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It would be suicidal to challenge marijuana, since it is going against the current mob mentality on HN and elsewhere, but I am going to do just that. In my personal experience:

- I think Marijuana should be legalized but it needs to be made uncool to consume just like Tobacco. Currently, it is the opposite. Social media loves weed.

- Marijuana destroys personal ambition, productivity and self-esteem.

- Marijuana is addicting even though people say its not. It is much easier to quit than Tobacco, but denying that its not addicting is not true in my experience.

- Marijuana is a nuisance on streets, apartments, etc. It has such a potent smell, it is impossible to get rid of. I would say it has 100x power of smell than perfumes, probably even more. You can smell Marijuana in your car if someone on the road is smoking it.

- Lung damage, it's undeniable.

- Marijuana is a gateway drug, I strongly believe this but open for changing my mind if there is data supporting otherwise.

It's time we make Marijuana uncool. Sure, we should stop incarcerating people for possession but I strongly oppose the current Marijuana culture. It's toxic to the society. I welcome counterpoints and discussion, just being honest about how I see the Marijuana culture. I've been there and done that for 2 years straight in college. Roommate was a weed dealer.
The difference is that one of these regimes exists only because of US support. And the other has proven it's willing to infringe on intellectual property rights and steal technology when it's convenient to do so.
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basically any of the former “unicorn” tech companies that ipod any time in past few years.

have pulled back a bit already but still 3x+ their pre pandemic levels despite business not being up that much

which isn’t to say they aren’t great companies (they are) but still had unrealistic run ups
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Metaphorically. Clever as it came down into Yosemite via a plane falling out of the sky.

Although, yes, it’s a bit of tongue-in-cheek clickbait.
I agree it was meandering and a mess in that sense, but I still enjoyed reading it. Normally I'd be bothered due a sense of wasted time but I think these issues are worth thinking through, and even if not everything ties together in the essay I think they're relevant to one another topically. Sometimes I'm ok with many loose ends.

For me, the Knightian uncertainty was interesting to think about in the context of free will and predictability, but it seemed as if the connection wasn't there in the way the author wanted it to be. At some point the author suggests that if Knightian uncertainty holds, "instead of being predictably unpredictable it is simply unpredictable, and cannot be described by straightforward mathematical probabilities. Instead it reflects the free will of a human being."

Isn't Knightean uncertainty more reflective of an epistemological state of an observer/modeler? I mean, you can still assign probabilities to an event even if your model is wrong or extremely simple. Events that are truly random will still have probabilities assignable to them.

I'm also deeply uncomfortable with the argument that seems to be creeping in in this essay and in elsewhere that unpredictability seems to be equated with free will. I do not see them as the same. Just as example, say your decision between A and B is replaced with a truly random event with 30-70% probabilities. Does that mean free will? I would say no. Free will has some other element associated with it, an element I haven't heard articulated very well yet.
In fiction (and film particularly) these sorts of characters are often a narrative device so that things can be explained without needing an omniscient narrator.
You mention about lack of connectivity.
I agree with you, that it is not just the device, but the good quality connectivity, that creates this 'jump' in availability of educational content / etc.

Is the government making good concentrated efforts to get that solved ? Or is the broadband availability is mostly allotted to the efforts of private enterprises ?
the banks have too much cash and not enough collateral (typically bonds). The FED lends them the bonds for one day (reverse repo) so that their books look ok at the end of the day.
That's a wonderful bit of trivia, but it also doesn't in any way excuse the spineless teachers who rather tell victims to endure daily abuse than confront a group of ten-year-olds
It's totally related. There's the old urban myth about the "NASA Pen,"[0] which is a favorite of tech people (It isn't actually true, but it's a great story).

I have a similar apocryphal story that I use in design. I write about it here[1].

> For many years, I have heard stories about some architect – they never say who – that once designed an office park/university campus/government center, etc., and deliberately did not add any paved walkways. Instead, it is said he had the buildings completely surrounded by lawns. After a year, he came back, and paved the areas of these lawns worn thin by people taking the most effective routes around the buildings. He did this because he decided at the start of the project, he’d never be able to account for human nature, and it was his goal to serve the folks using the campus as best as he could. The users of his system would let him know, organically, how to “tune” it so it can best serve them.

