drekk

Location: MA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go, Python, TypeScript, PHP, Linux, SQL, Odoo (ERP), React, Matlab

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CAQRCiM5aJ9lJlbwd3FnZ0U7UIB...

Email: sebastian@lloret.io

Summary: I'm a full-stack engineer looking for meaningful work. I'm most motivated when my code helps people directly. In my last role, I worked on systems that helped millions access financial tools, and it was incredibly rewarding. I want to find that sense of purpose again. I enjoy solving concrete problems with Go, Python, and modern web stacks, often around data or system reliability. If your company is building something that improves lives, I'd love to help.

Location: MA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go, Python, TypeScript, PHP, Linux, SQL, Odoo (ERP), React, Matlab

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CAQRCiM5aJ9lJlbwd3FnZ0U7UIB...

Email: sebastian@lloret.io

Summary: I'm a full-stack engineer looking for meaningful work. I'm most motivated when my code helps people directly. In my last role, I worked on systems that helped millions access financial tools, and it was incredibly rewarding. I want to find that sense of purpose again. I enjoy solving concrete problems with Go, Python, and modern web stacks, often around data or system reliability. If your company is building something that improves lives, I'd love to help.

You absolutely can! Look up "lymphatic face drainage" on YouTube, there are lots of tutorials. You can do it with just your hands or a jade gua sha tool.

I volunteer my time with Food Not Bombs. 20% of American children do not know where their next meal is coming from. Many are simultaneously overweight and malnourished, because the foodstuffs the US government subsidizes are calorically dense but nutritionally destitute.

Food banks, subsidized school meals, and SNAP/EBT prevent what would otherwise be children starving to death. As it stands though, the relief is insufficient. Many children from food insecure households have stunted growth and lifelong learning impairments from insufficient protein, calcium, etc.

Source: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...

The NSDUH AMI and SMI estimates were generated from a prediction model created from clinical interview data collected on a subset of adult NSDUH respondents (4,912 total respondents between 2008 and 2012) who completed an adapted (past 12 month) version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR Axis I Disorders (Research Version, Non-patient Edition) (SCID-I/NP; First, Spitzer, Gibbon, & Williams, 2002), and was differentiated by level of functional impairment based on the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF; Endicott, Spitzer, Fleiss, & Cohen, 1976).

Diagnostic criteria are imperfect. You can put the same person in front of various doctors and get differing diagnoses. On the whole though, experts tend to agree more than they disagree. Someone has to self-report symptoms that place them a couple of standard deviations away from the mean, and for many disorders like ADHD (combined type here!), you need someone who has known you for a long time like a parent or spouse that can speak to your behavior over a long span of time.

As someone who really struggled to get a diagnosis as an adult, followed by medication, I would suggest trying to get a diagnosis from a psychiatrist. Go through the process and expense and let us know how easy it is. It was a nightmare for me despite having good insurance. A doctor's note for a mental health day is very different from getting diagnosed with a developmental or personality disorder.

Lastly, while people can and often do blame their disorders for unwanted behavior, we still have agency. Most disorders are manageable with treatment, and it's possible to "cure" in certain cases. Children medicated for ADHD will most likely not need medication for it as adults. Having a disorder isn't an excuse or shield for bad behavior. In many cases you can't address the bad behavior at the root level without knowing. For my case it helped me stop being so anxious I was giving myself ulcers because I had the words to describe what was going on, and a treatment plan that I saw was giving me results. I still struggle with certain symptoms, but it is my responsibility to work through those gaps, and medication+therapy have made it possible to put in that work.

For whatever it's worth when I went to university a decade ago for my undergrad in neuroscience the figure cited was "50% of Americans will meet clinical thresholds for something in the DSM-V at least once in their life". This isn't very surprising in that light. A lot of people exist at sub-clinical thresholds.

You can already limit speech in america provided the regulation (1) advances a compelling interest (2) through narrowly tailored means and (3) does not excessively burden the expression or action relative to the interest advanced, i.e. be proportional

A good instance where we might draw the line differently despite current first amendment norms is lobbying.

Lobbying, at its core, is just speech. Industry leaders and representatives go to meetings (public or private) to talk to congressmen. Thus lobbying has been affirmed as protected speech in our constitutional law

The problem is money changes access. And sure we can pursue contribution limits (which is generally constitutional) but lobbyists don't actually care about those -- they welcome the ability to save money. The problem is that they are just so well-connected their speech has disproportionate weight

So you could argue limiting their speech advances a compelling interest, but you'd have to think about other factors as well

It is just true that every liberty and right has limits, otherwise they could cut the public interest or other individual rights. This is true even in the US which orients itself as largely pro-speech sovereign relative to other states

43% of all white students at Harvard are legacy, athletes, directly related to faculty, or have family that donated to the university. That number falls to 16% or lower for black, latino, and asian students.

75% of that aforementioned group of white students would not have been admitted had it been based on merit. 70 percent of all legacy applicants are white, compared with 40 percent of all applicants who do not fall under those categories.

Why does the average applicant need to be penalized when their grandparents legally could not attend these institutions? I think it's pretty obvious why people have such reactions to DEI when it's literally just "legacies for people who legally were barred from participating".

