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   by eivarv 11y ago

   I think it's more about society more easily understanding and thus being able to sympathize with physical pain and disability rather than the visibility of it itself. Stigma is, after all, more about stereotypes and misinformation (or
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   by eivarv 11y ago

   DanBC is talking about the diagnosis of addiction (or indeed most mental illnesses), not diagnosing any disease. For example, a patient would likely not be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder if symptoms did not have a marked effect on the
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   by eivarv 11y ago

   I think the term you're looking for is "anthropocentrism" [0], though I don't see how you can construe this article to take an anthropocentric point of view. If anything, it's implicitly acknowledging that we'r
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   by eivarv 11y ago

   "Introversion" doesn't mean not doing these things, nor being unable to do them. It's about preference and perception.
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   by eivarv 11y ago

   Tyrell speaks Swedish, and his wife speaks Danish. It's no surprise that you get some "hits" (even with "rudimentary Norwegian language skills"), as the Scandinavian languages are so similar that we generally under
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   by eivarv 11y ago

   It's like a nineties alternative music video barfed its visual effects all over the page.
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   by eivarv 11y ago

   Sidenote: I highly recommend Tom Mitchell's (the professor) book as a general introduction to the topic. [0]: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Tom-M-Mitchell/dp/007...
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   by eivarv 11y ago

   I really don't understand the hype surrounding material design. I get the widgets as "material" metaphor, space, motion, etc., but as I understand it the redefinition of every widget's appearance and ignoring UI conventi
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   by eivarv 11y ago

   Zotero [0], with browser connector (extension), or alternatively a bookmarklet. Originally intended as a research tool to manage sources, hence the added benefit of being able to export collections as BibTeX. [0]: https://www.zot
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    Show HN: Xkcd – Sublime Text 3 plugin for viewing xkcd comics(github.com)

    2 points by eivarv 11y ago|0 comments
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    Credentials can certainly be a good guideline, but as I'm sure you know HIV- and AIDS-researchers don't make the argument that their claims are true because of their authority status (which would be an appeal to authority), but
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    I appreciate your sarcastic attempt to make a point via reductio ad absurdum, but as you can see the only thing I'm saying is that arguments that makes the assumption that whatever an authority figure says regarding a matter must be tr
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    Sure, I agree to some extent. In the hypothetical case it may be reasonable to assume that X knows what they are talking about; one can reasonably assume that they are better informed regarding the subject than a layperson. But the reason f
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    An appeal to authority is never a valid argument, as it is a logical fallacy (i.e. by definition invalid). Sure, authority can be a useful heuristic for non-authorities, but is useless in argumentative reasoning, e.g. "X, who is an aut
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    How can we fix unconscious racism?(theguardian.com)

    1 points by eivarv 11y ago|0 comments
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    If your point was external actors of a hostile environment potentially reinforcing the cognitive distortions of a depressed person, rather than a healthy person developing major depressive disorder solely from disparaging comments, then I a
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    I know you probably wrote your post in good faith, and you appear sympathetic to the posts you've replied to in this subthread. I can see how you would jump to the assumption that there is something "wrong" in the person&#x27
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    I know nothing of the AHA's methods or qualifications, but in my view bad policies purportedly based upon science usually come from lack of these, in addition to lack of scientific literacy. Alternatively, from a predefined goal, i.e.
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    While mainstream enthusiasm for science has grown, scientific literacy and journalism, unfortunately, hasn't.
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    Isn't it more that we don't understand why it works (i.e. what kind of connection serotonin has with these mental illnesses) rather than the mechanism of action itself, which is believed to be serotonin staying longer in the syn
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    TLDR; It's not so much that it seems naïve, as it is about not providing any reasoning, sources or data to back it up - thereby not being reliable. Also, tone is hard to convey on the internet. While I think many would agree that the a
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    As far as I can tell, people were claiming you were wrong because their anecdotal data showed the opposite of your anecdotal data (upon which you built your hypothesis) or because they were not persuaded by your argument. Situational depres
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    Thanks! While the comment you're referring to is in poor tact, I think it's also kind of telling. I've discussed a few similar topics on HN, and I'm sad to see that the ignorance surrounding mental illness is pervasive h
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    I don't know if you've actually read any of the credible results from the google query you link to, but there being environmental factors (including triggers and contributing factors) to depression does not mean that depression is
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    Your own thoughts and other people's communication do not have the same effect in the context you're describing. You could agree or disagree with what other people say (or whether it matters), for one, while the unreasonable tho
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    I don't see how one person's blinded self-experimentation would yield more knowledge in this case, as the proposed experiment is not methodologically sound and as the data would not tell you anything more about the effect - as far
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    IIRC, Shneiderman and Plaisant touch upon this somewhere in their book "Designing the User Interface" [0], and Schneiderman's "Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design" [1] may also be applicable. You might additional
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    Thanks! I've seen loads of people espouse this belief though, and the current top comment [0] here links to a thread [1] that runs with the premise. A quick search of the site reveals that there are many more. I understand that point o
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    I've moved my personal working source-dir to Dropbox, and symlinked it to ~/src on both my computers (in addition to my editor's workspace and session files, amongst other things). It has worked like a charm in my case, thoug
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    by eivarv 11y ago

    If you're talking about anxiety as in a diagnosed or suspected anxiety disorder (i.e. not in the sense of the normal emotion), the way to go would be: Treatment [0] - as with any other health problem - and a generally healthy lifestyle