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naewonawonga··on Ask HN: Have you used Adderall or any other similar drug?
Sounds like you're fetishizing credentials. WebMD is a terrible resource, and nobody here is suggesting otherwise.

Doctors complete their CME eduction credits on sites like Medscape, which are 1) owned by WebMD 2) Are supported by dark pattern Pharma Marketing on sites. 3) Are frequently visited (and bribed) by Pharma reps.

Doing ones own research, and becoming informed are necessary first steps before engaging with Doctors.

naewonawonga··on Ask HN: Have you used Adderall or any other similar drug?
A very significant portion of Doctors do not follow the latest research, but rather consume marketing materials produced by pharmaceutical manufacturers and advertising agencies which cherry pick the latest research to the maximum extent permissible by current regulatory frameworks and enforcement standards.

It's a good thing that OP is doing their own research beforehand.

naewonawonga··on Ask HN: Have you used Adderall or any other similar drug?
Your understanding does not reflect the reality of the pharmacutical industry in its current form nor the Doctors that enable it.
naewonawonga··on Work peak and professional decline (2019)
Cybertruck is not real.
naewonawonga··on Talking with your hands alters the perception of your words
>> I live in Boston, where I think talking with your hands isn't particularly popular...

What made you come to that conclusion, or are you spending all your time amongst a very particular subset of the Boston population?

naewonawonga··on Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005)
>> What are "non-unix operating systems that don't happen to be made by Microsoft".

It's a pretty big list. To name a few:

Beos (and derivatives), AmigaOS (and derrivatives), GEOS, Commodore DOS, Temple OS, TRON, plenty of Real Time Operating Systems...

naewonawonga··on The Mac price crash of 2021
Metaphors and language are dynamic flexible things.
naewonawonga··on Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005)
Sounds a bit provincial. That might have been true before mainstream internet access, but the average user these days is likely more familiar with unix style paths via URLs than local filesystem paths.

Also, most non-unix operating systems that don't happen to be made by Microsoft also use the forward slashes for paths.

naewonawonga··on I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
Do not trust the credibility of an article about drugs that conflates NDMA with MDMA.
naewonawonga··on ANSI escape codes (2019)
I deeply regret that I only have one upvote to give.
naewonawonga··on Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison
>> But the people paying for the prison certainly do.

That's quite a leap.

naewonawonga··on Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing
>> We don't target the hard core rower.

Your marketing material suggests that one of the strengths of the platform is that it allows one to compete against professional athletes and Olympians.

Which is it?

naewonawonga··on Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison
Prisons do not actually have rehabilitation as a meaningful incentivized goal.
naewonawonga··on FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol
>> Do that 10 more times on 10 different bridges, and I’ll be shocked if that happens even one more time.

Likely it would happen another 8-10 times. Happens all the time, the bigger the bridge, the more likely.

naewonawonga··on FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol
>> Mission critical ML systems (G/FB ads, crime forensics, medical decision support, financial algorithms) do not work like this.

Are you speaking from experience or from intuition?

naewonawonga··on Show HN: SOUL Language 1.0 – A platform for writing and running audio code
Very important questions, deserving of an answer.
naewonawonga··on Show HN: SOUL Language 1.0 – A platform for writing and running audio code
If there's no mechanism to bind those intentions to the intellectual property, what you're building is just another time bomb which will eventually detonate at the expense of your users.
naewonawonga··on Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
It was an attempted coup. Words have meanings.
naewonawonga··on Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
|| If you, dear HN reader, can't see the threat to your freedom in this then you are blind.

Forcing a private corporation to provide a platform for someone else is also a form of tyrrany.

|| Oh, and to call that invasion of the capitol an attempted coup is a real stretch. What were they ever going to do other than get arrested??

They were going to kill our representatives in government. That was their intent, and it's a bit odd that you're making excuses for them.