I suspect your answer to the original question was right in the sense that these two have the worst physical dependence but I believe another measure is Capture Rates where they survey users over a decade and they report the number of user still using the substance during the last survey who were using it in the first one. The highest capture rates are around 20% for H and cocaine when I saw the data last time which is worse odds than Russian Roulette!

Actually it’s quite funny, if you take a broad interpretation of sealioning that does not involve the internet, Ancient Athens sentenced Socrates to death for “sealioning” in 400BC lol.

This one I’ve always been wary of. I studied philosophy so I know a bit about arguments and sealioning is unusual because it can only really take place over the internet where someone is asking questions in bad faith and you can’t 100% call them out because you don’t know their identity for sure. Firstly I don’t like the idea that questions can be bad faith - especially seemingly trivial or obvious ones - since that goes against the Socratic method of questioning all your beliefs/shibboleths. Secondly, it is so context dependent that I think it is hard to universalise it like you can do with other fallacies like false dilemma (everyone is either a tequila or a whisky person, etc.)

I like negative income tax better. Basically you declare an amount that is the basic amount someone can live on, I.e. £20k and if you earn less than that your income is topped up by other tax payers. This has the advantage of high tax payers not being given a payment every month that they don’t need.

The downside of it is that means testing still requires some amount of beaurocracy. That means you’d be unable to completely axe the department of work and pensions (DWP) for example here in the UK. My understanding is that you could do universal basic income and pay everyone in the UK £1000 per month and those costs would be totally offset by no longer having to finance the DWP so it’s a budget neutral policy in terms of government spending.

Friend and I were joking about 120 Days of Sodom so I decided I should pick it up to see what the fuss was about… Huge mistake! It is more deviant than I possibly imagined a book that old being (and I was aware the first draft was written on toilet paper lol)

The other white meat

Everyone in the comments are ignoring the tax advantages of being married. Let’s focus on the real issues, folks.

Actually as someone who does sometimes do interviews: acting like an asshole with a big ego will wreck your chances big time.

One reason is that the coreutils in Linux use a lot of hacky or hard to read tricks to improve performance. OpenBSD explicitly wanted to make their source code more legible. FWIW I prefer the Linux approach.

Tell them I could do the interview better than them

I’ve got a couple dumb friends/colleagues too but just change the subject when they mention politics

Game dev is predatory because people can and will do it for free. Many “dream jobs” have this issue.

It was like 5 years ago but I heard a family friend working there was making 27k as a mid level dev.

Yes, I experience something similar working for one of the two major gambling companies in the US. It is possible to move and get a raise; several colleagues have done so moving to Black Rock or JP Morgan which both have high barriers to entry and are more demanding of your time.

I’m based in the UK so not sure if the job market is as toxic as the US with LLM CVs and HR/TA processing of said CVs. When I did recruiting a year or so ago I found a lot of CVs that people had generated from their LinkedIn profiles and they looked terrible: do not say you are a 10X developer rockstar on your CV!

At the moment I’ve been at the company for over 2 years so that affords me a lot of rights in the UK and in a climate where there are a lot of layoffs, I’d hesitate to move. Like a few years back I was being spammed with recruiters trying to get me to join Spotify months before they axed their entire data team - if I’d gone for it I would have been totally screwed and with a mortgage I don’t feel I can take risks.

I work in gambling and have done for over 3 years. I do it for the paycheck.

Edit: My last job was in adtech doing web attribution online and I initially thought at least the gambling customers are willingly signing up instead of just being spied on without their consent in many cases… Then I read some of the comments on my company’s subreddit and it made me wonder if certan customers were able to consent in a meaningful sense.

Maybe they are just a company… Idk how people even developed a parasocial relationship with it

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Where on the “knowing people” is understanding people can be too similar. Like Two Queen Bees arguing in a group is a classic but imo it happens to varying degrees in other personality types/facets like, "“Hey you guys both like guitar you’ll get along…” Awkward silence after 20 mins because some people put everything into their hobbies.

Want a feel if that is above or below water on the iceberg

more of a pedant

This seems like a problem that will self-correct. The way Schrier has phrased the headline makes it sound like the industry is a monolith with a comitee leading it.