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This is definitely pre-2009, I built this at Stanford w/ the others and I was only at Stanford until around 2005. (But they may have continued updating it given the Firefox version…

No, but I'm bummed they didn't steal the name "Pricks"!

Biannual reshare of a pilot I wrote for a TV parody of Theranos: http://www.blakeross.com/pricks.pdf :)

Hah good memory! I guess I'll resurrect it for the trial :)

I know lots of platforms-of-the-month come through HN, and it's hard to filter the signal from the noise...just wanted to add another voice that Exponent is indeed awesome. Built b…

My semi-annual plug for the parody television show I wrote about Theranos last year: http://www.pricks.com

"One of the most useful lessons I learned from working at Facebook had nothing to do with technology: Doubt the media. Always doubt the media." ( https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-…

Hm I guess I didn't make that clear. Doriane is just another friend of mine, not my mother.

I haven't.

Whatever you want to believe about semantics (which I addressed in the article), the Exeter neurologists did see a difference in the man's MRI scans versus the control group. Sure,…

I drink socially. It seems to have pretty typical effects -- less social inhibition and so forth. Why do you ask?

I'd like to. I just don't know how I'd even begin. It's like telling me to start working out my third arm.

I would be curious to see how the HN community scores on this aphantasia survey embedded in the BBC article: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054 . Perhaps there's a connection …

That's one of the FAQ's in the piece: 8. Do you dream? No, or I don’t recall them. I’ve had a couple dreams but there was no visual or sensory component to them. When I woke up, I …

Really?! That is fascinating to me. I am 100% language on the inside.