I never want to be in a 'driverless vehicle'. I want control and I want to drive myself.
But I don't want to driving a vehicle on the same road I am on. Well, not exactly you but, you know, those idiots.
Readit Newswavegeek commented on Tired of waiting for driverless vehicles? Head to a farm apnews.com/article/techno... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
wavegeek commented on Tired of waiting for driverless vehicles? Head to a farm apnews.com/article/techno... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
Totally different set of problems. An autonomous tractor is more like a big CNC machine. Positioning is easy and very little intelligence is required.
Having driven a tractor on my parents' farm, I can confirm this. It is so mindless it is not boring, because you can think of other things.
wavegeek commented on Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate dynomight.net/teaching/... · Posted by u/dynm
I've often thought the same thing about becoming an adult, especially a parent, in general. There are so many choices that I harshly judged older people for making (how to allocate their time and money, where to live, what to allow or not allow the kids to do, how to behave at work, etc.) that I now find myself making as a married guy in my mid-30s with four kids. It makes me sad, but on each point I'm like, "Oh, now I get it." I fear that this pattern could continue until I become my father in my 50s and 60s. I try not to judge people so much anymore.
Anyway, I appreciate the article as someone who will soon try my hand at teaching. I will have a lot to learn.
It is interesting but I had the opposite experience.
I think two things led to this.
1. In ante-natal classes the person took us through child development and what children are capable of at different ages. In particular, newborns to about 6-8 months do not even have a concept of themselves as separate people. All they can learn at that time is whether the world is a good place where their needs have a chance of being met. They are incapable of e.g. deliberately crying in order to get picked up. If you do not respond to their suffering you are just going to create a needy and insecure child. So we dodged that bullet.
2. The book "Parent Effectiveness Training" which was a revelation to me. The basic idea is that children own their lives and the consequences of their decisions. Of course there is a limit - you don't let a 3 year old run into traffic. But as far as possible let children make their own decisions. They learn really fast that way. If you micro-manage their lives you end up with 18 year old children.
This does not mean you do not have rules in your house. You are not allowed to play drums at 3am, but that would apply to everyone.
So many parents impose their own choices and preferences on their children for no good reason, and it creates resentment and stops children from learning from their own decisions.
As one example, I have lactose intolerance but I was forced to drink milk, with resulting stomach aches, etc, for many years. I literally knew better than my parents and school in this matter. Similarly if you think you know better than your children in every matter, may I suggest contemplating the spectacle of a 15 year old dressed for a party by Mom.
After our daughter turned 12 we only overrode her on two things - becoming a vegatarian (not allowed until she completed her growth) and a change of school. In both cases we carefully listened to her point of view and considered it, and explained why on these rare occasions we overruled her. Because this was so rare, and handled in a respectful manner, she accepted the decisions.
My own mother waited with great anticipation for the teen rebellion that she had forced her own children into, but it never came with my daughter. Why rebel when there is no need? She never lost the love of learning and ended up with a PhD in a hard science.
One other comment on the OP. There seems to be a wider issue here. If you let children not work, and fail, then the first time there will be a commotion. But if teachers did this consistently, word would get around and it would be accepted. Students whose life goals required passing the test would do the work. But in fact many school subjects are useless to many people and not studying is a rational response to being taught irrelevant nonsense.
I didn't have to "hunt" for anything -- I am a chronic sufferer of CHS and have almost died from it on a number of occasions. And the deaths I linked to are only a handful among many suspected ones, for an illness which is just starting to be properly investigated.
ERs have been flooded with severe cases of CHS over the past two decades. It's not just three people dying in rare cases, it's potentially 2.75 million[1] Americans experiencing CHS episodes every year which, given the 35 million[2] "regular" cannabis users, means that approximately 7% of users are susceptible.
For you to dismiss this horrific illness as "not fatal" and even "not dangerous" is outrageously arrogant and ignorant of a very real condition. You're essentially saying that those people did not matter, or did not exist, and that the pain and suffering I have experienced is irrelevant just because it's not the same experience as your own.
It is beyond disturbing that you feel so comfortable making medical claims about something you clearly have no understanding of. Shame on you.
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29327809/
"Among 2127 patients approached for participation, 155 met inclusion criteria as smoking 20 or more days per month. Among those surveyed, 32.9% (95% CI, 25.5-40.3%) met our criteria for having experienced CHS. If this is extractable to the general population, approximately 2.75 million (2.13-3.38 million) Americans may suffer annually from a phenomenon similar to CHS."
[2] https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article145...
"Close to 35 million are what the survey calls "regular users," or people who use marijuana at least once or twice a month."
> 155 met inclusion criteria as smoking 20 or more days per month.
That is insane.
that an exchange-traded fund that is made up of cannabis-related companies has lost 70 percent of the value that it once had in 2019.
as far as how that can be used as a soothsaying device, i'm not a trader. I presume it's to be considered related to the public's interest and consideration towards the growth of the particular industry.
