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by xyzwave 3y ago
> When it comes to the uptick in testicular cancer, meanwhile, he says rising cannabis use is likely the leading culprit. Passing mention in the story, but is this a common hypothesis? I’m aware of UCSD research suggesting THC suppresses
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by xyzwave 3y ago
The Omni Group started as a NeXTSTEP consulting company in 1989, they’re pushing 35 years at this point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omni_Group
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by xyzwave 3y ago
California holly? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteromeles
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by xyzwave 3y ago
> Only reason they're pushing this brain-melting stuff is because they can make a buck Citations sorely needed. The only paper I’ve seen make neurotoxicity claims was retracted long ago[1]. 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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by xyzwave 3y ago
You’ll also see profound examples of unconditional love and companionship between Sasha and Ann throughout the entire book.
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by xyzwave 4y ago
I don’t think this is a slippery slope [0], I’m only drawing a comparison. Additionally there are health benefits to cannabis (and psychedelics) as well. Whether it’s stress, anxiety (ironically), depression, etc. so the comparison remains
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by xyzwave 4y ago
I could say the same thing about running, overdo it and you’ll hurt yourself. We don’t need gatekeepers to prescribe these things only when a legitimate medical use demands it. There are countless examples in society where we allow people d
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by xyzwave 4y ago
I know I’ve considered this, and though it’s at times felt irresponsible or impulsive, I can’t help but come back to this Emerson quote from Self Reliance: > the finest genius studies at one of our colleges, and is not installed in an of
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CBD and CBC Can Kill Head and Neck Cancer Cells(analyticalcannabis.com)
1 points by xyzwave 4y ago|1 comments
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by xyzwave 4y ago
> This is not good advice and it largely goes against steve jobs work. I’d argue the opposite. It’s exactly aligned with his stated philosophy. Particularly in how this was influenced by an early LSD experience: > It reinforced my se
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by xyzwave 4y ago
I’m guessing SICP took that from Alan J. Perlis, considering he wrote the foreword. http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
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by xyzwave 4y ago
"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misundersto
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by xyzwave 4y ago
The US also has significant protections around the Native American rock art at California’s Lava Beds National Monument. https://www.nps.gov/labe/learn/historyculture/rockart.htm
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by xyzwave 4y ago
Also the cannabis episode. Sobering (no pun intended) look at just how detrimental cannabis can be to the brain. Covers everything from grey matter volume reductions, to tonal shifts in speech and memory loss. I would have liked to have see
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by xyzwave 4y ago
You’re getting downvoted, and I can see why, professionals would’ve been a better noun. That said, I don’t think you’re wrong: > Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds
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by xyzwave 4y ago
This is called the Peter Principle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
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by xyzwave 4y ago
Anything by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
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Perlisms – “Epigrams in Programming”(cs.yale.edu)
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by xyzwave 4y ago
Reminds me of an Alan J. Perlis quote: > Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble? http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perl
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by xyzwave 4y ago
Great quote, also from Castaneda: > In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.
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by xyzwave 4y ago
I always felt the problem with consequentialism is that outcomes are uncertain, whereas actions are not. Therefore you are not guaranteed that an immoral action (means) will result in a beneficial outcome (end). For instance, you push someo
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by xyzwave 4y ago
This came up in the Tim Ferris interview with Jim Collins [0]. Collins has a notion called the "Hedgehog Concept". Which is the same as you're noting, but a bit more concise. - What you love to do - What you are encoded for (
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by xyzwave 4y ago
You can, but at what cost? When do you see friends, or cook, or exercise, not to mention sleep. I’m not saying some personal time shouldn’t be dedicated to learning, but if the vast majority of your week is spent on a dead end, the time you
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by xyzwave 4y ago
Harder, how so? And even if harder, wouldn’t it still be a productive means towards the end of moving into that field?
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by xyzwave 4y ago
May be different for a drug company, but I believe a lot of those molecules would still be illegal under the Federal Analogue Act [0]. 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analogue_Act
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by xyzwave 4y ago
When Tim Ferriss interviewed Stewart Brand on this [1], it sounded like the intention was to introduce them to the far north which is both closer to their natural habitat, and far away from people. Sounds in-line with the article here. Rele
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by xyzwave 4y ago
Minute 319 [1] determines how water allocations will change during conditions of drought or surplus. This is also covered a little at the end of the Wikipedia article. In a max drought scenario (Lake Mead surface elevation <1,025 feet) i
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by xyzwave 4y ago
Definitely Java, 3 billion devices run Java.
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by xyzwave 4y ago
Don’t forget Mexico who’s allocated 1.5 million acre-feet per year (59 cubic metres per second) by the Colorado River Compact [1]. Which I believe was drafted during the wettest decade in the Southwest’s history. 1. https://en.wi
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by xyzwave 4y ago
And cows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow

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