A friend of mine had very good results in work with micro-dosing - he took 1/10 of trip dose and was more focused and creative. He suffered no hallucinations or giggles.
EDIT: Just trying to give second good use of this substance. Easing the suffering of a terminally ill person is good. Enhancing creativity and focus in young person is also good.
To be fair, the article is about the polar opposite approach: Giving a full-bore hallucinogenic dose to people who are dying anyways so it really can't make their situation worse, and seeing if it helps them cope with the inevitable.
Which is very interesting. I always feel like the war on drugs is horribly unfair to people in end-of-life situations who really should have access to all the most destructive mind-altering chemicals to ease that.
'Mind altering' yes, I will grant you that. But most things you ingest are mind altering. For example, this chocolate chip cookie I am eating now will shortly make me feel a burst of energy, but then shortly afterwards, sleepy and fat.
When this got posted before on HN the consensus was likely that the LSD got destroyed before he actually took any. I would really like to see that study done with more controlled dosing/storage.
Right, didn't realize that the article was updated to address some of the concerns that were initially left. Have you considered repeating the experiment with a slightly larger dosage?
No, not really. It's a relatively expensive and illegal habit, LSD has gotten much harder to get due to the black-market turmoil, and I think my experiment massively knocked down the already-low odds microdoses would do anything useful for me. It is unlikely I will ever revisit the topic unless some other high-quality blinded experiments are released.
I have tried microdosing. Took a sixth of a tab and disappeared for eight hours. When I emerged from this fugue state there was all this code there that wasn't there before~
In retrospect, that probably wasn't microdosing so much as it was just coding on acid.
terrible, of course. but I got my UIPercentDrivenAnimatedTransitions working at last and was able to tidy them up later. I think I spent the whole time just reading apple API docs. christ, what a waste of good acid.
You should be able to touch-type all those keys. The braces and square brackets may take some getting used. I find these characters to be the toughest: |+=
I have to really stretch my right pinky to reach those keys; slows me down and impacts my accuracy.
Thomas Schelling theorized [1] that you cannot credibly claim you will intentionally trigger nuclear armageddon, but what you can do is tolerate an uncomfortably high risk of accidentally triggering nuclear armageddon.
Seen in this light, you'd publicize every nuclear mishap.
Missile silos aren't "in" military bases as we normally tend to think of them. The silos themselves are usually sited in remote locations, the surfaces are often unguarded and protected only by chain-link fence.
...with all sorts of drones / driverless cars around nowadays, you can imagine some of them could be remotely hacked and made to land or park themselves more or less inconspicuously atop a silo at the right time. You don't need to "hack a silo" (which, I hope, is really not possible!) anymore to incapacitate the adversary from delivering a nuclear strike, just hack any random device that can be moved around at the right time. Hopefully you can't use the same tricks to trigger a missile launch, so overall the new situation might have increased humanity's chances of long term survival :)
Now it would be obvious, but in a future with god knows how many small little e-critters swarming around everywhere doing god knows what... yeah, bad I idea to share, but someone in a foreign military paid to have such an idea would've already had it anyway :)
Parking trucks or other objects on top of silos was actually part of the START verification protocols, so highly public, too. The other technique was leaving silo doors open during certain hours, when overhead collection assets (satellites, maybe flights) were... overhead, to verify presence or absence of missiles in certain silos.
Some real data from this poll: HNers are compassionate people - they vote mostly for the underdog number, so the number of the votes are almost equal. (21st minute from the poll 136:138)
I actually post in fear of the hellban. I have lost two 100+ karma accounts already and even had my IP blacklisted for a while for saying "Is this really an HN worthy post?" to some general world news on an emotive topic.
Well that's explicitly against the site guidelines, and I think the mods take it very seriously because we're already a highly critical demographic, without some checks and balances it would be very easy to devolve into a droning whingefest. If you feel the need to proclaim something un-HN-worthy you can choose to either flag it or ignore it (or rip it shreds on objective grounds).
Documentation really is not beginner friendly. Try watching these screencasts which will introduce you to the workflow and the beauty of AngularJS and you will make a small application during the exercise:
AngularJS Fundamentals In 60-ish Minutes by Dan Wahlin:
The ads in fact are placeholders in the empty dial screen. They will disappear after you visit 6 sites. I'm not 100% sure, but I think that you will not be tracked if they are shown to you.
If Mozilla does not cross this border I'm fine with this very passive advertisement.
The point is that Firefox was supposed to be the browser where you can feel safe. The way they are explaining this new monetization scheme makes me feel that I have to get my guard up.
Darren Herman is from MDC Partners, a massive advertising company. Then he founded a "media management" company. He's a "marketing innovator".
He writes ambiguous phrases that tend to contradict themselves like "Publisher Transformation with Users at the Center" (what?) and "The new tab page isn’t delivering any value for them." (double-what?)
Let's look at some of the wording from this guy [1], it's straight out of some PR/advertising agency. It makes me so incredibly suspicious, and I worry it will be counter to Mozilla's goals.
"Some of these tile placements will be from the Mozilla ecosystem, some will be popular websites in a given geographic location, and some will be sponsored content from hand-picked partners to help support Mozilla’s pursuit of our mission."
A given geographic region? Who says that it's popular? Hand-picked partners? Who picks them? What are the requirements for being "hand-picked"?
Let's look at some more language, filled with buzz-words and devalued propositions:
We are excited about Directory Tiles because it has inherent value to our users.
While Mozilla hasn’t always seen eye-to-eye with all viewpoints in the digital content community, particularly the IAB, we think they’d agree that users’ interests should come first, and we want to help their members deliver compelling content to strengthen the Web ecosystem.
When the user is at the center everyone benefits
We believe that if you put the user front and center, you can make every experience for them richer and more meaningful.
I know many will find me harsh, but when I read these things I also immediately have my guard up. I wonder what is being hidden behind these frankly contradictory and ambiguous statements. There is, to my mind, a falseness to them that is disturbing. This sort of language is what a politician or PR agency would use to deliver unpalatable news. I feel very strongly that it has no place being on an official Mozilla blog.
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