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please. Dang should be down on this word, its designed to elict bad responses. It adds nothing.

Self help has a very interesting consequence on the politics of social service delivery to people. I've had this conversation a LOT with US voters, and they resent their tax dollars funding type-2 diabetes intervention precisely because its perceived as a self-acquired voluntary disease.

Never mind the horrific health economics outcome of ignoring it, some wierd, quasi-moralistic "I shouldn't HAVE TO" enters the room.

I believe quite strongly this is a consequential corollary of the self-help movement. Which btw, has deep roots in the American political landscape, from well before the obsession with Dale Carnegie. You could argue the whole "go west" and invitation to land-pegging which fuelled the expansion of the states into the territories depended on it.

Samuel Smiles wrote histories of great men which fuelled a sense of ability to become what you wish to be, and was part of the victorian british self-help movement too.

If I looked for a word to describe the other point of view I get to "collectivist" but within seconds Its descended into name calling around socialism.

Europe and Asia have a different sense of what is, and is not worth funding and managing collectively. US Americans in particular are driven to self-reliance in all things, including things which demonstrably are counter productive.

Self-Help and Self-Advancement, and simple self-managed self-actualisation are all a part of this.

There aren't seven habits of highly effective people: There's the benefit of money, and not reading pop-sci and thats about it.

Wokists make jokes about Ayn Rand because she died poor, lonely and deprived, dependent on the state. The ultimate payback, no? Asocial is, as Asocial does.

For humour value, consider Gurdjieff. Where would you put Gurdjieff and Krishnamurti on the 'woke' agenda, given they believed strongly in ... self-help?
Go see accident videos, even with the most expensive helmets if you hit the pavement hard enough you'll get decapitated, this thing is as stupid as it gets. Wear a damn helmet.
The classic argument stating that tyrants try as early and hard as possible to confiscate weapons from civilians is another cue.

An army pretty much knows the truism stating that occupying is more easy if the zone is gun-free.

There is an often-neglected complement: by the same principle an army fighting against another which occupies a nation usually try to deliver weapons to civilians rebelling against the invader, even if manufacturing and delivering them dissipates very precious resources. It was quite patent during WW2, for example in France where the OSS and SOE parachuted a huge amount of weapons to the Résistance and Maquis movements. In the same vein the German army, during the invasion, quickly confiscated civilian weapons (they were registered) and was then very reluctant to deliver weapons to their local sympathizers (at first and for an extended period they bluntly refused).
This article does a horrible job of explaining Turchin's ideas. It's not too many "brainy" people that are the problem. It's that if upward mobility becomes limited to those that have advanced degrees, and if there are an oversupply of people with advanced degrees, you will now have (at least) 3 groups of people: non-advanced-educated-but-not-good-enough, educated-but-not-good-enough, and elites.

The non-advanced-educated feel marginalized because it will be ridiculously hard for them to get the education, and as things get more expensive their livelihood will go down relative to the elites.

The advanced-educated-but-not-good-enough will feel marginalized because they spent their time and money and got nothing in return, and now have debt and degraded livelihood compared to the elites.

When enough people feel marginalized AND something happens that weakens the state's power/influence, political instability will occur.

It compounds in US/Europe with regards to education, given that these two groups are politically opposite of each other, and advanced education is becoming a barrier of entry to upward mobility.

Turchin's 2016 book Ages of discord explains these ideas in detail.
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Thanks for asking this. I’ve wondered the same things. The answers so far don’t seem to really answer the question well, which makes me wonder if this is just one of those phrases that people banter about without considering if it actually means anything.
On the other hand, the only platform that provides me with good recommendations to watch things seems to be TikTok. They are not asking me to rate individual videos, and so on. Clearly, there is a way to do recommendations without "ratings".
Makes sense. I'm not familiar with Fossil, but I know trunk was also the standard when I used SVN back in the day. I think the trunk-branch metaphor makes more sense in the centralized VCS model where there is actually something special about the trunk that makes it distinct from branches, whereas in a DVCS like git master is just another branch except that it happens to be the default one checked out.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter to me in and of itself. Even before last year, it wasn't that unusual to see git/GitHub repos with default branch names other than master (dev is probably the next most common one I've seen), and presumably not because of anything to do with racial justice. "Master" seems most practical to me for the moment, since it's the most standard/common term and is relatively non-overloaded, whereas "main" may be more ambiguous unless expanded to "the main branch" (depending on context).

