It's hard to understand because the way you write is like jumbled stream-of-consciousness, you did not lay out the facts clearly from the start.
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Yeah, don't do this in Canada, or the professional engineers association can come after you. Only certified members of an engineers professional association can use the title.
To be clear, it is illegal, for example, to pass around business cards that say 'Software Engineer' if you're not certified.
As an amusing example, in the province of Ontario, people with the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer certification are allowed to use the title 'MCSE', but not its expansion, because it contains the word 'Engineer'.
However, you are always allowed to state your degree, so you can say, {name}, B. Eng., or M. Eng., as the case may be.
*At least, in Quebec and Ontario - the legislation is province-scoped, I assume other provinces are similar.
Uh? Did you read Gwern? This is literally the opposite of what he does. He is ALL ABOUT weighing risks to overall health. Did you miss the fact that half of his articles detail the potential bad effects of the drugs he's trying?
>Hell, I started smoking cigarettes at 16, which I rank near the top of my worst decisions ever, despite the fact that it helped me hack my brain chemistry
He has an article on non-tobacco nicotine (nicotine gum, patches). His conclusions are, IIRC, 'kinda useful, but has some risks'. He doesn't have a page on cigarettes. You know why? Because cigarettes are THE WORSE. Everyone knows this. It's silly to write off all performance enhancing drugs on the grounds that you once made the bad decision to use possibly the very worse one, from a risk/benefit perspective."
I grant you that brain chemistry hacking may be one step towards em-world, which is as Moloch as it gets, but if you're working on important problems it the edge may be worth it.
Last I checked, caffeine in moderate doses has a mixed bag of positive and negative effects that's not clearly net negative.
There's controversy around whether moderate alcohol consumption (think 1 drink/day) has a positive effect. (Some studies say it does, but it's argued it's a statistical anomaly because people who don't drink at all are weird, e.g. former alcoholics, people with medical conditions that forbids them any alcohol, etc.)
Some people enjoy repetition. Some... really don't.
For me the challenge is to keep finding new interesting sports.
Actually, if you look at Finland and Sweden as a whole, with Sweden having twice as many people, it's more like Finnish is French, and Swedish English.
In this analogy, the Swedish speaking finns are more like anglos living in Quebec.
Edit: Arguably, this is a better outcome than monogamy in a highly gender-skewed community (e.g. 1 in 2 het men dateless).
You don't think people who change channels to avoid ads/who use DVRs is factored into the price per viewer for TV ads?
Your individual impact might be harder to track than with ad-blockers, but on the aggregate you are driving down the price per viewer by switching on channels during ads, using DVR, etc.
(Imagine a world where 100% of people used a DVR and skipped ads. Obviously the price of TV ads would plummet. By using a DVR you are contributing to making our world, that world).
Often you get the opposite effect of a drug in withdrawal, e.g. caffeine reduces headache pain, causes headaches in withdrawal.
I've been chewing nicotine gum semi-regularly for a few months to improve my focus at work, and have not found it addictive so far. (I've never smoked).
(Still, I wouldn't recommend people in general do this without carefully considering the risks.)
Of course a trusted third party obviates the need for complicated schemes.
Buyer sends 1/4 of the BTC
Sellers sends 1st card
Buyer sends 1/2 of the BTC
Seller sends 2nd card
Buyer sends 1/4 of BTC
That way the risk is shared, and both parties stand to lose at most 1/4 of the value (if seller defects after receiving the first payment, or buyer defects and fails to make the last payment).
Not to say you shouldn't try it, I know several people who had positive experiences, but it's not 100% positive, as some people make it out to be.
(in before 'oh what they took wasn't actually LSD' from the 'LSD can do no harm' crowd)
I was sure it was the other way around 301->temporary, 302->permanent.
Would the candidate know it if that was the reason? Do hiring managers usually give truthful feedback or generic platitudes?
I'm genuinely wondering, it occurs to me now I've never been turned down after an interview, or fired.
The local language here is not english, but I use english voice recognition since it's better, which adds extra weirdness.
I only use it to set alarms and reminders on google now.