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Thanks for asking. I smoked or vaped basically every day for the last 15 years. Also I don't know if your username is an intentional pun or not but I appreciate it.

A few months ago, I had a come to Jesus moment with alcohol and decided to stop drinking.

A few months after that, I realized that I didn't just have an addiction to alcohol, I also had an addiction to cannabis. And in fact, I just have an addictive personality, and wanted to be free from my addictions, and free to make my own decisions.

If you really cannot go without it, you might ask yourself if that's something you want for yourself. I mean I couldn't travel to half the countries in the world because I couldn't imagine being somewhere, where I couldn't pick up.

I've only been clean for a week so far. But the mental changes in this short amount of time have been astounding. I feel as mentally awake as I was in high school before I went down this road. I actually enjoy playing video games even more now.

Robert Anton Wilson used to write about how drugs are reality tunnels that filter your perception of the world. Well, being clean is its own reality tunnel, especially after living ni a different one for so long. It is a real trip.

edit: I have to thank NA for getting me here. It's an amazing program if you can find a good group.
> defending against a rock potentially coming from anywhere in space traveling at relativistic speeds is extremely difficult.

Also, while 'proper' stealth is difficult, you can make the rock pretty close to invisible for practical purposes by coating it in vantablack and cooling it to liquid helium temperatures.
Frozen meat and vegetables is just as good, and available almost everywhere.
That was the most shocking thing that came out recently imo. And not to be reported at all anywhere.

That Trump’s initially ridiculous lawsuit against big tech that they are operating as government agents - the White House just basically agreed with.

Ignore the Twitter, but the CSPAN video is good. https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1416095333877260292

“We don’t censor, we just tell a social media monopoly what to censor, it’s totally not violating the first amendment!” … wth
> Speech is violence nowadays. Silence is also violence.

Also: their violence is speech.
> My grandfather worked on the Hubble's mirror - the part with all the controversy. It was, simultaneously, both what he was most proud of and most ashamed.

I think a simple way to explain what your grandfather should feel proud of, is they documented the construction process so thoroughly that they were able to _precisely_ figure out what they did wrong, and fix it, on their first try!
Disinformation, and propaganda are just specific types of protected free speech. I disagree with socialism, but communist propaganda is protected speech which should be allowed. Disinformation can be dangerous too, I understand that. But i'm not willing to allow Google or my government to make a decision on what is disinformation.

As for everything else. You should clearly follow the laws of the country you are doing business in.
I'm not sure about that.

Isn't there also a fine line where a virus becomes so deadly that it can no longer spread effectively before killing the host or becoming "harmless" yet spread much better and more effective than a deadlier version?

I remember reading not long ago about a study that showed the common cold is so dominant that I can prevent covid from replicating in an infected person.
> Once again, a candidate not being able to post to Youtube is not a threat to democracy.

Yes it is. Youtube is a huge conduit for communication.

Imagine if ABC banned a candidate. The argument that there’s still CBS and NBC are available is not relevant as a major media outlet is favoring a candidate by blocking their opponents.

For small outlets it’s not an issue. But YouTube is the biggest video provider on the planet, not allowing a political candidate would be detrimental to democracy.

Even if that candidate said stupid stuff like “world is flat.” People have to make their decision and as long as we’re a democracy, that choice should be individual.
> the most unstable housing in New York City: the public housing

How is public housing unstable? Are public housing residents frequently forced to move? AFAIK that's the definition of unstable housing.
That's a great point. Their study is a good starting point but it's hard to get anything concrete out of it. I hope they can continue with something like what you proposed.
I suppose a spoken line at the begining along the lines of it is not that person, but a generated voice, would be the best solution.
This paper is surfaced pretty often and it's misleading. Rust is all about making abstractions around unsafe code that cannot be used unsafely.
"Mighty nice service ya got here, shame if it was ta get... regulated. Unrelated, boy we sure hate when people say XYZ"
“playing a major chord sort of implies a bass note a couple octaves below the root of the chord”

Wow! Of course! Lightbulb moment. This isn’t something that occurred to me independently but makes so much sense I wonder how it hadn’t, and it explains a lot of what chords are really all about.
I can't edit my comment anymore, but I think you are correct.
Those are basically the same thing, depending on how you bookkeep the fixed cost of development.
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> contributing to the better world that I think we need, has started to weigh heavier and heavier on me...

This is the problem. We have arrived where we are because some group of people think that powerful companies "should make the world better".

Historically, much of the major atrocities were carried out with these very intentions.

