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Re:Mixxx: GPL DJ Software on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @03:19AM (#42777686)
Mixxx is great! I used it with a Nano Korg Kontrol 2 when I just started learning DJing a few years ago.
The limitations part sums it up, this is a study about real-life microdosing not about microdosing by itself and the lack of substance verification makes it mostly irrelevant to me.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/62878#s4-1

"A key limitation of the present study is the lack of verification of the nature, purity, and dosage of the psychedelic substance used for microdosing. Psilocybin-containing mushrooms were used by 23% of the sample, 14% used legal LSD analogues (such as 1P-LSD), whereas 62% sourced their substance from the black market, mostly LSD (61%). According to the Energy Control's drug checking service (Barcelona), LSD blotter adulteration rates were low during the period when our study was running: in both 2018 and 2019 blotters sold as LSD contained LSD only in 90% (n = 735) of tested samples [personal communication with M. Ventrua from EC, June 2020]. The exact quantity of active ingredient within a given microdose cannot be known with certainty; however, the positive relationship between dose and blind breaking (Figure 4) and that the threshold dose for psychoactivity was consistent with a recent controlled study (12 µg vs 13 µg; Bershad et al., 2019a) provide some reassurance. Nonetheless, our results should be not understood as clinical evidence, rather they are representative of ‘real life microdosing’."

I have been living and working in Thailand for more than a year now, and I never had similar issues in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, etc... I'm sorry for what happned to this guest, and I think that if we travel to a country we should be a litle bit aware of their cultures and respectful to their laws.

That said, jail was extreme in this case, and a warning would've been sufficient in my opinion.

It's funny and scary how it's the opposite of what Free Software stands for.
I see why they called it a non vulnerability. It also works on Firefox 40.0a2 (2015-06-03)
Totally agree if you don't need the money it's the way to go.. it may become something even bigger.
Re:Ask HN: When do you know your startup has failed? on Friday April 17, 2015 @06:56AM (#9393437)
I and my co-founder are almost in the same situation right now (except that we don’t have rent). I think it's more about you and if you have the power to keep going but yes you should have customers and built something or part of it.
Re:What are your favourite sci-fi books? on Monday February 16, 2015 @07:00AM (#9056466)
Isaac Asimov Foundation (beside mangas!)
Definitely reading and videos for design stuff or when I want to discover a new tool.
Re:Why you should move your startup to a small fishing town on Monday December 08, 2014 @10:49AM (#8717012)
The thing that I'm pointing to is that there is more crime in the US than Morocco.
Re:Why you should move your startup to a small fishing town on Monday December 08, 2014 @09:01AM (#8716400)
It's almost impossible to have a gun in Morocco then it's easy to assume that you are safer than in the US.