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> I have an exceedingly low opinion of the institution that is social science

Obviously you don't mean social sciences, but psychology and sub-disciplines (or i hope you do).

> They ostensibly exist solely for propagandistic purposes, pushing an agenda of leftist orthodoxy.

Psychology? Not really, did you work, or do anyone you know work with publicists, or in the moviemaking field?

I think you have a really biaised idea of the psychology field.

For the "leftist orthodoxy" part, i think you're talking about determinism (and indeed this is a founding idea of the orthodox left, and one that the liberal left use but avoid thinking about, as it destroy the idea than merit have anything to do with success, and bourgeois have issues with this idea usually).

Determinism is closely related with sociology and philosophy (maybe that's what you mean when you talk about social science?). The "There is no free will" advocates are taking determinism to its extreme (and have a narrow view of the meaning of "free will" for the overall population) and can rattle people. But i think the reason you don't like this is because of this association: the largest contributor to the sociology field when talking about determinism is Bourdieu, who inspired Foucault and Deleuze. Who inspired the postmodern "french theory" (english term, quite reductive tbh), the term "deconstruction" and are at the centerpoint of the postmodern "gender studies" and "decolonialism". Which are at least controversial and unscientific as it can be, closer to philosophy than sociology but still claiming to be the later.

But you can't throw everything in one block. Without this idea of determinism and deconstruction, linguistic and history would be miles behind (and maybe other social sciences too, but those two i take interest in). If you're right-wing, you can even claim that Furet and disciples deconstructed the polite, unchallenged global view of the French revolution before any postmodern historian, and that's why the field advanced as much this last decades.
> Often people seem to be happy for other peoples children to do what they like but not theirs. To me this seems like the wrong attitude towards ones neighbours.

That strikes me as odd. There are some areas of life that have competition on them. I accept the fact that there are "losers" in life, but I want my kids to be "winners". I love my kids more than I love others, and want better things for them — who wouldn't?

(I specifically don't mention porn here, because I don't make a point about porn, but rather about being happy for other children to do something but not mine. Also, I put "winners" and "losers" in quotes because obviously it's a very primitive description of reality, and I actually don't think of sex workers as "losers").
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"A private key used by one Authentication Responder shall not be used by any other
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Between the power/control being taken over by someone elected and supported by most of his country or being taken over by some bigger organization like EU with very twisted interests... well.. I thing the first is preferred.
I see your point, but I prefer to live in a free universe. We don't ban electricity or knives ... and both can do harm.
For me it is just about power consumption. My "server" only has ssh, a tiny tiny http server that has just to handle 1-2 user max and a cron that send an http request every 5 minutes or so.

Having a full blown laptop would be overkill. A cheap ARM-based sbc consume less than 5W of power, which is good since it run 24/24.
To be fair given how miserable the education system often makes kids I think it’s a bit harsh describing them as sociopaths for wanting to avoid it.

The fact literal retirees are known to still have occasional nightmares about exams goes to show there’s something deeply psychologically taxing about our schools that I think we’ll look back upon in a hundred year’s time as fairly barbaric, just as we look at corporal punishment in schools of the past as barbarism today.
So far Orban's regime is the only eu/western government involved in this scandal. I see that no surprise.

There is no need of official government approval to conduct such surveillance. It's enough to have weak access contol to such technologies, political roles within the agencies, and poor work ethics in civil servants: there alway will be someone with will and motive to act in favor of the system, off the record. Orban deliberately shaped the government this way.
EU is as helpless as USA. what would US of A do with a rogue Texas? nothing
How would OF know?
My psychologist taught me that fear, anxiety, etc. destructive emotions are surface events, bubbling up from somewhere deeper. Mindfulness can be used as a resource for us to be with that fear; in the words of Thich Nhat Hanh "those painful emotions are like a child crying out. A child needs love and attention. Hold them with love, be with them."

Once we can be with it, then we can start to follow it down to its roots. Shining light into the darkness is how we heal.

Unfortunately the author seems to have gone astray down a false path that seems to be very common in western civilization called spiritual bypassing. Basically spiritual bypassing is when you use things like meditation and spirituality to get around your deep seated psychological wounds. Doing this is just a form of avoidance and repression which causes the wound to fester, which can eventually culminate in more severe symptoms like what the author describes.
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One item that i found intriguing is the research that negative experiences are more common than people think.

One must wonder, why this is not common knowledge?
Also, are there causation links, or not?

