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by raducu 2y ago
Don't forget the many, many negative issues SOME people get from nicotine. I loved nicotine, but it terribly exacerbates my rheumatoid arthritis in my hands, inflames blood vessels in my lower arms (to the point of waking with my arms
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by raducu 2y ago
It means ABA is most effective if applied at a younger age. Think feral children -- it's almost impossible to aquire language after a certain age. The parent holding the ABA course for parents was lucky to be well off and being able to
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by raducu 2y ago
>. "the person is a mentally stable and healthy individual", then not. Some 4 years ago I went through an autism scare with my daughter and booked a 2 day course for parents of children with autism about ABA therapy, held by on
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by raducu 2y ago
I know from various empirical sources that ABA works way better than the alternatives. But how about the gay conversion therapy? Can anybody do any real science on that or any scientist that would touch the topic would have to say goodbye t
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by raducu 2y ago
> any signal source can become a sense. A new sense? That's unheard of. We can map any signal to an existing sense, but not create a new sense/sensation. That would be one of the most relevant developments in human history and
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by raducu 3y ago
clitocybe nebularis?
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by raducu 3y ago
> As soon as i read this a beautiful and peaceful life flashed before my eyes. I lived such a life on my grandparents subsistence farm in early post-communist Romania, where we only bought store made bread and nothing else for months (an
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by raducu 3y ago
> I am aphantastic Were you always like this? I clearly remember as a child/teenager I had exquisite inner imagery, but around 17-18 anxiety set in and the imagery slowly faded away to the point that today I can only conjure faint
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by raducu 3y ago
Work from home?
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by raducu 3y ago
I could be wrong but I believe 120 vs 60 makes a huge difference only because the framrtate is not actually constant and in certain cases/scenes the framerate can drop significantly, whereas an IR google I immagine will render at a co
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by raducu 3y ago
> so there's at least one frame of lag for every image Well, 24 fps vs 120 fps would technically matter, to the point where at a high enough frame rate you could not possibly tell the difference; I suspect it's more like 48 fps
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by raducu 3y ago
People (including myself) are already saying this. I live in an Easter European major city and when traveling to a civilized country (yes fellow eastern europeans, hate me for saying this) I'm always take aback by the quality of the ai
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by raducu 3y ago
Wasn't Iraq about to switch away from trading the oil in USD ? But let me flip your argument -- why did the US invade Iraq? The US has/had troops stationed in Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia was in the US's pocket at that time
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by raducu 3y ago
> It's just common sense for a country/group of countries. Conspiracies are just common sense for a group of people; but that's exactly my point. A group doesn't have to meet at night by the torch light in black robes
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by raducu 3y ago
> Free market will win here Think batteries and nuclear fusion. Extremely hard stuff, not easy to pick apples. State actors can absolutely influence the fields for decades by choosing to fund certain approaches that lend themseves to cen
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by raducu 3y ago
> Europe doesn't have much Lithium The USA doesn't care if there's Xium inside the USA. Xium just has to be in a few places and it has to be moved across the globe, transacted in USD and guarded by the US Navy. Big corpora
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by raducu 3y ago
> but I just googled and it does indeed also mean relieving of the symptoms. In that sense AIDS is also cured, but in my book it's not, because people with it have to take pills for the rest of their lives and those pills do have s
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by raducu 3y ago
> eliminates at least one supply bottleneck The CIA wants to know your location /s . I know this kind of joke is not appreciated on HN (for good reason), but one has to ponder of the implication of cheap/dense energy/stora
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by raducu 3y ago
> the chemistry is made of really common materials I don't want to sound like a conspiray theorist, but something tells me the really big actors (like states) only want materials that they can control the suply of.
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by raducu 3y ago
> I just spend all of my time on HN and youtube on my unmedicated days. The first times I tried stimulants, after 2-3 hours of euphoric productivity, the effects would wear off but the residual stimulation would be enough to make me cont
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by raducu 3y ago
> If anything, I feel ever so slightly “dumber” on them. They dull my creative thinking and in return, I gain a bit of motivation. It does nothing to my willpower. So I still need to want xyz thing bad, but it makes the act of doing that
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by raducu 3y ago
> give it a large program that has a bug which isn't a trivial syntax error, and it won't help you That's not fair, humans can't do that, and if you walk Chat GPT through it, it might surprise you with its debugging
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by raducu 3y ago
I work with java and do a lot of integration, but a looot of my effort goes into exploring and hacking away some limitations of a test system, and doing myself things that would take a lot of time if I had to ask the proper admins. I had a
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by raducu 3y ago
> Yeah that's my larger point about the guy and the pattern. It doesn't lead to growth. I've seen zero growth whatsoever. If Chat GPT can solve a problem consistently well, I don't think it's worth the effort to
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by raducu 3y ago
> nudge it when it goes into a bad direction It happenes a few times for me that Chat GPT gets stuck in a bullshit loop and I can't get it unstuck. Sure I could summarise the previous session for Chat GPT and try again, but I'm
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by raducu 3y ago
> But, if you have a conversation with it It can't tell you a straight answer or halucinates API. It can't tell you "no, this cannot be done", it tries to "help" you. For me it's great for writing si
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by raducu 3y ago
I'd also like to know. I supposed there must have been a lot of heat from the initial impact, tides must also happen inside the Earth, but I wonder how different the Earth would have looked like techtonically without the Moon? No plate
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by raducu 3y ago
> The latter two points might turn out to be extremely rare events. Are those events that crucial for life?
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by raducu 3y ago
You mean "Ignore Search Results" ?
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by raducu 3y ago
Transcending death and a longing for deeper meanings for life are quite universal, but yeah, tripping, I don't think so. But some people might be more comfortable saying there's a fundamental need for tripping than saying there&#x

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