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> I don't know what your political ideology has to be to think the War on Drugs is a good thing, after all the money wasted, all the lives lost, all the people pointlessly locked up for things half the country can now do openly and legally.

A lot of people continue see locking up addicts as keeping dangerous people off the streets, so basically a good thing. They tend not to think significant rates of rehabilitation are possible, and that attempting it would be a waste of money that would also lead to higher crime rates.

> The most common-sense things don't even have a chance at passing

These same people would find it laughable—literally—that you think decriminalizing all drugs is common sense. They would see this as plainly, and wildly, out-of-touch with reality. Typical pie-in-the-sky and/or ivory-tower liberalism.

(these are not my views, to be clear)
In addition to what the other responder said (the Amish generally have some tech stashed away for use when necessary), a part of being Amish is being part of a community of other Amish people. Just like in a Orthodox Jewish community you will see Sabbath mode elevators on Saturday, Amish communities have access to services that bridge the internet and their moral code. There are services that will print stuff from the internet and have it sent to you, or an outsider accountant that manage your internet-accessible financial services. They are not really cutting the internet or its consequences from their life but rather in some cases cutting out their direct interaction with the internet.
Here's an advice. The software engineering market, at least the upper end of it, doesn't need a email forwarding proxy middleman. What it needs is a club-like organisation that acts as a negotiator that leverages insider knowledge to get unreasonable parties on both ends to sign a contract. Good devs don't really search for jobs and don't really talk to random recruiters. They get a steady stream of sales pitches from friends of friends or former co-workers and leverage their fairly wide network to get insider info about companies they're considering to join to get a good contract. The "club" would be like a golf club address book with staff working to connect matching parties. It's surely not a dating site for programmers with ahem.. "AI" selling resumes to data brokers.
You don't need to validate it here.
As an OCD haver of over 20 years, I find these suggestions to be pretty wonderful. In some of cases, these conditions can't be fixed by therapy, and/or the drugs don't work. Therapy is fantastic, but sometimes these things can be the difference between getting out of bed in the morning & not.

Finding these solutions can be absolute bliss - technology for 'hands-off' switching off things is one for me.
As with everything it's a balance, but if something small helps in a big way, that's a win for me!
> although the Covid-19 pandemic definitely hasn’t helped

If anything, people who have experienced depression before would be more capable and resilient when dealing with the pandemic restrictions. Because they're used to dealing with negativity. I know at least that was the case with me and some friends of mine who are also affected.
Discussion of the same story but linked to a business insider article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524637
They add propulsive efficiency but add drag.
Hah, you clearly put a lot of effort into this. Upvoted.
We are talking about two problems. One is technical. This one is relatively easy to solve. The other is organisational: humans aren’t rational and societies don’t behave in their best long term interest. The latter is infinitely more complicated to address.
You have to add the bottom 60% or "working poor" to make it true enough.
This is how I think about it as well.

Which makes me wonder if Mach wasn't right all along.
So many things are being pushed to non-ownership. You used to own books which was effectively the only form of media, but now you no longer own books or any media. We are all happy for it. Self-driving cars are not about freedom to allow people to own a conveyance that will take them where they want to go it's really about setting up for the non-ownership of conveyances. How many people actually own their cell phone? Planned obsolescence is just another form of non-ownership. The funny thing is property already has its non-ownership mechanic built in through the form of property taxes. If you think that property taxes are how we need to pay for city or county services then my question would be why are there so many other taxes and ways of taxing people. Property taxes are method of taking away land ownership for people who are not desirable or using the land in a productive manner. It's really just the next step to say why did you buy land in the first place just rent.

We are absolutely pushing the society to those of the haves and the renters. Then we're also putting in the massive barriers to shifting between those two classes of people. The real problem is the middle class does not see what's coming because about 20% of the middle class will be elevated into the position of owners the rest of the 80% will be relegated down to the forever renters. Until the middle class can wake up and realize the long game that's being played against them it won't change.
Some people see it that way. And it probably does serve that purpose to some extent in areas with very unstable governments, like some developing countries. But I'm doubtful that by the year 2121 Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency will have kept the US government "in check" in any way. It's not impossible, but I'd heavily bet against it.

They may very well make/adopt some cryptocurrency as the new primary fiat by then, but I kind of see the idea of Bitcoin keeping the US government in check similarly to the idea of gun ownership keeping the US government in check.

