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FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For Post-Traumatic Stress

The drug, often used recreationally in the form of ecstasy, has been found to offer a potentially significant advantage over extant treatments for the disorder.

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Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships

The two collisions — and a total of 17 sailors lost at sea this summer — have raised concerns about whether this generation of surface fleet officers lack the basic core competency of their trade.

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Hasnain says:

""We do not put a premium on being good mariners,” Hoffman said. “We put a premium on being good inspection takers and admin weenies.”"

Posted on 2017-08-29T04:30:27+0000

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Designing a Tree Diff Algorithm Using Dynamic Programming and A* - Tristan Hume

During my internship at Jane Street1, one of my projects was a config editing tool that at first sounded straightforward but culminated in me designing a custom tree diffing algorithm using dynamic programming, relentlessly optimizing it and then transforming it into an A* accelerated path finding a...

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Perspective | Melinda Gates: I spent my career in technology. I wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids.

Melinda Gates says that even she, a former Microsoft executive, has to learn how to be a parent in the digital age.

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'Environmental Nightmare' After Thousands Of Atlantic Salmon Escape Fish Farm

Officials blame the failure of a pen near Washington's Cypress Island on high tides caused by the eclipse, but that is being questioned. Fishing boats are scrambling to catch as many as possible.

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Opinion | Let Consumers Sue Companies

Op-Ed ContributorLet Consumers Sue CompaniesSHAREShare on FacebookPost on TwitterEmailLog in to SaveRead Laterhttps://nyti.ms/2vjWRyPShare on LinkedInShare on WhatsappShare on Google PlusShare on RedditShareCancelJewel Samad / Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesBy RICHARD CORDRAYAugust 22, 2017Washi...

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Hasnain says:

"After more than a month, the company put Ajit on leave. Two tense months after that, he finally left. When I spoke to the COO, he asked how much I wanted in order to quietly leave. “I want no less than what Ajit gets,” I said — which I suspected was around $10 million. The COO gasped."

Posted on 2017-08-21T15:23:52+0000

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USS John S. McCain collides with merchant ship near Strait of Malacca

SOUTH CHINA SEA - The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) was involved in a collision with the merchant vessel Alnic MC while underway east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore on

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Aging Parents With Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It

Aging Parents With Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want ItSHAREShare on FacebookPost on TwitterEmailLog in to SaveRead Laterhttps://nyti.ms/2v9iVfhShare on LinkedInShare on WhatsappShare on Google PlusShare on RedditShareCancelTena and Ray Bluhm in their new home in the Westminster retirement…

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