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by h1karu 12y ago
> So you go directly from 'doesn't warrant a full diagnosis' to 'doesn't exist'? What exactly are you suggesting here? For example flu-like symptoms do not necessarily mean that you have early onset AIDS or
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by h1karu 12y ago
> When you say 'it's perfectly natural for people to experience X', what you may actually mean is 'many people suffer from mild depression and/or bipolar disorder symptoms without ever being treated', which
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by h1karu 12y ago
> It's not caffeine withdrawal or the flu. Even when no suicidal ideation is present, it's a serious disease with real costs to the individual and to society, just as real as cancer. My argument is that it's not an "e
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by h1karu 12y ago
Isn't the real story here the over-pathologization of normal human experience in order to turn a larger profit (for the drug industry and the mental health industry) ? With the way these disorders are currently defined I'm convin
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by h1karu 12y ago
If I don't indulge in that coffee-guzzling manic carrot chasing mind-set then I'm not going to be as productive as the next guy it would seem. If you want to be an olympic bike racer then you have to do the same harsh practice re
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by h1karu 12y ago
> Maybe there's just something fundamentally ingrained in human psychology that makes us converge like this. Or perhaps there are meetings in boardrooms where the upper echelon of a given sector of the economy work hand in hand with
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by h1karu 12y ago
>Yes, your app/site/service needs to be built within a technical architecture that can scale… This is where many teams drop the ball. They start building their app/service with persistence technology that really can'
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by h1karu 12y ago
Out of respect for Mr Shulgin I don't want to stray too far from his work towards a disturbing subject matter. In order to make my point about legalization I had to make it known that such dark areas of inquery exist, but that doesn&
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by h1karu 12y ago
The details of how such a substance could be weaponized and how such munitions may have been deployed in the past is a sensitive subject not well suited for this forum. A wealth of information has been made available in the past decade or
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by h1karu 12y ago
wonders never cease, thank you for the information.
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by h1karu 12y ago
I don't like the idea of lumping all "drugs" together. I don't like it when the government does it and I don't like it when well meaning individuals do it. While I generally don't approve of the practice of m
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by h1karu 12y ago
Well finding pure MDMA can be problematic but it's certainly not an insurmountable problem if you take your time and research it well. While it's true that there is a fair amount of "cut" product and even fake product o
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by h1karu 12y ago
Occasional, unmonitored use changed my life for the better no question about it, and I still feel that way even though I haven't touched it in years. I can't think of another drug that I could say that about. If you're waiti
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by h1karu 12y ago
MDMA is a party drug that longs to live a straight life.. see the video I posted elsewhere in this thread.
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by h1karu 12y ago
RIP to one of the true heros of our generation. thank you Alexander Shulgin! gone by not forgotten http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-4L5vRZ_g8
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by h1karu 12y ago
Excellent writeup! Next I'd like to see an article on deployment. What if I want my development team to be able to push code changes regularly to an app cluster via a git-based workflow and have these deploys all occur with zero down
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by h1karu 12y ago
You're joking right ?
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by h1karu 12y ago
I suppose if the original post had been about chaos magic alone I wouldn't have chimed in to refer to it as religious speech. I would even suggest that there are more and more scientific authors showing up who are helping to bridge th
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by h1karu 12y ago
I suppose what I mean is that I don't think it's fair that fundamentalist christians don't get to post on HN about how they have a savior who performs miracles but yet it's relatively socially acceptable to have posts ab
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by h1karu 12y ago
"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction." William Blake
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by h1karu 12y ago
shrug . That parsons-hubbard connection was trotted out not too long ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7641580 I'm not trying to hate on it, post whatever you find interesting, just saying to me it reads
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by h1karu 12y ago
How is posting this article any different than handing out a thinly disguised pamphlet for a religious organization ? If someone were posting material here about how some people in California are into "accepting jesus as their persona
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by h1karu 12y ago
What does this have to do with technology or "hackers" ? Real wizards code in Lisp.
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by h1karu 12y ago
It depends on what you mean by "startup" I suppose. I've worked for three and in each I've been one of the first dozen or so employees. You don't have to be a founder but I think that being a core "early emplo
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by h1karu 12y ago
> People claim that startups work you hard, I personally don’t see it. From people I’ve talked to, I’d say 50 hour weeks are average. That’s about what you see in corporate America these days. If you're working at an early stage s
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by h1karu 12y ago
Wow that's so cool! I'm personally overjoyed that the suppression of this promising area of research is beginning to lift. I hope it goes well for you.
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by h1karu 12y ago
same phenomena can be observed in gangsta rap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15z3MU3Zel8 peace up, a-town down
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by h1karu 12y ago
Yes, but I don't wish to discuss 'PTSD diagnosis politics' in this forum instead I'd rather just add value by pointing people to a non-commerical modality that actually works for treating those who suffer from the types
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by h1karu 12y ago
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy can be an effective treatment for people who do not respond to traditional therapies for PTSD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-4L5vRZ_g8 < three minute rundown that explains MDMA http:&#x2F
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by h1karu 12y ago
google is not the only search engine.

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