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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 hap…

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 externaliti…

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. A…

ADHD /is/ classified as an executive dysfunction (specifically, in regulating attention). Autism spectrum, schizophrenia, depression, and parkinson's disease are other well known d…

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 f…

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. Thera…

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 atrociou…

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 b…

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, w…

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 gat…

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 …

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 caus…

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 m…

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 oppon…

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.