Yeah I had never heard of ECS until about a year ago, yet if you could look at the whiteboard on my wall from 2 years ago you'd find a diagram for a primitive version of an ECS I came up with as a hypothetical. Idk understand how tf that could be patentable if its something a former 2.7 gpa CS student could come up with on a whiteboard.

Agreed. For at least some people, there is something deeply, deeply wicked about acid. I can't put my finger exactly on it but I always felt that it changed your perceptions in such a way that made you feel like you were being enlightened and embracing universal love while at the same time making you capable of justifying enormous evil.

Its like it makes you actually feel nihilist rather than just think nihilistic. Or something like that.

Every time I read somebody describing their experience with something I wonder if the reduced drug usage is one of the lead causes of the lack of warmongering we got since the late 20th century.

Reduced? Alcohol consumption is down (depending on how you view the stats), but drugs are winning the War on Drugs. Everyone else is losing. Legally, oxycontin is more highly regulated today, but the opoid epidemic is, well, an epidemic. Cannabis is legal for recreational use in many states. I willing to buy that something that's widely available in today's society has lead to less war (Internet porn, perhaps?), but I'd be surprised to hear in what ways drug use is down.

> but drugs are winning the War on Drugs

Drugs used to have institutional usage. They used to be distributed by armies, take part on religious practices, have explicitly regulated import quotas to keep the population "calm".

We have nothing like that today.

> lack of warmongering we got since the late 20th century

Srsly? Where have you been hiding? Where is this place where wars are not being fought?

lead or lead lead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis

Lead doesn't explain it, warmongering is something that has been high since ancient times, but airborne lead dates to the 20th century.

Dietary lead in the form of sweeteners for wine plus a little abraded from cups and pitchers has been present since antiquity, so could still stand?

Would it be fair to say it makes you more 'radical'?

It makes the standard 9 to 5, hour long commute, and retire at 65 shtick unpalatable, but we in the West live in a radical society where you can already smoke pot, drive fast cars, play loud music, not start a family, and so on. Part of that is attributable to us living in a post-psychedelic world.

Your mileage will almost certainly vary. It changes people in interesting and unpredictable ways. Sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse. I know people who became much more grounded through their use of psychedelics. Others much less so.

Most but not all. The opposite trend is less common but totally possible from personal observations. saying that a psychiatric procedure will result in specific changes would be stretching the truth from probably to necessarily. The first result I found in Google related to Griffiths is here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31084460/ They are doing an anonymous online self selected reports and they find a strong effect but also 17% do not appear to exhibit the trend.

For some perspective, this is the current state of the art pharmacological treatment for substance abuse disorder, as in no other available treatment has a stronger effect.

I laughed out loud. Working through SICP right now and yeah... All the forum posts I've seen when troubleshooting my lisp code make the community seem insufferable.

I don't mean this in any sort of derrogatory way at all but I honestly think Lisp programmers might have a higher rate of autism. Also, seemingly higher IQs, cause it seems like anyone who actually builds software in Lisp extensively is some kind of savant.

Lmao no one.

And yet I'll bet you a million bucks that windows 11 still has a virtually unusable file search function.

Windows file search is so bad.

Also bad: this morning my router was acting up and I would get intermittent connection. I normally hit the Win key and start typing the name of program I want to launch, but the start menu was seemingly locked-up due to the connection issue. What the hell? This OS runs on like a billion machines.

I'm still genuinely surprised that Microsoft hasn't fixed the search. You'd think that being unusable would get them to address it, but I suppose not.

Kind of taken aback by all the people saying these are just shitty photos. I think they are gorgeous... Do y'all think Lo-fi music is just shitty music too?

I guess its a little unsurprising coming from the usual HN crowd lmao.

> Do y'all think Lo-fi music is just shitty music too?

Yes.

Agreed, they are really beautiful. The bike in motion and dancing feet in particular

I agree - the aesthetics are amazing here - uniquely stylized. It looks easy to do but I don’t think it was and to imagine this aesthetic in this medium is cool. I’d hang these.