It almost feels silly to bikeshed about something so minor, but it's not fair for anyone to demand that millions of people change their behavior and/or spend money without meeting some reasonable burden of proof. It's a slippery slope to allowing such unfalsifiable Pascal's-wager-type propositions ("foo may or may not be harmful, so better do bar instead just in case") to be used for more malicious manipulation of markets and geopolitics.
Metadata is highly structured, standardized, and easily understandable by machines. Content is not.
November? Not about design. It's about execution. To build those types of hand built buildings today, without the workforce to do so, and pass modern inspections? Good luck.
I mean, to people like me they might as well be. Even if people don't bow down to you, it's still better than being dismissed and ridiculed for only making $200k at Amazon from a state school with a < $300k net worth. Fwiw, my smartest friends all work at better companies than me (Google, FB, Airbnb, trading firms) and make quite a bit more than me - somewhere between $80-250k. If anything that makes me feel worse. I have friends that are students and they're all miserable, poor, and I can't really do things with them for a lack of money on their part. On the other hand, I can't do anything with my richer friends because I lack money and can't go on expensive vacations or do expensive activities. It's not great for me. It obviously doesn't help that everyone assumes people like me to be stupid, again, due to my lack of pedigree - every year of my (top 200? 250?) undergrad felt like a stab in the chest, I worked so hard to get so little (a resume that can't get me an interview at Jane Street and or a shot at a top school's grad program). I honestly don't have much hope for the future anymore as a loser in meritocracy. There's just no point if anything I do is just going to lead to the same suffering and derision from the meritocrat elites.
Not sure there's currently any sane way to put that into a house -- the industrial process involves a hydrogen fluoride loop. It's a interesting idea though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%E2%80%93H%C3%A9roult_proc...
For psilocin, 25 milligrams is enough for many (or a good start...). Just like with THC though, it's tough to gauge how much is appropriate per person per experience per environment. A tenth of a gram may not be enough if you've previously consumed it the day(s) before.
Exceptional project, top notch team who is doxxed. The website is pure gold, that’s why I bought in. Transparency is constant and the burns are weekly! Useless is going places.
Licensed content costs them more. Users that consume licensed content are worth less if that's all they consume.
You have a right to liberty regardless of whether you are enslaved or free.
The problem with telemetry is it doesn't tell you what users' need are. It tells you what they do with their software. Not why. Not how they feel about it. Not what they wish it would do.

Thoughtful and rigorous design includes user research and testing.

In my experience it takes more discipline to use telemetry responsibly. I've seen equivalent data used to justify removing 1 feature and making another more prominent. It seems to go hand in hand with UI churn. And it seems to lead to dismissing user feedback.

Crash reports and event streams are different. But there's no reason not to ask consent anyway.
*s/caught/catch/; s/remarkably/remarkable/;

Child post posed question about what measurement is being used to decide whether or not to give breathe notification, I googled around and saw that it's not documented as you say, but I think it's Apple being coy and secretive here, there's definitely something going on here.

My guess is it's some combination of pulse reading and lowered blood oxygenation level. The blood oxygenation measurement is probably more highly weighted.

When we are stressed out, we start taking shallow breaths, and taking shallow breaths is bad because it's then we start to lose a balance of oxygen/CO_2, and when that happens we're not at your best, we feel dizzy, we feel tired, our judgement is perhaps not optimal, so this is the right time to take a moment to relax and inhale deep to get some good air in, and exhale exhaustively and repeat a couple of times.
That is what I said, yes.

(Though, as pointed out by a sibling, there is a subset that is.)
Like some sort of insidious Lotka-Volterra equations!
"Shrooms" are illegal here and I'm skeptical about eating "discovered" fungus grown in cow feces, particularly in raw/uncooked form. I'm not a chemist, either, so extracting psilocybin seems daunting.

What's a safe way to consume psilocybin from such a "discovery", in terms of psychoactive dosage and for avoiding unwanted ancillary poisons?
WFH culture, stress take a toll on personal lives of most working professionals
One heater per tap.
Or tear a hole in the fabric of spacetime.
I respect religions even being agnostic, but this is completely stupid and irresponsible not for each one, but for others (it's called civil responsibility), wear a fucking helmet, don't be a corpse-wannabe.
Is this the "new study" the article is referring to with "a single dose of psilocybin given to mice"? Oh. Some text. What's this?

> Eighty participants, ages 21 to 65, who meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) will be stratified by study site and randomized with a 1-to-1 allocation under double-blind conditions to receive a single 25 mg oral dose of psilocybin or a single 100 mg oral dose of niacin. Niacin will serve as an active placebo.

I'm not convinced these participants are mice.

(As an aside, I love the way they talk about double blind conditions as if you're not going to be able to tell whether that pill was 25mg of psilocybin.).
Does 4chan have their own tenbux now?
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> But to stop mirrored stocks and other synthetic assets from trading, you would have to shut down the underlying open-source software code that makes up the blockchain and is used by a global user base that includes many anonymous players, he added.

