Hacker News: x220

New comment by x220 in "Female Founded Club (get your startup in front of investors)"

x220 — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:12:22 +0000

This is a sexist institution.

New comment by x220 in "“We would like to apologize to the user for the error on our part this morning”"

x220 — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 03:14:03 +0000

This estimate gives 1.5 million [1], this gives 1-3 million. [2][3]

[1] http://www.jpolrisk.com/brainwashing-police-guards-and-coerc...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-concentrationca...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/world/asia/trump-china-ui...

New comment by x220 in "“We would like to apologize to the user for the error on our part this morning”"

x220 — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 01:13:05 +0000

What about the 1-3 million people in Chinese concentration camps (excuse me, "re-education camps")?

New comment by x220 in "Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA"

x220 — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:04:18 +0000

Fantastic!

New comment by x220 in "Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA"

x220 — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:02:42 +0000

After years of trying to confront the source of my depression, I found out that I inherited incurable bipolar disorder and the only proven effective treatment is drugs. How do you think I should confront that?

New comment by x220 in "Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA"

x220 — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:58:23 +0000

No. There are plenty of medications that have measurable effects on average. That doesn't mean it's a one-shot solution for everyone's depression. You need to find the right medication, get therapy, sleep well, and exercise if you have major depressive disorder. But to say that medication has no effect on its own is misleading.

New comment by x220 in "Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA"

x220 — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:54:40 +0000

Lamotrigine works for most bipolar people for at least a few years. It's used as a first resort since it has typically no side effects. It quit working for me after four years of use, so I switched to lithium. I don't know much about how lamotrigine affects the mood of normal people, but I do know that if you give lithium to normal people it doesn't affect their psyche in any measurable way.

New comment by x220 in "Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA"

x220 — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:40:10 +0000

Respectfully, I think you were playing with fire and got lucky. You have to treat bipolar disorder very differently than unipolar depression. I don't know any doctor who would recommend or even consider using LSD to treat bipolar disorder. Many of the treatments that work for unipolar depression are terrible for bipolar disorder because they can instigate manic or hypomanic phases, if not outright psychosis. I feel happy when reading that you kept bipolar depression at bay (that's really, really good) but I want to caution the readers on this website from using LSD if they have bipolar disorder.

New comment by x220 in "Translating the Cyberpunk Future"

x220 — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 22:46:51 +0000

Most gendered languages have 2 or 3 grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, and sometimes neuter) with gender expressed in nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs. Depending on the language it may not be practically possible to add a new gender (or 20 new genders) due to the sheer number of grammatical forms you must memorize just to handle 2 or 3 genders. These are not trivial changes. In English, learning someone's pronoun might mean learning three words. In another language, it might mean learning literally hundreds of new grammatical rules. Instead of asking 99% of people to conform to the linguistic wishes of less than 1% of people, why not just expect them to find a solution within the existing language?

New comment by x220 in "Google to restrict political adverts worldwide"

x220 — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 22:35:22 +0000

>You'd trust The Economist (or the CBO) to be the arbiter of what other people are allowed to say?

They already do that with their own employees. They censor and control what statements they print to control for accuracy. Journalism concerns in part determining what true statements we should print. I think the Economist and CBO do a good job of separating the facts from the fiction. I would trust them to fact-check statements. I would not trust CNN or Facebook or the Democrats to fact-check statements.

New comment by x220 in "The trouble with VPN and privacy review sites"

x220 — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:43:06 +0000

Thanks for the perspective. Very interesting.

New comment by x220 in "Drug Dealers Are Offering Black Friday Deals on the Dark Web"

x220 — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:39:11 +0000

The websites are set up so that you would not make a profit if you tried to game the system.

New comment by x220 in "The trouble with VPN and privacy review sites"

x220 — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 08:16:04 +0000

The ISP retains records. It's not uncommon to get letters from your ISP telling you to stop torrenting that blockbuster movie you torrented last week because some law office reported your IP address at the time. So clearly someone can ascertain your identity through legal discovery if you just use your ISP.

New comment by x220 in "Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car"

x220 — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 08:09:52 +0000

Punching that Nazi makes him go viral and gives his movement clicks.

New comment by x220 in "Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car"

x220 — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 08:05:29 +0000

It's so we can have the appearance of rights. Same reason why China has kangaroo courts.

New comment by x220 in "Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car"

x220 — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 08:03:04 +0000

Police de facto have more rights because they can expect lenient punishment (or no punishment) for crimes they commit even when out of uniform. You can argue until you're blue in the face about de jure rights but those don't matter very much when a cop pulls you over and fears for his life.

New comment by x220 in "Tesla Cybertruck"

x220 — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 07:54:57 +0000

American neighborhoods are typically either like Switzerland or Swaziland. Most neighborhoods have low crime, low gun violence, and high income comparable to Switzerland. The other neighborhoods are comparable to Swaziland in terms of violent crimes. Don't be so quick to call someone's fear irrational if you haven't lived in Swaziland neighborhoods.

New comment by x220 in "Half-Life: Alyx"

x220 — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 19:01:47 +0000

I read a while ago in an article from the APA that soldiers who completed VR simulations of trauma were better able to handle stressful situations.

New comment by x220 in "The trouble with VPN and privacy review sites"

x220 — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 19:00:05 +0000

Do DIY clouds give you anonymity? I assume that if I run my traffic through a VPN server in AWS and I am the only one operating and using the server, anything I do on that VPN can be traced back to me.

New comment by x220 in "Half-Life: Alyx"

x220 — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:54:36 +0000

Actually VR games and simulations reduce the likelihood of developing PTSD.