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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I'm glad you've been able to pull out it. Did you go off cold turkey? That'll do crazy things to you. But if you're extremely gradual, I believe it is possible to get off the drugs if that's what you want.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
It's definitely true that there's more than a biochemical adjustment that has to happen. The way your brain/mind work changes as you get off the drugs, so you have to relearn how to manage your emotions without them. For me w
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
There's a disconnect between what the meta-analysed randomized clinical trials are saying about antidepressants (that they are at best minimally effective relative to placebo) and what relapse rates suggest (that people relapse when wi
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I'm not entirely convinced that CS is such a distinct skill set that the programmer shortage is really explained by there just not being enough programmer-type-people. Surely there are millions of other people with the capacity of beco
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Isn't a shortage of computer programmers really a symptom of some type of market signaling failure? Or at least the slowness of supply responding to demand?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Seems like anything that has a "business model" probably shouldn't be your preferred blocker vendor.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
To me "playground" above implied elementary school. Is that really the time/place to be rocking kids' worlds with divisive controversies?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I love this idea, and it has a long history. The states are known as the "laboratories of democracy". From Wikipedia[1]: "Laboratories of democracy is a phrase popularized by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in New S
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I don't think it's correct to say the US is operating under martial law. They're not calling it "Safe Harbor" anymore, but "Privacy Shield". </nitpicks>
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Congress has failed us. In the absence of explicit legislation governing these activities, the executive is free to give and take privacy per its own whim. I am furious that these decisions are being made by arbitrary bureaucratic edicts ra
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Shouldn't that Riverside County judge be under scrutiny here as well as the prosecutors? Judges have to sign off on these things.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
But that's simply not entirely true. The encryption keys for the phone's data reside on the phone and are only available with the PIN/password. Apple does hold the keys for software updates, which can be pushed without user a
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
So rural voters are more susceptible to populism than urban voters?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
My first response was "Did geoguessr get bought by Google?"
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Important background linked in his subsequent tweet: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/fossil-fu...
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Nitpick: subjunctive _mood_, not _tense_. From the Wikipedia article on English subjunctive: "The distinction between present and past is one of tense; the distinction between indicative and subjunctive is one of mood."
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I think this issue is important and I hope Apple prevails over the FBI. However, I'm also left feeling that they're subject to this request only because of what amounts to a security flaw in their own devices. How/when can I
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
But peering into your cybernetic mind extension would be more akin to compelling you to testify against yourself, which is constitutionally prohibited.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Journals requiring trials to be preregistered could help, if the registration included a requirement to report at least informally on the outcome of the trial.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
It strikes me as a collective means for mathematicians to reduce entry into their field and thus to increase their own salaries. Maybe you don't have to get a "math license" to practice math, but you have to somehow acquire a
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Mission creep by the _Linux_ Foundation?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
It's not just a waste of funders' money; it's not just an ethical problem because subjects expected to be advancing science; in my view the real problem with this low disclosure rate is that it skews the publicly available li
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Possible compromise: let the scientists have their terminology, and let general audience publications like the Economist have theirs. Mostly I just don't like the idea that the Economist article's usage is "wrong" just b
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Yes, in previous decades the government could access electronic communications under the third party doctrine[1] that says the fourth amendment only applied to "papers" held by the individual / in their home, not to communica
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
The bill in question: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/431... "I made sure the permanent ban on taxing Internet access was included in a trade enforcement package that passed this
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
But with backdoored encrypted communications the government would have instant access to ALL enciphered letters at once, regardless of the seeming guilt or innocence of the sender or recipient. To me that seems like the key difference. If a
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I had never heard of this distinction, and I also dislike it. This definition of "reproduce" seems to fly in the face of the word's more general meaning. "Verify" and "re-analyze" seem like a more natural
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Many communities have thrift stores that take donations. The thrift store then becomes a place of employment for mentally disabled people or others struggling to find work.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
This is shameful and horrifying. How are these SAM speech restrictions even legal? Do these apply widely throughout the corrections system, or are they really mostly abused in "terror" cases?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
It feels like an arrangement that's just waiting to be abused/made use of at some weird and critical juncture in history. Maybe it's useful as an "escape clause" should the nominally representative government go ast

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