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I don't know whether what I had (have?) meets this WHO definition, but I can tell you that at points in my life, I've had an unhealthy relationship with video games.

For me, and maybe others as well, it's about having control over something and feeling a sense of accomplishment, feeling like I'm achieving something. Video games give you that. For a small cost ($20-$50), you can have pure escapism from reality, think about things other than your shitty life and depression and instead feel yourself accomplish goals, achieve success, win. Unlike drugs or alcohol, it doesn't end- you can just keep coming back without paying anything. There's no chemical hangover, no blood test for it, no social stigma like drugs have. It's perfect.

My underlying problems have been dealt with now, but I still have to limit how long I play games for. The high is still there and I recognize it well. I just don't need it like I once did.

Looking back at my high school days, I had a good friend who was into drugs. I got him into EverQuest. I wish he'd gotten me into drugs instead- there are well understood paths out of drug addiction. And that game messed the both of us up.
Good. Capitalism, efficient allocation of resources, and all that.
Most recent studies in psychiatry and social sciences that I have read, even those published in Nature, use sample sizes of around 50 people, which should be considered insufficient. Instead they use various cooked up formulas for correcting for gender/ethnicity etc. Instead, sample sizes should be much bigger. Of course this is not practical or even perhaps impossible. I find this to be a poor excuse, though.

The matter of fact is, we know very little about how the brain works. We certainly have some big picture on how the brain functions, but we are very far from grasping the chemistry.
We have people in the "reality-based community"[0] like Ms. Kalbag posing the fairly rational question of, "Why not go semantic and let the browsers figure the rest out?"

Then the "empire" acts, and makes an overcomplicated mess of dancing text, XSS, 3rd-party cookies, popovers, and dickbars[1].

Then as the rest of us are studying that reality--judiciously, as we will--Google/Apple/Mozilla will act again, creating other new realities, which we can study too, and that's how things will sort out.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-a...
[1] https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/medium_dickbars
I’m pretty sure anyone who ever studied Marxist theory even at high school levels knows what that means.
I agree, but I'd add the failure of Christian eschatology to materialize at the millennium. Whether openly stated or not this was a huge chunk of the right's vision of the future. There were a lot of people who thought 9/11 and Iraq was the beginning of the end times, which are followed by the return of Christ and the literal kingdom of God on Earth. Now they have their own race war doom, China will eat the world doom, etc. They're waking up to the failure of their own myths as well.

Both the secular left and the religious right are having their "the flying saucer didn't come" moment. The angst comes from the secondary implication that the future is not set and magic will not happen and that we are actually going to have to deal with our problems.

This also explains the rise of neo-Nazi and similar ideologies among not only disaffected former conservatives but also among some leftists and libertarians. (Yes, a good number of the latter have gone alt-right... more than the remaining leftists and libertarians would like to admit.) Those ideologies have at their core the idea of resisting cultural and civilizational decline. I personally think their scapegoats, theories, and solutions are all BS but they're getting somewhere because they are talking about the problem.

This will continue and will get worse until people get their heads out of the 20th century and start articulating new visions of the future. Star Trek and the Left Behind series are not going to happen.
a fairly common sentiment is to "assume everyone is armed" because guns are otherwise pretty common. In NYC it is safe to assume people are not armed, which is totally different from every other part of the US.
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The bane of society, I think, is mentally healthy people.

They run politics but have absolutely no appreciation for what works for non-healthy people. Which is all the people who acutally rely on politics/society.

I think conservatism as a personality is a symptom of good mental health: if you arent able to do something, its lazyness. So you must just need some motivation: either a beating or some money. etc.

That's true if you're mentally healthy. If not then the ways you are failing arent even imaginable from the POV of mental health. And they are as communicable as cancer, or any physical illness.

The last century is full of works by people who have recently taken acid telling everyone how "everything is now differnet" etc. How they couldnt even have imagined the things they took for granted in how their minds work were actually variable.

