warfangle

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by warfangle 9y ago
Why do we smile when we're happy? Is it because we're happy (we also expose a similar face when we're scared), or is smiling the purpose of feeling happy?
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by warfangle 9y ago
I never cried tears of happiness when the primary sex hormone in my system was testosterone. Now that estrogen is, I cry all the time. Not just from hormones, but also from how happy I am not not be living a lie anymore. And sometimes for a
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by warfangle 10y ago
Socialized risk, privatized profit, 'trickle down' economics
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by warfangle 10y ago
Sounds like Reamde... :)
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by warfangle 10y ago
To be fair, Safari application-level Safari is extraordinarily slow.
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by warfangle 10y ago
And immediately any webGL visualizations / games / necessarily resource intensive webapps are rendered useless as they're automatically throttled back by the browser.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Are you rocking the i5 or the i7 to be able to do that? I'm seriously considering getting one.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Ah, the old 'more people are being prescribed medication over time, which is clearly causing more people to be prescribed medication.' It's not at all tenable for other externalities to bring underlying mental illnesses to th
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by warfangle 10y ago
Stimulants work because they activate the underperforming portions of the prefrontal cortex related to attention management. Chalking it up to dopamine is a gross simplification. Adderal, for example, stimulates the release / reduces t
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by warfangle 10y ago
ADHD /is/ classified as an executive dysfunction (specifically, in regulating attention). Autism spectrum, schizophrenia, depression, and parkinson's disease are other well known disorders classified as an executive dysfuncti
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by warfangle 10y ago
A product of misaligned incentives caused by profit-driven healthcare industry.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Sometimes you need to make a cry for help and the only lever you have is saying this. It doesn't mean that what was said was the actual reason, which happens to often. Not enough follow-up happens, and the original trigger for the call
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by warfangle 10y ago
A lot of really good therapists don't accept insurance. A lot of really good psychiatrists don't take insurance. Insurance covers on average two sessions of therapy annually. Therapy is only effective over long periods (years) of
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by warfangle 10y ago
Heres one who hasn't spoken out. I'm glad that I was able to get appropriate treatment (15 years later) but how I was treated as a teenager in a mental health facility was atrocious. Misdiagnosis, over medication, and only keeping
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by warfangle 10y ago
The Culture Series by Iain Banks. Love his style, love the setting, and love the stories. Really fascinating look at a post-scarcity galaxy spanning anarchist society facilitated by extra dimensional artificial intelligences.
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by warfangle 10y ago
I wonder if this also explains some of the benefits of meditation. While focusing on one part of our higher functions, more areas of the brain cam slip into this low power state, without fully entering sleep. Which is why people feel refres
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by warfangle 10y ago
I feel the exact same way. And I've had the same exact experience: only one place in my decade long career has done agile well. The Project Manager was completely on point with gathering information from stakeholders and direction from
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by warfangle 10y ago
I think that was the point? :) It's some of the most subversively existential SF I've ever read.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Getting some art from local artists whose work you enjoy is also an option. Even though it's stuff, it's possible to enjoy its aesthetic. Unless you're in SF, y'all forced all the artists out so there aren't any loc
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by warfangle 10y ago
Boo fucking hoo. If you really want solid male birth control with no side effects, bank your gametes for $50/mo and get your vas deferens snipped. Female birth control may not cause permanent lack of fertility, but it can cause cancer
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by warfangle 10y ago
Or maybe they can attach your lightswitch to a botnet and use it in conjunction with millions of others to launch a DDoS.
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by warfangle 10y ago
I'm still curious why the soylent thing has hit it off in the HN crowd and not, say, Slimfast. Which is basically the same thing but with more production hardening. Maybe fragile masculinity? IDK.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Is it though? I found GC AI to be laughably easy, even on the hardest settings. A third of the way through a game and my military units are orders of magnitude better than my opponents, because the AI doesn't know to stack traits.
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by warfangle 10y ago
And almost all of those fall in the 5-7 range oen the hell-o-meter.
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by warfangle 10y ago
With the chromecast extension on chrome, you can cast amazon prime just fine from your computer.
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by warfangle 10y ago
And terrible prose :(
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by warfangle 10y ago
> The high achieving students didn't take AP comp sci for whatever reason. Maybe they didn't like to take classes filled with spiteful boys with chips on their shoulders? The 'whatever reason' is the important part.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Would you be surprised to find out that some parents decide on their high school students' electives for them?
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by warfangle 10y ago
Because you're making sense in the face of the Red Pill Brigade.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Are other flagship nougat phones shipping before oct 21?

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