CerebralCerb

My favorite part of being a white heterosexual male is that my achievements are credited to me, and not conflated with my ethnicity, sexuality or gender.

It's deeply humanizing to be seen as an individual and not just some minority.

> Set against a background of assumptions that heroin use is inevitably problematic, there is significant evidence of its controlled use. This paper attempts to draw together the literature on patterns of heroin use which avoid physical and psychological dependence.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1360-0443....

This paper is a great read on the topic. Some suggest more than 50% of heroin users are casual users.

"4. Art must be beautiful, or crafted, or at least 'good'. 5. Art has to have meaning."

By whose authority can these conceptions be labelled as misconceptions? If art is neither beautiful nor crafted or good in any way, and also has no meaning, it can be argued that it also has no intrinsic value.

In that case it is merely an object that is meant to inspire pompous rambling, but so can any object if put on display for the right observers, like in an art exhibit.

  Specificity isn’t intuitive, and—especially for new developers—the results can often seem like a gotcha rather than the intended behavior. I’m also not sure there’s an equivalent in other systems or languages.

It is widely used as a conflict resolution strategy in production systems. I've never encountered a student who found specificity to be a difficult concept to grasp.

It parses a x-www-form-urlencoded POST call and sends it to an E-mail? Or am I completely wrong about what it does?

You could just hash the video file.

They are still burning pigs en masse due to swine plague.

Norwegian who work in finance here. I doubt socialism is the cause. We have different financial regulations here, and I often hear Norwegian regulations are far more friendly to banks than across the pond.

It would surprise me greatly if an American bank was allowed to make arbitrary loan decisions. I am only familiar with the Norwegian financial system, but here it is a given that every single loan application that the bank either approves or rejects can stand up to scrutiny. They frequently have to in the case of collection cases (I.E determine if the bank had sufficient information to determine that a debtor could reasonably be expected to repay the debt they were issued).

It can also be a lack of confidence in the valuation.