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There’s no reason it should cost credibility to say that these people are motivated by an enjoyment of the spectacle of their cruelty and do it on purpose. Bad man has a moral connotation as well as a tradecraft connotation. Neither one of you is wrong to use the Bad Man monicker here.


We can’t get the information from the source unless we know it’s there. That’s the service an algorithm will invisibly produce for us even after we murder the last logo between us and The News


You’re both utterly thoughtless since you’d consider withdrawing money rather than taking taking relatively low interest loans out against that equity, leaving the bulk of your millions to appreciate longer

I mean, you’d be terrorizing the economy, but that’s also what you do when you eat food grown and prepared by people with inadequate labor protections, so why not take the red pill and double down on being a true slave-supported neo-Athenian?


Interactive Brokers (one of the best) has margin rates that are 5.17-5.83% at the moment depending on the size of the loan. Whether or not you want to pay rates like that and be potentially leveraged in the market, is a personal question. Not sure what any of this has to do with terrorizing the economy though ...


Bought one, it lasted a few years of very light use, but I can’t replace the battery so it’s trash now. I don’t like having to own more things I can’t service. Especially when products tend to be non-durable.


How you feel about your time is exclusively your problem. If you were personally interested, motivated, or needed some resume padding, you’d probably be a community member and a volunteer in addition to a “rational economic actor” or whatever you fancy. L


In other replies, I've made it clear that if people really do want to spend their time searching for prior art, fine, go ahead.

I've also been clear that I won't be doing that because I found patent searching to be a real grind. I think most people would agree with me on that point if they've done it. It's much harder than people here think it is. (To be clear, on something that I enjoy learning about or is relevant for a project of mine, I'm happy to search deep and for far longer than I did when I was an examiner. I can't say anything I was assigned at the USPTO was ever that interesting to me.)

I also don't view this as a public service because Cloudflare can easily afford to pay market rate. And honestly, now that I've thought more about it, this Whac-A-Mole approach likely won't stop all patent trolls. There are way too many bad patents. Trolls will just find new bad patents! The best way to stop trolls is to raise the bar on patent quality by giving examiners more time and making legal changes to raise the bar even more.

All this stuff about how I must be unaware that people have passions, aren't paid for open source, and are not "rational economic actors" is extrapolating beyond anything I've said.


It’s a hormone. Brains are all differently equipped with those so you shouldn’t expect regularity or predictability unless you have a consistent dosage schedule


Dude there have been numerous RCTs. People reported the same side effects for 1mg melatonin and placebo


If I take Melatonin in the usual dose I get St. Elmo’s Fire, no thanks.


A literal fungal infection?


What's "the usual dose" in mg and wtf is St. Elmo’s Fire?


What you might get in a supplement, 0.3 mg to 3 mg or so.

It is like the feeling late after an LSD trip maybe 10-12 hours or more after the "usual dose" which would be 80 to 320 mcg.

Sensorium is lit up like a light psychedelic experience, might be weary but complete unable to shut down. In my image of myself in my mind's eye I am glowing with corona discharge.


Wow that's unique! I wonder if there are any other people that respond like that


But those engagements would go so much differently and churn would be so much higher if the threat of prison didn’t disallow going AWOL.

It’s a threat of violent coercion, even though daddy never personally hit you or anyone you served with.

It’s how all abusive relationships work, they just operationalized and scaled it to an unprecedented degree.

And then you come out of that abusive relationship with a quick reintegration course and track your duty, but no honor, back to the private sector. If vets weren’t a protected category, they’d be subject to more discrimination due to the warped psyche basic training is designed to produce.


We should also fix the part where some dunce with a letter put a town where physics (at least occasionally) put a river.

What we call a civilization should have education at least equivalent to a seven year old sand castle architect. Not hubris so large we go broke attempting to occupy the waterspouts of the world just because there’s pipe and cable there.


> We should also fix the part where some dunce with a letter put a town where physics (at least occasionally) put a river.

How do you fix that, short of moving the entire town (which is going to cost almost as much as rebuilding it)? The dunce that established the town is long dead, and his relatives probably moved away to better pastures.


I’d like to call you both right on the basis that a working brain at age 40 retired with less than a working brain from age 27 or whenever schizophrenia tends to present.

Outcomes are what we’re hoping to improve. Your data looks like we get brain recovery, which is an improvement to outcomes. Necessary, maybe not sufficient.


What they’re doing is “sensing” my secrets… which they’ll sell to people who want to east my time so they can maybe sell me things.

Mark Zuckerberg, or his ilk, is actively shirking responsibility for what those ads say. And even when they know they do harm, they still aren’t moved to act. That’s the safety guarantee at the end of sensing.

It’s way worse than surveillance. It just also includes it.


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