lkadr | 6 years ago | on: AOC and Ted Cruz agree on bill banning Congressmen from becoming lobbyists
DSK for Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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lkadr | 7 years ago | on: A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes personality (2017)
After years of depression, I'm sure my personality is one of the cause of me still being depressed. And if I went to therapy, I'd expect and want it to change. But change is scary, and I suppose that's why some depressed persons don't want to seek help. There's sometimes comfort in suffering.
Another reason is that the not-desesperate me feels shallow and boring. But there's probably a hopeful me that's not. I haven't found it yet, it requires more effort.
lkadr | 7 years ago | on: Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost (2016)
You plant a human
lkadr | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone making 200k as a software engineer outside the US?
If you don't pay for it from your own pocket, you pay for it in taxes.
lkadr | 7 years ago | on: Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?
I remember Étienne Klein explaining that one of the theory why the universe is flat (if you take 3 galaxies and draw a triangle using them as points the sum of the angles will always be 180) is that we might be like an ant sitting on a ball. The ant only sees so much of the ball and from its perspective everything is flat. But in reality the ball is round.
lkadr | 7 years ago | on: The 'Cuddle Hormone' Might Help America Take on the Obesity Epidemic
I have fibromyalgia, which is characterised by chronic pain caused by muscle tension. Out of all the methods I've tried to limit pain, from meditation to weight lifting, cuddling has been the most effective. All muscle tension just instantly melts away. I wonder if oxytocin would work as a light pain killer.
lkadr | 7 years ago | on: Facebook bans UK far right groups and leaders
I feel like "far-right" lost its meaning. Further right than the center-right, sure, but are all those parties and persons really openly racist, advocating for discrimination and authoritarianism ?
lkadr | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns
Some Europeans countries (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria ) and China have banned hiding one's face one's face in public. Those Asian face masks would be OK, but tribal masks wouldn't.
lkadr | 7 years ago | on: The Notre Dame fire and the future of history
No one working today on the Onkalo nuclear waste repository will see it being sealed 100 years from now.
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