tomatowurst

going to be honest i really don't buy this microdose, your body will quickly build natural tolerance to psilocybin. this is not like THC or alcohol where you drink tiny amounts, the effects will be felt.

it makes sense why the body builds tolerance to psilocybin so rapidly and half life is quite long (at least a month or two) for evolutionary purposes. which to me is interesting because it shows that we've evolved to build tolerance against it but THC takes far longer and in very high doses to build tolerance.

all in all, I've read accounts of people seeing positive changes with microdosing but for my case, while I did not take heroic doses (McKenna's 5 grams), I took at best 2 to 3 grams. In higher doses I had a transcendental experience....

while nobody has died from taking psilocybin outright, there had been reported incidents where it had impact on somebody prone to schizophrenia and psychosis. However its extremely rare. This is why I suggest to people to have a sitter and be at a ground level.

It's not an issue for the millions of people that take it but if you've never even smoked marijuana before and this is your first try, please get a sitter.

i say it again and again whenever i see these threads:

psilocybin mushroom kicks down depression so hard it can't get up and bother you again.

no SSRIs, no marijuana after taking it.

anxiety and ptsd are still there tho so i think that requires something else. also something about THC that seems to reverse the benefits I got from psilocybin. cessation of THC seems to put me "back" on track if that makes sense.

disclaimer: ymmv, please get a sitter, if not, do it outside (best to do it on the grass) where you are safe, comfortable, and calm.

I increasingly distrust nytimes after Ryan Breslow outed them.

https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1514664887045091328

How can you trust a media outlet with conflict of interests? This naturally makes me question it's journalists now too.

One might associate NY Times with the city New York, the bastion of a free speech and democractic superpower. But after the facts, how can you not read NY times article without raising questions?

Same here but I had a much more cynical view of the oracle issue that it is by design aimed at eventual and total financial destruction of most participants. This cynicism were fueled further by the ideology that justified this for some great adoption that was promised even further back.

You can have decentralized systems but because monetary wealth accumulation is centralized by nature, and any decentralized system that introduces monetary accumulation and inflation reverts to a centralized state.

A good example of this is Bitcoin. Those with the most liquid currency (fiat) can buy more hardware that centralizes wealth. You simply cannot have an MLM scheme without a pyramid.

Seems like this will also get to a point where we would just take a photo and animate it completely as a 3D mesh. Like that picture, just on a few photos, at some point, would generate a photorealistic, ray-traced 3D asset and also a fully interactable 2D motion paired with GPT-4 or 5 where you could have indistinguishable level of human like interaction (ex. Fable studio)

After a couple dozen more papers and prototypes, we could have ultrasound haptic feedback and some 3D holographic projector where we achieve a true augmented reality.

Going a bit further with this idea, you could essentially create augmented 3D objects that would be indistinguishable from the real thing until you apply enough force enough to break through some upper limit of ultrasound generated haptic pressure (as to not hurt the end user through some legislative regulation). For example, opposing magnets that can be pushed together past a certain point where the illusion of tactility is gone.

What would a reality like that be like? Where you could not only have limitless content media generator but you could conjure up those assets in your living room and have them interact kinetically with the real world. We are talking 3D holographic assets with ultrasound haptic simulator that can apply pressure to any object from all directions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwTcfwbrNO4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDRTghGZ7XU

We might not even need expensive robots in the future. Just conjure up a 3D human via some ultrasound/holograph projector which can apply enough force to objects.

This DALL-E 2 is absolutely the wildest thing I've seen by far. If we can get it to render 2D images, imagine 2d films, fully textured 3d mesh & environments is almost a certainty in the future.

The implications of this is tremendous. We could be looking at crowd-directed AI generated consumable content.

Imagine that you could watch infinite variations of the ending in Sopranos season 6. Imagine that you could generate a production quality 3D animatable human mesh that can interact with the AI generated 3D environment.

Pair this with ultrasound based non-invasive haptic feedback, taste, smell with some type of 3D holographic projector. The possibilities are literally endless.

Holy moly!!!! We are on the cusp of a completely new way to generate and consume content. Copyright laws will have to be rewritten. Once this pandora box is open it can't be closed.

I knew that there was zero chance of this being in Canada so that automatically left this being a US only operation. Very cool, I'm curious what sort of apps you could build on this, it seems that while you can get some programmatic access to banking, there's so many state specific regulations and law you have to abide by.

