clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: More Americans report near-constant cannabis use
I knew a lot of people that were addicted to weed because they were bored without it and because their social lives are completely dependant on smoking weed -- without weed they would just sit awkwardly. Some of them went more than a decade like this and didn't develop many important areas of their mind because of it.
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA
I've had several impossible burgers and they completely live up to the hype. They taste very good indeed. But I have noticed a slight uptick in anxiety after eating them, maybe 30 mins after or so. This anxiety comes out of the blue, the first few burgers I had, I had zero health or safety thoughts in my mind that might have precipitated the anxiety. Interested if anyone else has had a similar experience.
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: “The DNS Camel”, or, the rise in DNS complexity
I feel like tying ips to a name and tying accounts to real people or to each other should be handled by the same entity. It could be called identity services. We need more centralized, simplified and potent identity services
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming
What side-effects did you experience?
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming
I can't agree with you enough in everything you've said. I taught myself how to lucid dream in 2011. I used a technique where I made a habit of checking reality through the day every day. Eventually the habit became ingrained enough that I started remembering to check even during dreams, triggering a realization that I was actually dreaming and initiating a lucid dream.
It is exactly as you described. Nobody can ever understand it until they experience it. Comparing it to the matrix might do it a little justice. But there are limitations -- waking up, falling back into non-lucidity, false awakenings and so on.
The first lucid dream I had was glorious. I was dreaming about being on a very tall grey building with overcast skies, on a wooden deck protruding from the side of the building. I became lucid and commanded the sky to crack with lightning and it did. I flew upward and created a swirl of clouds and was generally having an amazing time. This all was as if it were completely real. Then, too excited, I woke up. But it was a terrifying false awakening where a black figure sprinted toward me and attacked me. Then I woke up for real, absolutely terrified. It was so scary that I decided not to lucid dream anymore. But with recounting all of this, and thinking about it for the first time again, I think I might start doing it again.
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year
Ethics? Do you think Tesla is bad for selling cars to China? No country has intact ethics, your comment is ridiculous. Sa is one of the biggest and most promising investors in renewables precisely because of their oil background. Oil is going to implode soon and they know it. Their economy and foreign policy rely heavily on oil, so they are carrying out a transition away from it now rather than wait. So yes, "selling out" to them is more than ok -- it's brilliant.
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year
You don't understand sa.
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: Battery breakthrough: Double performance lithium battery that doesn’t catch fire
Headway cells!
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: Empty shipyard and suicides as 'Hyundai Town' grapples with grim future
Thank you so much for this valuable post. Did you mean that China leads the usa in tonnage? And did you mean that large liquid natural gas ships aren't planning out when you said very very large ship orders aren't materializing? Isn't there a large effort underway to put natural gas on ships, therefore undermining Russia's pipelines and also bolstering large ship production?
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: Empty shipyard and suicides as 'Hyundai Town' grapples with grim future
The Korean government is democratically elected as recently noted in the news. Aren't you saying "I hope the Korean people aren't stupid enough to try and save themselves?"
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: Machine learning links brain connectivity patterns with psychiatric symptoms
Psychosis resulting from meth withdrawal has always suggested to me that it is an under-connected problem because presumably what happens during withdrawal is widespread "disconnection" resulting from a large decrease in synaptic sensitivity (caused by a flood of neurotransmitter, meth) and a steep drop in neurotransmitter activity once the meth is gone.
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: Machine learning links brain connectivity patterns with psychiatric symptoms
Hasn't it been reported that psychosis is caused by a lack of connectivity in the brain? I seem to remember someone saying that there had been a breakthrough in discovering that certain brain cells were pulling double duty as immune cells and overzealously pruning connections, causing psychosis.
If over-connectivity is the source of all these problems then isn't that a boon because it must be simpler to cut connections therapudicly than to create them
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: Tesla Model 3 Is Replacing Toyota Prius as Green Car of Choice
Hello from Lafayette.
clankfan
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7 years ago
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on: Filament: Physically-based rendering engine
Does anyone know how this document relates the the rendering done in the 2016 ratchet and clank game? That game has always astounded me and 8ve never been able to find a deep and comprehensive relation about how the rendering works.
