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Not exactly this scenario, but the psilocybe genus produces chemicals very similar to serotonin.

It's the mental image of a sedative plunge, plea to breathe by an asthmatic, and rapid dismemberment in a plastic wrapped room by a hit squad of private jet flown high level Saudis. He was going to get marriage paperwork completed. The callus calculation left an impression.

It doesn't diminish the deaths of 100k civilians. No whataboutism debate necessary, both are barbaric. One was top of mind, neither is mutually exclusive.

The common denominator between Saudis and Russia is oil and lack of conscience or moral compass. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

> What I could agree with is a statement that live events can alter our epigenetic regulation mechanisms

For sure they can, and we also get to choose our reaction to said events.

This debate is ancient. Do we have free will, or are we predestined to fate? Knowledge of chemistry and physics doesn't give an answer to that question.

Worked at one softbank backed company for a short time and the amount of money and heads they dumped at any problem was incredible. Literally they tried to grow and scale at all costs.

That doesn't work for mental health though. Money can't buy more therapists to meet patient demand.

Edit: more importantly I would never trust my mental health with a company that takes money from Khashoggi's murderers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Investment_Fund

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...

What I took away from GP was that this medicine helps a person learn and integrate truths that their current neuropathways may be blocking or inhibiting at a subconscious level. It's a neuroplasticity aid of sorts and less of something to be taken as a long term maintenance medication. The change in perspective in a therapeutic setting can be a catalyst to permanent changes in thought patterns.

There is momentum growing in Washington State (US). A therapeutic use bill SB 5660 didn't leave committee but led to some funding for additional studies. [1]

Separately, ADAPT-WA filed a ballot initiative and will be gathering signatures to get it onto the ballot. [2]

If someone was inclined to do mycology research there is a plethora of information here: https://www.shroomery.org/

[1] https://www.marijuanamoment.net/washington-state-legislature...

[2] https://adapt-wa.org/

Thanks! I saw three theories listed in the nature article and none of them mentioned lensing or Einstein rings.

Some curiosities behind the question were whether optical and radio frequencies behave the same with lensing. And how to tell if the radio image is in front of or behind the stars.

I'm an armchair astronomer if that, and obviously didn't read the source paper. Appreciate your thoughtful response!

Gravitational lensing can make the same star appear in a circular pattern, could the same happen for these radio wave patterns?

Logging all of their interactions is probably a good idea in case you do need to lawyer up

IANAL but Oracle v SAP was about accessing and downloading files from a competitor. I vaguely recall that Oracle won a settlement because their TOS had an enforceable provision about commercial use and licensing. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-sap-se-settlement-...

This reminds me of a former director who liked to say to some of our partner teams, "poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.". She was good at putting a buffer in between IC's on our team and partner teams so we could focus more on planned work.

The "yesterday" need-by date maybe works the first time. Beyond that, if that's really the company culture or management style, I'd be quietly looking for a new job. Same category as Friday afternoon requests for things due Monday morning.

It'd be fun to have a sms subscription to a particular league's schedule, a team's activities, or a single game.

> Has someone asked you to do something recently that you know you don’t have time to do but felt like you needed to do anyway?

"When is this needed" is a great alternative to a hard "no". It opens up a conversation about priorities. And lets you transparent about what needs to get delayed so that this new priority can be worked. It's a perfectly reasonable conversation to have, and helps you keep healthy boundaries.

Value extraction may be part of the problem. Competition would take care of a lot of inefficient private sector businesses. Duo/Mono-polistic profit margins leave a lot of room for waste. Resource constraints breed innovation.

Boeing for example competes with Airbus on commercial planes, that's about it. And SpaceX is eating into their profit margins on rockets. They need to innovate to keep up with SpaceX rockets, while the 737-max fiasco is a great illustration of waste and inefficiency on commercial airplanes. If they had to be more competitive to survive, they may not have cut so many corners.

> Does that mean they are racist too??

There's a lot more to diversity and civil rights than just race, although racism is very visible.

> Seems to me that preventing IQ tests from being used as a criteria for positions requiring heavy analytical work is discrimination against individuals who can do well on IQ tests.

