and I thought I was old..

My Dad worked for Honeywell in the 70s, in Australia.

tbh, I just google'd them and they're still in the Nasdaq-100, 100k employees .. damn. I'm not sure of when I last heard of them.

I still think of them as old school punch cards and reels of tapes.

What are they? Are there papers on this?

There are only papers which suggest this could be true, none that conclusively prove it. That I’m aware of.

There are some cool studies done where people with a without ADHD are tasked to forage berries. The people with ADHD do better and adhere to foraging patterns which existing theories suggest would be more optimal.

A lot of the studies like that indicate the individual with the condition might benefit more from ADHD than the group they’re in, but I’m not sure that studies have explored group benefits very much.

There’s an often cited paper in which nomadic men who carry a certain ADHD-related allele (DRD4-7R, a dopamine reception variant with ADHD traits and novelty seeking) tend to have better nutritional status. I can’t recall much about it or how high quality it is.

I’ve always thought, it’s not absurd to think there different development routes which the brain takes depending on the environment it develops in.

With your foraging example, it does make me think ADHD is a small group/individual optimisation. Prioritising high vigilance and individual productivity over social cohesion.

I speak with no authority. I don’t even know how such a theory could be tested.

> I’ve always thought, it’s not absurd to think there different development routes which the brain takes depending on the environment it develops in.

What do you think nutritional stunting means?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunted_growth

I don’t mean from a nutritional standpoint, but a behavioural perspective. Smaller groups would have an higher percentage of responsibility per individual to be vigilant and proactive.

It would make sense to me that evolutionary there would be different mental development paths depending on the requirements of their situation.

This is coming from my understanding that ADHD is more prevalent in stressful upbringings.

If adhd is heritable, then the stressful upbringing could be symptomatic of the parent's condition instead of causal.

I agree, stress during pregnancy could also be a signal shared with the developing brain.

> I don’t mean from a nutritional standpoint, but a behavioural perspective.

That would normally be called "learning". Also a pretty conventional idea.

With learning, though, you'd want to explain why something becomes immune to further learning at a certain point.

Not necessarily. ADHD is at the neurotransmitter level or density of receptors. Which could be an epigenetic condition from prenatal environment.

Or maybe it’s learnt like you say, I think both areas would be worthy of researching.

A psychiatrist told me that people with ADHD perform better under extreme pressure and chaos. No idea if that's true. Personally I don't even think of ADHD as a deficiency. It's just a trait that is not compatible with modern society and workplace.

A common meme you'll see on ADHD in online posts are about how people with it are perfectly calm during emergencies, but then when any inconsequential thing happens such as e.g. breaking a shoelace and they'll just unravel and/or take forever to deal with it.

There might be a correlation, but I doubt causation. I would argue people with ADHD, like myself, tend to end up in situations where extreme pressure and chaos is more common. Thus, we have more exposure than the average person. I imagine it can be a trainable trait in many people.

Yeah, I think this is the key point. I am better at handling chaos because I grew up around chaos (my mom has adhd and so do I) so I am much better at handling things falling apart.

I don't know about papers but I had a doctor tell me they are overrepresented among snipers in the military. ADD could be an advantage to hunting.

Or ADD just sucks there less than in other areas.

Like being physically weak is not an advantage in white collar jobs.

I was amazed equatorial / tropical glaciers are much of a thing.

A sad search later:

"projected to vanish entirely in late 2026 or 2027"

They're at 4600m in elevation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carstensz_Glacier

They've apparently disappeared and returned a few times since the last iceage.

Yes, there have been a surprising number, and not just in the Andes and Himalayas where you would expect.

There have been a few in Africa in modern times. Some of them have disappeared.

FWIW, I quite enjoyed this write up of it, and the state of AI investment at the moment. It doesn't entirely dwell on the blowup, but I found it worth the read:

https://xcancel.com/porterstansb/status/2083606266388029691

(I also enjoyed the meandering in to Amex and Wells & Fargo's founding stories)

It would be about as bad, although nothing, AFAIK, actually systematically sends it as telemetry.

This GDID is essentially a similar concept though, but not as hardware tied, but is reported in telemetry.

FWIW, YogaDNS stops these bypasses if you tick a settings box ("Block plain DNS over TCP from System Resolver"). Or use similar DNS forcing techniques against port 53.

Windows falls back to the normal resolver in that case.

Indeed, I think this is the correct take.

If they'd done their VPN/dirty work in a linux VM/container, with the VPN running in that, they'd have been fine.

Clean-them would have had their GDID on their normal ISP IP or equivalent, and Dirty-them would have had everything through the VPN from their no-telemetry dirty-host.

They took the slavery / serf distinction seriously in the Slavic world. While the distinctions might have mattered in the 1800s, by any modern-slavery standard the serfs were slaves, as you rightly say.

Whatever we might now think with hindsight of the communist revolution in Russia, if ever there was a country primed for the peasants to rise up against the ruling class, it was Russia.

Russia might have been a land of art, music, dance and literature, but you were pretty fucked if you weren't in the 20%.

Not just Russia, the Kingdom of Hungary (which contained large parts of Central Europe) abolished serfdom only in 1848 (the Serfdom Patent of 1781 was not really respected in the hungarian part of Austrian Empire until then).

FWIW I think Acemoglu writes very well & I loved his book "Why Nations Fail" for introducing lots of interesting ideas to me, while also helping me understand my own (non-failed) society better.

conductor.build is Mac only ..