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Dear HN, Is there a better way to start a year than with acts of generosity? Recently, I learned about the Seva Foundation, which counts Larry Brilliant, Ram Dass and Steve Jobs am…

As a SWE in the EU who is eyeing the software industry in the US with considerable envy, I would not say we get by just fine, at all. I don't see how you could afford all the thing…

There is a solution to many of the issues highlighted in the article, and that is to drop judgementalism and bias altogether, as individuals and as society. That will get us to the…

Might be for someone, but I never had that experience. All my experiences have been very very rapid, and there was certainly no sense of being somewhere for hours or even minutes. …

The difference to other psychedelics is the nature of the DMT trip - it is extremely "fast", short, and overwhelming. There simply is too little "idle" time in the trip (none, actu…

You must be attentive enough to your impulses to catch yourself wanting to do it before you actually do it. It takes years to develop that level of attentiveness, but it's oh-so-wo…

The drugs are not supposed to get you there. They are supposed to show you the territory, lift you, temporarily, out of the slime and muck of the dark age of materialism. The rest …

What?? Drug laws vary wildly in the regions you mentioned. Just about the only thing that they have in common is that drugs are illegal. And it's not just a question of laws, eithe…

Truffles are less potent than mushrooms, and are typically administered non-dried. Therefore, 15g of truffles is more like 1.5g of dried mushrooms. The amount of psilocin and psilo…

Yeah, caffeine gives me a short fuse like nothing else. As little as a coffee in the morning would basically make me prone to fly off the handle due to the most insignificant, triv…

Thank you for posting this article. It gave me pause for thought. I have been taking a green tea supplement occasionally. I saw it in a vitamin store, and bought it because of the …

> Two years ago, at age 34, she switched careers and learned how to code. Oh dear.

That is a really, really poor and flawed metaphor. It is completely arbitrary and there's no logic or reasoning behind it. The "filtration system" that is talked about here is not …

Why do you bring "world governments" into it? Most of the world has next to no problem with fentanyl. Why, then, is "most of the world" supposed to "do more against" China? The pro…

While Chinese authorities control fentanyl, they’ve been slow to ban new analogues. And they didn’t begin restricting fentanyl’s two most common ingredients until this year, more t…

It amazes me how both the hearing at the US senate, and the one at the European Parliament, were marred by an absurdly ineffectual format of the Q&A session. You'd think that havin…

Drop meat, fish, eggs, dairy products...what's left? Vegan cuisine? Not that it wasn't obvious, but you should still disclose your bias. Good luck with your vegan diet. I hope that…