Out of curiosity, can you describe an example of how it could potentially serve such a purpose, even in a hypothetical contrived scenario?
The most recent graph DB I've used was Dgraph, I've found the interface to be good to work with and it does scale well performance wise. Memory consumption was still too high for my tastes and if you need to build common algos on top like PageRank, again for example, they don't support that out of the box. If you read through their forum you'll see they may never choose to support things like that natively so you have to do things like I did which was export the data out. This was maybe 7 months ago now.

I'll also say that working on the entire graph if you need to is difficult, they're not oriented around working on the whole more like fragments that you've paired down through your query modifiers so if you know you're going to be doing a lot of work that requires you to do things on the entire graph that may change the performance characteristics for you a lot.

I like it and would use it again but there are rough edges to work around still and it is young so know your use case and know the trade offs you're making.
It's not dishonest to portray it as fundamentally sound, because it is. Your argument is that 'If scaled up several orders of magnitude this device could cause dangerous explosions.' This ignores two very important realities:

1) There isn't a reality in which these devices get scaled up to that size.
2) The real danger with fission is radiation, not explosions, which fusion reactors will produce in smaller quantities than a banana farm.

Pure fusion power, even in its largest, most powerful, Elon Musk fever-dream incarnation, is safer than even the safest fission reactor, because there is no way for it to create a boom larger than it's vessel was designed to produce.
Let people take whatever medicine they want.
I fixed a spelling mistake: https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual/pull/8
Almost all of the dudes I've know who sell drugs never thought of it as a way to "level" up. It was a way of making money where there were absolutely no jobs. And most of them didn't make much above minimum wage. Several of them had minimum wage jobs on the side.

If you haven't already, you should watch The Wire (HBO) about how futile street busts are in either combatting the drug trade or improving the lives of people living in the city.
>In particular, it includes infinities, which do not exist in the physical universe.

Bold claim. As far as I know the centers of black holes are indeed non-removable singularities of (some) solutions to GR equations.

What's funny is I had a debate with a cosmologist where I was on your side of the debate because he was a mathematical realist (and therefore forced to reconcile the same divergences with the "reality" of math).
> There're a lot of people in the comments here who don't seem to know what depression is.

There is a lot of people who don't seem to know what depression is because no one really knows what is depression.

It is complex, it is multi-faceted, it can be subtle, it can be overt. It varies from person to person. It varies in causes.
>Is it even possible to be a responsible Heroin user? Or even Meth?

Yes! And this is what is so fascinating is how well the "drug war" has helped shape societal opinion to think it's not possible to be a functional user. Yet, you may be surprised to learn we have millions of people prescribed Adderall, an amphetamine mixture that is functionally equivalent to methamphetamine. They go about their daily lives on this drug.

Likewise, we have beyond millions of people on oxycotin and other functionally equivalent drugs to Heroin going about their daily lives as well.

Does this mean they live great lives? Not necessarily, but just as we have millions of functional alcoholics we also have many functional drug users in our country.
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It's unlikely you will find validation outside an entry-level text book for virology or epidemiology

Absolutely nothing in modern epidemiology is validated against real world data as far as I can tell, and virology isn't concerned with the course of epidemics, so I doubt this very much.

The problem this assumption faces (and it is as you point out, only an assumption) is it quickly runs into definitional and logic issues. That's a very common problem in epidemiology and public health as far as I can tell. Viruses evolve, and so when talking about whether they can eventually infect the whole population you have to very carefully consider:

1. How fast they evolve.

2. How fast they spread.

3. How much evolution is required to make something a "new" virus vs an "old" virus.

4. What those evolutions do to disease which is what everyone actually cares about.

If you don't have a very firm grip on these things (and epidemiology doesn't) then you can get into a situation in which by the time a virus has infected "everyone" it's no longer the same virus at all, and thus cannot be said to have actually infected everyone. All the talk of different COVID variants is pointing in this direction. Taken to an extreme it boils down to "everyone will get infected with a virus at some point" which isn't an interesting statement.

Somewhat related: it's a common cognitive bias to trust self-generated knowledge more than the knowledge from others.

Indeed it is, and scientists are very often guilty of this: they reject any and all negative feedback that comes from people "out of field", even if it's extremely relevant to what they're doing. For example rejecting feedback by computer scientists of the form "your program does not work" because computer science isn't the same thing as epidemiology.

But in this case I actually don't trust self-generated knowledge more than the knowledge from others, because I don't claim to have any superior knowledge of epidemiology. I just know the people who claim to be experts, actually aren't.
If money is printed, can it ever be destroyed?
I think it's difficult to do review work as an 'outsider'.

You might be able to report an outright bug if you find one, and you can report "this old patch still applies and passes its tests", but other than that it seems difficult for the project to make use of what you say.

