h1karu

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by h1karu 12y ago
> These chemicals will change your brain, and your brain is who you are. I suspect that your brain is who you think you are because you've learned to associate the concept of self with your thought processes, but I ask you if you ar
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Ask HN: Can you pay down a YC SAFE like a debt note?
3 points by h1karu 12y ago|1 comments
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by h1karu 12y ago
Through well measured advertising campaigns they changed the definition of what a "happy marriage" means so that it's new meaning aligns more closely with the idea of being in a satisfactory employment situation. Everyone kn
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by h1karu 12y ago
exactamondo, but isn't science merely an epiphenomenon of consciousness ? If so isn't this a case of the snake trying to eat it's own tail ?
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by h1karu 12y ago
Unfortunately in the US we have a divorce industry that spends billions of dollars on advertising targeting mostly women, but also men with attempts to normalize divorce or even to make it seem fashionable. Basically if you look at the hard
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by h1karu 12y ago
on what basis do you base the assumption that the subconscious mind is something "concretely" ? Isn't it's non-concreteness kind of the point of calling it the subconscious ?
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by h1karu 12y ago
Lets not forget that the "failure mode" of ordinary consumer culture awareness can be pretty extreme too
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by h1karu 12y ago
1.) best practice is to store it in a paper wallet. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Paper_wallet
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by h1karu 12y ago
yeah I can't say much about Pivotal labs aside from the unusual interview that I was a part of and the conclusions that I drew from that experience. It's certainly possible that I was imagining things but I strongly suspect they
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Rise of the REMOTE startup incubators
3 points by h1karu 12y ago|0 comments
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by h1karu 12y ago
A few years ago I interviewed at a startup that was operating out of Pivotal Labs in San Francisco and during the process I was interviewed by the management at Pivotal. They were really nice folks, as was the team I was interviewing with.
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by h1karu 12y ago
Single page web apps are broken for a lot of the most important purposes that the worlds largest and most important web-apps need to fulfill. For example how could Wikipedia function as a single page app since it wouldn't be consumabl
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by h1karu 12y ago
dicey subject area, and it's probably not God playing the dice :)
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by h1karu 12y ago
Nowadays when people smoke cannabis they don't actually combust the flowers instead what they do is heat them gently until the point where the water which is contained in the plant material turns into vapor so that the medicine can be
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by h1karu 12y ago
Epilepsy is not the only condition this plant cures, far from it, it's just the most dramatic because you can measure the decrease in seizures so rapidly.
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by h1karu 12y ago
1. cannabis doesn't cause impairment of motor skills in those who are accustomed to it's effects 2. cannabis smoke doesn't cause cancer because it's not radioactive like tobacco smoke.
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by h1karu 12y ago
European society thought of sugar as a drug for hundreds of years and it was traded in the British empire mostly by opium traders.
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by h1karu 12y ago
Using MRI is a waste of resources period. It's going to cost you more $$$$ on RAM.
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by h1karu 12y ago
Las Vegas got it's start because of the gambling money, but it has maintained itself as nationally relevant over the years despite it's inhospitable weather and isolated environs due to low taxation but also because of the "h
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by h1karu 12y ago
> Science only claims correctness in light of current knowledge, within certain error bars. I concur, but my point is that with regard to the mechanics and composition of the universe in which we live it would seem that the more we measu
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by h1karu 12y ago
To posit such a thing as "all previous states" implies that a universe is a finite state machine whereas for all we know the universe could be infinite in which case the value "all previous states" becomes a mathematical
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by h1karu 12y ago
>Provide incentives to attract scientists, firms and users; > Establish a favorable business environment and regulations. > Except … this approach to innovation clusters hasn’t really worked. Some have even dismissed these governme
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by h1karu 12y ago
> the universe used to exist as a point and expanded from there. Everything we see, everywhere, points to this. Yes but if I understand them correctly most modern scientists think that "everything we see" is only a miniscule fr
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by h1karu 12y ago
You start by asking me to make an enormous leap of faith (free miracle) which is to assume that it's possible to know for sure whether or not you have perfect information about any given system. I simply can't fathom how such an
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by h1karu 12y ago
Yeah you bring up an excellent point.. that there's not a way to prove perfect knowledge of any given system because you can't rule out the existence of factors that you don't know about and are unable to measure. Your idea
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by h1karu 12y ago
The existence of a "spectrum disease" is a misnomer. The people who invented the term clearly defined it as an approach to researching disease, merely a psychological crutch to use when thinking about disease and not something th
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by h1karu 12y ago
you're right I mispoke. The article didn't promote self-diagnosis but I felt that what Osmos said subtly did, that's why I replied about it. I think that one can end up promoting self-diagnosis and over-diagnosis simply by u
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by h1karu 12y ago
yes exactly, my point is that if you don't fall within the DSM then you should not not think of yourself as "being depressed". Many people like to characterize themselves as depressed or "mildly depressed" even tho
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by h1karu 12y ago
> It creates a bar that someone has to be "this sick to get diagnosed". You're using incorrect language there. It creates a bar where a person has to show "this many symptoms" in order to be diagnosed with a part
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by h1karu 12y ago
The topic of the thread is "We need to talk about depression" therefor I'm on-topic. Just because I disagree with the premise of the article does not mean such opinions are misdirection or off-topic. Your assertion that cred

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