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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by zkomp on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:34AM (#19396858)
More interesting question: How do we know regular drug users are not self medicating.
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by TomMarius on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:47AM (#19396906)
They in fact frequently are. There are huge communities dedicated to that on the Internet. BTW a lot of the previously illegal and unthinkable treatments these people used have just been legalised in the EU, using MDMA etc.
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by JohnFen on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:44PM (#19404110)
Indeed. And although I wouldn't recommend the self-medicating route, it's hard to deny that there are some people who get much better results doing that than getting "official" medical help.
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by TomMarius on Friday March 15, 2019 @07:13PM (#19405202)
Professionals can be found even though its illegal. I wouldn't recommend self-medication either.
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