This was my thought exactly. Scrolling through this post seems like I'm on Reddit. It was a paper from Nature so worthy of conversation, but the one-liners are unnecessary and don't add anything of substance to the dialog.

I have lordosis, and admittedly, I should be seeing a PT because the curve is getting worse. But when I'm in pain, I go for an intense bicycle ride. Something about the blood flow loosening everything up and the endorphins it releases. For hours after my body will naturally want to do those stretches that just feel so good. It will last for a handful of days and then my back and body starts to ache again and it reminds me to go again.

If you are working in the same niche, you will likely know the tricks of the trade. You usually have an idea of what your peers are working on and it's often a race to see who gets a paper out first. This is what conferences are for as well, to try and figure out what your peers are up to.

I've been worried in recent years about getting a big gut from diaphragmatic breathing. My BMI is low but when I breath that way (and when it feels best) my belly can really stick out. Do you have any opinion on this?

Don't worry. It's better to breathe correctly than hold tension in your abs all day.

Unfortunately that information isn't available due to the lack of testing.

This thread is devolving and should be removed.

I agree. It belongs to a conspiracy theories or advocacy sub-reddit, not to HN.

I remember landlines sounding quite different from the author. To me they sound much better than cell phones. It sounds as if the other person is actually on the other end of the line. Cell phones sound very artificial with compression artifacts and such.

I've always said, give someone the psychedelics and a safe place to be, but let them be on their own. Lots of travelling to do, no need to stay tethered to this realm by having to converse with a therapist.

That's probably not the best way to work with MDMA, which is useful for exploring relational issues, and which is mostly what the article talks about.

I don't see how MDMA can be useful for exploring relational issues. It's primarily a controller of emotion and mood, not a psychedelic.

So all it's going to do at best is make a client artificially imprint on the therapist - because the client would experience intense emotional closeness after it was administered, followed by a real downer after the session.

I'd consider that abusive by definition. It's certainly not going to have the much broader and risky but potentially more productive ego softening effect of real psychedelics, which would focus much less on the therapist and more on the client's interior world.

Relationships are built on emotion.

Sounds like you've not been around someone who is having a bad trip, it's traumatic. I've been around some and had to play caretaker till they came down.

A bad trip on MDMA? I've never heard anyone express that they had anything like the classic LSD "bad trip" on MDMA. It's just not especially psychedelic in that way, and broadly speaking, it's a stimulant that makes your body feel really intensely good.

The OP is using MDMA. I don't think anyone on MDMA wants to be by themselves. I've actually never met anyone like that.

I have a similar LG 27UD68. The game changer for me was taking off the anti glare coating. It's amazing the relief from eye strain that I got once it came off.

At my university there are a number of math requirements for the CS degree. A couple calculus courses, a couple linear algebra courses and a discrete math course. Each of them is the foundation for other CS courses, such as discrete math is for analysis of algorithms. Is this the case with these newer schools / approaches to becoming a software engineer? I for one really appreciate the math, but is it appreciated in industry? Curious to know.