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by jimmar 4y ago
Published 13 months ago. Is this technology in use, yet?
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If by "lab" you mean the planet through millions of years of evolution, then yes, psilocybin is a lab-created compound.
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As mentioned by the authors, the causal relationship cannot be answered by this study. But if you want to recall your dreams more frequently, I highly recommend keeping a dream journal (also mentioned in the link). In my teenage years I wen
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by jimmar 4y ago
I took 1 benzodiazepine bill once about 15 years ago and I still remember the effect--instant total relaxation. I remember thinking that it felt too good and that it's something I shouldn't let myself have again. Hearing about i
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by jimmar 4y ago
I loved how quickly VB6 applications started. Waiting for .NET applications to start felt like a huge step backward. In my first job out of college, I can pinpoint the exact moment when I won my boss' respect when I fixed a long-standi
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by jimmar 4y ago
I took a few minutes to scan Porter's website. They have a free tier. But when I read the getting started documentation, it says that I have to provision everything in my existing cloud infrastructure (e.g.; AWS). So I'm paying fo
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by jimmar 4y ago
A family member just quit her nursing job because she refused to learn yet another system. She was great with patients but could not stand the computer systems she had to use.
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by jimmar 4y ago
Lots of people are complaining about terrible content on Netflix. Years ago, Netflix was praised for its "long tail"--basically it could have content that appealed to people with diverse interests. But it seems like people now see
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by jimmar 5y ago
Maybe you chose your "hunger" example in haste, but it's not a great counterexample to the points in the article. Only the person making the statement about being hungry can know the truth. The focus of the article, as I read
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by jimmar 5y ago
> what would a competitor need to defy Google? A competitive business model. You can create tech that is easier to use and more powerful than Google's services, but you won't last unless you actually make money.
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by jimmar 5y ago
Wouldn't dates with times also be ranges? The ranges are just tighter. If something happened at 11:02AM, did it really happen at 11:02AM? Or did it really happen somewhere between 11:02.0AM and 11:02.99999AM?
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by jimmar 5y ago
On https://www.edgedb.com/tutorial/basic-queries/objects , if I change "SELECT User.name;" to "SELECT User.Name;" the page crashes with, "Application error: a client-side exception has occu
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by jimmar 5y ago
Children of affluent parents are still going to college at very high rates. The people suffering most from the expense of college are those who would benefit most from a college degree. Whatever the causes, people with college degree earn m
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by jimmar 5y ago
I like that companies are innovating and there is competition in this space. In 2018, John Deere only had 17% of the tractor market [1]. If farmer's don't like the tech, lack of repairability, etc, it seems they have plenty of oth
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by jimmar 5y ago
The sugar in milk is lactose (glucose + galactose). Soda is basically fructose and glucose. So the glucose if common between the two. I want recommendations of "don't eat sugar" to dig into the details, because sugar is every
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by jimmar 5y ago
According to Google's scraping of the USADA data, 40% of the calories in human breast milk are from sugar. That alone makes me question if sugar is really terrible for brain development in children.
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by jimmar 5y ago
Somebody in a previous HN threat recommended the Pentel EnerGel .7mm pens and I picked some up at WalMart. Best pens I've ever used and they're like $1.50 each.
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by jimmar 5y ago
My daughter just got an iPhone for Christmas--it was my wife's old iPhone 6s. Over 6 years old and other than shorter battery life, it works fine. Every Android device (tablet or phone) I've had has ended up in a junk drawer much
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by jimmar 5y ago
I have family members who refuse to clean knifes properly. I need stainless steel. Personally, I'd prefer to have high carbon, but I know it'd be a rusted mess in a month.
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by jimmar 5y ago
Guidelines depend on jurisdiction. Research conducted in the United States may have different requirements than other jurisdictions. The underlying ethos is that researchers should respect the people who are participating in their studies.
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by jimmar 5y ago
Here are questions sent to individuals in the study: Would you process a CCPA data access request from me even though I am not a resident of California? Do you process CCPA data access requests via email, a website, or telephone? If via a w
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by jimmar 5y ago
It is interesting in the study web page ( https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu/ ) that they consistently mention contacting "websites" instead of "people." As if a website is some autonomous thing that ca
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by jimmar 5y ago
Researchers in the past were pushing experiments too far. Infecting people with diseases without consent, torturing people psychologically, providing no post-experiment care, etc. I do research on human subjects, and while I often complain
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by jimmar 5y ago
If you thought your boss would resent you for taking the full benefit and would rank your performance poorly, would you take that risk knowing that you've now got a very small person who is relying on you? You could potentially be limi
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by jimmar 5y ago
It is a coordination problem. I have lots of friends in academia, and they all have to publish in specific journals otherwise their research doesn't count toward tenure and promotion. They can scream that it's unfair, but if they
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by jimmar 5y ago
Oops. You’re right about me linking to the wrong song. I didn’t realize how popular that song title has become.
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by jimmar 5y ago
Try to spot medical disinformation: https://crownlyric.com/2021/10/19/loza-alexander-lets-go-bra...
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by jimmar 5y ago
Thanks. I was curious because the demo on the homepage doesn't appear to be communicating with a backend. (The xterm.js code just seems to interact with https://xtermjs.org/js/demo.js .) So I guess this demo presen
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by jimmar 5y ago
I'm an educator and I to teach things like symmetric cryptography. I just used full virtual machines in class to demonstrate ccrypt to encrypt and decrypt files. Would xterm.js be a valid way to implement that kind of exercise to avoid
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by jimmar 5y ago
Seems similar to Project Libre - https://www.projectlibre.com/product/1-alternative-microsoft...

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