Also, anyone that is familiar with the Granny Weatherwax character, by Sir Terry Pratchett, may remember that she practiced what was termed "Headology." That was sort of "practical" psychology, and it involved things like giving headless ghosts pumpkins, so they would stop moaning (actually, it was another character that did that -from I Shall Wear Midnight[2], but it was definitely Granny's "Headology").

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...

[2] https://www.studynovels.com/Page/Story?bookId=27327&pageNo=6...
I can relate, i learned React in tandem with ReasonML. The first job working with TypeScript felt like watching paint dry. Awesome languages can spoil you.
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The median American voter is a 50 year old suburban home owner (and the median midterm voter is even older and wealthier). These people still support the war on drugs, although probably not at the same levels as before.
If you look at violent crime over the last 50 years it has steadily decreased. I think it’s reasonable to see a correlation.

It’s possible decriminalizing could lead to a huge wave in crimes as people try to pay for their fix.

That being said, I’m pro-liberty. I feel all drugs should be accessible
I had a weird tick as a kid where anytime someone said something to me I had to mentally adjust the length of the statement so the number of words was divisible by 5.

So for example if you said "Are you going to school today?" I'd add "my good friend, Will" in my mind.

It drove me nuts, but I was unable to stop. Then one day it just went away. Still have no idea what that was but it plagued most of my childhood. I remember when I noticed that I didn't have to do that anymore and it was probably the happiest I felt prior to my daughters birth.

Never told anyone about it before this comment. It's a strange thing to try and explain to someone.
I think the obvious answer often overlooked is that a lot of people are simply still totally fine marginalizing Blacks, Latinos, progressives, and other minorities.
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>not worth having it, nothing is gained.

I agree, I've seen lots of open source projects get stuck and suffer from this issue where it's hard to get certain things done, it's hardly anything new, that's why I tend to focus on how to reach solutions to the problem. If you know someone who is capable of fixing these issues who needs some support, or if you have some technical insights here, let's talk about that. Otherwise, the issue is not one of being controlled -- the issue is actually because nobody has enough control to get the thing done. So let's see what we can do to give the right people a handle on the situation and empower them to do the right thing.

>Affects developers, and GTK itself when used.

I'm not sure what you mean, the developers of other wayland implementations don't have to worry about GNOME's implementation, unless they are aiming for feature parity. GTK can of course receive patches to support other implementations.
> Novice developers tend to be proud of how terse and dense their code is, and optimize for minimizing line count.

I've never seen a senior write nested ternary expressions with side effects...
>> ... Macs are incredibly expensive here because of import taxes

> This sound like a great opportunity for the government to do some good.

Cut the taxes that fund the services poor people depend on, such as education, health care, transportation, etc., so that they can have cheaper computers and Apple can net more profit?
The difference is that racism is not a secondary motivator. Racism would be baked into the desire for power, as it would then be a desire to instill white supremacy.
Coincidentally Notion and Figma suffer from the same technical bottlenecks and therefore miss out on what I think is just as big a market: quick notes and quick prototypes. Take a native alternative to Figma like Adobe XD: it lets you create a document, put some boxes on the screen, hit cmd+enter, and instantly pops up a scrollable view of your prototype. Figma however lags for seconds each time it has to compile the presentation view.
Oh, I agree that, baring some actual honest-to-god innovation, the whole product category's niche-by-nature. Just relating the way Neo4j's been positioning themselves.
The immediate situation is a problem of money market funds having more inflows than they could allocate (without nominal losses) in a zero interest rate environment. It's not about inflation per se.
Some more background here: Yvonne Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, is one of the "Dirtbags" mentioned in the article - I can't recommend the documentary (the trailer is also in the article) Valley Uprising enough.
First I thought “can only happen in the US”, but I remember that four years ago the dutch coalition government had inserted a very specific tax break in the coalition agreement that no party suggested prior to the election. It served shareholders of two influential companies. Fortunately it was cancelled, it was too embarrassing.
That's objectively not true. The reason religion talks about virtue and sin so much is because it's understood that each person has the power to chose one or the other. That's the fundamental free will, all stems from it.
The War on Drugs is a powerful tool the US uses across the globe to pressure unfriendly nations and to keep tons of cash off the Pentagon’s official books. No reform of American drug policy will be possible as long as the CIA and other agencies actively benefits from drug trafficking.
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The best vote of confidence is the brain gain/drain ratio.

Are smart, educated and highly motivated professionals going to North India or are they leaving it?
I think the parallel between cost of semiconductor fabs increasing and costs of fusion reactors increasing is quite apt.

