Man these comments sound like they’re from parents in the 1960’s. What year is it?
“While our study did not differentiate between methods of cannabis consumption, cannabis is most commonly consumed by smoking,” Kokot said in an email. “The association we found likely pertains mainly to smoked cannabis.”
That was kind of a “no shit, Sherlock” moment for me.
Why even conduct this study if there is no control for smoke vs edibles? This makes the entire study, effectively, useless.
I promise I’m not a weed apologist, by any means, just a casual user when I catch up with old friends.
I actually want to know the answer to this question.
I veerrrrry rarely smoke. I’ve always hated it. I’ve smoked it maybe 10-15 times in my entire life, but I’ve eaten plenty of weed gummies. Them shits is delicious too.
All it takes is one each for me and my friends, and we have a hell of a time talking shop about our various professions. Yet a couple of these comments still repeat the same tired argument that only stupid lazy people use it. Not saying you’re a racist, but you’re using the arguments racists used to lock up and murder tons of minorities, soooooo maybe you’re just sadly propagandized. It happens. Do better though, now that you know.
The people in the room, by the way: audio engineer, software engineer, head of logistics, car-t cell therapy something something, I forget.
Hell Feinman smoked weed.
People really need to get better about getting over their stubborn need to believe the propaganda they fell for.
Everyone falls for propaganda at some point. Figure out a process for yourself to undo the damage, once you realize you’ve been had. I really don’t understand why some folks just need to hold onto a hyper specific position that contradicts all evidence to the contrary.
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and then this:
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I have been giving out licenses to the firmware to anybody who asks in the unofficial badge hacking discord. :) also my signature on the badge acts as a nontransferable license to the firmware in source and binary. i signed maybe a thousand today at my unofficial talk outside after i was dragged out.
I don't think it's even obvious/common knowledge in public discourse, to be honest. (Case in point: this Guardian article doesn't mention it at all, only mentioning the cost of materials and manufacturing.)
To some extent it may not even matter, since the effects of (negative) public opinion are tangible regardless of whether those opinions are fully informed of all the facts. (And even as someone who's aware of a slightly above-average number of facts, my own opinion skews pretty negative.) God knows these companies aren't in the red, trials or no trials; most consumers are just gonna look at the record profits, then back at their pharmacy bill, and go "Hey, wait a minute..."
Maybe. But I sympathize with people who recoil at the idea of "Extremely cheap life saving medication sold at unaffordable price".
Must it be sold to the world at a price that is only reasonable for the richest countries to pay?
Is there no possible regulatory system that could avoid 20 years of HIV spread and death in poor countries, while still getting the rich countries to pay their fair share?
Oh hey! (This might be the first time I've been paged on HN)
I'm extremely excited by real, non-hype reasons to use LLMs, and I've also been frustrated that OCR isn't 100% accurate... I currently use Tesseract OCR in the context of UI automation of mobile apps. UI automation is already notorious for flakiness, I don't need to add to the problem... BUT... sometimes you only have access to the visible screen and literally nothing else... or you're in regulated environment like payments, automative, or medical device testing where you're required to test the user interface exactly the way a user would, and you still want to automate that -- in those cases, all options are on the table, especially if an LLM-backed-OCR approach works better.
But with all that said, my "acid test" for any multimodal LLM here is to "simply" find the X,Y coordinates of "1", "2", "+", and "=" on the screenshot of a calculator app. So far in my testing, with no or minimal extra prompt engineering... Chat-GPT4o and Llava 1.5 fail this test miserably. But based on the pace of AI announcements these days, I look forward to this being a solved problem in a few months? Or... is the LLM-Aided OCR Project the magic I've been looking for?
> but it was accepted in many other places like farmer's markets and independent restaurants
Where were you in Canada? I definitely didn’t have the same experience (in the GTA). Lots of Canadian Tire money circulation and regular trips there in my house, but it was not a thing beyond Canadian Tire.
One part of me wants you to DMCA the living daylight out of them. The other part is currently seeding torrents and thinks copyright is kinda dumb. Anyway, shitty thing to do by the defcon people.
I can’t get the link to load, but here’s Pichai’s take:
> Unbelievably saddened by the loss of my dear friend @SusanWojcicki after two years of living with cancer. She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and it’s hard to imagine the world without her. She was an incredible person, leader and friend who had a tremendous impact on the world and I’m one of countless Googlers who is better for knowing her. We will miss her dearly. Our thoughts with her family. RIP Susan.
Given Susan's impact on both Google as a whole and more specifically YouTube it's no understatement to say that she changed the world profoundly.
I don't think that YouTube, in its current form, or the creator economy that it produced, would exist in anywhere near the same shape had Google not acquired and then spent years funding the company at a financial loss.
Yep, ambiguous addressing doesn't save you, same as 10.x IPv4 networks. And one day you'll need to connect or merge or otherwise coexist with disparate uses if it's a common one (like in .internal and 10.x)...
I don't care about comparing cannabis to alcohol. Yes the world would be a better place if all alcohol users switched to cannabis, but that's not my area of interest.
I don't care about cannabis either. I'm neither a user nor an advocate.
I do care a lot about the right of competent adults to make their own choices about private matters. And when I was a teenager and discovered the immense systemic dishonesty around several big bad drugs and the war thereon, I learned a lot about systems and means of control. This is my only interest in the matter here, but consequently I find myself defending drugs and drug users, sometimes.
Your points are reasonable. But they miss the fact that anything pleasurable can be psychologically addictive. Cannabis is not special. It should not be treated specially.
That said, cannabis is treated specially, because of its legacy of dishonest representation by bad or ignorant people. So I take your point that it's important to acknowledge the "risk" of cannabis being the indulgence of choice for a segment of the population who find pleasure in it, to excess and to the detriment of other parts of their lives.
See also: video games, sex, television, internet, partying, procrastination, etc. If we can treat cannabis as one of many possible diversions from a person's real priorities in life, I'm 100% in support. If we demonize it and pretend that it's different in some way, we are giving it magic powers that can never be properly treated, nor treated properly.
