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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?

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 absolutely no reason whatsoever. And it's emotionally cathartic as fuck.

This entire thing is so anecdotal and from-personal-experience, it's not remotely interesting in its attempts to generalize.

Socialized risk, privatized profit, 'trickle down' economics

Sounds like Reamde... :)

To be fair, Safari application-level Safari is extraordinarily slow.

And immediately any webGL visualizations / games / necessarily resource intensive webapps are rendered useless as they're automatically throttled back by the browser.

Are you rocking the i5 or the i7 to be able to do that?

I'm seriously considering getting one.

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 the forefront, nope, not at all.

What lazy thinking.

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 the re-uptake of dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, serotonin, histamine, and CART peptides.

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 dysfunction.

ODD ("a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least six months") is not at all the same thing.

A product of misaligned incentives caused by profit-driven healthcare industry.

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-for-help goes unaddressed.

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 regular (weekly/biweekly) sessions.

It's a fucking travesty.

I spend close to $500 per month, after insurance, for my mental healthcare. This is a therapist and a psychiatrist.

None of this is covered by my insurance.

I pay what I can with an FSA but it's extraordinarily exhausting.

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 patients as long as their insurance held out was par for the course.

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.

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 refreshed and relaxed after a session.

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 executives. The scrum master was a perfect neutral voice who really did an amazing job mediating. Our team was full of smart, capable, focused multidisciplinary engineers. It was absolutely beautiful.

I've also never ever seen it again. I've been trying to figure out what was different about that org than everywhere else. Because I've always worked with smart, social SWEs.

I think the problems arising from cargo cult agile are more fundamental than the methodology. In order for agile to work well for SWEs, the organization's infrastructure and expectations must be a fit. There are key things that I saw at the place where it worked and were missing everywhere else.

* Strong product ownership. The PM is the captain of the ship. They must interface with the execs, with the customers, with the technologists, with the customer service. They must synthesize the stories and effectively outline clear exit criteria for them. And they must accept input from engineering to prioritize tasks that must be done but do not necessarily directly provide customer value. But the buck stops with them. Engineering should not be subject to department infighting for prioritization of pet features. The direction must be clear, or you're foundering.

* A neutral voice in the planning meetings to keep things on track and ensure everyone who has a question / input is heard.

* Demo days. It's so important for the morale of everyone - on the team and off - for the exposition of the completed work for a given sprint.

* Respectful retrospection.

* Trust and verification. Micro management is toxic. The only time other than sprint planning that the PM should be involved with the daily work of engineers is when a story requirement needs clarification.

And modifying the scope of an in progress sprint should be relegated _only_ to emergencies. This cannot happen if there are _always_ emergencies, though. Which is why it's important for a PM to understand and allocate time for maintenance / infrastructure improvement.

I think that was the point? :)

It's some of the most subversively existential SF I've ever read.

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 local ones anymore.

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. Breast cancer. Cervical cancer. Liver cancer.

Or maybe they can attach your lightswitch to a botnet and use it in conjunction with millions of others to launch a DDoS.

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.

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.

And almost all of those fall in the 5-7 range oen the hell-o-meter.

With the chromecast extension on chrome, you can cast amazon prime just fine from your computer.

And terrible prose :(

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.

Would you be surprised to find out that some parents decide on their high school students' electives for them?

Because you're making sense in the face of the Red Pill Brigade.

Are other flagship nougat phones shipping before oct 21?