If you say "I read this patch and everything looks great, I'd love to see this in the next release", how much weight can the project put on that? How do they know whether you would have found problems if they were there?

Or if you read the patch and conclude "I can't find any actual bugs, but I'm pretty sure most of that code is going about things the wrong way, and I don't think this is going to get past a committer as it stands", how can you write that up in a way that's actually helpful?

(The last is where I ended up the one time I decided to have a go at reviewing a PostgreSQL patch. So I just said nothing and waited for an experienced reviewer to tell the author to rewrite it, which happened a month or three later.)
Perhaps not, but hasn't Amazon here basically lined up the incentives to make it the most logical thing for someone to do? A person in this scenario is receiving AWS credit they don't want, AWS won't offer a market for, so they're exchanging? arbitraging? it into some cryptocurrency. (And from there, probably to cash.)
Turn American and allied warfighters into invincible technomancers
What would Steve Jobs do with podcasting?
"spent it all on ads"

Funny but whenever I think of Triplebyte, all I remember is seeing their ads everywhere. I am personally a fan of Indeed and they do a good job sending leads and applicants other than good old Linkedin.
In the past it could have been an anti-trust issue. Does the FTC care about this nowadays?
Yes.

Unfortunately Rust went the exact other way.
OTOH, the war on drugs has made an incredibly powerful covert foreign policy tool, in terms of being able to arbitrarily restrict or provide funding, as well as using martial force to control the right to manufacture and distribute illicit substances. None of this would work unless drugs were incredibly profitable… and they aren’t incredibly profitable without strongly enforced artificial scarcity.

Simply by turning a blind eye to one group and continuing aggressive enforcement against another the USA can tilt the political balance of power in many smaller nations.

When you create a default state of War against most of the world, selective peace becomes your most powerful weapon. Destruction is so much cheaper than building value, it creates a wildly disproportionate incentive to cooperate.
The war on the freedom to do drugs*

It's no more a war on drugs than "gun control" is about controlling guns. "gun control" is actually citizen disarmament, because every law they pass exempts the police, military, and retired police. So its' not about guns, but who can have them.

Both of these represent a propaganda technique known as 'framing': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)

When people think of it as "gun control" it presupposes the notion that guns are out of control when that isn't the issue.

Same with "the war on drugs" drugs are an inanimate set of chemicals. It's not a war on drugs, but a war on personal freedom to do them. But when you frame it that way, it's obviously reprehensible. Especially in the "land of the free".
Ikea Marcus. It's decent, but switch it out after few years (or less) for something smaller and less supportive. Being too comfy can wreck your spine.
>"Homosexuality, dope, immorality, are the enemies of strong societies."

Is it really though? It seems like it would be the enemy of an uptight conservative society that only speaks of freedoms from the side of their mouth while limiting the freedoms to only those things which they agree.
`awk` is part of GNU. And Unix™ is a proprietary product of AT&T.
Do you think drug usage rates have steadily decreased over the last 50 years?
I've had a habit for my entire adult life, of sorting the letters of words alphabetically in my head. The longer the word the better.

It's even better when the sorted letters turn out to make any sort of repetitive pattern.

And I count stairs, unless I specifically override the internal voice and say "1", "1", "1", "1,".... to myself.
> Afghanistan seems to be shared by most of the "Global North"

Just remember the Taliban started as a US sponsored group that fought the Soviet invasion.
Yes and? Everyone assumed I was talking about congress but what I wrote equally applies to Ohio and other state legislatures.
I did not know about Agora! Thanks! Diving in ...
> I've known quite a few meth addicts over the years. The ones who get sent to prison are uniformly worse off than those who get sent to rehab.

But your parent comment said "my methhead sister-in-law is in prison and I certainly feel safer", not "my methhead sister-in-law is in prison and she certainly feels safer."
A good read on the genesis of the American War on Drugs is the book "Chasing the Scream", by Johann Hari.
I use maps.me, and this looks great. It’s a little unclear I think from the branding, but it works for driving as well.
The Right Way to Terraform by Rodney Brooks
Almost certainly, though not necessarily right away.
In two-party first-past-the-post, you never vote for the people you like the most. Approval gives you the chance to vote for who you like the most /and/ the one you think is most likely to win amongst people basically on your side.
"Depression" is more the term our medical community has today to describe low mood, lack of energy, loss of interest et al.