Don't these synthetic assets need an oracle to inject the price of the real assets into the blockchain? To stop these synthetic assets from working, couldn't they just go after the oracle provider, and make it stop providing the price?
As usual good advice but shouldn't be law.
"Incentives matter"
One thing that you learn quickly when traveling the world is how easily one can go from having a good time with your friends, to being in a shitty prison without food, running water or a phone to let your family know if you are dead or alive.

I have friends travel to interesting places during times of (relative) stability. To paraphrase one of the guys that I know: "When you travel in some of these places, you exist at that time and place, not because you belong there or have a right to be there, but because nobody has decided you shouldn't."

I have always kept that in the back of my mind when traveling, even in places that I would consider first-world. It is certainly something that I would keep in the forefront of my mind if I lived or worked in a place like CN. It is always interesting to watch people who push the boundary, become emboldened and forget that they aren't the ones making the decision for their fates.

I have always thought of CN as one of those countries that wants all the benefits of a western society, with expectations that people will conform, with an implicit "or else".
The dark web or travel to a state that is doing experimental treatments and has lax laws. Oregon and Denver have state/local laws decriminalizing them at least
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Man, let me tell you about my friend the Greeks. Any time they leave the house, turn off the water heater. Hotel: water heater is off until you ask. All because in the 50s (iirc) they incorrectly installed a bunch of heaters which exploded from overpressure. I'd be surprised if they have unusually high rates of Legionnaires'.
Cryptocurrencies are a decentralised ecosystem, as such anybody can create a token. "Why" people are allowing this to happen, is that crypto enthusiasts build said decentralised ecosystem. Trust layers need to be built on top for it to become more useful, for instance, a trusted and auditable institution issuing tokens.
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Is it not that settlement nominally occurs when you choose to exit your position? Which raises various questions about whether whatever stack of turtles your swap is built on can provide liquidity when you need it.
Your rating system thing kinda makes me think of a cross between goodreads and myanimelist. All that's left is making it convenient to rate & review
This post could’ve been about a to-do list app and it wouldn’t change the overall feeling of privilege from the author, all the best for him but you can’t pass this as some inspirational type of post
While wrenching on a car is indeed manual labor I feel like it can take similar levels of mental effort, background knowledge, and training as junior dev work. So the parallel isn’t entirely off base. I believe the OP’s argument is that there are new classes of work that didn’t exist back then. Perhaps they’re not as cleanly sorted into white and blue collar lines as before but they occupy similar places in the socio-economic status positioning.
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Strained analogies aren't useful. Software that doesn't collect data or asks consent isn't even unusual.
Can you elaborate? I won't make an illicit online purchase. Prefer instead to consume safely from a post-rain visit to a manure pile.

edit: comment I replied to initially just said "the dark web" and the additional info was added after I replied.
Personally, I don't think its possible to even work in your 100% capacity with WFH. Some might think that focusing extra hard on your work while ignoring the noises and family feuds will help but the long term toll it takes on your mental health and the amount of stress it builds is devastating.
Pretty sure you are correct. It's something of an Achilles heel for any smart contract trying to interact with information that is off-chain.
Psychedelic tourism to places where it's legal.
Very good project.. still new..
Most of Texas has no building code or permitting process. It works surprisingly well in sparsely populated areas.
> Users can trade the tokens anonymously 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from anywhere, unhindered by capital controls, “know your client” rules imposed on broker-dealers, and other frictions of the traditional financial system.

I find it really weird how crypto folks keep pretending that financial regulation is an obviously bad thing, as opposed to restrictions put in place in response to real problems
In general people grow mushrooms at home on brown rice flower. They are not usually found looking under cow pies or synthesized. Growing is usually illegal but obtaining spores is often legal at least in the U.S.
> In September 2005, during the United Kingdom's presidency of the European Council, a plenary session was held concerning the retention of telecommunications data, chaired by the UK's Home Secretary.

Maybe the values of British society really are different from those of the rest of Europe... Anyway, there should be less of a push within the EU for introducing these illegal directives now.
Check out the “unclebens” subreddit. You order spores and spray them into an instant rice bag. Lots of advice and guidance there. Spores are perfectly legal to ship and buy.
China’s economic development (and East Asia’s more broadly) has been one of the most thoroughly studied topics in development economics.
His in-depth response to your precise point is written here: https://www.huxley.net/

(On a side note this guy owns some really interesting web domains)
There is a large building in Chicago that basically contains a giant ice cube.

https://www.enwave.com/locations/chicago.htm
Redirection is not distraction. The topic is environmental impact. Discussing cryptocurrency's impact is pointless because it is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. People apparently believe cryptocurrency is some kind of high priority problem that needs to be dealt with ASAP. In reality, it's responsible for less than 1% of global energy consumption and pollution. Pointing this out ends that discussion.

