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As good a time as any to quit HN I suppose.

I asked why OP is dismissing the possibility that the authors considered the specific factors OP mentioned. The quote you posted did not address that question. That is why it is no…

LOL, what are you talking about? I asked why OP had such a dismissive attitude towards the original paper, and that's "researcher worship"? Gotta be one of the most toxic responses…

What gave you the idea that I was making a scientific argument?

The quote you copy-pasted from the article has nothing to do with my comment.

So you were able to think of a couple confounding factors off the top of your head, but you dismiss the idea that the researchers had considered those factors and controlled for it…

With no disrespect to Dabney, but these kinds of obituaries make HN kind of morbid in my opinion.

I'm satisfied with Cinnamon. If any dev happens to read this: thank you and keep up the good work, it's appreciated.

> what's gravity got to do with it? Gravity got the following to do with it: Lower gravity makes it easier for the atmosphere to escape to space, especially since Mars has a very w…

> If we nuked the polar ice caps (or similar method to warm + evaporate them) it would generate enough of an atmosphere for the external pressure to be livable - maybe even breatha…

You can't really terraform Mars either, not enough gravity. And even if it was possible, the amount of work required to bring the air there is orders of magnitude more than simply …

Why don't they just write the network stack in Rust? Then we would know it's secure with no audit required.

Sorry but I don't see how that follows from my logic at all. Would you please care to clarify how you reached that conclusion starting from some assumption I made?

So allowing Mexican cartels to smuggle and sell, for example, heroin has a positive economic effect on society? I have to admit that's a fresh perspective.

I meant the effects of fever, so that perhaps different parts of the brain was affected differently by the temperature increase. I really have no idea, but I was saying that it is …

I'm not saying that filtration theory is false, I'm saying it seems less likely to me than the following alternative: The chemical composition of a sober persons brain causes us to…

No hadn't seen it.

Okay so damaging the neurotransmitters (filters) should create a more psychedelic experience for that person. I find that unlikely.

I agree that fever and lack of sleep can produce hallucinations, but I'm not convinced that they are non-localized effects in the brain, nor that psychedelic chemicals are non-loca…

If the hypothesis was true, we would expect the effects of brain damage to reliably create a richer and more psychedelic experience for the sufferer. Hallucinations and paranoia ar…

The problem is the theory implies that people with brain damage should experience psychological effects similar to those induced by psychedelic drugs, and we don't see anything lik…

Why not?

Suppose they are smuggling narcotics.

> Furthermore even though these lasers are very cheap, by army norms, to fire, they're still 600$ or so for a single shot. So shooting down drones will be expensive. Far more expen…

I hope you're right.