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No meth or heroin for the last many years. I never liked either much anyway. I've referring mostly to psychedelic drugs and marijuana, which normally are considered soft, but I've consumed them to a degree that would probably shock most people.

Constantly using various recreational drugs. It's actually not something my wife has a problem with at all, and even recently she encouraged me to keep doing so. The decision to stop was my own. There have been many extended periods of heavy use and total abstinence in my life already, and I wouldn't change that. In general it's a habit that I have good control over, and one that has never jeopardized my physical wellbeing. Emotionally, psychoactive drugs can have myriad effects, but on the whole they have influenced my personality in remarkably positive ways.

I'm not working right now and my wife is supporting me. To be brief, I'm taking time to be healthier mentally and my wife can see that I'm making a concerted effort. I let her know frequently how much I appreciate it, and I'm also accomplishing a lot and putting myself in a position to be successful again in the near future. I've supported her financially at times in the past as well.

Because of this, we're actually in a very good place in our relationship. I had put a lot of stress on her by being manic, obsessive, paranoid (not about her or our relationship), constantly using, etc. We've both noticed the improvement and have been more introspective and open about what causes us to argue. Anyway, just a counter-anecdote to the top comment.

And potentially that men (and women) may react a certain way to unemployment that makes them difficult to be with.

And meanwhile the US Department of Defense, as of 2009, had 27,000 employees working in public relations / propaganda and contracts out the development of astroturfing software. Government-paid shills are not unique to Russia, and this article does nothing to prove that Russia was involved with the DNC emails.

Beyond that, it doesn't matter who leaked / hacked the emails. If Putin was behind it, then he did a great service to open democracy in the US.

Related to this are emails between Clinton campaign advisor Philippe Reines and Marc Ambinder, a politics editor at The Atlantic. The emails showed a quid pro quo in which Ambinder used certain words and descriptions as requested in exchange for an advance copy of an HRC speech.

http://gawker.com/this-is-how-hillary-clinton-gets-the-cover...

Actually "lead" has many, many more than two distinct senses.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lead

What are his antics in politics? Can you point out specifically where he is off base?

Awesome. I've checked out the Macaulay library a few times in the past looking for samples for electronic music. It's a great resource, and has features like rating by audio quality. Check out the unearthly vocalizations of various Oropendolas:

http://macaulaylibrary.org/search?&asset_format_id=1000&coll...

At around 0:25 in this recording is an example of what I mean, but each member of the genus has its own distinct calls/songs:

http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/12830

This applies to only a small fraction of people worldwide.

The US government commits terrorist attacks on a regular basis. I may not convince all of you about the air strike in Syria the other day, or the hospital that was intentionally hit a few months back, but can any of you deny that the Shock and Awe bombing campaign at the outset of the Iraq war was terrorism? Shock and Awe was the "use of overwhelming power and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight". The stated purpose was to terrify the civilian population. The Oxford Research Group estimated that there were 6,616 civilian deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_awe

Jill Stein is clearly a less militaristic candidate than Trump.

> The only people that have issues with it are the consumers thousands of miles away who are completely detached from the issue and realities facing those workers, and who at the same time fuel demand by purchasing and funding those workers.

Ok, that is just not true. Tell that to the garment workers here that were shot last year by government police while protesting low wages and poor working conditions.

I think GP had it right that this is a false dichotomy, that being "a type of informal fallacy that involves a situation in which only limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

False dichotomy doesn't mean that one of the options doesn't exist, it means there is an additional option not being considered -- that is, industry and government coordinating to create safe working environments and pay livable wages.

> result of a lifetime of societal biases.

Not just societal biases, but simple demographic realities that are not controlled for at all looking solely at scores on a test.

Never revealing personal information is harder than it seems though, as we often give away deanonymizing information unconsciously e.g. in the quirks of our writing style. The study of deanonymizing an author based on these tendencies is called stylometry, and was used for instance in another case about a child abuse ring that was posted to HN last week. One of the group's members consistently used the atypical greeting "hiyas", which was sufficient to give investigators a lead on his IRL identity. Stylometric tendencies can be much more subtle though, like putting two spaces or one after a period, capitalizing proper nouns, using an oxford comma, persistent misspellings, idiosyncratic phrases revealed by n-gram analysis, etc.

People have had this misconception for a long time about Google, I remember having this debate on HN 4 or 5 years ago. I'm not sure Google has ever supported truly exact string matching.

I am trying this right now, and it's not doing exact string matching. I mean case sensitive, special characters, etc.

To the poster below, putting the query in double quotes definitely does not do exact string matching.

I'm not knowledgeable about Bing, but Google doesn't support literal searches either if you mean that in the sense of exact string matching.

Yep, I did this (after going the traditional college route and languishing for a few years after) but more like 15k over three years. I'm a pretty good web developer now but it's still very tough establishing that initial credibility. Plus, I wanted to have many experiences outside of just programming, like learning the language for instance.

I personally think there is enough evidence to at least begin inquiry into the possibility of foreknowledge within the Bush administration and/or some US intelligence agencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks_advance-k...

True, I hadn't thought of that!

A commenter pointed out that one or two of these images appear to be photoshopped, most likely mock ups of a scene that the artist intended to create. The commenter took a lot of heat, but does appear to be correct. The fifth-to-last image (the before) and fourth-to-last (the after) show it pretty clearly if you check out the clouds.