And also it is true that social media has little to no followers, but please keep in mind that all accounts are new, and so is the product. I am planning on improving it in many different ways and I can assure you it won't be left to die in a few weeks. I'll also make sure to add a section with information about me on the website like your comment suggested.
I agree with a lot of the general advice here. I definitely agree with you on some stuff, some stuff maybe you could flex on a little bit.
Lots of small-minded idiots here. But this is a giant country. There are different people in different places. Try moving as close to Silicon Valley as you can. You will, without a doubt, find a whole bunch of people with your exact same mindset.
Americans are not lazy. If you want to work hard, you’re in the right place. We’re statistically one of the hardest working counties. This is where all of the antidepressants come in though. We’re overworked, and we don’t have a sense of purpose outside of work.
Which leads me to… you’re doing a lot right now. A ton. It’s pretty difficult and rare to be able to keep up with how you are living, especially if your responsibilities grow. Be careful not to over strain yourself and make sure to keep a sense of self and purpose outside of your hustles. I personally had a meltdown in my early twenties that was partially brought on by these factors.
Finally, like others said, try to find a way to find common ground with the muggles around you. The faster realize that you’re not better than them, the faster you will find relief from the stress.
In my heart I still think we should be able to make negative carbon wood for construction and paper products. Surely this is doable, right? Trees sequester the carbon so we just have to make the supply chain clean and not re-release it back into the atmosphere via decomposition.
You don't even need to limit it to the lower end models with Subaru. The top trim Outback and Ascent have a CVT these days. If you want an automatic transmission in your WRX, same thing - a CVT. Anyway, you're not wrong.
When I was in martial arts, breaking landscaping blocks with a palm strike was not difficult at all, but did sting like a hard high five. The trick is a stiff hand, but not so stiff as to be inflexible, and hitting mostly with the meat of your hand.
A regular punch or knife hand is much more prone to injury because of the more fragile bits being closer to the action.
This one in particular does not. I'm not sure about the enforceability of other forced arbitration agreements in the EU.
> To protect our users outside the United States, we’ve decided to modify this clause so that it only affects users in the United States. If you are outside of the United States, this clause does not apply to you
Recent sodium battery developments might make renewable variability a moot point though. I want to support moonshots and “all options,” but cost management is also important. How do you know when to stop throwing good money after bad? When does experimentation turn into pork? Hard to solve for imho.
A lot of people have mentioned this, so I'll add the toggle to disable "local artists only" to the top of my TODO. Though I suppose genre filtering would need to be built first, or it would be obnoxious.
Nuclear actually is safe by pure incident metrics, even when counting higher casualty estimates for Chernobyl.
The safety, of course, is not intrinsic: nuclear material is obviously very dangerous, especially in a running reactor.
The safety record stems from the considerable regulation around building and operating these reactors, and the fact that the reactor has so little external surface area once running:
* A very small fuel acquisition operation in comparison to fossil fuels.
* Likewise, no externally released pollution outside of accidents, which is rare.
* sites chosen for construction are picked for their stability, and are heavily engineered, meaning you also don’t have the
installation worksite deaths which run up numbers for wind and solar.
But again, this is only realized if the operational safety onsite is maintained. That said, it’s not the only dangerous power generation site: dammed hydroelectric can be a considerable danger depending on what is downstream.
In general, I think nuclear would be very popular if natural gas and solar were not available; however, the costs to keep it safe are too high for it to be economical compared to those two sources.
> feel free to describe to HN how Mulvad protects users against ad networks.
A VPN is not enough for privacy. But in combination with a privacy-focused browser, you make sure to block third-party cookies and other tracking technologies used by the data collectors.
That's why we partnered with the Tor Project to develop Mullvad Browser – a browser designed to minimize tracking and fingerprints.
Please also note that this information is clearly displayed on our landing page. We don't want people using our service for things it's not designed for.
Because at the time, the three "official" projects had inter-related codenames. The browser component came first and the name change from Phoenix to Firebird had already happened, then email and calendaring were started which became Thunderbird and Sunbird respectively. The name generation scheme that they settled on was element + animal, and is the same reason they ultimately chose the name Firefox (element + animal).
