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mellavora
·2 yıl önce·discuss
with the exceptions that an intern is (hopefully) going to learn from their mistakes and improve
mellavora
·3 yıl önce·discuss
What percentage of the services provided by today's government were not around at the founding?

I'd very much like to see government downsize, but if you want to pay taxes at the level at which the country was founded, you also have to restrict government activity to that level.

Not sure if that is tenable.
mellavora
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Oh, come on. Everyone knows about A3 and A5.
mellavora
·4 yıl önce·discuss
And the nice thing about wall power is that it generates itself thanks to the magic elves.
mellavora
·4 yıl önce·discuss
> People will prefer a hermetically sealed building....

where along with being isolated from the natural environment they can be isolated from everyone else and only interact over social media.

Sounds a bit like being in a tomb to me, but then again, I was never fully domesticated.
mellavora
·4 yıl önce·discuss
> as if you can jump into a field without spending 10-20 years of learning and do cutting-edge research.

I know multiple people who have done this.

If you want a famous person, look at Paul Erdős. Always jumping into new areas of mathematics and solving problems at the cutting edge.

Or, to get to the current subject, Taleb using his background as a trader to jump to a career in academia, where many consider(ed) his research cutting edge.
mellavora
·4 yıl önce·discuss
mellavora
·4 yıl önce·discuss
(full disclosure: I also was once a child)

you write that your experience as an autistic is that you have "more of a thing for justice" than might be expected from the general population.

I read that as an aspect of autism is to serve as a magnifying lens on on particular aspect of what it means to be human.

So, the trauma you report from being punished might have been felt stronger by you than it would have by someone with a different mental makeup, but that doesn't mean that the other person didn't feel it.

Conclusion: Your hightened awareness allows you to make explicit something which to others is just vaguely troubling. Thus your view is closer to the universal human truth than those who deny it.
mellavora
·4 yıl önce·discuss
yet there seems to be quite an active scene around restoring aspects of 8-bit games, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune https://www.retrogamer.net/top_10/top-ten-atari-8-bit-games/

and I'm sure someone actually into the scene could pump out a long list of much better links than these.
mellavora
·4 yıl önce·discuss
In criminal law, incitement is the encouragement of another person to commit a crime. Depending on the jurisdiction, some or all types of incitement may be illegal. Where illegal, it is known as an inchoate offense, where harm is intended but may or may not have actually occurred.

-- from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement
mellavora
·4 yıl önce·discuss
So in general (i.e. not specific to cyber), and even under the condition that Congress had declared war on Russia, it is illegal for civilians to engage in acts which harm the enemy. Only the military is allowed to attack.

read up on "unlawful combatant" and "irregular combatant"

Now if look more specifically at cyber, then there are laws such as

    The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)
    The Stored Communications Act (SCA)
    The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
    The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA)
which define certain activities as criminal. If a person is on US soil and engaging in activities described in these laws, they may be in violation of criminal law. The location of the victim has little to do with it, it is location of the actor.

By analogy, if A does crime to B, it isn't B who prosecutes, it is the appropriate governmental organization.
mellavora
·4 yıl önce·discuss
I agree with your point that "the free world" seldom lives up to the values it proclaims.

The difference might be that at least it proclaims them, and good people like yourself can hold them accountable to those values.
mellavora
·4 yıl önce·discuss
If you want to be historically (more) accurate, you might want to go back to Churchill's decision to extend UK power to this region of the world, in an attempt to get the UK fleet to move from coal to oil power.

You could also look at some of the responses and choices made by the people/cultures native to this region over the years since then. Yes, "cultures" is plural.
mellavora
·5 yıl önce·discuss
> The question is not only what the financial risk this poses to Evergrande's investors/creditors, but what other companies are suffering similar negative pressures that have pushed Evergrande this far into the red to begin with.

Or more accurately, what the rest of the market believes to be true about these companies.

or fears is true because they don't have enough evidence to believe, and their prior beliefs just unravelled.
mellavora
·5 yıl önce·discuss
My Sylvia is 20 years old and the coffee gets better every year.
mellavora
·5 yıl önce·discuss
because traditional methods of food preservation deserved to be abandoned?

Your argument assumes refrigeration is a universal good, and other alternatives were not. Likewise, that the highly centralized food distribution system which became the defacto due to refrigeration is a universal good, while decentralized systems are not.

such as the rich and varied food of Vietnam. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/02/vietnams-low-tech-fe...
mellavora
·5 yıl önce·discuss
Lead poisoning does have a clear biological mechanism, establishing it as a toxin in a way that social media does not.

However, the liberty of the metaphor is well justified.

Social media is a plausible (not proven, but plausible) factor in a 57% increase in teen suicide between 2008 and 2018 (noting that rates were stable for the years 2000-2008, and that 2006 was the watershed year for smartphones and social media)[1].

I'm not motivated to dig out the numerous resources showing the deleterious influence of social media on teen psychology, but it doesn't take much searching if you are open. There are clear psychological mechanisms, and Facebook especially was clearly and explicitly designed to take advantage of these psychological mechanisms.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr69/NVSR-69-11-508.pdf
mellavora
·5 yıl önce·discuss
I'm positive to your overall sentiment that we should remember the physical health and comfort which we have achieved.

The Hobbes quote, however, does not apply. Hobbes was comparing life with/without a sufficiently strong Leviathan ('central government') to provide basic protection of property rights, or at least a semblance of such protection.

But the "long way" to which you refer, the physical comfort of modern life, is the fruit of the industrial revolution, roughly 150 years of history.

Hobbes was much earlier, he probably never saw the IR coming.
mellavora
·5 yıl önce·discuss
Another tip for getting started. Start horizontal, with your feet supported on a box. You are really doing a 'row', not a chin-up, but since part of your body is supported, the weight is less.

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This technique lets you develop power at the low end/start of the pull, which is where you need it most.

The other tips (hang from the bar and slowly lower yourself) are also very good.
mellavora
·6 yıl önce·discuss
Some might disagree, and cheekily point out that apple's high-end customers care deeply about NOT having 20 year old gear. Because fashion.