But we don't actually have exponential improvement in any physical object, that's not to do with information processing - a solar panel or battery made today is not 10x better than one made 10 years ago.

It's not even true of all semiconductors - power electronics, radio, etc.
Individual Kafka consumers and producers tend to have simple behavior, which is good, and initially plugging them together yields simple, predictable systems, but people tend to keep going until they experience pain, at which point they have a system that is right at the limit of what they can understand. Then further feature work pushes them over the limit into darkness.

I think Kafka needs the equivalent of OpenAPI and Redoc, a simple spec and document generator, but for groups of consumers and producers rather than single applications. This would increase the tractability of complex systems, but it would also let you see the system getting more complex over time, even when you haven't reached the pain point yet.
The tricky bit is that a CDN doesn't really want geographic distribution so much as to be close to network distribution points. If a WISP's customers aren't enough to warrant a CDN node and their internet backhaul is fiber to a not particularly nearby internet exchange point, there's not a whole lot of benefit to the CDN to be at the WISP rather than the internet exchange.

It might be different if the WISP has connections to local residential ISPs that aren't well connected to local internet exchanges (or there nearest internet exchange isn't very near) so the WISP facility offers a way to get (network) closer to more users.

I could also see some potential for mixing traffic streams between a WISP (or several) and a CDN to try to balance traffic flows enough to qualify for peering with networks with restrictive peering policies; however, they also often have geographic requirements that might be harder to meet.
It doesn't apply to housing. (And there is no capital gains on sale of your primary residence anyway).
I've taken advantage of text protocols countless (hundreds? thousands?) of times in my career to troubleshoot, learn, and experiment.

Just a few weeks ago when I needed to peek into some StatsD packets to ensure we were sending what we expected when monitoring wasn't working. If it was a binary format this simply would not have been an option as this was a remote environment with limited tooling available to it.
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I remember a panel on a news program years ago where the one guest was a psychologist who was treating "untreatable" drug addicts by getting them "hooked" on running or weightlifting or martial arts. They would stop drugs but would instead be doing martial arts for hours a day or running 20 miles every morning. Then he would start treating the addiction personality and causes, but in many cases the patients would just stop coming and live three or more hours of every day in the gym.

The other guests were various degrees of horrified.

His patients went from literally living on the street as heroin addicts to doing 3 hour gym sessions and holding down a job; and his peers thought he shouldn't be allowed to practice.

Recently I was reading a book on ADHD and the author was quite adamant that you could only be diagnosed with ADHD if your life was worse than "the norm". In this view, if you have symptoms of ADHD but can, for instance, hold down a good job then by definition you don't have ADHD. I deleted the book from my Audible account.
>The "War on Drugs" have failed to make USA safer, healthier or any other positive metric.

Speak for yourself. My methhead sister-in-law is in prison and I certainly feel safer. Addicts cannot be trusted and bring families down.

People raised away from addicts (read: white liberals) don’t understand how destructive they can be to a community.
But React Native is a mobile framework...how can they use it on their site? I don't think that quite makes sense.
>What portion of those arrested + detained are the type of people we want in society/civilization?

Check a list of countries by rate of incarceration[1]. Then ask yourself if it's likely that the US, El Salvador, Turkmenistan, Palau and Rwanda are the grouping that have it right. That's the top 5, in order, all at 511+ per 100k.

For comparison, Australia is 160, England is 130, Canada is 104, France is at 93, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

Edit: Generally, I read all that as "probably 3 or 4 of every 5 US prisoners don't need to be in prison".
Indeed, "bootleggers and baptists"[1] very much didn't go away with the end of prohibition.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
Reminds me that PostgreSQL goes way back and has had some notable contributors -> https://gist.github.com/tmc/81b917d39b4b752029fd
I still find it abhorrent that incarcerated people can't vote in the US. That seems so obviously exploitable.
Absolutely. It's hard to refute that people with more resources achieve at a much higher rate, and the solution is obvious.
What on earth is this trash website? For a supposedly enlightened community, HN sure seems to happily upvote low quality clickbait headlines that are barely accurate.
The writer is a well-known and well-liked psychiatrist/blogger who does not have a reputation for lying.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Star_Codex
Even Cannabis legalization may get rolled back a bit I think, there's been a bit of a backlash locally where I around it.
You realize the opioid deaths are because a certain drug maker encouraged docs to overprescribe? That left a lot of people hooked for no good reason.

