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> and requires continuous free-riding off of the US across a wide swath of sectors including healthcare and tech.

Don't forget the military as well

It baffles me why any tech business would bother expanding into the EU when other foreign markets are available elsewhere like South America. At some point cost will outweigh benefit regarding a market that's already shifting into irrelevance

Because the added bullshit doesn't actually accomplish anything. Sites that add bullshit for the sake of adding bullshit are more likely to insert anti-user features and unnecessary JS

> It was a little stressful but I had a breakthrough and afterwards I found that I stopped compulsively reliving embarrassing/painful memories.

I'm really happy that you got something positive out of them

My issue with psychedelics in general is that one experience was able to accomplish significant changes. People make this sound like a good thing, but for most people that's way too much. The number of beneficiaries isn't enough to offset the number of casualties

Some people will read this description I've written here and think "this is exactly what I need". Those are the last people who should be doing them. Making them available for "therapeutic use" just fast tracks access to people who are doing them for the wrong reasons

> What were your experiences like? Ive seen people do more and more drugs and fry their brain before but it never seemed like mushrooms were a big part of that.

I had one trip where I saw a sign that I should stop (in hindsight it was likely a coincidence, but it scared the shit out of me)

I had a close friend who I introduced to them (because at the time I thought they were "good for people"). He dropped out of college and has been between jobs ever since. He still does them and is completely obsessed

I see most of the comments here expressing skepticism getting downvoted (like what you would expect on reddit)

Personal hot take: I've done this stuff before. I've seen the before and after of people who've done it. None of the people who did it were better off

When it comes to psychedelics, there are two faces to them: how people talk about them and what they actually are. How they're talked about is 99% bullshit

People will talk about "life changing experiences", that's cool. From the outside, the only changes I see are people turning to deadbeats and doing more and more drugs. Of course, Portland is already a containment zone for mentally ill people on the streets. They could always use more

People don't make decisions in a vacuum. I'm personally less worried about myself and more about children who don't know any better and fall for all the reddit-tier bullshitting with respect to these substances

> But it feels like the country has turned rotten. You feel it any time you interact with a customer service person. Restaurants, stores, especially any kind of "gig economy" service like getting food delivered. They hate serving you and hate their job.

A couple months ago I opened up Facebook and saw ads for this company [0]. I immediately think "oh it's just a sham designed to peddle as many ADHD pills as possible" like 5 seconds later (because I'm cynical at this point, sorry). Of course the company denies all wrongdoing and is firmly committed to "helping people" or whatever

This dynamic right here: this fake smile in the public's face, all of this fluffy marketing bullshit about "wanting to help people", this is the American disease right here.

America might look nice and economically developed from the outside, but it's full of maggots like this on the inside. Much like the above corporation

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftc-launches-probe-of-cerebrals...

What's the point of private thinking if it isn't going to find some kind of public manifestation? (whether that's in the form of words, action, or deliberately refraining from the two)

All private thinking really is is the digestion/preparation of the things in public. It's like the morning after a party when you're trying to remember all the stuff that happened, or writing a script before a speech

> I would take it even farther and claim that very little in experimental psychology / sociology has any value whatsoever.

Oh no they definitely have value, in the same way that metaphysics has value

1. Being able to derive bottom up dynamic programming leetcode solutions. The only way I really "figured out" how to do this was by reading the dp chapter out of the Cormen algorithms book. It's crazy how illuminating (and rare) clear explanations are

2. The chain rule. I knew the actual rule from a calc class, but the intuition behind it didn't make sense to me until I read a couple pdfs on backpropagation

3. Money brings out the worst in people

I think they mentioned Virginia Thomas being in a cult in a recent article and that lead me to this somehow, maybe wikipedia

> A business that has a oxytocin-rich environment might not be the best place.

This is a little tangential, but it reminds me of this archived Washington Post article from the 1980s* about a self help cult

> "I wasn't at peace with myself until that moment, when I closed my eyes and hugged myself and felt my arms on my body. I realized I was somebody. I cried enough to fill a glass."

Tl;dr of it is this: extreme bonding == crazy

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/19...

> Then did everything in his power at home to play WoW. He became hopelessly addicted.

I was like this and spent a shit load of that time on a computer. Everyone around me said it was a waste of time until I realized I wanted to work in software. Then I realized they were all full of shit and it was actually a very profitable use of time

> and it is perfectly possible to create a stable statutory definition of hate speech

Doesn't sound like it. If the washington post is saying you're going too far in this category, there's a good chance you've already gone off the deep end

> The raid Wednesday came a little over three months after he replied to a tweet from Andy Grote, the interior and sports minister for the city of Hamburg, describing him as a “pimmel.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/13...

