I believe they do header bidding for their own demand, but you can squeeze more revenue out of your traffic if you learn to manage your own headerbidding stack. Take a look at prebid.org and checkout the r/adops reddit. You might find some inspiration there.
Yup. I used adrafinil(prodrug of modafinil) regularly during university and found it particularly useful in my programming classes. It helped me get "in the zone" while avoiding the euphoria, BP issues, and recovery periods/withdrawals that stronger stuff does. Plus it doesn't show up in most drug tests.
When it comes to programming, I think I've found that modafinil (and doubly so for something which must be metabolized first) is not as helpful as I used to think it was. My problem tends to be getting started; but once I'm started, continuing is relatively easy. So for my purposes, a bit of nicotine gum is just as useful: cheaper & legal, doesn't last as obnoxiously long as -afinils do, and doesn't require as big or long-lasting dose. I've often wished for a modafinil which had a half-life of half an hour or an hour...
I don't currently use it or other stimulants because I'm recently graduated, currently unemployed, and looking for work. Well I suppose I take caffeine, but I've mostly cycled off that too, and only take a single 200mg pill per day. If I get a job that requires a steady flow state or a high amount of productivity, I very likely will begin using it again.
I use it because I am not naturally suited for the work. I have a genetic variation(gs224) that makes me tired all of the time and stimulation-deprived. However in our current economy, it seems like the only career path I can take that will work with my abrasive, likely autistic personality while still providing long-term career growth opportunities.
In my experience that’s dehydration. Modafinil is a diuretic, and appetite suppressant. Not only are you taking on less water because you’re probably eating less but your body is expelling water at frightening rates.
That may be true to some degree, but I have also had them happen while purposely chugging water. My migraines are kind of cyclical as well. Could be coincidence.
Peter said he thought he needed modafinil. Why is it a hot topic now? His thought way back was that it was everything he needed at the time--mood regular, stimulant.
That’s an odd assertion to make when the full pharmacodynamics and mechanism of action are unknown. Modafinil doesn’t increase your cognitive performance in the way that a substituted phenethylamine would. Focus and attention are certainly related to wakefulness, but wakefulness in and of itself doesn’t increase cognitive performance.
Substituted phenethylamines[1] are derivative compounds of phenethylamine. Many substituted phenethylamines are stimulants, while some are psychedelic too. Dopamine, epinephrine, amphetamine, pseudoephedrine, MDMA, and many others are considered to be substitued phenethylamines.
Modafinil interferes with sleeping less than other drugs - it's only a problem if you rely on the "crash" of running out of energy over the day to fall asleep.
Graffiti typically means "illegal", so that's why the headline sounds outrageous. 5 Pointz was more of a "graffiti museum", with substantial cultural significance. It was a nice piece of news to see for a change. I was heartbroken when they whitewashed that building.
In this case, the owner rented out studios to artists for years, and permitted/encouraged them to paint on the walls. He also designated different walls as "permanent" and "temporary" spaces. All that points to a contractual relationship between the owner and the artists. Remember: contracts don't need to be writing.
It's also not entirely clear if the property owner was ever the owner of the art itself. There's a difference between posession and ownership, and while the former is 90% of the latter, that leaves 10% up for grabs. From this pov, the case is maybe comparable to someone finding a Picasso that someone forgot on their front yard, and immediately destroying it.
But, in general: yes, if your property somehow becomes valuable for society in some way or another, that may entail new restrictions on your use. Landmark and similar designations for historically valuable buildings come to mind. When some endangered species starts breeding on your property, you may no longer be able to turn it into a parking lot.
Property rights just aren't as absolute as people like to think, nor are they not subject to change. It's obviously in society's interest to provide for robust protections of private property because it creates incentives to own stuff, and to be productive in order to do so. But these rights are just a tool that has proven extremely useful to organise our economic activity. There are always competing interests, and societies have to find a balance that maximises total value while remaining fair to each individual.
The same principles would be at play if you were letting a friend store their bike in your garage on weekdays. One tuesday in April you call them to say "I need to paint the garage in June, come and get your bike". But they're out of the country for the week, so the next day you throw away the bike.
You would have the legal right to clear out your garage, you had no signed contract to rent out a space for your friend's bike, but the way in which you did it caused your friend to lose their bike after you had given them a reasonable expectation that they wouldn't, and you had no good reason not to wait until the end of the week.
That's for a judge to say. My brain's ethical lobe suggests that as long as the friend invested less effort in getting the bike out of your garage than you invested keeping it in your garage, it's fine to throw it away.
If you give people the reasonable expectation that pictures drawn on your property will not be erased in the near future, I don't think it's unusual for you to be held to that expectation. Not all liabilities are written on paper with a signature at the bottom.