How to build a tyrant in one simple lesson:
1) Take any normal person who wants to make the world better
2) Give them the power to do so
Are you arguing that we should pass legislation that forces all US companies to host all legal content?
> America was a very religious (Christian) country

America is still a very religious country. It's not as bad as it used to be but it's still pretty bad.

Don't forget that these companies are global. Your example is still happening with pictures of Muhammad. Many companies refuse to host or show them for fear of offending Islamic extremists.
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I don't want to keep arguing. Mostly informative exchange.

I would say though, Twitters model from around 2012 was extremely open compared with today (remember the Arab Spring?) and in no way was it an unusable, trash/spam laden platform.
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Really? I can see how, as somebody who has advanced the frontiers of human exploitation, people might have strong negative feelings towards J Bezos.

(Personally, I don't feel that way, but I would be happy if some of the innovations amazon warehouses have made were banned. I don't think he's the problem - but he's led a company that has created a pretty monstrous workplace).
competition definitely can make things better. But we aren’t seeing enough competition and these companies are engaging in anti-competetive behavior without much consequences.
That's why I've got a frowny face there :).
Do people in Bed Stuy (or the rest of the city) organize against new construction that reduces supply?
Which would mean that the dark forest is still false right?
I think the 'US did it for the oil' has always been just a pithy jab at the US more than the truth. Looking at what actually happened it looks like Ahmad Chalabi lied to enough people (even after being labelled as an unreliable source by the US intelligence agencies) to convince the US to get involved in his life long goal to get him and the Shiites back into power in Iraq after being forced out by Saddam's Baath party and the Shia faction it represented.
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> undo that with misinformation and you don't have anything anymore.

That presumes that we have come from a period that was somehow free of misinformation. This is obviously false, and all we're doing is trading one corrupt system of control for another.

Democracy also demands that the burden of proof is on the accuser, don't you feel this same standard should apply to those, who of their own volition, take on the task of fighting this "misinformation?" Shouldn't those deprived have recourse?

> Companies aren't allowed to advertise rat poison as medicine and neither are you.

Advertising is always a commercial activity. If I'm merely sharing my opinion that rat poison, in some dose, might possibly serve as a cure for some particular ailment, how am I advertising? Isn't there a responsibility of the other end user to not accept medical advice from anonymous information published from a free document sharing service?

I'm not sure the trade offs you suggest are gaining us anything important.
Hundreds of dollars sounds bigger than the average game library's licensing fee.
Why do you say that individual responsibility is a cop out? People can read the labels and ingredients on a package of food.

This is true even for those people who never question why they are purchasing food in boxes instead of actual food.
Most states require bounty hunters and private investigators to have a license.

Usually notifyingthe police is something they would do for physical situations. It could get tricky on the internet when dealing with jurisdiction. You would likely have to file something with the local police, state police, and DOJ/FBI/?. Honestly, the level of competence is not stellar. You could still be searched/raided/arrested and inconvenienced for days to years. Just look at how long Crosby was in prison with an all-star level legal team and protective agreement with the DA...
A proper fix is better than an instant fix.
Social anxiety (and selectiveness) in general seem like better descriptions to me. The introvert/extrovert framing seems off to me, I feel like it's misdiagnosing the problem.
Many people on this website work with governments. National security topics intersect with technology often: Snowden, Reality Winner, the OPM hack, SolarWinds, really anything involving the NSA. There's hardly a day we don't read about some state-backed threat actor.

Does it not seem reasonable, then, that a violation of fundamental classification policy catches interest?

The impact of the leak shouldn't be measured in the material revelations that might be in those documents, especially should they be so underwhelming as many seem to think. Rather, the impact is that a person of rank chose to execute such a violation for such an overwhelmingly trivial reason. Imagine, if you can, the impact that act might have on morale within that military, and on the capacity for the social pressures within that organization to maintain adherence in the future.
I tried to joke about how real objects don't have an infinite number of surface points.

This theorem is often quoted as "mathematically-proven way to deconstruct a sphere and build two identical spheres", but this can't translate to reality in any way, it's an abstract thought exercise. Of course, "mathematically-proven way to deconstruct a sphere and build two identical spheres in your imagination" doesn't sound as cool.
I don’t know anyone proposing “anything goes.” I think the most common request is to remove illegal speech and stick there.
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Google's project ara seemed like a good step in that direction, a smartphone with modular and replaceable components. But it died.

Anyone have lessons learned from that experiment?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara
You can build an alternative, and many already exist, but the average user is far more influenced by branding and ads than privacy or freedom.
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Using oil to fuel your pivot off oil, economically or directly for energy, strikes me as the most sensible use of oil for any nation.

