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by themgt 11y ago
I actually agree drugs are useful for treating mental issues, I just disagree that people need a daily drip-drip-drip of e.g. serotonin or dopamine to function. Drugs can be extremely helpful in treating acute mental issues and helping peop
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by themgt 11y ago
Thanks for the perspective, and ditto. It sounds condescending, and obviously physical brain damage (e.g. CTE) can cause depression completely separately from life circumstances, but I would venture that for a majority of people who say &qu
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by themgt 11y ago
"Opiates improve pain-in-arm symptoms greatly for many patients. That at least says something about opiate levels in patients with pain-in-arm."
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by themgt 11y ago
The problem with using a purely neurochemical explanation like this is the rates of these disorders differ dramatically between societies and within societies geographically, demographically and over time. It is clear that the United States
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by themgt 11y ago
"Canibekik'd" please
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by themgt 11y ago
Absolutely, but also as barrkel points out, talking about income rather than wealth , which is much more important - referencing Piketty while purposely failing to address his actual thesis, which was almost wholly about wealth rather than
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by themgt 11y ago
This is essentially what's known as "rentier capitalism", but the Brookings paper unsurprisingly limits its scope mainly to the medical and legal fields. The much deeper problem is the degree to which much of "the system
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by themgt 11y ago
Did you read his actual reviews? It's not exactly "tear apart": http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20059/2015/acpd-15... http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20
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by themgt 11y ago
I would also highly recommend reading through some of Thorne's detailed review comments[1] It's clear he thinks the paper is extreme but nowhere near ridiculous, perhaps except regarding the "boulder" issue (which seems
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by themgt 11y ago
I have a lot of sympathy for what Hansen is doing. He absolutely is going out on a limb, scientifically speaking, and using PR tactics to generate mainstream media coverage for his research. At the same time, nearly all the critical respons
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by themgt 11y ago
Are you kidding? Will.i.am making a tv show about apps? 2008 pop culture won't know what hit it!
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by themgt 11y ago
I upvoted your comment for the meta-irony
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by themgt 11y ago
Sorry but is "Boom" really a good name for an aircraft company? I get it's supersonic, but my first association was an exploding airplane.
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by themgt 11y ago
Can someone explain why people still utilize Usenet over BitTorrent? I'm sure there are good reasons, it just seems like a bizarre anachronism to me.
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by themgt 11y ago
Take a look at allicin and ajoene.
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by themgt 11y ago
This is key: Mayo's Thompson counters. He points out that data supporting the ketogenic diet in cancer are limited — and further that rigorous dietary studies are incredibly hard to pull off. "The drug companies aren't going
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by themgt 11y ago
No true Scotsman would do such a thing!
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by themgt 11y ago
Yup. I want to again quote a paper recommended to me on HN a while back [1] However, the relevance of Turing model is questioned even in case of present-day computing [33] [34]. Indeed, any computing machine that follows a Turing model wou
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by themgt 11y ago
The human brain contains about 10^11 neurons. Each neuron has about 5 10^3 synapses, and signals are transmitted along these synapses at an average frequency of about 10^2 Hz. Each signal contains, say, 5 bits. This equals 10^17 ops.* This
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by themgt 11y ago
[not an expert] What you say is mostly correct. Two things though I think are critical and under-appreciated in understanding climate change: 1) rate of change & sixth mass extinction - many natural systems can adapt to gradual change o
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by themgt 11y ago
Incredible. If we continued to break records at this pace we'd be at 2C above preindustrial in 2019. Not that we will, but it gives a sense of how close we've come to the precipice, if indeed we have any < 2C carbon budget rema
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by themgt 11y ago
I think the Phoenix/Elixir docs in general are quite good, it's just the lack of years of blogs and stackoverflow q&a that makes it harder to jump in. Switching from Ruby's OO/functional to Elixir's purely funct
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by themgt 11y ago
Yeah, I'd argue this article is itself a quite amazing form of denial. The idea that 7 years into the transition, "20% of the scientific Python community and 20% of the Python web community have [switched to Python 3]" is s
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by themgt 11y ago
First ran into this via Atul Gawande, who was recommended it by Oliver Sacks[1] "I see something like you in this plate, but I do not see you. I hear something like you through this telephone, but I do not hear you. That is why I want
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by themgt 11y ago
The actual description of "how it's different" in QM is going to depend on the interpretation you choose, but classical vs. QM is basically the difference between "I don't know yet" vs. "it isn't yet&
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by themgt 11y ago
Many worlds interpretation: adding approximately zero explanatory value, at the low low cost of infinite parallel universes. I think the best way to understand MWI is that a lot of physicists/philosophers are more comfortable with the
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by themgt 11y ago
If we are to believe the US government, they should release the recorded video from the AC-130 gunship so we can all make up our own minds.
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by themgt 11y ago
The motive is actually obvious. MSF treats all patients regardless of what "side" they are on in a conflict. The Afghans/US felt/believed that MSF were treating wounded Taliban and decided to destroy the hospital as an a
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by themgt 11y ago
The MSF hospital bombing was pretty clearly not a "terrible mistake", but was in fact "purposeful killing of civilians" https://theintercept.com/2015/10/06/why-bombing-kunduz-hospi...
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by themgt 11y ago
"How am I talking to you right now?" Sussman asked. Sussman seemed to be talking about the shared symbolic values being held in the conversation, and at this point I started to understand. "Sure, when you're running the

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