Ollinson

13 ms·

91.
by Ollinson 12y ago
I was prescribed an SSRI for my severe anxiety and it changed my life for the better. If you take them be aware it can take months before you feel the full effect (it took me about 3 months).
92.
by Ollinson 12y ago
I think you misunderstand. Survivorship bias in this context means we do not know all of the people who did LSD that did not go on to do anything significant. Therefore it is pointless to suggest LSD has overlap with "interesting peopl
93.
by Ollinson 12y ago
>the list of people who used LSD includes some pretty interesting people. This is the definition of survivorship bias.
94.
by Ollinson 12y ago
Unless you can link other eras of technological advance to LSD use this seems like a poor argument.
95.
by Ollinson 12y ago
>Feynman was rumored to have used LSD in the late 1960s a handful of times. Feynman denied using hallucinogens, saying he was too scared to damage his brain, but there are credible reports that he did take LSD at least once around 1970.
96.
by Ollinson 12y ago
The artsy waterfront areas that are now gentrified were originally large dilapidated work lofts that were not really intended for residents. Many of them lacked bathrooms or kitchens. There is a really good new york times article from the l
97.
by Ollinson 12y ago
For me Roosevelt Avenue in Queens between Jackson Heights and Junction Blvd on a 80F day is the real NYC. People of every ethnicity on the street, everyone in the shade of the elevated 7 train, street vendors selling everything and thousand
98.
by Ollinson 12y ago
This will come off as glib but screw it: New York City is art. 20 minutes riding the subway from point A to point B will give you a better glimpse of what it means to be alive than any curated show or painting. Everybody but the ultra-rich
99.
by Ollinson 12y ago
Is there any particular reason you don't just backup all of the user's personal files/configurations, note what programs they have installed and then reformat/reinstall? Doing this you would be 100% adware free and the c
100.
by Ollinson 12y ago
The New Yorker doesn't shy away from profanity. If you search the magazine archives you'll find many instances of fuck, bitch, asshole, etc. A simple google search also shows this to be true (fuck site:newyorker.com).
101.
by Ollinson 12y ago
A worthy contribution to this conversation would be Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish. While it mostly focuses on the history of the Western penal system it also discusses the history of punishment and torture. It's a dense
102.
by Ollinson 12y ago
I don't know where you live but most of the food delivery people in my major US city are at least over 30, many even in their 50s. Lots of immigrants too. For unskilled labor a career might be a job.
103.
by Ollinson 12y ago
I hate to give just a wikipedia link but I really have nothing more to add than what is there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish While this might not explain "6-7 years of holding back th
104.
by Ollinson 12y ago
There are hundreds if not thousands of artists who can recreate some of the most famous and technically difficult paintings of the past 1000 years and yet they're lucky if they can sell their original work at a garage sale. Art has ver
105.
by Ollinson 12y ago
Not exactly drug induced or a mental Illness but Ronald Fisher, arguably the father of modern statistics, went to great lengths to prove cancer caused smoking due to his personal convictions[1]. [1] http://www.epidemiology.ch&#x2
106.
by Ollinson 12y ago
r/all right now has 4/25 threads from the funny subreddit no cat pictures, 2 gifs of dogs being cute I check r/all because it's the breadth focused zeitgeist of the internet. Whether the comments are right or wrong doesn
107.
by Ollinson 12y ago
Seconding that this is a great publication. A typical quarterly issue can contain excerpts from the Office Space screenplay to Schopenhauer.
108.
by Ollinson 12y ago
Very possible a typo but the term is "princely sum." No criticism but if you didn't know I thought you might want to.
109.
by Ollinson 12y ago
I love that the NYRB is getting a lot of play on Hacker News recently. It's really a top tier publication and reminds me a lot of the higher quality conversations on this site.
110.
by Ollinson 12y ago
I agree. If everything on reddit interested me or was of the same quality there would never be any experimentation (foolishness) and I'd get lost in my own little world. A lot of people love the way the sausage tastes but they stick up
111.
by Ollinson 12y ago
Also featured on Connections (BBC James Burke). A particularly memorable episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itd-4lMoXgI
112.
by Ollinson 12y ago
Your comment claimed that the quality of the show hasn't declined, that any decline is actually the result of the fallibility of human memory. Even during the "golden years" of the simpsons the show changed, it just wasn&#x27
113.
by Ollinson 12y ago
Every simpsons fan I know watches seasons 2-8 all the time in any given year. The episodes don't have any real continuity so they can be viewed in any order for laughs. >The tone changed over the course of the show That is really th
114.
by Ollinson 12y ago
I guess me and all of my friends were sporting hipster affectations when we were 12 years old because we all noticed the change around 1999-2000 and correspondingly stopped watching. Interesting that I also had my VHS tapes of earlier seaso
115.
by Ollinson 12y ago
I'm curious about your lecturenotes negatives. It has so many customizable options I have a hard time imagining how it failed you. I've been using it for over a year for mostly math applications and it's been indispensable. T
116.
by Ollinson 12y ago
Individual responsibility cuts both ways. You are responsible for picking up your friend. Your friend is responsible for assessing your reliability. I would argue that most people who think they're talking about morality are actually t
117.
by Ollinson 12y ago
I live in Queens near the Queens/Brooklyn border and see huge racoons frequently. If you live near freight train tracks they hang out there.
118.
by Ollinson 12y ago
I doubt it has anything to do with skunkworks or prostitutes. My first thought was Skank as a verb, which fits best with the idea of a handicapped/faux iphone.
119.
by Ollinson 12y ago
It's a shame that you have such disdain toward capital L literature because some of the best writing on fiction is done by people who share your criticisms. I fail to see the difference between your dismissal of fiction and a mathephob
120.
by Ollinson 12y ago
NYRB reviews many non-fiction books. I would go as far as saying that 3/4 of the books they review are non fiction. I chose an archived issue at random: http://www.nybooks.com/issues/2014/jul/10/ Th

More ›