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systematical··on Seeking the Magic Mushroom (1957)
In my experience, 40 grams is an absolutely absurd amount to take of anything (beyond alcohol) to get a mind-altering state. I can achieve a reasonably altered state from just a gram of mushrooms and a mild high on just 500mg.
systematical··on Seeking the Magic Mushroom (1957)
Interesting, having ingested mushrooms some 30 or 40 times (at least, but whose counting) I've rarely experienced the vivid hallucinations the author describes. Even when having ingested up to five grams. I wonder if being in darkness, as the author was, aids in this. Perhaps with no other visual stimuli, the mind and the mushrooms can really take hold.

I'll have to try this sometime.

systematical··on Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
Yes please do not every redesign this. I am still on old.reddit.com, new reddit sucks.
systematical··on Depression, anxiety rising among U.S. college students
Is it on the rise or are people feeling more comfortable about reporting these things compared to decades ago?
systematical··on Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
How does performance compare to PostMans laughably bad performance? I'd love to drop postman.
systematical··on Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome
Use a proper client like Filezilla for this and go over SFTP, no reason for FTP these days and even less so in a browser.
systematical··on NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded
Prediction: we'll break that record again in the next few years, then again, and again.
systematical··on Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality
Was in Europe for six weeks last Summer and I saw plenty of cars. The only city that seemed close to a post-car future was Amerstdam. The others I visited: Dublin, London, Barcelona, Brussels, and Prague all had plenty of cars. Now, that's not to say you needed them, but Amersterdam seemed to be the only one where it was evident that people were really embracing no cars. Of couse those are just cities, I never got out into the countryside much except for Ireland and the Czech Republic. Not much public transit out there.
systematical··on U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator
Wouldn't a more effective US strategy against China been to get the EU, Japan, and South Korea in on the tarrifs as well? Might as well throw in Canada and Mexico as well on account of being NAFTA partners. That would account for all of Chinas major trading partners. Japan and SK might have been difficult, but a combined North America + EU might have done the trick.

Maybe the Trump Administration tried this, but I find it unlikely since this Administration opened up lambasting our traditional allies. This trade war as it stands is going nowhere. China won't budge.

systematical··on Wisconsin Officials Urge People to Stop Vaping After Sudden Rise in Lung Disease
Having quit smoking before for a year and vaping for 9 months. I had to entirely quit drinking to do it. I started drinking again. It's dumb, I know. I need to quit drinking for a few months again, taper down with vape like I did last time, and then just not pick up a smoke again. Instead, just use a vape when I'm drunk if I feel the need.
systematical··on Wisconsin Officials Urge People to Stop Vaping After Sudden Rise in Lung Disease
Is their research on people who have ONLY vaped? Most people who vape are former/current smokers. For me, I vape when not drinking and smoke cigarettes when drinking. This means I smoke about 2-3 packs a month, the rest is vape.

It's harm reduction for me and allows me to still perform at a reasonable cardio level in beer leagues. Now my evidence is shotty, but my lungs "feel" better and I have a noticeable improvement in cardio when I haven't touch a cigarette in a few days and have just been vaping. My ability to stay on the ice (I play hockey) is noticeably better. I don't start getting really tired until the third period, whereas with cigarettes I am dead by the second period.

systematical··on Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
If I were to get any sticker, it would simply say "Burn Your JavaScript Stickers." That sums up my opinion of stickers.
systematical··on Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
There are small scale tests being performed to spray chemicals into the atmosphere that would reflect heat. I hope it works and they can verify there won't be any negative consequences.

I get laughed at when I say this, but I'd dump billions into DARPA for researching this. Since its DARPA, you can call it defense spending to appease the elephants. I'd charge them with finding a way to "scoop" the CO2 out of the atmosphere. Somehow splitting it into carbon and oxygen. I envision thousands of solar powered flyers destroying CO2 some day.

systematical··on Developers don't understand CORS
Thesis: Developers don't understand CORS. So I read it. All along the author does not attempt to explain CORS to me. I then Google CORS, and think I do understand it already, but this guy is telling me I don't, but completely fails at explaining why I don't. Maybe I don't understand CORs, but the author didn't help anyone with this piece. This received 508 upvotes...how?
systematical··on Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
Changing the economy is too slow. Need to engineer the planet at this point. It's and end user hack, but what are the other options?
systematical··on Ross Perot Has Died
Country would be in a better place if he had won in 92.
systematical··on YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
Knowledge is power for the people. Best to keep the people powerless.
systematical··on YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
Don't be evil, unless ______.
systematical··on HTML is the Web
This is what happens. We keep abstracting away. It's amazing how far removed we are from machine code. It's even more amazing that something as simple as HTML was abstracted.
systematical··on San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigarette Ban
Then ban cigarettes too? SF is a joke.
systematical··on Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care
Making a "free" market operate like one? What a novel idea!
systematical··on The internet is an SEO landfill
Its been this way for 15+ years.
systematical··on US Steel is idling plants, despite tariffs designed to save them
We avoided the tyranny of the majority in favor of the tyranny of the minority
systematical··on Carnival Cruises emits ten times more sulphur oxide than all of Europe’s cars
No one thought many things were possible until they were. But we can keep hoping we reduce our fossil fuel use instead.
systematical··on Carnival Cruises emits ten times more sulphur oxide than all of Europe’s cars
In this case, a small scale experiment is being planned: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/as-planet-warms-scientists...
systematical··on Carnival Cruises emits ten times more sulphur oxide than all of Europe’s cars
And this, or some means of capturing C02 with solar powered flyers is the only way we have, short of some massive tech break through, of reversing global warming. I'd personally prefer capturing CO2, breaking it into oxygen and carbon, then releasing the O2, and dropping the carbon off at a base for industrial reuse. But, whatever works.
systematical··on U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid
See stuxnet
systematical··on Password expiration is dead, long live passwords
For those of us who have to remain PCI compliant the tyranny of password expiration will remain. 90 days unless I am mistaken?
systematical··on Ask HN: How does your development team handle database migrations?
We use https://github.com/cakephp/phinx works pretty well. It just runs on deployment. Thankfully I've never had to try using the rollback feature.
systematical··on 40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, according to research
If the reports about them basically extorting U.S. companies into giving away technology are true, coupled with the outright theft of technology then we can't put enough tariffs on them until they start playing by the rules.

I only wish a smarter guy was doing this. We could've used our allies to also slap tarrifs on them as well. The top export markets for China are the US, Japan, Germany, South Korea. A pretty good list of strong U.S. allies. We could've crippled them with a steadier hand.

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