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brockwhittaker··on I was in the MAPS MDMA for PTSD study
In the US find a dealer or the dark web, you can buy test kits to test for pure MDMA (Molly), to ensure it’s not mixed with things. Ecstasy can otherwise be mixed with opiates or uppers like speed.

I know a lot of pretty responsible users of MDMA (most use during festivals). It’s also best to not do it more than once a month as it’ll significantly decrease the effects.

It’s also important to be mindful that in days following the high may come a low where you feel more depressed than usual. This is due to the low seratonin levels your brain will have after you increased them to levels you’ve likely never reached before.

I also wouldn’t consider MDMA a “trip” per se. At doses like 80-120mg you will be fully mentally able, you’ll just have rose colored glasses on (a fondness for everyone and everything).

Otherwise some other tips are to chew gum as most people have an oral fixation on MDMA and you don’t want to grind your teeth. I hear taking Magnesium before helps as well though I haven’t personally researched that.

brockwhittaker··on JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Bitcoin is a fraud that will eventually blow up
Banks like JP Morgan don't have the power to put more money into circulation, so you're wrong.
brockwhittaker··on Designing Activity Feeds
Runs completely fine on my MacBook which is pretty low-specced compared to your setup it seems. The gradient is unnecessary, but it's still running at 15fps.
brockwhittaker··on Designing Activity Feeds
This isn't designed for the single-digit percent of people who use RSS feeds. It's a UI/UX resource; treat and critique it as such. It's a way of presenting data to people who aren't going to spend time to create their own interface.
brockwhittaker··on Why an eight-hour bus ride from Los Angeles to San Francisco might beat a flight
Not to mention the trains are incredibly smooth. Took the train from Trondheim to Bodø, woke up a few hours in and didn’t know we were moving until I took a snapchat of my face in the dark train and saw a speed of over 200km/h.
brockwhittaker··on Show HN: Hire.Bid – marketplace for on-demand work
Because handling payments for outside of the US has all sorts of legal and logistical obstacles.
brockwhittaker··on Ask HN: Is it harder getting a tech job now vs. 5 years ago?
No. The example is entirely arbitrary. A web JavaScript developer probably doesn't need to ever know the difference between those two...
brockwhittaker··on The Forged ‘Ancient’ Statues That Fooled the Met’s Art Experts for Decades
The key is that the guards don't know it's a replica. Otherwise, they'd likely have told other people.

Therefore they end up protecting it as if it is authentic.

brockwhittaker··on Show HN: JsonTree, a 3.53kb JavaScript tool for generating html trees from JSON
You should consider removing all the other functions from the global scope, especially because they have relatively generic names like "generateTree", "toArray", "depth", and "toggleClass".

Consider using an actual class or a closure perhaps?

brockwhittaker··on Ventusky – Weather data visualization
It's not just possible its very normal. It's called the Icelandic Low.
brockwhittaker··on Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter, has been Suspended from his own site
He isn't at least anymore.
brockwhittaker··on Show HN: Quick JavaScript Tetris – Based on Yesterday's Show HN
Consider wrapping your code in a closure so that all the variables and functions aren't globals. It's good performance-wise and for not polluting the global namespace.

Otherwise looks good. :)

brockwhittaker··on Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America
As someone who lived in Bangalore, no. You missed April's average temperature being 95F.
brockwhittaker··on Stock options: a balanced approach
This is not correct. Stock options can decrease volatility and serve as insurance against large increases or decreases. That is the point of hedging.

For example if I have 100 shares of AAPL @108 and I'm nervous of it dropping below $80 in the near future, I may buy a MAR16 put option at $90/share for a few pennies in the hopes that if the stock does actually decrease to a level that makes me feel uncomfortable, the options will increase enough to offset the stock loses.

So they very much can be insurance. It just depends on how you play them.

brockwhittaker··on iOS 9 installed on over 50% of users' devices
If nothing else it's impressive that over a quarter billion people were able to download a file that large in such a short period of time.
brockwhittaker··on California Coastal Records: Aerial photographic survey of California Coastline
With the insurance these homeowners probably have, they may be pretty happy to see their houses slide into the ocean.
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