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by advael 2y ago
I think it's pretty silly to include ketamine as a psychadelic to be frank. Ketamine is legal as a horse tranquilizer, which is to say it's primarily a sedative and a CNS depressant. However, high doses can result in a dissociativ
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No country has a carceral state quite like the US, but the quality of life difference between drugs in a given state that are legal and ones that aren't is stark. I've experienced this by traveling places with restrictive but diff
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Others point out that no commonly used psychadelic is physically addictive. But also, the cost of prohibition dramatically outweighs the benefits. It creates pretenses for police corruption and militarization. It creates massive cartels in
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Better evidence is always good, but we much more drastically need better policy. Psychadelics' potential benefits are still being explored, but their risks are pretty well-documented and quite minimal compared to a broad swath of subst
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Lots of people like that analogy because it's extremely self-congratulatory. It also makes no fucking sense Despite the fact that people keep insisting on the buzzword "AI" to describe these large neural networks, they are mo
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Just counting things I've personally seen, using "untrusted" userspace software and accessing a USB webcam. It's possible these particular examples are no longer true. I haven't been a windows user for about 15 year
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At this point few besides the pedantic or motivated seem to want this, given that they've been massively diverged projects for at least half a decade
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It'd be a lot less easy if the OS didn't seem to require full privilege escalation for a lot of tasks you don't need that for in linux. One of the major problems that leads to escalation is poor separation of concerns
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I think that statistic is a good indicator that we have significant broken incentives in the way liability can be shunted away from the people with decisionmaking power in businesses. The "corporate veil" for example is a deep loo
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Yea, like I'd rather have a doctor who actually listens to what I'm saying than one who got top marks in medical school, and honestly network engineers I've worked with who strike me as "higher IQ" often fall into t
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My education has equipped me quite adequately to fend off such critiques, and frankly I think it's a misuse of terminology to claim that studies "prove" anything, because the nature of empirical evidence even under the most g
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Neither of your examples really contradict my point. If we are measuring a subset of things you need a brain for, of course factors that make your brain generally less effective are going to show up on them. Lead poisoning and inadequate nu
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I've always thought the Flynn Effect was yet another Moore's Law, and both demonstrate Goodhart's Law. We didn't get transistor density doubling year over year because this was a natural tendency of some physical law, we
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That is pretty funny, and the whole idea that you can't make money packaging open-source software in a way that's more appealing to people is definitely funny given that this is the business model of a lot of successful companies
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Generally speaking a lot of "essential tools" in "cloud computing" are available as free, boring operating system utilities.
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Principle of least privilege trivially prevents updating system packages. Like if you don't want people using apt, don't give people root on your servers?
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You know you can just do this with keyauth and a cron job, right?
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Of course they do. Every company doing predatory shit has some slick liars on payroll to come up with a story about how their lock-in policies and kafkaesque contract terms and surveillance and "opinionated design decisions" (or,
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I'm not sure that's a warranted assumption based on this result, exciting as it is, we are still seeing replication of an extant testable world model, rather than extrapolation that can produce novel mechanics without them being i
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Dang this is the first paper I've seen in a while that makes me think I need new GPUs
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I mean it sounds like a way to trick people into letting a giant company build a surveillance system, and I imagine aliens observing humans in this moment in history might conclude that's what we want, but for science or the benefit of
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Mostly because of a very successful propaganda campaign by people who sought to loot the post-war economic boom Generally speaking, the sad truth of a complex economy is that coordination is hard, and there's usually a short-term priva
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Kellner's law. I like it. It's an excellent illustration of the cowardice and hostility toward customers that comes from being in the subscription-twiddling business model If Kellner wanted to make a deal with cable subscribers, w
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This is amazing You're keeping charts, right? I wanna know what the top hit on that block is next month
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by advael 2y ago
Haven't yet seen a reason to use VSCode and can't anticipate I will As an editor it's a pain in the ass, as an ecosystem it feels like a fucken freemium mobile game for how polluted and nickel-and-dimey extensions are, and wo
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Could and would
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If this model of "theft of service" is legally enforceable, then significant swaths of this industry are engaging in false advertising and possibly full-on fraud by not making this agreement they're entering into clear to cus
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Claims of automation really fall apart for me when they rely on outsourcing. Even setting aside ethical considerations, this business relies on there being a stable source of cheap labor. Moving that labor to remote monitoring and presumabl
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In trying to write a book, it makes little sense to try to "compete" on speed or volume of output. There were already vast disparities in that among people who write, and people whose aim was to express themselves or contribute so
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I think there's an explicit rule on hn against metacommentary on voting, but it can be a useful signal of the vibes within the community as a whole, and I do think that critically examining the VC model of tech startups kind of edges c

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