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what does this mean?

Do you think harder to do these days because the existing social networks are so deeply entrenched?

I'm kind of surprised by the idea of saving nothing for your children. Is it a symptom of the dog eat dog American system of capitalism that it seems kinda wild to me? I guess if you can be certain that their fundamental needs will be met, it isn't as important. But in the US your life can be pretty crap, even if not abject developing world style poverty.

Fair enough, I first came across the chart probably 10 years ago on Wikipedia. Here this is the original source. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS014067360...

I'm surprised the NYT would give this position a platform. The author's position is that all drugs, even very hard ones like heroin, can be used recreationally. The author is a professor of psychology, so I find this surprising and really irresponsible. Very few are able to use opiates recreationally. Even the weakest opioid, codeine causes serious addiction problems via codeine-promethaize cough syrup. The extremely high risk of developing dependence, extremely painful withdrawals, and the fact that prices are inflated due to being accessible only on the black market make it a recipe for destroying your life. This is ignoring the risk of picking up a felony conviction for having it on your person.

I think many drugs can be used recreationally, my instinct is to let people do what they want, and I wish our drug policy was more technocratic, but it's really reckless to recommend people use certain substances.

This chart really drives home how dangerous heroin is.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Rational...

I find that the best writing is kind of conversational. It obviously depends on what it is (technical document, memoir, Medium tutorial), but I find the kind of writing you're doing here reminds me of a college admissions essay. It's like a teenager in a button down shirt and tie. I respect the effort, but I don't take it seriously.

I think Obama's recent book is a good example of rich but not overly done writing.

I count the bank of existing knowledge, Stackoverflow posts and tutorials, as the community. In that case I don't see how such a new arrival could have a richer one than C++. There are still relevant C++ questions that someone asked on a forum in 2002.