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See, that is pure genius!

s/Yosemite/Yellowstone

> I know this is a controversial view, but I think employers should not be allowed to run background checks unless important for the role (government work, access to children, etc) and where it is important for the role it should only return the criminal convictions that might be relevant to the role.

This shouldn't be controversial at all and I think your take is 100% correct wrt exceptions (gov work, access to children etc). The very "Once a felon always a felon" thing going on in the united states is a secret life long sentence that completely defeats the idea of redemption.

I suspect most of the side by side comparisons, including this one, were GPU.

wow it's 14! definitely need to hurry up :)

unless you went second hand, you should still be covered with the 30 day return policy no?

Curious what's going on with the stance of presenters? If you look carefully they all stand in a certain way, with a space between their feet that appears to be constant.

The only 2 techs I use for stuff like that are

Asciiflow https://asciiflow.com/#/ Dot https://graphviz.org/

What we call 'journalists' are people with an iphone and a laptop, in an openspace from 9 to 5 and on twitter all day long.

Come on, look at the bright side of things: this project is going to piss off a lot of San Franciscans, exactly the kind that proved, during COVID, that their real values are the exact opposite of the ones they claim to be in favor of. They should amend this project and add 15 more stories!

I think you are missing the point. The fact the US is considering a ban is OK in my book, even tho I find it a bit amusing to finally see the US do exactly what he blames China for.

However, the behavior and tone of these representatives, with a monomaniac focus on the communist party was quite shocking.

The level of sinophobia displayed by these representatives is an absolute shame.

> There were pro-democratic forces.

I would strongly suggest you to read a bit about the ideology of the Al-Nusra Front group.

The EU version of the culture war :)

> Who decides that a L9 is going to be cut.

I dont know, reality perhaps? I don't know for google, but the idea that titles/level always reflect what the employee's performance actually is has been debunked for me a long time ago.

great article! I'm looking forward to 'ethics of armrest' to understand the dynamics at play for the one that is shared with your neighbor.

<company> is quietly <action> has been a trend for some time, love it!

This made me smile big time. Outstanding!

ps: choice of e1m1 is interesting, iirc the reference benchmark is e1m2 (demo2).

EDIT: demo2 -> e1m4 !

Prediction: the coverage The Atlantic did of this pandemic will be remembered as an embarrasment.

No offense my friend, this wasn't directed at your post in particular, I was just venting my frustration for this annoying trend. Besides, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was actually russian :D

Personally no, I've seen an uptick of some pretty pissed off (and vulgar) comments which appear to be made to trigger San Francisco people. These comments are largely inoffensive as they are rapidly downvoted and these accounts banned.

One worrying trend i noticed tho, is the systematic pinning of such things on 'Russians'. I am appalled by this blatent scapegoating and how it has become a meme over the last few years. People casually jump on this idiotic red scare 2.0 conspiracy theory in full impunity.

Right on, I got excited as well when I saw the title, then I read the first paragraph (plus saw the F face of that prime minister and booh, dissapointment).

You got to give credit to these technocrats for being tone deaf: they dont just take the most stupid measures, they typically do so way late.

> And you cannot really plan to not get infected, everybody will.

They said exactly the same thing about Delta over the last summer, until reality proved the prediction WRONG as today Delta is almost exstinct.

> You have no idea what you are talking about.

Whereas you do right?

> These stimulants work markedly different for folks with this different brain chemistry, and pretty clearly so.

They are both brain stimulants, that's why I coined this "Legal meth".

PS: As for the rest of your arguments, not gonna answer because I have no idea what you are talking about, trying to mean, or even if this gibbering makes any sense at all. Please take your Adderall actually.

> then, guess what, I found I actually have it myself and it's explained a lot of the suffering in my life

Do you realize how weak your argument acutally is? You can now be invested in this believe and it's entirely fine with me but the hard reality remains the following:

https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/adhd/what-is-ad...

Ergo, there is absolutely no scientific diagnosis for these imaginary pathologies, these patologies are diagnosed entirely via symptoms, which isn't necessarily a deal breaker for me, but when I read the list of symptoms, I just call bulshit sorry.

Given the knee jerk reaction caused by my initial comment, I'm going to propose everyone to wait for 10 years until the rampant overprescriptions of these drugs become clearly in the eye of everyone, the new opioid epidemic.

In the meantime, I'll add ADHD to the list of uniquely american things (alongside circumcision and tipping), even tho I am sure that there are at least more than 0 people in every other country in the world who heard about ADHD before (so impressed by your rhetorical skills guys, merry xmas1).

> And you explicitly referred to cocaine as an equivalent option to prescribed medication.

No, I tried and failed to make you understand my main point that these drugs which are 'presecribed' for a pathology whose existence has yet to be scientifically demonstrated, are actually no different from cocaine in what they do when you take them. I've seen comments in this thread saying that since Adderal/Ritaline works and has positive effects, therefor the existance of ADHD is demonstrated. After all, that's an opinion as well, so please let me keep mine that Adderal/Ritaline are nothing but legal meth.

> If something is clearly causing severe life issues in both places (as in clear issues with mental well being, same everything in that sense), but one writes it off as ‘whatever, they’re losers’ and the the other gives treatment and helps - I don’t think it’s that it isn’t a pathology in the . place that just calls them losers and refuses to do anything.

There is no need to make a false dychotomy here: I have nothing about the use of substances if they help people struggling with attention and concentration, and there are probably tons of people on similar drugs in Europe. The only difference is that the United States is the only place where ADHD is a thing, e.g: considered an actual pathology despite the absence of any demonstration of a confirmatory physical (including chemical) abnormality in the brain. And I believe it leads to massive over-prescriptions.

> And suggested illegal street drugs of unknown potency or other problems is somehow better than regulated and tested stimulants is more than a bit bizarre.

I'm not suggesting anything, I used the example of cocaine as a substance that is known to improve concentration too. My point being, Adderal/Ritalin are not the magic drug that treats ADHD, they are just brain enhancing substances as well, sold by pharmacies.

> One of the worst cases of ADHD I've personally seen was from someone from Bulgaria. I have neighbors who have it who are Russian.

Sure, millions of people, myself included, do have attention deficit issues, but the question is whether it is an actual pathology or something socio-educo-cultural. The very diagnostic seems to be extremely controversial amongst scientists, according to google. My bulshit meter is activated because again, while people with troubles of attention can be found everywhere, the United States is about the only country where ADHD is a thing.

PS: in terms of options, cocaine works as well and for sale everywhere in the world.

I find it extremely interesting that ADHD is basically a United States thing, I had never heard of this thing in Europe, but in the US, it is actually talked about like it's an actual pathology, that can be actually diagnosed, and treated of course, surprise surprise, with Ritalin/Adderal.

No doubt that we are not all cognitively equal, but I am a personally convinced it is a total scam invented to put people on drugs.