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Article mentions seizure of red mercury ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury ) which suggests that either the writer is incredibly misinformed or this is an intentional disi…

I built a GraphQL API earlier this year. The learning curve can be a little awkward coming from REST, but once you get the hang of it GraphQL is super fun. Can't recommend it enoug…

'The Woman in the Dunes' by Kobo Abe: Sometimes called the Japanese Kafka. Looks at a Japanese salaryman who is imprisoned in the bottom of a sand pit with a woman he does not know…

The graduation rate is irrelevant, as a very selective bootcamp that works hard to make sure everyone learns and has a 100% grad rate will put out higher quality folks than a dev-m…

This is obviously not true. I'm a bootcamp grad, I got a great job right out of my program and it has been an uphill struggle ever since. If you read the answers from the other boo…

Good point.

It need not be stated that McCarthy's work is some of the most powerful and well crafted fiction of the twentieth century, but this article came off as a little strange and underdo…

I don't think there is any reason to believe that the brain is like a computer in any meaningful way. Both the brain and an electronic computer are able to operate on information, …

There don't happen to be any recordings of the lectures are there?

This small Japanese village is attracting young tech workers to support their aging, agrarian population. Are their any towns pursuing a similar strategy in the US? If not, could s…

Original articla: http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp201744...

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I'm pretty ashamed to see this sort of stuff making the front page of HN. If an argument for a similarly archaic and backwards explanation was posted about some other topic (this s…

You do raise an interesting point: would there be any value in emulating (some of) the subjective effects of a psychedelic to 'increase' blinding. Perhaps have all study participan…

> "So if I am reading this right, LSD reduced fearful reactions. I initially mis-read it as a correlation between LSD and fear." Not really, the results were a bit more subtle and …

The paper includes a caveat at the end: "Our study has several limitations. First, although the trial was formally double-blinded, assignment to placebo or LSD was unavoidably unbl…

Taking for granted most of the other answers here ('make sure she has tried and likes coding' et c.): Have her look up reviews of the program on https://www.coursereport.com/ and w…

-Alarm goes off at 5:30. Hit snooze once. -Alarm goes off at 5:35. Depending on how sleepy I am I may lay in bed for 1-10 minutes, usually petting the cat. -Put on clothes in dark.…

Nice! Recommend 'Hard Boiled Wonderland' as well. His most tightly plotted and laid out book, if you like that part of his work. His non-fic is great as well. IQ84 is a bit long wi…

Curious if you have read other Murakami?

How did you like 'New American Stories'?

How did you find 'Rosemary's Baby'? Seems like the novel was eclipsed by the movie and you never hear about it.

All physical.

How far did you get into 'Infinite Jest'. Did you break pg. 200? In my expeirance there seems to be this energy hump at pg. ~200, but if you can push past that it is smooth sailing…