> As a negotiator aspiring to excellence, you must, at all costs, avoid showing need. In order to avoid showing need, you must never feel it. I cannot say this enough: You do not need this deal.

Isn't this a contradiction? Because why would someone be negotiating in the first place if they weren't needy in some sort of way? On top of this though, they care about the negotiation so much that they read this annoyingly long guide and obsess over "not showing need"

Isn't suffering through this guide itself a sign of neediness?

> Try to bribe them with delicious food, wealth, sex; and you'll get nothing. They do not desire it.

Sounds like an enlightened person to me

> Could this entity using their perfectly intact faculty of reason derive a system of ethics?

See Kantian ethics

> Thus ethics must be derived from some other notion about how the world should be.

Yes, but bringing in is-ought only tells us that the ethical realm is self contained. It doesn't tell us that the ethical realm is reducible to emotions

> All other notions about how the world should be are so-that something else, which if you keep following the reasons so-that, all land in emotions.

You're just repeating the same claim that I questioned earlier

> For example, the reason why we seek things like truth and justice is because we like how they feel, we feel content, as though things are the way we think they should be

Can you prove this? Why this specific explanation and not some random other one like "because God wills it"? It's unclear to me why this explanation is any more convincing

> Right, so what most people do when faced with a lack of knowledge is go out looking for it or maintain weakly held beliefs.

Exactly. This is why I've spent the last ten years of my life trying to find a real unicorn in nature. Weakly held beliefs are never good enough for me!

> Ethics too is rooted in emotion.

Says who? Can you prove it? This is a pretty big claim to make

> Applying wanton black and white thinking is a sign of a mind incapable of nuance, and rich, deep thought.

Can't think of one instance where a group was able to politically accomplish something on the basis of "nuance"

If someone is making an appeal to "nuance", they're losing

Correct in theory but completely wrong in practice

Whether or not privacy is "OK" according to some random closet authoritarian NYT columnist is completely irrelevant

If X columnist thinks encryption is a problem, they should be willing to live with the consequence that the Texas govt would be able to see the communications of women seeking out of state abortions

There is no way to eliminate privacy for "bad" actors only but preserve it for "good" actors

> Most people in SF have cars, most streets are lined with garage doors.

Ok. But what about cars getting broken into? Isn't that incredibly common?

If I hypothetically lived in SF, I definitely wouldn't bring a car just bc I don't want my catalytic converter getting stolen or the windows getting broken

What's this? An SV newspaper posting copium about office space in SV?

I personally wouldn't have a problem living in a city like SF if crime and homeless were less common

But since this is a literal nightmare in SF, being less "car dependent" or appeasing these whining activists is the least of my concern.

I could give a shit less about "car dependency" if I have to worry about my own personal safety on a regular basis. Expecting people to put their own personal safety on the line to reduce "car dependency" is asinine. If city advocates want people to move to their cities, they should get their shit in check first before even bothering to ask

tl;dr Kathy Hochul sabotaged the version of the bill passed by the state legislature so that it requires only what Apple and Samsung are already doing

The version that came out of the legislature would have required OEMs to sell individual components instead of only larger assemblies. For example, if something on a macbook board breaks they have to sell the individual component. Currently Apple/Samsung require you to buy the whole board for several hundred dollars

reading between the lines here it's likely that Hochul was lobbied by the listed OEMs and NY law allows the governor to make sweeping changes to a bill before signing it (for some reason?? doesn't seem very pro-democracy to me). Video title should be "Kathy Hochul Sabotages Right to Repair Bill"

This just sounds like bad management. If people don't feel comfortable communicating their own skills then everyone is worse off

considering recent bad press the cost of the additional transaction fee seems like very cheap insurance

Question: why do people keep coins in exchange wallets when you could just keep them in personal wallets and not have to worry about losing them? What's the appeal?

> privacy settings (it used to be "set what you want to share" and now it's "learn what is shared")

What I like to do with this is have two versions of hosts file and two versions of /etc/pf.conf

In one setting, I use https://gitlab.com/intr0/AppleBlock/-/blob/master/AppleBlock... in the hosts file and block the whole 17.X.X.X ip range (Apple's range) in the pf.conf

The other setting doesn't have any of these blocks

Whenever I need some apple service (e.g. updates or apple developer stuff), I run a script to toggle the blocks

The benefit of this approach is you get apple services only when you need them

The one thing that macbooks do exceptionally well are the trackpad gestures and accuracy. This is the one thing that I can think of off the top of my head where I'd be surprised to see any match from any other machine/OS combo. Even after dual booting with my mbp, the Linux trackpad driver just doesn't work as well

This and the linux wifi driver annoyingness are the two things that keep me from just ditching apple software completely