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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 "classi…

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?

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 overshado…

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 …

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 spe…

> 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 suppor…

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…

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 t…

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 …

Literally does not happen in two countries that I know of, and I bet in many countries of the world (developed ones even).

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 ca…

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 v…

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…

Exactly. It took the collaboration of many different people, all of which also profited from it, to bring about the opioid crisis.

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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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 …

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