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by brianleb 15y ago
I've been using flux on multiple machines for a year or more and I love it. The interface is simple and intuitive. I recommend it to everyone, at least to try out for a while. There's a button you can press to turn flux off for an hour for
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by brianleb 15y ago
Note that this is not LulzSec. Some snippets: > Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a series of raids on homes across America and made at least 14 arrests of people suspected of being linked to the secretive hacking
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FBI targets Anonymous hacking group in series of raids on homes(guardian.co.uk)
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by brianleb 15y ago
After reading this thread (more than once, now... it about doubled while I was asleep), I just have to say thank you to Panos. Obviously you've hit on a topic that everyone finds relevant and of merit to discuss. Unfortunately, you're encou
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by brianleb 15y ago
He's not saying he would frame students - he's acknowledging that he would respond to the incentive by following it aggressively. This is how humans act. You're just reading into this because you have a negative opinion of the guy.
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by brianleb 15y ago
And then the university loses all that tuition handling the lawsuits from the families of all those failed students, and due to the age of the cases/faculty leaving/etc., the case becomes hard to win for the university. Losing all around, u
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by brianleb 15y ago
> The student is asking his or her brain to expend lots of energy (from a biological perspective, studying for an orgo exam is an expensive thing to do). I have wondered for some time: is there research that can put a number on how much
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by brianleb 15y ago
> How is it reasonable for somebody to expect to be able to upload "terabytes of RAW images, musics tracks ripped in lossless format, etc."? That seems to be substantially outside the scope of what both Comcast's home user internet serv
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by brianleb 15y ago
Not that I want to be pedantic, but since we're being pedantic... psy·chic 1. of or pertaining to the human soul or mind; mental psy·cho·log·i·cal 2. pertaining to the mind or to mental phenomena as the subject matter of psychology. via our
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by brianleb 15y ago
In the last decade, I think I've only used it to find version numbers. Here's an embarrassing(?) example, though: I was typing a response in this post and I wanted to italicize a word. I know different systems have different ways to do that
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by brianleb 15y ago
Would a new user know that there is supposed to be a menu? Why would they click the glowing orange box? Why even think it's clickable? Why is it glowing? Is that normal? They'll think: it doesn't seem to be related to what I'm looking for,
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by brianleb 15y ago
This is not nearly as interesting as I hoped. Allow me to sum it up for you: "History" is defined as "person-years lived." Therefore, the more people there are alive (and the longer they live), the more history is being made. There are cur
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by brianleb 15y ago
Everyone /is/ operating under the same tax constraints. The difference is, your local retailers aren't selling their products out of state like Amazon.
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by brianleb 15y ago
> If we protect them from making difficult decisions when they're 12, they'll be forced to learn to make difficult decisions when they're 18 or 21 or 22, when bad decisions have MUCH worse consequences. But, when they are 18, 21, etc.,
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by brianleb 15y ago
I don't think legalizing violent videogames for minors is equivocal to both a) legalizing drugs, dangerous ones (crack) included and b) legalizing drugs for minors, but I guess I do see your point. At what point do we decide that someone is
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by brianleb 15y ago
That's very interesting, Neils. I think medical ethics are the toughest I've ever been exposed to, exactly for situations like this. I think that we could be doing everyone a favor if there was more education in ethics starting at a younger
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by brianleb 15y ago
I have a tangentially related question. During this LulzSec situation, I stepped into 2009 and started using LastPass. I generated 16 character random passwords for every place that I've been visiting. As I understand it, these passwords ar
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by brianleb 15y ago
This is certainly an interesting development if at all accurate and not just a ploy for funding like many claim. What I think of, though, is that now that Telstra has announced they are scared of LulzSec (whether or not they really are), th
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by brianleb 15y ago
You have to start somewhere, don't you think? He can't just start at the top and assume he knows how to build something. And there are certainly many lessons to be learned by building something that is already well understood (as many peopl
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by brianleb 15y ago
So I just noticed this: "Contact us: 614-LULZSEC" A phone number? A cursory google search didn't come up with anything informative, except that someone commented that it was a number pirated by LulzSec with call forwarding ( http://mrnumber
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by brianleb 15y ago
The second pirate pad is the most interesting (to me). "2a. Suggestions on how to proceed I know that there is an urge to "run and gun" this, perhaps go on a mad defacing spree, or start dropping anonymous based UI icons into the site's but
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by brianleb 15y ago
If you think that the side effect profile is what keeps people from taking about their personal mental health issues with their doctor, you're mistaken. There is a long-standing social stigma against people with mental disorders, and you ca
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by brianleb 15y ago
I'm glad we can keep it civil. I've been reading HN for a while but don't post often and only recently created an account. Medications are the domain of knowledge, so I try to contribute about that when I can. For better or worse, I don't k
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by brianleb 15y ago
> 2) this is in part explained by the analysis of when antidepressants start to worsen the course of the illness (which is ~2 years for neuroleptics...unsure about antidepressants) Neuroleptics are an entirely different class of drugs -
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by brianleb 15y ago
> Anecdotal evidence is particularly unhelpful in the case of depression because most cases resolve of their own accord. Spontaneous recovery is the most common outcome and antidepressants are the most common treatment, so it doesn't te
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by brianleb 15y ago
I have an awful lot to say about this comment, but I'll leave it at this: The cited study included six drugs. There are currently more than 20 available on the US market. One of these 6 is no longer used (nefazodone - see the black box warn
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by brianleb 15y ago
As a pharmacist with an interest in depression, I have to strongly suggest you give it a try. Conspiracy theorists will now jump out and say "That's because you make money when he takes drugs!" No, I don't make much money when someone picks
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by brianleb 15y ago
History time. Antidepressant pharmacotherapy was actually discovered in the 1950s when reserpine, then used as an antihypertensive, was noted to cause depression. Reserpine acts by blocking the transmission of neurotransmitters 5HT, NE, and
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by brianleb 15y ago
Among the general population, prevalence is 1 in 6: "In the NCS-R, the lifetime prevalence of major depressive disorder among the 9,090 adult participants was 16.2%, with a 12-month prevalence of 6.6%. The NESARC, which included more than 4
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by brianleb 15y ago
There are certainly strong correlations between substance abuse and other mental illnesses. However, you have to dig deeper: is the patient an alcoholic because of a preexisting mental illness? Is the alcoholism just the first outward sign

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