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The word commonly used for this sort of thing is "ineffable" - that which cannot be put into words.

If you want to see a less "these are magical" and more "here's some science" perspective, you might like "How to Change Your Mind" by Michael Pollan. Always very down to earth, gets into some mechanics of effects, well written and engaging.

More and more research is showing that poverty has a severe impact on the brain, and left unchecked it can become nearly unbreakable.

Many of the decisions made by impoverished people are either somewhat sensible for their situation in the short-term (e.g., asking a 16 or 17 year old child to drop out and start working) or are sensible when viewed through certain forms of skewed perspectives (e.g., spending a small windfall immediately because 'that money will just be gone soon anyway'). Children of impoverished parents overwhelmingly learn these lessons, and the stress of poverty is an ever-present part of their lives, so they are often debilitated by it from the very start.

SNAP and WIC are one of the first to come to mind. The effect of poor early life nutrition can have a measurable impact throughout a person's life.

The final time I ordered from DoorDash, the driver ignored directions (which no one else had ever had issues with), didn't tell me there was something wrong with the directions I had sent him 10 minutes in until over half an hour after leaving the restaurant (my apartment is a 7 minute drive in normal traffic), and I had to call him to get him to tell me that much. He refused to listen to the directions, and when the address that I live at didn't work for him, demanded a different address. DoorDash support then demanded the same, but I told them I was not allowing an obviously irate man to come to my apartment. It took me 20 minutes to get them to assign a new driver so I could give my address.

I am never dealing with them again.

As a member of the LGBT community, there are entire states I will not move to until they fix their legislation/legislators. I also will never move back to PA because of their filial responsibility laws.

It's less a retelling and more an expression of a culmination of factors in post-war Japan. Japanese media in that era really had a lot of fear about the post-war state, especially the loss of culture, baked in.

The company I work at is considering this as part of a pretty big shift in our infrastructure. Beyond the obvious upsides, what cost do they come at?

Honestly, that was the one part of 4 that I thought was a worthwhile addition. The main story was just incredibly bland to me.

First, there is no IQ barrier. I have several friends who, based on psychologist-administered IQ tests, are very, very close to average, who do well in the industry, usually better than me. They worked hard to get where they wanted to go. Sure, you probably can't do this work if you have an IQ under 85, but the same can be said for most any knowledge or even office job. It's not like we're unique in that regard.

Second, a "genetic bottleneck"? That absolutely reeks of genetic elitism. It implies, rather heavily, that they are genetically superior to those who cannot (or just don't) do this work.

The idea that we are special because no one understands us - finance, biotech, pharmaceuticals... No one really gets those, either.

This is pretty much it. My generation has been called entitled, lazy, selfish, etc, for wanting the same things our parents were given, like a living wage, affordable college, or career stability. In what world is that friendly?

We've had the opposite experience - it's been slow, clunky, and hard to learn/teach. Of course, seeing some of the other things the former admin/advocate for it did after she left, I'm not sure it's Grafana's fault.

200k documents per second really isn't that much for Elasticsearch. The single-instance setup we have in my small company (around 25 people total) has been sent in excess of 40k/s at times, and even then it doesn't slow down noticeably.

I'll second this one. Most of the people in my office who watch anime have all said that SEL played a part in their path in life. It's fun to watch, it has some great artwork, and it's still surprisingly relevant. Just don't expect it to make sense for a long time.

I've never heard of such a law. Could you cite it?

The cognitive impact of wealth has been pretty well studied, and there is already a very good population being studied for this - farmers in some places are pretty well off immediately after harvest/sale, and just before the next harvest, are usually back to a baseline state, or even struggling to pay bills again. Not only do they exhibit better long-term thinking when they are flush with cash, they tend be overall more cognitively capable.