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by rms 15y ago
Google or Facebook?
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by rms 15y ago
For the most part, you're not liable as long as you're properly incorporated and don't sign anything making you personally liable, unless you committed various crimes such as fraud along the way. Corporate bank loans for early stage compani
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by rms 15y ago
Dopamine agonists (heroin, cocaine, Farmville, et al.) are the kinds of drugs that people get addicted to. They are not the kinds of things you would want to get addicted to. Heroin and cocaine have other actions beyond dopamine, but Farm
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by rms 15y ago
Increasing amounts of evidence?
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by rms 15y ago
You got it! Except it's a bit confounded because a few of the schedule 1 drugs really, truly aren't medically usable because they are trumped by substances proven to be less harmful.
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by rms 15y ago
I'd bet that the net consequence of every single person in society dosing acid once, like the Merry Pranksters dreamed of, would have been more along the lines of a slight decrease in net societal productivity than a total counter-cultural
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by rms 15y ago
Agreed with parent that this is basically a Puritan attitude. This idea that one creates self-worth via work is not anything like a cultural absolute. One of my favorite things about Balinese culture is that they don't have the idea that po
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by rms 15y ago
I don't know the details, just from mentions of it on places like http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/03/kim-dotcom-... .
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by rms 15y ago
Odds that he will make it to the safe harbor of Germany?
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by rms 15y ago
I like www.longform.org.
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by rms 15y ago
Right now we're testing drafts of interactive units of curriculum, so it's not really a talk format that we can record and upload. Hopefully at some point we'll get to a format more digestible online but for now we're testing locally.
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Not really an official announcement so much as the name we're calling it now until we settle on a decisive, permanent name by the time we launch not-free workshops. But probably since we've just anchored on it we'll stick with it unless we
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by rms 15y ago
We're doing these on Saturday afternoons at my house near Ashby BART from now until the foreseeable future. Come on by, say hi, and hopefully enjoy an interesting workshop. These are most intended for people without much prior exposure to L
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Free Singularity Institute hosted Rationality Workshops in Berkeley on Saturdays(docs.google.com)
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I pay $4700/month for an architecturally magnificent 5BR 2200 square foot house on the block east of the Berkeley Bowl. I suppose it's not cheap on an absolute scale, but a comparable house in SF would be $8000/month at the very minimum and
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by rms 15y ago
That should work.
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by rms 15y ago
There was a certain lull point in Reddit, where it was still great for what it was, but it had lost the intellectual early adopter set but had not yet become the cultural juggernaut that it is now. Maybe it was right before the Digg exodus?
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by rms 15y ago
$25/month
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by rms 15y ago
We're not there yet, but the early 2020's should begin the era when power starts to shift to our generation.
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by rms 15y ago
Good point. As he was responding to someone discussing amphetamine, I thought he meant amphetamine. I have known someone prescribed 3x20mg short acting amphetamine daily who after stopping is now quite aware of the long term negative effect
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by rms 15y ago
Sorry, yes, I'm suggesting that amphetamine is much more dagnerous than methylphendidate.
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High dose stimulants in rats are neurotoxic. http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/neuro/20091104/msgs/931964.html Your mileage may vary, but I think prescribing patients >50mg amphetamine is often irresponsible. Ask your psychiatrist at what
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by rms 15y ago
I indisputably have adult ADD, though mostly avoid stimulant drugs (not really at all because I have a tendency to avoid drugs, but because I dislike the subjective state of most stimulants, including caffeine). I spent about six weeks doin
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by rms 15y ago
That's a high dosage, to the level where I expect it is neurotoxic. I think you might be more of the exception than the rule... some withdrawal is to be expected, though not necessarily as strong as OP.
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The evidence is much more strongly in favor of amphetamine being actually poisonous (neurotoxic) than ritalin. Even then, it only happens at higher higher than a certain, not really well known dosage. You might like playing around with Neur
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by rms 15y ago
Modafanil works to cut Adderall withdrawal symptoms for most people. And Modafanil withdrawal is nothing more than being unusually tired, but not miserable.
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by rms 15y ago
Excel is basically the best product Microsoft has ever made. Google Docs doesn't work for much beyond the basics, and Open Office is still inferior when doing anything complicated.
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Groupon banned from promoting snake oil in the UK(asa.org.uk)
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Ask HN: Best off the shelf shopping cart?
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by rms 15y ago
Yes, but only to encourage a pile-on effect leading to Facebook and Google doing it.

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