What's upsetting is how much of the oil burned so far, and continuing to be burned today, is completely frivolous and unnecessary. To still be carrying on this way when we still haven't pivoted from fossil fuels as a species, given clear evidence we're headed for global climate disaster, is completely asinine.

We need something like a carbon tax something fierce, it needs to be cost prohibitive to fly across the country by jet for a weekend change of scenery and some instagram selfies.
May I ask how exactly your dry eyes led to degradation in vision? I've recently been struggling with mild corneal abrasions that leave me with something resembling a "starburst" in my night vision, and I'm suspecting it may be caused by dry eyes.
> - MacOS is the least used development environment between the big 3.

What's important here is if it's used by the developers that matters. Mind share can mean more than market share.
They don't want to be. And that's fine. That is why we even have a society. We can live better lives by relying on others.
Interesting anecdata: the automotive industry does not actively enforce any of this on engineering talent. Per one of the other comments, I am prevented from attempting to create a competitive product on my own time during my employment, but that's mostly an IP assignment clause and not directly non-compete. Honestly, they'd love for me to do a bunch of unpaid work that they'll assert ownership over, I'm sure. But, when I quit one of the Big 3 and moved to another (for better career movement, thank god), I didn't even have to live out my 2 weeks because I might steal IP, nevermind that I created a bunch of it, and no non-compete was mentioned. Similarly, lots of engineers move up and down from OEM to supplier and back again, so there's nothing directly tied to that either.

The only example that I'm aware of in the industry at large was when Ford partnered with Argo AI, there was an agreement with Argo that they would not hire Ford engineers beyond the initial group going over as part of the partnership. My understanding, having no direct access to any agreements, was that this was fairly time limited, but did prevent me from applying at the time, though in retrospect, I'm grateful since Argo has a bad reputation for chewing up engineers.

Final note: I'm curious if some rule along these lines would encourage more actions like the Google/Apple deal that wound up costing them in lawsuits later on -- specifically, would that kind of deal get more enforcement action and more scrutiny because it would be the last refuge after the non-compete if they were severely limited or banned?
> Just consider how easy it was to dismiss your "humankind is going extinct because of climate change" points-

You have to understand that you have not dismissed anything, you do not have knowledge you have beliefs, judging by the angry typing. There is no point discussing with believes.

Regarding full fledged nuclear exchange I would ask you to write a paper and make computer model, I do not know what is your field of work do you have a sufficient knowledge to do it?

Regarding Global Warming it is fairly uncharted territory, now we know that models from 10 years ago were overly optimistic and that things are happening at much faster rate than expected.

Anyhow, to cut the long unfruitful story short, lets remember this and check in 5 and 10 years what happens.
New equilibriums will form. Where it was once one climate, another will be, and the native crops that can no longer live in the first climate will be supplanted by new ones that can survive in the new one. This won’t be the case everywhere, but this sort of adaptation will happen. You’re talking as if everything will remain static except the climate.

Additionally, the entire worlds population at relatively sparse city density (say, Houston) can fit in like 1/3 of the United States.

That isn’t to say that climate change isn’t a big deal. It is one of the biggest deals and quite grave. But you don’t really propose any solutions. What you allude to though won’t happen, that everyone works together to address the issues. My speculation is that if our technology doesn’t progress fast enough, billions will die, but if tech does happen to progress fast enough then that will be mitigated.

That isn’t to say that the world couldn’t use a strong reduction in population. But given that we are causing this, I feel particularly bad for the wildlife whose habitats will be unlivable to them through no fault of their own and not through natural processes.
It took me over a year to extricate myself from Gmail, and I still keep the account open and forwarding because it hasn't been a year since the last time I found something I have to migrate. I'll be thrilled someday if I can drop it, but I imagine the vestigal leftover will just persist for all time. Gmail was a very convenient service, but ultimately I can't trust them to use reasonable human judgement in administrative decisions, and so I can't trust Google with the keys to my life.
would be great if fbk and twitter did the same thing!

any group like 'occupy democrats' 'vets against trump' - would be gone.

If they would do these to the search results, most of the news sites would not longer have top positions! I'm liking this now.

"content that deceives, misleads, or confuses users"

- funny that I used to ask people on fbook some years ago when they posted some things, 'do you believe the thing you are re-posting is true or fake? Is it funny or serious? Do you think your 'followers' think it's true when they see you post it?

Trying to determine the understanding of the re-poster - but also the 'intent' of them re-sharing - sadly I think most of the time it was to 'deceive' aka virtue signal tribe thing - even when they admitted things may not be true, they still wanted the thing posted and shared - and knowing others may not look at it and not know it's not true.

need to think on this longer. Wait, when g/f/t thought the hunter laptop was fake they affected our national elections and discourse, when they did not care if golden shower oppo research was true or fake it affected real world stuff.

