ktizo

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by ktizo 14y ago
Having ketamine in hospital is not a recreational drug experience. There are no recreational drugs, just recreational circumstances.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I don't think that depression is down to a single biological mechanism, and there is a big difference between depression due to environment and chronic depression. But saying "holistic/dynamic" is not an explanation, but is more like waving
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by ktizo 14y ago
I know people on the London party scene who got these symptoms over ten years ago. I suspect that it wasn't until there was a culture of people taking large daily doses that this issue became prevalent, as it would be unlikely for this to h
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by ktizo 14y ago
Well, at least this will give health professionals job security in the games industry if the government downsizes healthcare. Anyone up for a game of Sim-Hospital?
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by ktizo 14y ago
"Getting back to the facts, there is nothing allowing us to think that depressed people feel better when taking ketamine BECAUSE the number of synapses increases when taking ketamin." This seems to be a strange use of the word "allowing".
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by ktizo 14y ago
By your argument, all control groups for testing treatments for anything debilitating is unethical. The answer to that is that medical ethics generally work on a basis of least harm, so if you have informed volunteers who might have negativ
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by ktizo 14y ago
My understanding is that ketamine processes through the body slowly, so if you take it in reasonably large doses every day, you can saturate your system quite easily, which can lead to crystal formation in soft tissues, which is extremely d
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by ktizo 14y ago
Sounds like quite a risky quiche. Did it come with extra crunchy bits?
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by ktizo 14y ago
There was no evidence presented though, just an appeal to common sense, and common sense is not as useful a guide on these matters as it is made out. Especially in the absence of any evidence, a request for information about background and
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by ktizo 14y ago
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use lo
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by ktizo 14y ago
I thought that the patronage model could partly be a bit like a subscription fan club, with various perks and deals on gigs and limited artifacts and streamed studio access and other stuff like that.
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by ktizo 14y ago
David Bowie has built a fortress of solitude out of these at the Martian South Pole.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Is somewhat odd and amusing that the copyright holders of the text (not the author, as he died in 2003) requested that this comic be taken down from the site that originally posted it. - http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusi
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by ktizo 14y ago
"the original intention was that any educational institution anywhere in the world could be registered under the EDU domain" from RFC1480 - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1480#page-3 "The US dominated the early history of the Internet (
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by ktizo 14y ago
It isn't a bad idea to require recognition, but it is a bad idea to cede control of the process of recognition of academic institutions for .edu domains to the government administration of a single nation as there is far too much potential
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by ktizo 14y ago
They got it in 1999, so were not subject to the new rules.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Oops, my bad. I misread. However, going through the website for .edu domains, it does seem pretty restrictive for anyone outside the US. "For postsecondary institutions located outside the U.S.: As specified by the Department of Commerce,
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by ktizo 14y ago
What about the possibility of international educational establishments, or purely online ones? There are many good reasons that an educational establishment might not want to be associated with any specific nation.
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by ktizo 14y ago
They probably got it before 2001.
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by ktizo 14y ago
"So according to the article, it's not restricted to the US, it's just that the US decides who gets it and who doesn't." Well, a private company overseen by the US Chamber of Commerce gets to decide and is only taking guidance of eligibil
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by ktizo 14y ago
I've always thought that in the event of an apocalypse a good plan would be to go and knock off a survivalist and nick all their stuff. Given the name, it would be funny if the survivalists are all the first ones to go. No doubt it will all
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by ktizo 14y ago
Where does the pointy end go again? I was meaning that the ability to shoot someone is not really needed in the vast majority of defensive situations. Also, if you are up against someone who wants to kill you and who has a gun, if you have
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by ktizo 14y ago
I find it hardly likely that it would be lower given you would have to factor in accidental death, suicide, murders within gun owning families, etc, and on the other side there are just the situations where owning a gun actually stopped you
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by ktizo 14y ago
Guns are pointless defensively for anything barring a very narrow range of situations. If you are really that worried, get a big stick, it is far more likely to be useful and you aren't going to get arrested, shot, or accidentally blow off
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by ktizo 14y ago
Remember, there's much less demand for guns here and ~20% less GDP per capita, plus those areas of manchester are particularly poor and the bullets are much more expensive as we don't stock them in the supermarket.
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by ktizo 14y ago
But for the moment having the minus of time, material, equipment, accuracy, money, reliability, etc. Plus, people can already make guns at home using fairly simple metalworking tools that are much less likely to fail badly than using 3d pri
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by ktizo 14y ago
I grew up in the UK and did some cadet training, so I learned to shoot a small caliber rifle there. I also know some farmers, some professional hunters, and some folk who go on pheasant shoots so I know a few people who use guns professiona
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by ktizo 14y ago
The main issue with restricting availability of 3d printers is an economic one. The potential for engineering improvements, cost savings, insanely tight development cycles and mass bespoke manufacture-to-order would seem to strongly favour
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by ktizo 14y ago
the security we offer is top notch. That's what you would say... if you were a trans-dimensional lizard from space.
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by ktizo 14y ago
cutting edge crowdsourced location aware mobile technology. Is that like one of those Swiss army knives with a built-in compass?

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