Some people just aren't test takers. Anxiety, ADHD, neurodiversity in general for example. Or maybe they came from a place that didn't teach standardized tests, or is taking the test in a non-native language. Blind. Who knows. Someone could be a genius but suck at test taking.

Why should an IQ test be a job requirement anyways? Why not an EQ test? Does an IQ test discriminate against high EQ people? It's a straw man argument.

> It disgusts me to see anybody "apologize" for this. It's like as soon as they get accused of being "un-inclusive" they start "apologizing" before some imaginary mob bursts in and hurts their social media rankings. This is so spineless.

I wonder if there's a middle ground where someone else's success isn't seen as taking away another person's. That would make for less hostile rhetoric on both sides of your argument.

There can be a lot of social and family support/pressure to get good grades, attend good schools, and not everyone gets the right people surrounding them to create those types of opportunities. And checking all the right boxes still doesn't make someone entitled to a special set of job opportunities. At least not in the US. China, maybe so. Other countries maybe different too.

Morning and evening sunlight depends a lot on the latitude.

Not radical at all, I'll happily take either too.

> With regard to technical choices - consider that some languages & ecosystems provide a lot more "batteries included" than others

It sounds like you are happy with the language and stack, could you share what your team is running?

The disease itself is inflammatory, no?

What is your typically tend to source?

If Russia is preparing to up its information warfare game does this give them better defenses against inbound attacks? While letting FSB selectively allow outbound attacks?

What are the goals of this action? Is this to prevent a fire sale from foreign institutional holders who are exiting their positions in Russian securities?

If your phone is a recent or expensive model, the subscription prices for apps may be higher, or the discounts lower, because you presumably have more disposable income.

> The hard part is learning the platform and tooling you need to operate at scale

Harder still is defining the right problem to solve between new projects and maintaining existing infra.

The tech problems is easy. Solving the people and organizational problems with the right tech pays the big bucks in data engineering.

I learned schema design and BCNF on an access database. Applied database elective during undergrad. Built a career off those fundamentals.

Accounting software needs internal process controls. There should have been a team of accountants executing checks and balances to make sure the numbers tie out each month end before closing the books for that month.

What was happening on the process side that enabled these bugs to persist undetected for so long? How were the bugs discovered and proven? Why is the CFO or controller's role in these failures not mentioned?

I'd throw in excel power pivot over SSAS cubes. It fills In some of the gaps you described.

I'd take an opposite view that as humans, we don't know what we don't know, and the scope of our unknowing is much greater than we lend ourselves to believe.

Another great example studies of mycelium networks exchanging nutrients with forest tree root networks. The exchange of nutrients has much in common with the firing of neutrons in the animal brain. This was discovered by "feeding" trees radioactive CO2 gas and observing how it moves to other trees. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mec.15520

It's also on a 5 year supply chain cycle. That brand new touch screen was spec'd and designed 5 years before the finished car was made.

I had to lookup SSC. I think this annual report footnote means that Facebook could be found in non-compliance of GDPR or other regs and could chose to abandon the market rather than pay the fine. Or based on [1] they could apply the EU SSC standards to their businesses outside the EU and be in compliance and continue operations.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/914/oj?uri=CELEX...

[1] > In order to provide appropriate safeguards, the standard contractual clauses should ensure that the personal data transferred on that basis is afforded a level of protection essentially equivalent to that guaranteed within the Union (10). With a view to ensuring transparency of processing, data subjects should be provided with a copy of the standard contractual clauses and be informed, in particular, of the categories of personal data processed, the right to obtain a copy of the standard contractual clauses, and any onward transfer. Onward transfers by the data importer to a third party in another third country should be allowed only if the third party accedes to the standard contractual clauses, if the continuity of protection is ensured otherwise, or in specific situations, such as on the basis of the explicit, informed consent of the data subject.

I once wired a cheap 120db siren to a 9v battery and a pressure switch with the default "on" position. Packed it in a plastic pint sized ice cream container with a hole drilled in the bottom for the switch. Packed that full of rocks for weight, with the switch pointed down towards the floor. Packed it all inside an Amazon box with a hole cutout for the switch.

Lift the box, and immediate piercing sound blast. For < $10 in parts off AliExpress. Unit price could be a couple bucks max at volume.