Not so sure these folks can be trusted with deciding what should be shared as true/false actually. The reach and effects of these decisions are large and serious.
> That's right.

How? What's the mechanism? The key component of capitalism is that ownership dictates who gets rewards. It doesn't matter how meritorious you are -- if you don't have ownership you get nothing. That's how the whole thing works.

> That hasn't happened yet in 250 years of free markets. But the communist countries all achieved that in short order.

The whole point of communism is that ownership is communal, so it doesn't make sense to compare ownership between the two and say one is better at ownership. But just look at the trendlines in our system and tell me how things are going to get better under capitalist dynamics. The rich are going to get richer and the poor are going to get poorer. The end stage of capitalism is inevitable unless anti-free market dynamics are introduced.

> And yet people with nothing march literally thousands of miles to try to get into the US. Why aren't they marching to communist countries?

And what happens when they get here? Are they suddenly wealthy and prosperous in our capitalist utopia? Or are they some of the poorest and most marginalized people in our country? America's #1 export is propaganda. That people fall for the propaganda is not an endorsement of capitalism.
Very cool to have all GPT-3 based projects gathered like this.
Well okay but I believe that premise is flawed. It still takes millions of years for one (which is a long time on human timescales) and it’s more likely civilizations Balkanize and begin fighting each other if they even were to be so resource driven they wished to colonize the galaxy that quick which I don’t think we have any reason to believe is true.
> It cannot be unilaterally tampered with.

Perhaps the tokens on the blockchain can't be tampered with but their real value is manipulated by small groups of people all the time. Bitcoin lost around 40% of its value in the 10 days after Elon Musk sent out a negative tweet about it in May. In less extreme examples, the daily price changes are subject to the action of small groups of wealthy traders. This is everything but decentralised; it's happening regardless of how many nodes are validating the network and I don't know why you're assuming that it will change over time.

> you don't want your money to ... feed multi-sector speculative bubbles, nor to prop up (by way of low interest rates) poor investments.

I really don't think that cryptocurrencies are saving us from speculative bubbles and poor investments.
One thing I've never managed to wrap my head around is why many analog designers insist on calling op-amp based analog circuit design "linear design".

If there's one thing these circuits are absolutely not it's being linear.

Every interesting circuit using op-amps basically is interesting because of the various non-linear behaviors you have to deal with when you optimize the circuit.
https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/ it is, but its not great yet.
The couch example ins't just hypothetical.

My dad was on an Air Force Base when the base commander delegated to his wife picking out all the furniture for the base housing. Naturally, every serviceman's wife hated it.
During star formation up to half of the matter can be rejected. During planetary formation a lot of fairly large bodies will be ejected, think moon size, along with a lot of smaller stuff too. Interstellar space probably has a lot more to offer than we generally think.
> Google isn't spying on your private files

This is false. All of the major services that host images scan them for child porn, regardless if they're private or shared.

I don't know how they're going to apply these rules and, unless you work there and are involved in this, neither do you.
It's from the article, but your sentiment mirrors my thoughts as well.
We could also just build more housing...
Everyone needs time away from people they love.
>First, it's not about private files, it's about distributing content.

Sort of. People use "anybody with the link can view" for lots of purposes that are far short of broad public publishing.

I use it for sharing with single digit numbers of people I already know, or sometimes just for myself for things that don't need to be private.
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Indeed. I have a lot of sympathy for the viewpoint that c++ is a very very complicated language in it's entirety, but not much sympathy for the idea that features are added willy-nilly.

It's a product of its time, massive success, and a herculean effort to retain backwards compatibility. It can be frustrating at times but I can seem to make great things with it still.
I agree, which is my underlying point: they don’t want to expand! The lack of public transit is a problem plenty of people have been yelling about for decades, as you mentioned. Developers, citizens, and the city council have all proven over the years they are unwilling to do what needs to be done to make expansion possible.
Swap all that with "big marketing budget"

You can see how easy politicians can conquer minds, it's no surprise trillion dollar companies are able to sell anti consumer products at luxury pricing.

"convenience" is just marketing.
I don't think this is as strong a claim here as you think.

The point of unsafe is to point you toward the areas you need to audit. Unsafe code can't be proven memory safe by the compiler [...but the rest can be]. It's far easier to audit 10 or 100 LoC of unsafe rust than 10 or 100 thousand of C++.

And even in C++ there are subsets of the language that are supposedly memory safe. But even when writing in those subsets I'm not convinced that the abstractions I'm building on are as well validated as rust.