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by md224 9y ago
On a side note, I would like to thank the HN mods for allowing this discussion to take place. Previous attempts at discussion were quickly silenced by flagging, and while it's a little weird that a piece on YCombinator just happens to
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I'd love to get a discussion going on whether people support or oppose the flagging (and subsequent disappearance) of politically charged topics on HN. While HN is not a politics site, some of these censored topics have been tech-relat
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Not sure if you'll see my reply, but this happens often to HN submissions on politically charged topics. The topic gets flagged to death. It's been like this for a long time.
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Location: New York, NY Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Javascript / Node.js, PHP, HTML/CSS, SQL Resume: http://matt-diamond.com/MattDiamond.pdf Email: matt@matt-diamond.com My background is a lit
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by md224 9y ago
Amen. To add to this: one of the (many) reasons people end up on heroin is because they lose access to pharmaceutical painkillers. It might sound strange, but our restrictive drug policies are actually making the heroin epidemic worse. We n
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What startup was that, may I ask?
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Context? Were there layoffs at SC?
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How is free will not the same as choice? A lack of free will is an inability to exert agency through choosing. Determinism removes the possibility of choosing. If you have no free will, you can't express yourself... nothing you do will
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And yet you still choose. You're trying to dissect your agency, but it's too fundamental to be analyzed like that. It isn't a decision-making process: it is the decision itself. Writing that reply to me required a series of d
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> there is no homunculus (or soul, or separate entity) calling the shots for you, but even if there were a mini-me inside of you making choices, that mini-me would need a mini-mini-me inside of it, ad infinitum. I find it kind of amusing
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It would be cool if they provided a public WebSocket that anyone could use to consume events. Related: it would be cool if there was a directory of public WebSockets offering a variety of real-time data streams.
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> The Jaunt by Stephen King God, that story. Such a simple plot, and yet the existential terror of what it describes is beyond comprehension.
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I don't remember who built it, but MDN.io is a neat little tool that allows you to quickly jump to the MDN docs for a given topic. For example: http://mdn.io/flexbox Admittedly, I don't use it, but cool that it ex
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Thank you. The solution is, paradoxically, to increase access to opiates so nobody has to buy on the black market.
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That's funny, since opium, amphetamines, and LSD are all very useful drugs and shouldn't be outlawed.
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Awesome! Here's a similar project in the audio domain: http://rlukedubois.bandcamp.com/album/timelapse
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> During Campbell’s last four months at Magic Leap, Abovitz—who always had been pouty and prone to temper-tantrums, began to dig his heels in even more in the face of dissenting ideas and to explode ever more frequently into child-like f
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It's also possible that antidepressants (and drugs of abuse) numb some part of your mind that's broken due to emotional trauma, and as a result you lose that part of your personality while it heals. Then, when you come off the dru
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Drug abuse is such a fascinating and frustrating thing. I think in 500 years they're gonna look back at how we handled this and shake their heads at the inhumanity of it all. Here's something interesting I learned the other day: i
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> imho, cancer is a fundamental disease/property of multicellular life I like analogizing between multicellular organisms and nation-states, in that both are complex systems built upon the coordination of many individual systems (ce
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by md224 10y ago
This seems like a good time to link to this prescient 2002 TED talk from Daniel Dennett on "dangerous memes": https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_dangerous_memes
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> Meta is basically crack, so we routinely downweight such posts Interesting that you make a drug analogy. What's wrong with letting HN users have their crack? Unlike actual crack, there's no danger of side effects, dependency,
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Or perhaps our tendency to judge the success of a project by how much money it makes points to a fundamental problem in what we are doing?
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> I don't know what you mean. Certainly "altered states of consciousness" alter the operation of this attention schema theory, by altering signal strength of some perceptions and/or impeding the function of the attent
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That attention schema theory is interesting but it still doesn't solve the Hard Problem: why information about colors looks like colors, why information about surfaces feels like a surface... how a biological system could experienc
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Something to consider: perhaps these people became addicted when they discovered that opiates provided relief from underlying depression... I have a feeling this may be one reason why some get addicted and others don't. (Believe it or
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I don't think the answer to the DEA's misguided paternalism is more paternalism. The inconsistency you've hit on is real, but the solution we should be fighting for is to make more things legal , not illegal . I don'
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The up/down cycle is frustrating... wouldn't it be nice if science could figure out a way to maximize the up and minimize the down? Wouldn't it be great if you could just take a daily pill that brightened your mood and killed
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Kratom user here... it's definitely promising, and for the same reason as the other drug in the article: more G Protein activation, less β-arrestin activation. Here's a study (free access) from Columbia University researchers on t
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I think the idea is that if people didn't have access to alcohol, many of them would realize they have no good way to calm their nerves, and therefore realize they have anxiety issues.

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