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The connection for benzos is somewhat tenuous in its own right, but gabapentin actually has basically nothing to do with Benzos and does not act on your GABA system

isn't it generally recommended to use distilled water in these humidifiers for exactly this reason?

Do you have a source for this? As far as I know the purpose of corporations is to shield owners from losses and not a whole lot beyond that.

I bookmarked the article after the first few paragraphs to potentially share with some friends. Definitely a bit disappointed at the end.

Was hoping the author would share their intuition for how to make relationships work in the smartphone world.

I don't think you need an expert opinion to say that smartphones at the very least have radically changed relationship dynamics

one common effect of SSRIs is that they can dull emotions. This is helpful and can be a positive effect if you are very depressed or get stuck in anxious spiraling.

If you're very stable and happy emotionally, then that dulling might be unpleasant.

Beyond that, while SSRIs tend to have fewer side effects and be more safe than many other classes of anti-depressants, even SSRIs have very noticeable side effects. They are very easy to stomach if they make a dramatic difference in your mood and quality of life, but if you were already mentally well the side effects will be more impactful than whatever benefits you might get.

Does anyone know how one might go about implementing a feature like multiple select?

I had a project doing something similar a while back and got pretty stuck on figuring out how to go about it

I'm not really sure I buy it. It seems to me more likely that he's just still incompetent and sort of addicted to the spotlight. He was one of the most popular and well-respected people in the world in a certain sub-community and he did that all while playing league of legends every day.

It might be some master plan, but it really also might just be him not wanting to accept that it's over.

I have a hard time imagining any remotely rational person wouldn't realize to just not say anything to anyone without a lawyer present.

I never took anything past high school chemistry and I managed to understand it. It's not really that abstruse. My background is a bunch of wikipedia articles and chemistry youtube videos.

I took an undergraduate course on the economics of science and technology. A large portion of it was devoted to patents.

The problem is generally that public funding accounts for extremely small amounts of the funding that it requires to take a drug to market. I didn't lookup any numbers for this, but I would guess it's very rarely above 1%.

The government could try to claim some share of the profits from drugs derived from research that was partially grant funded, but that seems logistically very difficult and not worth it. The government already gets a share through various taxes anyways.

The purpose of public research is to encourage innovation, which in turn benefits everyone. Private companies usually have no incentive to make any of their research public which can lead to many places repeating the same things.

This makes sense as graduate school gets more and more competitive. Getting a tenure track position nowadays often requires being among the best students of a top graduate program. Even just getting into a PhD program can be difficult depending on the subject.

If your parents have graduate degrees or are professors its likely that graduate school was on your radar much earlier in life. You probably had more time to consider what steps you'd need to take to get there. You're also probably more likely to be interested in graduate school at all, since many people don't even view it as an option for themselves at all.

Where did Judaism spread via war and forced conversion? Your historical claim is not entirely accurate and seemed very biased.

Buddhism was spread by missionaries throughout history. At times, much in the same way as Christianity. Undoubtedly the missionaries from both Buddhist and Christian societies thought they were spreading enlightenment and to some extent they stuck because other people agreed.

You are correct to point out that games have gotten simpler in a certain sense, but I wouldn't conflate that with being less competitive.

Simple games can be very competitive because the best players can become much better at them. Chess and Go are good examples.

I’m no expert here and hopefully a doctor or public health student can chime in with the most accurate data here.

However a quick google search suggests that nicotine is categorically more addictive than alcohol. It’s hard to measure exactly what proportion of people who consume alcohol are alcoholics, but it seems like 10% is a reasonable estimate.

For cigarettes it seems like smoking even only once per month puts you at a much greater than 10% risk of nicotine addiction.

Can I ask what the name of the book is?

He made novel contributions to computability theory. The first person to show that one-dimensional cellular automata could be turing-complete.

That being said, he’s very much a crackpot nowadays. Being sane in the past does not imply you will be sane in the future, no matter how significant your list of accomplishments.

In my experience undergraduate math textbooks are not like that at all. Perhaps for the introductory calculus sequence, but rarely for anything upper-division.

There are so many good textbooks for Algebra, Analysis, Topology and the most commonly taught ones are (Dummit&Foote, Rudin, Munkres) are nothing like what you describe.

If you looked instead at the number of people who obtain tenure at a research university, it would look much more comparable to getting into the NBA.

What do you mean? He is currently a U.S. Senator. There aren’t many circles more elite or powerful than that.

Hey this was me!

When I was a child, my parents tried very hard to teach me how to tie my shoes, but I could not figure it out. To this day, I just tie them in knots and then make loops to make it seem like I tied them properly.

I now have a PhD in mathematics and work at a top tech company.

It turns out that I have pretty severe dysgraphia (I have difficulty with cognitive tasks requiring fine motor skills). I think people only noticed because I couldn’t tie my shoes.

I’ll disagree with everyone else here. There’s not really a good reason to understand them, no. It’s good to have a broad understanding of what tricks are out there and to get a general sense of what techniques might work where, but no reason to know them in depth or learn all the tricks.

Computer Algebra is actually not great at solving integrals (and the problem is unsolvable in general). But it’s not extremely common that one needs to symbolically integrate gnarly expressions and you can look up the tricks when it comes up.

Much in the same way that I believe introductory linear algebra is bogged down by endless matrix computation without a computer, I think forcing students to compute a million different gross integrals quickly has diminishing returns.

I’d be interested to see what the rate increase is for Athletes. I think of landing a top research as the equivalent of getting a spot on an NBA team (or other major sports team).

Both are extremely competitive with only a select few spots in the entire country. Additionally, starting at a very young age is a huge advantage for both athletes and aspiring academics.

This is a horrible argument. The article itself went through the reasons that the previous common belief was not applicable to this unprecedented pandemic. Yet it concludes, without any evidence, this must have been caused by public health experts being so biased by their personal political convictions that they cannot interpret their scientific findings objectively.

I think “dating coaching” is usually a term used akin to “pick-up artist” i.e. using manipulative tricks to convince people to have sex with you.

I don’t think having there’s anything wrong with having some sort of social interaction coach or the equivalent to help learn what the social norms around dating are. Although not usually for dating, that is a form of therapy that can be helpful for people on the autism spectrum who may have trouble understanding the social cues on their own.

It’s hard to understate how big Grothendieck’s imapact on mathematics was. He was, without any doubt, the most influential mathematician of the 20th Century.

There are mathematicians today who learn french solely to read his works.

I’m happy. It’s not really a big deal to me if my uploaded content is removed and I think the service that Spotify provides is worth more than what I pay for it.

I don’t know where this myth comes from or why it’s so prevalent but it’s completely false. Methamphetamine and amphetamine salts (e.g. Adderall) are not at all the same drug. One clear distinction is that methamphetamine is serotonergic while amphetamines are not.

To add onto this there’s also lengthy cognitive testing (usually about 6-8 hours of tests) that is much more precise. My understanding from talking to my psychiatrist is that there are certain traits, such as reaction speed, that are correlated extremely strongly with ADHD. Usually patients with ADHD will test averagely on most of the cognitive tests and then perform several standard deviations below average on exactly those tests.

Why would we live on the moon in permanent colonies outside of scientific research? There are still tons of uncolonized places on earth that are much more hospitable than the moon.

> Earlier on I aimed for plain objects / structs for information, grouped state passing

I’m a relatively junior dev and I believe this is a pattern I use a lot. Would you be willing to elaborate on what you mean by it and what some common pitfalls are?

There’s absolutely state-funded media in the U.S. It just doesn’t encompass as much as those in the UK or Australia.

C-Span is a good example.