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Caveat to this: there is no substitute for hard work IFANDONLYIF you enjoy the journey itself, and want to be good at the process.

There are plenty of things where people don't care for the process -- they just want the results, whether it's money, fame, body, or what not. And to that: there's plenty of substitutes for hard work.

But I do think there are plenty of things where the deliberateness of the journey is the reward. For plenty of runners who run a marathon, the payoff isn't checking it off the todo list but the exercise of willpower. Same goes to hobbies, same goes to skills -- and honestly people tick in different ways. But I do think the OP just wants us to enjoy the journey and be invested in it.
> the real reason behind the viral spread is because a weaponized version of the coronavirus was released by Wuhan's Institute of Virology (accidentally or not)

Literally claims it's a manmade weapon released intentionally in the first paragraph.

Edit: it seems pretty obvious that article was banned because it's an unsubstantiated witch-hunt. It even gives the guy's number and urges the reader to harass him. Fwiw "they were just asking questions!" is not a valid argument.
fentanyl provides a "better high" in very small dosages as compared to other heroine or others. Hence dealers trying to make a bigger profit lace their heroine with fentanyl. This is also why users often accidently overdose on heroine because they inject it using the heroine measurements but since it's got fentanyl, it's a lot more potent and thus easily overdosed on.
Their safe harbor status is maintained through their obligations under the DMCA. Content ID may have come about to placate publishers, but it has nothing to do with section 512 of the DMCA and everything to do with stemming lawsuits.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’m on mobile. Whatever
God, I love ZKPs. So much neat stuff you could do.

You could prove you're of legal drinking age without having to show a stranger your ID full of sensitive info.

You could prove you "liked" a band before a certain date and therefore get discounts on merch or show tickets or something.

New ideas come to me every day.
I live in a small building with just 3 units (again, only THREE owners). An issue w/ the building came up in January, it's been six months and we still haven't agreed on who are we going to hire, who is going to pay for what, etc...

I can only think it is essentially impossible to get 20+ tenants to agree on something that involves them spending money, time, inconvenience, ...
What’s the business-model for image-hosting like thesedays?

Years ago everyone had to use an image-host (Photobucket, lol…) because all those phpBB instances on shared hosting accounts didn’t support direct image uploads or greatly limited attachments and most people didn’t have their own web hosting account to use instead.

With the rise of Web 2.0, it became important for sites to control their content - I remember the days of hotlinked images being swapped-out with obscene or vomit-inducing content as an act of revenge on bandwidth leeches - and cheap storage meant it wasn’t a problem to host hundreds of gigabytes of content by oneself. Can you image if Facebook and Instagram didn’t host the images posted to them?

It’s 2021 now, web-forums are dead - if people want to share photos to a small circle they’ll likely use Dropbox or OneDrive - or just copy+paste between Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp…

Do guide question: who uses your service and where’s the opportunity for profit? Serving images directly means people can’t see any ads, and browsers now block more and more third-party cookies (until all of them by 2023, I understand) so using image-hosting as a way to track users across the web is gone - is your frontpage traffic enough? Savvy users who use image hosts also tend to the ones to adblock too, even on mobile.
how did it even survive for over a decade dumbass?
Well, it's definitely a dark pattern.

But why do you use Instagram to view cat pictures?

Just use google image search to view as many cat pictures you want. Yes, google also serve ads - but it doesn't prevent you from viewing images. And ads can be easily blocked with an ad blocker.

Social media, specially the FB family, is all about dark patterns. Avoid using them - at least for viewing cat pictures.
> > Everyone everywhere has realized throughout the ages that conversion of anything is higher when you get a demo of the product.

> Apparently not video games. Not many game companies offer demos anymore because they actually hurt sales.

That's interesting. Is that because the demo cannibalizes sales (ie. people have enough fun just playing the demo they don't feel compelled to buy the game), or because the demo undermines the game's value proposition (ie. people don't buy the crappy game because the demo makes the crappiness evident)?
After over a year of WFH, I think I need a mix. Too many days at home and I start to lose focus. A few days in the office fixes it. Also, I realized that despite the stresses of driving, commuting had allowed me to decompress a bit from work before coming home, as long as I drove in a relaxed manner. That being said, for some reason a lot of drivers post-COVID are 10x more aggressive, so I'm actually now a bit afraid to go into the office.
At least it decreases the number of people sent to prisons for possession and consumption.

This is not a sufficient step, but a likely first step in normalizing the use of weed in the eyes of the public. Abrupt changes scare people (and for a good reason).
After reading your comment, I did Google "elevator death", expecting to be dismayed. I came away oddly reassured. It seems that fatal elevator accidents are rare, and that you have much more to fear from your fellow elevator passengers than the apparatus itself, if the news articles are anything to go by.