Totally disagree. 1) im 99% sure that some colors we cannot or do not precisely recreate using non natural dyes. Just thinjing about the complexity of organic material: that is bound to produce subtle textures and such that are not easily mimicked.

2) there is a spiritually satisfying element to recreating something in the original or natural way when a more complex way may be easier

3) it is important to preserve the heritage of human innovation. These techniques and recipes ought to be preserved for historical and sociological reasons, as well as in the event that shit goes to pot one day, we may still have some people that know how to make dyes from scratch.

Man I was just thinking about this last night. I recall an assignent in middle school where I had to write a poem with a simile in it (among ither literary devices) I lost points because there was no simile. When I went to the teacher and told her "there is a simile : 'the cat fell in much the same way as a boulder' " (or something to that effect)

I was told similes have to have the word 'like' or 'as' in them. Which is just not true but has become such a common hueristic that even English teachers think its the definition of a simile. sigh

I totally did that on purposes though cause I wanted to see if she would dock me a point for that. I was such a little prick.

Being a prick to clueless teachers was a perverse joy of mine in my K–12 years. I enjoyed coming up with the most galaxy-brained solutions to assignments.

Same. However I went too far. A philosophy teacher left the class room, and refused to continue teaching my class, after I politely started arguing against her reasoning and showing counter examples. They had to find another teacher to take over the class.

Yeah actually no.

You know "experts" can and often are wrong write? Not saying you should blindly deny shit you don't understand but if you are asking questions and the experts don't have good answers.... I mean yeah dude use your fucking brain

Is this satire? This is almost like an onion article.

So they are showing that anti-intellectualism is driven by ideology and strong presupposed notions by doing a survey on fucking amazon mechanical turk about fucjing climate change GMOs and water fluoridation? Absolutely hilarious.

Any time someone uses the term "XYZ- denier" or "anti science" you cab pretty well bet they are a brainless drone who would buy a study like this hook line and sinker.

In my experience, if you truly believe in the power of human rationality, you think rationally about the results of an experiment and come to your own conclusion rather than just swallowing whatever dumb fuck conclusion some nitwit at berkely derived from their dumb fuck social experiment.

Sorry for the vitriol, I've just been accused of being anti science by completely scientifically illiterate people far too many times.

Doesn't seem silly at all to me : the known risks of covid are pretty tolerable. Death rate is extremely low for my demographic.

So lets say I have a 30% chance of getting covid without a vax and a .1% chance of serious long term illness or death from covid.

Now If I get the vaccine, I have a 1% chance of getting covid, and.01% chance of serioues injury or death + an unkown chance of unkown serious health complications from a vaccine.

Id take bet 1 any day, personally, since the odds and stakes of the vaccine are unkown.

Admittedly though, I think the chance of serious injury from vaccine is probably quite low or nonexistant but Im just trying to make the point that that perspective involves some reasonable value judgements.

Note : all oercentages listed are majorly hand wavy. This comment is in no way intended to be statistically accurate

Cheers.

>> It seems silly to worry about completely hypothetical and unknown long-term risks of vaccination when getting COVID-19 has very serious, well known short-term risks.

> Doesn't seem silly at all to me : the known risks of covid are pretty tolerable. Death rate is extremely low for my demographic [emphasis mine].

That perspective is why we can't have nice things.

Not really dude. If I was around other people even remotely often it would be a different story but I work from home, dont really hang out with people, and wear an n95 when I have to go to the store.

It doesn't make me a bad person to be unvaccinated. It would if I was cavalier about potentially getting others sick...

> Not really dude. If I was around other people even remotely often it would be a different story but I work from home, dont really hang out with people, and wear an n95 when I have to go to the store.

> It doesn't make me a bad person to be unvaccinated. It would if I was cavalier about potentially getting others sick...

Then you truly are a rare bird.

You imply that the long term risks of covid-19 are known, so conflating the unknown/imaginary risks of both, that leaves getting the vaccine a better deal, because 'you have less change of getting sick'.

Yeah you make a good point. No idea what long term risks of covid are.

I guess I just feel more comfortable rolling the dice with a natural (maybe? Lmao) disease than a product made by the same companies that were public enemy #1 just months before they became our "saviours"