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emptyfile··on Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure
Oh no, I know that's why they're buying it. With the caveat that I live in Eastern europe.

Never saw a developer with a mac here.

emptyfile··on Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens
>I maintain that we in Israel are still a very normal, western type society,

Wow that's an insane opinion.

You're operating a city size ghetto and illegally annexing a part of another country.

I guess in Israel that's normal!

emptyfile··on Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens
Shocking comment!
emptyfile··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
Don't forget 20 survival games per year.
emptyfile··on Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration
He must be a really convinced anti vaxer to die on this hill.
emptyfile··on Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?
It's depressing what Mozilla did to Firefox.

I was and still am an evangelist but stuff like this makes me wonder.

Never saw a bug like this in a browser. By pure chance did I check if Chrome worked.

emptyfile··on Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?
I was wondering what that was about...

Seems like I'm disabling automatic updates for the foreseeable future.

emptyfile··on Toxic culture is driving the great resignation
One of the things the pandemic thought me is that I value my time a lot more then I do money. Just had to try it out. No way I'm going back.
emptyfile··on How to easily read 50 books a year
Read a lot?
emptyfile··on NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations
IIRC the companies that made the beryllium main mirror went bankrupt because the material is much more tricky then anticipated.

So you would have to do that again basically or come up with another mirror design.

emptyfile··on NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations
Thanks Arianespace! Great job.
emptyfile··on Why Germans remain so jittery about nuclear power
Right.

It wasn't a political option.

They could've done it, easily, and it was the sensible thing to do.

emptyfile··on Why Germans remain so jittery about nuclear power
I agree, that is why I think the logic is flawed.

Either green just means no CO2 or nothing is green.

Go ask the citizens of Serbia what they think of the new Rio Tinto lithium mine opening in their country, which is touted as helping the European green revolution and all these giga factories that are being built.

Easy to have green energy in the EU when the pollution of building batteries is in Serbia or China.

emptyfile··on Why Germans remain so jittery about nuclear power
> But I understand why that wasn’t an option at the time.

explain

emptyfile··on Why Germans remain so jittery about nuclear power
I can understand the logic that both natural gas and nuclear aren't green. I think its flawed but I understand it.

However, if the new German government decides that nuclear is not green, but natural gas is green, then we have to seriously consider that vested natural gas interests are buried deep in German politics and have been for decades. The idea is completely perverse.

emptyfile··on James Webb is fully deployed
ESA and CSA seem to be in every headline so I wanted to emphasize that only one org would've poured so much money into a project. NASA gets way too much flak and little credit these days.

I'm European btw.

emptyfile··on You Feel Like Shit
It honestly makes me sad that giving bad information with a smile is more encouraged then giving blunt truth.

Every day I lose hope that this society will get better.

emptyfile··on You Feel Like Shit
>Drink a glass of whatever liquid you like best. Water is ideal, but don't beat yourself up if you'd rather have tea, soda, juice, or milk. Soda will actually make you feel thirstier, but if it's easier for you, then that's okay!

Is this a joke website?

Pro life hint: drinking soda and similar is why you feel like shit.

emptyfile··on You Feel Like Shit
"Learning" incorrect information is not beneficial to me.
emptyfile··on James Webb is fully deployed
Amazing feat of engineering. NASA can be proud of achieving something that no other space agency could do. It took courage to keep shovelling money and effort into this project and some amazing science to get it deployed into space.
emptyfile··on Study finds no detrimental effects of psilocybin in 10mg or 25mg dose
As I said in another comment, tolerance just means a higher dose each day. It would probably be hard to do with mushrooms for any serious dose, but with LSD it would work.

The point isn't that taking drugs on festivals is abuse, but rather that on festivals I've met people who've been taking psychedelic drugs on a weekly basis for years and their perception of reality is so twisted you have to wonder if they will ever "come back". They are willing participants in all of that, but I have to wonder if its healthy or morally sound to wave them off on their trip with no return.

>So in the end, given the society view to alcohol and its comparable effects, psilocybin should absolutely be decriminalized and promoted as medicine for use, especially with therapy.

Disagree, decriminalisation is not enough, all drugs should be legal.

But that is completely beside the point of our topic of danger.

emptyfile··on Study finds no detrimental effects of psilocybin in 10mg or 25mg dose
Tolerance just means you double the dose each day. People do it with LSD. Folks do crazy shit with drugs, in all honesty I think most people could hardly believe what kind of stuff drug users get up to.

I appreciate the newfound silicon valley, positive, scientific approach to drugs, but over here on the party continent it's a lot different.

emptyfile··on Study finds no detrimental effects of psilocybin in 10mg or 25mg dose
>That said it's almost impossible to abuse mushrooms

nonsense

>there just isn't a desire to redo them often and it doesn't work well anyway.

please don't talk about your anecdotes as if they were facts. go to any psytrance festival in europe and marvel at people tripping for a week straight

>I've never heard of someone being addicted to psilocybin.

and I've met bucket loads of people "addicted" to living in the unreality of psychedelics. I guess that's not being "addicted to psilocybin" but if the end result is eating mushrooms x times per week then the effect is the same

emptyfile··on Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
What about making a prediction while being, as you're saying it, 95% sure its bullshit?

Is that not lying? When does it become lying, when you're 100% sure you're not saying the truth?

emptyfile··on Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory
Electrical power supply.
emptyfile··on Reddit files to go public
>Reddit can fit nicely into the metaverse

what is the metaverse? what are you talking about?

emptyfile··on Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
What Microsoft did with Hololens is a great example of what Google should've done.

But that actually requires management with a vision.

emptyfile··on Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions
It's fine as long as your sub doesn't blow up, then it turns to crap in a heartbeat.
emptyfile··on We only talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor
Absolutely, he's the kind of guy that should fire up your interest and make you buy a real book to learn more.

However, never take the book he's actually using...most of the time it's plain outdated.

As you say, you can't really blame a guy who says 5 times per episode that he's "not a historian", but plenty of times I just can't help and wonder why didn't he spend 30 minutes extra researching a topic and choosing better material and sources. The only answer I got is that bad material makes for better stories.

emptyfile··on Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs
What nonsense, is it so much different really? How much experience do you people really have with drugs in america to be making such sweeping statements?

"Unclean nastiness"? And wriggling around on the floor on a big dose of LSD for 12 hours is casual clean fun? Getting psychosis from shrooms is not a big of a deal as getting hooked on heroin?

Romanticizing psychedelics is a good starting point for abuse.

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