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I think that was the control group, not placebo. But I didn't read the study in depth.

Do you have a source? I don't think it is "more effective" in terms of the remission rate. That being said, in this hypothetical world where you can choose between shrooms and SSRIs, you would have to compare the side effects as well.

> Also, in our current system the people with actual power are not at all anonymous. I can name all the elected officials.

Crypto doesn't replace elections or government?

What happens to wages when the QE occurs? Nothing, they stagnate. What happens to real estate and securities? They skyrocket.

I don't care if it's cryptocurrency that we end up using. As long as we can pay people in some kind of security that cannot be inflated, then wages cannot be silently garnished via inflation.

Not a "fix" (I should have picked my words more carefully), but it would stem the bleeding from inflation.

Then any new asset type, IPO, or security also entrenches wealth inequality for the same reasons. Unfortunately that would have to happen to get away from using fiat currency.

My original comment was just saying that I think Bitcoin is the best alternative we have, not that it would necessarily succeed.

I think of Bitcoin as a hail mary attempt to fix the inequality caused by central banking. I got a lot of flak for saying that I would trade the environmental damage done by bitcoin for negating central banking in another thread, but I believe that wealth inequality is the biggest humanitarian problem we face.

> hundreds of terawatt-hours every year on something whose sole practical purpose is to enrich a bunch of Silicon Valley tech bros.

This describes many companies, also.

I think believing this (the title in particular) is even more partisan and more wrong than not participating in Bitcoin because it's "bad for the environment" which I read as "I feel I missed the boat, so I'm going to criticize".

I would rather suffer the environmental damage that Bitcoin incentivizes over having central banking control our currency (not saying it's that simple, but that is how I think about it in broad strokes). No government can print Bitcoin at will to fund military spending or generally increase social inequity, which I think printing new money usually ends up doing.

I think there are far worse things for the environment than Bitcoin. Have you seen our land and water usage?

Pop science with no link to actual study? I'm not convinced that confounding variables have been stripped. ADHD and autism are probably also positively associated with the population density of medical professionals in the area.

Edit: link to article https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...

I didn't intend it as a joke. Maybe at a developer-friendly company it could be viewed as a joke.

I applaud this, but I also advise against this for your career. Unless the change you're making has immediate and significant business benefits, from a PM/EM perspective you're 1) wasting time 2) potentially introducing bugs

The correct move is to wait until the org is so bogged down with tech debt that meaningful progress cannot be made, then switch companies/teams.

Studying music will make you better at music. Studying IQ tests will make you better at IQ tests.

I think we put too much emphasis on general intelligence when it's not well defined and easily gamed. It's also a talking point for racists.

I'm interested in a native (MacOS optimized) issue tracker client and then a dictation software that is adept at understanding software terms. I've watched my doctor friend dictate to his laptop without a microphone and it took down notes perfectly.

Has anyone else experienced these issues? This reads more like product placement for Deno than a sincere criticism of TS.

The software noise cancels their voice because it's too soft -- there's nothing to turn up.

A good engineer who understands the business thoroughly is I'd wager 3 times more valuable than just a good engineer who has no knowledge of the business.

Anecdotally, I find the opposite to be true. Also part of being "effective" is having a large amount of system knowledge which you would build over a long time.

Are you talking about the MSRP of the original item?

Shhh... let's just continue to self-diagnose traumatic childhoods when there are many potential confounding variables

I agree, but I also think there's social cost to not spending your money on status symbols. You will be ostracized by the rich and educated groups for not fitting in, and then how will you acclimate to a higher social sphere? Example[1]

[1] https://gizmodo.com/im-buying-an-iphone-because-im-ashamed-o...

edit: Ok this obviously isn't black and white, but I'm saying this should be considered among other things.

Cardboard boxes?

Everyone keeps talking about cheap Chinese clones but I don’t know what they’re talking about. Are you talking about generic products that have a Chinese sounding brand name?

Thank god

I hear agreement that the economy is good, but also that jobs are paying less for more work and that income inequality is larger than ever. At the same time, the housing market where I live is absolutely exploding. I feel like I'm missing something about the real condition of the economy...

If you take $1M and don't do what the donor asks, I'm guessing word spreads and other would-be-donors know not to donate to you.

How do you determine as an outsider the difference between a donation with an ask and a "no strings attached" donation?

Why didn't he donate anonymously?

Thank you. Athleticism and social skills are forms of intelligence.

> Electric scooters are expensive, repair and charging is expensive

Citation needed, at least to convince me. I think they could significantly bring down the cost at scale (production/maintenance wise at least).

To $35,000/mth profit? Revenue? Liabilities?

Using a concept from software engineering, why can't they just partially roll this out by percentage or by state? Try swapping current benefits w/ equivalent UBI in a handful of states and study what happens?