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by solinent 7y ago
> Not really. Plenty of theories ended up being revised when humanity's understanding of the world improved. They still had real world applications: even though they were imperfect, they were good enough for a wide variety of uses.
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by solinent 7y ago
> Why would you say that? Do you think that rich people are happy and poor people are depressed? There are numerous studies showing this, for almost all disease categories. All psychological illness is negatively corelated with socioecon
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by solinent 7y ago
Yes, it's like cancer, we don't know the cure but everyone rushes to tell you that you just need to take a pill and you'll feel better. Which pill?
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by solinent 7y ago
> Many of these studies also rely on rating scales (typically HAMD or even PHQ9 for depression) that are a measure of depressive symptoms but don't in themselves have the power to make a diagnosis. This is my point again if you read
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by solinent 7y ago
That's my point. You haven't even come up with a basic taxonomy of depression and you're already applying your theory. In physics this would be blasphemous. > Doctors must at least try to help depressed patients. All the h
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by solinent 7y ago
What's the mechanism? My point is that depression is such a wide category that even if it exists it's useless. You could say that "being human" is a disease, it always leads to death. I'm not saying "being huma
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by solinent 7y ago
I've experienced it to the point where I almost died, and I agree, it's a psychiatric scam.
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by solinent 7y ago
> To receive a diagnosis of depression, these symptoms must cause the individual clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. I'd say most of the lower class has thi
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by solinent 7y ago
With epidemology it's hard to tell the difference, there's no identified mechanism for depression or psychomotor retardation. Perhaps they're in the same category? All psychological disease categories are co-morbid with each
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by solinent 7y ago
I had severe depression, almost unable to move, complete anhedonia. I was still doing well at work (until the unable to move part got worse), but literally nothing made me happy. There was nothing about my life situation that could have cau
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by solinent 7y ago
It's all based on self-reports, it's very hard to account for individual differences in how people answer the questions and to control for those factors. I agree wholeheartedly. However, certain types of severe depression seem to
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by solinent 7y ago
The criteria for what "depression" is has changed over time, no wonder our results are changing. Almost everyone has depression given the current criteria [1]. Most people have 2,4,5,6,7. The criteria is so vague your study would
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by solinent 7y ago
Here are some text instructions: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/manual-i... Instead of generating the certs with prosody (there was some issue since my system uses p11-kit), I f
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by solinent 7y ago
Yeah, this logic is used often in epidemiology, and this thought comes to my head every single time. We also don't probably know all the possible heart conditions out there! Finally, while someone might not have a condition (disease),
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by solinent 7y ago
This is true, but it is very impolite to respond to a comment like that with a correction. Context is everything.
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by solinent 7y ago
> But the second you allow phone dial-in (virtually always a hard requirement), the second you allow cloud recording (which the article acknowledges), E2EE becomes meaningless, because the server itself necessarily becomes another endpoi
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by solinent 7y ago
The standard example I've heard is for Trampoline. No one calls them rebound tumblers anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trampoline#First_modern_trampo... I think this is really just a case of lawyers being su
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by solinent 7y ago
Location: Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (Canadian citizen) Technologies: C++/C#/Java/Haskell/Python/JS/OpenGL/Vue/Flask/Qt/Houdini I have a mathematics degree from Waterloo, wh
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by solinent 7y ago
One time I had to create a button for a in-flight software which would control a lidar instrument. The button would enable you to select when to turn on and off the instrument. We went for a few iterations where the button would light up wh
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by solinent 7y ago
End-to-end encryption is traditionally defined as a means to stop man in the middle attacks. If there's a man always in the middle it defeats the point a little bit.
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by solinent 7y ago
Here's a good breakdown of crude oil usage I found interesting: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...
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by solinent 7y ago
> Now, “falsification” itself is a silly/naive cartoon-ish framework for how to do science. It has its uses, but we mustn’t cling to it too much (which would be cargo culting). We certainly have many other useful approaches as well.
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by solinent 7y ago
It's a chemosensitizer, I'd say it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosensitizer edit: It's still being researched, but it is an anti-cancer drug, just like how chemo drugs get classed. https:/
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by solinent 7y ago
I didn't do it that much justice because I was discovering it independently, my arguments can easily be made rigorous, but you'd need a background in pure mathematics to understand it. However, there's a section on Wiki: htt
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by solinent 7y ago
Another argument that's not completely non-constructive. The real numbers have to be constructed. Typically, a number is represented by a Cauchy sequence or a Dedekind cut. To determine if a real number is representable symbolically, w
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by solinent 7y ago
I've read about benefits not related to zinc, in addition to the zinc-related mechanism. It helps zinc get into the cell which prevents the replication of the virus, but there are additional benefits of this chemo medication. I'd
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by solinent 7y ago
The chants might help for people who have certain autoimmune conditions, it's a bit of vocal rehabilitation / voice therapy. Some of the mantras are tongue twisters :) I know someone whose lupus went into remission after they star
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by solinent 7y ago
I think as soon as you rename it it slowly starts losing its original meaning and connotations.
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> form factor that is appealing I don't think that's so difficult--once you can play games outside using headsets I think they will grow on people. Right now, as a fashion statement they represent people who sit at home and don
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by solinent 7y ago
> There is no Moore's Law in optics & batteries. Our optics are already quite good, I don't think we need higher resolution cameras, just higher-speed cameras. I don't think this is impossible, we just don't have

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