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by jmcgough 5y ago
unrelated to the topic, but it's always amazed me that Zimbardo made his career on an unethical study that would never pass a review board now (the Stanford Prison experiment)
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by jmcgough 5y ago
even better than psilocybin for me has been MDMA - there was a study recently about how it can help with social anxiety in autistic people. It's also helped me a lot in dealing with trauma, opening up to people and deepening my existin
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by jmcgough 5y ago
This isn't to be dismissive of your feelings but consider finding a therapist, it sounds like there's a lot you're dealing with right now and having someone to nudge you in the right direction can help.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I got horribly addicted to NGU for a while and had to purge my game file to get myself to stop wasting time on it. Ugh. Idle games just feel like a dopamine fix, compared to truly good games that give the satisfaction of mastering game mech
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by jmcgough 5y ago
+1 phoenix/elixir is such a joy to use. A big emphasis on developer happiness, extremely powerful (with a broader set of strengths than Rails imo), and the actor model is much easier for me to reason/think about because it cleanly
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I don't see an open role for a full stack engineer, is there no JD for it yet?
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I don't think I understood the extent until I watched a Studio 54 documentary - iconic, super popular NYC nightclub where everyone did loads of cocaine out in the open all night.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Part of the challenge is that must people lack the education to differentiate between a good study and a bad one, so we just throw our hands up in the air and cede to confirmation bias.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
> seemed to be able to still experience positive emotions and feelings. Not saying it's the case here, but there's more flavors of depression than just major depressive disorder. There's a secondary form called atypical de
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Oh, no wonder this was so entertaining to read, didn't even catch that this was astral codex. I laughed out loud at Cadegiani et al: > A crazy person decided to put his patients on every weird medication he could think of, and 585 s
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I've heard this on HN before and it seems less likely than an actual neuroscientific interpretation - we don't perceive time in a fractional sense on a moment-to-moment basis.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I've been blown away by the explosion of "urlfest" concerts teenagers have been running on Minecraft during shutdown. A ton of really good music because everyone was stuck inside and needed something to do (digicore / hy
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Building a queer dating app - it's been a good excuse to learn react-native, lambda and other aws services, and it's an itch I've wanted to scratch for years.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
> The guy's voice is almost a whisper, the ambient sounds from the garden or the forest or the road are oddly pleasant, and he's speaking pretty slowly, with none of these glitchy quick cuts you see in a lot of YT content. It&#
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by jmcgough 5y ago
At the same time, if they wanted to get rid of this person they would come up with an alternative justification like this. It's similar to how Terra Field (Netflix engineer) was suspended after her viral tweet about the Chapelle specia
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by jmcgough 5y ago
He said that he's on "team TERF" and compared being trans to wearing black face. It's not "manufactured", there are a lot of people upset that he's punching down against a vulnerable community.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Americans buy a new phone every 24 weeks though, so an annual release schedule makes sense even if they don't buy every year.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I've read some of her writings about superfund sites, her battle with apple where she publicly shared every mildly problematic or offensive email / communication she'd ever received, etc. I don't blame Apple at all for g
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by jmcgough 5y ago
They used alt-right talking points / lingo / sources. Doesn't seem like a particularly good way to start a neutral, apological discussion.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Haugen is not transgender, I'm not sure where you're getting that from.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I love that Nintendo is very aware of the potential negative effects of their products and games and tries to inform users / mitigate. Even when it comes to encouraging positive play between users - in the new Pokemon MOBA (games known
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I don't think it's an intrinsic property of social media, just one of free-to-use social media designed specifically to maximize engagement. The alternatives are (1) legislation that forces them to focus on more than just engageme
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by jmcgough 5y ago
or, alternatively, they have comorbid mental illness, which is extremely common
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I'm fine with teens doing dumb stuff as a small side effect of an overall positive impact of the internet for mental health. The internet has made it so people can openly discuss mental health problems, do research on their own, reduc
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but the challenge with DID is that there's no empirical evidence supporting it; something like 10-15% of cases are believed to be fictitious, and there's studies that cast doubt on its diagnostic criter
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by jmcgough 5y ago
For a while I made snarky comments about how dumb people are doing doing this. But now I just think it's sad. I saw this tweet by someone in the UK the other day, stating that we wouldn't be having this situation if we had free, a
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Honestly when her own story ([2]) makes her seem unhinged, it really damages her credibility. It's hard to read some of this and not see an entitled, selfish person. Update: from reading through some of this, as well as her "I t
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by jmcgough 5y ago
There's definitely some sexism in how we in tech treat women as more junior if they talk like that. But I'm a woman and I'd love that kind of candid feedback from my manager. If I'm doing something that limits my career
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I thought Spotify shifted away from paying per-stream after Sleepify? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepify
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Some of these comments have a real "old man yells at cloud" vibe. Modern, mid-range or better Smart TVs are great. They let me enjoy streaming content or gaming without wasting time trying to configure something, torrent something

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