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I agree that all restraint methods are upsetting, but "inject with dissociative drugs" should really be a lot further down the list than "hit with stick".

Personally, I favor hitting people with billy clubs, because it leaves evidence of what happened and it requires the police to actually take physical action against another human. Giving cops needles full of magic compliance juice seems less responsible to me.

The reason people were upset about Rodney King was because it was brutal and easy to understand. Injecting ketamine is also brutal but it's less visible. I cannot imagine anyone ever getting over the fact that they were restrained by authorities and injected into a k-hole.

They won't be visibly harmed in any way, but that will absolutely mess someone up for life.

Go install Brave and visit https://trade.dydx.exchange/. Congratulations, you can now trade leveraged derivatives. No signup required.

Seriously, go see what the process looks like. Just by not being full of A/B tested bullshit and free of regulation, you can get a glimpse of the future.

It feels powerful in a way that registering a Google account doesn't.

The DeFi thing has finally pushed me to look at crypto again, which turned me on to metamask (via Brave), and after experiencing the UX, it's glaringly obvious that this is the next big thing. Nobody even talks about it, but the fact that I can "sign in" to my "brokerage account" simply by visiting dydx or unisawp and authenticating securely with my browser is pretty incredible.

People are claiming to be excited about DeFi because everyone loves unregulated derivatives and lending at insane APYs, but I think the real reason this has taken off is because the UX makes the future feel so real and achievable.

I'm just scratching at the surface now, but it's clear we've come a long way since bitcoin. I won't be shocked if it turns out bitcoin becomes seen as worthless old technology, but blockchains will never go away.

I'd gladly trade all the relationships I have for the ability to never work again.

If I ever finish work, it's going to be a complete reboot of me anyway.

Is telegram considered trustworthy now?

I have too. It's very rare but really disconcerting when it does happen. Human memory is pretty faulty.

And that's just if you were a real business. If you were just a little guy trying to build stuff for fun, you had to run a server at home or buy a shell somewhere that would let you run your services.

1 BTC is still worth 1 BTC. Seems pretty stable to me.

Hey kid, welcome to the club. Career software person here.

Here's some unsolicited advice for improvements:

* Focus relentlessly on the calculator experience. Why am I pressing "calculate"? What are some ways you could rework it so that I can give quicker input and get more meaningful output? Your goal should be to reduce friction. Maybe let me type in the time in addition to having the android-style clock widget. Definitely show me a series of clocks as I'm updating the picker as I change the time. It's important to let your users play so that they can intuit about the concepts. Also, maybe show extra times for oversleep/undersleep, but accented in such a way that the user knows they're not healthy choices. Maybe include "in x minutes" with the times too. Maybe start the page with the current time + 8 hours selected, showing the live updating output.

* Bury all the sleep health and science stuff. It's probably great for SEO, but the star of the show here is the calculator widget. If anything, maybe instead have a short promotional video that explains the science/health stuff briefly and explains what the calculator does.

* This would be more useful on my phone, possibly as a native widget. And it would be useful paired with an alarm clock. I'd really like an app (ideally with a widget) that shows me wakeup times based on the current time and lets me quickly set alarms. I always check my phone right before I go to sleep anyway, so it would be easy to click a widget and get proper alarms set. You're probably going to need to learn React Native at some point anyway, might as well do it now.

Take this simple calculator, polish it to absolute perfection, give it away for free, and promote it wherever you can. Having one successful app at your age, even if you don't make a dime, will open up so much opportunity for you that it's 100% worth it.

Also, it's super hard to get software "right", and it's a drifting target. Look at how much Apple and Google have changed their basic Clock apps over the years. I think doing everything perfectly is usually terrible advice, but at your age and with the simplicity of this project, it's worth trying to be a perfectionist. You'll learn that everything is a lot harder than it looks and that you should be terrified of software development :)

Side rant: OP led with "I'm 15", which makes sense, and this wouldn't have frontpaged without that context. I understand that touches a nerve with people who believe the frontpage should be 100% dictated by objective merits. If this place gets overrun with industrious 15 year olds trying to show off their projects to an audience, well, we could have worse problems than that.

That's a worthwhile nit to pick, but I stand by it :)

IMO what you describe is common and the worst type of addictive. You get all of the withdrawal and none of the desirable effects.

This is correct. Concerta is interesting because it's a laser-drilled time release. Vyvanse is interesting because it's a prodrug of amphetamine that releases chemically over time.

No problem, serious answer:

This is the DSMV criteria: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html

Doctors are typically screening with a quiz that looks something like this: https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/adhd-quiz/

It's perfectly reasonable to say "I think I may have ADHD based on what I've read online, my symptoms match and people who know me have suggested I try adderall".

Some doctors are fine with letting everyone have stimulants, because they're pretty harmless unless you're really binging on them, and they won't give you enough to do that for very long.