Now they've flipped and are underprescribing, leaving a lot of patients turning to the street for their pain control.
Try turning off javascript, maybe using an extension like NoScript.
I wonder if his sons struggle with addiction changed Biden’s views on the topic.

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"What we need is another D-Day, not another Vietnam, not another limited war fought on the cheap," declared then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., in 1989.

Biden, who chaired the influential Senate Judiciary Committee, later co-authored the controversial 1994 crime bill that helped fund a vast new complex of state and federal prisons, which remains the largest in the world.
30 years? The 90s still had police going hard on drug dealers and users.

And I didn't realize the Sackler family was skating by cause the DEA stopped arresting marijuana users.

Also, on the more conspiratorial side, it is curious how opioid supply and use flourished as soon as we were in Afghanistan. Kind of like it did when we were in Vietnam. Two areas known for poppies and heroin. Given what we know about the FBI encouraging terrorism so they can then claim they stopped it, I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA/JSOC was funneling in the drugs for cash and the DEA was mopping that up for cash/reason to exist.
A bit like a lightning rod. The OCD is going to fixate on something... give it a target you can control
It's worth noting that Dan Baum didn't publish this quote until 16 years after Ehrilchman had already died.
Why is charging a flat fee never an option? Just take $200 and let me do my thing. Taking any % of my income on the regular as a kind of existence tax is detrimental for the ecosystem.
"War on Drugs" refers specifically to the series of laws and actions and attitudes that began with the Nixon administration, the publicly stated intent of which was to combat illegal drug use. The actual intent was to demonize the perceived political enemies of the Nixon administration. Despite that, this is still the core of America's drug policy today.

> I think we can all agree that illicit drugs can cause damage to societies

Can we? So what's the root cause of illicit drug use? We have one major suspect with correlation but not causation established:

https://www.addictionhope.com/blog/child-abuse-substance-abu...

> Research shows almost two-thirds of all patients in treatment for substance abuse report physical, sexual or emotional abuse during childhood.

“The sheer weight of the many reports over the years certainly implicates child abuse as a possible factor in drug abuse for many people,” said Dr. Cora Lee Wetherington, NIDA’s Women’s Health Coordinator.

“But we lack hard data that clearly establish and describe the role of child ‘abuse in the subsequent development of drug abuse. Is child abuse indeed a cause of drug abuse, or is child abuse a marker for other unidentified factors?”
There is, I think, a global misunderstanding about the nature of addiction.

When pushed to the extreme, any addiction can be destructive.

Food, sex, alcohol, tobacco or games are a few perfectly legal examples.

Food addiction is especially interesting because it is at the same time widespread and denied.

Also, the immediate effects and destructive power are less spectacular than crack.

From my completely empirical observations, there is a simple trick to overcome any type of addiction: being happy.

Being wealthy can help.
It fell from the sky. Also, people were able to pick it up out of a lake after it fell. Those are pretty rain-like attributes, and not often associated with packaged marijuana.

Yes, it happened to be inside a crashing drug-running airplane as it fell, rather than precipitating from a cloud of water vapor, but that's a minor detail.
Unfortunately, any citizen's initiative that is placed on the ballot in Ohio is an amendment to the constitution. This has an upside in that the legislature can't really override the direct will of the citizenry, but it also means that things that might not be a great fit for the constitution are there.
Finish decriminalizing weed. Repeal the federal possession prohibition, repeal the remaining possession/"open container" laws, exclude it from drug testing programs, release people currently in prison for cannabis offenses.
Note that crack itself was a result of the drug war. Crack is a way to get more use out of a given amount of cocaine.
I took a brief glance at the syntax. Am I correct in thinking this is SwiftUI-like?
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Have you heard of (YC backed) UpCodes? You might find their legal troubles[1] interesting and infuriating. TLDR: They were sued for copyright infringement for publishing housing code that had been adopted as law.

[1] https://up.codes/free-law
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Your pension, if you have one is a ponzi. Your 401k is your money subject to special tax rules.
It’s odd to hear so much focus on America and American politics. We have more liberal drug laws than other non-western countries but the discussion always has a lot of American exceptionalism in reverse.
I'm wondering whether Google in their Play Store revenue cut reduction considered doing the same thing but decided against it due to the antitrust risk.
I used to work in IT sales and I'm not surprised