Every mental illness is its own unique form of acid. And unless you've been on an acid trip, or are very well informed medically, you've no idea what it is like.
It's because the word instinct has fallen out of fashion.
That implies that "vulnerability/fallibility, social reputation/integration, slowness/interpretability, empathy" are not useful for decision making. Until we see intelligence comparable to human I don't think we can make that assumption.
I certainly understand this in situations where you've done some significant work or build the thing from scratch, but I'm surprised to learn such a thing would take root with following the instructions to assemble furniture.
LibreSSL comes with copious documentation. Whence this latterday ignorance of offline documentation?
In Australia we don't need that: our electricity suppliers give that info on their website :)
Thats your definition of God, the definition that is made by people like you who want to make claim for your God. Stop making such obvious circular logic please. You know in the history on mankind there are more than 3000 definitions of God. If you born in old Greece 2000 years ago, your definition of God would be different from now. If you are born in Thai or India, your God will again be different. What you are currently believing just depends on your geographic location.
It's like the old Seinfeld episode where he has to tell his dad he bought gifts on sale because he's more excited about the deal than the gift itself.
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That's the reason why so many games have character creation screens, even in genres where it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Yeah, lately my international transfers (Germany -> UK -> South Africa) have been taking less than a day all in all if I send the money before noon.
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I do think there is an argument that the German and French banks who originally financed the ill-advised spending by previous Greek governments should have done a bit of due diligence as to what they money was going to be used for and whether there was a realistic chance of being paid back.
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Which has zero evidence except your holy text and personal experience, just like any pseudoscience
Perhaps the reason is that most people aren't capable of that and Ikea is as close as they get.
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IDK. I'm amazed at how many people I've met who claim to be Marxist but haven't ever read Hegel.
It's weird that you have such a strongly negative reaction to my post.

Especially this bit:

> > it's not provided as a package of bio-psycho-social treatment.

> ADHD researchers (serious neuroscientists & clinical psychiatrists) have for DECADES tried "biosocial blah blah".

Medication is the Bio bit. "Your children are not wilfully disobedient, please stop hitting them" is the psycho-social bit.
This description of the old days is actually a fairly accurate description of HN now.
I agree the status quo is unacceptable, but do not think it is due to Coinbase, Kraken, etc. being out to rob people. These companies simply did not anticipate having to deal with such rapid growth. That is not a valid excuse when so much money is at stake, but that does not make it a "Ponzi scheme."
Still easier to do thermal camera search, you don't have to find which address it actually is.
I really like Lua but the future seems uncertain to me at this point. There are more and more forks appearing, I don't know if that's a sign of health or entropy.
https://lineage.microg.org/ - tracking very closely, just adding the spoofing patch and preinstalling microG, F-Droid etc.
rtlamr is awesome. I use it to monitor my gas meter (which is going crazy lately with the low temps here in Ohio).

I had started a project [1] to read my water and electric meters, but just about the time I started figuring out the protocol, they upgraded the firmware and turned on encryption. Luckily the encryption seems to only affect the power meter, as I am still able to read the water meter (though I’m not sure how long that will last)

[1] https://github.com/shaunhey/ea_receiver
The new Kindle Oasis (2017) has this feature. It’s pretty good! Bit annoying to turn on though at about four taps, hidden away in the accessibility settings.
The real problem is not that such content exists, the problem is that Facebook makes it horrifically easy to distribute such content. Back when Facebook was more of interacting with people rather that liking and subscribing to whatever these content and joke pages shoved down these concerns where not present much. Clickbait, etc is just a natural progression of like and subscribing culture.

My Facebook feed about a year ago, when i last opened facebook was filled with the same memes and "inspirational messages" shoved down by a handful of pages being shared by dumb idiots. I had to search and go directly to a person's profile to see what they were up to.

The real problem is that Facebook started behaving like a TV channel that a social network.

If Facebook goes to only keeping profiles of real persons and removes any and all of these pages and blogs and news agencies and the lot, a lot of its woes with regard to content will be solved.

These pages give a sense of anonymity to the people behind them. Take that anonymity away. Once you know that your personal image will be directly tied to whatever you post and held responsible by everyone in your friend list, you will begin to curb your tendencies in public.
It seems to be a collection of references to this article: http://www.academicroom.com/article/sleep-we-have-lost-pre-i...

