wyldberry

Our economic system has engrained in us that if you aren't doing your competitive advantage money earner, it's better to outsource that to someone who does.

That's extended to all facets of life and has bought us a lot of luxury time, which of course has led to a rise in dopamine factory applications, goods, and services to fill that time.

Many people honestly believe "why would i spend time grocery shopping if i can just pay someone else to cook for me?"

There's something to be said for the effort of doing things.

They are not luxuries. Modern society has just made it easy to neglect these things for various reasons. The lies we tell ourselves about it not mandatory until you burn out or need medical intervention.

Modern medicine will provide various interventions to help out such as trying to balance your brain chemistry, lowering obesity, blood pressure, etc. Many of the things prescribed to us today are due to lifestyle choices.

There's a growing corpus of evidence that diet has incredible potential for treating serious brain disorders (when done with a psychiatrist, especially if you're already medicated)[0].

At the end of the day, you are the only person who sets the priorities in your life. If you don't make maintenance of your body and mind a priority, the bill will come later.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61129785-brain-energy

It takes a village to raise children. While it is the parent's responsibility to raise a child, it's not unreasonable for them to ask government to make society conducive for raising and protecting the next generation. The incentives are mismatched. The organizations providing access to pornography have no incentive to limit access to their product without legal enforcement.

Hacker News is filled with technical people. However, think about all the workers who are not tech workers who have families. The burden of knowledge for these parents to setup home networks and devices that provide content filtering, monitoring, and alerting is way too high.

Access to pornography ends up being an economic negative externality caused by the increased access to the internet, and we haven't really figured out how to handle the cost.

Seems like it will just continue the pattern of things decentralizing and then re-centralizing later. The only constant is the change.

And what of the effects on the rest of the cycle of life that rely on the fungi and bacteria decomposing the tree?

I personally try to spend money or use ad supported anything that is open-source just to help someone else eat. It really hit home for me about five years ago when the author of a WoW addon[0] couldn't develop anymore because of his financial and life situation.

So many communities across the web rely on people putting in their spare hours for free just to enjoy things. Whether it's spreadsheets in Eve, Addons and Weak Auras in WoW, forum analysis posts, or whatever goes on in the depths of pvpoke, so much free labor underpins massive parts of the world today.

I would love something that I could donate x money to per month and then based on usage, have it dole out to all the content providers with perhaps a minimum per month. It just seems daunting to do that as a) not a crypto scheme and b.) across all the various creator landscapes.

[0]https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/25/17901552/world-of-warcraft...

This is a bit hyperbolic. History is full of examples of countries and economies adapting. If China stopped producing, supply chains would move, people would make do.

The power of the USD was used to sanction Iran and Russia into serious economic harm, but people will find ways to make it work.

At this point, I just reschedule if it looks like im seeing an NP or PA-C and the time is only going to be 10 minutes or less.

I was listening to Peter Attia on some podcast and he says to essentially throw out any BP reading that didn't occur after sitting down for five minutes. In his practice they have patients measure many times a day for multiple weeks just to get a baseline point to work from.

More and more i find that, at least in America, if you're talking to a GP you're just talking to a human interface of insurance approved treatment algorithms.

Which is why, for better or worse, there are increasing pushes to break the dollar of being the world reserve currency. Time will tell if that happens. Any non-aligned country looks at what happened to Russia and Iran and wants to avoid that risk.

Target now also has a world class incident response and forensics team setup after their big breach and being nearly every security vendors topic du jour for years. It's entirely reasonable they do this to add to malicious detection signal, or fraud.

Boredom and creativity go hand in hand. Not necessarily good creativity. On my first deployment i chugged a bottle of syrup for $50 bucks and gave the corpsman heart attacks. It is not fun throwing up syrup for an hour after.

Because Bytedance and similar orgs are merged with the CCP. So they pass data up the chain, and the CCP can make new rules, investments, and directives with it. This allows the CCP to accelerate with this data in ways that the US cannot.

So CCP gets full access to American residents, without reciprocating US social media actions within it, and then compels Bytedance to give it access.

