jordan_curve

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by jordan_curve 1y ago
The connection for benzos is somewhat tenuous in its own right, but gabapentin actually has basically nothing to do with Benzos and does not act on your GABA system
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by jordan_curve 3y ago
isn't it generally recommended to use distilled water in these humidifiers for exactly this reason?
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by jordan_curve 3y ago
Do you have a source for this? As far as I know the purpose of corporations is to shield owners from losses and not a whole lot beyond that.
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by jordan_curve 3y ago
I bookmarked the article after the first few paragraphs to potentially share with some friends. Definitely a bit disappointed at the end. Was hoping the author would share their intuition for how to make relationships work in the smartphone
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by jordan_curve 3y ago
one common effect of SSRIs is that they can dull emotions. This is helpful and can be a positive effect if you are very depressed or get stuck in anxious spiraling. If you're very stable and happy emotionally, then that dulling might b
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by jordan_curve 3y ago
Does anyone know how one might go about implementing a feature like multiple select? I had a project doing something similar a while back and got pretty stuck on figuring out how to go about it
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by jordan_curve 4y ago
I'm not really sure I buy it. It seems to me more likely that he's just still incompetent and sort of addicted to the spotlight. He was one of the most popular and well-respected people in the world in a certain sub-community and
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by jordan_curve 4y ago
I never took anything past high school chemistry and I managed to understand it. It's not really that abstruse. My background is a bunch of wikipedia articles and chemistry youtube videos.
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by jordan_curve 4y ago
I took an undergraduate course on the economics of science and technology. A large portion of it was devoted to patents. The problem is generally that public funding accounts for extremely small amounts of the funding that it requires to ta
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by jordan_curve 4y ago
This makes sense as graduate school gets more and more competitive. Getting a tenure track position nowadays often requires being among the best students of a top graduate program. Even just getting into a PhD program can be difficult depen
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by jordan_curve 4y ago
Where did Judaism spread via war and forced conversion? Your historical claim is not entirely accurate and seemed very biased. Buddhism was spread by missionaries throughout history. At times, much in the same way as Christianity. Undoubted
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by jordan_curve 4y ago
You are correct to point out that games have gotten simpler in a certain sense, but I wouldn't conflate that with being less competitive. Simple games can be very competitive because the best players can become much better at them. Che
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by jordan_curve 4y ago
I’m no expert here and hopefully a doctor or public health student can chime in with the most accurate data here. However a quick google search suggests that nicotine is categorically more addictive than alcohol. It’s hard to measure exactl
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by jordan_curve 4y ago
Can I ask what the name of the book is?
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by jordan_curve 4y ago
He made novel contributions to computability theory. The first person to show that one-dimensional cellular automata could be turing-complete. That being said, he’s very much a crackpot nowadays. Being sane in the past does not imply you wi
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by jordan_curve 5y ago
In my experience undergraduate math textbooks are not like that at all. Perhaps for the introductory calculus sequence, but rarely for anything upper-division. There are so many good textbooks for Algebra, Analysis, Topology and the most co
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by jordan_curve 5y ago
If you looked instead at the number of people who obtain tenure at a research university, it would look much more comparable to getting into the NBA.
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by jordan_curve 5y ago
What do you mean? He is currently a U.S. Senator. There aren’t many circles more elite or powerful than that.
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by jordan_curve 5y ago
Hey this was me! When I was a child, my parents tried very hard to teach me how to tie my shoes, but I could not figure it out. To this day, I just tie them in knots and then make loops to make it seem like I tied them properly. I now have
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by jordan_curve 5y ago
I’ll disagree with everyone else here. There’s not really a good reason to understand them, no. It’s good to have a broad understanding of what tricks are out there and to get a general sense of what techniques might work where, but no reas
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by jordan_curve 5y ago
I’d be interested to see what the rate increase is for Athletes. I think of landing a top research as the equivalent of getting a spot on an NBA team (or other major sports team). Both are extremely competitive with only a select few spots
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by jordan_curve 5y ago
This is a horrible argument. The article itself went through the reasons that the previous common belief was not applicable to this unprecedented pandemic. Yet it concludes, without any evidence, this must have been caused by public health
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by jordan_curve 5y ago
I think “dating coaching” is usually a term used akin to “pick-up artist” i.e. using manipulative tricks to convince people to have sex with you. I don’t think having there’s anything wrong with having some sort of social interaction coach
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by jordan_curve 5y ago
It’s hard to understate how big Grothendieck’s imapact on mathematics was. He was, without any doubt, the most influential mathematician of the 20th Century. There are mathematicians today who learn french solely to read his works.
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by jordan_curve 5y ago
I’m happy. It’s not really a big deal to me if my uploaded content is removed and I think the service that Spotify provides is worth more than what I pay for it.
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by jordan_curve 5y ago
I don’t know where this myth comes from or why it’s so prevalent but it’s completely false. Methamphetamine and amphetamine salts (e.g. Adderall) are not at all the same drug. One clear distinction is that methamphetamine is serotonergic wh
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
To add onto this there’s also lengthy cognitive testing (usually about 6-8 hours of tests) that is much more precise. My understanding from talking to my psychiatrist is that there are certain traits, such as reaction speed, that are correl
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
Why would we live on the moon in permanent colonies outside of scientific research? There are still tons of uncolonized places on earth that are much more hospitable than the moon.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
> Earlier on I aimed for plain objects / structs for information, grouped state passing I’m a relatively junior dev and I believe this is a pattern I use a lot. Would you be willing to elaborate on what you mean by it and what some
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
There’s absolutely state-funded media in the U.S. It just doesn’t encompass as much as those in the UK or Australia. C-Span is a good example.

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