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by esd_g0d 2y ago
I second this last paragraph. I want to add my pet theory that it is not a purely psychological phenomenon. It's like that thing where we only remember the good movies (the "classics"), and the others are forgotten. When you
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
Do tell more... does it have to do with hyperspecialization, not being able to get fluent in a large enough proportion of the field as was the case in Euler's time, say?
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
interesting to know. in my limited experience though, in practice, in academia the politics is so heavy (more than in your average workplace) that political matters often overshadow research matters. maybe that is one of the caveats you had
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
thoughts so far... - i really liked this design, in a functional/readability sense. for example, how the images appeared in parallel to the text, so you could look at them without really having to look away from the text. another examp
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
I wanna be this guy when I grow up. Seriously, how realistic is it to get a job like this guy's? Open ended, no rules, just solving problems... Most days I'm fine with a boring specialized engineering career, but this one got to m
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
> It was always odd to me that é was out of sequence Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it is the only one of those that is found in French, which may have been supported earlier than Spanish. I'd look at ç, è, à for fu
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
What do you propose instead in this case? Not trying to be snarky, just to get the discussion rolling. Asking everyone to "play nice" or "don't be evil" also often does not work in practice. I mean I'd love it
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
This, a million times. My dream is "game theory" taught in schools, so we can all more productively discuss public policy, etc. The field of "mechanism design" may interest those to whom this speaks to. From Wiki ( https
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
The point is that people are overall too cavalier about opioids in the US. I don't think it's necessary to get into the details of how much pain is enough pain, how acute is acute enough, etc... because this is not a problem essen
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
Literally does not happen in two countries that I know of, and I bet in many countries of the world (developed ones even).
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
Yeah, to me the whole discussion of "UPF = unhealthy" is based on a romanticization of "natural" that breaks down if you try to make sense of it. If you use the right words, you can make even cheese and butter sound ultr
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
In practice, even many of the general public knew that what the vendor was selling was addictive and dangerous -- there are some reports even in this thread. So it's hard for the vendor to claim ignorance, even more so when often they
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
The US is the only place in the world AFAIK where you will get prescribed opioids for something as trivial as a wisdom tooth extraction (kind of like one of the cases cited). It is also the only place in the world AFAIK going through the op
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
Exactly. It took the collaboration of many different people, all of which also profited from it, to bring about the opioid crisis.
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
What share of the guild do the medical providers that prescribed the opioids to their patients have? There would be no opioid crisis if none were willing to do it.
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by esd_g0d 2y ago
Yeah. I find this romanticization of the past, this search for the "true" or "natural" way of doing things... I've seen it done for things other than childhood, like relationships in general, physical activity, diet