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M00n_Sl47r··on Maths becomes biology's magic number
If that point about datageddon is true (strikes me as logical but im no data scientist), it seems that learning algorithms that can deduce the importance of datapoints based on a large but fuzzy dataset would be of significant importance.
M00n_Sl47r··on The DEA is withdrawing a proposal to ban another plant citing public outcry
how does your tapering schedule work? If you don't mind me asking.
M00n_Sl47r··on The DEA is withdrawing a proposal to ban another plant citing public outcry
I'd argue that an opiate naive individual on 10g of red vein would be feeling VERY mad nice, considering that dose has me, not opiate naive, feeling mad nice. Definitely at the very least as strong a feeling as codeine
M00n_Sl47r··on The DEA is withdrawing a proposal to ban another plant citing public outcry
Long term kratom use can cause a dependence, and the withdrawals are very very similar to heroin/morphine withdrawals.

regarding your second point, I cant find any hard sources, but my experience has been that unless one is doing WAAYY too much kratom, both per dose and over longer periods of time. Unless you are already an opioid addict trying to use kratom to maintain and kick a harder habit (the well known use is as a transition from dope), you should NOT be doing kratom every day.. unless you're trying to become one of the aforementioned addicts.

On 3, definitely, it's a ridiculous misuse of the conception that natural is healthy. What if I told you to go out and do datura (Stramonium, iirc), or nightshade (makes you so pretty!). Both just as natural, arguably moreso considering you have to process kratom leaves, whereas you can go from finding a datura or nightshade family plant to eating it in seconds.

M00n_Sl47r··on July 2015 was warmest month ever recorded
Dinosaurs weren't wiped out by an ice age. That ice age you refer to is probably "The ice age" of about 10000 years ago (the one humans think of when we say ice age, because we were there as a species), or maybe one of the other four that have occurred since the end of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago as a result of a massive meteor impact.
M00n_Sl47r··on Functional Programming in Haskell by Examples
The grammar in this is a bit off. I'll probably submit a pull request with some edits, if that's something people do? I'm not sure about the etiquette surrounding grammar mistakes in a github repo.
M00n_Sl47r··on Show HN: An MMO twist on Battleship where you bet Bitcoins
This is actually pretty cool. Crashed my FF once, but otherwise good concept.

EDIT: Works /flawlessly/ with google chrome.

M00n_Sl47r··on fork() can fail
I think the point that the author was making, outside of any criticism to the API itself, is that the hapless programmer may not know that fork() could even return -1. The article is pointing out that possibility as documented by the API, not criticizing a failure of the API. Whether or not the API is faulty in this--and I tend to agree with you--is outside of the scope of the article, though only just.