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Re:What Happens to the Body on No Sleep on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:59AM (#21222879)

This might be a longshot given the age of the post, but does anyone have anything to say about OVERsleeping? This is anecdodal but over the years I've internalized how important sleep is and have been able to regularly get 8+ hours of sleep. What I've noticed is that I get more "emotionally" lethargic - level-headed when something should be stressful, which is a good thing, but also very calm and collected when something should produce euphoria.

If anyone has any relatable experiences or links to articles about oversleeping I'd love to read them.

Re:Level Design Patterns in 2D Games on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:12AM (#20182017)

"and a fair few others are worth checking out too."

I love this topic. Care to recommend any other channels?

Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world cop... on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:52AM (#15860123)

Your implication fails in the real world in the same way that banning, demonizing, and siphoning drugs out of the country has failed. Yes, stricter laws, a buy-back policy and a generational shift will most definitely lower the current amount of guns in circulation in a given society. But just like with drugs, and sadly with a lot of gun-strict cities in the US, it has no bearing on the subsequent widening of the illegal gun pipeline. Not to mention the ever-present lack of a generational shift among current and potential illegal gun owners.

It's interesting to me that a lot progressive, popular armchair analysis of the issue advocates for strict gun laws, and at the same time advocates for loose drug laws. What are the inherent differences between both problems that most people use to reconcile the cognitive dissonance?

Ask HN: Are there other communities like Hacker News?

Posted by bbot23 on Thursday March 13, 2014 @01:02PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've been devouring your content for the better part of the last two years and I was wondering if there were other online communities that resemble this one in its high quality discourse and activity level? Perhaps there are some excellent subreddits that we should all know about?

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Ask HN: Visiting Palo Alto this summer. What should a geek do/see/visit?

Posted by bbot23 on Monday May 28, 2012 @10:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hey everyone, I've never really traveled outside of my home town (Montreal, Canada) but I now have the opportunity to go visit my dad for a week and he is stationed in Palo Alto. The prospect of seeing with my own eyes the tech hub that I read news from almost on an hourly basis is mind-boggling to me and I already feel like a child that is about to go to Disneyland.I really want to take...

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