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by lawpoop 9y ago
If it were strictly a placebo effect, I would expect any sort of treatment-- anti depresents (I've been on a dozen), talking theraposts, anccupuncture, accupressure, hypnotism, etc. etc. To have worked. If it were just the fact that I
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by lawpoop 9y ago
> but look for people from degree programs you trust How is someone who doesn't really keep tabs on departments of psychology supposed to have developed a sense of trust of particularly degree programs? Do you mean like preferring V
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by lawpoop 9y ago
A personal anecdote-- I suffered from cluster headaches for about 20 years, starting in high school. Because of bad emotions and not having much success with traditional psychotherapy and anti-depressants, I started going to primal therapy.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Yes. There are four fundamental forces that govern the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, and strong and weak nuclear forces. Dark matter interacts with gravity, but not electromagnetism. Electromagnetism is the force that we are acting u
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by lawpoop 9y ago
I'll want something that probably communicates with web through REST calls, with authentication, so I'll need ssl.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Is there an authoritative source on POSIX shell?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
I guess I'm not so concerned about doing it in c, but rather getting stuck in certain places (I'm only thinking of memory management, but I suppose there are others) that higher level languages avoid completely. Also, as a learner
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Ask HN: What high level language for writing a command line utility?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Funny, my thoughts exactly
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by lawpoop 9y ago
I would rather say that it's argument from evidence, but that's perhaps an academic point. But I disagree that drug policy is judged on the merits you mention; we have evidence of decriminalization in portugal, and its relative su
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Can't say I disagree with him on that
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by lawpoop 9y ago
What were the false claims?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Probably because we don't generally become aware of anyone's heroin usage, whether they're a celebrity or someone you know, until it's a problem spiraled out of control. Most people never see non-addictive, non-destructi
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Which it turns comes across as ignorant, to people aware of how successfully Portugal handled their heroin addiction crisis, through decriminalization.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
I'll be honest, I'm not going to look up the work. Do those experiments show definitively that babies and animals understand that 1 + 1 = exactly 2 and nothing else? Or do they understand that 1-ish + 1-ish is more than 1 -- becau
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by lawpoop 9y ago
The same way any other adaptive trait evolved. Those offspring with random mutations drowned less, and and more reproductive success.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Interesting to me -- as a kid, the only place I smelled lily flowers was at funerals. Their pungent and slightly unpleasant odor I thought was enbalming fluid, or something else associated with dead bodies. I can't smell them to this d
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by lawpoop 9y ago
From a fresh build, I agree with you. However, for MySQL in an existing application, the migration costs might make it not worth it. There can be a number of pernicious gotchas that aren't obvious at first. MariaDB is more or less set-
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Another aspect I suspect is that older people have been around the block and have better BS detectors. This makes them less easy to roll over, and also they are more likely to offer a counter-narrative to whatever BS mgmt is pushing down to
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by lawpoop 9y ago
You would use it over PostgreSQL because it's a drop-in replacement for MySQL. PostgreSQL is not. If you're not using MySQL in the first place, why would you care?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Why does it have to change? It's a free market, internationally. Perhaps if they don't want to pay for drugs, drug companies should stop selling to them.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
You're saying the rest of the world is so poor, their health care systems are bouyed as a /side effect/ of the research that companies do, financed by the their average American customer?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
MariaDB is a thing.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Experimentally, when they entangle photons, they just pick two random photons. If two random photons used in an experiment weren't ever really separate entities to being with, even before the experiment ever started, then one should pr
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Not a physicist, but questions of "how" and "why" are complicated by their ambiguity in English. In common English, "how" means the mechanics of a system, and "why" generally means for what purpose so
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Make with the numbers.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
> Because wages are tied to supply and demand, not productivity. Increased productivity will rather lower wages. You ever notice how right-wingers dismiss economic statistics quasi-scholastic talking points, and never show you numbers?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
> Well, how high should they have risen? They can't rise indefinitely. Why couldn't they be on par with the rise in productivity? As they did from 1950 to 1970: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6H3OQjdwq4w/T6Hs2Dz
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Have a look at WISP, which I just found out about from this thread: http://dustycloud.org/blog/wisp-lisp-alternative/ LISP without parentheses.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Why not put this disclaimer at the top of the essay?

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