Xortl

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by Xortl 20d ago
https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai
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by Xortl 1mo ago
What's your opinion of the claim that antidepressants have small impact on people with mild to moderate depression, but significantly more impact on people with severe depression [1]? I ask as a nonexpert because this is a view I'
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by Xortl 3mo ago
I would love to read an update about your experience with antidepressants, as it's a path I'm thinking about more and more with the (losing) battle I've been fighting against my own long term depression. I really resonated wi
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by Xortl 2y ago
I'm happy to read evidence I'm wrong (I want to be wrong - it would make me much more optimistic about a fix), but my own life and everything I've read suggests the opposite - once someone develops a serious drug or alcohol
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by Xortl 2y ago
My personal favorites are those games with simple rules and deep strategic depth and I play them regularly online or with other people who love those games in particular. I am also in two general boardgame groups and they both much prefer t
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by Xortl 2y ago
...missing? They're waiting for their votes to be tallied.
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by Xortl 2y ago
70% of Republicans think Trump was the fair winner of the 2020 election. They are just collectively massively misinformed.
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by Xortl 2y ago
I say this as a straight non-religious white man who is disgusted by Trump and the fact that people support him. Making the main character and his brother hispanic is not "the same" as the game, especially when the remaining strai
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by Xortl 2y ago
70% of Republicans think Trump was the real winner of the 2020 election and that's hardly the only misinformation they have. It's hard to imagine that that wasn't a huge factor in the election.
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by Xortl 2y ago
There's a similar "actual test" scene in By The Great Horn Spoon!, a fun kid's book about the California Gold Rush we read in elementary school.
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by Xortl 6y ago
If someone puts great effort and cost into producing media, why would others be entitled to get the fruits of that labor for free? Game of Thrones is a luxury, not a necessity; people aren't entitled to it just because they want it and
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by Xortl 8y ago
I'm a big fan of Isaacson's biographies, but Vance's Musk biography highlights the dangers of an author that isn't an expert on the source material: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/895834554
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by Xortl 8y ago
As a huge fan and patron of 3blue1brown's videos, does anyone have recommendations for similar high-quality channels covering other topics? Personally I'm interested in at least: * History/biographies * Sciences (physics, che