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by eavc 14y ago
It seems you decided to downvote my reply for some reason. That's a disappointment.
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by eavc 14y ago
>Not ethically, no -- not possible. Prospective double-blind studies are virtually unheard of in psychology because of ethical issues. Why do you believe this to be the only valid form of scientific study? Do you hold all disciplines to
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by eavc 14y ago
You're begging the question. It absolutely is possible to have well-designed studies that address these topics. It's how we know anything about depression, anxiety, happiness, motivation, etc. etc.
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by eavc 14y ago
"emotion, personality, just about anything Freud said, etc." Emotion and personality are valid subjects of scientific study as well. There has been a lot of unscientific opinion on those subjects (Freud being a good example), but that doesn
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by eavc 14y ago
It's a bit of a reach to say that a tenure position amounts to a sinecure.
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by eavc 14y ago
Best of luck to you regardless. My opinion would be hard to change on this issue without really exploring the details your caffeine consumption and the particulars of how you became convinced that that's not what it is. I don't want to badg
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by eavc 14y ago
I would really encourage you to revisit that assumption. I'm sorry to challenge you on this, but unless the tea you drink has very low levels of caffeine, you are ingesting quite a bit of the drug each day, levels that would cause dependenc
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by eavc 14y ago
Dependency is the big one relevant to the OP. Withdrawal can impact energy, mood, cognitive function, and cause bad headaches, among other things, I'm sure. Caffeine use can also compromise sleep, raise blood pressure, and increase anxiety.
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by eavc 14y ago
The headline is pure hyperbole. He thinks he has a problem because he gets a fuzzy head when he doesn't drink his tea. That's caffeine withdrawal.
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by eavc 14y ago
Unless he's drinking decaf, several liters of iced tea intake a day would almost certainly indicate addiction and dependency. Replace 'tea' in this article with cocaine. The cocaine alone doesn't do it for him, he requires there to be some
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by eavc 14y ago
And yet there are multiple cogent (though possibly/probably specious) comments already about the evils of sugar with not so much as a nod to the caffeine. It's an apt illustration of the pseudo-scientific and faddish stuff that proliferates
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by eavc 14y ago
"I drink tea, lots of it, several liters per day...If I don’t drink my tea my head feels like mush." Sugar may be a red herring here. That sounds like a massive caffeine dependency.
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by eavc 14y ago
Yep - having to guess at your boss's needs is like the worst of both worlds. Either have a boss that provides meaningful structure, communication, and leadership or work for yourself.
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by eavc 14y ago
>Getting fired is not that big a deal. I'm glad that's true for you, but for most people, it's a pretty traumatic life event. It put the OP into a year-long depression. edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_and_Rahe_stress_scale#Ad
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by eavc 14y ago
Depending on the product and the nature of the feedback, you can often go directly to a team lead on Google+ and get some kind of reply.
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by eavc 14y ago
This seems like a pretty clear example of HN comments being full of flat criticism and naysaying with very little in the way of helpful feedback.
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by eavc 14y ago
Is it a Galaxy Nexus? Because if not, you're talking about a pretty old device, and I hear people complain about their two+ year old iPhones all the time.
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by eavc 14y ago
For me it was always Google Maps thanks to the navigation.
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by eavc 14y ago
The app store is a much bigger thing to happen to the iPhone than this.
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by eavc 14y ago
Atlanta has an abysmal public transit system, but Google Maps does know about the major bus system in town. It may not be complete, but I regularly see info for nearby bus stops in Google Now, for example.
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by eavc 14y ago
Thanks. You're welcome to it or any part of it.
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by eavc 14y ago
An army of real people ready to gather data, create new experiences, or anything else you can dream up -- at the press of a button.
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by eavc 14y ago
I think the HN crowd (as a whole) tends to underestimate what it takes to do just about any job aside from programming.
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by eavc 14y ago
Do people generally attempt to do something they know they will not be able to do?
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by eavc 14y ago
They intentionally chose a route at the maximum possible millage. Most people would be more conservative.
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by eavc 14y ago
In psychology, the terms hedonia and eudaimonia are somewhat broadly used to characterize two common modes of well-being. That might lead you to useful reading.
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by eavc 14y ago
There has been research done on happiness as a subject of science. The How of Happiness is a nice book for a popular audience on the subject.
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by eavc 14y ago
>The great thing about internet and communities based on pseudonyms is that you get the first reaction that people have. Very few will take a few minutes to give their opinion, weight the different possibilities etc... It's brutal, it's
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by eavc 14y ago
You forgot to account for the ramjet.
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by eavc 14y ago
In case you intended to take that advice to heart, you can use 'right' and 'wrong' as adverbs in all but the most formal contexts, and possibly even then too. They're called 'flat adverbs,' and there's a great video post from MW that you ca

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