People insist on posting this FUD. I get it, they're concerned about the environment. So let's talk about real problems instead. Such as the highly polluting chinese manufacturers which no doubt fabricated the hardware we are using to write our opinions.

The real distraction is this "cryptocurrencies kill the environment" idea.
Not anymore, it's pretty much a dead market now that was alive a few years ago.

and, tbf, TPM that is installed via pin/headers aren't as secure as a laptop where it's embedded on the actual motherboard itself.
I see that as the long-term-goal: it's quite a cliche term by now, but they are really creating sheeple, slowly breeding out the rebelliousness and independent thought to be replaced by docile, obedient worshippers of the government.
As with terrorism, if the bad thing is happening more, the government says "We need more power to stop this!", and if the bad thing is happening less, the government says "Look at what we've achieved with these powers! Obviously they are working, so give us more!".
It is cultural.

In Confucianism, the relationship between a father and a son, a superior and their subordinate, a state and its citizen are considered equal. Therefore it is considered normal for the state to be paternalistic. Also, collective responsibility takes precedence over individual freedom. Each person is supposed to conform to its role in society. Children’s role is to study, rather than play video games all night.

Together, you get a video game ban, enforced by the full power of the state.

Until a few years ago, video game consoles are banned in China for the exact same reason.
Worked for me, I gave them a shot many years ago in Amsterdam and it was quite the experience.
In Mark Randolph's book he talks about how Netflix would recommend content (DVDs at the time) to strategically fit Netflix's needs. For example, if they didn't have a copy of a movie ready to send out, Netflix wouldn't recommend it.

Now a days, I'm certain Netflix recommends content to feature either "no cost" (owned) or the content with the lowest licensing fee. I don't believe for a second they don't have the data suggest the best movie. They simply don't want to suggest the best movie. As you said, their goal (now) isn't to suggest the content the user is likely to enjoy most, it's to suggest content the user will tolerate. And that's exactly why they shifted away from a 5 star rating system, to a thumbs up/down approach... even if you didn't love a movie or show, you're still likely to give it a thumbs up unless it was totally awful.
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A system like Sanden CO2 or Chiltrix will heat your water with outside heat, so it's always 2x+ the efficiency of resistance heat. If your climate is predominately hot then thermal collectors are far more efficient, but interior hot water heat pumps would be an okay choice where that's not possible.
West Texas has plenty[1] of mesquite and cedar bushes, which burn fine. Modern fireplaces have catalytic converters, and are over 90% efficient.

They produce basically no smoke, and run unattended for ~ 24 hours.

[1] people will pay you to take it away.
They do include actual rent costs, but the weighting for rent costs has 1/3 of the weighting of Owner's Equivalent Rent. The CPI-U provides an tiny weighting of rent compared to the real rent costs for anyone who is actually renting.
If one doesn't focus on improving themselves, then what do they do? Pass through life, hoping it will treat them well?
I agree with what you are saying, and I would like to know why people are downvoting your comment.
This article details matrices as fixed known sets of data.

Much more interesting is the vector calculus. Vectors as the result of the sum of their components are good. But think of the reverse. Your model outputs the current vector. Your model predicts the next vector in sequence. Just from current and next, your model provides any amount of underlying components, as high resolution as you want. Nature fails before your model does, through the lack of continuity in steps and impulses and the mean value theorem no longer holds.

Vector analysis was pioneered by Josiah Gibbs, someone who doesn't nearly get enough credit. Up there with Boltzmann, Maxwell, Planck, and Einstein.
The "synthetic lighting" was the one that made me go o_O back in the day - http://graficaobscura.com/synth/index.html

The idea of modifying a digital image so that there is a negative shadow was rather mind-blowing to me at the time.

There's also the photographic stitching software c. 1994 which was cutting edge for its day.

Another related piece of it - http://www.employees.org/~drich/SGI/SiliconSurf/grafica/inde... which has a "future" (which I don't think ever came to be).

Another piece can be found at http://sgifiles.irixnet.org/sgi/graphics/grafica/
I recommend checking out Strapi [1], very powerful, open source, clean API generator.

[1] https://strapi.io/
Just wanted to say THANK YOU for pointing this syndrome out to me. I'm almost sure I have this after years of being prescribed Tramadol for chronic abdominal pain that only ever gets worse. At first it was a life changer. Am now on the max prescribed dose, and the progression of pain seems to only accelerate each time I've upped the dose.