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While this is a neat surface level study, there's a few issues I see with it.

>No separation of Full Intellectual Assessment or another re-test, simply self reporting the averaged figure. We lack resolution in results.(ex: were people with high verbal IQ more prone to schizophrenia?)

>Subjects were those concerned with their own mental status. All respondents were MENSA members. While I could test into MENSA, I simply don't care. I have a friend who is in MENSA, they are quite proud of this over dinner conversation, but they are also quite neurotic. This observation is anecdotal, but I'd think you're going to get more people who live a lot of time "in their heads" in MENSA. I would love to have another control group to compare results over.

>They understand that self reporting is ripe for error. An online survey is difficult to accurately administer, people will misrepresent things about them, especially if they think it is a reflection of their own personal value.

It's neat, but I don't think it's reliable enough to make any declarative statements about a linear progression of IQ and health disorders.

This is an excellent move, as it'll be removed as part of a UK wide FTA post Brexit. Puts the US in the position of "giving something up".

You hear that? That's the sound of my home rising in value as supply to compete against it is reduced. Very cool CA!

I think it's a lot safer than smoking, there's probably a lot safer methods, but vapings efficacy vs other quit methods is just too good to discard for even slight health risks vs smoking. Only Juul/Pax has a hidden Big Tobacco interest, the rest are either overt or companies that are dedicated to vapor only. Almost all the innovation came from outside Big Tobacco, but all that is coming to an end with FDA'S regulations of Vaping. No new products so I left, since I exclusively designed hardware.

Most vapor products can be used with eliquid that has varied levels of nicotine and most shops were (2012-2017) very active in promoting customers to reduce their nicotine level to 0, so addiction to the devices can be self regulated if that is your goal.

I had a startup in Vaping(nicotine) and am still fairly in touch with the industry. There has been no major innovation in nicotine eliquid that would cause a sudden cluster of issues. It's stayed pretty constant since 2013 with the exception of Salt Nicotine, which Pax labs has a gras study published for.

The majority of cases seems to be THC carts where it can be confirmed. One case was confirmed from a dispensary in Oregon. The "Dank Vapes" carts are sold on eBay/AliExpress and anyone can fill them with anything. Reading on here the VitE may have been to increase potency is not something I'm familiar with since I'm not in the TCH trade, but I do know that synthetic vitamin E is made from a petroleum product precursor, and a food grade level of purification may not mean a quality to which it should be vaporised and inhaled.

CDC's reaction is over the top, especially next to the FDA which is offering more precise warnings of avoiding THC carts. Be safe if you're using these thc products, especially since even larger suppliers have trouble tracking supply, bank accounts and company formation that typically cleans up quite a bit of the bad actors from an industry. Nicotine vapes have matured significantly because of this moving to clean labs and central production of the liquid.

I've thought about this a lot. If we're going after the most affected, it's going to be inner city youths. They have a lesser chance of making it through a 4 year, because their support structure isn't there because of historical injustices. K-12's can change their curriculum to focus more on tech for a specific type of application, instead of just "build an app, write node, learn python" generics. Especially if they can turn out talented students before HS graduation. >Microcontrollers >Auto Engine Management Systems >Civil Infrastructure >Utility Infrastructure I know these are by and large not the 'sexy' pie in the sky stuff most 'hot' investors chase, but these are upper-middle class jobs that there is less competition in, and are actually vitally important, meaning they will be around longer than SNAP inc. I think with intensive focus, the people who are placed in these programs, their kids will be completing CS 4 years and competing for 'creative applications in the valley', but the foundations need to be built up first.

Free Open Source Software.

Am I getting trolled?

"Not Seeking Employment Education or Training"

Economics term, growing subset of mostly disconnected young men across NA / EU.

Came here for the comments.

Just wanted to make sure that FOSS hadn't made everyone open borders evangelicals.

Many demographics have huge unemployment problems, mostly NEETs, because the jobs they used to do are replaced by absolute lowest wage immigrants. This problem has been long brewing in the US, and I just don't understand how making it worse (more immigration) is going to solve it. At the same time I know I'm a massive beneficiary with overseas production of my products and cheap food at home.

Also, why is HN posting pure political articles so much now? I understand technology intersects with politics, but at this point anyone strongly advocating for saving the H#B programs are probably H1B beneficiary companies which are only the Big tech companies, so a story like this feels like it's rolled out to the tech community to soften you up to the plight of the H2B community.

If that's the case, this is nothing more than a propaganda feed.

I wonder what takes more CO2 output. Mining stone, or growing trees and processing them in paper farms?

Smrt.

That, is totally great. It doesn't get me excited as a market investor. Twitter has been living off their hype and not their balance sheet, and eventually it degrades and erodes a business until it practically isn't one. My experience is of course entirely anecdotal since I'm so heavily involved in hardware startups now. As an ancillary to bolster hype, I agree, it's great.