Money transfer license alone is quite expensive for each state.

What the US Space Force might be actually planning if they had unlimited budget, would be a permanent space station with unmanned drones and missiles in several sub-carrier types permanently hovering over a hostile country.

You control the sea, air, land, and finally space. You would have complete dominance that would render ICBM's moot.

If there's a war in East Asia, I would bet against China. It should be clear that having the world's largest standing army don't really matter, we can see what a paper tiger Russia turned out to be and PLA has far worse corruption. Especially since the PLA only has had success fighting its own, it's lost every single war and hasn't fought a major war since losing to Vietnam in a quick war.

The US + allies aren't exactly worried here. It possesses complete air superiority in the region as well as early warning radar.

I mean if a small country like Taiwan could lodge missiles at the Three Gorges dam that would completely flood the mainland, think what Korea or Japan can do without even the US helping.

The PLA is a paper tiger and this angers a great deal of PRC nationalists and sympathizers but its the truth. There's very little chance it could enter into a prolonged war with QUAD + South Korea, Taiwan.

I don't know what this sanction proof economy is about but it clearly isn't working out for Russia with Ukraine.

> US would go to war with China over Taiwan

They've repeatedly signaled and backed this up with a real aircraft carrier that sails between the straits. They aren't doing this just for show. The ball is in CCP's court, if they venture too far past their coastline they are going to face USN + JSDF.

Again, Taiwan is NOT ukraine. It's semiconductor supply is critical to national security and the economy.

US also signaled they would hit China with sanctions and I don't think it's a bluff. China needs US more than US needs it.

I doubt this. you'd need to continue having a thriving economy, not only that for an aircraft carrier group to be effective you'd need quality fighter jets that can take off with equal or more payload than the US (which does not use a ski ramp for this reason) and compete with it's 5th or 6th generation planes. In addition you would need adequate defense fleet, especially submarines quiet enough and capable of detecting threats and countermeasures.

Even the Taiwanese F-16V will be able to obtain air superiority in the present, 10 years is awfully short for it to master jet engine manufacturing.

In 10 years it would be lucky if CCP survives internal issues due to a dwindling economy and inability to service and maintain much of its core infrastructure rather than an external one.

I could definitely see Xi taking some of the islets close to its coast line but doing so would give the US justification to station its airbase permanently and start a Russian style sanction.

> I feel there are plenty of good shows on Netflix.

Not sure who else feels this but for me:

There's a lack of "regular tv shows". I knew it was over when they got rid of The Office, that was pretty much the only reason I kept Netflix.

HBO Max, Disney Plus, Prime Video, AMC (temporary) all have the shows we regularly go to. Sopranos/Frasier, Simpsons/Star Wars/National Geography, The Office/Friends, Breaking Bad/Better call Saul (just need to see how it all ends).

Heck even Prime managed to bag many of the shows that used to be on Netflix. Aliens, Tora Tora Tora and even Independence Day is on Disney Plus. Lot of movies outside Netflix.

Netflix just has these one off good shows that frankly doesn't attract across the demographic. Sure there's something for everyone but its lacking those "must have and easy to access binge reruns".

I really don't understand this part of America

damn thought it was a joke, it was not!!!

I don't know what to say I'm speechless as a non-American looking in.

genuinely curious if "master bedroom" or "slave drive" gets the same treatment.

damn this thread single handedly destroyed all three of my dreams: owning a early 00 private jet, a 90s seaplane and 80s yacht. ALL of which were very much the focus of my day dreams!

Reminds me of this viral video of different US media outlets saying the exact same thing. It made me think whether the claim that US intelligence agencies placing an insider was true or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo

The question is then what phone exists that is immune from this? A flip phone? A Nokia 1011? I might be completely misinformed but seems like SIM card and the underlying OS is vector. What happens if I use a cell phone from late 90s and early 2000s? What is there to hack with those flip phones? JavaME over the wire? What if the cell phone dates even further?

Legitimately curious what options is there. Could If you are someone of interest then it seems like having a smartphone is an automatic liability. What then solution is possible since sending and reading a simple text message is enough to escalate privilege?

oh wow that thing is made in the 1966!!!! that's absolutely insane

I guess the overhaul is roughly the same regardless of the year? There's a 1981 learjet that is roughly 600k and I see another one from 1994 at 700k. I guess you would just discount this as the airframe price?

so cool that somebody out there has done this.