It's important to understand that there exists no weird illness that is causing these symptoms. Instead, the symptoms can have all sorts of roots, but depression is just what we call them.
I stand corrected. Thanks for this.
>The research has shown that being open with others about your experience alleviates the symptoms of depression, including constant rumination.

Hello! Could you direct me to said research if you know where it is? I'm not aware of it, and haven't seen it recommended anywhere. I'd be genuinely interested to know if it checks out.
They'll run out of people to employ who will accept X conditions for Y dollars, sure. Then they will have to adjust either X or Y.
Not even nitpicking - someone reading the original comment who doesn't know about music history would read that and think the USA created electronic music which is so unbelievably far from correct it's cringeworthy.
Nixon is actually quite removed from the beginning of the War on Drugs. That quote is also of questionable authenticity, so doesn't illustrate the point very well. Reefer Madness, for example, was released in 1936 when Nixon was only 23.

Harry Anslinger was actually one of the most influential figures in the beginning of the modern big-government war on drugs. The anti-marijuana movement was a marriage of convenience between sensationalist yellow journalism from the Hearst empire, and good old-fashioned racism.

"By the tons it is coming into this country — the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. ... Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him."

"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger
Why American Women Everywhere Are Delaying Motherhood
> the supply of fission materials is quite limited when you’re looking into interstellar travel etc

Yeah, sure, if we're gonna get a big spaceship to even a small fraction of light speed, that would require absolutely stupendous amounts of energy.

But lets worry about that after we avoid cooking ourselves with GHG emissions? We might or might not have enough fission fuel for large-scale interstellar travel, but certainly more than enough to get rid of fossil fuels.

> fission has a lot of very expensive requirements like 24/7/365 security

So will fusion, unfortunately, unless someone figures out aneutronic fusion, which is a much longer shot than D-T fusion most efforts are concentrating on.

I'm all for spending a lot more on fusion R&D though; the potential win is just so enormously large that it makes sense to bet some amount of resources on it, just in case it works out.
Economics would tell us that if you decrease the supply of something that has a high demand, then the price will rise. That means it's more valuable for criminals to distribute, and they will also use more violence to protect this trade.

So while we're cracking skulls to achieve your drug-free nirvana, we've basically consigned a generation to hell. Constant police patrolling and intervention in their communities, extremely violent narco-traffickers, and yet somehow no treatment for addicts.
I don't know. If I consistently see 404s, I eventually associate that domain with "broken" and start avoiding it. Especially in search scenarios where there's lots of links to choose from.
Sql syntax for such queries is super awkward with tones of gottyas, not sure how performance compares
When I had depression I found it very therapeutic to talk about it, to put it out in the open, but I also ran into a lot of people who couldn’t stop talking about their depression. at some point talking about your depression is just as depressing to others as the depression itself
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Doctor 1: "Kids have all kinds of stomach problems all the time. The parents always say it's dairy or gluten. The parents don't know anything, so I'm going to ignore them."

Doctor 2: "Kids have all kinds of stomach problems all the time. The parents always say it's dairy or gluten. This is probably going to go away on its own, but the parents will keep insisting I do some thing until it does. I will tell them they are on the right track and send them off. "

Doctors have to play a whole metagame beyond just trying to figure out what might be causing the symptoms their patients are presenting with.
> Is it even possible to be a responsible Heroin user? Or even Meth?

Pharmacologically, Adderall is extremely similar to methamphetamine. So, it sure seems like it.
You’re only making it even clearer that you do get your political understanding from talk shows, or their informational equivalent.

If you think hundreds of millions of people are acting irrationally, you’re probably wrong, and you’re probably using some busted first-order approximation “rational” model.
From what I gather, there are some studies that show that dietary intervention helps and that piece of it seems to boil down to "some foods promote brain inflammation and this makes depression worse."

My personal opinion is that a lot of what gets currently classified as mental illness would be best seen as a somatopsychic side effects of actual physical illness.

I have a really serious and incurable medical condition. Somatopsychic side effects are a big part of my life. In many cases, I have figured out "This specific mental or emotional thing indicates this specific nutrient deficiency." And the treatment ends up being "Eat foods high in that nutrient."

Having said that, I think a large part of mental illness is really "you are a product of your social environment and the world can sometimes be amazingly talented at driving you crazy."

But to whatever degree mental illness has roots in actual biology, I really think it should be viewed as illness not mental illness.
> I wonder how fast it'd be to convert to string and count digits.

When you convert the number to a string you're really transforming it to a decimal format. Which is the domain where you should be solving the problem. Otherwise you're doing some sort transformation in the binary domain and then hopping to pull the answer out of a hat when you do the final convertion to decimal.