You can also go to the beach and get unlimited amounts of weight for free too. That's what's most budget weights are made of
Just FYI this is illegal in many areas.
Readit Newsomio commented on Using Euro coins as weights (2004) rubinghscience.org/surv/e... · Posted by u/Tomte
The worm at the core.
omio commented on Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses greaterwrong.com/posts/BH... · Posted by u/onemind
There's quite a bit of insight in this article, and I'm not going to dismiss or directly comment on any of it.
In my mind, there are two pretty straightforward, first principles at work that underlay a lot of these items.
Many, if not all, negative emotions, at least while being experienced, directly diminish cognitive capabilities. A concrete example: when a person is angry, that person is more stupid.
Next: modern communication technology allows/facilitates/encourages negative emotions to be generated, travel widely, and 'stick' in the minds of more and more people.
As I said, there's a lot of good analysis, but I believe that these two simple things are the most responsible for 'stupidity expanding'.
I went out of my way to state these things briefly, because fundamentally I think they are simple. At the same time, there are mountains of nuances and relevant conditions surrounding them.
Fear is a big one. Getting you in these emotional states makes it easier to influence your way of thinking.
I spent a lot of time last year looking for alternatives to iCloud for local syncing of calendar, notes, and contacts for macOS iOS. It's real easy to spend a lot of time banging your head against a wall trying to get things working.
I learned to be suspicious of any posts that said things like "This should work!" instead of "Here are step by step instructions for what I actually did that worked for me under these conditions on this date." Things that work for Windows don't necessarily work for Macs. Things that work at one time, don't necessarily work at another time.
Sometimes there was just one little detail missing, obvious afterwards but undocumented and costing an hour or two of messing around to find. Sometimes I gave up on a promising solution (such as radicale) because I just couldn't find that one missing step. That's why complete documentation of someone's experience is so valuable for someone trying to recreate another person's success.
Here's what worked for me (on Jan 2019), a setup that used apache, DAViCal, postfix, dovecot on CentOS 7 in VirtualBox on macOS 10.14:
"Replacement of macOS Server: Calendar, Contacts, and Mail" https://7402.org/blog/2019/replacement-macos-server.html
It was broken by the end of year due to changes by Apple, requiring the following fix (as of Dec 2019):
"New self-signed SSL Certificate for iOS 13" https://7402.org/blog/2019/new-self-signed-ssl-cert-ios-13.h...
Good luck. It's satisfying to get one's own server working, but it might take on-going maintenance.
I remember years ago getting mysql, php, nginx, dovecot, postfix and horde to work together to get ActiveSync to my android. Took a long time and lots of reading but in the end it felt great. Then a week later a horde update broke it.
In hindsight it's probably better to spend the money on a hosted solution.
omio commented on War and drugs: Together since forever knowablemagazine.org/arti... · Posted by u/knowablemag
omio commented on War and drugs: Together since forever knowablemagazine.org/arti... · Posted by u/knowablemag
Why that province specifically?
Just an anecdote of mine. I'm sure there was plenty of drug use in other provinces but my personal experience was in the Helmand. I try not to talk about other places and units I don't have experience in.
omio commented on War and drugs: Together since forever knowablemagazine.org/arti... · Posted by u/knowablemag
Drug use by Marines, Taliban and Afghan police/army during the Helmand province campaign needs its own study and book.
omio commented on Stealing the Enemy's Urban Advantage: The Battle of Sadr City mwi.usma.edu/stealing-ene... · Posted by u/jspencer508
A lot of this was used in Ramadi the year before.
omio commented on Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string (2007) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/ColinWright
ah yes, an alternative whose front page is currently filled with pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and everyone's favorite past-time, closeted racism
just the different i was looking for!
Wow I didn't know it turned out so bad. Even then reddit isn't much better either. Damn the internet has turned into a cesspool or maybe I don't remember it was a cesspool 20 years ago too.