I see many learjets on sale, do you think its safe to purchase a jet made in the late 90s, early 00s? seems to be selling at huge discounts.

Still fond memories of landing in O'hare airport at dusk with the dim orange light illuminating the dashboard with looping jet sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIhey40rjks&t=1787s

Thing is, it's not just having an approacheable/hireable language, its about the availability of tutorials, learning materials, community, and existing code. That takes a lot of time and its Unity's moat that Epic can't really replicate by creating yet another Unrealscript

You absolutely cannot use UE without ending up with C++, blueprint only shines with animation rigging, material, vfx where you need a lot of quick feedback loop by exploring possibilities.

If you are an indie developer and have never worked with C++ before, don't even think about UE5, if you plan on ever finishing your game. Stick with Unity.

Unreal makes money from royalties. Think about the odds of indie game developers generating more than $1MM vs an established studio who has shipped games/films before.

You've been warned.

It's an outright lie that disseminates. I bet you parent has never set foot in Samsung or has even interviewed for them. I bet you that they haven't even read past the headline seeing they are unable to actually cite the actual content or work experience at Samsung. How does someone on HN know more about Samsung from an article than somebody who has worked there?

> no impression that my articles can move fucking Samsung's stock

> I do know that my reports have moved smaller companies stocks by 20% in a single day

seems like a weird contradiction. you really think a disclaimer can protect you here? Like many of us pointed out, you've made quite a bold, unsubstantiated claims with poorly cited evidence. You've admitted that your writing in the past have moved the targeted company's stock.

> If I thought I could move the stock, I'd make the position in the morning alongside my clients

I'm sure you could but writing a piece like this, without substantial evidence, I think could influence investors opinions and you've admitted that your writings in the past have moved stocks negatively.

> There's plenty of evidence though. Be an industry insider and you'd recognize it all.

so where are the evidence that support your claims?

It might be construed as defamation in Samsung's view, as they've repeatedly shown to be quite intolerant and litigious in the past, I have to warn that the author is treading on the deep end here.

A big part of Samsung's success is because of their insanely powerful and effective legal department. There's just no way their attorneys aren't reading semianalysis.

the sources the article cited are at best unverifiable, even quoting rumor mill directly to support their claims so it does feel quite strange and we can see why from the author's disclaimer:

"Clients and employees of SemiAnalysis may hold positions in companies referenced in this article."

So somebody seeks to benefit financially from selling the perception that Samsung is in trouble but feels an online disclaimer can shield them litigious Samsung lawyers.

This won't end well.

My suspicion also, they outright quoted a rumor mill forum post here: https://meeco.kr/mini/34835643

Someone reading that article might have walked away with the impression that Samsung's collapse is imminent, which seems to be the narrative often touted on the internet circles by people with some type of stake in TSMC or its allied subsidiaries.

"Clients and employees of SemiAnalysis may hold positions in companies referenced in this article."

I mean from the authors disclaimer here we can see why the article reads like some Zerohedge article. I hope the author can afford expensive lawyers because there's just no way Samsung is going to let the author off the hook, they've gone after journalists for way less.

True!

holy cow!!! thanks for this now i can point clients to this when they insist on Terraform.

Basically before CDK, this type of offering made sense but the truth is that AWS correctly identified this need to quickly scaffold infrastructures AND edit it without requiring YAML, Cloudformation or other declarative syntax like Terraform.

CDK is literally writing Python code. You can organize your files and write out logic in all the ways you could possibly. CDK offers tremendous value in this regard but the downside being you won't be able to generate the same layout on Azure or Google but that's a given.

On one end of the spectrum you could have a hybrid of Azure/Google cloud products but with AWS as your main base, vice versa. However, usually in my personal experience, you rarely end up deploying a complete stack on both clouds. It's like take that product from Google or Azure and make it work with AWS, in such scenario you could simply do most of the stuff in CDK and then wire up separate products (but to each their own).

The only use case where I think might require Terraform to a large degree is if you make heavy use of VPC'd, full stack across multiple clouds (ex. agency or consulting firm) but for majority of cases I don't really leave AWS and neither is there an expectation to from clients and employers (they rather just stick to AWS for everything if possible)

tldr: Terraform and tools like what OP is offering, were used to scaffold infra on AWS but CDK came along and really made it unecessary—just learn Python or a backend developer to scaffold infra on AWS in Python.