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According to Wikipedia

> Addiction is ... a persistent and intense urge to use a drug or engage in a behavior that produces an immediate psychological reward, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences

Immediate psychological reward = dopamine hits from likes and shares

Harm and other negative consequences = anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, FOMO, less connection with friends and family, etc...

Food is not as easy to make addictive because the psychological reward diminishes as you get full. The exception to this is people with an eating disorder, who use eating as a way to cope with or avoid difficult feelings.


High sugar food is addictive as you don't feel full fast enough consuming empty calories.

And yet somewhere around that 6th donut it will hit and you will stop.

In my experience many highly competitive people care mostly about the win itself, and less about the how.

But that's it. There was no win because the opportunity to even compete was taken away. Imagine you train your whole life and finally win the Olympic Gold medal, but everyone knows it's only because the true nr 1 ignored to compete in this format.

Winning a title is never about facing the greatest possible opponent. Even the people who show up aren’t at their absolute best, but consider everyone who doesn’t devote their lives to the sport. The greatest potential chess player of all time likely does something else with their lives.

Without prep Magnus would be vastly less likely to win, and he’s not doing the prep because he’s not competing. How exactly is that different than someone not devoting themselves to the sport 20 years ago?


Is it though? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You're making some pretty bold assumptions about competitive athlete psychology here.


I make no claims about what’s going on in people’s heads here just the underlying reality.

I was pissed I didn’t go to nationals in high school largely because I got no sleep the night before due to a crappy hotel stay. Losing a close game to board 1 while trying to stay awake sucked, but I was hardly the only person off my game, so that’s just how things workout.


I've used SQL for around a decade and also never came across it. I'm maintaining SQL code with hundreds if not thousands of basic primary key joins and this could make those queries way more concise. Now I want to know the reasons for not using USING!

There are reasons for not USING.

First, you need to be aware of the implicit disambiguration. When you join with USING, you are introducing a hidden column that represents both sides. This is typically what you want - but it can bite you.

Consider this PostgreSQL example:

  CREATE TABLE foo (x INT);
  INSERT INTO foo VALUeS (1);

  CREATE TABLE bar (x FLOAT);
  INSERT INTO bar VALUES (1);

  SELECT pg_typeof(x) FROM foo JOIN bar USING (x);

The type of x is is double, - because x was implicitly upcast as we can see with EXPLAIN:

  Merge Join  (cost=338.29..931.54 rows=28815 width=4)
    Merge Cond: (bar.x = ((foo.x)::double precision))

Arguably, you should never be joining on keys of different types. It just bad design. But you don't always get that choice if someone else made the data model for you.

It also means that this actually works:

  CREATE TABLE foo (x INT);
  INSERT INTO foo VALUeS (1);

  CREATE TABLE bar (x INT);
  INSERT INTO bar VALUES (1);

  CREATE TABLE baz (x INT);
  INSERT INTO baz VALUES (1);

  SELECT \*
  FROM foo
  JOIN bar USING (x)
  JOIN baz USING (x);

Which might not be what you expected :-)

If you are both the data modeller and the query writer - I have not been able to come up with a reason for not USING.


Thanks for the reply. The use case I have in mind is joining onto an INT primary key using a foreign key column of another table. This alone would remove a massive amount of boilerplate code.

No one claimed it totally prevented infection or transmission. But it did significantly lower the rate.

They say explicitly what model they're using.

Whenever someone complains about being treated "worse than dogs" I have to wonder how they think dogs should be treated. To be fair, if dogs could catch COVID and pass it onto humans they'd likely have banned unvaccinated dogs as well.

What's ymmw? Your mileage may waver?

> I'm from EU

Now we know they mean Germany.


Funnily enough Germans do tip, for pretty average service compared to most European countries where waiters are expecting zero tips.

Of course. After living in Germany I can say that if I has not been not insulted in the process and the staff did not glare at me like I'm interrupting their free time, then the service was already much better than average

Your mileage may wario.

Maybe not everyone finds them as useful for their everyday tasks as you do? Software development is quite a broad term.

Also, Chinese-owned firms are known to be transferring EU citizens' data to China in violation of GDPR: https://noyb.eu/en/tiktok-aliexpress-shein-co-surrender-euro...

China's government has strategic goals to destabilise and weaken the EU, and data-farming will be part of their strategy.


Does seem funny to think of sci fi writers as being particularly concerned about justifying their jobs.

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