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And turns out the patterns and metaphor in this book can be co opted. Without belief in the supernatural, or submission to human authority structures. Though still receiving and giving the same benefits.

Love isn't owned by a king, it's already built in, inherent to all of us.

I suspect the e-scooters left around town (Lime, Bird, etc) are massive Bluetooth / LoRa dragnets. You pay them to increase coverage or visibility to social hot spots.

Right. So:

* Don't require users of your API to start [additional] goroutines to use your API correctly.

Phone applications and their data are so abstracted these days, it would be difficult for even an IT expert to differentiate between cloud and local data if search takes place using the device itself (which I assume is what happens). If they connect the phone via USB and browse the contents with a workstation, that might be a different story.

So in practice, nothing has changed.

All I'm trying to say is there are alternative paths in treating depression, besides popping pills. These alternative and "wholesome" remedies are rarely recommended though, because there's no financial incentive. A doctor/pharmaceutical company makes no money by recommending a healthy diet, sufficient exercise, and socialization. Pharmaceutical fixes should never be a first choice for treatment.

And it seems like you're telling me that I've never experienced "true" depression. You have absolutely no basis for that 1.) because you don't know me 2.) because our perceptions of reality are unique.

Agree 100%. I think that the city of New York has no business putting limitations on how a property (that you own) can be used and leased. If you have a community/association that's making those rules, fine... that's fair. It's fair because you agree to their terms prior to purchasing the property. If you rent a property and the lease explicitly disallows subletting, fine. That's fair too. Rules and laws should be granular, specific to their locality, rather than vast sweeping blankets.

I'm also in favor of zoning for residential and business, that makes sense. But there's a big difference between someone operating a high foot-traffic business out of their home, and seeing an occasional stranger walk into a residence every other day or so.

If there are no specific rules that a localized community has agreed on, then Airbnb should be fair game. Why should the municipal government make the rules?

Wow, just read an article on ADHD in France, and I think that their system is incredible. It really aligned with what I've thought all along: depression, ADHD, and a few other "neurological disorders" are symptoms of a person not operating in an optimal environment (for themselves specifically).

Take ADHD for example: A child won't sit still in class, is constantly distracted, and performs poorly at school work. Let's use occam's razor to figure out what's going on here. Was this child born with a rare neurological disorder causing an imbalance in monoamine neurotransmitters? Possibly... Or maybe was the real cause is this: a lack of exercise, a poor diet that includes lots of sugars and unnecessary carbohydrates, lack of socialization outside of the school context. The list goes on and on. I really believe that if you do your due diligence in ensuring your diet, health, social life, and other important factors are all in a good state, these conditions magically disappear. Sure, the kid might have low levels of dopamine because of their suboptimal lifestyle. But there are ways to fix the problem without shoving NDRIs/amphetamines down their throat: change their routine, their diet, their life.

I'm not saying that ADHD doesn't exist, I'm just saying the true percentage of ADHD cases is probably a much lower (see France) than what's purported in the US.

But in the end, it's easier to pop a pill than change you or your child's lifestyle. Plus the pharmaceutical companies make a buck, and tell you what you need to hear to believe that stimulants are the only option for treatment. Sometimes they might be a good option to jumpstart the process of digging yourself out of depression (SSRIs in this case) but I don't think that the chronic administration of drugs is healthy and optimal in the long run. There are better solutions out there.

(P.S. Obviously I'm not stating any of this as fact. It's just what makes sense to me after dealing with, and evaluating my own anxiety and depression.)

I agree with you completely. Francis Crick was using LSD during the days when he discovered DNA's double helix geometry. To me, this means psychedelics are for more than just manic, unhinged thoughts, or illusions of grandeur. It can actually provide intelligent people with valuable perspective, insight, and creativity.

Considering societies current state, a change in perspective wouldn't be harmful. But people are afraid of change...

"Drop acid, not bombs!"

What is it about audio that attracts this curious level of "engineering"?

What is it about HN that attracts haters of open source POCs? Why don't you contribute and implement an FIR filter? You probably won't, because it's easier to bash someone's work rather than do the work yourself.

In my entire 10+ year career I've never had a service I was working on have a 20 hour outage. So, probably, the answer is yes.

How arrogant. I seriously doubt the services you've managed have even served a fraction of the data and customers SalesForce has.

Inefficient? Yes. Unsustainable? No way. We've been farming the old-fashioned way for thousands of years with exponential increases in population. If that's not the definition of sustainability I don't know what is.

Also, modern cultivation techniques can strip the produce and soil of essential vitamins and nutrients. So yes, in some cases, the "inefficient" and "unsustainable" farms yield more nutritious and eco-friendly foods.

The notion that these facts are purely a fabrication of marketing companies is total bullshit. There's tons of research out there supporting this (nb4 WHO SPONSORED THE RESEARCH??), you just have to look for it.

This is a very commonly implemented practice in HTML emails. Nothing to bust out your tinfoil hat over (just keep it on your desk, I'm sure it will be needed after reading other HN posts). Just disable loading external images by default in your email client if you don't want these services to know if you've read their email.

Maybe these individuals with genetic "risks" evolved to live in an environment different from our modern society. Everyone has a different optimal operating environment. These studies don't really conflict with anything the author said.

Yeah, you're incorrect on this one. You as a human aren't somehow totally disconnected from your environment. The environment you live in, is a part of yourself, the two can't be separated.

You have more foreign bacteria living in your body than human cells. "life flows on within you and without you".

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I'm sure a few products out there are scams, but speaking from my own experience/anecdotes I think the real ones do actually work. Specifically the products containing androstenone, androsterone, and the other related endogenous steroid hormones.

I used some (from Amazon, forget the brand) on my neck and my wife literally would not stop hugging me and telling me how great I smelled. She's actually initiated sex a few times after I've applied it.