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It's unavoidable for most people.

That said, wealthy people could actually avoid most of it by using more expensive materials like PTFE and glass while having all of their food produced with production that doesn't involve any of the plastics that leech.

If wealthy people were universally more intelligent we'd see an upper tier of foods made with zero plastic contact in some kind of "zero plastic certified" facility so they could just grab it and go.

Worst-case scenario you might just have a wonderful time for several hours and decide you'd like to do it again with some kind of guide.

Anecdotally it's very uncommon to hear about people having a bad time or even a neutral experience on MDMA in any number of settings.

The first region to somehow effectively ban any access to Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and social media for people under the age of 21 will raise the first generation of young people to rule over the rest of the world's social media addicted hoi polloi.

Having a permanent public visual record of "growing up" isn't going to help people as much as their parents seem to think it will and the only viable leaders, politicians, Justices, etc. will come from this hypothetical region.

The studies are designed this way to keep the shaman in the equation when the drugs become treatments. Informal polling over decades shows MDMA is pretty impressive on its own.

We need a clinical study where a group of veterans with PTSD is given MDMA and an isolated quiet place to go for several hours. Each of them is told they're receiving a drug that cures PTSD. The placebo effect paired with the brain rewiring effect of MDMA will cure more people than any other method and demonstrate that the effect is self-contained.

This is why the objective admission system used by the University of California is so important. Nobody can game their way into a UC and IIRC, being a legacy only DQs you from some financial assistance they offer to 'first in family' to attend.

Snowflakes processed via this method could be the future of true random.

It will work well in a lot of places where lag is an issue. Should make lag-free wireless video game controllers and full-bandwith lag-free headphones a reality.

Our entire system is built around the fundamentally American belief that adults need to obtain permission to consume anything that isn't Alcohol or Tobacco (Unless you're an Indian living on a reservation where alcohol has been banned as well).

American pharmacies take special care to put our full names along with our doctors names and phone numbers just to make sure that nobody gets away with possessing drugs that the aren't allowed to have.

A big country like Iran banning alcohol seems unimaginable until you remember that for whatever reason alcohol is the only thing a big country like America hasn't banned.

What timing. Somebody at Apple needs to buy a PS5 and spend 10 minutes with the dualSense controller in ASTRO's playroom. Mac and PC won't ever get the full dualSense experience and that means they're outmoded.

Sony found a way to make everything without dualSense feel old and obsolete, including their entire back catalog of games from the PS1 to the PS4.

The low hanging fruit can't be picked twice.

That, and how many unhealthy/vulnerable people just die on average week for no particular reason? Seems like at least some of those individuals should be cases of a flu/virus taking the credit for something that may have happened on its own regardless. Reminds me of these uncommon 'horror stories' of young people dying the first time they did a bump of cocaine - all of them had very serious underlying issues that they were unaware of to begin with.

Anyone who goes all around talking about one thing that they did back in the 70s the way he does is hard to take seriously. That and anytime he's interviewed on the subject he'll be very clear that 'attempting to do his study anywhere on Earth would be impossible now'. Brings to mind how Jerry Seinfeld would never race anyone after he beat the fast kid decades earlier[0].

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akANwligs2E

For the record, Zimbardo is a fraudulent pseudo scientist. Even in a best case scenario Zimbardo's work doesn't qualify as any sort of actual science.

I would try piranha before trying more heat as the piranha is less likely to warp or discolor the stainless.

If you know what you're doing the equation boils down to determining if the container's worth more than the piranha solution will cost you to make in time/money spent. https://drs.illinois.edu/Page/SafetyLibrary/PiranhaSolutions

Exactly - the fundamental problem is that it takes an above average person to understand this. Tech is something that most lawmakers, judges, attorneys and jurors don't get and asking them to regulate it is a mistake.

They'll open up the floodgates and average people will end up dealing with fake Epic apps. A decade from now maybe that same courtroom would better appreciate the value of a trusted gatekeeper.

If I'd had access to a tablet that did all kinds of interesting things I'd never have climbed trees or done much of anything as a kid.

Vice used to be amazing.

Somehow along the way it sold out somehow and now it's garbage.

IIRC, Siri's so far behind the curve that there's almost no possible way for it to catch up to more advanced assistants.

That said, China could theoretically tie Siri into its AI which could help level the playing field for both Apple and China. No idea how Apple could sell that to the American consumer.

When America (inevitably) makes the logical move to a singe-payer healthcare system maybe our civil liability rules will change as a result.

EU countries have public attractions that Americans couldn't dream of being allowed to experience without signing a stack of waivers beforehand.

In the USA we had lots of these at one point and then we started removing them from schools along with the asbestos.

Could it be used to track down journalists or prove that a certain journalist took a specific photograph?

Sounds like the photographic equivalent of guns that put unique stamps on their fired shells - theoretically making it easier to ID the shooter.

Someone could put hermitically sealed cartridges of something that will decay nicely into a high visibility container that's designed to stay permanently built into the structure itself. Future humans could drill through the solid exterior and retrieve samples of the decaying inner material providing definitive means of precisely dating the structure. Designing it to be used more than once by successive generations would help keep future history more accurate than ancient history.

It'd be interesting to look at why and how that 27% started using ad blocking software.

I'm suspicious that that 27% of users is mostly made up of a specific subset of tech workers and their family and friends.

The default cooperative online mode ends up being a lot less interesting than going at it entirely by yourself offline from start to finish. All the clutter wrecks the immersion/isolation while the freebies end up wrecking the leveling.

Is there any way that someone now can deliberately add a verifiable date to an object/structure/etc.? Something that a million plus years from now would objectively demonstrate the age to a researcher of the future.

Considering the strong tendency to disregard old written historical records people of the future will likely face a similar dilemma attempting to accurately date any ruins of our present day buildings.

I would label AW2 as garbage - a schizophrenia sim paired with a dull board game where you arrange post-it notes.

Remedy/Sam Lake dropped the ball.

Instead of making another game cut from the same brilliant Alan Wake cloth they botched it and took out most of what makes the original game great.

Amazing game. Goes in the rare category of truly singular games that have no peer. Manhunt(PS2 version) is another.

GM has had the same type of root access to its cars since around 2009. Police can use it to stop cars in high speed chases and it can be used to track stolen (behind on payments...) cars.

YouTube should offer ad-free videos that have the ad fees paid ahead of time by the account that posted the video. Videos could be made to be ad-free for certain areas, demographics, etc. to maximize viewers as needed.

In this way the video effectively becomes the ad and the viewer doesn't have any interest in blocking it.

How ubiquitous are ad-blockers in the wild with normal/average people?

Anybody know roughly what percentage of users have any ad-blocker installed?

Among certain types of people that frequent HN they're probably pretty common for desktop browsers but among regular folks who don't have tech savvy kids or grandkids I'm guessing they're somewhat less common.

Anybody have any idea of what percentage of viewers skip watching their target YouTube video when they get an ad in front of it or abandon it when presented with an ad midway through?

Seems like anyone who wants their video to get maximum exposure would want to eliminate ads for anyone who's willing to watch it and should be able to buy out the ads on their end.