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by x220 8y ago
I never claimed that. I think that's derailing the conversation. The point is that our cultural (and law enforcement) ideas around drugs are straight up delusional and entirely detached from reality.
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by x220 8y ago
>But across many professions (medical doctors, researchers, professors, ...), people are actually interested in their work! I'd be very confident that if you psychologically assessed people in those fields they'd almost all be
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by x220 8y ago
Strange that they didn't give all test subjects a Big Five trait assessment and figure out if their conscientiousness score explained their effectiveness more than the strategies they used. I guess if you're trying to push papers
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by x220 8y ago
When you use most drugs they don't go into the air that others breathe in public spaces.
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by x220 8y ago
If you objectively try to figure out the most dangerous drug in the world, you'll quickly find out it's alcohol. Alcohol makes people act dangerously and kills tens of thousands in car crashes(in the USA at least). In the USA alco
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by x220 8y ago
Crypto isn't anarchocapitalism and that is derailing the subject. All those social ills occur under countries with regulated fiat currency.
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by x220 8y ago
It's a fantastic use case. I could almost guarantee that anyone who disagrees hasn't lived under an oppressive government.
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by x220 8y ago
>Noone needs etherium or any other crypto tech. You can make transactions that would normally be blocked by your country's legal system or zealous traditional payment processors.
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by x220 8y ago
You can make transactions that would normally be blocked by your country's legal system or zealous traditional payment processors.
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by x220 8y ago
If "society" had agreed upon it, there would be no reason for Mastercard to do anything because society wouldn't fund these people.
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by x220 8y ago
Do you mean to say that political correctness defines social good, or that the social good defines what is politically correct?
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by x220 8y ago
>Today, we still remember the names of So you're living based on how you will be remembered by strangers? That sounds incredibly unfulfilling and doesn't sound like a good way to live. In a few hundred more years almost no one
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by x220 8y ago
That's really cool. Any tips on identifying startups with this work-life balance?
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by x220 8y ago
Assisting a regime (which has committed genocide) with censorship isn't the same as assisting genocide. That should be clear from reading my comment.
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by x220 8y ago
Why were they unlisted?
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by x220 8y ago
All the startup employees I've talked to work 80 hours a week. Why is robots so important to you that you're willing to accomplish absolutely nothing in at least a few of the important areas of your life such as health and fitness
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by x220 8y ago
people with perhaps the highest demand for their labor than any other professionals risked their cushy jobs to influence their company to not be complicit in the censorship of over a billion people with a regime that has committed genocide?
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by x220 8y ago
>isn't it still a good thing to reduce the number of companies with this data? Maybe you want multiple companies competing in the same realm rather than Google handling most of the private data and becoming incredibly powerful. Mayb
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by x220 8y ago
>The most valuable thing I have is the remaining time I have in this life Then why work for a startup? Most will demand a huge amount of your time compared to other jobs. Why not pick a job which demands a sane amount of your time and sp
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by x220 8y ago
sit
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by x220 8y ago
I read this too. It was an enjoyable read. You can safely ignore any commentary or review you read about this book since I have not found a single one yet that isn't incredibly biased. About half of reviews I've read seem to be wr
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by x220 8y ago
Believe it or not, the same instinct deals with both situations. Look up trait conscientiousness and disease prevalence.
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by x220 8y ago
How is it different when adults spend excess mental energy on video games instead of their career? Both are inherently meaningless and illusory.
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by x220 8y ago
>we should be able to move around it freely What will you do when your neighbor country is stricken by communicable diseases? Will you still think that movement should be entirely restricted?
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by x220 8y ago
You don't have to think about buggy software to come up with death scenarios. What if a driver in the other lane is drunk or not paying attention? Another driver could kill you at any moment and there's nothing you could do to pre
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by x220 8y ago
When was the last time a government gave up power?
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by x220 8y ago
>the US data indicated that 91% of custody cases are decided without recourse to the family court system The men know that if it does go to trial, it will cost a lot of money and they will probably still lose the kids. There's no po
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by x220 8y ago
This is what a monopoly looks like.
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by x220 8y ago
It's almost as if we diagnose children with ADHD for acting how healthy young children naturally act.
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by x220 8y ago
Why don't you quote him? I'll go ahead and summarize it for others: Jordan Peterson, among other things, thinks that we are using drugs to alter the brain structure of little children because they can't sit still for 6 hours

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