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by istjohn 7y ago
Your citation is only a case study, so I would say that it's too soon to say anything has been demonstrated yet. My understanding is that marijuana inhibits memory formation[1], so I'd be very hesitant to recommend it to a student
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by istjohn 7y ago
You're describing hyperfocus, which is a common manifestation of ADHD. ADHD is fundamentally the result of disordered executive functioning. That means someone with ADHD has difficulty controlling their attention. In some people, that
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by istjohn 7y ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, The Ocean Cleanup has nothing to do with preventing climate change. That's not to say it is or isn't worthwhile.
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by istjohn 7y ago
On your second point, a determined criminal could always deploy rubber-hose cryptanalysis on a 2-factor authentication scheme, but it's still a significant improvement. Your first drawback is substantial, though.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Yeah, I just discovered ranger a couple weeks ago. I'm going to see how this compares.
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by istjohn 7y ago
My question is why are they giving developers tax abatements?
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by istjohn 7y ago
An analogy would be a coworker who studiously ignores your friendly greeting everyday. You decide they must think you're below them or not worth the time of day until one day you learn that they are deaf and were completely unaware of
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by istjohn 7y ago
Dictionaries are descriptions of language not prescriptions. Thou doth protest too much, methinks.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Yes, that's why I separated out feminists and sex workers in my analysis.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Legalization implies decriminalization plus regulation.
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by istjohn 7y ago
> A confluence of societal factors (some but not all of which I mentioned in my previous comment) makes me believe that the subset that's hostile to them is better connected to the media, better funded, better organized, more privil
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by istjohn 7y ago
As a rule? Yes. The religious right is a far more powerful force in American politics than Libertarianism.
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by istjohn 7y ago
In America, as a rule, anything in public can be filmed.
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by istjohn 7y ago
I agree it's not a hard core libertarian position. I guess I just meant I don't think there are that many people who consult their libertarian principles to decide their views on an issue.
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by istjohn 7y ago
I suppose it depends on whether you're more concerned with your partner's character in an abstract way or you're more concerned about actual infidelity.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Freedom and liberty is one argument for legalization, but I don't think there are enough hard core Libertarians to be a major force in this debate.
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by istjohn 7y ago
See, an interesting response would explain why you don't think it's a problem that this doesn't happen in the US. It would refute my claim that indignation is the driver behind social progress. Or maybe it would point out tha
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by istjohn 7y ago
Empirically, the vast majority of those who hire sex workers are men. But yes, as I said, it's a gross over-simplification. I would hope everyone opposes sex slavery. In the progressive circles I'm familiar with in my midwestern c
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by istjohn 7y ago
Their contention is that legal sex work creates a market that incentivises sex trafficking, in which case it should be illegal to protect women from being victimized.
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by istjohn 7y ago
There is a debate as to whether or not legalizing prostitution exacerbates sex slavery by creating a market for prostitution that willing market participants are unable to fill. This author[1] points out that studies on this question use th
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by istjohn 7y ago
https://archive.md/iTRDs
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by istjohn 7y ago
If you're criticizing comments in the vein of this (now dead) comment, your critique misses the mark: > This is what a functioning criminal justice system looks like. Meanwhile the co-founders of the opioid epidemic, which has kille
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by istjohn 7y ago
I'd like to think the journalists at Vox are able to express their views without interference from ownership or business administrators. In which case, it's not surprising that there are contradictions.
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by istjohn 7y ago
I have been substantially inconvenienced by people who are homeless. I live down the street from a soup kitchen, and I got scabies after someone apparently spent the night in my unlocked car. But obviously any inconvenience I experience pal
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by istjohn 7y ago
Corporations are typically highly coordinated, hierarchical organizations with a chain of command that leads from the CEO to frontline employees. No, CEO's are not omniscient, but they have significant control over company culture and
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by istjohn 7y ago
Yes, it was Marilyn. She's in two episodes recorded two years apart. The one I listened to was the second one[0]. [0] https://feelinggood.com/2019/09/23/159-live-therapy-with-mar...
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by istjohn 7y ago
If you like David Burns, let me recommend his Feeling Good Podcast . One of the most impactful episodes is one where he works with a woman dying of cancer. You can hear him apply his techniques to a seemingly hopeless situation in real lif
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by istjohn 7y ago
Well, I'm one of the losers--my blue collar parents did better than me and most of my siblings. And I am genuinely happy for those who have risen out of abject poverty thanks to globalization. The fact is, there is no reason we couldn&
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by istjohn 7y ago
Aren't there billions of people in the world outside of China who can continue to provide cheap manufacturing labor for decades to come? Also automation will begin to pick up any slack left by outsourcing. I don't think the blue c
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by istjohn 7y ago
By far the most interesting part to me was this aside: >> But getting it to work proved much harder than some other equally cute, real-world applications of the IVT [Intermediate Value Theorem], such as the fact that at any moment in

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