So, a meta study. While important, it assumes that the underlying studies are based on solid science.

So, why do people use cannabis then?

Why do people use cigarettes? Cocaine? LSD?

Not because they're effective treatments for mental disorders

There some evidence that nicotine may be inadvertantly used as a self-medication for schizophrenia and/or adhd

Cocaine is a party drug afaik, I'll give you that one.

Hallucinogens have the ability change people's perspectives on the world, often for the positive. Now the current psychiatry lens is you can only have "medicine" if you have a "disorder" but that doesn't really seem to make sense. Why can't you take medicine to move something from average to above-average? So I agree it's not prescribed for treating many disorders, but that doesn't mean it isn't therapeutic.

Evidence?

> So, why do people use cannabis then?

Because it’s marketed as cool and edgy.

I worked at Redwood Shores. On a walk across the 101, I discovered where the cleaning staff and food workers lived. In cars, under the bridge or parked in a quiet corner of the street next to industrial or commercial property.

So, it's a overpriced plastic strap.

Can get 10 m polypropylene strap or ratchet straps for $10 that does the same job and holds more.

Alternately, just loop many zip ties together when you need more length.

Doh.

This is one of those lessons games like factorio teach you.

For example, at some point you should replace super fast conveyor belts with trains (because of distance) or robots (because of density).

Every paradigm gets stretched too far and you have to change your thinking.

It depends on what you’re doing. If you want to do an artsy hogtie real fast, those other options are kinda meh.

I don’t know. It feels like a really large zip tie would be hard to easily tighten, as in it would need a lot of force that you wouldn’t be able to easily put on it. Ratchet straps are the gold standard for this situation.

Applying too much force cuts off circulation and can lead to severe bad outcomes for the hogtieee.

Best is ‘firm and unyielding’ not ‘I can’t feel my hands anymore’. Easy enough to do in a few seconds with a big zip tie.

If the feds want to take someone down, one of the dirty tricks is to use CSAM as a pretext for an investigation and subpoenas.

Is this legal? I see what you are saying from a practical standpoint, but in terms of procedure, there are federal agents who are empowered to spread such material for these purposes? It seems crazy.

Also, elevation is useless and compression is potentially harmful as restricting blood circulation and compressing tissue limits healing.

The major factor in winning the Pacific battles was code breaking the Japanese communications. Doctrine doesn't matter when you know what the enemy is doing or planning.

That is crazy reductive to the point of ignorance. Doctrine does matter. You might know what your enemy is doing but if you fight wrong, even with foreknowledge, you will not win.

For one important example, the battle of Midway was a close thing even with the intelligence they had. Execution matters.

The problem with code breaking is that you can't benefit from it too much because your enemy will realise you're reading their messages and change their practices.

For this reason the allies had to let convoys be hit sometimes, because they couldn't always be too suspiciously at the right place at the right time. Luckily the German confidence in Enigma was so high that their top leaders ignored reports of enigma being broken, they thought it literally impossible.

I'm not sure how this played out in the Japanese war. But the point remains. You can't use signals intelligence too much unless it's literally ending the war in a couple of days.

Onboard radar (cavity magnetron, later adapted to the microwave oven) was another pivotal technology in the battle of the Atlantic.

This is most likely correct. They didn't realize that consumers always prefetch, and the minimum is 1. Answered here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39699727/what-is-the-dif...

Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College in the UK admit students and provide benefits, scholarships and bursaries to people that are considered world class rowing talent, quietly and unofficially.

Many European countries have special programs for sports talents to develop and receive economic benefits whilst serving military service and/or seeking higher education. Most people don't know anything about these programs as they are not advertised or generally published.

To be blunt as someone who attended Oxford and was friend with someone who ended up coxing the Blue boat, nobody gives an actual shit about rowing there. It’s just a funny tradition. Colleges boat clubs are nice because the sport is great, the two bump races are fun and the mixers are rowdy. The Boat race is seen as a funny tradition and an excuse to compete with Cambridge. It is in no way as serious as academic leagues in the USA.

^ this is not true (source: attended)

Your experience may vary from college to college but definitely true as far as I’m concerned.

Having competed in The Boat Race, this is unequivocally false at Oxford and Cambridge.

I know nothing about crew, who wins, etc. but:

it may be the case that the wealth and elitism of "growing up rowing", like "growing up sailing, horseback riding, and playing polo and squash" is sufficient to to keep out the riffraff and the highly athletic boats crewed with also academically gifted rowers; but humans both group identify and are athletically highly competitive, even as spectators, and there's no way you can have world class talent in a sport without either combing the hustings for talent, or keeping "those people" out altogether. Oxford and Cambridge are not magically different than every other place in the world, they are magically the same. If they are good at it, then there's an explanation for it, and it's not "being good at fluid dynamics turns out to make you a great rower".

For example, the Ivy League in American sports is not the elite level of sports in any sport that matters economically, but only because they're only willing to bend the academic rules so far and they restrict competition to other like minded opponents (but they do bend the rules because they care enough to do so).

So either: Oxford and Cambridge aren't world class at rowing; nobody rows outside Oxford Cambridge and some other similarly elitist schools; or they're bending some rules to obtain elite talent.

Rowing is certainly an elite sport dominated by the socioeconomically well-off. I was simply making the point to the GP that unlike US institutions where rowers (and other athletes) are specifically recruited for their athletic talent, athletic prowess plays literally no role in the admissions process at Oxford and Cambridge. Rowers are not admitted "quietly and unofficially."

> nobody rows outside Oxford Cambridge and some other similarly elitist schools

For the UK it is this.

Also because they aren't nearly as common. Just because this exists in some form outside of the US doesnt mean that it happens at the same scale.

Don’t they have some kind of arrangements for choral singers?

I've been naive like that a few times. I managed to get away unharmed most times but once I was publicly blamed for the project's failure by the incompetent managers, in a governmental organisation. I overestimated people's honesty in the face of their own career death. I considered blowing the whistle or taking them to court for slander but I had strong doubts I could clear my name as power corrupts.

The watch needs updated GPS ephemeris data to accurately calculate the position, received by an aGPS (Assisted GPS) server (over IP) or by satellite. This takes at least 30 seconds by satellite.

Solution: Tether with IPhone before leaving until fix is achieved, otherwise keep watch outside or near a window for 10-15 minutes before running so that it can update its almanac from overhead satellites and get a fix.

There is no software solution. Buy a newer watch with cellular connectivity and aGPS-support.

Do you have an explanation for this being a new issue?

OP could have changed exercise habits, leading to more frequently outdated GPS almanac data.

Otherwise, newer OS versions could have degraded the fix algorithm for older Watch-models.

If newer hardware comes with cellular connectivity, newer OS version could assume that by default and not prioritise (or test) backward compatibility with older Watch-models.

Why it would need such common updates tho ?

And why it couldn't load that data for say month ahead ?