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by 462436347 3y ago
> Please read the original Phase III and earlier studies where they thoroughly address these questions under the treatment modalities being tested. The problem is these drugs aren't being presented as dangerous pharmaceuticals that
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by 462436347 3y ago
Almost 350 comments, none of which mention how dangerous MDMA is, especially to the kidneys, the heart, and the serotonergic neurons of the brain?
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by 462436347 4y ago
Do a lot of fundamentalist Muslims live in SF?
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by 462436347 4y ago
The gun part is pretty hypocritical though, isn't it? The guy at least pretends to be a Democrat, and donates to Democratic PACs, which support gun control, meanwhile he's stocking up on guns and ammo himself: https://w
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Sam Altman is a doomsday prepper with a stash of gold, guns, and gas masks(businessinsider.com)
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by 462436347 4y ago
> I feel a sense of urgency to generate wealth before AIs become capable enough that those who didn’t make it become stuck in some sort of UBI limbo. The sense of urgency you describe is exactly how I feel.
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by 462436347 4y ago
These AI systems will sound the death knell for the creative culture of openness and sharing that emerged during the web 1.0 era with the Creative Commons and OSI-approved licenses and sites like DeviantArt, NewGrounds, and SourceForge, and
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by 462436347 4y ago
Over 70% of steel produced in the US is already produced from scrap and electricity with Electric Arc Furnances (EAFs): https://www.steel.org/steel-technology/steel-production/
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by 462436347 4y ago
>“It turned out all that stuff was mostly wrong,” Mech said. In 2022, his publisher agreed to stop printing the book. Yet, although field biologists no longer use the terms “alpha” and “beta,” they have proved too useful for humans to dr
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by 462436347 4y ago
> I have seen people around me change their behavior irrationally and erratically, and not for the good, as in not being able to regulate their emotions in a sensible fashion Their hearts have probably changed as well, and likewise, not
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by 462436347 4y ago
It's interesting that these Elves never seem to provide any useful, actionable information, especially information that their human interlocutor would have had no way of knowing. Instead it's just vague, mystical fluff.
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by 462436347 4y ago
I'd love to see what your body looks like vs. the average fruitarian.
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by 462436347 4y ago
> It's not a surprise that his lifespan was shorter than average. Given all of the purported health benefits of fasting I see touted on HN, and given how long he fasted, if anything I'd expect him to have lived to 100.
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by 462436347 4y ago
> Died: 7 September 1990 (aged 50–51) Odd how this part often gets ignored when his example is cited.
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by 462436347 4y ago
The VCs started the bank run . They were the primary depositor base of SVB. It wasn't a question of whether it was rational or ethical to join a bank run already in progress. Instead it was they, the rational, enlightened VCs, who sta
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by 462436347 4y ago
And before any more midwits play the "Prisoner's Dilemma" card to defend this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma > Two members of a criminal gang, A and B, are arrested and imprisoned
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by 462436347 4y ago
These people absolutely deserve to be named and shamed. If the big, "evil" banks can cooperate for the collective good of their industry and the wider economy as they did today by injecting $30 billion of deposits into First Repub
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by 462436347 4y ago
Why was this flagged? It's hilarious: > MOC uses alternate accounts for personal safety reasons Does MOC think PG is going to have him whacked? I primarily use throwaways here since I don't care about karma, but this is absurd,
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by 462436347 4y ago
You're right.
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by 462436347 4y ago
These hand-wavy appeals to rationality and game theory to justify sociopathic foot-gunning by VCs is really getting tiring. First, it's not a Prisoner's Dilemma if the parties can communicate with each other: https://en
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by 462436347 4y ago
Today the big banks collectively agreed to inject $30bn of deposits into First Republic to sure it up: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-16/first-rep... Meanwhile, all the benevolent VC techbros
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by 462436347 4y ago
I like MOC, but given his fondness for sock puppets, it's pretty funny, even if it's only a coincidence.
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by 462436347 4y ago
You're wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103411 And how poorly does it reflect on the SV venture capital community that they couldn't muster that kind of cooperation?
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by 462436347 4y ago
> This whole story is so bewildering, probably the only bank I can think of that was killed by its own customers (flaky VC herd) despite being generally healthy and having picked the least worst option last year (maturity risk). VCs now
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by 462436347 4y ago
> The winning strategy is to pretend you are committing to the group (so as to maximize the time you have) while selling as fast as you can. See also: Bill Hwang's Archegos Capital. No, the consortium members actually made money by
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by 462436347 4y ago
> Over a bank? Over a financial contagion that could sap the liquidity and solvency of the startups these VCs have invested in, and possibly cause harm to the wider economy (which I doubt they care very much about)?
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by 462436347 4y ago
> Your last paragraph is so shitty Thanks for reminding why I largely left this place for /g/.
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by 462436347 4y ago
> SVB was a national bank It was more of a regional bank, specifically one servicing SV, with at most sporadic branches elsewhere, usually just one in a given state in its largest major city (e.g., one in NY: in NYC; one in D.C.; one in
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by 462436347 4y ago
> Yeah, it's like a stampede in a crowded theater It was the same situation with LTCM, with their counterparties (large banks) rushing to liquidate before LTCM became insolvent, which the Fed feared would send shockwaves through the
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by 462436347 4y ago
> I think you massively underestimate how hard it is to coordinate under these kinds of conditions. I think you're unfamiliar with the Long-Term Capital Crisis, and the speed with which it was resolved (two days: Sep 22-23). In fact

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