I think the site is intended as marketing for the article, like the quotes from reviews that appear on the backs of books. Of course the article itself is not linked very prominently, so this is kind of hard to figure out.
I have discovered that the kinds of housework I enjoy are that which is finite. Putting up towel bars or blinds? Pretty satisfying when all is said and done. Cutting the grass not so much because you just have to cut the damned grass again next week.
OK, go ahead and build one why don't you? Yes, neural networks for sequence tagging are getting better, but if the problem were so trivial it would have been solved by now.

But that's beside the point. Your comment is like saying "They have powered exosuits now, so why do we still need to put ramps on buildings for people in wheelchairs?"

I can only hope that your level of apathy and contempt is not shared by more web designers.
Pedantic engineering correction. The units are "watt-hours" or "watt hours", not watt/hours.
What bothers me about languages like Rust, which I think I'm in the minority on, is the lack of explicit type declarations.

C and Java, my two first languages, strictly spell out what types they expect. Sure you can ignore those rules but as long as you don't those types convey a lot of useful information about your program. With languages like Rust I don't think I could ever start writing code in them without an IDE. The entire idea of compiler-specified types is neat but I don't think all of your code should rely on that.

One oddity is Python which I have used a lot. The only difference is that Python is much less strict than the languages I'm used to. Because of this learning Python was still relatively difficult (Why is all the documentation written like a book!? I miss my Doxygen) but I didn't need an IDE.
IIRC the newer version requires the app to not only have the permission, but also be installed as a system app, so you can't install it accidentally.
I always thought security questions were a ploy to get you to take surveys without explicitly being told you were taking a survey.

If your bank (or any company who has your gender and birthday) asks you what your favorite color is, they could now come up with stats such as "83% of women in between the ages of 23 and 38 prefer purple". That type of data could be sold to and be used by clothing vendors and other businesses.

It's also 1 more data point collected on your private life.
And 10 years earlier we had irc and usenet.

But be under no illusions - I ran a Star Trek site in the late 90s that had adverts on, every month or so I'd get a cheque trough the post. In dollars. My bank were somewhat confused about how to cash foreign currency cheques into a child account.
TSB are still lagging, presumably Lloyds is as well as I understand they share systems.
Your points about ADHD requiring a pharmacological approach reminds me of the discussion here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...

Specifically, that the only distinction between 'disease' and 'character flaw' which makes sense is that you can't fix someone's disease by yelling at them.
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Kinda, except HN exists and is popular largely due to YC's popularity, which is very closely tied to the new style of ad-financed, VC-linked, revenue oriented social networks.

For the record, I don't think that's a good or bad thing. Just a reality of this community.
Real communism was tried and worked – in communities under 100-200 people (like kibutzim). This feeling of community, where people truly care about one another, is detrimental for communism to work – and turns out, millions of people can be shaped into something similar only under a terror and propaganda machine.

Free people will never care about millions of their "comrades" the same way the can care about their 100-200 closest social connections.
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Anyone here had luck with some kind of alternative treatment?
The Kindle app on iPad is no better for technical books. Images are low resolution and mathematical formulas are frequently displayed incorrectly. I only buy tech books now if I can get them in unlocked PDF format. I import those into iBooks and the results are very good.
> at the absolute bottom

It was the lowest priced sofa at the time (~100€), and my elbow went right through the armrest on the third day. It felt like it was made of cardboard. Helpful as a temporary consumable, and probably extremely recyclable.

> And one thing about them...they are generally much lighter than solid wood "real" furniture - so the actual process of moving them is easier and generally less prone to damage in the first place.

Both weight and (dis)assembly are a great thing indeed: I mostly have IKEA furniture, mainly because the staircase leading to my apartment is crazy steep and tight!
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I don't see how "the empire" has anything to do with the viability or non-viability of semantic HTML.

Would you mind clarifying? If you're making a point I don't understand it.
On old forums (at least the ones I was part of) the community was usually small, and you knew most users and what they thought.

Instead on hn most of the comments I see are from people I don't think I ever read from before.

Also, here we don't officially have PMs or an official IRC channel, both of which were major parts of the communities I remember (most of the stuff actually happened on IRC, not on the forums).
Well, most Americans aren't doing international wire transfers.

