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oxide··on Chronic sleep deprivation suppresses immune system
Just say you freelance.
oxide··on Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled
I'll never be switching back to Chrome. I've gone back and forth over the years and have made Firefox my home base.

You folks have made a lifelong supporter out of me the hard way, by earning my respect over the years.

besides that, I support the project in general, the developers and the competition.

when I installed Firefox on a friends phone with uBlock Origin added on, he loved it.

p.s. that reminds me, when I was a teenager I installed Firefox for the first time. My mother insisted it was a virus and would yell at me to "remove that mozzerella fox virus IMMEDIATELY and quit installing your mIRC virus!"

oxide··on Dopamine Cells Influence Our Perception of Time
Adderall is basically mixed dextroamphetamine salts, there isn't a big difference between generic dextroamphetmine salts and Adderall despite what the drug manufacturer likes to say.

the new hotness is lisdexamfetamine, which is just dextroamphetamine bound to lysine, making it a prodrug as your liver needs to cleave the lysine off first. reduces abuse potential.

I wouldn't lose hope, though. You might as well lose hope if you mean free and clear legal access to dextroamphetamine.

but, there are illegal options if you want to get an idea of what it's like.

I'm not recommending you go buy street amphetamine, I'm not even sure what street amphetamine is like in Australia.

you might have access to methamphetamine instead of amphetamine sulfate which can come as paste or powder as opposed to crystalline chunks/powder like methamphetamine tends to be, it's a regional difference.

The point is you could, theoretically and hypothetically speaking, acquire street amphetamine + a 20 dollar milligram scale.

weigh out and try a low dose (~20mg, orally) after breakfast first thing in the morning to experience the similar effects to those that dextroamphetamine would give you.

Would it be legal? No. Theoretically though, people use the internet itself to acquire these things, cutting out a lot of the risk that comes with buying drugs the more traditional way.

That's just a theory of mine, though. Hypothetically speaking. Allegedly bitcoin and secondary wallets are involved.

oxide··on Dopamine Cells Influence Our Perception of Time
>causing a loss of time awareness and higher creativity

whatever you're doing when you take adderall, you'll be doing for the next 12 hours before you realize how much time has past.

oxide··on With New Zealand citizenship, Peter Thiel can watch the world burn in peace
must be nice to get special government treatment when it comes to citizenship. A short phone call away, I'd imagine, when you have that much money.

the pain in the ass it would have been for him to spend 240 days a year there for 5 years before being granted citizenship, sheesh.

although if things go south here, he might want to trade his currency in for NZ bucks before the hyper inflation kicks in. the government probably won't want someone with monopoly money taking up that prime real estate, ya know?

oxide··on New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess
I ordered caffeine malaete, which is just caffeine bound to malic acid, in an attempt to cut out some of the stomach unpleasantness.

I had heard it was a little more gentle on the stomach and figured it was worth a shot, as caffeine is cheap anyway.

it actually worked as promised, it doesn't bother my stomach as much as a caffeine tablet or regular caffeine powder.

I usually mix it 1:2 with L-Theanine and cap it just like I would with regular caffeine and it gets the job done.

less jitters, less feeling like I'm going to die if I haven't eaten, less stomach unpleasantness. etc.

oxide··on Robotic Fabricator Could Change the Way Buildings Are Constructed
I thought the same thing. What can be done though?

They have a home warranty that's good til next year, but I doubt it covers incompetence, and I don't think they could survive another move financially or physically.

It covers shit like garage door openers (which was installed backwards, as we found out after moving in) but we'd have to pay a service fee we can't afford just yet.

The guy they sent out to help with our plumbing emergency doesn't give me high hopes in who they'll send to fix the garage door.

The guy who built this place stripped it to the frame and rebuilt it with a team of the lowest bidding crackhead contractors, from what I can tell.

oxide··on Robotic Fabricator Could Change the Way Buildings Are Constructed
My grandparents just moved into a new home, only after the deal was closed did anyone notice that the washer and dryer water tap was built directly above the washer and dryer electrical outlet.

I've never seen such a thing, it's basically the same as an outside garden hose tap, installed directly above the electrical outlet.

that's not something I'd normally know to go looking for, so I doubt I'd have seen it myself if I was with them looking at the place.

oxide··on The inventor of the red Solo cup has died
From beer pong with close friends in my early 20s, to house parties with random folks in my teen years.

All the way to now, in my late 20s, those close knit house parties becoming much more close knit around a game of beer pong and good company.

I owe it all to the red solo cup.

Thanks, Red Solo inventor. For everything. you've given a shy boy a lot to be thankful for over the years.

My friends and I will mourn this loss the only way we know how, with beer pong, over new years.

oxide··on No tipping means better business
spend a couple years getting stiffed by people with heavy accents, you'll start lecturing too.

keep in mind these people don't earn a living wage, they live off of tips.

oxide··on Carrie Fisher has died
>At least this was after the Star Wars: Rogue One movie.

huh? why would that matter?

oxide··on AMD Ryzen benchmark leaked from French hardware magazine
I can only speak for myself, but I never expected these chips to compete with intels top offering in any setting or use case. Certainly not for gaming.

I own an AMD cpu because it was affordable, not because it was great, but good enough. If this is "good enough" the chips will do fine IMO.

