That's rather bad faith.
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Why?
Sad that both of the above needed to happen, but damn glad to see the Fourth Estate still holding the government to account (to some extent).
I know it sounds stupidly repetitive but both are true in related manners.
1) Downclimbing is far harder than climbing up.
2) If you made a mistake, you need to be able to turn back.
When it comes to descending, it's primarily when you have options other than downclimbing, like jumping into a small waterfall's plunge pool.
Are you jumping into the pool because it's fun, or easy? Or are you jumping down because you can't climb down.
If you can't climb down, then how do you know you can climb back up if you made a mistake?
Jumping into plunge pools in a canyon is a good way to get bluffed, that is, trapped by cliffs and waterfalls, you hit a waterfall too high to jump down, and you can't climb out of the gorge you're in.
But goes the same when ascending, it is easy to climb up something, harder to climb down it, what's your exit strategy if you made a mistake.
So yeah, anything that involves compressing my ribs and immobilising an arm feels like it's far too committed, no ctrl-Z on this.
And the one we're offering in my company is getting a lot of love from doctors for very similar reasons, and how much time it saves them.
The data team I ended up leading at a previous company, had an unfortunate habit of "losing" money - it wasn't real money being lost in transit elsewhere, but records of something we should charge a customer.
Or if the team wasn't losing revenue, it was double charging, etc. etc.
Took us 3 years of hard work to regain the trust of the business leaders.
It's very clever - either people pay the overages, or contact you and you can look good by giving them company scrip to spend on other of your services.
This isn't the first time you've discussed how parlous the Kafka tx spec is - not that that's even really a spec as such. I think this came up in your Redpanda analysis.
(And totally agree with you btw, some of the worst ever customer Kafka issues I dealt with at RH involved transactions.)
So was wondering what your ideal spec would look like, because I'd be interested in trying to capture the tx semantics in something like TLA+ as a learning experience - and because it would only help FOSS Kafka and FOSS clients improve, especially now that Confluent has withdrawn so much from Apache Kafka development.
I was definitely wrong.
The end result? The gangs just started importing pseudo, before later just switching to importing methamphetamine directly (something that Australia's deportation policies really helped with as the "501s" as we call them that were deported back to NZ often had existing connections that could facilitate the direct importation of meth).
It's a really interesting supply chain that involves organised crime groups in multiple countries, often starts in India for the precursors, then clandestine labs in Laos/Vietnam/Thailand overseen by Chinese groups in conjunction with local groups, then smuggled via the Pacific Islands, notably Fiji and Samoa where the Chinese groups have established transshipment facilities, before being smuggled into Australia and NZ by local groups who then distribute and supply it.
A new development has been the Central American cartels branching out from cocaine to meth so there's been a bunch of meth coming directly from the Americas.
P.S., have edited that statement after your correction, much obliged :)
_Edit: I am told I'm wrong on this front, and I stand corrected_
The fact that doctors are prescribing them too freely is definitely worth looking into.
But severely restricting medication that is used to effectively treat disease because it has abuse potential only harms legitimate users. But definitely worth auditing prescriptions to ensure that they're being issued for valid diagnoses.
But as for illegitimate users? You ban it, they'll find something else.
And as someone who needs ADHD meds to do things like "remember I have a todo list, remember where I left it, and remember to use it", I very much resent the people who abuse the meds I need to function in our society to pass their law degrees easier.
I resent the meth addicts who try to get an ADHD diagnosis for their kids so they can abuse (or sell...) their children's ADHD meds when they can't afford meth, because it means I have to pee into a jar every three months to prove I'm not a meth addict who is abusing methylphenidate.
(My country uses methylphenidate / Ritalin / Concerta (the slow release form) as the first treatment for ADHD, Adderall is not prescribed here that much, if ever, but it is possible to be prescribed dexamphetamine if you're bad enough).
But I really do object to glibly implying that every child who is prescribed a treatment for ADHD is actually a case of pharmacists gleefully overmedicating, it's naïve, unsympathetic, and, tbh, rather unfair to pharmacists.
As for what schedule a drug is... ...is the harm of Adderall abuse the same as the harm of fentanyl abuse?
Drug schedules aren't a good way to determine harm, IMO. They're a good way to discern moral panics though.
E.g., in my country, Class A, the drugs that attract the highest penalties, include magic mushrooms, mescaline, DMT, and that one you get from licking toads, bufotentine or something, alongside classics like heroin and cocaine.
Fentanyl is Class B, alongside opium, morphine, amphetamine, methylphenidate, MDMA, and one that always amuses me, hashish.
* There's probably some dumb-ass rules around declining to dispense abortifacients because of religious beliefs, I'm sure.
Methamphetamine is a whole other level of stimulant.
> amphetamine habits in kids that have trouble focusing in school.
1) Do you have evidence that Adderall at therapeutic dosages is anywhere near as addictive as methamphetamine at recreational dosages?
2) Yeah, ADHD makes it real hard to focus at school. I never graduated from high school, and I dropped out of university as an adult student without even completing one year, thanks to untreated ADHD. Not to mention the impulsive behaviour, the inability to stick at boring things etc. etc. It's not great in our society.
You're implicitly minimising the very real impact of ADHD, that's not super great.
In fact, one of the biggest issues for people finally being treated for ADHD as adults is the grieving process around "What my life could've been if my parents hadn't believed that ADHD wasn't real and my issues in school and my 'disruptiveness' was solely due to 'food intolerances', because my Mom read a magazine article about it once, then paid a quack to stick a probe in my ear, one on my finger, and then rub food on my skin while looking at a galvanometer making 'hmmm' noises sagely."
3) You know there's been Adderall shortages in the USA recently due to DEA manufacturing limitations right? So it's not like they're just throwing out to kids like it's a lolly scramble.
Anyway, it's about as ironic as 10,000 spoons when all you need a knife. That is, not at all.
Unless you think Robert Mugabe was democratic?