I do have a new fear of drowning in an elevator, though: https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/01/05/young-couple-drowns-i...
> I've always suspected that people who claimed they could visualize things with great clarity were lying

I know this will do nothing to dispel your suspicion, but I can see people and places with great clarity, detail, in color and moving, and if I focus on them they are not fleeting (I get involuntary images that are fleeting though).

You'll be right to dismiss my claim -- I'm some random stranger on the internet after all -- but I can only assure you that not only am I not lying, until very recently I thought this was the norm. In fact, I had to be convinced by a friend who suffers from it that aphantasia is not a hoax. I still cannot understand how someone can be unable to see the face of their loved ones unless they are actually in front of them.

As for the red lights in this experiment: they started to change as my eyes became unfocused, and I got some "hypnotic" dizzy feeling after a couple of minutes, but didn't see any shapes and got bored with it so I closed the window.
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Hm. So how do homeless people register to vote? Can I register in the same way? Cursory Google search seems to indicate you only need a mailing address, and your residence can be described as a cross street or some such.

I mean, I don't care if the government knows where I live, but I do care if they leak it to people without my explicit consent.
It's true, there is a "strawman" in my head. I live in the UK, I appreciate the EU's origin labelling laws, and I'm afraid that any trade deal between the UK and the USA might involve sacrificing those consumer protections.
The amount of electricity needed goes up due to amount of space being used. The problem is the amount of space being used (e.g. for air conditioning), not how the electricity is being generated (since we do not have technology that makes electricity without greatly affecting the environment and is also cheap enough).

And at the end of the day, nothing will mitigate the 2nd law of thermodynamics in our current toolchest. So either we reduce total consumption, or we (spanning multiple generations of humans) pay the price.
Clearly it was not fine, but in fact leaky, and depending only on perimeter security was (and is) flawed. See https://collaboration.opengroup.org/jericho/commandments_v1....
Here is some data for all 50 States.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us

I'll let it speak for itself.
But marijuana isn't heroin, wouldn't the heroin user prefer heroin over marijuana for their heroin habit?

Marijuana users prefer marijuana.
It seems like a trap they dug for themselves: optimize the drilling process for engagement instead of speed of learning, maximize eyeballs, advertise -- and that sours me on the paid upgrade, because the drilling is such a grind. I'd happily pay if the instruction felt efficient.
What surprises me most is the machine running Docker was 100% connected directly to a public network interface. That’s the real root of the problem here.
The insurance and mortgage companies should have been interested in the information but I doubt whoever had the information would have thought to contact them and, even if they did, I doubt the companies would have had a reliable process for receiving and investigating that sort of “whistleblower” claim. It’s even more complicated when it’s a condo building and there are any number of different banks and insurers involved, rather than just one. Everyone assumes someone else is looking at X and so they all ignore it a bit more than they should.

But, if you’re looking for the business niche, I’d guess they’d be your customers. Basically a “bug bounty” program for underwriters of tenancy in common real estate.
I think market incentives to do the right thing is more helpful than an app.
Work smart, hard, enjoy it, and seek excellence, or do something else.
you had me until "Uber". those are.... cars.
The idea of decriminalisation is the cops don't focus on end users (and the negative effect of this to them) and the resource goes toward organised crime.

I think makes sense for drugs govt won't legalise like Heroin, while they should legalise lower end drugs like pot.
It's unbelievable that in 2021 Cannabis is still a Schedule 1 Drug but Alcohol and Tobacco are responsible for more death and have killed more people in America than all the Wars.

https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-death...

>Excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 95,000 deaths in the United States each year, or 261 deaths per day.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/index.htm

>Each year, nearly half a million Americans die prematurely of smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke. Another 16 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Each year, the United States spends more than $225 billion on medical care to treat smoking-related disease in adults.

Our Government is a Kakistocracy. I really don't believe the current administration will legalize it and any election promises were lies.
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Strongly disagree. I’ve worked at two startups and found them to have been really educational jobs.

Despite being a recent grad, I was given huge responsibilities and with that huge mentorship (founders couldn’t afford for me to mess up). I think founders are generally smarter than middle managers at big companies, so I think that at least in theory they’d be better mentors.

Only the competent and hardworking keep their jobs/move up at a startup. If you’re someone who wants to work with the best, this is a good thing.

The harder not smarter thing is something this essay might be close to right about. Sometimes there is not time to think deeply about problems.

