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chepaslaaa··on Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste
It's only cheating if you're breaking a rule to not sleep with other people. Swingers aren't cheating (assuming they're respecting any agreed upon boundary) when they're having an orgy for example.

A bi man with a wife and a family could very well be having sexual encounters with men once in a while with the agreement of his wife (who could well have her own stuff going on too) and it could be a very healthy thing in what is a fulfilling relationship for both parties.

chepaslaaa··on Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)
If your user experience pisses off users you'll get knee jerk reactions.
chepaslaaa··on The Social Media Problem
I think conspiracy theories should be seen as a symptom of low quality education, and that makes it a big deal.
chepaslaaa··on We quit our jobs to build a cabin
You probably had fun, learned something and will use the tools again.
chepaslaaa··on We quit our jobs to build a cabin
I agree with the fitness argument, but the safety argument is a legitimate one. I live in a mountain town with a big mountain biking community, almost everyone who pushes themselves in that sport will be dealing with injuries at one point. It can be as benign as a torn ACL or a broken clavicle, but I'm also friends with a guy who broke his pelvis (he completely healed and is a great athlete, I've seen him do a 360 on telemarks last winter) and worked with a guy who's currently in a neckbrace after breaking 2 vertebra. Those last two people are both lucky they didn't die.

You don't need to be a great mountain biker to go dangerously fast, it's very easy to become overconfident, and the downhill nature means that you might also fall from certain heights on top of already carrying speed, and not necessarily on soft dirt, maybe onto rocks or into a tree. It's a gnarly sport.

The commentator you were talking to should at least go on some mellow bike rides or something.

chepaslaaa··on The Art of Not Thinking
go swim every other day you'll get more fun out of life
chepaslaaa··on The Police Data Accessibility Project
The citizens of the united states of america have a 2nd amendment.

I might be naive, but I think most populations around the world would have revolted much earlier if they were armed the way americans are.

chepaslaaa··on How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct
The national police force in Canada rapes and murders native women with complete impunity. It might be a bit better in that there are less extrajudicial murders, but it's far from being great.
chepaslaaa··on Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance
I've been a line cook, restaurant owners are absolutely untrustworthy and hostile. The food industry is one where exploitation, highly aggressive staff retention practices (making employees dependent on you for a visa, threatening to spread lies about you, etc.), crazy unhealthy hours and just a generally awful culture are standard.
chepaslaaa··on I was tricked into thinking I had “grit”
I'm canadian, I sure as fuck wouldn't want to emigrate to the USA. Warren Buffet has huge biases and blind spots when it comes to sociological analysis. I strongly doubt the man understands what it's like to be making 7$ an hour working at Dennys somewhere in the bible belt because the public school system left you semi-illiterate, or living in any heavily criminalized urban area, or picking fruits in california because you had to escape cartels in mexico/central america. None of the people in my examples or developing their full potential, and there's a massive proportion of americans in this bottom social class.

*And canada could be doing way better. There are glaring social inequalities here too.

chepaslaaa··on I was tricked into thinking I had “grit”
Most professional athletes have about 20 years of practice before peaking (maybe around 15 in sports where the athletes peak younger such as gymnastics). When you see Eliud Kipchoge or Alex Honnold's achievements in their 30s being celebrated, you don't see them at 15 years old at regional competitions being average-among-the-decent.
chepaslaaa··on Psilocybin Produced in Yeast
With regards to the taste, grinding them up and mixing them into melted chocolate will negate all taste issues (or consistency, I find the getting bits stuck in your teeth is what really sucks).
chepaslaaa··on House cats have more impact on local wildlife than wild predators
Humans are better off with household cats than with rodent infestations.
chepaslaaa··on Ignore Sunk Costs (2009)
you get called and the flop is shit, what do you do?
chepaslaaa··on Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)
poor women worked for decades prior to 1968
chepaslaaa··on More than 80% of total knee replacements can last for 25 years
If I had to guess I'd lean to thinking manufacturing an artificial muscle like the hearth is is a lot more challenging that an artificial joint like the knee is. Also from what I've seen people who get knee replacements tend to be people with a lot of years left to live to want to ski and run on them, whereas someone who needs a hearth transplant is probably nearing the end of their lifespan.
chepaslaaa··on Risky Mortgage Bonds Are Back and Delinquencies Are Piling Up
If investors were all as wise as Buffet time arbitrage wouldn't be a thing.
chepaslaaa··on Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
true evil is threatening countries who wont sell oil strictly for USD with nuclear warfare
chepaslaaa··on How the Stock Market Works
all the people who labor and can't afford stock lose to inflation in this paradigm
chepaslaaa··on July was world's hottest month on record, WMO says
What did life look like during these months?
chepaslaaa··on The Law Isn't Ready for Psychedelic Medicine
>creating cartels/mafias that become as powerful as nation states.

The state is balls deep in those cartels. Go read about Freeway Rick Ross and Afghanistan poppy fields for prime examples. It's all part of the military industrial complex, Peter Dale Scott has great books on the matter.

chepaslaaa··on 'My son spent £3,160 in one game'
The main problem with opiates in north america is that they're prescribed with no mechanism in place for withdrawing.
chepaslaaa··on We moved to Turkey from San Francisco to continue working on our startup
the real difference is winter, people who have nothing to lose and no ties in NYC hop on a freight train and head west
chepaslaaa··on No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
small companies have internal politics too, if they're crippling depends on factors but it is very possible
chepaslaaa··on Google bans apps that facilitate sale of marijuana
Imagine a paradigm our local coffee shop isn't legally allowed to operate and Tim Hortons is ran by the government.
chepaslaaa··on Google bans apps that facilitate sale of marijuana
The highest end concentrates are only available on the black/grey market currently, and if you have some skilled growers in your relationship circle you can access some much better stuff (more potent and/or grown with less chemical additives, not to mention a much fresher curing process and a more thorough trimming job) than whatever is the highest end stuff they sell in the stores. They have put a limit on potency and their regulations mean that the weed they sell in stores in way too dry once it reaches costumers. It's not the biggest deal to most people and better than putting people behind bars, but there could also be a much better craft cannabis culture that could be promoted by small businesses rather than the corporate consolidation the liberal party is currently encouraging. In my opinion it would make users build a healthier rapport to this drug, in the same way that getting into fancy wine as well as craft beers and spirits can lead to a more gastronomic approach to alcohol than drinking coors light and vodka.
chepaslaaa··on Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users
­>if chromium team loose sight of how non-obscure the requirement to block ads easily is to all users today, this may be the start of a different phase.

I don't think you realize how many tech illiterate people don't block ads.

chepaslaaa··on Should Failing Phish Tests Be a Fireable Offense?
In montréal I've seen people just pull the turnstile back a little and then get like a foot wide gap to walk right in.
chepaslaaa··on The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mover” for Las Vegas
you're just making the single point bigger
chepaslaaa··on The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas
Split green peas are a big element of survival in my dirtbag mountaineer diet along with oats, eggs and peanut butter.They kick ass.
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