Hacker News Reader

enkephalinon How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer

the simplest advice would be less sugar, more fiber (and probably some omega-3 PUFAs). i'll add sources when i get home.

enkephalinon Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics

yeah, i'm having trouble sourcing my statement, although i definitely read about it in some publication that i can't seem to find now. i was also sure it was part of the official DCM or ICD criteria. hmpf.

enkephalinon Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics

just wanted to say that i don't understand why you are getting downvoted for this. i found your original comment, and especially the blog excerpt quite reasonable.

enkephalinon Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics

well, technically the only thing stopping the medical world from calling a very religious person delusional, is the fact that religious people are specifically exempt from receiving that diagnosis, for no medical reason whatsoever.

enkephalinon Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics

my first thought was about the same; "shouldn't have stopped there".

and really, their experience fundamentally sounds like a good thing. a new way of looking at, or experiencing the world was opened to them. yeah, it can be frightening, and that's why you need to put more work in, to accommodate it in your life.

enkephalinon Ketamine has 'fast-acting benefits' for depression

half a gram seems pretty excessive to me. if you snorted that over the course of an hour, with zero tolerance, you'd very likely knock yourself out.

enkephalinon US dismantles forensic science commission

However, they don't imagine that liberals, or a program set up by liberals, would help someone like them.

No wonder, when it's even OK for fox news to say that the left wants to "destroy everything" and "wish death on everybody".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MEmqqvH2Aw&ab_channel=yazak...

it's utterly terrifying that this seems to be totally OK to say on one of the most watched news networks of the U.S.

enkephalinon HTML5 Games Workshop: Make a Platformer Game with JavaScript

at my last job, we developed games for online casinos with phaser (mostly slot machines). development started in 2014, and we looked at all the major html5 game frameworks, and phaser stood out by far for our requirements.

enkephalinon DEA will ban chemicals contained in kratom, a popular herbal supplement

> no apparent histamine release

a lot of people, including myself, get very itchy from kratom, and i've always attributed that to histamine release. could it be something else?

enkephalinon UK votes to leave EU

this is the kind of thinking responsible for history being allowed to repeat itself.

enkephalinon How to Start Running

although it of course also may happen in normal traffic, dogs, children, bikes, and other joggers suddenly appearing in your path can happen a few dozen times on a long run, if you're in a crowded place.

enkephalinon Strong Link Found Between Dementia and Common Anticholinergic Drugs (2015)

since loratadine is a second-generation histamin receptor blocker, probably not if you are looking for sedating effects, because minimizing those was the main reason for developing this class of drug.

enkephalinon Strong Link Found Between Dementia and Common Anticholinergic Drugs (2015)

but at the same time it exhibits depressogenic effects in a lot of people. especially in higher dosages. so it's not really that clear cut.

enkephalinon Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 years

you can also insufflate or chew tobacco. i don't find the comparison ridiculous at all. both contain psychoactive subtances, and can lead to serious health issues, or a decline in quality of life (tobacco of course being more dangerous than weed).

enkephalinon Caffeine use disorder

you may want to rethink that practice after having a look at this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7796154

short summary: 200mg at 7 a.m., and going to bed at 11 p.m. had following effect: "Compared to placebo, sleep efficiency and total sleep time were significantly reduced."

enkephalinon MentalHealthError: an exception occurred

my thoughts exactly, during a similar event. i was just trying to make sense of things, and due to the gravity of the unfolding events, being jesus or god was a possibility i just couldn't ignore, despite being in full possession of my mental faculties at the time.

enkephalinon Baltimore psychologist pioneers team using psychedelics as ‘sacred’ medicine

i see it as just being a catchy title for a book about "Psychedelics and Religious Experiences".

enkephalinon Baltimore psychologist pioneers team using psychedelics as ‘sacred’ medicine

what exactly are you afraid of?

enkephalinon LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

can confirm. have also had many bad trips, and small amounts of alcohol now do wonders to prevent them, and don't interfere with the experience at all.

enkephalinon CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents

history has shown us that we humans are so afraid of other humans that are not exactly like us, that we readily sacrifice values that are absolutely essential to the advancement of society, and our well being in general.

the knowledge of uncontrollable alien life forms visiting us, and maybe interacting or interfering with our lives, would very likely cause a world wide panic of epic proportions.

enkephalinon CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents

i think the main issue with people having trouble believing in visitations from extraterrestrial species (or at least their technology), is that they have absolutely no sense for the age of the universe.

and the fact that so many people believe it to be utterly ridiculous that alien life forms could be exploring the galaxy, yet here we humans are, doing exactly that, is just completely mind-boggling to me.

enkephalinon Cocaine addiction: Scientists discover ‘back door’ into the brain

More than 20 clinical trials have employed NAC as an adjunctive treatment in various psychiatric disorders. These include methamphetamine and cannabis dependence, nicotine and cocaine addiction, pathological gambling, obsessive–compulsive disorder, trichotillomania, nail biting and skin picking, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and AD. In most of these studies, NAC had positive effects on clinical outcomes (Gere-Paszti and Jakus 2009; Samuni et al. 2013).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3967529/

edit: NAC = N-acetylcysteine

enkephalinon Show HN: Nodal. Next-Generation Node.js Server and Framework

that's like letting surgeons operate with kitchen knives, because everybody has experience with those.

enkephalinon Show HN: Nodal. Next-Generation Node.js Server and Framework

do you honestly believe that ES6 is not an improvement for javascript? if so, why?

enkephalinon Show HN: Nodal. Next-Generation Node.js Server and Framework

i could imagine that a decent full stack dev would rather use the right tool for the right job. thinking your scenario further, you would use something like couchdb instead of a relational db, because it utilizes javascript.

enkephalinon Show HN: Nodal. Next-Generation Node.js Server and Framework

i just started my first node project for the simple reason that i need 70% of the functionality of the application on both the server and the client.

enkephalinon Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

so are retailers like amazon just going to carry on selling these books, for in some cases hundreds of dollars, without any notice that you can get it for free, albeit only digitally?

enkephalinon Ruby 2.3.0 Released

this is working just fine:

  nil&.+(3)&.+(5)&.-(7)

enkephalinon Activist tricked into 6-year relationship with undercover cop tells her story

when i'm drunk and meet women, i'm definitely not the man they think i am, due the profound effect alcohol has on my self esteem, social anxiety, and charisma.