My personal conclusion is that the sample is biased -- that is, some people seeking meditation are looking to self-medicate (subconsciously or not) on personal issues they wish to overcome.

It would seem that perhaps a non-trivial portion of meditation practitioners are ending up with worse outcomes than they started out.

One is left to wonder whether meditation practice should come with warning labels ( just like medication does for adverse effects)...
Actually, the laws of elections have been "fixed" by Orban as a very first step - and media completely taken over to stream 100% propaganda 24/7 as a second step - so the "support" behind Orban is just like behind any other modern dictatorship - that uses mass media manipulation and election system upgrades instead of tortures and prisons.
> I have gotten around the protections of the first amendment though!

Yeah thats the point, lol.

If you are just pro censorship, and dont care about the principles that the 1st amendment protects, and just want to find a way around it, just say so.

If you would support the government, censoring all opposing political opinions, or jailing them, or worse, because of some legal technicality, just say so.

As long as you are honest about it, and you just want to do things that are basically equivalent to the government censoring anything for any reason, just say so, and say that you want to ignore all of this stuff, and want to find a way to censor all of your political opponents, in any way that you can find.

Yes, I completely agree that people such as yourself, don't care about any of these principles, and just want to figure out whatever ways that you can, to defacto censor anyone for any reason, regardless of the motivations in the first place, to stop censorship. Thats the point.

The whole point is that you don't care about any of this, and just want to engage in authoritarianism, in any way that you can get away with. Thats the problem.

Thats what everyone else is trying to fight against. Authoritarians who look for loopholes, to engage in authoritarianism, with whatever possible way that they can get away with.

Thats why we want laws to stop that!

> They are: they're free to use a different service.

But the alternative solution, that provides a lot of benefits, to most people, is to simply incentivize facebook to implement these policies.

That would allow people to get most of what they want, by preventing these work arounds, where the principles of anti-censorship, are backdoor ignored. While also simultaneously giving users the ability to moderate content that they see.

> have no more right to require facebook distribute

I agree that the law does not currently prevent facebook from doing certain things. Which is why the conversation, the entire time, was about making new laws, or changing laws, so that they cannot engage in what, in your own words, is a way to get around the 1st amendment, and engage in mass censorship, that is almost as bad as if the government did it.

Thats the problem!
Also relevant is this line in the original DMCA email shown in the original issue:

> Otherwise, I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content.

The later comment I might have charitably excused as poor wording, but that line really highlights the threat being made. That this was in the original takedown letter just makes me even more worried about the business practices at Muse Group and its recent takeover of Audacity.
This is exactly the kind of inappropriate advice that the author is cautioning against. He was not just starting out, he had experienced teachers, and the horriffic panic-attack-like state he was not something that could have been addressed by "returning to the moment".
I feel like this is why there's relatively little competition on social networks and similar user-generated content platforms; moderation and customer support is heavily underestimated. From day one you need to have a full staff making sure no illegal or undesirable content is uploaded. I'm sure there's third party companies that can help / do it for you, but it's still a big problem to solve regardless.
I'm not sure the premise is certain - in the last election his party received slightly less than half of the votes, however voting laws were altered in their own favor (managed to get super majority with <50% votes).

My feeling is that even most of his voters don't like him, they just hate change more.
This "Buddhist meditation retreat" in a tiny cabin in the North Carolina mountains goes way beyond the practicing mindfulness the author describes it as.

As with everything else in life: don't overdo it.
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To me it sounds more like a requirement for life to form, and by extension also for intelligent living observers. Many of the physical laws need to balance each other perfectly for that to happen. That does not mean they were "designed" that way, just that no intelligent living being will ever observe anything else. Therefor, the situation is as expected and does not indicate anything what so ever.
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Thanks. I’m sure regular table salt and googling the concentration would have done the trick, but there’s something to be said for those 30 ml plastic vials you break off a ribbon that you know have the right stuff and is sterile and stays that way until you use it. I don’t want to take risks with things I don’t have enough knowledge to make them calculated risks. But it worries me when some of the people we defer to wouldn’t even pass high school chemistry.

After having checked five pharmacies with nobody having heard of it the vet took pity on me and gave me a handful out of their supply closet.
Is there an intrinsic difference between the Laws of Physics that govern a reality and the rules governing a simulation?

If there is, then it's a matter of detecting the existence of that difference.