They won't until they do. When it's something seemingly egregious like this, it has the potential to be something that makes an example and changes curriculum for CS students across the country for decades.

I expect other engineers to know laws when creating things (not like having a JD). Accredited business schools in the US teach business law to their undegrads. It's absolutely not ridiculous or a stretch to have a similar expectation.

I recently went from North America -> Africa via Europe. I do have global entry, but i found the CDG experience to be more onerous than the one I have domestically in the US.

This also used to be relatively popular in the early days of League of Legends, people requesting a "Lyte Smite". Players would make inflammatory posts on the forums saying they were banned wrongly, and Lyte would come in with the chatlogs, sometimes escalating to perma-ban. I did always admire this system and thought it could be improved.

There's also a lot of drama around Lyte in his personal life, should you choose to go looking into that.

The people who survive, usually. It's obviously scale dependent, but I can't imagine not wanting this around just in case. Many humans will survive initially and we will need everyone we can to try and find a way to survive.

It depends on the anti-cheat systems. Some games are significantly easier to cheat in than others for rather obvious reasons. Anti-cheat has a very hard problem in that you're shipping your binary to an obviously-hostile environment where people will do anything and then some to get the upper hand.

If you attended Kernel and Hardware hacking courses at security trainings, you're likely sitting next to either some cheat developers, or some anti-cheat team members.

Depends on who the audience is. If you're writing a persuasive political message, you will have to have your fingerprint on it to generate the human reaction you want.

Although if we are at that point with AIs, it could also just be trying to game other AIs into interpreting writing into what you want before it's relayed to the individual.

This certainly feels a natural extension from being able to do it off of code already.

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%2026%20pre...

The funny thing about devastating a local population of flora/fauna is that it has wide ranging ripples that we are often unable to anticipate.

Saving the world by consuming more (vehicles, electronics) etc is not going to work. Eventually we will fall inline with the Nash Equilibrium as well.

Amazingly enough, that is also in the docs.

https://docs.twingate.com/docs/faq

The problem is generally less the individual pro license and the associated enterprise licensing costs that come with managing said device in Azure AD/InTune.

Well in that list, the military is the only one that's realistically governed the same across the branches.

Police departments are federal, state, county, and city.

Religion is highly fragmented.

I imagine trust in "religion" would change if it was broke out into it's representative governing bodies as opposed to one big bucket.

I first came across this in the Marine Corps, which pushes you to ideally no more than 4 direct reports, with the idea that you could have up to 8 directly reporting temporarily, but that would lead to your own personal performance degrading in anything that's not directly managing those 8. Hence the structure would be 4 to a "fire team" with a team leader, 3 teams to a squad with a squad leader, three squads to a platoon with a platoon leader.

There's similar numbers found in the book An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, and I want to say that similar numbers are espoused by Jocko Willink in his leadership books.

IMO no. I think work that is creative + collaborative in nature (ex: entertainment) performs best with a few days where people are physically around. It's not just the act of meetings, it's how charged people can get when they are around other people on the same wavelength creating new things.

I think for junior engineers, being in person is invaluable a few times a week just having a whiteboard around. Early in my career having a senior dev around to bounce questions off of, or work CTF problems together really, really helped me.

Certainly there is some number of managers who just want control over people, but i think that's probably smaller than what some commenters are implying. The The questions i use for if a particular way of working is a ruse or effective is this:

1. What industry am I working in? If you work in an industry physically making things, you're likely to also benefit from being in the office some days. Same with creative work.

2. What's the ratio of "senior" to mid and junior level employees?

3. Is the company willing to let individual teams make more flexible decisions? I.e go down to 1 day a week, 1 day a sprint etc?

My end goal is to understand the nature of the organization I work for, why it makes decisions the way it does, and if leadership wants to send a message, or if they are open to trying to find the way that is productive and keeps people happy.

If you're not actively in a sundown town, it's perfectly fine and safe to visit regardless of your ethnicity. The experience is often eye opening.

Imo there should be a cultural exchange program where you students in cities and send them to rural schools for a semester and vice versa via exchanges. It's important to the American experience to be able to understand both worlds if we are going to continue to coexist in a union.