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by tedks 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsd#Reactivity_and_degradation """ "LSD," writes the chemist Alexander Shulgin, "is an unusually fragile molecule."[6] It is stable for indefinite time i
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by tedks 13y ago
From a comment on the page: """ There are a great many errors in your methodology, and I do not believe you received any of the drug in any of your doses. First off, you have no way of knowing that what you purchased actually
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by tedks 13y ago
> One can already organize resistance against a regime one considers harmful enough to merit violent resistance, via militant groups. Because successful states (i.e., not Greece) have vast amounts of institutional knowledge and training
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>Humans are the exception that proves the rule, You know, this phrase actually means "an exception that makes the rule more specific," not "a counterexample that mysteriously makes the rule more likely." >To give t
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by tedks 13y ago
It's common on less wrong to be very pro-IQ. I think this is a mix of contrarianism and desperately wanting to be superior at something, since most people on less wrong don't seem to be terribly well-off in other respects. That sa
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by tedks 13y ago
>Huh? How does that follow? Evolution isn't guaranteed to arrive at optimal outcomes at any given point in time. Obviously "algernon's law" isn't a, you know, law, because if that were the case humans wouldn&#x27
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by tedks 13y ago
It can't really be used by the general population for some web browsing, but it can easily be used for a variety of other applications. Most mobile traffic, for example, could probably go over Tor. All background data syncronization co
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by tedks 13y ago
Well, it's a bit of a fully general counterargument, but then, so is "there's no such thing as a free lunch." > If the proposed intervention would result in an enhancement, why have we not already evolved to be that w
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Gwern has some very good essays; I don't think this is one of them, because it's about 'laws' created on less wrong rather than anything actionable. It seems possible to dismiss this entire article with another less wron
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Crypto is no substitute for tradecraft.
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So, it seems like you're saying that if you can brute-force two ciphers, you can brute-force the composition of ciphers. It's still twice as hard, correct? And if you have two ciphers, one of which is compromised in some way, woul
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by tedks 13y ago
I've heard this before, and have no background in crypto so I can't dispute it, but I'm unsure as to how this makes sense. Certainly if I encrypt something with AES, and then encrypt it with Twofish, using different keys each
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by tedks 13y ago
It avoids backdoors. Assume that the Chinese government has backdoored its ciphers, and the American government has backdoored its ciphers, and the two governments don't want to cooperate. If you cascade the two ciphers, the American g
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by tedks 13y ago
Are there any small, cheap laptops with optical drives? Another alternative is having enough 1gb usb sticks to be able to throw them away on a regular basis. Sort of like burner phones. (Personally I'm not sure I want to go so far as t
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If the VM doesn't have a disk, then yes...
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by tedks 13y ago
Melatonin isn't a drug, it's the neurohormone that provokes sleep. Your body produces it naturally already.
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I've had nightmares while taking melatonin with the same frequency as I've had them the rest of my life. They're more vivid, but I've forgotten them just fine.
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> it tends to induce horrific, apocalyptic nightmares I've used melatonin for years, as have many of my friends and family, and I've never had anyone mention this. I've always had more vivid dreams with melatonin, but I&#x
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by tedks 13y ago
>(here, there's a subtext that Tor actually made NSA's job easier) I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion. The slides mention that Tor is: * Very difficult to identify on the network-level, since Tor-tls traffic is i
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The Passion Trap(calnewport.com)
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Well, we know the NSA is behind some things, or else it wouldn't exist. We also know this is an incredibly high profile case. It's in the interests of the DEA and FBI to lean on their contacts in the NSA, even. That said, the FB
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It's definitely enough to ask Google, and possibly his bank or credit card company (to see if he bought any servers recently).
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As a lifelong DC resident, I have to admit I've thought about how DC doesn't look like a "real city" and how other places look so much cooler, but seeing this made me cringe. I really hope that the monuments in DC don&#x
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by tedks 13y ago
How can you say quality of life has gone down when most people from hunter-gatherer times died as infants? Dying as an infant would be a pretty shit quality of life in my book, I don't know about you.
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QS is a good idea, but I doubt the time has come for it yet. It's a basic fact of life that you make better decisions with more information available, presuming you can think about that information sanely. Humans generate lots of infor
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I met one of the co-founders of this at a QS meetup in Paris. I'm surprised to see this here, because he had the fanatical privacy zeal that you typically see with people making projects like this that go nowhere. It's fantastic t
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You realize that your link argues against this social reality, right? >But now we have female doctors, lawyers, professors, and presidents. In fact, we have so many of them (even in heavily male-dominated areas like the physical sciences
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People always quote this, and I always wonder why it makes any difference. People in hunter-gatherer societies weren't "more healthy" than we are (as you imply in a later comment). Most people in hunter-gatherer societies die
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>The problem with this is that "make it happen faster" is already clear and sufficient. Do you only read Simple English wikipedia? It's very clear and sufficient.
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It means they'll know one thing. They won't have time to get into anything else. Every day, they'll have to make the decision to play the one video game/watch the one TV show they know they'll like, or take a risk o

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