But…to say startup experience is writing CRUD a bunch is false. Good startups generally use cutting edge tech—no legacy systems and less maintenance and migration pains.
How often do entire DCs suffer catastrophic loss? Not just an hour or two of connectivity outage, but “meteor-strike”-type scenarios - or more likely: a fire that takes out an entire rack or row of racks? How often does it happen in developed countries (where fire fighting infrastructure is in-place and building fire-codes are enforced) vs worldwide average? Has it ever happened to a brand-name cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP)? How does it compare to self-managed co-lo?
At first I thought "oh yet another college homework with FUSE API". But this is actually a non-trivial implementation since it's a kernel module, and it doesn't just discard the syscalls (and pretend it worked). It preserves file attrs, sizes and directory entries.

> It can handle regular file operations like mkdir/rmdir/ln but writing to files does not store any data. The file size is however saved, so reading from the files behaves like re ading from /dev/zero with a fixed size.

> Writing and reading is basically an NOOP, so it can be used for performance testing with applications that require directory structures. Implemented as kernel module, instead of using FUSE, there is absolutely no overhead for copying application data from user to kernel space while performing write or read operations.
Do you not believe expression can be violent? That's what this is about. Expression that harms people.
"Please let us arbitrarily censor anyone for any reason and we promise your life will be better"

Yes, this idea worked every time.
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Exactly - and there's no mention either of how the fix was implemented nor what remediations were done to prevent it happening again in the future...
The coffeeshops are allowed to sell small quantities for personal use. But growing marijuana in large quantities and supplying those stores is still considered illegal and punishable with fines / jail time.
There are plenty of good Mandarin decks on Anki, especially ones with sentences/idioms.

(You just have to be careful with the Pinyin at times as it may be automatically generated and some characters have more than one sound/tone.)
Not criticizing self-reporting in general, just that it can't by its nature do what the title claims.
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You’re thinking of reCaptcha “v2”. That was when it was about digitizing books. One distorted photo of a word had a known spelling, and the other didn’t. If you spelled the known one right, it let you through. If enough people spelled the unknown one the same way, it would “learn” how to OCR that word (of sorts). If you had time to spare/waste, you could spell the first one right, and put garbage for the second one. About half the time, it would let you through.

Not sure how reCaptcha “v3” (the photos of streets one) works. It could work the same way, but just with more known and unknown (unclassified) pictures? It’s also a lot more harsh if you get it wrong: artificial delays, switching to the “click until no more remain” mode (with more delays), and more. Sometimes, it just refuses to let you through no matter what: https://youtu.be/zGW7TRtcDeQ It’s extremely frustrating.
Agreed. As long as they strictly go after the black market, I am okay with legalizing all drugs including heroine. For weed, there shouldn't be any more money wasted imo.

Isn't injection the more "quicker" way for heroine though?
By the time I've eaten lunch, I've been exposed to propaganda from every media portal in a fairly relentless manner both in the form of advertising and manufactured messages disguised as news. That may include comments created by algorithms and posted by bots impersonating persons. I can't deny that existence increasingly feels inauthentic by design and that alone creates subtle anxiety every day. Add in the constant high-attention grabbing headlines, images, or videos – are those the cause of my escapist dreams?

Like you, science fiction has been a cornerstone of my life since early childhood. For the longest time, I believed our digital selves we're capable of being functional alter egos in a new digital medium separated from physical existence, but that is not what happened. Instead, our real selves and the digital world have merged and in many ways they are inseparable. The pitfalls of this intertwined world are all too visible as society finds itself in drastic divides ranging from political views to music tastes. This coming from someone who believed positive technology advancements would outweigh the negatives, but I can only see the downsides lately. I think I lost the plot and it is all too blurry now. Maybe I need a vacation.
> Literally claims it's a manmade weapon released intentionally in the first paragraph.

Do you know what the word "accidentally" means?
This (Docker opening a hole in my firewall) is why I moved my dev server from Linode to Digital Ocean. DO provides a “cloud firewall” that provides something akin to AWS security groups and therefore can’t be messed by Docker. Linode doesn’t have anything like that (last time I checked at least).
lol. here is a crazy idea: make them legal.

also, decriminalization is usually a step towards legalization. because it's too much to straigh-up legalize them.

also, it's beyond me how some people can get on their high horses about what drugs are okay (alcohol? coffee?) and what drugs are not okay. we should have figured this out by now - but seems that we're going to need more time /s
No. The point was that the engineers should have fixed the design, but since the job was already started, it would cost too much to change or delay, so others decided to keep testing to find a result to Cherry pick.

Also, no, not referring to buildings on normal engineering. I’m talking about buildings built with corners being cut. This was also not in Seattle and wasn’t low lying, was on a hill.
“The essential point: California has never had enough water. The current drought is simply the latest evidence that this is a dry land, not “susceptible of supporting a very large population,” as an American military officer wrote in the 1840s. 2 But of course the region has shown itself more than susceptible of supporting — or at least attracting — a very large population.”

