while the special treatment of alcohol is due to cultural,historical and commercial reasons, from a toxicology point of view it makes sense to treat them all separately. But I agree with your sentiment.
> From reading that the only one pattern that rises is low anxiety. People just execute and deliver without delay from fear.
Some are definitely high-anxiety situations: the large-scale ambitious ones in the list were done during a war (or cold war). Many of the others are high-pressure scenarios where I am sure the construction workers had anything but low anxiety. They are typical of an economy which is growing very fast where bad working conditions and accidents are tolerated. It is not unlike condititions in current fast developing countries some with immigrant workers (Quatar) or in China.
- Kujtim Hoxha creates a project named TermAI using open-source libraries from the company Charm.
- Two other developers, Dax (a well-known internet personality and developer) and Adam (a developer and co-founder of Chef, known for his work on open-source and developer tools), join the project.
- They rebrand it to OpenCode, with Dax buying the domain and both heavily promoting it and improving the UI/UX.
- The project rapidly gains popularity and GitHub stars, largely due to Dax and Adam's influence and contributions.
- Charm, the company behind the original libraries, offers Kujtim a full-time role to continue working on the project, effectively acqui-hiring him.
- Kujtim accepts the offer. As the original owner of the GitHub repository, he moves the project and its stars to Charm's organization. Dax and Adam object, not wanting the community project to be owned by a VC-backed company.
- Allegations surface that Charm rewrote git history to remove Dax's commits, banned Adam from the repo, and deleted comments that were critical of the move.
- Dax and Adam, who own the opencode.ai domain and claim ownership of the brand they created, fork the original repo and launch their own version under the OpenCode name.
- For a time, two competing projects named OpenCode exist, causing significant community confusion.
- Following the public backlash, Charm eventually renames its version to Crush, ceding the OpenCode name to the project now maintained by Dax and Adam.
> Empirically speaking, electing communist governments almost always leads to reduced living standards.
Almost always leads to a CIA-backed coup or civil war which indirectly indeed reduces living standards. In the other scenarios it often resulted in generally improved living standards via industrialization, increase of literacy and social programs. In yet others gross mismanagement and large scale famines, or fluctuating results depending on the time scale. There is no commonly accepted uniform outcome, and "almost always worse living standards" is clearly not one.
One case this may not work well is when one of the dependencies is Pytorch. Uv has explicit support for Pytorch ( https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/pytorch/ ) but with the script headers I don't see a way to pick the most appropriate wheel index (cpu vs cuda vs rocm)
> My theory is that if you're extremely pessimistic about technology or politics, you probably won't like anything that happens when large groups of humans make collective decisions.
The main issue is that in tech and politics it is a small group of humans making collective decisions for all.
LLMs should not replace most specialized solutions but they still can help do a large part of the tasks those specialized solutions are used for today.
Sad to see AGI being implicitly equated with the most powerful weapon that will help the owners rule over resources instead of a scientific breakthrough that will help solve humanity's biggest problems.
The author does not seem to go into details, so I am curious what actually surprising conclusions can be drawn from wearing one of these devices?
Croissants and muffins being unhealthy should be no surprise. I am more interested in findings like food that gets a bad rap being not that unhealthy and supposedly healthy food being bad.
Pizza is much more nutritionally complete than you'd think, especially if it has meat(or beans, for some reason), the only real problem is people eat SO MUCH at a time.
People also refuse to understand that juice is basically sugar water with some extra flavor, vitamins, and antioxidants that don't change how unhealthy it is for you.
White rice is basically pure carbs with barely any nutrients.
Fastfood is heavily processed but often contains enough vegetables, meat, etc to not be that bad all things told.
> White rice is basically pure carbs with barely any nutrients.
You should fact check your intuitions about nutrition on cronometer.com.
2 cups of cooked white rice have 17% of the days nutrients for 20% (400) of the calories (2000cal/day). 47% of the day's iron, 33% of the day's folate. 20-30% of almost every B-vitamin. 25% copper, 65% manganese, 43% selenium, 14% of the day's zinc.
Also look at 500g of boiled potato. Someone in this thread called it pure carbs. Ok, pure carbs that give you 27% of the day's nutrients for just 18% of the day's calories? That's a great deal.
Other than folate and B12, the B vitamins are the most common nutrients, they're not really a point in rice's favor. And other than manganese, the other figures you quote are MUCH higher than the sources I'm looking at. Are you sure you're not looking at enriched rice, or an unusually nutrient-rich strain? Because rice absolutely is the least nutritive staple crop of the ones commonly consumed in the first world.
One of the more interesting findings is the impact of combining different food intakes at the same time. It can have a significant effect in lowering spikes.
