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by abruzzi 13y ago
Very true. Some hallucinogenic can significantly intensify depression.
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by abruzzi 13y ago
> I have high hopes that we'll knock out depression within our generation. Maybe, but depression is like cancer--a general classification with many many underlying causes. The fact that SSRIs, MAOIs and other medications reliable t
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by abruzzi 13y ago
Dumb question, but could you solve the problem by simply using 1/16th of a second, not 1/10th?
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by abruzzi 13y ago
I tried that, the the photos look identical. Of course I have red-green colorblindness.
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by abruzzi 13y ago
I think more to the point, the computer explosion came from them being useful to the vast majority of people, not just technical people. My old apple 2 or Amiga was not that. Electric cars will explode when they are as useful as gas cars
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by abruzzi 13y ago
I've heard some claims recently (perhaps true) that Jobs didn't want third party apps, but at the time the interface was so obviously suited for apps that I assumed that they simply hadn't had time to put together what was ne
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by abruzzi 13y ago
His bookcase is organized by color? I'd never be able to find a single book in my library if I did that.
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by abruzzi 13y ago
I'm surely a rare exception. I don't buy stuff from Amazon (I might if they would tell me what carrier they were going to use before shipping. Where I live I have a different address for USPS than I do for other carriers.) But I
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by abruzzi 13y ago
As a former music student in college, a lot of this is known by musicians implicitly, if not explicitly.
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by abruzzi 13y ago
There are sometimes reasons for odd stuff like this. We take our tax payment system offline for a short period every day for several reasons. First, the actual system that stores the data is on ancient system where the database needs to b
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by abruzzi 13y ago
The basic gameplay has been around for a long time. My old palm pilot had a similar game called "cave". The a article however talks about him designing the graphics, sound, physics, etc.
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by abruzzi 13y ago
I'm curious what property owners rights will be for private drone overflight. What altitude will they have to be? I also wonder if I put a 70ft radio tower (amateur radio) with guy wires for support, will the amazon drones be smart e
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by abruzzi 13y ago
I agree with this more or less. I make about twice what my least employee makes, and about 1.5 times what my highest paid employee makes. Since I work for the government though, everyone knows everyone else's salary is, and if they d
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by abruzzi 13y ago
The hurdles may be high for a couple of guys in a garage, but since the US courts have agreed BTC is a currency, the hurdles are well known and well understood by existing players in the finance world. I suspect their reticence to get into
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by abruzzi 13y ago
Amen. When ripping all my CDs, I hand entered all my metadata. My biggest pet peeve is filling out the "composer" field correctly. If I sort by composer, I don't want to find Beethoven under "L".
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by abruzzi 13y ago
My problem with commercial services like Spotify is most of the music I listen too isn't in any of them. I imported my 20,000 mp3s into iTunes Match and it matched about 20%.
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IOS Safari page reloads driving me to drink
6 points by abruzzi 13y ago|3 comments
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by abruzzi 13y ago
Is it a societal trend or is it simply that more people believe that the "inside job" theory is far less persuasive than the "outside job + incompetence" theory?
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by abruzzi 13y ago
Two comments: 1. I eat lunch away from work and alone, to give me an hour a day to get away from the people they work with. Not that they're bad people, but I can't take being around anyone for too long a stretch. I get along wi
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by abruzzi 13y ago
I hope they make this available for aftermarket manufacturers. No way I'm going to spend $80k to replace my '97 Landcruiser with a 2014. Maybe in 15 years, but by then I'd probably need to be running a 15 year old iPhone.
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by abruzzi 13y ago
Yup, no mention of the Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and for that matter the US Congress. And it certainly seems the SEC would have some authority over entities that seek to act like banks or exchanges.
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by abruzzi 13y ago
I think people who aren't necessarily technically savvy mistakenly treat the exchanges as their local bank. Your local bank follows a huge number of regulations, many of which are designed to keep your money safe. And in the rare eve
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by abruzzi 13y ago
Ultimately you can also generalize this. Specifically, there is a tug of war between the company and its users. By and large, the company interests may be served by exploiting as much user data as possible. The user usually sees this a b
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by abruzzi 13y ago
Well, technically iOS only implemented the controls in the last year or two after the hubub with Path harvesting contacts: http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/8/2785217/path-ios-address-bo...
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by abruzzi 13y ago
I thank my packager by paying them ~$12k a year for "support".
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by abruzzi 13y ago
yup. It took me literally several minutes before I saw the word "outage" in there for some reason. For some reason the non-word "gelet" overwhelmed my brain so I kept seeing out-a-gelet. Kind of like port-a-potty. Th
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by abruzzi 13y ago
Very true, but at the same time, the anonymity prized by many in support of the site or currencies like BTC makes it a easy target for scammers. I'm saying this happened here, but I'm honestly surprised DPR1 had as much money in
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by abruzzi 13y ago
The one problem is that the ability or substitute a different character doesn't test for length. I want to do: hr --==##==
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by abruzzi 13y ago
This is like watching an old movie late at night on some VHF station (remember those?) We like the story, but the ending doesn't change.
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by abruzzi 13y ago
Which I've read many times, but nonetheless, the imagery of highways shot at slow frame rates with long exposures creating a visual metaphor similar to a circuit, used many times in later works (even commercials) originated here.

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