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Did you know that Linda's husband became devoted to Oxycontin after his shoulder surgery?

address my issues with the platform What are your issues? What could Substack be doing better for fiction writers?

About 10 years ago, I started having really bad low back pain and could barely get out of bed some mornings. Different doctors told me different things. I tried chiropractic, acupu…

. . . which they describe as a profoundly nihilist state of being Where are you getting this from? I don't know of any traditions that would describe it in this way.

Why does this seem to be different with software as opposed to other areas of engineering? Is it a generational thing? Before jumping into the tech industry, I worked in the automo…

It's a far cry from actual pattern matching, but you can always tag your types[1]: interface Tagged { tag: string; } interface Circle extends Tagged { tag: 'circle' } // ... Other …

No, he doesn't. "...I got dismissed from Harvard because I had given psychedelics to an undergraduate. We had agreed with the dean that we would not give psychedelics to undergradu…

Any advice for someone 3-4 years into their career with the option to work on something that's a "good thing for the world" or something that is more technically interesting and wi…

Johann Hari covers a lot of the history of antidepressants in "Lost Connections." Per the studies he covers in the book, most of the benefits are placebo effect. The remainder is s…

A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright is another good one that touches on this quite a bit. https://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Progress-Ronald-Wright/...

I read "Lost Connections" by Johann Hari[1] a couple weeks ago. He spends much of the first section on the research and history of antidepressants. One particularly interesting thi…

This was from the Michael Pollen episode.

How are you defining character? Is it only the look of the neighborhoods, or is it the people that live in those neighborhoods?

Dotty is moving in this direction with Implicit Function Types. https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/implicit-function-types... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXDm3WHZT5g&feature=…

Terence McKenna's lectures from the Earth Trust Foundation conference are really great, if you're into that sort of thing. There are four parts, totaling ~6.5 hours. https://archiv…

For me, it's the portability. I can work from my desk, a coffee shop, a park, or the floor of my living room, which is where I am right now. Working remotely is never an issue beca…

Can't they do both? I don't think they're going to be in short supply of prisoners anytime soon. And running as a for-profit, they're going to have significantly more resources.

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Part of the idea behind Redux is to keep components as pure as possible and limit side effects to one place, usually actions. You keep all async actions in components?

The article you're referring to[1] only talks about a single group of hunter-gatherers, the !Kung. And all things considered, they do not work less than we do. . . . his original e…

You have to consider the period of time over which those species became extinct. Per E.O. Wilson, we're losing species at a rate that is ~1,000 times faster than anything in the pa…

One thing that I find amusing is that a lot of people are never drug tested as part of the process. I spent ~5 years working for the DoD with a secret security clearance and never …