much anymore, we have other sources of revenue now".
They don't. It would mean no more risk premium and the involvement of people that could do a better job than them, but don't get involved in the trade for obvious reasons.
I'm paralyzed, the result of a traumatic spinal cord injury.

I offer no advice on how to write this kind of stuff, but i'd like to bring up the point that my situation , as someone who is paralyzed, is totally different than the situation of someone who is clinically depressed.

Paralysis might be a nifty way to explain the 'inability to act' in non-clinical situation, but 1) it's confusing when talking within medical contexts and 2) it equivocates experiences between those that fall under the adjective -- I don't know anything about clinical depression, and I have my doubts that this experience taught the author anything about clinical paralysis.

I have spoken to blind friends with similar attitude towards headlines that say things like "Doctors blinded by surprise lack of supplies.". It's not an uncommon sentiment.

Generic adjectives exist to describe this general inability to fulfill needed tasks or ability criterion -- yes, I know that popular use of the words allows this context, but in the interest of those that might read this stuff, understand that it's confusing and in some worst cases potentially insulting.
Ask yourself what country is responsible for the war on drugs fueling the black market funding the cartels.
Or you could... run new opportunities by your employees. If they feel qualified and motivated they’re also in a great position to help recruit replacement resources for their current role.

“We keep our hiring secret from our own employees to minimize their exposure to what we might offer them and now we have to pay lawyers to deceive them” is pitiful.
Nuclear weapons could have been that black ball.
They really have cranked up the propaganda against crypto recently haven't they? I've honestly been lukewarm on it for a while: maybe someday it'll be a workable tech, but too many issues at present. But the way these people talk (or are being paid to talk), you'd think Bitcoin breathed fire and had horns. Which begs the question: what are they afraid of? And they ARE afraid of something. You don't launch a propaganda campaign against something you think is a joke.
No. Interviews are almost always useless. Best case you get an interviewer asking benign questions and an interviewee provide fluff responses (“it was a team effort”, “we’re ignoring the trophy - we only ever concentrate on the next game”, that kind of thing). Worst case you get malevolent questions aimed at riling then interviewee and resulting in a sound bite. These might be more interesting but are not beneficial to the sport or audience IMHO. In some sports mid game interviews with coaches (during play) and players (at breaks) are becoming a thing. It’s a complete and utter waste and gets my dander up. I watch a ton of sport and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an insightful response to an interview question. Nobody is going to give away their tactics, preparation processes or any other insight that might act as a competitive advantage.
I think you missed the part where the poster says the taxi company "...offered the in-car video."
Ask HN: How to report Android apps that use the media channel for notifications?
Some apps do not use the notification channel for their notifications. Instead, they hijack the media channel. Then, even if you set your notifications to silent, but media is not muted, their notifications will still make noise.

Is this something that can be reported? How?
The problem is more that people don't know all the problems that are causing when buying cocaine. In the end, if they're doing it at home without harming anyone, what's the issue? I would relate it more to how people eating meat are contributing to global warming without realizing it.
You missed the part about the video surveillance
The big mistake you're making is that legalising it also magically brings all the infrastructure to neuter the cartels.
Because that's who we are.
> the US which always pushed us to fight drugs from this side, while they don't seem to do much from their side

Isn't the typical complaint that the US does too much to fight drugs?
Devil is in the details, the fact that the author remembers their state of mind is odd. Because currently most of the clinics co-administer a benzodiazepine (midazolam) with ketamine, which actually is used for its amnesiac effects.

Also, although assumed to be transformational, there are now indicators that ketamine’s anti-depressive effects might be tied to the opioid system of the brain, rather than the psychedelic, altered-state experiences, which most patients don't remember anyway.

Finally, the article peculiarly omits if they have been in ongoing ketamine therapy since that time frame. Phrasing neither denies or confirms this;

> In May 2021, 15 years after dropping out of high school, five years after beginning ketamine treatment, I graduated from college.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that they have found a treatment that works, and it might as well be rational to use this therapy to ratchet out of a deep disease state. But we also need a balanced account of the durability of the effects, its downstream consequences and therefore a better idea of its mechanism of action. Without such an account, uppers like amphetamines and cocaine would also be considered to "treat" depression, except for terribly short durations and with unsustainable side-effects. To what degree ketamine is different, we are yet to find out.
I bet some western tourists would get a kick out of some kind of joke "weapons of mass destruction" attraction. I don't know if any Iraqi people would though.
> At least eGold had some underlying real asset. Bitcoin is just made of air. Sorry "math."

eGold needed an underlying asset because it was a single company, and it needed to prove it was good for the obligations it was taking on, essentially.

Bitcoin, by contrast, is more like a government fiat currency, except government fiat (theoretically backed by democratic mandate) is replaced by the voluntary choice of a large enough group of people to use it.

The value of fiat currency comes purely from the wealth that it represents, with a stability guarantee provided by things like tax revenues being denominated in that currency.