Expressing these truths on the oh so liberal internet is treated as a thought crime. However, it is as the author says, “the essential point.”
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Arguably this would be one of those market incentives to do the right thing by raising the expected cost of doing the wrong thing.
Is there somewhere I can read more the criminal organizations being apart of the legal cannabis scene in Holland?
Much higher. When I last checked, it was much easier for an English speaker to find a Mandarin penpal than the other way around.
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The term "or not" is them suggesting it may not have been an accidental leak.

Edit: ah you're the troll I unfortunately encountered yesterday. Won't be engaging further, have a good evening!
I was looking for Whataburger as a counterexample here to the sentiment that there are no widespread Heinz alternatives and found it in your comment. It’s the perfect counterexample to OP’s comment in multiple ways -

1. It’s widespread (not even artisanal) in the regions it is deployed in. I can walk into my neighborhood grocery store in Texas and always expect to see Whataburger Spicy Ketchup in the condiment aisle.

2. The spicy ketchup is a genuinely superior product to Heinz. It just straight up tastes better, feels less sugary, and it’s far enough ahead in quality that I actively seek it out over “regular” ketchup.
when this is selectively enforced and only people of a certain color or ethnic group have to pay the heavy price of possession I call bullshit on the "war on drugs". this is not and has not been about drugs from day one.
I used to have a similar dream all the time. Always felt a passage through time and space with a terrible sense of dread and confusion. Turns out I have sleep apnea and as soon as I got a cpap the dreams went away.
Honestly, this did not resonate with me at all. It seems like more of a just-so story than a coherent argument commensurate with his sweeping hypothesis (that much of human history can be explained by our erroneously using absolute wealth to judge relative status).

I'm not sure why we need this 'status theory' to tie together the trends of modern history that he describes ("rising lifespans, lower fertility, falling violence, more school, more effort into art/travel/invention/etc"), when each of them seems much more directly related to the overarching trend of "we have more (food, economic, time, technological) surplus than ancients did". Briefly:

Rising lifespans - we have vaccines, infinite and fortified food, a safer environment,...

Lower fertility - people (particularly women) have other options, childhood mortality is lower because of the prior item, contraception exists,...

Falling violence - people living closer to subsistence have less to lose from violence than those whose survival is otherwise assured; when sufficient means of survival exist there is no need to kill each other over them; we have enough resources now to spend on policing and deterring violence;...

More school and more effort spent on art etc - obviously a society of subsistence farmers will spend less on art and invention than one where a single farmer can feed a thousand people. The modern surplus is what makes this investment even possible

I know that he gives lip service against some of these counterarguments (e.g., re life expectancy "these factors do a poor job of explaining the magnitude and steadiness of the mortality fall over the last few centuries"), but I need more evidence than that to reject the simple explanation in favor of the speculative hypothesis presented here.

He also subtly confuses status _obsession_ with an erroneous _perception_ of high status. If people believe they are already high-status, why would it make sense to devote more resources to getting and achieving status instead of e.g. fertility? I believe that status-obsession certainly drives many parts of our collective behavior, but that seems entirely noncontroversial and separable from Hanson's "miscallibration from absolute wealth" hypothesis.

In sum, I was disappointed by this post and am moderately revising down my expectations from Robin Hanson going forward.
Yes.

For the record, that approach has been working great for me in the both cases.
> Do you know what the term "or not" means?

Yes. Do you know what a disjunction is?
The question is what the implications are for a Mexican society where drug gangs are more than a menace. As opposed to legalization, mere decriminalization will increase demand without providing new, legal means to get the marijuana.

Then again the gangs get a very small portion of their income from domestic weed sales, so maybe this won't make the situation worse.
I’m not super up to date on medical literature, but are the mental effects of cannabis the same as tobacco? Nicotine is a stimulant. I know a few potheads that whittled their lives away high, but tobacco doesn’t seem to have that effect.
Random flickering tiny green dots, a bit of fuzzy red rippling, and a desire to clean the screen, but nothing exciting.
If workers are that dumb to get such jobs and stay on it forever instead of returning back, maybe it’s right jobs for them. I think better of working class people though.
While I don't like Windows 10 telemetry and other shady diagnostics services that lurk in the background, I've never seen any ads "infesting" the OS at all, and I'm online almost all day. Which part of Windows displays ads?
I suppose that’s fair, as we can still row without the membership. I think the bigger issue is how this relates to right to repair and product warranty/merchantability. If you sell a product and then take away features using a software update, you should be required to either compensate owners for the lost functionality or buy back the equipment from them at purchase price.
Most sites would use the user agent for this but I’m pretty sure HTML now has a picture tag which can have multiple sources so the browser can pick the source it wants.
I used to use it to get people's Skype addresses and do p2p learning. It seems they've cracked down on that a lot.