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AndrewThrowaway commented on The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth lemonde.fr/en/economy/art... · Posted by u/geox

TFYS · 6 days ago

This is very close to saying you wouldn't be against slavery. A slave could be given a decent quality of life. Does that mean slavery is acceptable? A person with 50 bazillion will be able to make you a slave if he wants to.

AndrewThrowaway · 5 days ago

Doesn't then a person with half a trillion have that ability? At what point does the ability start?

AndrewThrowaway commented on The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth lemonde.fr/en/economy/art... · Posted by u/geox

AndrewThrowaway · 6 days ago

If you take any ancient or not so ancient civilization or kingdom, all the wealth including land and people's lives belonged to king/imperator which was appointed by god or something like that.

Isn't is exactly the same with the system we have now?

The question we have to ask is about 99% of population of peasants who work 8h a day same as they did in Mesopotamia. Do they have a living standard, healthcare, possibility to have social bonds, possibility to retire. Basically all the things to have a life.

If peasants are able to have all this, I really don't care if some King of ours has 20 trillion or 50 bazillion. In money or in gold.

AndrewThrowaway commented on The fuck off contact page nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off... · Posted by u/OuterVale

froh42 · 9 days ago

That with its pixel art is styled so beautifully and so hard to read at the same time. Couldn't read it at all. (It's not an eye vision problem, reading pixel fonts just is quite taxing on the brain).

AndrewThrowaway · 9 days ago

I had to go back to the page to check that it actually uses pixel font. To each its own I guess. For me the font was barely noticeable.

AndrewThrowaway commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro

Waterluvian · 2 months ago

Without having a well-defined risk profile that they’re designing to satisfy, everyone’s just kind of shooting from the hip with their opinions on what’s too much or too little.

AndrewThrowaway · 2 months ago

It is like discussing zombie apocalypse. People who are invested in bunkers will hardly understand those who are just choosing death over living in those bunkers for a month longer.

AndrewThrowaway commented on For centuries massive meals amazed visitors to Korea (2019) atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/carabiner

AndrewThrowaway · 2 months ago

Anecdotal story. Once I stumbled into Korean restaurant in China Town in NYC. I just ordered something like lunch. I was alone. They kept bringing plates after plates of various dishes. I was ashamed to leave so much food. Paid like 11 dollars but it was in ~2015.

AndrewThrowaway commented on UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage the-independent.com/tech/... · Posted by u/oger

18172828286177 · 5 months ago

It’s weird to me that the providers aren’t communicating to customers about this. What if you were waiting for a call from a doctor, or similar?

AndrewThrowaway · 5 months ago

But the network is not working!

AndrewThrowaway commented on A valid HTML zip bomb ache.one/notes/html_zip_b... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

ranger_danger · 5 months ago

Did not crash Firefox nor Chrome for me on Linux.

AndrewThrowaway · 5 months ago

Crashed Chrome tab on Windows instantly but Firefox is fine. It shows loading but pressing Ctrl + U even shows the very start of that fake HTML.

AndrewThrowaway commented on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/Bluestein

yesseri · 5 months ago

Is it possible to have a placebo group when doing a study on psilocybin? Would participants in the placebo not notice the lack of psychedelic effects?

EDIT: In the original link it says the placebo group received a much lower dose, so that seems to be one way of doing it.

AndrewThrowaway · 5 months ago

Then again what if showing some funky hallucinogenic images/movies would have the same effect on some people? We surely know that people can go crazy (so have psychological effects) in cults and similar settings. What if intense visual/sonic/etc stimulation, visual distortions etc. together with messaging like "it will change your life and cure your anxieties" is the key in this therapy?

AndrewThrowaway commented on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/Bluestein

hellohello911 · 5 months ago

Figure 3 is suspicious. Even the placebo arm has much better scores for depression and anxiety from baseline?

AndrewThrowaway · 5 months ago

As far as I know antidepressants and even pain killers are the most susceptible to placebo effect.

AndrewThrowaway commented on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/Bluestein

milchek · 5 months ago

Anecdotal, but about a year ago my wife participated in a psilocybin trial at a university here who were looking at patients with severe anxiety. It was her last hope after trying therapy, various supplements, as well as dietary and lifestyle changes, etc

It has been life changing for her, but one thing she tells people now is that what also helped was that it was facilitated with a trained therapist there during the session for guidance to make sure she didn’t “get stuck in a loop.” There was also many sessions pre dosing day to optimize the result.

She would highly recommend the treatment and hopes it becomes mainstream soon.

AndrewThrowaway · 5 months ago

Was she in placebo group?

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