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Re:Ask HN: What are your tips to reduce drinking alcohol? on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @04:16PM (#19732392)

Upvoted. TSM worked wonders for me. I’m now past 9 months of total abstinence after using TSM for about 8 months leading up to quitting.

The idea of counter-acting the dopamine rush one gets from drinking makes a world of sense. Alcohol is a fundamentally addictive substance and naltrexone can help loosen its hold on your brain.

Abstaining now is fairly trivial. I pretty much never have the impulse to drink.

I think a lot of folks see Sinclair method as somehow cheating or “having your cake and eating it too”. While that may be an alluring idea, the reality is you wind up just not wanting to drink. I now associate drinking with how naltrexone makes me feel, which is not the most fun experience.

Re:Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Story Created by... on Sunday December 23, 2018 @03:53PM (#18748252)

As long as algorithmic is the default, it’s changing aggregate behavior in a big way

I can switch algorithmic sorting off, but if it’s the default for everyone else, and causing the most polarizing political content to spread even faster, it effects me and even people who don’t use Twitter at all

Re:Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Story Created by... on Sunday December 23, 2018 @08:41AM (#18745998)

Isn’t Twitter doing this as well by algorithmically sorting their feed? Why single out Facebook?

Re:Cryptocurrencies: looking beyond the hype on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @12:49AM (#17343931)

Re: women in crypto, I’m not sure what the solution could be. Both men and women had the same opportunity to buy Bitcoin when it was incredibly cheap. Unlike the gender divide in STEM jobs, there’s no hiring managers / gatekeepers with bias against women turning down potential BTC buyers. Women just didn’t buy crypto early on.

I’ve seen folks go so far as to accuse Bitcoin of being sexist. I just don’t understand how that’s a fair thing to say given that anyone with an internet connection and an appetite for risk could have bought BTC anytime since 2009

Re:Blueprint of a distributed social network on IPFS, and its problems on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:45AM (#16726768)

Because not all of my friends and family are willing to pay a subscription fee :-/

Re:Ask HN: High functioning alcoholism – anyone? on Saturday November 25, 2017 @07:27PM (#15778772)

I’m currently on month 5 of TSM, and almost never drink. Highly recommend it for anyone struggling. This TEDx talk was what convinced me to try it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6EghiY_s2ts

Prior to TSM, I was in pretty bad shape — so grateful I discovered it

Using a throwaway account here. Wish I didn’t feel like I had to :(