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by willhinsa 5y ago
> So this is a recipe for anger and resentment. I know this is a common idiom and makes complete sense in context, but I must point out that it's also an analogy. I just thought it was genuinely funny given the first sentence of you
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by willhinsa 5y ago
And! The ledger isn't used by the main marketplaces or wallets (eg OpenSea & MetaMask) when you're trying to look at your assets. You can be deplatformed from those places, unable to trade your assets with anyone on those site
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by willhinsa 5y ago
> (Note: there are no photographs; nor did I take a notepad, so I'm writing this from memory. Cameras were verboten -- not because of security, but as an operational precaution. For starters, some embedded controllers in racks in th
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by willhinsa 5y ago
I’ve suffered from depression for 20 years with no relief from many different traditional antidepressant medications and many different modalities of therapy. I received my first MDMA therapy treatment in October of last year. It changed my
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by willhinsa 5y ago
For programming, I can see that, definitely. But when I'm writing an essay, there are many times where I can't type as fast as I can think, and it drives me nuts. I end up resorting to using a voice recorder and transcribing it la
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by willhinsa 5y ago
> - Enabled downvoting on results, like YT videos. (Has its own spam problems, just like YT) They're going the OPPOSITE DIRECTION from this!! They recently removed all downvote visibility of YouTube videos from the user, so now down
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by willhinsa 5y ago
Here is the letter[0], and the researcher in question with a huge conflict of interest is Peter Daszak[1]. [0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... [1] https://www.bmj.co
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by willhinsa 5y ago
foobar2000 is quite nice
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by willhinsa 5y ago
Wow, I had no idea. This is such an interesting story! > The price increases prompted an increase of "underground IDs" (known as 'UG's for shorthand)—where multiple users shared a single account that they turned into
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by willhinsa 5y ago
Or you could look into psychedelic medicine. On the legal side, ketamine has helped a lot of people with treatment resistant depression. You could also look into participating in clinical trials of MDMA or psilocybin. The clinical trial res
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by willhinsa 5y ago
That is one of my favorite books. Why do you think the first part was difficult to get through for you?
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by willhinsa 5y ago
> You can’t win if you guess at their salaries. > If you underestimate what they’re willing to pay, you’re leaving money on the table. If the real answer is that they would compensate someone like you up to $75,000 dollars, and you gu
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by willhinsa 5y ago
Which Dostoevsky book?
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by willhinsa 5y ago
This is great. Thank you for sharing. I'd never heard of this!
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by willhinsa 5y ago
Not noticing/caring about other people's feelings might be some kind of autism-spectrum disorder comorbidity (from what I understand, ADD/ADHD and autism spectrum disorder occur together pretty frequently[0]) Not a psychiatri
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by willhinsa 5y ago
You can read about their reasoning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702 Posted by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eastdakota , whose profile reads: > A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd.
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by willhinsa 5y ago
> Basically gone back to normal Do they have to wear masks? Do they have to socially distance?
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by willhinsa 5y ago
This article [0] would seem to agree with that feeling you can't shake; not that it's a "hoax" per se, but that it's bullshit ;) > So what does it lack? The film implies anyone can make a beautiful work of art
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by willhinsa 5y ago
Well, to be fair, the human driver in comparison had to have a decade or two of learning before they could drive well.
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by willhinsa 5y ago
Awesome!! Any other tips you have for someone going through that career change as well? I have a Mathematics BA, and worked as an actuary. I've self taught myself varying degrees of SQL, Python, JavaScript, and C, but I've found i
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by willhinsa 5y ago
If iMessage isn't revealed in the future to be accessible by the CCP, I'll eat my hat. It's not even protected for users in the USA [0]. Do people really think the CCP would allow encrypted messaging it can't access? If
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by willhinsa 5y ago
How has microdosing helped? Or I should say, what benefits does microdosing confer that macrodosing doesn't?
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by willhinsa 5y ago
I'd never heard of this before. I found a copy on YouTube, and it's fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s
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by willhinsa 5y ago
Thank you for sharing those anecdotes. Holding out seems like the right thing to do, game theory wise. Plus, it just feels right to me. P.S. I really enjoyed your website. I'm a type 1 and 3 mix myself :)
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by willhinsa 5y ago
I heard an anecdote 15 years ago that Walmart at the time opened 600 new stores a year. If that anecdote was true, this isn't that surprising to me with such a large shift we've experienced during the pandemic of increasing online
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by willhinsa 5y ago
> IT security has become literally impossible: if you install all the patches, you get SolarWinds-style supply chain malware delivered to you automatically. If you don't install the patches, well, that's worse. Either way, enjo
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> Common sense and technological advancement tells us that, quantitatively, Google search has become better year over year, for all their relevant metrics/cost functions. lmfao. so you're telling me "quantitatively" t
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by willhinsa 5y ago
We don't care. We don't have to. [0] From the 1976 SNL sketch, starring Lily Tomlin. [1] [0] https://i.imgur.com/VDdfwNQ.png [1] https://vimeo.com/355556831
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by willhinsa 5y ago
To be fair there is a non-small portion of the crypto-bros I've seen on Twitter who can get quite mad at people right-clicking. It's pretty great trolling to watch when it happens. And has produced some lovely art, too! https:&#x
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by willhinsa 5y ago
You'd be surprised what insurance companies overlook sometimes. An actuary told me one company he worked for accidentally sold an insurance policy for death due to cancer, but didn't ask applicants whether or not they currently ha

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