CodeSgt

Hmm you may be right. I'll have to re-evaluate my perspective. Thanks for mentioning that.

Hmm interesting, I appreciate your response. I'll do some exploring and maybe find another way to apply my skills that'd be more fulfilling.

Thank you!

Well good to hear it's not just me. Thanks for the input.

At least I'm in good company? Haha

I'd imagine so. The act of creating something new is what I enjoy most when I worked on side projects.

I thought about it but I feel like applying after ~3 months at my first job in the industry would look horrible and I'd be wasting my time sending applications. I also applied to a few startups prior to this job and it seems most want more Sr. developers.

The only thing that makes the decision to quit difficult is there's no other job I could get that would pay me enough to even be comfortable.

All I see that I'd qualify for (aside from programming) would be at least a 50% pay cut, most around 60-70%. And I'm currently not even making 6 figures.

Well China, as in the Chinese government, is bad. So I'm fine with that message.

I can fall asleep without it, but have a much easier time drifting off to an audio book than I do trying to go to sleep in silence. I've gone through hundreds of books over the past few years. I tend to get ~30 min of listening in and then am out. I have a timer that cuts off playback at an hour and then the next night I can rewind to the last bit I remember.

Other mammals aren't intelligent enough to do so.

TypeScript's type system however is Turing complete!

That's possible in any industry.

What do you mean originally? I never edited the og comment. I'm arriving at it because the reason I know people with chronic porn addictions at all is they've confessed how big of a problem it is for them and the issues it's caused them. If you think you know their lives better than they themselves do then go tell them that.

Very, very few people truly have no options other than porn. But I'm sure many people have convinced themselves they don't since they can content themselves with porn.

Regardless, it's a feedback loop. People who deal with depression/anxiety are more likely to develop drug addictions. A "normal" person can usually try a given drug once and be fine. Someone with a predisposition to addiction can't do the same.

Likewise a lot of people can casually use porn without much of an issue, but some people allow their consumption to develop into an addiction that negatively impact their life.

The explicitly said that my viewpoint was a common conservative one. This implies that it isn't a call back to my claim about chronic porn users having a hard time forming relationships. The common conservative viewpoint they were referencing is that "people today generally have a harder time forming relationships". Not "The people I know with chronic porn addiction have a hard time forming relationships".

They said:

> but then in the next breath make the assumptions that difficulty forming relationships today is significantly greater than in the past

The implication being that I made the claim that it was broadly more difficult for most people today. I didn't realize that me adding "everyone" would so drastically change the meaning of their sentence. Please give me your interpretation of that if it isn't basically what I said.

Am I crazy? I say that people with chronic porn addictions have a hard time forming relationships and all of a sudden I'm accused of making blanket statements about how difficult it is for people to form relationships today compared to the past.

No. I know specific people that use porn, and among those that I know who use it excessively, they have a hard time forming relationships. No where does that say or imply that "It's harder for everyone to form relationships today than it was in the past" as you for some reason are consistent on believing I said. Those are two very different statements with very different meanings.

Where did I say that it's harder to form relationships today than it was in the past? I didn't. I said nothing of the sort nor did anything I say imply as much, if that was your takeaway then it exposes your implicit biases more than it does anything about myself.

I suppose I should have said it's not being talked about by any mainstream authorities or outlets in the same way a lot of women's or equity issues are (not to say porn isn't also a women's issue, it very much is, but seems to disproportionately impact men).

It is a shame that any group which advocates men's issues tends to get labeled as right-wing or incelish, which then attracts those types and makes those labels a reality. And of course many were admitedly that way from the start.

Edit: And to add to this, being right or left leaning isn't inherently bad. And maybe this is my personal bias coming into play here, but I find that people are much quicker to associate right-leaning movements/communities as "bad" than they are left-leaning ones. Again I accept that could be personal bias and it isn't a hill I'd die on.

Typically viewing to the detriment of your emotional/mental/physical health. If you consistently choose porn over real intimacy or if you overly desensitize yourself (porn-induced ED is a real, and quite common thing). The biggest concern is choosing porn over physical intimacy/attempts at physical intimacy. It's super easy for someone who maybe already isn't a social superstar to just find themselves choosing the easy option of porn rather than forcing themselves to go out and put effort into meeting people.

I'm glad to see someone mention addicts. I feel as if internet addiction, and especially subsets of it such as porn addiction, aren't given enough weight by either the addiction treatment community or the technical community.

Before someone accuses me of being a conservative religious zealot as tends to happen when anyone denounces porn, I'll say that I'm far from a puritan and am extremely liberal in my social views. That said, I firmly believe that easy access porn is one of the worst things happening to the young men and women today. I (23) know many men around my age who suffer from chronic porn addictions to the point that it severely impacts their ability for form real relationships and median age of first exposure is getting lower and lower.

It's an absolutely crucial issue that no one seems to be talking about or taking seriously.

Definitely depends where in China for this to be true. Shanghai or Beijing? Won't be much, if any, better than in the US. Countryside? Likely will be much better, but food is often scarce in general in these areas.

That makes much more sense. Thank you for the clarification.

Surely I'm misunderstanding, are you really advocating that people should roll their own encryption algorithms from scratch? As in, they should invent novel and secure algorithms in isolation? And this should happen.... at every major enterprise or software company in the world?

Wow! I've never heard of thus. How were the counterfeit servers eventually discovered to be counterfeits? Sounds like this went pretty deep.

Doesn't sound like they're after interracial marriage, sounds like they want it to be left to the states to decide, as Republicans tend to feel on most issues.

Stop acting like there's some mainstream Republican movement to ban gay and interracial marriage, it's obviously not true when you have to sensationalize the titles of your own linked articles.

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And it's not even "they" want it to be left to the states. It's a single individual who even mentioned anything about it, and even they "backpeddled" (i.e clarified what they said after the media twisted their words for sensationalism).

Surely significantly more than 100x. I'd hypothesize 10,000x at minimum from 15 years ago, at least if you measure total bits. Not sure how I could confirm that conjecture though.

Ah, my mistake then.

I'm definitely not the target audience for this sort of thing so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but absolutely not.

I already have an unreasonable dislike for online services that have lengthy/complex password reset processes. Being forced to show up somewhere IRL to reset my password sounds like a fever dream to me.