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by Produce 15y ago
Incidentally and completely off-topic, unless your mental associations are as loose as mine, but I was recently rather shocked to find out that alcohol is a neurotoxin ( http://het.sagepub.com/content/26/3/251.abstract - just google for a
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by Produce 15y ago
Meme generation you say? Well there just might be a simpler way... > curl http://www.reddit.com
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by Produce 15y ago
>While it is true that dictatorship, blind eyes and cruelty are the embodiment of these issues, religion is the sword that is wielded. Each year the west makes more progress in what I would consider the eventual realization that religio
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Since the best satire is indistinguishable from reality, I'll take that as a compliment.
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As another anecdote for the lack of social mobility that the vast majority of people experience, how many people born into wealth has anyone witnessed transition into the working class? What's the ratio of that population to people born int
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>I've still yet to see anyone explain why it was necessary for armed police to arrive by helicopter at his house in order to explain they had an arrest warrant for him He's an international racketeer-er. We're not talking about some har
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by Produce 15y ago
The terrorists were not the jokers. Jokers are supposed to destroy everything without restraint, these guys were trying to defend (the best defense is a good offense) themselves from an empire. The irony is that the defectors (terrorists) a
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by Produce 15y ago
Fair enough, that doesn't sound like an addiction at all. If you're just taking it to improve concentration, you might have luck with a combination of a Vitamin B complex, Piracetam and L-Tyrosine. All are cheap and have no side effects.
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by Produce 15y ago
>Core i7, 2 gigs of ram Completely off-topic and irrelevant but say what? 2GB coupled with the beast that is i7 makes the nerd in me cry a little.
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I think that the main advantage of unit testing is that you have to write testable, modular code. It ensures a sound design, which is the cheapest phase to catch bugs. The regression proofing is not a particularly big advantage of unit test
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by Produce 15y ago
It's scary that so many programmers don't write automated tests when their entire profession is about abstraction and automation. If you want it to work, test it. If you want to maintain sanity, automate it. It's not particularly complicate
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>Yes human lives are at stake (but then they always are), yes our models should follow reality as closely as we can if they are to give any useful predictions. I would argue that our models do not follow reality closely enough given tha
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by Produce 15y ago
All I said was try a placebo and see if it works as part of the standard routine. Obviously with a potentially fatal illness you want to use everything in your disposal to stop it. Why would you not use your last resort for something that s
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>Imagine if you had eliminated Bayer's incentive for even creating this cancer-saving drug in the first place. It's distressing that people think that the only possible motivation for inventing life-saving drugs is money. Lots of people
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by Produce 15y ago
So you forget to take it for a couple of days? The biological half-life of dextroamphetamine is 10 hours and levoamphetamine 13 hours. That's 10 to 13 hours (since Adderall is a mix of both isomers) until just half of the dose you took is e
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by Produce 15y ago
>Funny thing about meth is that it's not that dangerous Are you completely fucking stupid? Read these and stop spreading dangerously wrong information - http://www.amphetamines.com/neurotoxicity/index.html - http://www.aapsj.org/view
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by Produce 15y ago
>Giving amphetamines to children is certainly debatable but amphetamines are not neurotoxic. Methamphetamines are neurotoxic, especially in recreational doses, but non-methylated amphetamines are not. At least do your research if you're
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by Produce 15y ago
I'm honestly gobsmacked that our model of health and physiology is so primitive that it doesn't use the most widely available treatment as a first line approach, which, as you point out, is the placebo effect. Why are so many resources bein
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by Produce 15y ago
>But the FDA is the most strict drug regulatory body in the world, and the amount of evidence for efficacy that they require from the industry is truly impressive and truly does warrant the billions price tag. Funny how there are so man
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Human lives are at stake, there's nothing more cut and dry than that. We need to stop trying to make our reality fit our models and start adapting our models to fit reality. This whole business is backwards.
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by Produce 15y ago
All of what you described falls under the "history is written by the victors" sentiment.
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>The more drugs we know, the harder it is to prove that the new drug you propose is better than current therapy. No it's not. Example: 1980: Drug A is invented to treat illness X, proves to be the most effective 1990: Drug B is invented
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>I find it interesting that I was downvoted to the negatives, then you posted this reply, and then I got upvoted to the top. I wonder what the causation is there. Take this as a sign that HN is going the way of Digg and Reddit, may they
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by Produce 15y ago
In the language of science, they are acting on a hypothesis. Theory does not mean the same thing in science as in ordinary language - in science it typically refers to a well tested model which is capable of making predictions with a high d
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Didn't have time to respond to the central points in your reply last time. If you look at the statistics for the re-offending rate post-incarceration, you will find them to be alarmingly high. We have a system which is designed to reduce cr
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by Produce 15y ago
I have never used violence as a form of self defense.
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So the only difference is that there's some inane talking performed by some of the most highly paid people in society who argue not on morality but on stupid technicalities as a prelude to sticks being taken out and my fellow men and women
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Though I get the impression that there is a big overlap in terms of the people who frequent Reddit, this site and 4chan. They just express themselves differently depending on where they are.
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Adds more weight to Asimov's assertion that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
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Ah, but how do we know that you're not a random person who's trying to discredit the OP?

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