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1060361

I hope for consistency's you never take an antibiotic. Never take a vaccine. Never take any pharmaceutical drug. Don't want anyone "playing god"

The pharmaceutical industry cannot make money off of you if you die of measles as an infant.

You're absolutely correct, I meant to say Little Rock.

It's mostly citizens and residents protesting in solidarity. People who came here the "right" way. Undocumented folks try to minimize interactions with law enforcement.

That immigration is desired by all these red state agribusiness entities that receive no punishment. Curious that we're deploying thousands of soldiers to a blue state to deport... 100 people so far? When they could much more easily go after the people paying these migrants under the table. They wouldn't come here if they couldn't make money doing so. Trump is clearly a television personality and lives for the drama. Makes sense why Obama and Biden managed to deport more people during their terms.

Biden and Obama's administrations deported more people per day than Trump in his first term, or so far in his second. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

Veterans are not getting support because Republicans vote against the bills. Fentanyl is claiming lives because both political parties sold out the American people to the Sackler family. I don't feel the need to address your "thug" comment. Most of those undocumented folks are employed. Together they make up 5% of our national workforce. And every undocumented person pays taxes without qualifying for benefits. It has been 60 years since the national guard has been deployed without consent of the governor. The last time was the Kent State massacre. It's an intentional provocation that will kill Americans, same as last time.

We rely on plastic for quite a bit, such as sterile medical packaging. Not to mention all the existing plastic liners in important infrastructure. It would be incredibly disruptive

Tourism into the US is also down in general. You can disparage this particular academic all you want, but unfortunately when you start deporting foreign nationals with valid visas you don't get to pick and choose the second and third-order effects. It's not just academics—and not just the academics you personally find silly—that are choosing to not visit the US.

You didn't provide any analysis into why things are different now, and offered up a truism. A country is "allowed" to do anything it can get away with. Like declaring war on all of its neighbors. I don't feel like I need to be protected from foreigners. Why do you?

Americans are fine voting against their interests as long as someone else is hurt worse by it. These policies will hurt most Americans, but as long as trans folks and racial minorities get hurt worse it's fine. Nothing new about the southern strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy?wprov=sfti1

This is how I found out I had both ADHD and bipolar.

Argentine here — the US helped the military coup that overthrew democracy in Argentina and waged a "Dirty War" that saw people drugged and thrown out of helicopters. People born in the 70s grew up while that was happening. It's still living memory.

The US (and other western countries) dictate the price of raw material exports, and drain countries like Argentina of the best talent. They dictate freight rates. To the extent western capital is willing to invest in the country, it is to build roads/rails that take raw materials from the countryside to the ports in Buenos Aires so that a small class of bourgeois vendidos can sell out the nation's national wealth like a fire sale.

Macri is beloved by western media because he's willing to let the IMF and Federal Reserve dictate social policy in Argentina. Slash pensions, crush labor power, etc. My family voted for him and now my grandma needs us to send more dollars over so she can afford to live. Lot of parallels IMO to people on public assistance voting for Trump in the US. There were other solutions possible besides austerity.

Per the article, less than 5% of the global population take a flight in a given year. You're already incredibly wealthy in that light. We could at least eliminate short haul flights and private airplanes, but the reality is going to be a lot more ascetic if we expect to hit net zero by 2050.

Besides a crippling nicotine addiction?

That's average surface-level temperature increase. 70% of the Earth's surface is ocean, which can absorb more thermal energy. It's worse than 3-6 degrees in the areas where people live. It's not scaremongering. People talk about Miami and Dubai as if those cities will be populated in a century. Look up "wet-bulb temperature", and then look at a global population density map.

And when the law demands you turn in runaway slaves? Legality is not a yardstick for morality.

Well it's a great thing those punishments reduce recidivism rates, right? Right??

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743246/

You linked a database of Tau proteins naturally expressed by different species of animals. The mice in this study are a breed of mutants that express the human version of the Tau protein.

Why don't you educate us, then?

I don't see what this comment adds to the discussion. If you disagree with the numbers, what source would you use instead? China is building more renewable energy than the rest of the world combined, and it's verifiable by satellite imagery.

If you live without modern technology in a sufficiently remote place, you don't know what you're "missing". Maybe they'd be receptive to contact and technological/cultural exchanges if "modern society" respected their land and beliefs.

Carbon capture hasn't been shown to scale. "Carbon credits" and such schemes are blatant greenwashing. We already use an inordinate amount of energy on bullshit, with a hard enough time convincing people that there will be consequences for it. I don't want to move fast and break things when the thing in question is the biosphere that keeps me alive.

Per capita the US is leading. The numbers are even worse when you consider China is the "workbench of the West".

India could catch up faster if the US would share technological advancements, or better yet, help secure the capital necessary to build out renewable infra.

The developing world is being asked to hamstring their own growth by the countries that are responsible for the bulk of historical emissions. The US, UK, and western Europe in general used cheap fossil fuels to industrialize, mortgaging our global future for quick growth. It would only be equitable (and in everyone's best interest) for us to help mitigate further harms. We need net zero. In reality we need negative emissions, but that's unproven at scale.