I've never had an issue with my American credit union. I draft loans directly out of my account and I can send money to anyone for free (instantly to people with the same bank.) For everything else, I use my credit card for the fraud protection and rewards points.
I ran a forum with a decent amount of users as a kid some 15 years ago. We had no ads but once a year when the bills came through we'd have a donation drive to cover the hosting fees and sometimes upgrade our (paid) forum software. Was always weird when people sent letters with cash from all over the DACH area to me ;)
OISC (One Instruction Set Computing) is a well-known concept in theoretical computer science. It is not considered an avenue for for performance computing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer?w...
Sense actually has you install a 240v breaker in addition to the clamps.

https://sense.com/help/installguide.pdf
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"Project Oxygen shocked everyone by concluding that, among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise comes in dead last. The seven top characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills"

Worth keeping in mind that this is true for the culture/environment within Google, not universally. Different companies have different cultures, and the above actually makes me more cynical about the culture within Google. If two people have competing ideas for a engineering solution/implementation, is the winner going to be the one with the best technical merits, or the one best at office politics? Judging from the above study, it seems like Google's culture is less meritocracy-driven and more politics-driven than people think.
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This seems to be primary an American thing. I have never experienced the usage of security questions with non-American companies. Even Apple uses it, which is weird considering they're so proud of their privacy-first strategy.
> Capitalism [...] doesn’t aim at making the world a just or better place

I didn't say it did. I pointed out that if you're going to insist that mass murder under a few decades of communist regimes = real communism, then mass murder (and genocide and slavery) under centuries of capitalist regimes = real capitalism.

> Communism [...] invents all kinds of counter measure ( one of them being the revolution, and « temporary » dictactorship).

Communism did not invent revolution or dictatorship.
I missed David Jones' work when he was alive. Does anyone know of online resources about his inventions and writing? His books are out of print and hard to get hold off.
It is an old argument because communism can mean different things. What you mean with communism I would rather call more precisely real socialism [1]
Now those real socialist states had as their goal, or at least said so to achieve communism: "the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state" [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_socialism
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

You could also ask:
How many millions more have to die before we overcome capitalism?
Why? That's like saying I only read Of Mice and Men, Dune, and Wealth of Nations.

There's so many other options to explore!
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Possibly, but at least some people don't actually give real answers. It's better to have a set of nonsense words for these "security questions". Much safer to say your mom's maiden name is Zxxxxxy6ghjki.
I had a blast with the custom character thing in Sonic Forces.
Probably to keep hardware costs low.
Same, but with uBlock instead. I'm shocked every time by how youtube actually looks like when I see someone else using it.
Read both and tried to follow the Deep work kind of model for a while, is harder than it looks. Specially being in a position where I don't a 100% control my time.

Fortunately, for the past year I been slowly setting up things in a way where I can defend my time better.
Have they tried holding a geiger counter up to it?
A cashier's check is effectively a cash equivalent - it's a check guaranteed by the bank, wherein they basically freeze the funds in your account at the time you write the check. The only real purpose of it is to save people from carrying around huge amounts of cash. So that doesn't really answer his question.
I'll take 200 miles of range and the ease of plugging in every evening at home over 1,000 miles of range and the necessity of going to a gas station.
The next time I need to answer a secret question that might be used over the phone I'm going to write the answer in as:

"No thanks, that information is private and I'd rather not share it over the phone. I know, you're probably going to say that you can't help me without this information and you're doing this to help prevent identity theft but I stand by my choice to not partake in answering your question. Can I speak with a manager?"

That should make for a fun conversation.
what a lovely project - thank you for sharing
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Daniel Suarez fiction works are very on point with near future while also being fun.
They don't issue checkbooks at all, or you just don't get a bunch of free ones when you sign up? Most American banks that I know of don't give you any either, anymore, just a debit card, but you can get them if you want them.
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I had a similar experience with my BBS. We did UUCP with some rather remote nodes and I had 11 incoming lines (the maximum BellSouth would install in a residence) so the bills were not trivial. Each month I’d post the prior month’s bill total and small checks and envelopes of cash would show up in my post office box soon after. It never made a wild profit, but there were only a couple of months where we couldn’t cover the bills.