Just how internet stocks fell 90% in 2000-2003, thus demonstrating the "Nobel" economist Paul Krugman's was right. His insight was that the internet was just a fad and would have no more impact than the fax machine.
I notice a number of smart investors are starting to accumulate cannibis stocks. The trigger might be a repeal of the federal ban, which seems to be on the cards, even though (sic) Joe Biden promised to do it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2021/07/14/senator...
wavegeek commented on Phenethylamines I have feared and loathed (2020) nikobidin.com/phenethylam... · Posted by u/kvee
I cannot even eat food high in trace amines or I get anxious as all get out and I am up all night. Seriously, chocolate gives me insomnia. So I have no idea how someone could handle these drugs.
I think this happens to me for two reasons. I am low in BH4 which limits my ability to metabolize amino acids down the common pathway and thinks like phenylalanine get metabolized dow the alternative pathways creating PEA and Tyramine. But also I have the mental illness associated changes in TAAR1 and VMAT1 and VMAT2. (I have schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder.)
I never understood why people would want to take drugs to see the shit and live the suffering I have all my life but that's where we are...
These symptoms can also he a manifestation of histamine intolerance. If your enzymes that break down histamines (diamine oxidase - DAO or histamine methyltransferase - HMT) are faulty it will be a problem.
High histamines give me the opposite of the effect of taking anti-histamines, which normally make you drowsy.
You would be amazed how many foods are high in histamines. Basically anything that is really flavoursome. And many additives either inhibit histamine breakdown or promote release from the mast cells.
Not to mention MCAS mast cell activation syndrome.
wavegeek commented on Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design news.cornell.edu/stories/... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
I don't know much about the situation in Texas but where I live (Australia) the typical situation - it differs from one state to another - is that you have a semi-deregulated market but with ceilings on rates "to avoid price gouging".
This means that it is basically illegal to provide a capacity for backup power that is only used intermittently. This is because the backup power needs to be priced high to justify having it sitting there all year doing mostly nothing.
Having banned a market solution, governments then stepped in to overcome the "market failure" by running and funding their own backup power supplies.
Source a friend who trades electricity for a living.
wavegeek commented on Did Britain Ever Have a Revolutionary Moment? historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/pepys
They got rid of the king, but got a dictator instead. After he died, his son took over, botched the job, and was replaced by a king again.
France went through something similar. The aftermath of the French Revolution was botched so badly that France got Napoleon.
Russia after the breakup of the USSR, Germany after WWI... You screw up a democracy, you get a dictator.
Back in Roman times Cicero pointed out that democracy leads to chaos, which leads to tyranny, which leads to monarchy which leads to Aristocracy which leads to democracy.
There seem to be a few democracies sliding increasingly into chaos.
wavegeek commented on Autistic people challenge preconceived ideas about rationality psyche.co/ideas/autistic-... · Posted by u/misotaur
> it could indicate that at least mild Autism is a beneficial adaptation
Not picking on you or your post, but it's interesting that we still consider this an adaptation. What if this is humanity's natural state and allistics are the adaptation?
> allistics are the exception?
Actually this seems unlikely given the sequence of evolution. But...
Here is a spoof of Allistic Spectrum Disorder imagined as if it affected a small minority of people (trigger warning for those obsessed with status).
From [nonexistent] DSM-VI: Hyper-Social (Allistic) Spectrum Disorder
HSSD is a syndrome in which there is an over-focus on social phenomena at the expense of other aspects of the world. Contrast with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, which is in many ways the opposite.
Diagnosis: Any 5 of the following are present:
Inability to express self clearly; use of ambiguous and vague language; discomfort with clear language
Obsessive interest in knowing personal details of acquaintances or strangers e.g. celebrities, or even fictional characters
Unfounded belief in being able to read other people's minds, in particular to know if someone is lying or not.
Difficulty in thinking in a systematic logical way, e.g. to do math or program computers
Tendency to try to bend and stretch rules for no obvious reason. Discomfort with accurately following instructions and processes.
Forms beliefs based on the opinions of others rather than on facts and evidence Tendency to affiliate with groups and to align all opinions to the group
Frequently lies, mostly for social convenience (studies suggest 3-5 times a day)
Preoccupied with social status and “looking the part”
Focus on status symbols, and symbols of virtue and group affiliation
Focus on appearances more than underlying reality
Intolerance of diversity of opinion
Intolerance towards people who do not have HSSD
Spends large amounts of time on shallow “social” activities with little actual content. May lead to destructive activities such as substance abuse e.g. alcohol, and over-eating.
Lack of interest in mastering difficult, especially technical, subjects in depth Tendency to stare into people's eyes, and to believe that this gives great insight into the other person's mind. Usually unaware that this can create discomfort in the other person.
Tendency to think that staring into people's eyes demonstrates trustworthiness.
1% die in a car accident
10% serious injury in a car accident
Accidents 1 / 500,000 miles.
https://www.torquenews.com/14335/how-safe-are-tesla-vehicles...
I have been in a few accidents, none that serious so far.