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What I most frequently heard was "There are two solutions: the deprecated one, and the one that doesn't work yet."

As do 99% of bicycle manufacturers producing CF frames - the expertise and manufacturing base are primarily in Taiwan, and everyone from Trek to Canyon are sourcing from the same f…

Incredibly bearish. To summarise a few decades of common factors research poorly, our understanding of therapy's mechanism of action is limited, and it's not clear that any given t…

For anyone debating whether to pick up the book discussed in the article, I'm about halfway through right now and would highly recommend it. Harrington's a clearly talented writer …

Though much improved since the early days, both the 3 and the S have considerably worse fit and finish and material quality than competitively priced vehicles. Whether for weight, …

The least expensive Model 3 in Germany is 57.900 EUR with 540km (wltp cycle) of range – part of this is that they've only been exporting the high margin long-range AWD models. The …

> reading self-help books…is similarly effective to in-person psychotherapy That was not the outcome of the CPR paper, and even the authors' statement in the abstract is considerab…

Teletherapy outcomes have yet to be thoroughly researched, but anecdotally most clinicians report a strong preference for face-to-face sessions. Part of the discomfort stems from l…

Even at the top end of that range it's less than what a competitive internships annualised compensation would be. Are you really able to hire people at those rates?

There is a both a large and strong evidence base for the usage of ECT in cases of severe, treatment resistant depression. Many aspects of modern medicine can be made to sound barba…

It really is the last resort; even if you were able to find a psychiatrist willing to administer a course of it without extensive trials of multiple classes of psychotropic medicat…

I can't speak to Amazon, but at Microsoft the equivalents to the Google offering are going to have the same OSS competitors. Having worked on services there, the only thing I reall…

All three have talk therapy within their scope of practice, and "the talking cure" originated with 19th century German doctors. Until the middle of the 20th century it was exclusiv…

It is harsh, but where's the fun in the comment section of an HN post on psychology without a little hyperbole? My disdain comes from seeing people I'm close to repeatedly pushed t…

I am referring to traditional agents, not ketamine. There is insufficient evidence to draw conclusions about Ketamine's usefulness as a rapidly acting agent for treatment of depres…

The problem is that the effect sizes for most anti-depressants is quite small and the role of pharmaceutical companies in advancing their use has been quite a bit larger. The diffe…

Anecdata is also all that supports TMS and Ketamine. There's not been sufficient time for longitudinal studies to be conducted or more efficacious protocols to be developed. Had yo…

There is very limited evidence that the bilateral stimulation has _any_ impact on treatment outcomes [0]. EMDR is PE with a marketing machine behind it. To quote Robert Ursano, a p…

If you've a sufficiently decent input manager or a programmable keyboard, you can have Caps Lock play double duty as both. I am an emacs and evil user, so I have tapping caps confi…

I'm using lsp-mode and the Eclipse JDT language server. lsp-java is great and the maintainer is very responsive to PRs and feedback. For Scala I use Ensime at work and have been pl…

I use emacs for Java and Scala development with LSP quite successfully, and VS Code's support for language servers is as good as they come. Is it primarily debugging that's the imp…

While van der Kolk et al. have certainly contributed a great deal to the study of trauma and helped popularise ideas that have been known within the academy, he remains a controver…

Sadly, we don’t know enough about the brain to have any idea which medications are going to work or what it is people need right away. While you certainly could sedate people to th…

The usage of ketamine in the trials for depression typically uses IV administration over a fairly long timespan with highly specific dosages. It is not comparable to street usage o…

I think "mirror" is a more intuitive description of the problem, but essentially you reverse all of the left and right subtrees. This Quora question [1] has a few different approac…