> And, over the few years that followed (funded by AOL Time Warner), several web browsers were created which used that core Mozilla code. Web browsers that, for the most part, have long been forgotten.
> Web Browsers such as Galeon, K-Meleon, QBAT.i, and SkipStone. Many browsers, for many platforms… all built using the core Mozilla web rendering engine. Yet there was no official “Mozilla” web browser.
This isn't true, right? After it took code from Netscape, Mozilla continued to ship browser called Mozilla Navigator, well before Firefox was concieved.
The brevity of this statement belies the prescience of it. Back in my former life in PE, businesses with industry moats were actively hunted down and targeted, regardless of location. That obviously led to the three basic necessities of man - healthcare, education and housing - being the most affected sectors.
1. The article doesn't say the sample are diagnosed with depression, that rings an alarm, that should be an important parameter.
2. The article says SEVERAL times that the results should be taken with caution and a grain of salt, for several reasons explained.
3. psilo, AS IS, doesn't have good pharmacodynamics, meaning it doesn't stay very long in the bloodstream, which doesn't make it suitable as a REAL TREATMENT like prescribed AD, that mean you would have a spike of an effect and a fast come-down. That's bad. Of course it works in a controlled environment, but it's not an everyday treatment, that leads to point 5.
4. So as always, this shows a road for synthetic "copies" of that substance that would imitate the active effect, but psilo cannot compete with classic AD. This is still good, but to me, it's not worthy news about AD, I would still hold my breath.
5. I am bothered because those headlines can be read by people with depression who might seek psilo as a medicine if AD aren't enough. People with depression are already quite vulnerable, and there are many stories of people having permanent side effects.
So fix California's absurd energy policy. They "deregulated" by giving PG&E a monopoly, paid Enron an absurd ransom when Enron did what should have been considered fraud and made Californian's pay the state back, routinely harm individual solar owners, and refuse to give PG&E any reason to actually maintain their century old infrastructure that sits in a dry forest etc.
People repeatedly point at California fucking up "X" and then say "look how bad X is" ignoring that the other 48 states in the union (Texas also likes to find innovative ways to fuck things up) are doing various amounts of "alright" to "quite well actually" at "X".
For example, Maine also "deregulated" it's electricity sector in the 90s, and is only recently facing problems from the state sanctioned monopoly doing bullshit, and they have an actual excuse that we haven't built out new generation capacity since deregulation, and climate change means we have had an entire year of windstorms destroying the grid, including multiple storms taking out distribution to 1/3rd of the state.
I surprised myself recently by realising that I've been using LinuxMint for about 10-12 years.
I would probably prefer to use Debian Testing, but the Debian politics means that I have to use MariaDB instead of MySQL. That's the sort of thing that means I would have to jump through extra hoops when writing software that accesses the databases to get past those little inconsistencies.
Have consumers had any really good or inspiring options yet that put privacy first?
Most of the pundits of Bitcoin and similar - an evolution of the finance industrial complex - seem to claim that the reason there isn't wider adoption is that the "first killer app" hasn't been developed yet. I'd argue it's because its adoption is motivated by profit-greed, which requires a wealth transfer from new adopters to the ones passing off hodling the bag.
Many of the core-fundamental values put forward, what many hope Bitcoin et al would solve, are virtuous and attempting-hoping to solve complex problems - but Bitcoin from a holistic systems perspective, where all consequences are integrated, doesn't fit the bill for what will become the next stable evolution of how society functions with technology. I'd argue similarly to privacy concerns, the solutions that Bitcoin hodlers are aiming for - if they care about such things other than profit from buying low-selling high during pumps and dumps - simply haven't had a viable non-hype and non-greed-driven solution made available yet.
This current wave as a result of industrial complexes forming to maximize their ROI at all costs, first-to-market and maximizing profits allows them to dominate - but for how long? Maybe a decade ago now I wrote a blog post on Facebook's governance, pointing out FB's attempt to maximize profit now will certainly increase annual revenues/profits in the short-term - but would you rather have lower profits for 20+ years or higher profits for 5+ years?