If there is not, then that would mean science will never reach ultimate truth.
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IANAL but to a layperson it might look like Daniel Ray of Muse Group violated https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/873 , punishable by up to one year imprisonment.

It does seem that the developer is probably violating copyrights - you usually can’t just post Disney’s IP for others to freely use.

There does seem to be some gray area. Recent cases have been relaxing the grip of CFAA as it pertains to accessing publicly available APIs. 10-15 years ago it likely would have been a violation. Today I genuinely doubt it, especially if it received a knowledgeable judge like Alsup. But I bet a court would look at the copyright issues separately from the API access. While the API access is (probably?) not against the law, the copyright violations would probably stick without some amazing lawyer work. Perhaps you could make the argument that Muse made these public via their API rather than the developer who scraped them but I don’t feel like that would succeed because it’s really two independent faults. Muse failed to secure the IP and the developer didn’t just access, they republished on IPFS.

I had been very critical of the extreme nonsense of Tenacity / Sneedacity. I also felt the general outrage over un-materialized concerns of nebulous “telemetry” was unconvincing. I certainly never expected Muse Group to somehow lower the already low bar down to the Marianas Trench, and yet, here we are.

Here’s what Daniel wrote to the developer, in public:

>> Upon further investigation, it became clear that <developer> is a Chinese national, but not resident in China. As a guest in his current country, his residency status is predicated on a number of conditions, one of which is not violating the law.

>> If found in violation of laws, residency may be revoked and he may be deported to his home country.

>> This becomes even further complicated given another repo of his - Fuck XXQG which is highly critical of the Chinese government. Were he deported to China, who knows how he may be received.

As marcan said, that does appear to be blackmail. I have trouble finding a view of that in which it is not blackmail. Blackmail is a crime at state and federal levels for good reason.
Rading through it... how do I know whether data.lock() is a spinlock or mutex, or whether it saves flags or not?
I don't see how you are replying to the above comment. When has ever an exploited work force been thanked for their job?

When there exist no labor protection, the traditional approach when someone died on the job was to replace them with a new desperate person. Livestock in, livestock out.

Becoming a sex worker today in most countries is like becoming a coal miner of old. The only thing that matter is what you produce, and if you get hurt you will be replaced by someone just as desperate.
I think VS code - or rather, Language Server Protocol - was a successful execution of a combination of "fire and motion" and "commoditize your complement".

LSP commoditized IDEs, by disentangling IDE features from underlying programming language. To be honest, I'm very grateful for that - that's how I get to write C++ in Emacs, with clangd and lsp-mode, and enjoy most of the benefits of Visual Studio at fraction of performance price (and crashes). What were IDEs complementary to, for Microsoft? Not sure, but I'm guessing the Azure platform.

As for fire and motion - it so happens that LSP is intrinsically tied to VS Code. It may be an open protocol, but VS Code is essentially the reference implementation, so the protocol is shaped by the needs and ideas of Microsoft. Language server development gets directed by MS, while LSP clients play constant catch-up game with VS Code, leading more and more developers to switch to the latter.

I'm not sure whether to consider this a good or bad development: it's pretty clear Microsoft is doing this (and other things, like GitHub acquisition) to cast their nets over the whole practice of software development - but on the other hand, LSP is a genuine improvement for the industry, and huge at that, and with pretty much no strings attached.
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Not even copyleft licenses prohibit somebody from earning money from what you released, and that includes Microsoft. The idea behind free software is that it benefits all users equally, even if other developers get the biggest direct benefit.

The best question to ask yourself is if you would be annoyed as much if a company like Black Duck did a similar training or analysis with their OpenHub (openhub.net)?

I think one could even make a case for training an AI in this manner from the leaked Windows code: copyright law treats these generally as "fair use", though how you gained the copy of the code might still be illegal.

IANAL though :)
Yeah, on the surface level it looks like the author exchanged an intensity for impulsive and aggressive behaviour with an intensity for mindfulness and meditation.

I wonder if this is a symptom of going far too much in a direction people don't normally do, similar to how people can and do die from water intoxication but almost never under regular conditions. The naive guidance of the meditation teachers saying "more of a good thing is always a good thing" with regards to meditation having the same role as organisers of a water drinking contest.
Yeah it seems kind of obvious really. But still interesting.
a friend of mine had written an interesting piece of investigation journalism on this topic

https://medium.com/@maribst
I have noticed they are in a distinctive style of “Hi we are X … some background about us … the problem we identified … how we solve it … we think there is a market because …”

I haven’t read the guidelines but that’s the pattern I’ve seen.

