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Pharnaces  ·  4363 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Any nootropic users here on Hubski?

No problem!

I have no idea what inositol is or what it does, it was just in the cheapest Amazon Prime serviced choline bitartrate on Amazon. I've heard about other people taking it on r/nootropics, though.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Any nootropic users here on Hubski?

Sweet, I'll look into giving Huperzine-A a shot sometime soon.

The first time I felt that really weird phenibut "drunkenness" I thought I just hadn't taken enough, so I took another gram and ended up sleeping for 20 hours straight. I woke up at one point and managed to crawl halfway to the bathroom before falling asleep on the floor. Very powerful stuff.

    I take it green tea has a less than optimal l-theanine/caffeine ratio?

Exactly. Black tea is actually better for the l-theanine/caffeine benefits because it's 20mg/14-61mg vs 5-46mg/14-61, where the ranges are highly dependent on the conditions in which the green tea were grown.

You normally want a 4:1 theanine:caffeine ratio, so 800mg of l-theanine for your standard 200mg caffeine pill.

My current regimen:

  2400mg piracetam 3x/day

  400mg choline bitartrate 1x/day

  400mg inositol 1x/day

  800mg l-theanine with 200mg caffeine 3x/day
if I take phenibut I don't take the l-theanine+caffeine combo, because all that happens is that they cancel each other out.
Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: After 50 Years, Cuba Drops Unpopular Travel Restriction : NPR

That is entirely accurate, but doing "surprisingly okay" for their situation isn't exactly what I would call good. I watched a documentary on modern Cuba a year or two ago and it was very poor. Crumbling tenements built 30 years ago, junker American cars from the 50s still in use today, nobody has enough food, the health system is good in theory, etc. All in the shadow of the booming tourism industry.

They could be doing a lot better if restrictions on private enterprise were lighter and the embargo was over, the only people hurt by the embargo are the Cuban people.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Syncretic posts about deleting his reddit account, attracts SRD and circlejerk

D-don't hate us! ;_;

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: After 50 Years, Cuba Drops Unpopular Travel Restriction : NPR

Do we have any idea who would even succeed him? Are they going to keep it in the family, or maybe have legit elections?

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hiya

I'm not a follower or a power-user from Reddit, I just came here in search of more meaningful discussions. Did I come too late? ;;

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: London building collapsing during a fire on Victoria St., 1941

Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: London building collapsing during a fire on Victoria St., 1941

How do you go about finding them? I just look on r/historyporn, but obviously the people there have to find them somewhere else.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I deleted my reddit account...

I'm guessing that they'll get some more servers if the new interest is that high.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

What would you consider it? If you filter out what you don't like then all you are left with are people who like the same thing.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I deleted my reddit account...

I don't see any mention of an API in the FAQ, but I'm sure it wouldn't be very difficult to create a bot that screenshots a thread. Unfortunately I don't have the skills to do that.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I deleted my reddit account...

Yeah I think I like it more, as well. It'd probably best to take a screenshot of the drama, upload it to imgur, and then make to post the link to imgur and link the real thread in the text and/or comments, just in case someone deletes their post.

Reddit's definitely better for meta stuff.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: London building collapsing during a fire on Victoria St., 1941

It's amazing that they managed to capture it as it was falling with old cameras.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

Well that was my point all along, you and everyone else who ignores them will not experience the poor content, but it will still exist. I definitely can see the ignore function being misused to ignore people who believe in different things than somebody. #politics will probably look like r/politics (i.e.: liberal circlejerk) after all the liberals ignore all the conservatives and all of the conservatives ignore the liberals.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

I'm sure some people will follow them, lowest common denominator entertainment is always popular.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

Indeed, indeed. I'm having a conversation with Laurelai of all people right now and it isn't as bad as it would have been on Reddit. Hopefully things won't change too much with a larger community.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

How so? Have you stopped the users from posting low-quality content? No, you've just ignored it, just like you probably ignored (by unsubscribing) r/atheism, r/gaming, r/funny, and all the other garbage default subs on Reddit. They were still bad, you just couldn't see them.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

As long as most users think and act like you do then there will be no issue with heavy circlejerking, but I don't have that much faith in the average person on the internet.

Is this program any less finicky than it was a few years ago? I remember trying it out back on either Windows Vista or early Windows 7 and it caused all sorts of issues.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

I understand how the system works, I'm just saying that the average content quality doesn't increase because you've ignored someone you don't like, a troll, or a meme-spouting idiot.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

It's a blessing and a curse, really. Hubski's design seems like it will encourage circlejerking, since the best way to get content is to subscribe to users instead of topics and you can ignore users whose opinions you don't like.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Expansion of ignoring

Most SRSers are up for thoughtful discourse, if you agree with them. They're very well known on Reddit for invading other subreddits, screaming their ideology, and then ignoring (instead of refuting) anyone who brings up any counterpoints. Maybe hubski will rub off on the current migrants and we'll see them actually participate in thoughtful debate, instead of just "debate," but just be warned that they aren't known for being cooperative.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

Yeah, I know. It just seems much more tedious and unreliable as a content aggregation service than Reddit and I think that could be improved with the ability to follow tags or at least put them in the sidebar as bookmarks.

    Why is it that you're so concerned with the "trash content" that you have the power to remove from your personal feed?

Well, in general if a site is mostly dedicated to "trash content" then the average user will come here for the lowest common denominator entertainment instead of the thought-provoking discussions the admins want.

There's a picture of a quote that goes around on /v/ (and maybe 4chan in general) from time to time (link:

   Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."

   Rene Descartes
It's ironic because the painting in the background is of Voltaire, not Descartes, and Descartes never said anything like that, but despite that it actually is quite relevant to our conversation. If the community here comes here for something other than thought-provoking discussions then eventually the purpose of the site will no longer be to provide them.
Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hiya

I love thingy!

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do you manage your time?

You might be interested in the Pomodoro Technique. Basically:

  1. Set timer for 20 minutes

  2. Do task

  3. Take 5 minute break when timer rings

  4. Set timer for 20 minutes again

  5. Do task

  6. Take longer break
and you just repeat that until you've finished, with longer and longer breaks. It's an interesting scheme and it works pretty well for a lot of people.

Also, since you're a college student you might want to consider taking various legal drugs to enhance various aspects of your performance (called nootropics). L-theanine 400mg (suntheanine) + caffeine 100-200mg is cheap and provides a huge boost to performance. I use piracetam + choline, l-theanine + caffeine, and phenibut regularly and I've noticed that I get things done much quicker and my memory is very much improved.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How often do you visit hubski?

    It may be smaller (~5500 registered users) but the coversations are of higher quality.

Small communities tend to lead to better content, just compare any of the default subs on Reddit to their smaller, more discussion focused equivalents (r/gaming -> r/games and r/truegaming). Hopefully it was stay this way as the community grows.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the etiquette on crossposting from reddit and vice versa?

There really shouldn't be any issue with crossposting content. It'd be more frowned on in Reddit because you'd be accused of being a karma-whore, but since there doesn't really seem to be an equivalent of karma here I don't see how that could happen. Just post good content and I think everything will be fine.

Also submit any drama with #shithubskisays!

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Newbie here - have some suggestions/questions if anyone can help

Great find, I'll try it out.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Feature request: Report button.

Definitely would be nice to have a report button and a post date in some of the free space in the feed.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: London building collapsing during a fire on Victoria St., 1941

I'm guessing that they were all set up to take an image of the fire and got very lucky.