All I'll say about competitive AMD is don't hold your breath.

oxide··on Marijuana use and schizophrenia: New evidence suggests link
Trust me, being arrested is fucking terrifying. Being under threat of persecution for getting a little high is a definite paranoia-inducer.

Do you think 'they know' would be a concern if police couldnt cuff you for doing it? Search your personal property over a smell they may not smell?

oxide··on [dead]
>or we'll have addicts dying in the streets.

Wait, what? We already have government drug treatment programs and we already have addicts dying on the streets from fent laced heroin.

oxide··on A tiny forest tribe built a DIY drone from YouTube to fight off illegal loggers
>If a 15 year old white kid in Nebraska built a drone following directions on YouTube to monitor land use around him, I don't think this would be seen as incredible.

You don't say? Quite the astute observation.

Would you say that's because the '15 year old white kid' is more...privileged? :)

oxide··on Infant simulators don't prevent teen pregnancy
the thing about condoms is they need to be on hand and free.

I'm not going to put off what little random chance pussy I get because I don't have a condom, and I've always been too poor to spend 15 bucks on a pack of condoms I'll likely never use.

I grew up in Arizona where sexual education consisted of a 10 minute video shown to me in the 5th grade and there were no clinics passing out freebies.

oxide··on American Firms Want to Keep Older Workers a Bit Longer
Recently I've heard two different stories about this exact problem. Two specialized trades, two experts of their crafts about to retire, and two companies unsure how they'll replace them.

I wish I remembered more details about the experts themselves, I believe one was a specialized glass worker.

oxide··on Imzy wants to be a kinder, gentler version of Reddit
>Then you tell them to change their behavior or throw them out of the bar. Or allow it and become "that kind of bar" over time.

this is exactly why it isn't censorship. no one has a right to be an asshole on the internet, if you insist, don't be shocked when you get shown the door.

no one is obligated to deal with pricks.

calling it censorship or pretending to be persecuted for political opinions is disingenuous at best.

oxide··on Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
Over 40% of the titles on Steam have been added in the past year alone.

The floodgates need to close, now. As someone who has voted on hundreds of Greenlight titles, Greenlight is an abject failure IMO. It's flooded with garbage, the first few waves of approvals gave us some great titles that otherwise would have never seen the platform, but now it's a nightmare. There are no more approval lists. What's worse, it's the only way onto Steam. Your indie gem is just as likely to be lost in the shovelware noise as the latest idle game ported from mobile.

Anyone with $100 can post games there. Anyone with more than $100 can purchase a service which votes their pre-purchased unchanged asset pack "game" through Greenlight. It's ridiculous.

Tags and abandoned curator lists are not a solution to hundreds of shovelware titles clogging up the new releases section IMO.

Unfortunately, nothing will change until something comes along to replace the current system entirely. Valve will act when they are forced to act, not before.

oxide··on John Glenn has died
I lived in the Imperial Valley for a few years, from the way they talk about John Glenn I thought he was born and raised there.

Nope, he's from Ohio. He passed over the valley (El Centro, specifically, IIRC) when he re-entered the atmosphere, it was just a claim to fame to attract tourists to the middle of nowhere.

oxide··on Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video]
5 to 6 was fine on my G4. I'm not sure how it compares to the Note 4 but the phone is at least a generation old. There is another pending OS update I've been ignoring for a few months, not for fear of being crippled, but just because I can.
oxide··on Spark, New Markets, App Messaging, and Bitcoin Changes
oh wow, I didn't realize that at all. I might do this, I appreciate the advice.
oxide··on Spark, New Markets, App Messaging, and Bitcoin Changes
I was going to do this but there is only one local seller and he had a huge markup.
oxide··on Spark, New Markets, App Messaging, and Bitcoin Changes
well, damn. I went through all the hoops signing up with Circle already, I heard Coinbase was worse. Does this make Coinbase the only game in town for buying bitcoin with a debit card?
oxide··on Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
I fully support this and think it's been a long time coming.

Civil discussion and political discussion are fully incompatible.

oxide··on Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
I use weather.gov instead for precisely this reason.
oxide··on Support for better symlink handling in Windows 10
It's always one step forward, two steps back with Microsoft.

Every time I start to warm up to them again, they make me feel stupid shortly afterwards by blowing it.

It's an abusive relationship, in a sense.

oxide··on Going Diamond: on Amway
This isn't a court of law, you can drop the song and dance. MLM logic breaks down at a first glance. You can't sign up 7 people who sign up 7 people very long before you've signed the entirety of mankind, living and dead.

If you've bought into MLM, as I suspect you might have, get out now. That money might as well have been set aflame.

Skills to be successful at MLM? What skills are those? Sociopathy?

oxide··on Going Diamond: on Amway
Now we're doing Amway's job for them. I don't give a shit what the legal definition is.

MLM is equivalent to a pyramid scheme in a practical sense. What the lawyers are paid to say is none of my concern.

oxide··on The Far Right Has a New Digital Safe Space
>His point is that people go to Gab because they are thrown out of other venues

my point is that they aren't being thrown out because of their political views.

the guy in the above example wasn't purged because he was a conservative. it's a shock, I know, but consider the fact that he was shown the door because he was an asshole.

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