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Tell HN: Did you know that you can help restore a person’s eyesight for $50?
135 points by munchhausen 4y ago|29 comments
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by munchhausen 5y ago
As a SWE in the EU who is eyeing the software industry in the US with considerable envy, I would not say we get by just fine, at all. I don't see how you could afford all the things you mentioned on an average SWE salary in Europe. I h
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by munchhausen 6y ago
There is a solution to many of the issues highlighted in the article, and that is to drop judgementalism and bias altogether, as individuals and as society. That will get us to the point where your personality quirks, likes and dislikes, ge
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by munchhausen 6y ago
Might be for someone, but I never had that experience. All my experiences have been very very rapid, and there was certainly no sense of being somewhere for hours or even minutes. Really I can't even speak of time in this context. It f
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by munchhausen 6y ago
The difference to other psychedelics is the nature of the DMT trip - it is extremely "fast", short, and overwhelming. There simply is too little "idle" time in the trip (none, actually) for the rational mind to start dev
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by munchhausen 7y ago
You must be attentive enough to your impulses to catch yourself wanting to do it before you actually do it. It takes years to develop that level of attentiveness, but it's oh-so-worth-it. And not just because it lets you avoid the seas
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by munchhausen 7y ago
The drugs are not supposed to get you there. They are supposed to show you the territory, lift you, temporarily, out of the slime and muck of the dark age of materialism. The rest is up to you, whether it's the third path, fourth path,
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by munchhausen 8y ago
What?? Drug laws vary wildly in the regions you mentioned. Just about the only thing that they have in common is that drugs are illegal. And it's not just a question of laws, either. Laws are one thing, and policing is another. There a
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by munchhausen 8y ago
Truffles are less potent than mushrooms, and are typically administered non-dried. Therefore, 15g of truffles is more like 1.5g of dried mushrooms. The amount of psilocin and psilocybin given in the article confirms this. It's a very l
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by munchhausen 8y ago
Yeah, caffeine gives me a short fuse like nothing else. As little as a coffee in the morning would basically make me prone to fly off the handle due to the most insignificant, trivial little things. Cost me and my wife many hours spent in p
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by munchhausen 8y ago
Thank you for posting this article. It gave me pause for thought. I have been taking a green tea supplement occasionally. I saw it in a vitamin store, and bought it because of the supposed benefits of antioxidants. I figured - I have a stre
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by munchhausen 8y ago
> Two years ago, at age 34, she switched careers and learned how to code. Oh dear.
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by munchhausen 8y ago
That is a really, really poor and flawed metaphor. It is completely arbitrary and there's no logic or reasoning behind it. The "filtration system" that is talked about here is not comparable to a root system, or, in other wor
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by munchhausen 8y ago
Why do you bring "world governments" into it? Most of the world has next to no problem with fentanyl. Why, then, is "most of the world" supposed to "do more against" China? The problems that the US and Canada h
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by munchhausen 8y ago
While Chinese authorities control fentanyl, they’ve been slow to ban new analogues. And they didn’t begin restricting fentanyl’s two most common ingredients until this year, more than a decade after the U.S. (...) And unlike in the U.S., a
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by munchhausen 8y ago
It amazes me how both the hearing at the US senate, and the one at the European Parliament, were marred by an absurdly ineffectual format of the Q&A session. You'd think that having achieved the seemingly hardest part, which was to
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by munchhausen 9y ago
Drop meat, fish, eggs, dairy products...what's left? Vegan cuisine? Not that it wasn't obvious, but you should still disclose your bias. Good luck with your vegan diet. I hope that beans and veggies can provide for all your nutrit
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by munchhausen 9y ago
The Tarsnap client has a "dry-run" mode, which will dedup your data and tell you how much GB will it take up. Based on that, you can then make a calculation of how much will it cost.
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by munchhausen 9y ago
Bandcamp does have a feed. It is also not particularly Patreon-esque. You don't pay the artist a recurring fee. You can listen to the music for free only a handful of times, then you need to buy it, in a one-time transaction. Bandcamp
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by munchhausen 9y ago
Please. Use `[[ -z $var ]]` instead, and get this load of nonsense off your table. And yes, `[[ ... ]]` is a bashism. It's not going work on the HP-UX box, that you do not have in your server fleet.
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by munchhausen 10y ago
Grandparent sold pandoc short. It is actually a really nifty utility capable of converting a plethora of formats from/to each other. It is a godsend for situations when you have to create MS Office-compatible documents, and want to avo
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by munchhausen 10y ago
And how does a period of 10 years of successfully plodding along in "any" profession, perhaps writing code for an ad platform that enables $people to sell some $shit to $other_people, that are in the habit of buying things they do
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by munchhausen 10y ago
> "My name is {name} and I am {age} years old.".format( locals()) Well that's a definite code smell.
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by munchhausen 10y ago
After I switched to Ubuntu a couple years ago, I gave Unity a whirl (it being the default desktop environment), and I use it to this day. Unity is simple and it doesn't try to be the be-all and end-all of my computer use. Unity seems t
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by munchhausen 11y ago
Why are so sure of that? As a European of 30+ years, I am actually pretty optimistic in that there is, in all areas of politics, a certain point at which EU governments will refuse to follow the US down the rabbit hole. Germany feels pretty
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by munchhausen 11y ago
Huh? No matter how susceptible someone is to something, a decision they make is their own. Trying to absolve the decision maker of responsibility for their decision is a sure way to disaster. If people at large start to feel that they are n
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by munchhausen 11y ago
What the fuck? You just casually throw it out there -- "Oh, drugs may have been involved" -- based on a Twitter feed that's somewhat incoherent after the person just went through a traumatic experience? Please, don't &qu
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by munchhausen 11y ago
>>> Fuck SystemD with a rake in the rain on a Monday. >> It sounds like you've had specific bad experiences with systemd, would you mind sharing what they were? Hacker news.
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by munchhausen 11y ago
This is great work, but I can't figure out how to configure the colors. My issue is that the grey in the green/cyan auto-complete box is too washed-out and the contrast is too low. I'd like to make the box darker, and the let
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by munchhausen 11y ago
> For an information worker there are huge health downsides to being inside at home all day, even with a full family around. This statement strikes me as odd. I can't really figure out what health downsides do you have in mind. Can

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