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by rendall 1y ago
Would you say the issue is intoxication in general, or is there something categorically different about psychedelics compared to alcohol?
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by rendall 1y ago
> you don’t think that’s a bit condescending? Honest question: are you self-aware? That is, do you feel yourself to be of the world , or uniquely separate from the world? I'm asking, again, sincerely, because I'm wondering
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by rendall 1y ago
> I would go further and suppose that any Christian elder or leader who volunteered to do this had already demonstrated their unsuitability to speak on the matter of psychedelics and God. I have honest questions. Would you mind expandi
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by rendall 1y ago
I don't. I help around a friend's horse farm sometimes.
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by rendall 1y ago
This you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280898
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by rendall 1y ago
That was not nature. That was a human who made the decision to keep those birds penned up together.
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by rendall 1y ago
I was a tourist in Athens once. Adjacent to the Presidential Mansion is the National Garden, quite lovely. At the time it had a miserable little zoo. In one of the cages was a pair of bedraggled hens. Their backs were entirely bare of any f
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by rendall 1y ago
There is so much that I love about this article that it makes me shy. This image: “Gnossienne #1” radiates a mood of … what, exactly? Lightly anxious contemplation? Oddly contented melancholy? An icy but heartwarming breeze? ...Slightly br
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by rendall 1y ago
Not at all. I don't love crypto, but I don't have to. I'm talking about the moral panic and virtue signaling these new technologies inspire.
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by rendall 1y ago
This media frenzy has the same structure as the crypto panic from a year or two ago: Step 1: New tech emerges and grows fast. Step 2: Media fixates on energy use or resource costs, often with shaky math or cherry-picked comparisons. Step 3:
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by rendall 1y ago
I almost didn't mention it but I'm petty.
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by rendall 1y ago
So we're all just going to ignore the fact that the title says rogue rogue ?
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by rendall 1y ago
Hmm. I guess I feel that "The Horseshoe Theory" is worse than useless. It implies that as someone gets "too much" Right or Left, they inevitably become authoritarian, as if centrists cannot be authoritarian. It equates &
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by rendall 1y ago
Horseshoe theory has always read like a Pythagorean epicycle to me, an attempt to redeem a broken model. For a reductive political model, I prefer the 2 dimensional Collectivist-Individualist, Authoritarian-Libertarian axes. No need to lit
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by rendall 1y ago
All States are various shades of purple.
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by rendall 1y ago
Why shame? Most readers of HN are from the US. It's good that everyone discuss these lessons in relation to their own nations.
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by rendall 1y ago
What would happen if you ignored it? That's the basis for figuring out next steps. It sounded from what you wrote that it will not affect your relationship with PayPal, because they are asking your sellers to contact them individually,
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by rendall 1y ago
Shades could just orbit like any other artificial satellite. It does not have to block the sun all of the time, just part of the day. I suspect the atmosphere, ecology and albedo would adjust to radiate the extra energy away anyway.
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by rendall 1y ago
What is it?
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by rendall 1y ago
I felt like The Mandalorian was a step above its nearest best of Star Wars TV. Andor is a step above that.
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by rendall 1y ago
Small critique: you probably want its (possessive of "it") in the title rather than it's ("it is") as in: > I like Svelte more than React (its store management)
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by rendall 1y ago
Perhaps a synthesis of the two? A lack of friction between the designer's vision and production led to a more interesting, more engaging user experience overall, in my opinion. The web itself then was an art and design medium that it i
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by rendall 1y ago
These are quotes from Steve Jobs: > "New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too)." > "HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many
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by rendall 1y ago
I was the parenthetical latter. I see the same kind of dynamic with React Developers these days: the platform itself encourages poor coding practices and a detachment from the core technologies of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
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by rendall 1y ago
I appreciate the nostalgic tone here, but its core critique that Flash allowed Adobe to dominate the web feels oddly selective, especially looking back now. Flash wasn’t perfect. It had major security flaws, a proprietary runtime, and a clu
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by rendall 1y ago
As a Flash developer at the time, I was constantly telling people: “Yes, you can do SEO with Flash, and here’s how. No, you don’t bundle everything into one giant .swf. Your problem isn’t with Flash, it’s with bad code.” Today, the web is c
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by rendall 1y ago
Alzheimer’s isn’t a prion disease, but it does show prion-like behavior. Misfolded proteins like amyloid-beta and tau can spread within the brain similarly to prions, but unlike true prion diseases (e.g. CJD), Alzheimer’s isn’t infectious a
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by rendall 1y ago
> A long and mostly endless stream of “blackpills” about the cost of housing can be readily found on any social media platform — and often enough, the “boomers” are the scapegoat; the ones who lived their American Dreams and, as the all
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by rendall 1y ago
They said in their penultimate podcast episode (2021-11-22) that the Futility Closet blog would continue but that the following episode would be their last.
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by rendall 1y ago
Futility Closet had a cheerful, wholesome podcast for many years until abruptly ending it without much explanation. Glad to see they're still busy. Anyone know what happened? I always wondered.

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