> Menu button next to Right ALT. And PGUP PGDN adjacent to the arrows
Keys can easily be remapped in software, so all you really is the physical keys layout (full size arrows + two keys on either side of the up arrow) and the trackpoint. Menu or PrintScreen or whatever doesn't really matter much.
The author says
> Quite a few psychedelic drugs are naturally-occurring, and have been used for hundreds of years (this doesn’t include synthetic ones like LSD, obviously).
LSD occurs naturally in the Ergot mushroom:
> The ergot fungus contains a number of highly poisonous and psychoactive alkaloids, including lysergic acid (LSD), which was synthesized from the ergot fungus in 1938 by chemist, Albert Hoffmann [1]
What the author means is that it's synthetically made these days. Psilocybin can also be synthetically made these days.
psychedelics are the best hope humanity treating refractory mental illness. I know at least 5 people personally that have embarked on psychedelic voyages to treat their demons. Some of them are renowned psychiatrists.
The US Forest Service is just wrong on this. Ergot does not contain LSD, although it contains very similar psychoactive alkaloids. Ergot cannot be called a mushroom, it is a fungus that grows on wheat, rye or other grains/grasses.
Parent used the term mushroom, but the article does not.
It's correct that the fungus does not contain LSD the chemical, but it does contain lysergic acid which is colloquially LSD the drug. For a short, layman-targeted article I'm inclined to give the US Forest Service a pass on this one.
>but it does contain lysergic acid which is colloquially LSD the drug
The chemical differences between "lysergic acid" and LSD areas significant as the differences between morphine and heroin, if not more so. Pure lysergic acid is closer to LSA, which is still categorically not the same thing as LSD - to the point that many people will refuse to take the former when a test kit reveals they got that as opposed to the latter. They are not colloquially equivalent.
I'm actually afraid of visiting Saudi, even for business. A new woman in the office shared her experience growing up in Saudi (her father worked in oil and gas) in a high end foreign person's compound. schools are in English and women can wear whatever they want. She had an Australian neighbor that made homebrew wine in his basement. He was decapitated. They moved back to Calgary shortly thereafter.
This is weird. Making alcohol isn't AFAIK a capital offense even in Saudi Arabia. I would expect some lashing and a high fine accompanied by deportation.
From the article:
"Despite the incendiary rhetoric that the government used to justify these executions, many charges didn’t merit the death penalty under Saudi law and often didn’t even merit arrest..."
"Medicinally" is the only real definition. Was the law written by pharmacologists?
Distinction made by law is generally arbitrary and based on emotional response to something. If it were otherwise, law would not need to be written to make the distinction.
The people who wrote the laws about drugs were, and still are, incredibly wrong about how things should be structured.
We need to have regulation written involving people who know the minutiae of how the things work that they're regulating, not people who are scared of the word "chemicals" because they don't understand that everything is made of chemicals
It's all bullshit written by clowns and the distinction in law should not be taken seriously. Alcohol is a drug, full stop.
Legislators trying to make this distinction in law are on the same level of stupidity as the time they tried to pass a law on the mathematical constant of pi by way of a bill on squaring a circle
I'm very skeptical that an Australian in a foreign residential compound was decapitated for that. I can't find anything with Google. Isn't alcohol allowed for foreigners in those places? Do you know anymore that you can tell us?
I could see a Saudi Arabian being executed but as other people said it's not a capital offense.
She was a 10 or 12 year old at the time. So her memory of the details would be in question. Notwithstanding, there is data to support that alcohol related offences are punished by execution [1]. They seem to make a difference between production of alcohol within Saudi Arabia and consumption.
For making wine in his basement instead of some other criminal conviction!? I knew they are strict but I didn't imagine it to be that harsh. I've had friends that lived in foreign white collar worker compounds in Saudi and they mentioned that alcohol was common and relatively, discreetly tolerated inside.
Underrated comment. The investors were investing in her because she was willing to take the risk of move fast and break things (where things in this case is the diagnostic accuracy of blood tests). She got nailed, ironically, not for hurting patients, but instead for harming the egos of the investors.
As a participant in the startup investment world you are willing
Participant of SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF. This is roughly equivalent speak for REALITY DISTORTION FIELD. The point is you as an investor are a willing participant in believing that something more is possible than what has already been achieved.
If you're a founder: you should be worried about being held to a legal standard of the representations and warranties. That section is in every share purchase agreement and it's the stuff that gets you sued. And sometimes, like in this case, it's WIRE FRAUD and it's criminal. Crazy. We need another section to replace REPS AND WARRANTIES.
> We need another section to replace REPS AND WARRANTIES
Ain't that the truth. Hand on heart: the number of decks I saw last year that have an INSANE 2 page legal disclaimer at the start AND finish of the deck is up ~90%, ninety percent. I knew people who used this as a signal of an inexperienced founder, over night it's the signal of an experienced founder.
For me: almost complete lack of nature (sorry guys, farmlands don't count as "green"), lack of mountains (I love outdoor sports), the depressing weather, the 20% house price increase in one year, the aggressive people who always know everything better (I refer to the large amount of covidiots who only care about themselves). There's plenty to dislike too.
The "covidiots", as you call them, seem to be everywhere, at least going by what's happening on social media right now.
House prices are also a common and global problem. At least in urban areas around the world.
The lack of mountains is objectively true.
The lack of nature is subjective. If only you dare go outside of the Randstad. I originally lived in Limburg and I now live in Zandvoort. Both have plenty of non-farmland nature.
With regards to the bad weather: it only rains for 10% of the time in The Netherlands, so it's not that bad.
> The "covidiots", as you call them, seem to be everywhere, at least going by what's happening on social media right now.
We have more of them than others. It's very noticeable when you come back from Italy, France or even Germany how the mentality in the Netherlands is Different. After a week in Italy I have seen 0 people not complying to COVID rules. I'm in the airplane back to NL and immediately I'm greeted with hordes of people wearing chin diapers (and giving you a big mouth if you say something about it).
> With regards to the bad weather: it only rains for 10% of the time in The Netherlands
It's more the cloudedness. Gloomy days just like this whole week. May not always count as rain, but when it's dark and gray all day, all life is sucked out of me anyway.
I made such move, for me it is mostly about more interesting and well paying jobs, and better weather in the Bay area. Visiting NL every summer and hope to return eventually.
Well, how don’t they filter spam reviews? My guess: They earn whenever you buy. And they are a monopoly when it comes to online shopping. So even if you buy crap, you’ll buy from them again. If anyone gets blamed, it’s going to be the seller. The house always wins.
