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by adrice727 4y ago
Did you know that Linda's husband became devoted to Oxycontin after his shoulder surgery?
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by adrice727 4y ago
address my issues with the platform What are your issues? What could Substack be doing better for fiction writers?
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by adrice727 4y ago
About 10 years ago, I started having really bad low back pain and could barely get out of bed some mornings. Different doctors told me different things. I tried chiropractic, acupuncture, stretching - nothing was helping. Then I came acr
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by adrice727 6y ago
. . . which they describe as a profoundly nihilist state of being Where are you getting this from? I don't know of any traditions that would describe it in this way.
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by adrice727 7y ago
Why does this seem to be different with software as opposed to other areas of engineering? Is it a generational thing? Before jumping into the tech industry, I worked in the automotive industry and spent a lot of time around engineers. Th
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by adrice727 8y ago
It's a far cry from actual pattern matching, but you can always tag your types[1]: interface Tagged { tag: string; } interface Circle extends Tagged { tag: 'circle' } // ... Other implementatio
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by adrice727 8y ago
No, he doesn't. "...I got dismissed from Harvard because I had given psychedelics to an undergraduate. We had agreed with the dean that we would not give psychedelics to undergraduates.” Ram Dass flashes a mischievous grin. “He w
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The Unified Theory of Ram Dass(gq.com)
97 points by adrice727 8y ago|81 comments
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by adrice727 8y ago
Any advice for someone 3-4 years into their career with the option to work on something that's a "good thing for the world" or something that is more technically interesting and will be better career-wise?
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by adrice727 8y ago
Johann Hari covers a lot of the history of antidepressants in "Lost Connections." Per the studies he covers in the book, most of the benefits are placebo effect. The remainder is somewhat of a mystery. Whether you give someone
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by adrice727 8y ago
A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright is another good one that touches on this quite a bit. https://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Progress-Ronald-Wright/...
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by adrice727 8y ago
I read "Lost Connections" by Johann Hari[1] a couple weeks ago. He spends much of the first section on the research and history of antidepressants. One particularly interesting thing is that drugs that decrease serotonin level
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by adrice727 8y ago
This was from the Michael Pollen episode.
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by adrice727 8y ago
How are you defining character? Is it only the look of the neighborhoods, or is it the people that live in those neighborhoods?
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by adrice727 8y ago
Dotty is moving in this direction with Implicit Function Types. https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/implicit-function-types... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXDm3WHZT5g&feature=youtu.be
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by adrice727 8y ago
Terence McKenna's lectures from the Earth Trust Foundation conference are really great, if you're into that sort of thing. There are four parts, totaling ~6.5 hours. https://archive.org/details/PsychedeliaRaw
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by adrice727 8y ago
For me, it's the portability. I can work from my desk, a coffee shop, a park, or the floor of my living room, which is where I am right now. Working remotely is never an issue because I have everything I need with me.
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by adrice727 9y ago
Can't they do both? I don't think they're going to be in short supply of prisoners anytime soon. And running as a for-profit, they're going to have significantly more resources.
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by adrice727 9y ago
https://jsfiddle.net/adrice727/49g2Leqw/105/
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by adrice727 9y ago
Part of the idea behind Redux is to keep components as pure as possible and limit side effects to one place, usually actions. You keep all async actions in components?
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by adrice727 9y ago
The article you're referring to[1] only talks about a single group of hunter-gatherers, the !Kung. And all things considered, they do not work less than we do. . . . his original estimate of 12-19 hours worked per week did not includ
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by adrice727 9y ago
You have to consider the period of time over which those species became extinct. Per E.O. Wilson, we're losing species at a rate that is ~1,000 times faster than anything in the past. If it continues, the loss in biodiversity will le
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by adrice727 9y ago
One thing that I find amusing is that a lot of people are never drug tested as part of the process. I spent ~5 years working for the DoD with a secret security clearance and never had to take one.
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by adrice727 9y ago
The present study focused on changes in brain function before versus after psilocybin in patients with treatment-resistant depression who received two doses of the drug (10 mg followed by 25 mg, one-week apart) as part of an open
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by adrice727 9y ago
I recently tried to dispute something on my Equifax report and I could not get past the verification stage. The answers to all the questions were obvious, but after failing the verification several times, I started wondering, " Did I
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The Madness of Donald Trump(rollingstone.com)
3 points by adrice727 9y ago|0 comments
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by adrice727 9y ago
I had success with the Sarno method as well. My comment from a previous HN discussion [1]: I started having back issues about five years ago. It got so bad that getting out of bed in the morning was a struggle. I was diagnosed with a hern
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by adrice727 9y ago
You're not the first person who has told me that. It's been ~5 years since I read it, so I can't remember too many specifics. I was ~6 months into starting to learn to program and I think I would have probably given up if I h
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by adrice727 9y ago
One of the books that has had the biggest influence in my life is "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzkin, the child chess prodigy of "Searching for Bobby Fischer" fame. https://www.amazon.com/Art-Learning
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by adrice727 9y ago
Yes, you can find it in some probiotic supplements. https://www.gardenoflife.com/content/product/dr-formulated-p...

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