Other doctors would prefer to put you on an SSRI or SNRI or wellbutrin or some other "non-addictive" medication (which ironically are more addictive, dangerous, and less effective), so avoid those IMO. You may have to shop around a bit, but your primary care doctor technically can write the prescription, but some prefer not to and you might need to find a specialist.

Contraindications for stimulants are if the patient has a history of heart conditions, complains about racing heart rate, excessive sweating, trouble sleeping, trouble eating, etc.

You generally want to start with a low dose of "instant release" as opposed to "extended release" pills, so you can have more fine grained control over the dose. IR pills can be broken in half, XR cannot. Some doctors are more nervous about IR than XR because they think it has more abuse potential (not true, but it's a common belief).

With all that said, stimulants will fix the problems OP described, but don't mistake that for a pleasant experience. The truth is that amphetamines are extremely mentally exhausting, and if you don't take good care of yourself (planning proper meals, staying hydrated, resting at appropriate times, not taking more pills when you shouldn't), you can quickly spiral out of control. It's hard to explain to someone that doesn't do drugs, but stimulants can leave you feeling like a shell of yourself, and it's really disconcerting. It's sort of like being over-tired where you're awake but your judgment is clearly impaired and you don't feel like "you". If you stay on them long enough, you'll start to feel like a zombie just going through the motions (successfully, mind you), but without identity. I make sure to take weekends off to preserve their efficacy for the work week and to make sure I don't become too dependent.

I'd 100% recommend having stimulants in your toolkit, and chances are you're already supplementing with worse stimulants (like mountains of coffee or soda), so do give them a try, but be careful.

How can I tell if I'm self limiting or if I'm being environmentally limited?

It's not fair, but I meant 50 more years. I figure real change takes about 4 generations to happen.

If it makes you feel better, you can think of the non-violent imprisoned as grains of sand on the scales of justice. Your persistent outrage helps push for change in the same way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieL86P2-pLk wow.

I had no idea dogs were capable of this type of communication.

You're just not waiting long enough.

Give it another 50 years or so and statutory sentencing probably go away. It's a system that moves so slowly that it can take multiple generations to correct wrongs. I think that's considered a feature for long-term stability, but it seems like poor design to me.

If you look at a long enough timescale, we are trending in the right direction.

Mid-30s. I realize this isn't a sustainable way to live, but I'm hoping to be retired by 40.

Typical workday:

* 1030-1130 wake up sleep-deprived to a series of alarms, pressing snooze until it's getting late enough to panic

* 1130-1200 shower, food, clothes, etc

* 1200-1500 morning meetings, emails, planning out what work needs to be done, light exercise, news

* 1500-1600 stimulants and lunch

* 1600-2030 intense work with all the stuff i queued up before lunch

* 2030-2100 write notes to myself for tomorrow, answer emails, send status updates

* 2100-0200 talk to family/friends, consume content, comment on internet, video games

* 0200-0600 try to fall asleep, but actually consume more content because of anxiety about work until passing out from exhaustion

Typical weekend is just sleeping until I wake up naturally, try to eat well, catch up on housework, mentally prepare for the week ahead.

Repeat until retired.

I wasn't accounting for reinvested dividends, but inflation from 1997 to 2009 was 34%.

I'm choosing those points because I remember hearing from retirees in 2008 that they had followed all of the advice and they are worse off than they were 10+ years ago. I saw too many cases of people being upside-down on their mortgages, while losing their jobs, while losing their retirements. In that situation, it's pretty hard to keep saying "don't worry, it'll come back, just keep dollar cost averaging in". If you were retiring in 2008, you might not be able to keep averaging with the market, even if you had the stomach to do it. Time in the market is still timing the market.

We've only had modern portfolio theory since 1952. In the last few decades, we've done some really experimental monetary policy. I won't be shocked if we experience some event that brings us back to 2008 levels. I also won't be shocked if we see hyperinflation. The one thing I know is that you're always trying to time the market, it's just a question of if you acknowledge it or not.

I think it's a good idea to max out your tax-advantaged retirement plans and dump them in indexes as sort of a safety net because your MPT advice is probably "too big to fail" at this point, but that only accounts for less than 20k/year of investment advice (for most employed people). After that, investing in a residence makes a lot of sense because of the tax advantages. If you happen to be in a situation where you can engineer more tax advantages (like owning a business or moving to a lower-tax state), then definitely do that. Once you've got all that sorted, it's pretty much just gambling.

Yes, that's how I remember it. It's also worth noting that the fun parts of perl were largely replaced by ruby. The ruby one-liners and perl one-liners are pretty much the same. And eventually, gems got bigger than CPAN.

You're also right about mod_perl vs php. Shared hosting was really common and mod_perl was really unpleasant.

