The drug war is only one of many reasons that I am apolitical. I don't accept that I have a legitimate choice -- to me, voting would be tacit acceptance of the legitimacy of our political process.
HPPD is definitely real, but I would describe that as a more or less constant experience of after-effects for weeks/months/etc.
I took enough LSD and other substances to experience HPPD that steadily faded over the course of about 3 months. Once it was over though, I never randomly experienced a small trip or anything.
From what I've read that idea comes from a myth that psychedelics build up in parts of the body (e.g. the spine) and can spontaneously be released. So, I wouldn't worry about it (and for what it's worth -- I'll get downvoted to hell for this -- but in the past I drove hundreds of times on psychedelics, without incident)
After having done seriously heaping amounts of psychedelics, I am still not sure If I can recommend them.
I don't even really know how psychedelics affected me, but I suspect they caused me to become more empathetic. I consider that to be an extremely positive aspect of their use.
Despite what many will tell you, tryptamines / phenylethylamines can be addictive for a certain personality type though.
Wasn't this the whole situation with Dual_EC_DRBG? As far as I understand (which may not be that far when it comes to cryptography, admittedly), the NSA has already been caught intentionally weakening cryptographic standards via its influence over the NIST and by paying RSA.
RSA makes Dual_EC_DRBG the default CSPRNG in BSAFE. In 2013, Reuters reports this is a result of a secret $10 million deal with NSA.
According to the New York Times story, the NSA spends $250 million per year to insert backdoors in software and hardware as part of the Bullrun program.
Stop calling it "free internet". That's absolutely not what Facebook is offering.
> Do you think donating some money to farmers is going to help in any way? The government has been doing that for a long time (through subsidies and minimum purchase prices)
You're talking about two different things. Subsidies are different than unconditional cash transfers, the latter of which there has been recent promising research on:
> What about technology, scientific progress, our guided evolution as a species and so on?
A means to an end, that end being to enhance and prolong my relationships with those I love. Sensory pleasures are fine too, but nothing is remotely as important to me as my favorite walking sacks of meat.
> People who have turned academia into a filthy whore that is constantly being pimped out to the highest bidder.
Can you choose a better, less vulgar metaphor? It makes you look really bad, and there's nothing wrong with being a sex worker.
Absolutely. I have been living in Cambodia for quite a while now, and despite overall adoption still being just above India's, connectivity is exploding here too.
"Internet use in Cambodia grew a staggering 414 per cent since January 2014"
It's exciting to see. Most people in Phnom Penh have a smart phone, and I meet more and more full-fledged computer nerds and Cambodian programmers all the time. I have no doubt that Cambodia will be fully connected within 5 or max 10 years, without the "help" of Facebook.