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Show HN: Faarikaal – Sublime Text Theme(packagecontrol.io)
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by eivarv 11y ago
I totally understand what your point is, I just don't think that it makes much sense. I would even hesitate to call it a "dark" side, as many of the same patterns of thought are used (to an extent) by most people. You might
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by eivarv 11y ago
I'm surprised so many people during the last days have said stuff like this here on HN, i.e. that these things have something to do with mental illness. Do people really know this little about what mental illness (in this case psychopa
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by eivarv 11y ago
Sorry; not to comment upon that which must not be commented upon, but I'd love to hear what people disagree with my post about, as opposed to not getting to know anything other than its popularity.
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by eivarv 11y ago
Make people realize what types of thinking leads to these types of actions, in addition to under which conditions, how and why. I think it's very strange that what we know of common errors of thinking (e.g. logical fallacies, cognitive
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by eivarv 11y ago
I think you'll find that psychological health has little to do with what people can convince themselves of, or convince themselves to do - i.e. you can't explain away Daesh (or WWII nazis, etc.) with mental illness. Their actions
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by eivarv 11y ago
Reproducibility does not necessarily mean that other people should be able to reproduce the results in question (which would depend upon them knowing the relevant information in the first place) - but that an experiment can be replicated. I
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by eivarv 11y ago
If the scientists in question are applying the scientific method as a means to "build cool things", can they not be said to be doing science?
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by eivarv 11y ago
By being a human, you would be able to expand human knowledge without letting other humans know about it. So yeah, it's a matter of definition;P
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by eivarv 11y ago
There is a difference between pushing the borders of human knowledge and disseminating said knowledge, though.
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by eivarv 11y ago
Looks interesting, but If I were you I'd move the "Science behind" up from the footer to emphasize it more – not to mention actually present (or link to) evidence for your claims. Not only with regards to mindfulness itself,
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by eivarv 11y ago
As someone that almost never closes applications or powers down his computers, I'd also like to see this! EDIT: Great job, nevertheless!
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by eivarv 11y ago
I'm currently working on something like what you mention on your second line (something like a project manager for the OS), after creating a terminal project manager [0] (shameless plug). I'll probably have a prototype/alpha-
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by eivarv 11y ago
I thought it was already widely known that this was a myth – it's not like it was ever backed by a substantial amount of research, or even a particularly convincing argument. It also has the typical characteristics of demagoguery.
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by eivarv 11y ago
I watched Cowspiracy a while ago. While many of its points are valid (as far as I can tell), I was personally distracted by the pseudo-conspiratorial subnarrative regarding the NGOs' focus on easier goals. I felt the same about the sto
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by eivarv 11y ago
I think it's fair to say that many people with emotional problems or mental illness try to use alcohol (or another substance) as a coping mechanism – which is not a good idea. Most people don't drink to shut down emotions, however
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by eivarv 11y ago
I've used Java with Swing before, and I've done some prototypes with Python and PyQt/Pyside, which I think works pretty great. Been meaning to make something with Electron or NW for a while, but I'm apprehensive because
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by eivarv 11y ago
This looks useful! I've also been working on tools to make user context switching easier on the terminal (such as a project of mine called prm[0]), and I'm currently working on bringing this sort of functionality to the desktop en
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by eivarv 11y ago
What type of handcrafted optimizations are you talking about here? The state of the art I've read about* (deep CNNs) in later years rely more on generalized tricks like augmenting the training data (artificially inflating the data set)
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by eivarv 11y ago
Thanks for the links! I'll be sure to look into these.
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An Attack and an Identity Crisis in Sweden(newyorker.com)
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What Is Social Anxiety?(theatlantic.com)
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by eivarv 11y ago
I think you'd be hard pressed to find anything in his post by which to dismiss nilkn's (and the medical community's) assertion that the fear comes from "no rational reason". This is, after all, a defining feature of
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by eivarv 11y ago
The fear in itself might not be totally irrational, in the sense that it seems beneficial to have the capacity for this type of fear (for evo psych reasons, etc.) However, I'm sure you'll agree that the fear in its context is irra
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by eivarv 11y ago
It's not as though one can "just" disregard an important part of what constitutes the disorder, though. It takes treatment, or at least work (like you say).
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by eivarv 11y ago
I keep hearing its adherents claim various benefits of "keto": is there any credible sources (i.e. research) that back these claims up? For instance, what about glucose for mental performance? No offence, but my current (admittedl
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by eivarv 11y ago
> Just stop caring what people think. You know what social anxiety (disorder) is about, right?;P
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by eivarv 11y ago
Re: your second link; Breivik is not in Halden prison - which is pretty fancy, even by our Norwegian standards. Also; that whole debate about punitive vs. restorative justice, logic and empiricism.
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by eivarv 11y ago
Yeah, you're right. My first thoughts were: - Introversion != social anxiety (disorder) - Nonverbal communication problems != social anxiety (disorder) EDIT: Forgot to mention that the article is great in the sense that it describes th
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by eivarv 11y ago
Yours is, in fact, the misconception; I suggest you check your references. The ones I found [1-3] state that the term may be used to describe both stances. When using the it in this kind of broad sense, I think it makes sense to try to be i

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