At some point it's just goodbye perl and thanks for all the scripts.

On March 1 2009, the S&P500 was $773.

On January 1 1997, the S&P500 was $773.

During the same time, bonds sold off too. Everything did.

If you were dollar cost averaging into the market for 12 years, you could find yourself below where you started. That's a pretty demoralizing situation.

I think being aware of market conditions and reallocating as you see fit is just part of being a responsible adult. Maybe sometimes you do want to hold VTI, but also it's not unreasonable to bet on Elon.

I'm not saying everyone has to be highly leveraged and aggressive, but I think you're putting a tremendous amount of faith in the markets and intentionally looking the other way.

I want you to be right, but I don't think you are.

He's likely to issue some kind of executive order forcing bytedance to divest tiktok to continue operations. We may see some DoJ or FCC enforcement action that's effectively a "ban" (for users) while only being legally a temporary disruption of service pending compliance (for lawmakers, judges, enforcement agencies, etc to be okay with it). As we have learned over the last 4 years, the president has near absolute control over all federal actions.

I think the safe bet is a bunch of saber rattling that ends with some US entity buying tiktok.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 you actually want "site:".

This is so true. Those "fortuitous in-person run-ins" are also highly correlated with looking the part and having the same hobbies and friends as well-connected people.

I think there's a chance we're going to see all-remote employees be subconsciously judged on things like the quality of their lighting, audio, background, mute etiquette, etc. IMO that's a lot better than the current approach of judging based on similar appearance, hobbies, lunch schedules, golf club memberships, etc.

Being all-remote is a wonderful equalizer.

> They are convinced that unit tests are unnecessary extra work for their project but they don’t realize they are losing time by having to manually test and research changes.

If people are finding tests unnecessary extra work, maybe they're right for their project.

Most jobs are just "ship feature asap, try not to break anything, repeat". Most managers don't care about code quality as much as speed of delivery. Most coders don't have much "skin in the game" and can always get another job when the project fails.

Writing tests is a sign that you know what you're building, you have a methodology for building it, and you have a commitment to keeping it working in the future. That's simply not the requirements for most programming work, and it can be a disservice to both the coders and the management to push for testing that won't help achieve the business goals. If a business needs to iterate fast and reliably, write tests. If a business needs to iterate fast and is ok with breaking things, skip the tests and have a rollback plan instead.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned airvpn yet. They're run by hacktivists and they're great. Mullvad is the other one with a good reputation, but everyone's mentioned that already.

I consider myself an antinatalist and have no use for your service, but I just want to say that you're exceptionally good at handling the comments here.

Thinking about the types of people who would be interested in your service, I would lean hard into serving the trans community specifically. I can't think of a better way to demonstrate trust than being archivist of choice for people who are planning to stop making sperm.

What should someone do if they want to turn legal funds into anonymous crypto? Do you think BTC->XMR is a sketchy thing to do if the BTC is linked to your identity?

I'd like to have some anonymous money just in case the future gets really dark, but I'm not sure if it's wise to flag myself as a BTC purchaser that changes to XMR.

I wish they'd show all the brackets above 200k in income. I would guess that after maybe 500k in income, it probably trends back up.

> Most billionaires have three or more children, the GoCompare analysis found. Among them, 5% had no children, 9% had one child, 23% had two children, 25% had three children, 17% had four children and 21% had five or more. Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos has four children, and Bernard Arnault, the chairman and CEO of the luxury goods empire LVMH, has five. [1]

So if you're a billionaire, you're having lots of kids, but if you're making 200k/yr you're having fewer kids. It makes sense to me.

[1]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/weird-things-top-billionaires...

I used to believe your line of reasoning, but I don't anymore.

> It was a moral hazard of a bad policy intended to make college accessible but in turn caused massive tuition inflation.

Do you really think that's unsolvable? That "bad policy" is corruption. That tuition inflation could be capped.

> Again if there are higher costs, someone has to pay them.

You would think we would all want to educate, insure, and support the next generation. Maybe some costs should be shared?

> They instead just had adverse effects due to the moral hazard of incentivizing colleges to raise tuition since the government will back the loan and the student doesn't understand how to make an informed decision on cost tradeoffs at their age. But this isn't the system being designed to prevent people from having children.

I know you're saying this unironically, but please consider that a system which allows an 18 year old to sign up to accrue tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of debt over 4+ years with no guarantee that they will be able to pay it back... well, maybe that's just not a system we should have built. You know who would love to build that system? Probably the recipients of the 18 year old's borrowed funds.

I have friends that are engineers in various fields, college educated, career people, and they're still struggling to save much of anything after childcare expenses and paying down their college debts.

It's no problem though, they just have to keep working and it's all fine. Unless they can't work for some reason, then they've got a big problem.