Mark not being an idea person, not a creative - where everyone in tech should know his story involving the ConnectU twins who had hired him - and so he wasn't able to navigate to design and evolve a system to fully harness the potential of having what's essentially a free marketing platform for him as the controller - instead mostly depending on network effect defense strategies including buying up feature sets like WhatsApp, Instagram, etc - who gained a critical mass that could begin to become a competitor with FB, so no real innovation.
The VC industrial complex has been a driver in selecting for all of this, and where acquisitions also suck up and eliminate any up and coming competition that gained enough market share and momentum to be a threat; the incumbent dating and food-delivery platforms-apps are the most obvious for this; the captured MSM is another less obvious version of this, where conglomeration from consolidation has put the power of information control in the hands of fewer and fewer people - why big pharma has been so successful suppressing the majority of negative sentiment about them, as one of multiple parties who are toeing the line and attempting to maintain control with what I call the censorship-suppression-narrative control apparatus; Elon buying Twitter-X created a #ZeroIsASpecialNumber problem in terms of no longer being able to as easily put their hand on the scale of free speech - a blow to their authoritarian-totalitarian and industrial complex dreams, that combination forming fascism.
Another example, I think the advertising industrial complex will collapse within the next decade.
Ads are probably tied at first with downvoting mechanisms for how detrimental of an effect they have on society - where I don't have time to dive into detailing reasons for either right now; they are not mimicking natural patterns for how information-attention was distributed prior to digital.
Business is war, and there are $ trillions at stake - and so who knows what all the various parties, millions to billions of people who most likely mostly blindly follow the status quo system because they believe that they will do better off - those who struggled to get where they are in the manufactured rat race, and holding on for dear life due to fear, when in fact tyranny and scarcity mindset is very expensive - and where the universe provides all the abundance we need, and we can all thrive with proper organization.
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thanks for the convo! Please continue if you're motivated or inspired to!
P.S. I had 2 neck surgeries last week, so my pain level is down a lot - and so words are flowing out of me a bit easier, and apparently you inspired me to say far more than I was expecting, so thank you again.
1. The article doesn't say the sample are diagnosed with depression, that rings an alarm, that should be an important parameter.
2. The article says SEVERAL times that the results should be taken with caution and a grain of salt, for several reasons explained.
3. psilo, AS IS, doesn't have good pharmacodynamics, meaning it doesn't stay very long in the bloodstream, which doesn't make it suitable as a REAL TREATMENT like prescribed AD, that mean you would have a spike of an effect and a fast come-down. That's bad. Of course it works in a controlled environment, but it's not an everyday treatment, that leads to point 5.
4. So as always, this shows a road for synthetic "copies" of that substance that would imitate the active effect, but psilo cannot compete with classic AD. This is still good, but to me, it's not worthy news about AD, I would still hold my breath.
5. I am bothered because those headlines can be read by people with depression who might seek psilo as a medicine if AD aren't enough. People with depression are already quite vulnerable, and there are many stories of people having permanent side effects.
> Jobs in tech, finance, law, and accounting were essentially flat or slightly down.
As a software engineer with a CPA, it’s been brutal. I was laid off in January and have received zero interviews in 100 applications. I’ve received 3 responses, which led to an initial conversation and then being ghosted. I’ve received about 10 rejections. The rest have had no response.
1. The article doesn't say the sample are diagnosed with depression, that rings an alarm, that should be an important parameter.
2. The article says SEVERAL times that the results should be taken with caution and a grain of salt, for several reasons explained.
3. psilo, AS IS, doesn't have good pharmacodynamics, meaning it doesn't stay very long in the bloodstream, which doesn't make it suitable as a REAL TREATMENT like prescribed AD, that mean you would have a spike of an effect and a fast come-down. That's bad. Of course it works in a controlled environment, but it's not an everyday treatment, that leads to point 5.
4. So as always, this shows a road for synthetic "copies" of that substance that would imitate the active effect, but psilo cannot compete with classic AD. This is still good, but to me, it's not worthy news about AD, I would still hold my breath.
5. I am bothered because those headlines can be read by people with depression who might seek psilo as a medicine if AD aren't enough. People with depression are already quite vulnerable, and there are many stories of people having permanent side effects.
I refuse to use anything past Windows 7. (When I have to use Windows, that is.)