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by rocgf 5y ago
I've heard this many times and there is definitely some truth there, but for small doses (i.e. 100ug LSD and 1-1.5g mushrooms), I don't think you need to overly-concern yourself with minutiae of the differences. There is no reason
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by rocgf 5y ago
Indeed, the title is absolutely wrong. This is not a done deal, it is just a proposal.
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by rocgf 5y ago
I have learned about the perils of overworking the hard way - burnout after about 2 years of working too much. I've since learned to be more tempered. However, maybe I am missing something in most of the comments in here. Everybody see
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by rocgf 5y ago
For better or worse, it's not the importance of a disease per se that drives innovation, it's money. So assuming that hair loss is the kind of problem that would get people to spend money, then we might see some progress here.
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by rocgf 6y ago
The past year has taught me that this type of comment is generally anti-measures, so I am asking you this: do you think that letting it run loose through the population is a decent approach?
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by rocgf 6y ago
I have a slightly cynical view about this sort of thing, and assume that most might have some counter-arguments for why my cynicism is misguided. I get that the point of the post is to encourage others, but proclaiming to have "learned
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by rocgf 6y ago
It definitely is, and believing anything else is delusional. With that said, would you like to be the politician to stop the madness, if that's even possible? Things will not change until we have a crisis.
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by rocgf 6y ago
Because our economy is somewhat of a Ponzi scheme, in which everything needs to keep growing forever. We are perpetually borrowing from the future, with the assumption that everything will be growing forever. As people get older, they start
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by rocgf 6y ago
> it's not overpopulated. I'm sorry, but this is just a ridiculous statement to make, except maybe if our opinions on what overpopulation means are vastly different.
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by rocgf 6y ago
It is very hard to understand why your comment was downvoted this badly. I thought everyone understands that the planet is overpopulated as it is and that bringing as many children into the world as possible is not a net positive.
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by rocgf 6y ago
I definitely hope you are in the minority. I will just tell you how your comment sounded to me. "I don't care about the biggest challenge humanity is facing at the moment if that means I will have to be slightly inconvenienced by
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by rocgf 6y ago
As I said before, I am deeply troubled by what is happening in HK. I don't like China one bit and I would be so incredibly happy if it became a democracy. If you look at this through the lens of morality, it is obvious that there shoul
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by rocgf 6y ago
The footage from the HK protests were and still are deeply moving. It is hard to ignore the gravity of the situation and easy to empathize with the people just fighting for their freedom. With that said, I feel like we have to be objective
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by rocgf 6y ago
Interesting, somehow I never thought of that. Lowering taxes is just not a major talking point in European politics except maybe for certain types of taxes, or distributing them differently, but there are no big divides on this.
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by rocgf 6y ago
This was exactly my experience with The Economist. I tried for a few weeks to get through to someone because the queues were long, and I didn't have the time to wait around, checking the chat box every minute. It is absolutely unaccept
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by rocgf 6y ago
Indeed, and I am comparing to Europe. In Europe, I can usually get an appetizer and a main course and be kinda full, but not stuffed. In the US, the appetizer along would usually get me full.
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by rocgf 6y ago
This attitude towards cyclists is somewhat universal outside a few cycling-friendly countries, it is not US specific by any means. Cyclists are always seen as a nuisance, since they block the road for the "real" traffic. Cycling l
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by rocgf 6y ago
Who else feels like the TSLA price is a gigantic bubble at this point? Not that it's not valuable or worthy of some of the growth it's seen, but almost 10x in one year looks like a classic bubble to me. LE: Also, I don't real
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by rocgf 6y ago
I quit it about a year ago and I cannot even remember what it was like having an account, it just seems so strange that this would be such an important part of their online life. Everybody I know is on Whatsapp/Signal, so I really don&
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by rocgf 6y ago
> I don't understand the idea that a week of headaches is somehow worth it in return for quitting caffeine. > I just take a minimum regular dosage to avoid withdrawal symptoms. So you take caffeine just because you're addict
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by rocgf 6y ago
> Could you explain what rule it is you think people are too stupid to follow? If you have to ask this question after having lived through 2020, it does make me wonder... I believe a more decent question would be: is there any rule that
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by rocgf 6y ago
I do not know the answer, but I would absolutely shocked if it was streamed as a regular video. To the best of my knowledge, there are many, many optimizations which go into video. This is a pretty good high-level video I came across - htt
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by rocgf 6y ago
> When tired, relax. Agreed, it's just that in the moment, it seems like finding a solution for whatever problem I'm facing is a function of time. "If I spent hours on it, how could a break help?" It's counterint
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by rocgf 6y ago
I can work for 8+ hours (close to 14h), but there are a lot of caveats and the output is noticeably worse. Also, I can do it for a week or two, but after a while it takes a toll. The number of times I spent hours on an issue in the evening
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by rocgf 6y ago
I'm perplexed. This is a clear an example of false equivalence as you can hope to spot in the wild. On the one hand, you have US states that don't want free healthcare because they are uneducated and think it's "communis
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by rocgf 6y ago
Please stop. Seriously, this kind of mentality can only be detrimental to the effort to curb climate change. Every single discussion on the topic inadvertently ends up in the same few debates about numbers. Denmark has taken a decision agai
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by rocgf 6y ago
I am sorry, but I disagree.
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by rocgf 6y ago
Are we starting with this even here? Is there really no corner of the Internet that's immune to this bullcrap?
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by rocgf 6y ago
For a very long time, I had no idea HN had any sort of moderation and I can never remember thinking that it should. I think that's a great tell about the quality of work that dang is doing here. Thank you, dang!
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by rocgf 6y ago
This is fantastic, I did not know this has a Wikipedia page. As an Eastern European, I have noticed the use of this meme regularly, it's basically a recurring joke. With that said, I think it mainly refers to actually bullcrap research

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