The value of cryptocurrency similarly comes from the wealth it represents, which is why ordinary users have to exchange fiat currencies to get crypto - it's a transfer of wealth from one system to another. And similarly, a certain amount of stability (but not nearly as much) is provided by the demand for the currency due notoriously to money laundering, the drug trade, evasion of capital controls, and probably even the odd above-board transactions.

I'm not arguing for or against crypto, I'm just pointing out that this whole "made of air" argument applies equally to any currency, really. Even for currencies that are backed by some asset with supposed "intrinsic value", any asset with a finite quantity can't have enough value to represent all the wealth in a society, by definition, because its own value is included in that amount. The actual value represented by a wide-scale currency must be surplus to any intrinsic value. "Intrinsic value" and "asset backed" are essentially red herrings in all but the smallest contexts ( like eGold, which never got big enough for this to matter.)
Cartels would continue to exist though. Because there are always other illegal services that need to be provided. Prostitution, gambling, murder-for-hire, mercenaries, unlicensed surgeons, as well as a still-extant illegal drugs market because they are merely cheaper, or sold to those who cannot buy the otherwise state-approved drugs(underage, banned for some reason).
It might have a better chance at adoption if it were at least compatible with https://www.jsonfeed.org/
If you were running things in Mexico you would have zero ability to legalize or decriminalize all drugs in the actually relevant markets (USA).
It's closing in on that very quickly. :)
This reminds me how I used to smooth out people's extreme views of areas and regimes:

One day your child will be going on a senior trip to Disneyland Iraq and your protest against it will simply make you look like the old prejudiced bigot. Nobody will care that you were fed propaganda and also reality for 20 years straight. No different than our parents, grandparents or refugees having haunting views of other countries that are major allies now.
Darknet markets haven't been fascinating since 2012?
> until the practice ends.

I don't disagree with your point, but this part highlights how hard this is in practice. When does "the practice end"? When the war is one? When the current offensive ends? When we believe the devices aren't being produced anymore? This immediately reminds me of how Chamberlain treated Hitler.
Understanding the difference between security and privacy is why I actually use Edge on Windows for some desktop tasks.
I'm reminded of this recent viral Youtube which depicts what is apparently a routine occurrence in South Africa: A professional gang, armed with heavy caliber weapons, executes a sophisticated highway ambush in an attempt to capture a vehicle loaded with cell phones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAvqDF3Wujc

I watched an interview with Leo Prinsloo, the star of the video. He mentioned that although this incident went viral, it is actually a common occurrence in South Africa, and many gangs have ex-police and ex-military members. Unsurprisingly the police don't provide effective protection against these professionalized gangs, creating the need for private security guards like Prinsloo.

In the US, we are used to thinking of "crime" as just another political issue. But observing countries like Mexico and South Africa, where gangs and police forces have started to merge, has helped me realize that there are important nonlinear effects.

Once "crime" gets bad enough, the state begins to lose its monopoly on force, and I'm not sure it is possible to recover from that. I'm starting to understand why people in the Philippines might support politicians such as Rodrigo Duterte who disregard due process--at a certain point, it becomes more important for the state security forces to win than for them to play fair.
If you're in the US, there is only an -infinitesimal- chance that they'll actually ask for references for a software job.

They'll likely run a background check and make sure your resume isn't obviously lying (they'll confirm start/end dates and title, basically), and make sure you're not a criminal, MAYBE do a credit and/or drug test.
No this actually puts the merchant and customer on equal footing. The card company has an incentive to please both sides.
This game (actually this write-up) makes me reconsider how I've long felt that Visual Basic was a pox on the computer industry.
Here in Canada and in Australia and the UK the police are the real cartels.
I suffer from chronic pain, and marijuana makes my pain significantly worse.

That means that cannabis does not work for my pain, but it means nothing with regard to its effectiveness for others. The same is true of your experience with Ketamine.
Indeed. My account has been locked since 2015 due to a similar edge case.

My card was stolen after taking a ride so I reported it. This prevented a ride charge from going through. Uber locked my account, which then prevented me from paying.

Uber support's assistance was Kafkaesque.

They advised that I could reactivate my account by logging in and paying the balance. I told them I couldn't. Around and around we went.

So I just use Lyft now.
Folks didn't 'enthusiastically abandon' sound money for credit (or even the early IOUs which were a sort of primitive cash) the moment they could. You're retconning a bit there. Folks were extremely reluctant for a long time on account of all the schemes and fraud. Sound familiar?

That's just what humans do to each other. New tech is always like this when there are gains to be made.

Some folks look at the trend that central banks have been on and the creep of financial surveillance and think purposefully going backward in some areas isn't silly at all.

In the end, it's software you don't have to use. Nobody is forcing anyone to opt in, right (you know, like the credit bureaus who in America force you to opt in if you intend to... I dunno, participate in the economy in a meaningful way)?