hyrix

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Tobacco plant can produce five psychedelics, including psilocybin and DMT(phys.org)
46 points by hyrix 4mo ago|11 comments
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by hyrix 4mo ago
Pairs well with https://phys.org/news/2026-04-tobacco-psychedelics-psilocybi... !
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Harvard faculty vote to cap number of A's(thecrimson.com)
2 points by hyrix 4mo ago|1 comments
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by hyrix 4mo ago
There's a significant difference in the risk and mechanisms of transmission between these two viruses. The modern effective reproductive number for HIV is less than 1, about 30-50% lower than ebola in similar subsaharan countries [1]
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by hyrix 8mo ago
These chemicals are derived from plants where even pedants would classify them as poisons. The genus name Boophone is from the Greek bous = ox, and phontes= killer of, a clear warning that eating the plant can be fatal to livestock.
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by hyrix 11mo ago
Just a couple of bros, traveling the countryside in each other's company. History is full of such roommates. Just the other day we were thinking about how recent generations have gotten more conservative: https://news.ycombi
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A Solution to the CIA's Kryptos Code Is Found After 35 Years(yahoo.com)
4 points by hyrix 11mo ago|1 comments
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by hyrix 1y ago
Americans travel farther distances for many things, even within cities, and it’s not flat like the Netherlands
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The Zillow Blacklist is officially here(businessinsider.com)
6 points by hyrix 1y ago|2 comments
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by hyrix 1y ago
They exchange gases through pores in the skin--a fairly common process for things with cuticles https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/221/8/jeb177568/... https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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Iranian parliament votes to close the Strait of Hormuz(politico.eu)
9 points by hyrix 1y ago|2 comments
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Panic averted: It was just a bug in Atop after all(theregister.com)
2 points by hyrix 1y ago|0 comments
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Democratic Fund-Raising Powerhouse ActBlue Faces Internal Chaos(nytimes.com)
5 points by hyrix 1y ago|0 comments
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by hyrix 2y ago
The answer is obviously because programmers want to be able to write f”{n} result{‘s’ if n == 1 else ‘’}”
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Amazon RTO more flexible in Europe(businessinsider.com)
3 points by hyrix 2y ago|1 comments
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by hyrix 2y ago
Journalists don't just publish whatever comes into their mailbox--at least, good journalists understand the potential that they are being manipulated. We should be wondering to what extent these journalists vetted the source of the cli
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FDA Approves Drug with New Mechanism of Action for Treatment of Schizophrenia(fda.gov)
25 points by hyrix 2y ago|11 comments
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by hyrix 2y ago
For a small/solo team, which is the audience under consideration, they probably want to spend their time on their core product and not reimplementing oauth.
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by hyrix 2y ago
FM radio bands are in fact used for various emergency services, but they are more specialized in usage https://strykerradios.com/ham-radios/ham-radio-emergency-fre... AM radio travels farther for the same energy consum
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by hyrix 2y ago
The really disturbing part of this whole issue is the way that online platforms perform a form of torture arbitrage between buyers in wealthy countries that have stricter animal cruelty laws and suppliers in countries that lack them. The pl
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by hyrix 2y ago
Optimistically, this rule could create tighter feedback loops due to increased community engagement with planners so that databases get updated more quickly and speed limits are perhaps dialed in to match real conditions--the mismatched l
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by hyrix 2y ago
The way to reduce speeds is not to make the road more dangerous but rather to signal the expected speed correctly. The article a sibling commenter linked makes this point: > [...] The premise is simple: drivers will make occasional mista
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by hyrix 2y ago
> But the truly interesting aspect lies in how the device employs informational algorithms to make its movements more human-like. When you select its AI mode, a new interface appears with a velocimeter. When their penis has been inserted
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by hyrix 2y ago
The tank is not the vehicle, the grill is the vehicle! People own their grills and swap the tanks. No one worries that much about the tanks because they are effectively interchangeable across brands (after some lawsuits and FTC intervention
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by hyrix 2y ago
In mice
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by hyrix 2y ago
Usually when a study is halted early it’s because of obvious harm to the experimental group from the treatment which means there would be no possible benefit and it would make continuation unethical. A meta analysis of early stopping in ran
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by hyrix 2y ago
We do somehow live with skyscrapers and elevators though. Earthquakes occur regularly in some of the densest, most vertical cities like Tokyo. You might even imagine that the kinetic energy from a quake could be absorbed and stored, where i
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by hyrix 2y ago
They stopped the study because of the incredible efficacy and lack of side effects. This was a phase 3 clinical trial so they have already cleared substantial hurdles in safety requirements (clinical trials are about both efficacy and side
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by hyrix 2y ago
Transmission has never been found when the number of copies of the HIV RNA are below 200 copies/mL--the quantity of virus matters. For context, the typical ejaculation from someone untreated contains between 10,000 and 1,000,000 copies