Sometimes they can't provide a reason, if it was taken down because of the PATRIOT act. But it's BofA, so instead of giving them the benefit of the doubt I'll assume they're just being evil.
The Internet is apparently in its "infantile" brain stage. Would we notice when the Internet's "memory" (the Web) becomes a cantankerously irreverent mentally unstable adolescent?
Why would you not expect programmers with strong political leanings? What kind of world do you live in where top researchers all share moderate views and modes of expressing those views?
It makes it possible to work on stuff you don't particularly enjoy by focussing on an expected long-term reward.
This statement asserts causation where only correlation, particular of neural correlates, only justifies.
That part of the brain plays a role in the process of expectation — it does not, by itself, make it possible. Language, other brain functions, social inertia, etc. makes expectation possible, and there is a critical question of the content of expectation.
Cannabis obviously increases appetite and drives a greater motivation for munchies. Therefore, the reduction of dopeminergic brain-activity alone does not isolate cannabis as the defeater of all motivation but rather of certain kinds of motivation dependent on pleasure-data. Obviously what if I derive pleasure from making logical deductions or from reading? What of children who are synesthes, and who mix up stimulae as a neurotypicality modality that is atypical?
That is true. Once a rather famous illustrator told me that he couldn't have done a certain ad showing a lion because … "Drawing hairs for hours and hours was just too boring, so I smoked".
In my experience cannabis especially lowers the motivation for physical activity, but also the "motivation" to process and work on bad emotions.
"We find that the academic performance of students who are no longer legally permitted to buy cannabis increases substantially."
Pfft.
For my own case, when I smoke cannabis, my brain becomes hyperactive. I want to resolve all of my codesmell at once. I want to finish all of my code at once. My writing becomes "electric". My writing becomes transcendental and on fire — why do I become electric, yet all of these students become unmotivated globs? Tell me why this is the case before you moralize and vilify such a beautiful plant!
So maybe it's me. Or maybe the lot of you just don't know how to smoke and ritualize the practice. Maybe you all have a flawed philosophy to begin with, or worse, you don't have a philosophy about what you're smoking — to begin with.
As Kafka notes:
The unfitness of the object may cause one to overlook the unfitness of the means.
— Franz Kafka
I think it has to do with the maturity of the smoker. Since you probably have an established career or passion, weed tends to amplify that. Whereas with students, they are still maturing and figuring their lives out and since marijuana
amplifies that they become even more lazy? Just my 2 cents
No. It's for the fact that in order to climb the corporate ladder, one must sacrifice "empathy-potential" because one becomes conditioned to hypercompetitive behavior. Think of this as "learned winning"; it's cheaper to win because one is in "win-mode" than to actually always win through exhaustion of relevant skill (so, too, winning by "luck" or succeeding through luck, is better than succeeding through hard work — so being conditioned to a hypercompetitive attitude is like being on "luck mode" because others who are not in that attitudinal predisposition will essentially fail to maximize their relevant skills whereas someone in "win-mode" will already be in a conditioned skill-optimal (total maximalization) state.). The asymmetry here is that if you stress yourself out well before your menopausal stage, now you've risked it all only to sacrifice yourself — and you lose out on having a healthy body to support childbirth physiologically and psychologically.
Men do not have the opportunity to give birth, so they can weigh in more heavily on self-sacrifice without the contingency that their body could be used as a medium for life-production.
Basically, men are more like prototypal inheritance whereas women are more like classical inheritance, or at least we like to think that men are more "existential" while women are conservative in their "recreate the self".
Most men advance in careers that are inherently lethal; so naturally women are going to be less driven to advance themselves in careers that compromise their total contract not only as financial agents but as well as genetic agents.
Not sure I follow. If I die in war at 18 as a male, I can't pass on my genes either.
In addition, there's nothing stopping a successful female from having a child and handing it over to a team of nannies immediately upon birth like successful men do.
> Not sure I follow. If I die in war at 18 as a male, I can't pass on my genes either.
Men, specially young men, are genetically programmed to not think about that. A typical 18 year old that goes to war does not think he's going to die. He thinks he's going to come back as a war hero and enjoy the... shall we say "admiration" of all his dead comrades' girlfriends.
> In addition, there's nothing stopping a successful female from having a child and handing it over to a team of nannies immediately upon birth like successful men do.
Successful men can sire offspring in 15 minutes (or less, but there's already a pill for that) and delegate. Successful women have to fight their body for at least six months in order to hold on to their position during pregnancy. Then comes the postpartum depression and a whole other array of nasties.
It absolutely makes no difference what race the poor people are.
Yes, in theory; but if you had read the article, you would clearly see that this article is talking about actual corrupt practices that have taken place within the actual evolutionary history of this simulation.
When did it become cool to assume that the logical possibility of discrimination is on the same order of effects to our free markets as actual discrimination? How did you people get past high school?
I'm often hired exactly because I do not "fit" within the culture, but because I am apparently African American, it becomes important to trial a litmus test.
I think "culture fit" is generally opportunity for both sides to determine if their brands of humor are compatible.
If you cannot laugh with your coworkers, why work there?
A large part of the "human-centric" modality of web design, for instance, involves writing less code and solving human needs. If you do not have hobbies, etc., why participate in what is inherently a social activity? You are writing code for humans, and humans are likely those wherein you will craft and discover solutions.
