greenshackle

It's hard to understand because the way you write is like jumbled stream-of-consciousness, you did not lay out the facts clearly from the start.

You're not making much sense. Anyone googling the domain and following the link can plainly see there is adult content being served from there. No amount of insisting that it doesn't is gonna help you. If you own the domain, it looks like your site was hacked or your domain hijacked. That is the problem you need to deal with.

It aligns their incentives with yours. You know they really do want you to find a high paying job. Thats not something that can be said of most educational programs.

Uh. My ZFS-backed BSD NAS also has the hostname 'alexandria'.

> At least in the US

Yeah, don't do this in Canada, or the professional engineers association can come after you. Only certified members of an engineers professional association can use the title.

To be clear, it is illegal, for example, to pass around business cards that say 'Software Engineer' if you're not certified.

As an amusing example, in the province of Ontario, people with the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer certification are allowed to use the title 'MCSE', but not its expansion, because it contains the word 'Engineer'.

However, you are always allowed to state your degree, so you can say, {name}, B. Eng., or M. Eng., as the case may be.

*At least, in Quebec and Ontario - the legislation is province-scoped, I assume other provinces are similar.

> So you're telling me you alter your biochemistry to become more productive without a care for how it affects your overall (mostly mental) health?

Uh? Did you read Gwern? This is literally the opposite of what he does. He is ALL ABOUT weighing risks to overall health. Did you miss the fact that half of his articles detail the potential bad effects of the drugs he's trying?

>Hell, I started smoking cigarettes at 16, which I rank near the top of my worst decisions ever, despite the fact that it helped me hack my brain chemistry

He has an article on non-tobacco nicotine (nicotine gum, patches). His conclusions are, IIRC, 'kinda useful, but has some risks'. He doesn't have a page on cigarettes. You know why? Because cigarettes are THE WORSE. Everyone knows this. It's silly to write off all performance enhancing drugs on the grounds that you once made the bad decision to use possibly the very worse one, from a risk/benefit perspective."

I grant you that brain chemistry hacking may be one step towards em-world, which is as Moloch as it gets, but if you're working on important problems it the edge may be worth it.

Strange. I know now no one who thinks drinking coffee is batshit crazy. We must hang out/work with very different people...

Last I checked, caffeine in moderate doses has a mixed bag of positive and negative effects that's not clearly net negative.

There's controversy around whether moderate alcohol consumption (think 1 drink/day) has a positive effect. (Some studies say it does, but it's argued it's a statistical anomaly because people who don't drink at all are weird, e.g. former alcoholics, people with medical conditions that forbids them any alcohol, etc.)

I get utterly bored with new sports within 3-6 months. This has happened with every sport I have tried, no matter how much I loved it at the beginning.

Some people enjoy repetition. Some... really don't.

For me the challenge is to keep finding new interesting sports.

Eh, kind of, Canada is 20% native French; there are more French Canadians than Finnish people.

Actually, if you look at Finland and Sweden as a whole, with Sweden having twice as many people, it's more like Finnish is French, and Swedish English.

In this analogy, the Swedish speaking finns are more like anglos living in Quebec.

Not necessarily. I'm a programmer and I have neither a life nor a family.

It's possible you two just hang out in social groups with different norms.

Anecdote, i.e. me dating a girl with 3 boyfriends in the Bay Area.

Well, dating five people if you're (mostly hetero) female; dating one or two people, who are each dating five people, if you're (mostly hetero) male.

Edit: Arguably, this is a better outcome than monogamy in a highly gender-skewed community (e.g. 1 in 2 het men dateless).