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by md224 11y ago
I'm not saying Google shouldn't be allowed to do what it does. I'm just saying what it does seems fundamentally unethical.
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I have made this case before, but I will make it again. The Internet is the largest information system in the world, and Google is the primary portal into that information system. Google's "organic" results are accompanied by
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by md224 11y ago
Libertarians like free markets, right? Has anyone tried applying free market principles to drug use? Perhaps if all drugs were legal, people would be able to find less harmful drugs instead of being forced to abuse what's currently leg
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by md224 11y ago
Interesting view. What I find problematic is equating drug use with being "high." Sure, you can use enough of a drug that it impairs you, but you can also use less than that. Some may refer to this as "microdosing" but I
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Can Nicotine Be Good for You?(nytimes.com)
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Ask HN: What's the best way to relinquish control of an open source project?
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by md224 11y ago
Could be an interesting way for candidates to get in front of third-party spin. When you Google "Bernie Sanders" you could be greeted with rich content from the Sanders campaign explaining his positions, rather than links to hit p
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by md224 11y ago
Interesting that a patient positively responded to the Shamanic approach. Anecdotal evidence, but it makes you wonder.
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> Money is access to popular mass communication channels. But doesn't that basically equate to speech? Money = your power to reach people? I'm curious because my beef with search engine advertising revolves around its ability t
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I searched for "moon pie" and didn't find what I was looking for. :(
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Some people just don't understand the importance of psychoactive drugs. It's sad.
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No worries... I'm not sure exactly why the reply button is hidden when this "trick" allows you to reply regardless. HN mods might be able to shed more light on this.
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by md224 11y ago
Please reply to posts directly for the sake of keeping the thread tidy. If you don't see a reply link for a post, click the timestamp (e.g. "17 minutes ago") to go to the permalink view for a given comment, where a reply box
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Life, Information, Entropy, and Time: Vehicles for Semantic Inheritance (2007)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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The problem is extrapolating from local weather to "climate change is real!" or "climate change is a lie!" We mock idiotic politicians who use snowstorms to "debunk" global warming; we should hold the other sid
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by md224 11y ago
Great point. People also turn to heroin because it's simply more affordable than a pill habit. It's an economic calculation. There are so many things wrong with drug policy right now and we're paying the price. We could use m
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Music Stories: A Better Way to Discover and Share Music(media.fb.com)
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I've been thinking about this topic a lot recently, as I've been self-medicating depression and anxiety with Kratom leaf powder. In my opinion, the line between self-medication and proper medication is ethically blurry. Yes, clear
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by md224 11y ago
> in order to say something that is true, I need to say something that is false. What does this mean?
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But how does he know "their null hypotheses are always true"? He seems to take it as a given. Why? Edit: is it just me or did they boot this off the front page manually?
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I wish this was real.
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The Cult Deficit(nytimes.com)
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by md224 12y ago
There have been some promising studies showing rapid-onset relief for major depression following the administration of ketamine. Glutamate seems to be getting more attention these days, in terms of its potential role in mental illness.
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by md224 12y ago
Personally I think "generate healthy discussion" should be the goal of all HN threads, which is why I think comment-count penalties are unproductive. How do you tell the difference between "vigorous debate" and a "f
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by md224 12y ago
I'm doubtful we can really "prove" true unconsciousness exists (in the sense that subjective awareness completely ceases) until we have a much more advanced understanding of how experience arises in the brain. Right now the m
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by md224 12y ago
Enjoyed the shout-out to Bohmian mechanics. Nonlocality may be weird, but you know what else is weird? Everything else about quantum mechanics. I'd actually prefer a nonlocal deterministic theory to a local indeterministic one, thoug
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by md224 12y ago
> No one would bat an eye if a used car salesman put his own personal interest above the interest of his customer? That could be because they expect used car salesmen to behave unethically. In that case, their "not batting an eye&qu
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by md224 12y ago
Sorry to hear the news. I interviewed with Earbits at one point and they seemed like really good guys. If I may offer some gentle post-mortem constructive criticism: Earbits seemed very focused on their value proposition to musicians. Their
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Perhaps the point being made was that the individual motives/goals of the employees are irrelevant to assessing the overall motives of the company as a whole. Personally I'd say it's whatever the CEO's goals are, but sha
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by md224 12y ago
Eh, I'm willing to cut them some slack. I talked about science as a continuous process of revision, which might give the impression that I'm making a Pessimistic Induction argument ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2

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