I’ve always assumed this is how they also communicated to VCs and potential employees about their history and vision. It’s sad if they have to be more salesy for those people.
You're saying there's no dynasties in BJP? Anurag Thakur, Poonam Mahahjan, Pankaja Munde, Kiran Rijju, Pankaj Singh, Vasundhar Raje, Varun gandhi all these and many more are direct descendants of former BJP leaders.
I've had some very negative anxiety-driven experiences with dissociation (depersonalization / derealization / de-something-zation), usually when traveling to somewhere I'm unfamiliar with. It usually only lasts for 5 to 15 minutes rather than hours, but it does sound a lot like what he describes.

Relating this to meditation: On the rare occasion that I try meditating, it doesn't trigger anything negative, but I have found that I can induce such negative dissociative experiences on purpose (at least to some degree) by inducing a certain meditative-like thought pattern. It's hard to describe, but it has to do with time. It's like the mind is usually thinking at least a fraction of a second ahead, it's focused at least just a little into the future. If you break that, then meaningfulness seems to collapse and... it's not good, and you have to snap out of it.

I wonder if meditating is triggering something like that for the author.

Instead of meditating, mindfulness, thinking about your own thinking and purposefully trying to dissociate from yourself by conscious force, it may be more helpful just to find something that helps you relax. The point is to clear away stressful thoughts and thought patterns by letting the mind focus on something else rather than nothing (or itself).
The EU is not a state...thank god for that, and that it never happens.
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Those 3b are such a simplistic narrative. How much money do Western companies make in Hungary due to EU? The reality is that EU is mostly a neo-colonial project where the East Europe is depleted of resources (especially human capital) and treated as nothing more than a marketplace for W European products.
> Please note that this message was sent to the following e-mail address: email-qa-blast+testing@amazon.com

Anyone else get this at the footer instead of their email address? I have no knowledge of how mail merges work in practice, but it does seem a bit odd.
These are adults, they should be allowed to make bad decisions. Saying they "never had normal human relationships" is a bit condescending.
Don’t underestimate energy companies ability to bring in a ton of state firepower to keep their bottom line intact - that’s one of the main lessons of the 20th century.
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Here is a selection of BBC radio programmes I listen to. They can be downloaded or subscribed to through the free BBC Sounds app. I don't always listen to every episode, only those that sound interesting.

For some of the programmes/podcasts below, I've picked an episode I particularly enjoyed. The sheer volume of radio content the BBC produces means there are many excellent podcasts/programmes that go undiscovered (the BBC's own search engine is terrible).

I subscribe to dozens of other programmes not listed below, but to keep this list short, here is a selection that may (or may not!) appeal:

-- SCIENCE-RELATED PODCASTS

CrowdScience: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04d42rc/episodes/downloads

Listeners submit questions that are answered by experts. Recommended example episode: Do animals use medicine? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv77

The Life Scientific: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7/episodes/downloads

Interviews with leading scientists (mostly from the UK) - the expertise, passion and knowledge of the scientists is always inspiring to listen. Recommended example episode: Irene Tracey on pain in the brain https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003qx1

-- WORLD HISTORY, CULTURE AND IDEAS

The Forum: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004kln9/episodes/downloads

An eclectic topic each week with three experts participanting in a lively, informative and stimulating discussion. Recommended example episode: In search of the good life: Epicurus and his philosophy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszjv4

-- DRAMA

The Lovecraft Investigations: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w/episodes/downloads

Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, this mystery-horror drama features witchcraft, the occult and secret government operations. I found it pretty gripping. All episodes available.

Children of the Stones: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08sy3qx/episodes/downloads

Another enjoyable horror-mystery. All episodes available.
That video has some really terrifying moments. Some of the decisions would warrant an alpha flag
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"However since cyclists and pedestrians are often forced to share space, pedestrians notice the cyclists more often."

That is it.

When you walk regularly, you find paths from A to B that minimize your contact with cars to a level crossing or two. (Might be different in the countryside or in cities whose walkability is poor). So your chance of getting hit by a car are fairly low and you only really need to pay attention when you cross the street. For the rest of the time, you can afford to daydream or wander in thoughts a bit.

Once people learn to ride their bikes on pavements, it means the need for constant vigilance.

Biking needs its own infrastructure, separate from both pedestrians and cars. The needs and speeds are just different.