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by Rod 18y ago
I know this might seem paranoid , but my main concern is the lack of ethics in advertising something as "perfectly safe", when it might not be... well... "perfectly safe". On the other hand, one could argue that nothing is indeed perfectly
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by Rod 18y ago
Some decades ago they also said cigarettes were not dangerous. Purifying radium was not dangerous, either. Then, decades later people started dying of cancer. They say cell phones are not dangerous, though a friend of mine who did a PhD in
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by Rod 18y ago
Wow!!! That's pretty cool. Thanks for the info!
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by Rod 18y ago
Dude, I talked about thresholds that would ensure that people would maintain their awareness within certain limits... you talked about overdose. We're not even discussing the same thing. The legal limit on alcohol is not to prevent people f
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by Rod 18y ago
These books are also interesting (and require no more than elementary math): Mathematics and Music (by David Wright) http://www.math.wustl.edu/~wright/Math109/00Book Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/
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by Rod 18y ago
It would be cool if Synthetic Biology advanced to the point where one could start hacking bacteria to synthesize THC ;-) One would order a few bacteria over the internet and have a THC factory in one's room. No need for marijuana plantatio
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by Rod 18y ago
Please spare me of your pedantism. I can google myself, thank you. Please note that: 1) "Widely know" is not scientific at all. Opinions of laymen count for nothing. The truth is found through experimentation and observation, not by consens
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by Rod 18y ago
"There is no practical maximum to smoking pot, you'd have to smoke literally a truck bed full to even get close to a dangerous level which is physically impossible. Thus, as I said earlier, dose is not relevant." Is that based on your per
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The Geometry of Musical Chords(music.princeton.edu)
15 points by Rod 18y ago|6 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
I don't know where I got the impression that they had a database system in Amsterdam. Talked to some good friends living there years ago, and they might have mentioned that there was a proposal to implement such a system... or that it could
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by Rod 18y ago
I got your point that there's no "adding". We're not talking about a small underground economy. Like you said, "it's here and it's huge". I don't know why people are so focused on the law. The fact that marijuana is illegal is stupid and ar
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by Rod 18y ago
Of course sugar is a mind-altering substance. It can even be lethal. Same for salt. Anything can be a poison if consumed in high enough doses. Too much caffeine and one will have a heart-attack (this upper bound is known). I couldn't disagr
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by Rod 18y ago
1) I made it clear that I could not guarantee its accuracy. I made it clear that it was not a "fact" but something I heard. 2) the fact that the system does not exist (at least in the Netherlands) does not make it not worth considering. Unl
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by Rod 18y ago
Marijuana IS a mind-altering substance. Disregarding this scientific fact is potentially irresponsible. We are not even discussing policy / politics here, it's Science. And unless you are a neurologist or a pharmacologist yourself, I really
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by Rod 18y ago
This joke is only (remotely) funny once. And, to the best of my knowledge, the twitter-fan girl was the first one to try this approach. Still, it would be funny if some start-up created a website named "Sequoia should fund us" or somethin
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by Rod 18y ago
Somewhat related: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04...
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by Rod 18y ago
I know it's an extreme example (and a display of ignorance), but I am sure some "conservatives" would invoke something like that against legalization. I wholeheartedly agree with you that adults have the right to do what they want with thei
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by Rod 18y ago
I haven't been to Amsterdam yet, so my description of the "Dutch system" is based on what I heard from friends who live there, not from my own personal experience. It sounds like a good system, though. If what I have heard is accurate, then
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by Rod 18y ago
True. On the other hand, some claim that THC is more mind-altering than alcohol. I don't know if it's true or not. I won't go into that. Imagine stoned drivers losing control of their SUVs and running over little children walking out of sch
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by Rod 18y ago
"The last thing we need is yet another mind-altering substance to be legalized. We have enough problems with alcohol and abuse of pharmaceutical products. Do we really need to add yet another mind-altering substance to the array?" That's
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A Moveable Fiesta - Buenos Aires is the new expat heaven(nymag.com)
7 points by Rod 18y ago|1 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
Exactly. It just isn't an Artificial Neural Network ;-) After all, though rats are super disgusting, they were created by Nature.
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by Rod 18y ago
Somewhat related: http://blog.thejit.org/2008/11/27/using-ocaml-to-visualize-r...
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Introduction to Cybernetics (1956), by W. Ross Ashby(pcp.vub.ac.be)
5 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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The Hyper-Sphere from an Artistic point of View (groups.csail.mit.edu)
3 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
Quoting Steve Jobs: "Look underneath the covers of an overnight success story and you usually see a lot of work, a lot of years." I remember reading this on Time or Newsweek, back in 1996 or something. Marc Andreessen was on the cover of
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by Rod 18y ago
You're quite right. My analysis was simplistic and naive.
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by Rod 18y ago
It looks like some people did retire young, LOL. Seriously, this is more than just some pallets. This must have been one the biggest frauds ever. Unless, of course, the whole point was simply to inject liquidity in the crippled Iraqi econ
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by Rod 18y ago
How would you create a stand-alone executable file using MATLAB?
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by Rod 18y ago
As any other engineer, I have used MATLAB quite a lot. Unfortunately I am not as familiarized with Mathematica. I thought Mathematica was mostly symbolic computation. I didn't know it did numerical computation (such as FEM) as well. Thanks

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